A Minor Variation

Title: Things We Missed That Might Have Changed Our Lives
Fandom: Inuyasha
Characters: Miroku
Wordcount: 591
Status: Complete
Warnings: Vague spoilers through the Magatsuhi arc of the manga. A potentially wildly inaccurate portrayal of the Buddhist attitude towards death, but then again, Miroku is a terrible Buddhist. No actual character death, despite implications to the contrary.
Summary: Imagine the moments those lost hours hold. At the brink between life and death, Miroku reflects.
Notes: Written for ahumblepen's request: Miroku/Sango, things we missed that might have changed our lives, from Assemblage 23's "Horizon." It's... schmoopy. I may completely re-do the entire concept later this month. But for the time being...

( imagine the moments those lost hours hold )

Written for annwyd's request: Seifer/Rinoa/Squall, up is what he chooses, the kisses and the bruises.


( a few discolorations, then it comes along )

It's been quiet out there for a while. I wish I knew more about what's going on. None of the local news sites are updating.

Is everybody okay out there?

I'm scared to try to sleep. Let me know how you're doing if you can.

Let's all make it through to morning, okay?

BLITEOTW

It's been a while, so I will try a meme:

Name a character and I'll give you (a) three (or more) facts about them from my personal fanon, (b) three (or more) things that never happened to that character, or (c) three (or more) people that character never fell in love with and how. You pick the character; I pick the letter. I reserve the right to say, "oops, I don't know that character, please pick another."

Trying to write at work is horribly frustrating. I keep getting calls which interrupt my train of thought as I'm trying to -

call

- build -

call

call - "If she has time she'll call, and if not I've done what I could," he says. There is one thing I could tell him he could do that he has not done: try not being an asshat.

Ahem.

Anyhow, you see what I mean. Trying to write at work is frequently more trouble than it's worth, unless it's a slow day. Which today is not. Which is obnoxious because one of those Andy/Murrue fics has just about come together in my head and I want to get it written and argh.

On the other hand, I can still occupy the time between calls, such as it is, by going back through old stuff. Which is kind of cool, because now and again I find some unfinished thing that really came out well. Like this, the opening to the rewrite of "After the Storm" which I swear I am going to finish.

( In which Garden's policies are REALLY CREEPY, and Rinoa doesn't like to drive. )

I was finally inspired to finish this piece that I started sometime last year - basically an effort at fixing or at least better explaining Neo, to fill in the blanks that Destiny never bothered to. Still kind of a draft; the last segments need some work. There's also an opening segment that I may or may not actually include, in which Mwu briefly regains consciousness after being retrieved by Logos before they fuck up his memory... I don't know that it necessarily fits in with the rest.

And where the heck did all this new inspiration to write more SEED fic come from? I blame annwyd. Who I still owe a Mwu/Murrue fic for Valentine's.

Anyway.

( Read more... )

Yesterday's drabble, posted late! This one is for ahumblepen.

Fandom: X-Men
Title: And Goodwill Toward Men
Rating: R for language
Words: 247

( even the dumbass ones )

This is actually yesterday's drabble, and it was suggested by ahumblepen. I am now out of prompts with twenty days to go, so please suggest more fandoms/characters/pairings/etc by commenting on this post!

Squeaking by at the last minute, and it shows...

Fandom: Final Fantasy VIII
Title: Winter Light
Rating: G
Words: 752

( When everything is dark, still something shines. )

Today's ficlet was suggested by bentarc. To make a suggestion for tomorrow, comment on this entry.

And because the other fic I posted today actually had purpose to it and significance with regards to characterization and that good stuff...

...here's some totally gratuitous Mwu/Murrue fluff.

I'm kind of embarrassed by this one; it bears a resemblance to some of the more annoying fic I've found elsewhere in the fandom, and I should know better. (The resemblance mostly lying in the whole concept of Murrue Working Too Hard and Mwu Coming To The Rescue, although there is certainly a basis for it in canon; the annoyance comes more from the fact that there's too much fic out there casting Murrue as the workaholic who determinedly neglects her own well-being and Mwu as the wise, with-it guy who is there to take care of her and doesn't seem to have problems of his own. I hate the idea of perpetuating that kind of thing.) It came about mostly as an excuse for Mwu's remark about discipline (because he so would).

Next fic I write for these characters will be less pointless, I promise.

( Still working? )

I have been trying to write an Andy/Murrue fic since February.

That is kind of sad.

Particularly since I really haven't made much progress worth mentioning. I have an assortment of ideas, but they have yet to gel into an actual fic. I tried a bit of semi-stream-of-consciousness noodling with just dialogue to see what I could shake loose, but I can't say it's helped all that much.

( extremely fragmentary random Andy/Murrue dialogue snippets )

The idea that I'm simmering focuses on Valentine's Day and the unique significance it holds in the SEEDverse following Bloody Valentine and the ensuing war - there's something really intriguing about seeing an established lovers' holiday turn into a day for remembering grief and loss, and the particular perspective that Andy and Murrue would have on it, having both lost the ones they loved to the war. Understanding one another's grief draws them together, but it can't be easy to build a relationship when the ghosts of both your lost loves are (metaphorically) still so present.

I don't have a storyline, just an assortment of things I'd like to explore, like how Andy, who as a Coordinator and a soldier must be accustomed to a high level of physical ability, deals with physical disability - and more significantly how he settles into a civilian life and how much he has to struggle with boredom (cribbing shamelessly from the novelization, in which he refers to boredom as "my oldest enemy" and is pleased after first fighting Kira because he's found a stimulating challenge) - how the two of them came to be living together as shown in the earlier parts of Destiny, the reason for which I imagine must have been a series of practical considerations (Andy having to get used to brand new prosthesis, Murrue needing a place to live since she can't really go back to the Atlantic Federation after deserting) carefully arranged around the more basic need to not be alone - the basic concept of the relationship, mutual support and life going on and really not being about Romance or Passion or zomg True Love because at this point they've been there and done that and don't need to cover that ground again, and God, Murrue's tired of being the one left behind - and finding the balance between honoring the memory of the one you loved, and not being so tied to those memories that you aren't really living the life that they died to protect.

And I am embarrassed at how long it took me just to hack out those last two paragraphs. :(

Edit: I also kind of want to make some use of Derek Walcott's "Sea Canes," which may be cheap of me, but...

( cut for awesome )