It's My Birthday And I'll Meme If I Want To -- A Quote Prompt Meme

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The Quote Prompt Meme
similar to the picture prompt memes but intended solely for QUOTATION PROMPTS shenanigans.

i'll leave headers for various characters of mine
others will leave a quote (or two, or three...)
i'll reply to them with a starter based on the quote.
embed quote images or simply write them in the comments; warn if including NSFW content. here's some inspiration!

fancy html for quotes: <blockquote><font face="courier-new"><big><big><big><big>WHAT CHU GOTTA SAY BRA</big></big></big></big><br /><small>— who said it first</small></font></blockquote> embed an image in your reply: <img src=IMAGEURL _fcksavedurl=IMAGEURL> control height and width of your pictures: <img src="IMAGEURL" _fcksavedurl="IMAGEURL" width="500"><br />OR<br /><img src="IMAGEURL" _fcksavedurl="IMAGEURL" height="INSERT">


Tweaked from 221_b

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Re: it's perfect!!!

[procures]

Isabela happens to like Varric's dramatics. What's a good story without some embellishment anyway? Perhaps Cassandra hadn't been as bad as she was made out to be -- but in all likelihood it wouldn't have changed anything. Isabela likes giving people a hard time. Seeing how they might react.

"Oh, that's me alright," She drawls with a widening grin. "I'm known for my ability to e the bigger person, except most people replace person with a term a little more colorful."

She's not insulted, she's used to people looking down on her. But she doesn't care. The way she lives means she can take care of herself. She can live on her terms. That's what's important. If people don't like that? Fuck them.

"You know Varric, too much of a bleeding heart. He always wants to see the best in people."

[openhands]

Just from this far into the conversation, Cassandra can tell she's not going to have a quiet night of drinking. So while she won't sit at Isabela's table, she does take up a seat at one nearby while she talks. Cassandra positions herself so that she only has to turn a little in her seat to face Isabela, her arm resting on the table.

"He also has a problem of being in the wrong place at the wrong time," she says. "But I must admit, I was impressed he decided to stay with the Inquisition."

His opinions of Cassandra aside, he had no real connection or ties to anyone in the Inquisition at that point. He was free to walk away, and technically still is. But even though he's content to give Cassandra a hard time at every turn over her initial treatment of him, he doesn't appear to have any intention of leaving any time soon.

[procures]

"Varric is a good person. A far better one than me. He doesn't abandon what he feels are his messes."

And Isabela knows him well enough to know Varric must feel responsible considering his history with the red lyrium. What happened to his brother.

Isabela might have just run for it, honestly, but she has a bit more of a conscious these days. She blames Hawke for that.

[openhands]

All of this is hardly Varric's fault. Cassandra would like to think Varric knows that somewhere deep down, but he probably quite honestly ignores that voice of reason within himself and that's why he stays.

"Which leads me to wonder why it is you're here."

The real reason, at any rate. Sure, the Inquisition is willing to provide Isabela with compensation. (Possibly more compensation than she's worth, if you ask Cassandra, but it wasn't her call to make.) But plenty would have looked the other way. When the Inquisition calls upon you, they ask a great deal. Someone as self-serving as Isabela claims to be would surely believe nothing to be worth this great a risk.

[procures]

"Your Josephine drives a hard bargain."

It's easier for Isabela to deflect, to act like anything she does is for money and money alone. But Varric is a good friend, one of the few in the world, and when he asked for her help personally -- well that made things much different.

Besides, how much fun can she have if this demon god guy destroys the world anyway?

[openhands]

The look Cassandra gives Isabela communicates a silent bullshit as she takes a swig from her cup. Even Josephine is not that good at persuasion.

"How fortunate for the Inquisition then that she was able to convince you to lend your...services," she says, letting the matter lie. Deflect all you like, Isabela. She sees through you.

[procures]

"Well, I also owed Varric a favor," She admits with a shrug of her shoulder. And that probably shows her hand more than anything else. Varric is a good friend. Despite what people might think of Isabela she'll do quite a bit for her friends.

[openhands]

"And a woman like you would sooner settle her debts than leave them," Cassandra notes. She makes no distinction between debts between friends or enemies as she assumes there isn't really one for Isabela.

[procures]

Isabela snorts a little at the woman like her comment -- if she's supposed to be insulted by that Cassandra will have to try harder. She's heard worst.

"Of course. No one smart lets debt linger."

[openhands]

"And how long until that debt is repaid?" Cassandra asks. Isabela could still very well take off before things were finished.

[procures]

"Who can say?" It's cryptic mostly because she wants to mess with Cassandra. And because these things can't really be measured in time anyway.