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scribblemyname ([personal profile] scribblemyname) wrote2013-09-22 07:54 pm
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Fluff, Relationships, and Traditions

This entry is part 52 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge

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:

  1. character(s) and/or canon/fandom
  2. 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

Ficlets

Seven Days

Kingdoms and Thorn

Originally published at Liana Mir. You can comment here or there.

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Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Bone-Weary Need

[personal profile] scribblemyname 2013-10-04 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Sear took one look at the bone weariness in Meld's eyes and informed him bluntly, "I am not the Database."

He simply nodded and leaned back in the small, hard hospital chair. He was the only person she had ever seen that didn't look helpless surrounded by all this hospital equipment and illness and human weakness in the face of inexorable nature. Other healers didn't have his strength when she knew he could barely stand.

Sear wasn't close to Meld. She knew how to help others when they needed it. She stood guard over Shift's visits to her daughter. She sutured up Protector's injuries, traded macabre humor with Justus and cleaned weapons beside hm. She made the Database coffee when she was climbing the walls. But Meld…

She sighed and sat in the small, uncomfortable chair next to him. She couldn't anchor him. He'd never given her enough to get himself back through her touch.

She didn't like feeling helpless.

"I'll be fine," Meld said quietly, evenly. Always so strong even when he had barely enough life left in his body to sustain him. Sometimes, Sear thought he was unbreakable.

He didn't have to be here at the hospital, healing where he could and helping where he couldn't heal. No one was forcing Meld to be here. They were free. Free.

She leaned over and hugged him hard, startling both of them. A mess of images—gasping children, wounded limbs, blood, and his life pouring out of him until he was too weak to even stumble away—and that welter of surprise and care, the solidarity of team members.

Sear pulled away. "It would have been easier to sear you," she said because she needed to break it with something normal. She could have seen his feelings just by looking at him the right way.

A small smile caught the edges of his mouth. His fingers brushed her arm. You wouldn't hurt me.

She laughed in an undertone. "Come on. Let's get you out of here." She slung his arm over her shoulders and helped him to his feet.

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Bone-Weary Need

[identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com 2013-10-04 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, Meld. He's such a sweetie.

I'm glad he got a hug, even if she didn't plan on giving him one. He needed it.

I need to think of more prompts to get a better sense of Seer, too.
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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Bone-Weary Need

[personal profile] scribblemyname 2013-10-04 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
He's impossible to not like. At least, to me he is. And I really like the hugging prompt. Wish I'd noticed it buried in here sooner. It's so... them. They do all need hugs.

And Sear, yes. I'm working on the Justus POV team rank/meets Red Wolf one, but I could always use more prompts. Insatiable me. :shakes head at self:

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Bone-Weary Need

[identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com 2013-10-04 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I like him a lot, and I've barely seen him.

Hugging is good. Everyone needs hugs. It could almost be a requisite for all fluff prompt fests, but then... It would get old, I guess. Still, they do all need hugs.

I don't have any specifics for Sear yet. If I get any, I'll pass them along. :)
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