meme: five things to five people

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure we've done this more recently than this, but that was the entry I found and IN ANY CASE IT'S BEEN A REALLY LONG TIME.

Five Things to Five People

Make a list of five things your character would like to say to five different people
and don't include their names. The messages don' t have to be secrets. Try to
keep it to those on the island (or those off island like our esteemed alums and
expatriates!), but if you need to pad your list, or it' s really important, non-
islanders (canonical characters that might not be IG) count too!

Tracy did a fab example with Umbridge in the link I included, and yes, you can do more than five. Half the fun is in guessing, so feel free to respond to one another!

Comments

[unburnt-queen.livejournal.com]

1. Your welcome for me to this world has been warmer than any friendship I had in the last. Thank you for helping me.

2. Perhaps not yet, but in you I see the sister I have always lacked. Thank you for making me feel less strange.

3. You make me realize the sweetness of young romance, since I was formerly denied as much. It is not something I'll act on today, nor tomorrow, but there is an inkling of attraction taking root, and when I'm beyond my grief, I may tell you of it.

4. I wish I could someday know grace like yours. I'll need it to be the queen Westeros needs.

5. I will never forget you. Not until the sun rises in the west and sets in the east will I cease to love you.

[dollpocalypse]

1. You're kind of aloof sometimes but I like, I dunno, proving myself to you showing off what I can do. I'll do harder stuff if you ask! Promise!

2. I have more fun with you that I've ever had with anyone else. And I'm so grateful you never, um, you know, got changed in front of me last week. Seriously. THANK YOU.

3. You're smart and awesome and kind of saved my ass that time and you actually like hanging out with me even though you're nice and stuff, and I think I have those weird, like, girl-feelings for you. The, like, weirdly tingly kind. Don't stop hanging out with me?

4. I guess if you're smart you aren't THAT bad. Even if you're smart about English stuff. And at least you've got your priorities right about what's gross.

5. Seriously, you need to work on that temper, stat. And I did you a favor, anyway. Those shirts and the... girl-leg-covering-things were ugly.

[exactlyaverage.livejournal.com]

1. I'm pretty much sworn off from eating bacon for the rest of my life now.

2. Sometimes I wish my daughter was more like you.

3. You so need a better parental figure. I'm just saying.

4. You found out my secret. Please keep it to yourself.

5. Meeting your "pets" was very cool in an extremely freaky way.

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

1. I love you. But I wish you'd let me know how I can care for you. I've never been able to deal well with feeling useless.

2. I'll understand if you think less of me after this past week. I think less of me.

3. I appreciate your intentions, but you give me far more credit than I deserve.

4. Personally, I'd like to spar again. But perhaps we could refrain from the, er, innuendo, if you wouldn't mind?

5. I'll never forgive myself for failing you.

[its-theclimb.livejournal.com]

1. You're kind of my best friend here and I'm so glad we don't have any more secrets from each other! We don't, right?

2. So I'm starting to think that promising to perform at your birthday party might have been a bad plan. I'll probably still do it, but... oops?

3. You are so cute. Even though I can't figure out why you're not totally into me. Hello, I am a catch.

4. You're cute too! In a different way! And you're the first person I've met here who seems to come from a place even remotely similar to back home. We should totally hang out more.

5. I love you, really, but I wonder sometimes if I still need you.

[twintuitionist.livejournal.com]

... you know, it'd be an awesome party even without a pop star. It's a Darling party. I'd pout, but we'd manage.

[thegirl-onfire.livejournal.com]

1. When my father died, I thought I'd lost that forever - an older man to guide me, to teach me, and to help me. I had to be my own father and mother. Then my name was reaped, and I was given Haymitch, and I remembered what that felt like, to have a father.

Then you helped me, and I know you have your own children and family, but also that you have, without my ever mentioning it (because we know I won't), someone who'd consider you hers, because she has no one else left.

2. I want to grow up and be you. I don't know what shaped you into the woman you are, but I know your life has been like mine, and you emerged graceful and wise and brilliant. In my grief and clumsiness and unwillingness to lead, I don't know how to be like you. But I want to.

