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Feb. 12th, 2008


[info]faedustdreams

[Open] Prompt #26

Character: Celena Ducayne
Fandom: Decay of Dreams; Original Character
Word Count: 128
open for roleplay or comments here

Feb. 6th, 2008


[info]runner

Prompt #26

"Any man who has the guts to sell his soul for love has the power to change the world." 
  - from Ghost Rider

Any man who has the guts to sell his soul for love ends up dead quicker. 

As Sheppard would say, 'been there, done that, bought the t-shirt'. 

Melena. I gave it all. I gave her all. And it wasn't enough, man. Or maybe I just like to tell myself it was all... that it should have been enough. She got my heart. She got it even before I knew she had. Would have died for her too. The wretched Wraith came... and I'd have given my life so she'd be spared. Isn't that selling your soul? Like to one of your devils? Thing is, it don't matter. They don't play by any rules. They don't fight fair. Sell your soul and they'll screw you anyway. They'll take what you're trying to protect... what you care for. 

As I said, been there, done that, bought the t-shirt...


Muse: Ronon Dex
Fandom: SGA


OOC: First time poster. I hope I'm doing this right...

Feb. 3rd, 2008


[info]ray_vecchio

Prompts #26 - 29

Character: Ray Vecchio
Fandom: due South


Prompt #26 - Sell your soul for love

Prompt #27 - Look into your heart

Prompt #28 - Being Liked

Prompt #29 - letter to past self

[info]benton_fraser

Prompts #26 & 27

Character: Benton Fraser
Fandom: due South


Prompt #26 - Sell your Soul for love

Prompt #27 - Look into your Heart

Jan. 12th, 2008

[info]victoriasecrets

prompt #26

Any man who has the guts to sell his soul for love has the power to change the world -- From Ghost Rider

Well, that's great as a theory, isn't it? Maybe the man who had the 'guts' to do that would have the power to change the world. Could be.

Problem is, I've never in my life met a man who had the guts to sell his soul for love. A woman? Sure, come across plenty of those strong enough to do such a thing, but a man? A man, capable of being that strong? Not a chance.

Men are afraid of love, afraid of the light it brings. They're happier in the dark, trying their hardest to remain ignorant, remain unknowing. They're cowards at heart, every last one of them. Real love takes strength, it takes bravery, it takes true courage. It's the biggest risk you can take, holding your breath, leaping off a cliff on to rocky shores below and hoping and trusting and praying that the person you love will catch you, will break your fall.

Men have tiny, shrivelled hearts that close up at the merest touch. A woman will sell her soul for love in an instant, in the rich, open moment of a heartbeat. We change the world every second, every day.

And yet, we still chase them, these men, these useless creatures. We lower ourselves by loving them and, yet, we do it. Fools that we are.

One day, we'll learn. One day, we'll be free.

Muse: Victoria Metcalf
Fandom: Due South
Word count: 231

Jan. 11th, 2008


[info]george_carter

VIMH 26

"Any man who has the guts to sell his soul for love has the power to change the world." From Ghost Rider


What's all that bollocks and who's this Ghostrider?

Obviously he's not been in love with someone that could get him thrown off the job, given a good kicking by very nasty people and until very recently, landed him in the nick.

Sure the fella has guts. It takes that to love anyways, but to change the world?
Well I suppose he didn't say change for the better, just change. Yeah I reckon it does change the world at that...

[info]isabel_giovanni

026. quote

"Any man who has the guts to sell his soul for love has the power to change the world." From Ghost Rider


That is a steep price to pay to effect change in a world where such things will eventually be forgotten.

Everything fades in its own due time. The universe moves forward, night following night, in endless procession, stretching into eternity itself. Even the stars, which seem fixed and unyielding in the vault of the heavens, move over the passage of many mortal lifetimes.

Of what value a soul, if one sells it so cheaply...

Jan. 10th, 2008

[info]mulcahy

Prompt #26: love, souls, power

Any man who has the guts to sell his soul for love has the power to change the world )

[info]il_valentino

Prompt #26

"Any man who has the guts to sell his soul for love has the power to change the world."

