5 Things Meme—of the Ficlet Variety

[scribblemyname]

This entry is part 44 of 51 in the series 365 Challenge

Gacked from penknife:

You post a topic, list, category, whatever, in comments. (examples: "Five SG-1 Mission Reports That Were Less Than Entirely Truthful", or "Five Times Bruce Banner Lost His Toothbrush," or "Five Ways Nikola Tesla Failed to Take Over the World"). I'll answer with a list of five things.

Ideally fandoms that I know something about, unless you want me to guess, which could be entertaining but probably not the way you want. Or (and preferably) original fiction. All storyworlds on the table, i.e. Seven Days, Kingdoms and Thorn, the Alliance, Vardin, etc.

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Completed Ficlets & Scenes

Kingdoms and Thorn:

• Rachelle + Justus – Without a Reason
• Shift + Justus + Red Wolf – It's Own Absolution
• Rachelle + Justus – It Came Up
• Rachelle/Justus – Simply Because
• Rachelle + Justus – Defining Love
• Rachelle + Shift + Meld – Playing with Knives
• Killinger + Special Unit ensemble – Technicalities
• Killinger + Special Unit ensemble – Call Me If You Need Me
• Killinger + Special Unit ensemble – Element of Uncertainty
• Marc + Cate – A Simple Question
• Marc + Cate – The Nameless Below
• Killinger + Special Unit ensemble – Tracing Trouble

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Comments

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Playing with Knives

[scribblemyname]

I could hug you. You see me on my worst day and are okay with it. Well, I'll try to work in that scene when I do the book/collection mess that I'm now officially putting off until I got a couple linchpins done to satisfaction.

I'm glad you like him. I made a conscious decision to throw him in there when I realized he'd been mentioned, but you'd never asked about him and he's one of MY favorites, so I thought, I'll see if you do like him.

I think I've got those two successfully separated in my head and I'm glad I finally got the dynamic worked out without having to spell it all out. It's screwed up, to put it mildly, but even they know that.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Playing with Knives

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

Well, the same goes for you. How many times have you seen me at my worst?

I was curious about Meld, but he was only someone that was mentioned, so he wasn't one that I knew anything to ask about other than the brother idea... and for some reason, I kept getting the impression he was... dead, so I was a bit afraid to ask.

Yeah, it is. It really makes one want the Department to pay for what they were forced to do to survive.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Playing with Knives

[scribblemyname]

Might've been somewhat related to the fact that Meld and Justus aren't particularly close. Oh, they interact, but mostly just when Rachelle's involved. When her body goes haywire, she'll take either of them or Sear, all if she can get them.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Playing with Knives

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

She is kind of... the connecting piece, isn't she?

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Playing with Knives

[scribblemyname]

They all are. It comes back to that whole team members aren't tightly tied to every single other member of the team: their groups are loose around the individual tight relationships.

Meld is extremely close to Shift, Protector, and Rachelle.

Rachelle is close to Justus, Sear, and Kilter.

Justus is close to Shift, Protector, and Rachelle.

Shift is close to Sear, Watcher, and Justus and love/hate with Kilter: she hates to love him.

Sear is close to Shift, Watcher, Rachelle and Kismet.

And so on. I'll stop there because it's frankly too dizzying to try to track relationships outside of the fic. For me anyway. It's in the stories that they are so easy to remember everything about.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Playing with Knives

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

Yeah... The connections like that get confusing.

Reminds me of when I had to make graphs for each of the characters in the town I'd created and had all these little scraps of paper to keep track of them.

I think I lost more of those papers than I ever managed to write pieces of the story. That was one of those clear cases of me planning so much that I lost interest in the story, lol.