Charming Gothic

[Ellory Pendergast]

Inspired by this meme which is my new favourite. All you have to do is write a short thing in that same style about Charming, or a character, or a plot or some shit.

I'll start first.

You make a new character. You don't know when you agreed to making them, but you do. It's your 45th character. You'll reach the limit soon. But you make them anyway.

  

[Annette Fontaine]

there's another UCPB. you feel like crying. but you have no tears left.

  

[Gertrude Baker]

You try to turn around and run away, but Kayte stops you. Good ratios she tells you. Soph and Beanie are making them too she tells you. You try to resist, but alas all is in vain.

  

[Cassius Lestrange]

You have so many threads. Where did all these threads come from? You are afraid.

  

[Gertrude Baker]

Kayte writes her new wanteds. She cackles maniacally. With feminists; lesbians; dysfunctional families; and incest, she knows she can catch everyone in her spider's web. She attacks. You try to resist, but you can't help but admire her ruthlessness. You try to resist, but you are doomed.

  

[Oliver Trask]

It's nearing midnight. You have a large project due tomorrow morning that you've barely started, but your motivation is in the gutter. You hop on Charming for a few minutes hoping to motivate yourself, only to find a long-anticipated reply waiting for you. Your thread partner is online, and her siren call is too much. It is now morning, and your project remains unfinished, but the two of you shared a thread for the ages.

  

[Annette Fontaine]

You get summoned onto AIM. You feel intense fear.

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   Ellory Pendergast

[Oliver Trask]

You log in to find ten alerts waiting for you. A deluge of tags fills your screen. You drown in your own tears and owed replies.

  

[Cassius Lestrange]

IC edition:

You are always running into attractive members of the opposite sex through serendipity and inexplicable coincidence. No matter where you go, there they are. You cannot escape.

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   Ellory Pendergast

[Aurelia Wallingford]

Going off of Jenny's...

Kayte is in the cbox. You see your name. You see your name capitalized. You see your name capitalized with a period at the end, which is followed by a request and the word please. Kayte is being overly polite. You know you're in trouble. Time to log off.

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   Odira Potter

[Ellory Pendergast]

You somehow ended up with five UCPB debutantes again. You had promised yourself that your next character would be a lower class male. You cannot even trust yourself anymore. You cannot recognize the person you've become.

  

[Ellory Pendergast]

Wellingtonshire gothic

The houses are prisons with a promise of luxury. Coffins of dead men, victims of fires extinguished and unstarted.

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   Cassius Lestrange

[Cassius Lestrange]

Another UCPB debutante. Your fingers itch to strangle them, to burn them all. One day you won't be able to stop yourself.

  

[Annette Fontaine]

Kayte is complimenting you. You know what's coming. You should run. But now she's circling.

  

[Cassius Lestrange]

You have an intensely specific memory of replying to a thread, but the reply isn't there. A wind blows down your spine. Did you imagine it, or was it consumed as a sacrifice?

  

[Andrew Bingham]

You post an application for a character you've spent days dreaming up. You look at them, tell yourself they're perfect. The app is beautifully coded and makes perfect sense. The PB even accurately depicts them. You log off to respond to a post. You switch back ten minutes later. You have a PM. From Odira Potter. Shit, what did I do this time.