3. Thank you for bringing her home. We planted a primrose bush for her. There's nothing else to be done, but your help was unimaginable to me, and my gratitude is boundless.

4. I think I might want to visit you, to talk. You aren't a counselor, but I need to talk to someone, and I need to understand what happened, and your name is the one that repeats in my mind.

5. I don't know. I want to let you in, but I've turned so ugly and empty and everything hurts less than it used to but still does, all the same. I love you, because I know it to be a fact like my eyes being gray and Prim being dead. It's one of the things I repeat to myself, when everything twists on itself and stops making sense. But I'm only just now remembering how to feel.

When I remember what it's like not to be numb, you won't know what hit you.

[glacial_queen]

...On the (very) off-chance I'm four, I wish you would.

[wwiii]

1. I have a really, really small list of people that I consider to be close, close friends. You were the first. Ever. That means the world to me, man. I don't think you'll ever really understand just how much.

2. You remind me so, so much of myself when I first came here, that it kind of breaks my heart. I know this place can be dangerous. I know it all too well. And I want to wrap you up and hide you away so that when things go bad here, you won't have to get dragged into it.

3. You are never allowed to mix up batches of chemical-based feather dye again. Ever. The jury is still out on whether or not I'm going to freak out when I see what you guys did to my van, too. But the sticking point is the feathers.

4. You're so open and easy to get along with, sometimes I forget that you're a teacher. I know I'm not quite the same as the guy you know from home. I mean, I've met a few by now, I know for a fact I'm not like them. But I can't help but hope that I'm at least starting to live up to the things he did.

5. Mine.

[glacial_queen]

Always. Never a question.

[coyote-walking.livejournal.com]

1) I really like you a lot. It's nice to be able to talk with someone who just really seems to get it, you know? I'd like to spend more time with you.

2) Funny how we sometimes end up sitting and talking even though I'm not sure we actually get along all that well. Still, I do consider you a friend.

3) I think we might have a bunch in common. I'm just not exactly sure how to talk to you about it. And I don't even understand it all myself.

4) I'm glad you're here, even if you're not exactly like mine, and I'm sorry I was unpleasant to you when I first met you and glad you didn't hold it against me.

5) Thanks for saving me that time. We don't really have a ton in common, but I'm glad we're friends. I'd even let you talk me into stuff like painting my nails and shopping - in small amounts - if you wanted.

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Trust me, I've said worse things than that. First days don't count. There's nothing to apologise for.

[dabblinginbitch.livejournal.com]

1. People at home aren't like you. Everyone's loud or doesn't care or doesn't even want to know, which is why I think I like talking to you. I used to beat kids like you up, but now I want to protect you from the other Ramonas of the world. Even if you don't need it.

2. You're kind of a nice, savvy, debonair break from the guys I'm used to. I like thinking I deserve a little bit of that glitz and nice treatment.

3. I don't know why. I know you're bad for me, and should date someone a lot less...you-like. But at the end of the day, you're the first person I want to tell about everything that happens to me, and I want to be around you more than anyone else. That's something.

4. I haven't even met you yet, but if I ever figure out our mutual aquaintance back home, I'll probably kind of hate you. Sorry?

5. You seriously bring that shit on yourself, dude. Have you tried not being an asshole?

[bitten_notshy]

1. It's a pity that it seems like one of us is always leaving the island when the other is getting here. I like you quite a bit, but there's never enough time to explore it.

2. I still don't understand why you're so bloody set on your own world and your own time. Also, I'm more than a bit in love with you -- but you know that, don't you?

3. We aren't in touch enough, but the last time we talked it seemed like you were in a good place. It made me happy. (This could go to at least two people. But he has one in mind.)

4. I miss being your friend. Things got complicated, but we should talk again now that they've settled a bit.

5. I am yours. Always. Even if I'm starting to see why you were always on about me having my own life.

[icecoldfrost]

Because it's one of the few things that's mine. It is something Winston cannot take from me, cannot make me give it up, and if I compromise on this, then what else will I lose to him?

...and I have my suspicions on the second part, but I try not to peek into your brain too often since I know you hate it. And I don't know what to do or how to feel about it.

