broken-nosed gods

I'm glad I rediscovered fic_promptly during a contest week. :D So far:

Shoujo Kakumei Utena, Mikage Souji, There's a moment made of frozen hopes / Put under lights in an empty space in my little museum

Harry Potter, Slughorn + Tom Riddle & Lily & Harry, privately he thinks of them as a matched set in his collection

A:tLA, Zuko, he's a fraud (title: my sister's country)

Natsume Yuujinchou, Taki, walking through fallen leaves

Katekyou Hitman Reborn, various mothers, mom's the word

Cold fruit for hot sunny days, hot fruit for cool nights, her mother used to say. But Azula has always liked the warm chunks of pear-apple more than the thin cool slices of plum-peach. She would heat them up just a little more as she held them, to take pride in her control. It was such a challenge to make them hot without cooking.

It feels strange to eat them cold, now.



Azula, where are you and what are you doing? I didn't think they had fruit in the Spirit World!

I feel the need to write things again! Unfortunately, I'm kind of blocked on most of the stuff I'm working on. So, a writing(ish) meme!

Give me any iteration of a character I'm familiar with, and I'll give you at least one piece of headcanon/short fic for them. 'Any iteration,' of course, ranges from 'Jet' to 'Knife and Ink!Ty Lee' to 'Yankumi at Ohtori'. (Other people's ficverses are totally up for grabs, by the way. If I know 'em.) Other prompts of any kind are also welcome, but I refuse to promise anything for them. ;)


Totally not inspired by suzukiblu's Firebender!Jet fic.

Since I am still procrastinating on a) the Avatar fic of doom, b) the Saionji fic, and c) that KHR Cowboy Bebop AU, now is obviously the perfect time for a gender/sex-swap fic meme thingy!

Ask for one or two or three-ish characters -- prompts lovely but optional -- and get a little fic or meta on them suddenly gaining different bits, differing sex & gender at birth, or (one way or the other) trans!fic. (Mukuro, Doumeki, & Ouran's Haruhi being special cases, however, since I'm pretty sure they're gender-queer. Or at least gender-don't-give-a-fuck.)

Any fandoms I'm familiar with are fine!

And I'm definitely not doing this just because I suddenly had an urge to write Kaitou Kid & perhaps one of his detective friends gaining breasts and figuring out what to do about it. Not at all, mmkay?

Okay, this looks like a meme that's fun and something I might actually finish:

Give me a character I'm familiar with and I'll either write you a ficlet (~100 words) or the equivalent amount of personal canon. (Academic!Zuko is totally a separate character from canon!Zuko, btw.)

Maybe this will help with the writer's block? (fma_ladyfest deadline on the eighth. Eep!)


EDIT: An explanation as to why I haven't written the aca!Zuko fic yet, in response to the question when, where and how you see him diverge from canon!Zuko?

I'm actually not sure about that yet! It's probably either a slight difference in him, when he was young, or a difference in the Fire Nation as a whole. Because I have it in my head that the Fire Nation, and parts of the now-Earth Kingdom, used to speak a very different language than the fairly unified one they do in canon, but I haven't figured out how late they would have given that up as the official language. People would still speak it for a while after it was made un-official, at home if nothing else, but even if Aang's slang was outdated it was still understandable. Which would mean either that it was made un-official more than a hundred years ago, or that people in the Fire Nation still understand a fair amount of it even if it sounds outdated and awkward. (Which might mean that Zuko and Azula learned some of it from Ursa? Or maybe Zuko was a tiny child-academic who studied it on his own?) 

And of course I've no idea at all when the Earth Kingdom was unified and made to speak a single language, since it was probably a bunch of different ones for a very very long time. ^_^

So pretty much the difference between academic!Zuko and canon!zuko is all wrapped up in regional and linguistic differences in the A:TLA world and the things he learned/was taught before he got banished. Canon!Zuko, for instance, can probably compose some acceptable poems, but academic!Zuko would have learned enough classical court poetry to spot references to it in everyday speech. (Which could lead to all sorts of fun in Ba Sing Se, when he has a moment of thinking "oh, they're referencing that famous poem that compares alcohol to politics -- wait, no, crap. wrong language, wrong country. no, wait again, are they taking International Poetry at the university? Are they the kind of people who would make cross-language references about plotting against the government? Or is there an Earth Kingdom thing they're referencing here that I'm missing entirely? ARGH.")

