Emotional Walls Your Character Has Built (And What Might Finally Break Them)

Emotional Walls Your Character Has Built (And What Might Finally Break Them)

(How your character defends their soft core and what could shatter it) Because protection becomes prison real fast.

✶ Sarcasm as armor. (Break it with someone who laughs gently, not mockingly.) ✶ Hyper-independence. (Break it with someone who shows up even when they’re told not to.) ✶ Stoicism. (Break it with a safe space to fall apart.) ✶ Flirting to avoid intimacy. (Break it with real vulnerability they didn’t see coming.) ✶ Ghosting everyone. (Break it with someone who won’t take silence as an answer.) ✶ Lying for convenience. (Break it with someone who sees through them but stays anyway.) ✶ Avoiding touch. (Break it with accidental, gentle contact that feels like home.) ✶ Oversharing meaningless things to hide real depth. (Break it with someone who asks the second question.) ✶ Overworking. (Break it with forced stillness and the terrifying sound of their own thoughts.) ✶ Pretending not to care. (Break it with a loss they can’t fake their way through.) ✶ Avoiding mirrors. (Break it with a quiet compliment that hits too hard.) ✶ Turning every conversation into a joke. (Break it with someone who doesn’t laugh.) ✶ Being everyone’s helper. (Break it when someone asks what they need, and waits for an answer.) ✶ Constantly saying “I’m fine.” (Break it when they finally scream that they’re not.) ✶ Running. Always running. (Break it with someone who doesn’t chase, but doesn’t leave, either.) ✶ Intellectualizing every feeling. (Break it with raw, messy emotion they can’t logic away.) ✶ Trying to be the strong one. (Break it when someone sees the weight they’re carrying, and offers to help.) ✶ Hiding behind success. (Break it when they succeed and still feel empty.) ✶ Avoiding conflict at all costs. (Break it when silence causes more pain than the truth.) ✶ Focusing on everyone else’s healing but their own. (Break it when they hit emotional burnout.)

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Mantis : Change is inedible.

Nebula : Don't you mean inevitable?

Mantis , spitting out coins: No, I did not.

Mantis : I turned out perfectly fine!

Nebula : Mantis , this morning you thought a ghost made your toast

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Mantis : Whaddya call a fish with no eye?

Nebula , not looking up: Myxine Circifrons

Mantis :

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Nebula already crying; you did?

Mantis : You saved me. I owe you my life.

Nebula : No thanks. I’ve seen it and I’m not very impressed.

Mantis : How do I deal with my enemies?

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Nebula : We called off the prank war last night at midnight, dork.

Mantis : I know.

Nebula : Ah. Okay. Um. Cool. Neat. Very cool. Cool. Cool. Coolcoolcool-

Nebula : This date is boring!

Mantis : This isn't a date. I said I was going to the store.

Nebula : Then why did you invite me?

Mantis : I didnt, I specifically said "don't come with me," then you said, "fuck you Mantis I'll do whatever I want!

Mantis : I have feelings for you.

Nebula : Why? What's wrong with you? Are you sure you're okay?

Mantis : I think I just figured something out. I got to go.

Nebula : Aren't you forgetting something?

Mantis : Uuh...*hesitantly kisses Nebula 's forehead before running out.*

Nebula : No, pay your bill! Damn, who raised you?

Nebula : That was so hot, Mantis .

Mantis : I literally called the person who just flirted with you a degenterate dog and told them I hope they get dragged through the streets.

Nebula : I'm so in love with you.

Mantis : Do you want to explain the text you sent me last night?

Nebula : It was autocorrect.

Mantis : Autocorrect wrote "You're so hot. Please step on me."?

Nebula : Yes.

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Bank of Sapphire Cold?

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i love when characters lie to themselves in the complete privacy of their own minds

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