[lockestheway]

1. Sometimes I seriously don't know why I spend time with you. It's probably not just because you're hilariously easy to play.
2. I'm not a big fan of wasting time with stupid teenage shit, so why do I make time to sit down and make stupid innuendo cracks with you? Probably because I miss my sister and you make it easier. Not that I'll ever cop to that.
3. I love you. Right now, I'd rather choke on my own bile to admit to that out loud, though. Give it a few years.
4. You're a little psychopath, you know that? Even if it wasn't for that creepy threat, the part where you're trying to get along with me seals the deal.
5. Screw you. But thank you for teaching me that there's no way in hell I'll get people to follow me and help me save the planet by acting like an entitled asshole. In as far as I needed to be taught.

[dollpocalypse]

Oh, come on. You know you hang out with me 'cause I'm smart and awesome.

[life_inshadow]

1. I'll never stop loving you or missing you ... but sometimes I feel less like I need you. It's weird but I don't hate it.

2. I don't want to get too excited yet, but talking to you the other weekend made me more hopeful about next year than I'd been. Study buddies for life (or at least a year)?

3. It's been a while since I admired somebody totally non-magical as much as I admire you. You must be really strong to do what you've already done here.

4. You seem to understand me. I can't tell if it's for real or if you're that way with everybody, but I like it.

5. I don't get you, and I kind of don't want to.

[wwiii]

Study buddies for at least a year, definitely. It's some little bit of a normal life to look forward to before I get to make all the really tough decisions, and I'm grateful that you brought it up.

[endsthegame]

1. I still miss you terribly. But no, I'm not apologising for what happened. It was the right thing to do, even if I was mistaken about my own feelings about it in the end.

2. I'm worried about you. And the way you're trying to run things in your country, but considering how important it is to you, I think that comes with the package by default.

3. You should go out into the world more - you're stronger than you think you are, and you have the chance to be much more capable.

4. I've lived away from you doubly as long as I ever lived with you. And yet still all I want is for you to love me. I'm pretty sure that warrants a trip to the psych ward.

5. I really desperately don't want to leave you, even if I do want to leave. It hurts. But I'll never tell you that, because I'd rather eat my own kidney than railroad you the way your father does.

[furnaceface]

1. I wonder, sometimes, how you can be so thoroughly different from the version of yourself that I know from here. I actually like you. I have faith that you won't make the same mistakes that she did. And if you do... So help me, I'll mope more.

2. I worry, you know. I worry about how much you worry. I worry that something might happen, even if I'm not technically on active duty any more, and you'll find out, and it'll be just one more reason for you to worry. And... you know, I'm not entirely certain why I keep staying here, at this point. Maybe because I know myself so well. If I leave now, I'll be giving up, and I never was good at putting pride away for the sake of my own well-being. I was never good at forgiving myself for it later. But I think you understand that.

3. I miss you. Sometimes, I miss you so much it hurts all over again. It's been more than a handful of years for me, now, but I still have the note you wrote. Sometimes I call my own voicemail to hear you. And given how much my body has been through since you left, I'm beginning to doubt that I will ever see you again.

4. You know, I think the school function I was least apathetic about was your club? It was a whole little family of people who didn't give a shite, about as much as I didn't. Oh. And you better be practising those drums.

5. We got off on the wrong foot. Seriously, the worst foot, when you think about it. But we kind of have that freak solidarity going for us. I know it's been a while since we've spoken, but there still aren't many people I'd rather have watching my back when we've got monster-pterodactyls flying down at our heads, mate.

[living_endless]

You will. I don't know how or when or where, but you will. Endless don't welsh on promises.

(And the thing about my gig is, the years it's been for you --and the decades it might still be -- are like five minutes for me.)

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

1. Your crush is adorable. Thanks for the laughs.

2. Seriously, what are we going to do after we graduate? Think your mom would buy it if we told her she'd had twins and one of them was snatched at birth? (P.S., I love you. I wouldn't tote around an animal form of just anybody.)

