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scribblemyname) wrote2013-09-22 07:54 pm
Fluff, Relationships, and Traditions
So characters have habits, ways they interact with certain people and situations, things they do and like to do, stories and histories together. I've known a lot of my characters' for a long time but getting them all into fic is interesting, particularly for the ones I don't know that for.
I've got about five novelettes I want to turn out plus a short story, created out of the 5 Things Meme and then the whole Pieter/Ashen dynamic that originally played in my head before I even wrote that first Ashen drabble (and it is awesome to me, but got sidelined drastically with a deluge of other prompts), but, but, but...
I'm on day 265 of my challenge and story count 157 and I'm still plying angles and there's all those little things above that I'm itching to nibble at. Want to help a girl out?
Particularly of interest to me are things like where does Wesley work (not sure actually), and then relationship things that I haven't gotten to like how Justus always recognizes Shift regardless of her current form or demeanor, friendships, sibling relationships, Ilsa and her husband, etc.
Calling for prompts, as promised:
- character(s) and/or canon/fandom
- random word, quote, or other prompt
Oh, and I'll try to keep it short and fluffy or sweet. Try is the operative word. :grins:
Prompts
- Meld, couples, prank war
- Justus + Special Unit
- From thecatisacritic's fluff-fest
- Justus' family + Shift, Rachelle
- dancing, quotes, and not without you
- who is Justus when he's Rachelle's?
- undercover Justus
- more quotes
- From Daily Scribble post 1 AND from previous promptfest
- Ilsa prevents
- the work they do
- finding Justus, about that memory
Ficlets
Seven Days
- Wesley/Lena: Shall We Dance?
- Wesley/Lena: Stubborn
- Wesley/Lena: You are My Photograph
- Wesley/Lena + Angelita: Learning to Tango
- Wesley + Connor: Just Saying
- Wesley + Connor: On Practical Uses for Journals
- Wesley + Connor: A Spaghetti-Flavored Aftermath
- Wesley + Connor: Maybe Next Week
- Wesley + Connor: The Apple Don't Fall Far
- Wesley + Mom: The Joys of Motherhood
- Connor + Ashelynn + dogs: On the Acquisition of Dogs
- Connor + Ashelynn + dogs: Girls
Kingdoms and Thorn
- Shift + Team ensemble: That'll Work
- Shift + Meld: Soon
- Sear + Meld: Bone-Weary Need
- Rachelle + Meld: Between
- Rachelle + Meld: The Leash
- Rachelle + Special Unit: Anywhere But Here
- Rachelle + Heather + Shadow: An Absurdly Dangerous Shadow
- Rachelle + Joseph: What the Emptiness Fills
- Justus + Joseph: Cracking the Ice
- Justus + Team Ensemble: In the Business
- Justus + Larique: The Unsuspecting Suspect
- Shift + Justus: Self-Preservation
- Sear + Justus: Gratitude in an Off Note
- Rachelle/Justus + Heather: Backfire
- Rachelle/Justus + Sophocles: Comfort Objects
- Rachelle/Justus + Sophocles: On the Care and Feeding of Cats
- Rachelle/Justus + Sophocles: The Taste of Coffee
- Rachelle/Justus: Living with Hope
- Rachelle/Justus: Tiny Significant Pieces
- Rachelle/Justus: Side Effects
- Rachelle/Justus: Remind You to Dance
- Rachelle/Justus: Family
- Rachelle/Justus + Red Wolf and Whisper's kids: Cure to All That Ails
- Storm + Red Wolf + Anya: We Can't Have That
- Red Wolf and Whisper's kids: Don’t Forget the Ice Cream
- Red Wolf/Whisper: The Fox and the Wolf
- Red Wolf/Whisper: Taste of Regret
- Red Wolf/Whisper: Business as Usual
- Red Wolf/Whisper + Ashen: A Gift Well-Chosen
- Red Wolf: Rearranging Assets
- Storm + Minder: The Five W’s of Declaring War
- Storm + Minder: Tell Me in the Morning
- Storm + Minder: Moral Support
- Storm + Mirage + Surge: Waiting for Blood
- Hasheni/Ilsa Killinger: Homework
- Hasheni/Ilsa Killinger: Catalyst
- Ilsa Killinger: Linger
- Ilsa Killinger | Special Unit: Reality Check
- Keeper/Brushfire: When Memory Burns
- Anna/Lightsculpt: Dinnertime Distractions
- Anna/Lightsculpt: Needing a Break
- Anna/Lightsculpt: Worth Something
- Anna/Lightsculpt: Working Up the Nerve
- Anna/Lightsculpt: Would That It Were
- Sketch + Team ensemble: Something Other Than Smoke
- Shift/Kilter + Watcher: Wedding Gift
- Shift/Kilter + Elisabeth: You're My Heart
- Shift/Kilter + Elisabeth: The Answer to All Problems
- Shift + Elisabeth: Little Girl Reminders
- Surge + Maker: Embrace of Freedom
- Watcher + Team Ensemble: An Ounce of Protection
Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: An Absurdly Dangerous Shadow
Cuddly. Haha. Though it's true. Katya does like to cuddle, but only on her terms. She's very much a cat in that respect. :)
Now, the trouble is... what if that protector followed Shadow home?
