My muse has been operating in minimal sleep for several weeks now. Everyone has a breaking point: so is your muse going to be the voice of reason, or the one to break them down?
“Hey, you look exhausted, you should rest.”
“You can’t keep waking up at three am like this! Three hours of sleep is not healthy for you!”
“Why are you so tired? Didn’t you sleep?”
“You can’t possibly be thinking straight. Not as tired as you are.”
“You know what works better than coffee? Sleep. And it’s free. You should try it.”
“I think you need to take some time off work or something.”
“Sleeping is just a recharge for your brain. And body.”
“Wanna stop hating yourself? SLEEP.”
“I will make sure you sleep, even if I have to take you home, aggressively tuck you into bed, and sit on you for the next seven to nine hours!! Don’t think I won’t!!”
“I know you have a lot on your plate right now, but you need to sleep. You’re doing far more harm than good being that tired!”
“You are getting sleeeeepyyyyy… No? Worth a short. But seriously, you need to rest.”
“I will sing you a lullaby, and physically fight your nightmares if I have to. If that’s what it’ll take to get you to sleep.”
“You aren’t sleeping on the job are you?”
“Don’t rest your eyes just yet. You’ve still got at least five other tasks to complete before the end of the day.”
“You don’t have time to sleep, you need to get these things done first.”
“Sleeping is overrated anyway.”
“You’ve got to do what it takes to get things accomplished. You can sleep later.”
“If you close your eyes now, the nightmares may return.”
“Sleep is for the weak….you aren’t weak, are you?”
“So much to do, so little time…if you get started now, you might be finished by midnight.”
“You tired? Well buck up, buttercup.”
“HEY! I see you nodding off over there! Get back to work!!
“I will pour hot coffee down your shirt if I have to!! We don’t have time to sleep!”
*he took off his seat belt and pushed his door open before hopping out*
*Carlos locked the car and led the way to the store front.* So, toothbrushes and toothpaste. Am I forgetting something?
nope, only need the two things *he followed close behind, putting his hands in his pockets*
Alright. *he thinks about maybe picking up a bag of cookies so they could each have one on the way back, and then give one to Angie when they get back* So the personal care stuff should be… right there. Let’s go. *he starts for a corner of the store*
*he nodded, looking at the stuff on the shelves as they pasted* this place is bigger then the place i usually go too..
Where do you usually go? The pharmacy?
yeah, it’s usually pretty cheap there
Not cheap enough. You can get a lot of the same stuff here for a lower price.
really? how much cheaper?
Well, you can tell me what sort of stuff you buy at the pharmacy and we can go look for it here to compare.
*he took off his seat belt and pushed his door open before hopping out*
*Carlos locked the car and led the way to the store front.* So, toothbrushes and toothpaste. Am I forgetting something?
nope, only need the two things *he followed close behind, putting his hands in his pockets*
Alright. *he thinks about maybe picking up a bag of cookies so they could each have one on the way back, and then give one to Angie when they get back* So the personal care stuff should be… right there. Let’s go. *he starts for a corner of the store*
*he nodded, looking at the stuff on the shelves as they pasted* this place is bigger then the place i usually go too..
Where do you usually go? The pharmacy?
yeah, it’s usually pretty cheap there
Not cheap enough. You can get a lot of the same stuff here for a lower price.
*he took off his seat belt and pushed his door open before hopping out*
*Carlos locked the car and led the way to the store front.* So, toothbrushes and toothpaste. Am I forgetting something?
nope, only need the two things *he followed close behind, putting his hands in his pockets*
Alright. *he thinks about maybe picking up a bag of cookies so they could each have one on the way back, and then give one to Angie when they get back* So the personal care stuff should be… right there. Let’s go. *he starts for a corner of the store*
*he nodded, looking at the stuff on the shelves as they pasted* this place is bigger then the place i usually go too..
*nods* Okay then. If you’re sure. *he puts the tissues back in his pocket*
*he loosely hugged himself, unsure what to say*
*Carlos put a hand on his shoulder.* Why don’t you head to your tent and take the day off?
*he flinched slightly when Carlos brought his hand up* o-okay..
Alright. Would you like me to walk you there? *he notice the flinch, but he’d acted too quickly to abort the touch that was meant to be reassuring. He thought that Max would probably appreciate it if it weren’t pointed out.*
*he hesitates before nodding slightly, glancing towards his tent*
Alright. Let’s go, buddy. *he stands up and offers Max a hand to hold, if he wanted it*
*he started walking, not noticing the offered hand*
*Carlos followed after Max silently, watching the child closely as they walked.*
*he quietly sniffled a few times before they reached his tent, looking up the door*
*Carlos moves to open it for him.* Here you go, buddy. Need anything? A snack or some water?
*he took a slight step back as Carlos moved to open the tent* n-no i should be fine…
*Carlos frowned apologetically* Yeah, okay. Um… I’m sorrry. I didn’t mean to startle you.
i-it’s fine Carlos, i-i think i’m just gonna go to bed…
Alright. Take it easy, Max.
*he nodded slightly before heading into the tent*
See you later, Max. *he let the tent flap fall and Carlos left him to whatever he would do – hopefully Max would get some rest in.*
For the fluff and soft hearted, here is another lists of sentence starters that has the highest potentiality to turn into a soft scenarios. Feel free to change any pronouns / sentence structure according to your muse’s preference! TRIGGER WARNING: N/A.
“I never noticed your eyes were this [colour].”
“Your heartbeat’s really loud.”
“You asleep?”
“I like this, being so close to you.”
“Your hair keeps falling into your eyes, do you know that? Here, lemme just—”
“You’re so, so, so pretty.”
“I just — I’m breathless, okay? Whenever I’m with you, it happens.”
“You make my heart beat so quick.”
“You always know how to make me smile.”
“You’ll always be safe with me.”
[Kisses the other on the cheek]
“Always.”
“I can’t imagine being anywhere but here with you.”
“All my choices lead me to you.”
“I’ll never give you up.”
“I sleep better if you’re around.”
“You snore in your sleep. But… it’s adorable, okay?”
“I like this. A quiet breakfast with you.”
“There’re billions of people on this planet, and I love you. How incredible is that?”
“I trust you.”
[Holds the other’s hand when they think the other won’t notice]
“You keep staring at me instead of watching the film. What’s up?”
“Let’s push all of these stuff away. I wanna dance here right now with you.”
“Are we really doing this? Are we really slow-dancing?”
“When you laugh like that, it just — you’re so beautiful, you know that?”
“No, sorry, you laughed. I … I never saw it before. It’s — pretty.”
“You haven’t laughed in a long time, and I guess I was staring ‘cause I forgot how that looked like.”
[Puts head on the other’s shoulder]
“I will never let you go.”
“You’re the best thing to have ever happened to me.”
“You wrote me a song?”
“You’ve got a fever. Of course I’m not going anywhere.”
[Suddenly feels around the bed to search for the other’s hand / body when they’re sleeping]
[Extends a hand when they see the other was searching for it while they’re sleeping]
“I just feel calmer. When I’m with you.”
“You’re not in bed. I came looking for you.”
“What are you doing up? Come to bed.”
“It’s weird. I never thought I could feel like this, but you showed up. Now, it’s like I don’t wanna go on knowing I might lose the feeling.”
The Perfect Scientist 