So basically my writing of academic!Zuko is stalled by my ignorance of Asian literary traditions and linguistic differences, which are the kind of thing that I could easily spend the rest of my life researching. And it would be AWESOME. And this is why I can't really answer your question, because if I knew enough to answer it completely I could start the damn thing. XD

And I am so happy about this that I'm going to share some of it with you! In all of its terrible first-draft-of-a-first-draft glory. :D

( After reading Embers I've kind of fallen in love with the Dai Li. DICTATORIAL SECRET POLICE, COME HANG OUT WITH EVERYBODY )


. . . I don't really know where I'm going with this. But it looks like fun?

I WROTED SOMETHING. :D

Two things, in fact. In two months! This is some kind of record, even if they add up to under two thousand words. And now I can finally tell people about them, because the reveals are up and I should say something before I go bury myself in piles of other people's challenge-fic. (Yes, I tend to wait for the authors to be identified before I read their stuff. I'm lazy, okay.)

The Hikaru no Go/Katekyo Hitman Reborn crossover for blind_goblind_go, in which Nase meets a woman from the Italian mafia (and no, you don't have to be familiar with more than one of the fandoms): LJ AO3

The Harry Potter genfic, Four Things Narcissa Might Have Been, And One She Still Is: LJ AO3

And I've finally started working on that Otomen/Utena crossover I told myself I'd write months ago. I am a productive person, yay~

This little ficlet was going to be part of a series of them, but that's gone and mutated into something else and this one is too much fun not to archive somewhere, even if it's not necessarily that good. :D



He can feel the little rasp of his breath against his aching throat. A strange thing to notice, right now, but Harry's mind is mostly on autopilot and the bits that aren't are thinking about how much he'd like a cup of Remus' wonderful tea. Is Remus still alive? He's not sure, it's been a few days since they saw each other and since then things have completely gone to hell in a handbasket.

This is the end, one way or another. So many dead, so many more wounded, all just to get them to this moment. Voldemort's Death Eaters -- those that are left of them -- are gathered behind their master, wands pointed leisurely at Harry. How many are really spies, or under the Imperius curse? Either way, he can see they're waiting until things are decided. (Not that it's much of a decision. Semi-immortal quasi-human Dark Lord versus a worn-out teenager. Can you say forgone conclusion?)

Voldemort starts making some grandiose speech about power and destiny. Harry just wishes he would shut up so they can get to the fighting bit before he keels over. The old bastard does go on and on, doesn't he? Always did, even back when Harry was eleven. Probably tried to talk Harry's parents to death before A.K.-ing them. He'd be trying to turn it to his advantage if he wasn't so damn tired.

He figures he can get off one good Avada before someone catches on and kills him -- or he passes out on his own from lack of energy. God, that would be humiliating. (At least he's conscious enough to think in five-syllable words, if nothing else. Bet you didn't know I could do that, Hermione. Hah!) He surreptitiously points his wand--

--And Voldemort makes a little choking noise before falling over with a knife sticking out of his back.

Harry's first thought is Well, that was anticlimactic.

His second is, well . . . those silver masks make it difficult to tell, but Harry's absolutely sure he can see one of the Death Eaters winking at him.

Huh.

Hooray, some fic.

. . . Watch me studiously not writing a Ranma/Utena crossover. With Kodachi as Akio's chosen new Rose Bride. Watch me resisting.

Title: Changes
Rating: K/K+
Genres/Warnings: AU, introspection, lack of romance
Word Count: 570
Summary: Sasuke needs to think.
Setting: Takes place in an AU where several characters have decided that ninja-ing is not for them, and Sasuke either killed or escaped from Orochimaru without forming Team Hebi. (This piece of it takes place in a small village somewhere with a minimal ninja presence.)


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