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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.
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So... Joe vs. Volcano quotes:
1. "I know he can get the job, but can he do the job?"
2. "I'm not arguing that with you."
3."What kind of clothes do you got now?"
"Well, I got the kind of clothes I'm wearing."
"So you got no clothes."
4. "You're in a rotten mood."
"It's the sunshine. Gets me down."
5."Nobody knows anything. We'll take this leap, and we'll see. We'll jump, and we'll see. That's life, right?"
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I need to get myself writing again, too. :/
Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: You're My Heart – 509 words
Shift came home late, only one small lamp gleaming in the living room to welcome her. Or it should have been only that lamp. Soft footfalls sounded in the carpeted hall, and she was met by a slender, serious-faced seven-year-old girl reaching up for a warm hug.
"You're supposed to be in bed," Shift admonished affectionately but kissed the the top of her daughter's head and picked up the sleepy child to return her safely to her room.
"I missed you, Mama," Lise murmured, already almost asleep.
Shift tucked her in and kissed her, smoothing over the soft brown hair and whispered back, "I love you, little one. You're my heart."
Kilter leaned in the doorway to Elisabeth's room. He had felt the change in the air when Shift arrived home. Even weary, Shift brought a tension with her: anything could happen with Shift.
Looking at her now, a stranger wouldn't believe it that this too young woman had ever led a rebellion and broken the strongest nation in their world. They wouldn't believe that someone could barely be older than twenty and have a child so old and so much blood and victory on her hands. They wouldn't believe that she frightened the man who loved her because he couldn't understand how he could possibly love that.
He looked at her as a stranger, leaning over the bed and kissing their daughter goodnight—a perfect reflection of family and love. He wanted that. Badly.
He waited until Shift was smiling sweetly to herself and almost to the door before he broke the quiet peace. "Thought that was Justus."
"There's a big difference between reminding me that I have one and actually being it," Shift said simply. She had known Kilter was watching. Otherwise would be unthinkable.
He let some of his tension go as he gestured gently toward Elisabeth. "Sometimes I wonder what we'd be like if there had been no Department."
Shift's brow furrowed and she glanced back, considering. No military, no team, no attract and repel between them, the angels of dark and light to Watcher's shoulders. "Assuming we even met," she began, then hesitated. "Complicated. I'm sure I'd still be playful, but"—she turned back to him—"I doubt I'd be less fierce."
Amusement glimmered in her brown eyes. Her hair was brown, just Elisabeth's shade. Between the words and the realization that this was just a mask, another skin Shift wore, Kilter drew back slightly, breath catching.
"You wouldn't have a list of people you were waiting to slaughter," he accused quietly.
Shift shrugged indifferently, conceding with a flick of brow. "A nice way of saying I wouldn't have a taste for blood." The sharp amusement dismissed any tenderness the moment had held.
He studied her for a long moment. She was sin and fascination personified. She was loving and breathtakingly selfless. But he found no words, and her eyes said good night before she brushed past him on the way to her room.
He stared at their daughter before finally going to his.
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It's one of those supremely messed up situations that I don't know how it's going to resolve.
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I just asked because I'm afraid to really root for them or get invested in them without knowing more because they do have something, but I don't want to watch it... fall apart spectacularly like I can see it doing. It would be all too easily done with a situation like this.
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: You're My Heart – 509 words
Considering my general approach to fanfic, let me pose you this challenge for myself: Do you think you want them to work out?
I can do that. It'll just be spectacularly um... interesting along the way. No on-screen stuff, because it's you, but you are aware that she is shamelessly promiscuous when it serves her ends and currently sees absolutely no hope for redemption for herself? THAT's a journey I haven't exactly walked with her yet. At least not successfully. It's doable. It's just... challenging.
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A part of me says yes, that I do. I'm not sure if that's just me, though, and if it's the right thing for the characters.
I guess what Shift really needs is a reason to believe she can be redeemed, a reason to forgive herself.
