"I started caring, and then everything was taken from me."

"Not everything."

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PLAYLIST
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i.
"welcome to the jungle
we take it day by day
if you want it,
you're going to bleed
but it's the price you pay."
—welcome to the jungle,
guns 'n roses

ii.
"how soft your fields so green
can whisper tales of gore
of how we calmed the tides of war
we are your overlords."
—immigrant song,
led zepplin

iii.
"some legends are told
some turn to dust or to gold
but you will remember me
remember me, for centuries."
—centuries,
fall out boy

iv.
"I pray for the wicked on the weekend
mama, can I get another amen?
oh, oh, it's saturday night, yeah
swear to god, I ain't ever gonna repent
mama, can I get another amen?"
—say amen (saturday night),
panic! at the disco

v.
"blood on my shirt,
rose in my hands
you're looking at me
like you don't know who I am."
—teeth,
5 seconds of summer

vi.
"so don't you call my name
I will take you down
should have known that
you've been dancing with a wolf."
—dancing with a wolf,
all time low

vii.
"open your hand, take a glass
don't be scared, I'm right here
even though, you don't roll
trust me girl,
you wanna be high for this."
—high for this,
the weeknd

viii.
"don't be cautious, don't be kind
you committed, I'm your crime
push my buttons anytime
you got your finger on the trigger,
but you're trigger finger's mine."
—COPYCAT,
billie eilish

ix.
"well, well, you better run from me
you better hit the road
you better up and leave
don't get too close."
—flames,
R3HAB, ZAYN

x.
"I'm not growing up, I'm aging
my mind's incarcerated
still a boy
you're a man now, boy."
—you're a man now, boy,
raleigh ritchie

xi.
"well, it's too long living
in the same old lives
I feel too cold to live,
too young to die
will you walk the line,
like it's there to choose?"
—jungle,
x ambassadors

xii.
"you gotta let me be me
back myself into a corner once again
take you for a liar
while you call yourself a friend
it's the end, it's the end."
—so long, and thanks for all the booze,
all time low

xiii.
"holy water cannot help you now
thousand armies couldn't keep me out
I don't want your money
I don't want your crown
see, I've come to burn
your kingdom down."
—seven devils,
florence + the machine

xiv.
"I see a line of cars
and they're all painted black
with flowers and my love
both never to come back
I see people turn their heads
and quickly turn away."
—paint it, black,
ciara

xv.
"I'm only a man
with a candle to guide me
I'm taking a stand
to escape what's inside me
a monster, a monster
I've turned into a monster."
—monster,
imagine dragons

xvi.
"but if the earth ends in fire
and the seas are frozen in time
there'll be just one survivor:
the memory that I was yours
and you were mine."
—immortal,
MARINA

xvii.
"boy I was shaped for the fury
now I pay the price
of the human race's vice
and I was promised
the glorious ending of a knight
but the crown is out of sight."
—the other side,
woodkid

xviii.
"welcome to my darkness,
I been here a while
clouding up the sunlight,
hurting for a smile
or something, but something
always turns into nothing."
—dark side,
bishop briggs

xix.
"most of my life was heavy and hard
so many days, so many scars
but it was all of those years
to make me who I am
I broke through and here I stand."
—new blood,
zayde wolf

xx.
"when the world was ending,
we talked about the
places we'd never been.
when the world was ending,
we'd hold onto the past
cuz it's all we thought
that we would ever see."
—to begin again,
ZAYN, ingrid michaelson

xxi.
"like a river flows
surely to the sea
darling, so it goes
some things are meant to be."
—can't help falling in love – dark,
tommee profitt, brooke

xxii.
"oh yes, I'm the great pretender
pretending I'm doing well
my need is such I pretend too much
I'm lonely but no one can tell."
—the great pretender,
freddie mercury

xxiii.
"tell me the truth:
does he make you
sweat
shiver like I do?"
—what he don't know,
anarbor

xxiv.
"long live the reckless and the brave
I don't think I wanna be saved
my song has not been sung
so long live us."
—the reckless and the brave,
all time low

xxv.
"buddy you're a young man, hard man
shoutin' in the street
gonna take on the world some day
you got blood on yo' face
you big disgrace
wavin' your banner all over the place."
—we will rock you,
queen

xxvi.
"and I say, say
what I wanna say.
tell me I'm an angel,
take this to my grave
tell me I'm a bad man,
kick me like a stray."
—house of wolves,
my chemical romance

xxvii.
"I'm crankin' up on the throttle
victory is mine
show you the harder the battle,
the harder I fight."
—legends are made,
sam tinnesz

( this playlist can be found on my spotify! my username is scottmccutie. )

playlist cover by remuslupout

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EPIGRAPH
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"I opened up and
lost everything I
gained. I still can't
tell if it was worth it."
—ares ortega

"I never asked if you
didn't do it because I
didn't care. I saw you
for who you really are."
—kiernan adams

"kids like you can't
run unchecked. this
place only survives if
we have rules— ones
that cannot be broken
without consequences."
—marcus kane

"when you do things
like that, I can't tell if I
want to kiss you or
punch you."
—raven reyes

"feel free to write my
biography when I become
one of the top ten most
devious sky people in
history. you deserve it
since you seem to know
so much about me."
—ares ortega

"with your help, we
survived. I'm not gonna
forget that. say what you
want, ares, but you're not
a bad person."
—clarke griffin

"well, whenever you
inevitably explode from
keeping your emotions
pent up inside for so
long, don't yell at me,
because I tried to help."
—kiernan adams

"careful, ortega. one
small mistake like that
can cost you everything.
trust me, I would know.
—oliver walsh

INTRODUCING...

LAURENCE COKE
– oliver walsh
"You kinda want to stop taking risks when one simple dare makes you lose everything."

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a/n:

oliver my BOYYYY. i'm so excited to expand his character! laurence is adorable and very very attractive so it's completely understandable why ares had a gay panic when he realized oliver was flirting with him. i had to make the gif myself because all the ones i found whitewashed him :/ (he's half trinidadian and also comes from venezuelan and indian descent as well as english).

welcome to part two!! i loved writing for s2 in conflate, so i hope it will be just as fun now. it's going to be a wild ride, that's for sure.

also, i worked REALLY hard on this playlist and it would mean the world to me if you actually took a listen! :) it captures the overall feel of the season for ares and i'm so proud of it.

what are you most looking forward to for this part, or what would you like to see?

—kristyn