3. I don't think you know what a shallow bitch I can be. I kind of hope you never figure it out.

4. I haven't run into you in a while. I hope this isn't because you're plotting, because that's just pathetic.

5. I wish you'd let me in on some of what's going on with you. I know it's not my business or whatever, but you were my first friend here. I haven't forgotten that.

[sexonyoursheets.livejournal.com]

Well, my mom is used to one of me. Two means twice the fun, right? That's my policy with twins, anyway.

And I love you too. Even if you made me go put on pants.

[sexonyoursheets.livejournal.com]

1. You're like, one of my best friends and one of the big reasons I've become less of an asshole to everyone, because I know you'd give me hell for it. You're smarter than all the popular girls I know back home (except Quinn) and I have no idea why we get along. You're coming to Homecoming so I can hit on you and explain some sort of sex thing to your boyfriend, right?

2. You are a mess like every lost Cheerio I've ever known - glitter-obssessed, competitive, and occasionally drunk when you shouldn't be. Kinda why I like you - familiarity.

3. You are so lucky I don't know you and I've mostly outgrown slushying.

4. You're the reason I'm better. You're the reason I'm sorry I went to juvie, and why I actually try in school kind of, and why I don't cheat in any sense of the word. Take credit for it, because without someone to disappoint, I'd be a deadbeat like my dad.

5. Man, if I'd been around during yours and Quinn's campaign, I would have spent every day flashing you just to rattle you.

[brat_inslayage]

1. It's weird; I always thought missing you was going to be this whole thing where I went around feeling like there was this empty place right there all the time. And it was like that at first, but not any more. Just... sometimes it sort of sneaks up on me when I'm not expecting it, in these little quiet moments. I'm okay with that.

2. I hate so much, sometimes, that we're not from the same New York. This place would be so much more fun with you in it. All the trouble we could get into together remains sadly hypothetical.

3. Not to say I don't love my family, 'cause I do? But damn, I really wish you were actually part of it. Actually, I kinda like the version where you totally have been all along, and we just never knew it.

4. You know I give you a hard time out of affection, right? I mean, I hope you do. Just... break the rules more, okay? You know which ones. Not that I know it yet but you're already figuring that out, and I'm gonna think that's freaking awesome.

5. You put me through some of the weirdest, most messed-up experiences of my life, and confused the hell out of me for the longest time. I wouldn't give up any of that now, so thanks. Oh, and don't go relapsing on me or anything, 'cause I really don't want to have to come back and kick your ass. I'll do it this time.

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I won't be expecting that reaction from you. More something like disappointment. It'll be surprising and a bit of a relief to hear that, even if I should know you well enough to expect that by now.

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

1. You're the first person here I really felt I could trust, and it means a lot that you didn't, like, freak out or anything.

2. I know you don't think it was that big a deal, but it mattered a lot to me, that you cared enough to help me out.

3. If I ever actually find out you're the one who stole my shoes... well, I probably won't be all that mad, this far removed and considering people weren't really themselves at the time and all.

4. I think I could learn a lot from you, if I ever manage to actually broach the subject.

5. You're so much fun, and being with you is so easy, so normal- it's not something I'd ever really considered until you came along.

[justwantsquiet.livejournal.com]

1. I like that whole Sister-with-a-capital-S thing you do, because it's not so much that I feel like you're family - it's that I feel like you're kindred. You're the little piece of me that was lost, like when the middle part of a puzzle ends up under the couch and it takes forever but once you find it, you can see the whole picture. You've taught me more about myself than almost anyone else, and I love you.

2. I like how, in my head, you're the rough-and-tumble one and I'm the girly one, but in the end, no matter how badass you are or how many knives you carry or how much I drawl out my how are y'alls and put flowered doilies on things, it isn't about our differences. You're the one I know I can rely on more than anyone, and you're the sister I never got.

3. I'm so drawn to you and scared of you and sometimes I secretly think sex with you is probably fantastic and even if I'm curious, I don't want to find out. (And not just because, you know, I'm in love with my boyfriend.) I like to think you've got my back, but that doesn't mean I'm dumb enough to turn it towards you.

4. I worry about you more than anyone, because I love you more than everyone. Don't shut me out when things get rough, 'cause they're bound to. I'm maybe sort of having quiet little wedding fantasies every now and then (though not for years and years, of course.)

