Ficlet O'Clock Open Prompts

[scribblemyname]

I've missed doing this, and when my best friend who loves these things was out of pocket for a while, I mostly didn't try. So here's the way it works. You give:

1. fandom, storyworld (optional)


2. character and/or pairing (optional)


3. prompt

We write ficlets. Feel free to ask questions on fills and get more fills. Fill whatever you like. Prompt whatever you like. The thread stays open until somewhere after activity slows down to a trickle, I randomly call done working the thread.

So personally I've been missing writing original fiction and Rogue/Remy fic (and Logan/Ororo and Kitty/Pyro), but prompt whatever (like Bobbi or Natasha or Skye or...), just no deathfic or supernatural please.



I dumped in a couple to start, but I'll be in and out. :)

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MASTERLIST

blamesthepen

• Alik + Vred, This moment, we own it.


• Katya, pillow fights


• Cadence + friend, pillow fights


• Alik + Vred, platonic soulmates


• Malina + Alik, insomnia


• Anyone But You (The Enadar Version) [Felise/Enadar + Alik]


• Disbelief (Enadar Take Two) [Felise/Enadar + Alik]


• Alik + Malina + Enadar, finding someone to love


• Clint/Natasha, Remy + OMC, I will not take from you and you will not owe


• For the Hundredth Time, I'm Not Marrying Your Brother [Lisea + Malina]


• Katya, dodging the matchmaker


• Alik + Vred, platonic soulmates + pillow fight


• Whistler + Stratford + Dare, platonic soulmates


• Cameron/Verina, trying to sleep with a new baby in the house


• Alik + Enadar, dogs and cats


• Forsythe/Stasia, a relationship in 5 kisses


• Katya, cuddles


• Katya, stealing the remote control


• Alik + Vred, a genetic recessive who doesn't have/show a soulmark


• The Danger of Discussing Marriage with Your Best Friend [Cadence/Dare]


• Another Cadence/Dare "Pillow" Fight


• My husband became a shepherd to me / I became a shepherdess to him


• Already Through [Vred/Malina]


• Cadence/Dare, You gotta make your own stuff work


• Lisea + Alik, Emotions aren't that hard to borrow / When love is a word you haven't learned

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• Anyone But You [Felise/Enadar]


• Crazy [Agents of Shield, Bobbi/Hunter]


• Five Cups of Coffee and a Stack of Pancakes [MCU/The Unusuals, Bobbi/Walsh]


• Marrying Into the Family [Felise/Enadar + Malina + Lisea]


• It's Only Natural [X-Men, Remy + Scott]


• Speculation [MCU, Steve + Clint/Natasha]


• When All Else Fails, Walk the Dog [616, Clint]


• Burn Your Kingdoms Down [Kingdoms & Thorn, Sear]


• There Is That [Felise + Enadar]


• Mixed Feelings [Felise/Enadar]


• I'm Not a Flirt, It's Just the Way I Talk [X-Men, Rogue/Remy]


• On the Properties of Love [Kingdoms and Thorn, Justus/Rachelle]


• Toto, We're Not in the Multiverse Anymore [X-Men/Narnia, Kitty]


• Almost Soulmate [Vred + Alik]


• Secrets [The Unusuals, Walsh/Beaumont]


• Picking the Family Pet: Spouse Supervision Required [Original]

Comments

[scribblemyname]

a genetic recessive who doesn't have/show a soulmark

[blamesthepen.livejournal.com]

“The idea of soul mates is absurd,” Alik said, leaning back and watching electricity arc across the sky, creating the kind of fireworks his mother had always enjoyed but he felt were rather stupid. Parlor tricks, the sort of thing people with abilities wanted to see because they weren't frightening or repulsive but amusing and useless. “I don't know why a world with abilities suddenly means that kind of nonsense is true, too, but I'm sick of hearing about it. What is it with this age that makes everyone assume that you have to have a soul mark?”

Vred looked at him. “You're saying you don't have one?”

Alik snorted. “No. And please don't tell me you believe in this stuff. I thought we understood each other on that part.”

Vred was quiet for long enough where Enadar would have fidgeted, but Alik was not like his brother. “You know that I track. I can track the soul bonds.”

“Now I wish you had a sense of humor,” Alik muttered. “You don't, and that's not funny.”

