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[buckminsterfullerene]

regrets MEME

Regrets. We all have them. If you say you don’t, you’re lying. Everyone can relate to that feeling that keeps you up at night, remembering the dumb thing you said in fifth grade.

Or something like that.

Anyway, regrets. Isn’t it better to get them off you chest? No? Well, today you’re not going to have much of a choice…

▶ Comment with your character. DO NOT LEAVE A BLANK TOP LEVEL.

▶ Your character is forced to spill their deepest, darkest regret(s) to anyone who'll listen.

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jin | xenoblade 2

[torna]

I wish I could have reached out to him more. Maybe I should have stayed with him. Like we promised.

Tomoe Naruse | l.o.m.p. | OTA

[meltinglight]

I regret eating so much food at the party...

My tummy hurts.

Logan | Fable 3 | OTA

[ridofthethrone]

I regret forcing my sister to make such difficult choices.

[There is no such thing as light regrets here.]

Edwin Payne | Dead Boy Detectives | ota

[uptightboy]

I regret not being strong enough to save her from death. If I knew more spells, if I had more tools with me, or if I weren't like this...

Okay i will dust off the boy just for you hello <3

[brother_alone]

This another one or before you met me...? Fuck.

I'm sorry Ed...

yayyy, hi <3! happy new year :D

[uptightboy]

Before we've met.

[A beat, as he wrings his hands.]

She was... She was a true friend. I've never met anyone like her, and I doubt I ever will.

Orym of the Air Ashari | Critical Role | OTA

[halfling_dad]

I regret not trying harder to save a life when I could have.

[makingmyway]

Orym, sweetheart... I love you, but you really have to stop blaming yourself for things out of your control.

Shen (Yuan) Qingqiu | SVSSS

[peerlesschrysanthemum]

... That I didn't get the chance to log out of all my accounts and delete my internet history and bookmarks.

[Watch this lofty immortal master, dressed in elaborate hanfu, say such things as 'accounts' and 'internet history' from behind a beautifully painted fan, raised just high enough to hide part of his mouth.

Look. Fucking look here, okay? Motherfuck, his little sister is probably going to be the one, even if she isn't the one to find his body, then check his computer at some point! And! what! then!! Cursed!! Cursed is what he is!]

Caine | The Amazing Digital Circus | OTA

[local_host]

I wish I hadn't... [ Momentary freezing, sad little BSOD. ] Made everybody hate me. Uh. What were we talking about?

col. peter sarkinien | star wars oc

[militaryson]

I'm probably supposed to say I don't regret anything.

[ A smile pulls at one corner of the mouth the Kaminoans crafted to be slightly better-looking than his father's, but there's no warmth behind it. Peter gestures for the first time with the prosthetic hand that's laid motionless and just a little paler than his cold-flushed organic limb beside his drink since this conversation started. ]

That I was happy to lay my personal sacrifice on the altar of intergalactic peace. That's what I told the reporters on the HoloNet. I was looking into the camera and lying. What the fuck else was I supposed to say? Admiral Sarkinien's son says don't enlist on screens across the galaxy after the Empire does everything in its power to save his life and not others'.

...I don't know what I regret. I had to land. I had to go out on patrol that day. I was always going to go to the Academy, and if I wasn't a pilot, I'd probably have been vaporized on the Death Star, or maybe I'd have already been shot by insurgents on the ground. I don't regret telling them to just cut it off. I don't really remember it, either.

[ A pause. He presses his lips together. Takes a sharp breath and slowly lets it out. ]

...I regret being honest with that Navy headshrinker, that's what I regret. I wish I got better at lying before I really, really needed to. Actually, Doc, I'm very interested in my daily activities. I feel hopeless none of the time. I don't think about any of it. You learn to guess the correct answer your whole life and it all goes out the window the moment someone says How are you? and really means it. Or maybe just seems like they really mean it because you need someone to mean it.

You? Got anything profound to unburden yourself with?

[firstapprentice]

[ Along with not being from the same point in the timeline, look. Rey's getup doesn't exactly lend itself to giving away anything about the body under it other than 'they clearly seem to have two legs, two arms, and a head' and 'name, sith' is about all anyone gets. They're probably not a droid given their answer, but hey. There's been murderous droids before. And the voice modulator in the helmet also makes it impossible to tell what the organic one sounds like under it, if there is one. ]

Oh, yeah. Never give someone an honest answer for that. Especially those people.

Usually I think I should have killed someone, but I'm not sure anymore.

cw graphic descriptions of violence

[militaryson]

[ The being reminds him of Lord Vader—not that he and Peter ever interacted in any personal capacity, or that he ever came closer to him than being on the same hangar, though Peter supposes, in a roundabout way, that he owes the dark lord his life. The ultimate decision on a prisoner exchange on that level would undoubtedly been brought before him.

He wonders, voyeuristically, what kind of mutilation lies beneath the black shroud on the other side of the table—how much automation the two of them share in common. Maybe he's no better than the old men at dinner parties who ask him leading questions in the hopes that he'll divulge some godawful torture story they can use to threaten their own men with. He just happened to end up in the position of spectacle before he could live long enough to become the spectator.

He takes a moment to ruminate before he addresses their regret in kind, mostly deciding what level he is to assume this person is meeting him on. ]

I think it's better to be unsure of a trigger you didn't pull than one you did.

[ He thinks about the man writhing on the dune—the sound of the first blaster shot, and the wet croaking, and his own steps in the shifting footholds of sand after he broke free of his horrified paralysis in the face of a disassembled human body and delivered the second. Peter had put that first hole through his chest, off-center and uncoordinated, before the man could speak—before he could surrender. Whether or not he had any intention of it, and the fact that he probably didn't, has offered little closure over the past few months. ]

felix | fire emblem: three houses

[woedao]

None. Regrets are for the weak.

[torna]

[ a twitch of a smile. ]

That seems harsh.

[strawmaiden]

No one gets to be strong in all areas of their life, you know. Everyone's got some weakness, just like everyone has some regret.

Striker | Helluva Boss

[helluvaoutlaw]

Losing...

Loghain Mac Tir | Dragon Age | OTA

[destinedbetrayer]

You don't get my age without regrets without being too foolish to understand your mistakes. We'll be here all day if I try to name them all. I should have trusted Duncan that it was a true Blight. I should have convinced Maric to send an envoy to Wycome instead of going himself.

wen kexing ( word of honor )

[adulate]

I never would have opened the gates.

ignis scientia / ffxv

[privy]

I would have better supported them. If I'd been better prepared, the weight they carried might have been easier to bear.

Monkey D. Luffy / Luffyko | One Piece (Rule 63)

[queenofthepirates]

...

I... I couldn't save him.

Strawmaiden Janest | Exalted 3rd Edition | OTA

[strawmaiden]

I wish I'd done more to support my village after the battle, before I left it.

Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter | MCU

[ricochetingbullets]

....I shouldn't have killed those people.

[Which ones is he talking about? Guess.]

Mina Harker | League of Extraordinary Gentlemen | OTA

[save_your_bullets]

[A brief, scoffing laugh.]

So many, so little time - that we had so little time together. That I failed to see betrayal and cruelty, when I was lonely. That I was not quick enough to see it a second time. That I feel the beast, so clearly, trying to claw its way up from within me.

hi it me

[pyralisit]

Is that all? Everyone is a beast, deep in the dark. The only difference is some of us already know, and some refuse to look close enough to find out.