AU Kingdoms and Thorn/Consultant and the Cat/Fire and Water Fanfic
"Okay," Rachelle stated emphatically. "Here is where I draw the line."
Heather looked up from her computer to see Rachelle framed in the doorway and craned her neck to look over her shoulder. Her jaw fell open.
Shadow was climbing down off the couch with a gleeful, Look what I brought home! sort of feline triumph while a leopard sat on her haunches behind Shadow and looked about curiously.
Fear was not an option. It was a leopard, and fear was something Heather couldn't afford to feel, so she went into operative mode and stood up and glanced at Rachelle. "Do you have some sort of 'return-to-sender' function in there because we could sure use one right now."
"My life has become absurd." Rachelle seemed to be cycling through her database, then she threw some sort of field out ahead of her.
Heather dodged out of the way of it.
The leopard looked offended, downright offended, before she vanished abruptly.
Shadow wailed piteously. Heather focused on bringing her heart rate back to normal.
Rachelle picked up the kitten and scratched behind her ears, then handed her to Heather. "Some very interesting entries," she commented. "Dimensionals. Elementals—real ones. Leopard and weirdness. You might want to get her a leash."
Heather eyed her formerly cute, now thoroughly disturbing kitten.
"She didn't know any better," Rachelle commented as she started working away at the queue.
Heather hmphed and went to the phone to call Maker. She was going to a very fancy leash for that one.
Re: AU Kingdoms and Thorn/Consultant and the Cat/Fire and Water Fanfic
"She brought home a leopard," Heather said tersely.
"You're not joking."
"Can you do that?"
A long pause. A very long pause. A deep breath. "Let me work on that. Maybe you should follow her first?"
"Do I look like a dimensional to you?" Heather demanded. "Besides. Leopard."
"Right..." Another long pause. "Maybe Rachelle should follow her," he suggested hopefully.
"Thank you for figuring this out for me, Maker," Heather said sweetly, then hung up the phone.
Re: AU Kingdoms and Thorn/Consultant and the Cat/Fire and Water Fanfic
Maker makes the whole thing that much more priceless because he wants someone to follow the kitten.
Although... Poor Shadow. No more meetings with the others. No more leopard protector. :(
AU Kingdoms and Thorn/Consultant and the Cat/Fire and Water Fanfic: The General Council
Sophocles looked down at two twin kittens pointedly, said look by far more intimidating as it was backed up by Katya's bland agreement behind him.
"Are we agreed?" he asked the general council of cats, Alvin, a couple of chipmunks, and a new wagging puppy, Kip, who insisted on attendance as his master definitely qualified as unusually gifted with patience and other superhuman virtues.
Said council agreed.
Chocolate sighed relief. It was good to get back to figuring out how to cope with owners, not offspring.
Shadow agreed with a faint mew. "Anyone have a cure for singed tail?" she asked. Heather had gotten it good by accident when she channeled a lightning spark and sideswiped the aforementioned limb.
"Does it work like a burn?" Maggie asked. "Flint got me once and Cress made it all better."
"Cress is mine."
"We know, Clown Fish."
Shadow's ears pricked forward at that. "Clown Fish?"
"I have to swim," Clown Fish answered primly, then cautiously, "Shadow?"
Shadow shuddered, ears back. "I don't like them. Except Katya." She cuddled closer to the leopard, causing Maggie to back away from the injured tail.
Sophocles interjected, "Which brings us to a more important issue. Who knows how to evade my owner? They're trying to ground Shadow from meetings."
A general silence. Katya purred and picked up the kitten by her scruff.
Ember raised a paw. "I vote on the leopard picks her up and drops her off."
The general council agreed.
Re: AU Kingdoms and Thorn/Consultant and the Cat/Fire and Water Fanfic: The General Council
This group is way too much fun. :)
Even if their meetings got a bit off track... That's just more to enjoy, right?
Re: AU Kingdoms and Thorn/Consultant and the Cat/Fire and Water Fanfic: The General Council
Re: AU Kingdoms and Thorn/Consultant and the Cat/Fire and Water Fanfic: The General Council
I was trying to think of how the characters on the other side would react to seeing some of the other special pets, but I didn't come up with anything. :/
Re: AU Kingdoms and Thorn/Consultant and the Cat/Fire and Water Fanfic: The General Council
Re: AU Kingdoms and Thorn/Consultant and the Cat/Fire and Water Fanfic: The General Council
All I managed was one line, from Cress. "I know we do the impossible every day, but this is a bit much, even for us."