Fluff, Relationships, and Traditions
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scribblemynameSo 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 Ounce of Protection [4/4]
Date: 2013-10-08 07:43 pm (UTC)The red-headed woman cursed in surprise. "You trying to give me a heart attack?" she demanded. Then, she looked at her, realized that the intruder was less than ten years old with the dark eyes of a hardened warrior. The director stilled. "What do you want?" she asked, voice gentle. Too gentle. Watcher didn't believe in it.
"Meld won't kill with his power."
A tight inhale. Sheridan shook her head. "I'm sorry, but there are rules."
They couldn't let the children go free, knowing they might kill innocent civilians. It didn't matter that Internal Investigations had been horrified at the initial handling of them and cleaned out almost anyone who had abused the kids. It didn't matter that the program had been sold to the Department of Defense as something other than what it had been, that nobody realized that the process was experimental, that almost all the children would die, or even that only children could usually survive. It didn't matter how guilty the military felt or how hard they tried to clean it up because the program now had to continue. Too many children were the living weapons they'd been trying to create. Too many of them had no loyalty to anyone but each other and had a kill list they were waiting to be able to work.
Watcher nodded. "There are rules. I'm here to deal." She met this woman's gaze as a woman herself. Whatever child she had been once died with the processing that turned her into a genetically-modified special-type human. "Give my people exceptions—one each—and I will make up the difference."
Sheridan stared at her, then forced herself to regain her composure. "And how do you intend to do that?" she asked leadingly.
"My team will do what I say," Watcher replied calmly. "Give us the worst jobs, but make them mean something. Give us evil to stop and we will stop it. When I'm old enough, I'll become one of you—permanently."
Sheridan breathed a soft swear. "Do you have any idea what you're asking me?"
"I know that you'll lose the teams one day," Watcher replied flatly. "They'll kill you or they'll leave, but we're stronger than you are. But you'll keep me."
How could a woman do this job? The director looked as though she'd cry, or hug Watcher and still cry. She did neither. She nodded curtly. "You have a deal."
They drew up the papers and regulations to Watcher's satisfaction, signed, and then Watcher returned to the team and waited for the news to come down to Chandler. She saw the naked relief when it burned in Meld's eyes, but she never explained to him what she had done.
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: An Ounce of Protection [4/4]
Date: 2013-10-08 08:29 pm (UTC)Poor Meld.
And poor Watcher.
And Shift is more noble than she admits, too, since she took the fall for Meld more than once.
This piece explains sooo much...
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: An Ounce of Protection [4/4]
Date: 2013-10-08 08:46 pm (UTC)Writing Watcher at that young was interesting because she's softer here than later, less sure of herself. After this, the team really starts to solidify.
Shift has always said, "I'm not good, just loyal." She took a whole lot more falls than that one. Sear would literally follow her anywhere.
Glad it helped. That was the goal.
I also tried to work in some of the other historical details that were fighting me to stay out: like the fact that the Department hadn't intended for the Projects to be so horrible. And I have deliberately not introduced you to the worst of the team operatives, but they existed, and between the powers not yet mastered and the pure hatred some of those kids had for anyone not in the teams, it became very difficult to try and change things right away. Shift for example would have been a nightmare to let loose.
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: An Ounce of Protection [4/4]
Date: 2013-10-08 09:11 pm (UTC)That was part of what Ilsa was investigating when she quit, then, the projects.
It had to figure that there would be some that would be uncontrollable and full of hate and loyal only to those like them.
I figured there were more like Shift, even worse ones, but I didn't really want to read about them.
Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: An Ounce of Protection [4/4]
Date: 2013-10-08 09:19 pm (UTC)Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: An Ounce of Protection [4/4]
Date: 2013-10-08 09:39 pm (UTC)