the bonfire of the vanities, chuck bass/blair waldorf, r, tw: mental illness & suicide
i.
Chuck Bass knows three things with utter, bone-deep certainty by the time he is twelve years old. Money is the ultimate possession. Power is always knowing what everybody is saying. There is no such thing is love.
When Chuck Bass is seventeen, he unlearns them all in one night.
ii.
With Bart Bass, everything is a front. Business is war; and wars are won with propaganda, not with men. You bury them in information, true or false, until they give up and go home. He does it all the time. Bart Bass does not know how to love. Chuck sometimes wonders if this is a lie he tells himself to help him sleep at night. But when the whisky kicks in he'll sleep no matter what he tells himself, and if Bart Bass once knew how to love, he's forgotten. The torn and bloody hole at the very centre of Chuck Bass is more than ample proof of that.
iii.
A prince of shreds and patches, the papers call him. He cannot bring himself to disagree
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I am entirely in love with this fill, with Chuck's increasing desperation and the fact that Blair is, even after everything, some fucked up image of steadiness and hope. And, ugh, "Obviously, Waldorf" absolutely killed me. (Also: your penchant for mentioning Carter at every given opportunity is totally winning me over)
I especially love it that you wrote this in Emily's POV, because it's not the main one in the show, so it's interesting to see the story from the other side.
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i.
Chuck Bass knows three things with utter, bone-deep certainty by the time he is twelve years old. Money is the ultimate possession. Power is always knowing what everybody is saying. There is no such thing is love.
When Chuck Bass is seventeen, he unlearns them all in one night.
ii.
With Bart Bass, everything is a front. Business is war; and wars are won with propaganda, not with men. You bury them in information, true or false, until they give up and go home. He does it all the time. Bart Bass does not know how to love. Chuck sometimes wonders if this is a lie he tells himself to help him sleep at night. But when the whisky kicks in he'll sleep no matter what he tells himself, and if Bart Bass once knew how to love, he's forgotten. The torn and bloody hole at the very centre of Chuck Bass is more than ample proof of that.
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A prince of shreds and patches, the papers call him. He cannot bring himself to disagree ( ... )
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I especially love it that you wrote this in Emily's POV, because it's not the main one in the show, so it's interesting to see the story from the other side.
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