Vred did not deny that. “You have a bond.”

“I don't,” Alik said. "You know a person's physiology, don't you? Everything that makes them who they are—and I suppose you could argue that is how you know the soul mate thing—so look at me. I don't have one. It's not small or something I could mistake for a freckle or birthmark. It does not exist. I don't have a soul mate.”

“Your mark may not show physically. It is still there.”

Alik shook his head. “Unbelievable. You know what? I thought you and I were the only two sane people left in this place, but I can see now that doesn't exist at all. I may have some kind of genetic... affliction, but not a soul mate.”

“Stubborn.”

“Maybe,” Alik conceded. “I don't like the idea of my fate being set before birth. If that is true... No. I refuse to accept that my life had to happen this way. I have to be able to choose or I may as well give up now.”

Vred nodded. “They will miss you.”

“Yeah, well, that's the other reason I don't have a soul mate. I'm not capable of love. I won't miss them.”

[scribblemyname]

Aw, Alik. Just because you don't have red hair, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Poor thing.

[blamesthepen.livejournal.com]

I think a part of him knows it's possible, even if he doesn't have a mark. It's just that... Alik's life turned insular and became all about protecting his family. Inn a world without Watch, he'd lack a purpose and if certain childhood events played out the same, he'd despise the idea of fate. Then to have Vred say this thing exists makes for a very bitter, disillusioned Alik who just lost the only person he thought understood.

:/ I actually think Alik might be worse off in a world without Watch.

[scribblemyname]

Oh, there would be other things. I just didn't want to go there with big, run-for-your-life plot smack in the middle of essentially angst/fluff. But there's always plenty of protection to do anyway. And I doubt it'd be any less eventful of a world than, say, the X-Men's regardless of whether there was an actual hate group around them.

[blamesthepen.livejournal.com]

I went with no Watch because I think abilities would have to be at least partially accepted for people to discuss something like a soul mark openly. Or maybe being soul marked opened them up to the idea of abilities. Either way, it does kind of exclude Watch and run for your life.

Alik is kind of the type that moves from crisis to crisis, planning for the worst and trying to prevent it. He doesn't have a real worst to focus on because the threats would be more spontaneous and organic, coming naturally from every day stuff and the world but assuming that Enadar had no reason to hide from and fear his ability, he'd be able to use it, again eliminating one of Alik's grounding points.

I can now see Alik leaving in a way I never did before.

Can also see Vred seeking him out, but that is a different story.

[scribblemyname]

Nice story though. Even if yes, it would be a bunny rabbit trail.

[blamesthepen.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, it would make for yet another epic AU that wasn't finished.

Bunny trail, maybe

[blamesthepen.livejournal.com]

“You win again.”

Vred frowned. He had not thought there was anything here to win. “Have you been drinking?”

Alik gave him a wry half-smile. “Maybe. In the interest of science, of course. It's an experiment. They all are these days.”

“I didn't know self-destruction could be considered something scientific.”

Alik laughed. “When so many have it down to a science?”

Vred ignored that. “Malina is worried about you.”

“And you let her use your ability which I'm sure just made things worse. Then she gave you that look and you decided to come find me. You did.I'm not dead. I'm just in the process of figuring a few things out, not the least of which is how to avoid your annoying little ability. Haven't you ever considered, just once, that I don't want to be found?”

“You're needed.”

“No, I'm not.” Alik shook his head. “None of them have needed me for a long time. If you'd seen the looks my parents gave me as I was growing up, like 'who is this kid' and 'how can he possibly be ours' and my personal favorite—the one where they were genuinely scared of me... No, you would understand. There isn't a place for me in this happy world of soul mates and accepted abilities, not unless I want to be a floor show and I don't. So tell Malina to stop looking for me and you do the same because I'm not going back and I'm not going to stop looking for a way around what you can do.”

“Alik.”

“I gave enough as a child. I gave away what little I had—and they hate me for it. They won't say it, but it's true. I am not going to save them from themselves or champion the greater good. So help me, I don't even know what that is. Forget it. Leave me alone.”

“This isn't you,” Vred told him, certain of that, and Alik shuddered, his ability flaring to life and through all the power lines in the building.

“You'd better go,” Alik said, leaning against the wall. “And not even because I want you to this time. I don't think I can control that, and it'll kill you if it goes off.”