5. You're the only one who understands that I don't always want to be brought back from the edge of crazy. You get why power is delicious, and why after being powerless, I might crave that lightning in my hands and the glee of fae fury. So you get why it scares us both.

[texted3times]

Sex, for the record, is amazing with me. Hope that helps!

[child-of-rer.livejournal.com]

1. You make me nervous, but I don't want to stop being friends. I want to stop being nervous.
2. I wish I could be as clever as you. I'm not, but I hope I'm not boring because of it.
3. Sometimes I wonder what made you that annoying. Those days I almost feel sorry for you.
4. I wish we could be better friends, but you always seem to keep a distance.
5. It's odd, I see you as a really good friend and we're not even that close. It's just so much fun talking to you.

[future_sandworm]

1. Was it hard not telling me? I'm referring to everything here.
2. One thing I never properly understood before meeting you was how the memories always creates a distance between actual occurrences and what I know from them. Wisdom doesn't teach you everything, and I'm not even sure what I know always taught me that. Love is an odd thing. It brings happiness and then millennia of grief.
3. Our friendship has lasted a lot longer than I expected to, and I'm grateful for that. I would never tell you, but you remind me of things I easily forget. Also, what you did to help Alice will never be forgotten.
4. I'm glad you came to Hania's naming ceremony, and you are most welcome to visit again. It's good to know that you and Alice do get along now.
5. She's as much wife as my mother and grandmother was. Stop being prejudiced!

[atreideslioness]

It was the hardest thing I have ever had to do, and will ever do. Keeping things from you runs counter to my - our - entire nature, although I think I have a slightly better understanding of how hard it was for you to hide your parts of the Golden Path from me.

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

1. Will you dance with me again? I know I shouldn't. I feel too human when I do. Can I get a DNA sample instead?
2. Will you dance with me again? I know it was a long time ago, but you're back now. I promise not to kill you.
3. Will you ever dance with me?
4. I won't tell you what happened to my brother. You don't need to know.
5. Can I have Berthold back?

[momslilassassin]

1. Every time your name comes up on my comm, I worry that this will be the call where you tell me that you've caught up with my timeline. I've gradually accepted there's nothing I can do to shape the future for you, but it's going to be heartbreaking to watch you get, um, heartbroken.
2. I never, ever mean to hurt you, and I'm scared about how you're going to react to the latest turn my life's taken.
3. I never thought this close to graduation I'd be so confused about what my path is supposed to be, but I can't resent you for taking my worldview and giving it a good shake. I can't resent you, period.
4. After having met another version of you, I can't help but be kind of amused watching you plot and pontificate.
5. I hope that what's going on with he and I won't affect the friendship you and I have.

[notmyownage]

1. Do you know a creepy woman named Mrs. Frederick? Because I'm just about convinced that I'm only your TA because she's arranged it as part of my training as an apprentice agent.

2. I want to be you when I grow up. Possibly including the suddenly 15 part.

3. I don't know what I did, but I miss you. You're one of the few people around here who got how really screwed up my life can get. I wish I had the guts to just hunt you down and ask.

4. I'm not sure we could be much more different as people, but I'm glad we got thrown together. Maybe I can figure out how you always manage to be so confident.

5. Why do I get the feeling I might eventually need to help stop you from destroying the world?

[chief-cheerio.livejournal.com]

I fake it. A lot. Seriously, half the bitchy crap I do is because somebody gets at an insecure spot and I need to cover up for it fast.

And I would deny this if anybody ever guessed it outside a meme.

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

1. Okay, so you're not exactly normal like I thought. I'm still so glad you're here.

2. Bitch! Bitch bitch bitch. What I did was an honest mistake. What you did was just cruel.

3. I'm not as into you as I used to be, but now that it's out there, I don't know how I'm going to be able to be friends with you.

4. I had a lot of fun with you, and I'd really like to see you outside of a 3 Minute Date.

5. The fact that I could have any sort of real rivalry with you instead of just getting trampled is the biggest self-esteem boost ever. Is that wrong?