word game: reward

[museaway]

This week's word is...
REWARD

How to play: Find the word in any WIP and comment with the sentence containing it. Just the one, ideally! The less context, the more hilarious & interesting it can be.

Rules:
- All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome
- Give a head's up for disturbing/distressing content
- If you share a sentence, please read some left by other writers and drop at least one person a comment. (If you leave the first comment, thanks for starting us off, and please pop back around later!)

A note about interacting: Writers supporting each other is important to me. If you object to leaving comments for another writer, then we are not for you. If you repeatedly ignore this rule, you will lose community membership.

Comments

Re: The Smut Chapter of TGH [Fandom: Tomb Raider]

[bens_writingjournal]

Well, in the case of "influence", she (Yulia) is actually referring to being bound to Natla's command of "Ohk eshivar" for so long (and having to contend with heavy emotional and physical abuse, might I add). I headcanon that, even after the Doppelganger's freed from this trigger phrase, her actions under her former mistress' control haunt her (that, and also being stuck in a four-year personal hell can fuck up with one's mental state), which is why she'd fly off the handle whenever the name "Natla" is said within her earshot. Reducing it completely, IMO, would be harder, since (undiscovered in 19th century) C-PTSD is a bitch to treat - it'd be more like a mix of art therapy and opening up about the lengths the empire she's once served using her as a punching bag.

It's nice of Lara to apologise for her mistake and then ask for consent, it tells me she really cares about Yulia

Yes, I do wanna expand on Lara's niceness beneath her violent, lone-wolf personality.