𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐒 | privation; a state in which things that are essential for human well-being are scarce or lacking. Esmerelda had suffered through some pretty awful summer vacations before like that one time she was nearly sacrificed to a world-ending Titan, and that other time where she went through a war while deal...
𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐎𝐒 | "Doom; fate" the personified spirit of impending doom, who drives mortals to their deadly fate. Esmerelda thought she had left all those feelings of pain and suffering behind once the Second Titan War ended, but another war was brewing and she knew that she was going to be forced straight into the frontli...
𝐄𝐔𝐃𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐀 | Happiness, but better translated as "human flourishing"; to flourish by realizing one's ideal end or goal, by achieving the purpose of human life with excellence or virtue. In Ancient Greek theater, a Greek tragedy is a play where the protagonist is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow. In...
𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐀 | No way out, nothingness, or the impenetrable. A puzzle or something puzzling. Esmerelda spent the school year dog-hunting after discovering the truth about the mortal side of her family during a 'visit' to the Underworld. Her summer vacation was spent trapped in a never-ending labyrinth where she was co...
𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐒 | Moral choice. Nothing is properly considered either good, or bad, aside from those things that are within our own power to control, and the only thing fully in our power to control is our own volition. Esmerelda's attempts of having a decent school year go awry when a basilisk decided to go arou...
𝐀𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐀 | Unveiling, uncovering. The Greek notion of truth. Esmerelda knew everything was going to change the second her super nice foster father suddenly turned into a snake monster and tried to eat her. She just never expected for all of it to lead her to a life full of gods and magic. BOOK ONE
Barbara returns home to find the trash scattered in her yard. She expects raccoons, instead she finds a son.
Ft. NCT's Lee Haechan There were two rules: 1. Never wander the dark streets alone at night. 2. If you see a person wearing a black leather jacket with a golden phoenix on the back, you better turn around and run, and don't even think about looking back. She broke both those rules. "Let the fire burn to ash and let...
Months have passed by since the day Naruto departed, and Tsukiko has been ever-occupied with perfecting her abilities to the best she can. Not to mention -- keeping in touch with none other than the newly-elected leader of Sungakure, Gaara, with whom Tsukiko finds herself making an unlikely friendship. However, there...
Throughout her short life, Otsutsuki Tsukiko had been mostly kept away from others, or others had mostly kept away from her. She had always believed that she was born at the wrong time, and that everyone has a second voice in their head. Truthfully, Tsukiko considered herself to be the last of the Otsutsuki Clan to re...
"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee." ― Friedrich Nietzsche ///////////////////////////// [Twilight Saga] [New Moon to Post Breaking Dawn] [Alec Volturi]
❝Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying.❞ //////////////////// [The Twilight Saga] [Breaking Dawn - Post Breaking Dawn] [Alec Volturi]
❝this is the future that's been ruined by your own hands.❞ - ➦ nct dream fanfiction ➦ march 2018 ➦ written in english ➦ plot & cover by nctyzen.
It felt like she had swallowed the galaxy. Everywhere she looked, she saw stars. Planets and moons and constellations. Comets, meteors, and all the like. The vastness of space is nothing that she has ever thought of and feared before, but now it was all too easy to be sucked into the deep nothingness. She was aware...