midnight texting

[lowlaw]

The Midnight Texting Meme It's the middle of the night and you're trying to catch some z's — or brooding alone in the alleys, as one does — when your phone dings and suddenly a stranger or a friend is texting you. What could they possibly want at this hour? Is it important? Stupid? Are they drunk or maybe just needy? Do they need help hiding a body??? Pick up your phone and find out! Rules: ● Post with your character's name and canon on the subject line, indicate preferences as needed ● Tag others ● Have fun!

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[malcolmbright]

Oh, good, I didn't want to presume.

Admittedly, the "lowly" job of law enforcement doesn't tend to endear me to the higher social strata--plus the whole family name thing--but at least I've got stories? Either they would love each other and determine to marry us so they could be family or they would vow to destroy each other. I'm...not entirely sure which it would be.

[versigny]

You never have to doubt it.

Be careful. Those stories might just make you her favorite repeat guest. And that's exactly what I'm fearing - the latter, I mean. I'm pretty sure you'd be the worse off between us if we got married.

[malcolmbright]

If nothing else, I have all kinds of stories to tell that could make me fun at parties. Usually I'm told that polite society doesn't want to hear about my weirder cases.

How do you figure I'd be the one worse off?

[versigny]

...I would actually love to hear about those. I don't want to know what that says about me though.

There are the lovely required perks of high society, as I'm sure you already know. Plus, my grandmother would agree with your mother about your job. You don't need that extra added pressure of giving up what you love just so you can be my trophy husband. That is, assuming you'd be more comfortable with me spearheading the quest for our family to "rule the world"?

[malcolmbright]

Nothing negative, I promise. Lots of people find true crime stories to be interesting and I have some wild ones.

Yeah, that would be a problem because ten years of my mother's pressure didn't make me leave my job so I don't know that your grandmother could get me to. I'm also not sure that a Whitly would make a trophy husband for anyone, all things considered. World domination is an interesting goal though.

[versigny]

My grandmother has a very distinct goal in mind, and my brother and I have been brought up to see it through and carry on the legacy.

I actually find it rather ironic that you and I have so much similarity in the qualities we'd like to find in our significant others, but our family names and our lives are on opposite ends of the spectrum. The fact that you met my grandmother too, of all people, makes me wonder. Do you believe in coincidences?

[malcolmbright]

That sounds like more of a burden than anything else. Legacy isn't always such a great feeling.

I think there's plenty of chance in the universe. I don't know that things happen for a reason but sometimes it's hard to ignore how strange it is that things interconnect the way that they do.

[versigny]

No. No, it isn't. What is it you'd like people to say about your life after you die?

[ she's honest because it's him she's talking to. the truth is: the older she gets, the more she feels as though family ambition has overtaken every aspect of her life. is her desire to be on top her own, or not? Margaery can't tell. ]

I think I agree. It doesn't make much sense to dwell on things that we can't control, but it can be comforting to give certain events meaning.

[malcolmbright]

Honestly? That I didn't end up like my father after all and that I helped and saved more people than he hurt. How about you?

It's human nature to ascribe meaning. There isn't anything wrong with doing that. If it makes us feel, even briefly, like there is something of a control and order to things, it helps.

[versigny]

I... don't know yet. Everything I can think of just sounds pretty superficial or implies that I'll die when I'm young. Maybe that I succeeded where others wanted me to fail? That sounds vague enough to be meaningful.

Thank you. Talking to you always helps ground me.

[malcolmbright]

If you think of it and feel it, its superficiality isn't important. And I think a lot of life goals, or how we want to be remembered, should be considered with the idea that we might get hit by a train tomorrow. Who wanted you to fail?

Talking to you grounds me as well.

[versigny]

I'll remember that. It's a good reminder, and a cause for trying to find the best in every day I survive.

My former mother-in-law - the enabler for my late husband? She comes to mind first. She had a very strong attachment to him, and saw me as the enemy who would come between them. And then there are the numerous, faceless girls over the years I've survived while growing up in private schools. Other heirs and heiresses. People who consider my success to be a marker for where my family's company will be in ten years' time.

I'm happy to hear that. It's very good to know I do the same for you.