For some reason, I've got these lines from a movie echoing in my head, where one character says, "I don't know that I deserve you" and the other one answers, "Someday you're gonna forgive yourself." That doesn't seem much like Shift, though, so I don't know why.
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I came up with some rather... unlikely and not well thought-out and kind of lame ideas like:
1. Maybe if she for some reason lost her memory and didn't have that knowledge of what she'd done but that's almost like cheating and would probably not last once she remembered or someone told her what she was.
2. Her having another child, without all the complications of the first one, one that she could just be a mother to without having to sacrifice everything to have free. I just don't see that coming around in a good way, either.
3. Other thoughts involve her being shown that either she's not as bad as someone else who found a redemption or someone helping her find another way, but unless that someone is Kilter, that second part would not end with them together, either.
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That might be the start of things.
Though... again, how would she lose that taste when she's done almost everything before without regret?
Hmm. Maybe there is no logical solution to this.
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1. Ilsa
2. Ilsa, again, maybe.
3. Wesley. Maybe with Connor, but Wesley.
4. Rachelle
5. Lena
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Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Reality Check
John Lorrey sighed. He may have been in charge of the remaining Department presence in the city of Kishet, but there were days he didn't feel qualified for this brave new world. "No one knows, Ilsa. No one's ever done this before."
Except the ROD and certain particular teams in the Projects. Ilsa frowned and began to straighten her folders. "I'd like to schedule a series of interviews over the next week. We only have one cyberpathic applicant."
"Well, I guess he'll have to do you," Lorrey snapped, then sighed again, realizing it wasn't Ilsa's fault either. "What's he like?"
She gave him the classic look of the put-upon. "He's like a kid bouncing into what he thinks is a candy store, and it's not. It's an armory."
Lorrey laughed. "He might be just what you need."
Ilsa just shook her head in nonverbal disagreement, but she picked up the file. She needed a cyberpath and there was little doubt he could handle the technical aspects of the position. He was qualified, but could he do what would be required of him?
"What's his name?" Lorrey asked.
"Jarod Walters." She glanced upward, then shook her head. "Not everyone needs to get their reality check in the business."
"Well, he's got to get it somewhere," Lorrey pointed out. "And who better to get it from than you?"
If she had another applicant... But she didn't. She sighed and picked up the phone to schedule the interview.
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I can't really say why I love that part of the movie so much, but I do like the way this unfolded, and Ilsa's first reaction to Jarod is funny.
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Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Anywhere But Here
There was an entire tray of them set up on the conference room table, which had earlier prompted Marc to ask, "Addict?" of Cate.
Cate had shaken her head and said, "Medicine."
Now, Cate was pulling a box out of the cabinet and breaking open the sterile packaging on a small green starlike object.
Rachelle slid off her jacket and then her overshirt, then her t-shirt.
"Um..." Jarod started to say something.
"Shut up," Rachelle bit out. She was down to her sports bra as she leaned over the table and took the star Cate handed her to twist into the base of her spine expertly. She opened the first bag of evidence taken from the scene. Her eyes unfocused similar to the way Cate's did when she was using her special ability.
"Is there anything we can do?" Marc asked politely, it being obvious something was bothering Rachelle. He wasn't sure if she was angry or in pain.
"It's the sunshine," Jarod quipped. "Gets her down."
She shot a glare in his direction then shook her head at Marc. She started drinking the first cup of coffee. Make that draining her first cup. "Next time you need an expert, Cate—"
Cate tilted her head in that listening but not heeding mannerism of hers.
"Call someone else." Rachelle tossed the cup in the trash can and started on the second.
"I won't abuse the privilege." Cate handed Rachelle an evidence bag.
Rachelle straightened, removed the star, and put it in the bag, then leaned over to write on the label in with permanent marker. "How many of these you need processed?" she asked.
Marc answered, "About a dozen."
Cate looked apologetic.
Rachelle looked disgusted and tossed her empty coffee cup in the can.
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Rachelle's like that. She really doesn't like to help out, and comparatively, she doesn't help the Special Unit very often. Cate doesn't call her in except as a last, last resort.
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Still... it's very interesting when she does help out.