Dogwood's Inspiration Box

where Dogwood throws a bunch of stuff, mostly quotes, that gave her story ideas in the hopes they will give you one too

* A destiny is something you make for yourself, not something you're given

* Jaiden Animations's video on her experience with anorexia:"-'They let you feel like you're the one in control when you're not. You're the puppet on strings, and when you try to cut yourself free, not only do you face your fears head-on, but you live them.'""-'You create these fears and rules for so long that when you want to escape the jail cell you've built around yourself they beckon you to stay and try to drag you back in, promising happiness and how they're only here to protect you.'""-pretty much the rest of the video go check it out"*History TED Eds"-'A hero in one era might become a villain in the next and vice versa.'""-Damnatio memoriae (when you try not to kill someone but to erase their existence ex. burning all mentions of them, all photos/paintings of them)""-(in a dystopia) 'Politicians to Lilliputians, Moralists to Brobdingnagians, Technocrats to Laputians, Rationalists to Houynhms.' HONESTLY GUYS I have no idea what those things mean besides politicians, moralists, and rationalists, but google those other terms because they're basically a twisted version of the original"*I R O N Y. experiment with that it's fun

* "The world doesn't care who it makes a martyr of, who it sacrifices 'for the greater good.' And all I'm doing is what the world's doing."

* "She got the thing I wanted most in life without even trying. Without the hard work I went through, without the pain I suffered, without everything I did to try to get blank- and she just got it."

* character cursed themself (now your turn is to think of all the reasons why)