Fluff, Relationships, and Traditions

Sep. 22nd, 2013 07:54 pm
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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: The Unsuspecting Suspect

Date: 2013-10-04 02:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com
I tried to tell myself that with the operative past, it made sense. I tried to remind myself that even sometimes married cops have to make those kinds of distractions.

I still came off regretting asking to see him work, because now I don't want to. Not when he thinks like this.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: The Unsuspecting Suspect

Date: 2013-10-04 02:43 am (UTC)
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Well, that's hardly his only work and it was literally only a quick kiss, which is quite different from a lot of other things. Normally, I won't write this part for you but I was going with random prompt, must write, and I admit when there's no strings attached to ANYONE, I don't have a problem with quick kiss.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: The Unsuspecting Suspect

Date: 2013-10-04 02:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com
Like I said, I tried to reason on it.

It didn't work.

It still bothered me.

I guess it's just... he may not be an operative anymore, but he was already in love with Rachelle by then, wasn't he? So... if he has a choice, why kiss someone else, even if he is just doing it for a brief moment?

And it was... not a good way to be introduced to his teammate/partner, not for me. :(
Edited Date: 2013-10-04 02:47 am (UTC)

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: The Unsuspecting Suspect

Date: 2013-10-04 02:48 am (UTC)
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Sorry about that. Thus, the warning. Though of course, it might help that his partner was actually quite ticked off about it and forced to put on a good front. I thought about writing the fallout and Justus realizing he had to shift gears (he actually stayed in the business, which is a lot of why yeah, it took shifting gears toward nonoperative work), but thought I'd wait for your comment first.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: The Unsuspecting Suspect

Date: 2013-10-04 03:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com
I saw her being upset with it.

I still didn't like her much.

I would have preferred getting an intro to her without this... angle to it. Were it me, I might have written a future interlude with them where they reference working well together but how it didn't start that way and flashing back with it. And... it probably would have been in Justus' point of view not hers.

I did have a bad day today, too, so I'm a bit... minefieldy again, too.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: The Unsuspecting Suspect

Date: 2013-10-04 03:05 am (UTC)
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Well, I have a few not-whole-story snippets, but I was trying to get the actual stories moved along before I posted those.

If it helps, I haven't enshrined this snippet in canon either yet. :grins:

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: The Unsuspecting Suspect

Date: 2013-10-04 03:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com
She probably would be more appealing in another story. Maybe when you have more of a full one, she'll show herself and her skills and that sort of thing...

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: The Unsuspecting Suspect

Date: 2013-10-04 02:51 am (UTC)
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No. He actually was not in love with her at that time. Because at that point in his life, he was quite jaded and had just come out of a period where kisses did not mean anything unless there WAS a relationship attached.

And that's actually the trouble with skipping around the timeline and not being clear enough in author's note.



Quick, side question: was the other Killinger one bad? I didn't think it had objectionables.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: The Unsuspecting Suspect

Date: 2013-10-04 03:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thecatisacritic.livejournal.com
I guess I got something really confused because I thought he'd been in love with her before the revolution happened.

No, it wasn't. I know I meant to comment on it, but I might have accidentally marked it as read before I left for work and it got lost in the shuffle.

I will reread and comment properly.

Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: The Unsuspecting Suspect

Date: 2013-10-04 03:10 am (UTC)
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You sweetie.

I did mention somewhere that I have to sit down and work out chronology. But en brief:

• Shift trains him
• The Database tests his training
• The three of them end up in a very screwed up triangle with the purpose and net result that he doesn't do the very bad thing of falling in love with anyone (it can end up with severe consequences in their team status)
• The rebellion happens
• Shift makes sure he's basically okay, then exits the equation, leaving him in an interesting place
• Rachelle doesn't exit right away and doesn't realize that the imbalance is going to be a mess
• Her situation gets worse and he's there for her and while helping her through the a bad spell realizes he's gone and fallen in love with her
• He tries not to let her know but she figures it out around her last cycle before Dowse and Bleed and gets ticked off and does not contact or communicate with him until D&B.
• Eventually, she decides to try out that kind of relationship with him.
• Eventually, they marry.
• Eventually, she pushes him to make peace with God, which opens the door for making peace with his family.
• Much later: enter the family.
• Shortly after that: enter her medical crisis, which resolves happily.
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