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Princess falling

You have no idea what to feel anymore. Living with someone, supporting someone, loving someone who returns nothing but resentment. But what have you done?

You sit on the floor in your room, she is downstairs. All you want to do is hold her in your arms, tell her you love her. But all she wants, is to be alone. She has been living in a world completely alone, surrounded by all who love her, her perspective skewing all she senses into pure dark self criticism. A life of cruel contradiction.

Sitting on the floor of your room, the tears run down your cheeks stinging your skin. You can't let her know your are hurting, it will only hurt her more, but can this go on any longer?

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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Jillian "All I keep thinking is how disappointed I would be if I was antz29. They obviously put thought into this story; it's already very emotional and has (or had) great potential.
I agree with Bannalor; If I had wrote this I think I would be disappointed that others didn't look at it with the same respect and potential that I had when creating it.
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protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Bannalor "hehe, i laughed too, out loud in fact... the first time. when i explored the second branch is when i became disappointed to see the same thing repeated. Right now I could go to the screaming boy and make each and every branch lead to "And then he woke up and found that he was actually an alien in a spaceship, crashed on earth. He had been dreaming, under the influence of the inadvertent telepathic transmissions of nearby humans. Now he was awake, his ship was broken, and he needed to hide." And then from that point on every other branch would have to take that into account and every previous branch would be nulled unless someone tried really hard to bring elements of the dream back into the story. If I made a few variations I wouldn't really be breaking the rules and others would still be able to fix the story but EACH story line would still have evidence of sabotage. If it's just one story line then people can choose to build upon it and the sabotage is only playful randomness, not what i called dead-ending. ah, i dont really want to argue, it creates the wrong atmosphere, im just hoping that maybe meccabilly will try to get one of those posts deleted. But then again, at this point, we don't have enough posters to bring every thread to life anyways :)"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for NineMenOnRocks "meccabilly always does this... although.. their ideas DO make me laugh..."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Bannalor "yes, with a bit of imagination it can be fixed, but no matter how it is fixed any story line will have the goat-joke as chapter two. i realize that the way this works is that anyone has the freedom to change things, but to change both storylines in such a way that contradicts (what seems to be) the original intention is going beyond that. I think that perhaps we should, in many circumstances, feel the responsibility to honour the original author's intended mood. When a story gets to have six branches or so there is no harm done in changing things drastically, i did that myself in the screaming boy, but then there is only the root with two branches its more respectful to keep some consistency. just my two cents, i dont want to seem hostile to meccabilly but i did want to voice my criticism."
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for surreal78 "Fair enough, but you guys are more than able to get the story back on the rails if that's what you're after. I agree that changing the complete theme of the story goes against the posting guidelines somewhat, but you do have the ability to "fix" it yourself if you want. :)"
protagonize: author profile thumbnail for Bannalor "oh man, that's terrible how meccabilly dead-ended this... to be fair, it is an interesting twist, but to make both options lead to a goat instead of a realistic emotionally complex person-person relationship drama... i think it really betrays what the author was going after."

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