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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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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: You're My Heart – 509 words

[personal profile] scribblemyname 2013-10-04 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I have absolutely no clue or idea how they end. I just know that this sums up perfectly why they hate each other and what they stand for and the tension that sits underneath the fact that they really are in love with each other.

It's one of those supremely messed up situations that I don't know how it's going to resolve.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: You're My Heart – 509 words

[identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com 2013-10-04 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I can see why they have that tension and why they love/hate each other.

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.
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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: You're My Heart – 509 words

[personal profile] scribblemyname 2013-10-04 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
To be honest, writing this piece, then the next one were the only things that made me start to think they might work.

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.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: You're My Heart – 509 words

[identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com 2013-10-04 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, the hug one does really suggest that they could. I almost wanted to have him go hug Shift after he hugged their daughter because that... well, it might have helped. Could have backfired, but it might also have been just what she really needed, too.

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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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: You're My Heart – 509 words

[personal profile] scribblemyname 2013-10-04 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I'm going to accept this crazy challenge. To give them a happy ending. Hm...

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: You're My Heart – 509 words

[identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com 2013-10-04 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I don't envy you that one. I haven't figured out what would make Shift change her mind about herself.

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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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: You're My Heart – 509 words

[personal profile] scribblemyname 2013-10-04 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
It's more a case of she has a very logical argument that I have to overturn: lack of regret. She considers repentance (about face in behavior) in light of that to be a mockery. Plus, she does have that, as she puts it, taste for blood. She stayed in the business, and she keeps her kids totally out of it. And yeah, she'll have more. I'm just not sure yet where in the timeline due to the Kilter issue.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: You're My Heart – 509 words

[identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com 2013-10-04 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, then maybe it needs to be something that makes her lose her taste for blood.

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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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: You're My Heart – 509 words

[personal profile] scribblemyname 2013-10-04 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
She'd have to believe she could receive mercy, that she wasn't beyond redemption. I personally think it's going to have to be Justus, but he's got a challenge, so it may be his whole family involved in the end.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: You're My Heart – 509 words

[identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com 2013-10-04 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it would put a large gap between when she's trying to work things out with Kilter and when she finds it if it happens as a result of her setting his family straight on a few things, but that might work.
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