Interesting. Perhaps not an entirely honourable sentiment, but a powerful proposition, I'm sure. Do I concur? No, I do not. As it is, I beg to differ most emphatically. For in my role as cardinal, I am held to extol the power of agape, of caritas, and not the kind of eros that prompts men to sell pertinent parts of themselves... such as their eternal soul. And as a condottiere, I can only laugh at such a statement; it's swords and cannons that change the world, bulls and treaties, red hot blood and red hot seal wax - not some lovelorn idiocy.

Come now, be rational.

The man who sells his soul for love falls first.

Jan. 9th, 2008

[info]silverdawn

Prompt #26

"Any man who has the guts to sell his soul for love has the power to change the world" -- From Ghost Rider


My entire upbringing was without really saying it outright, a method of reminding me that there was nothing I could do about the way things were, they simply were. Questioning the way of things, was not something ever conceivable. I knew very little about how to be when I was still a child, only that I had better be good, or the King will get angry and it will be your fault. I heard the same in Menegroth, where I was sent and raised like any other Sindarin elf of the Doriathrim. There were others my age, sent to live in the Deep Caves. They were friends, but they are I think not around anymore. The world was harsh and dim, they would be happier in Aman so I only hope they are now there in peace.

I think part of me broke, to realize that the one place I had known kindness in had been destroyed. Nargothrond had been my first home, I think. I remember so little anymore. My uncle was everything to me. Learning of his death, all I could think about for days was that I would never see him smile again, or listen to him on his harp, as he would teach me. I must have had a hard case of hero-worship. I wish I could feel more certain about my memories. I don't believe one person can change the world, because I was raised not to believe something like that.

The last Númenórean king sold his integrity, everything that made him an honorable man, for the love of life, of power. That I think is not actual love, but petty crude reflected light from real love. Yet he did change the shape of the world in his own way.

That willingness to give up everything for love, perhaps what is meant is that a similar strength is needed for the ability to shape the world by your own hands. That same ruthlessness and willingness to do such terrible things to ones own self.

Christian mythology seems to involve the concept of selling ones soul, as if one could actually do such a thing, and fall into a place called Hell. I do not believe in hell. I do not believe that one can sell their soul, but I have seen countless times both men and elves do terrible things for love, or for what they think is love. The strength of will, to give up all honor and integrity, to do evil deeds because of love, a love for another or an object or an idea, that is a powerful strength for either good or evil, but when does it lose sight of anything but the darkness? If one is given the hard choice, perhaps by then they have reached the potential for changing the world by their deeds.




muse: Haldir
words: 560
fandom: silm/lotr

[info]russandol

Prompt #26

"Any man who has the guts to sell his soul for love has the power to change the world" From Ghost Rider

Hmm. Without getting into a debate about the philosophical definition of the soul, I suppose what this quote is talking about, is ultimate sacrifice. It's about whether or not you have the guts to sacrifice whatever is the MOST valuable thing to your own well-being. For most people, whether they believe in the existance of the soul or not, it's a symbol of an ultimate sacrifice.

This gets me to thinking what I sacrificed, and what I sacrificed it for, and whether I changed the world in so doing. These are not comfortable thoughts.

It could easily be said that I sold my soul. I sold it to my father, for the oath he swore. For what we believed was right at the time, for the cause of good against evil, in pursuit of what was rightfully ours. Later it would become clear that we had made a terrible mistake. By selling my soul I changed, much for the worse; and because little better than that which we labelled "evil". I sacrificed innocence. I sacrificed peace. I sacrificed many lives that were not mine to take.

For love? Perhaps. At one time I did truly love my father, but it was a strange and rather abusive kind of love, the kind that's threaded through with hate and fear and resentment. Truthfully I dont think I sold my soul for love. I sold it for power.

One thing is certain; we changed the world. We all but destroyed it. Nothing was ever the same afterwards.

Character: Maedhros
Fandom: Silmarillion

Jan. 7th, 2008


[info]unchainme

Prompt #26

"Any man who has the guts to sell his soul for love has the power to change the world" From Ghost Rider

I will not apologize for not putting a prompt up last week. Sorry everyone but I was just too busy and dealing with electrical outages for 12 hours at a time due to storms. I know you understand.

Checks are gonna start on the 10th! So if you're behind, I suggest you do prompts. NOW. Save yourself the trouble of getting warned dears.

I'll process applications later today or the latest tomorrow.

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