Fic: Meteor
Title: Meteor
Fandom: Pokemon Sword & Shield
Rating: T/PG-13
Warnings: Apocalyptic situations, hospitals
Relationships: Leon/Raihan (pre-relationship)
Characters: Raihan
Word Count: 556
Summary: Raihan looks up and swears a meteor is falling on his city. He knows Leon is right there, at ground zero, but he can't go to him.
When Raihan sees the thing that's hovering above Hammerlocke Stadium, for a moment all he can think of is a meteor. Maybe he's been playing too many rpg video games, but it's the truth. The end of the world is here, and it's a fucking video game.
His second realization is actually more painful than the first.( Read more... )
Fic: dust floating in golden sunlight
Title: dust floating in golden sunlight
Fandom: Final Fantasy XV
Rating: G
Warnings: post-canon character death
Relationships: Noctis Lucis Caelum/Prompto Argentum
Characters: Prompto Argentum, Noctis Lucis Caelum
Word Count: 474
Summary: The light spills in, warm and golden, as Prompto slowly realizes that this is death. But it's not so bad. The company is good, at least.
(dust floating in golden sunlight)
Prompto stares vaguely up at the ceiling, breathing slow and steady. His eyes are nearly shut, his mind at peace. Late afternoon sunlight fills the room, and he can pick out the motes of dust floating in the air.( Read more... )
Fic: the creak of leather
Title: the creak of leather
Fandom: Final Fantasy XV
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Relationships: Aranea Highwind & Iris Amicitia
Characters: Aranea Highwind
Word Count: 381
Summary: Aranea reflects on innocence, and how hard it must be to retain. She admires Iris Amicitia.
(the creak of leather)
Aranea Highwind shivers in the cool air, wiping the blade of her lance off with a piece of cloth. She tips her head back and breathes deeply, thinking about when the last time she saw the sun was. A little over eight years ago, right? It’s colder, without the sun. Has been getting colder, bit by bit. A deeply cynical part of her wonders, morbidly, how long it will take for the pitiful remnants of humanity to freeze to death.( Read more... )
Fic: we meet like strangers on the road
Title: we meet like strangers on the road
Fandom: Saint Seiya Legend of Sanctuary
Rating: T/PG-13
Warnings: none
Relationships: Cygnus Hyōga/Phoenix Ikki
Characters: Cygnus Hyōga, Phoenix Ikki
Word Count: 4551
Summary: Liminal spaces create a relationship inadequately explored. Two people pass each other by time and again, never fully knowing why or how.
Hyôga wonders about his relationship with Ikki.
There's something eerie about Kanon Island. Hyôga really isn't sure what it is, though. Maybe it's the fact that evening is falling, or that he's strayed away from the campsite to explore the caverns. Maybe it's the fact that as far as he knows, other than Master Camus, he's alone here in this place of heat and steam.( Read more... )
Fic: the kindest of kisses break the hardest of hearts
Title: the kindest of kisses break the hardest of hearts
Fandom: Les Miserables
Rating: PG13/T
Warnings: none
Relationships: none
Characters: Éponine Thénardier, Grantaire, Les Amis de l'ABC
Word Count: 1873
Summary: She'd never intended to do it. It just sort of happened. They think she's a boy, and welcome her into their fraternity.
And then she discovers it's liberating.
She hadn't intended to do this - at first it had been an honest mistake. She can't afford clothes that fit well, so she dresses in baggy clothes rather than too-tight clothes. She hates skirts because they restrict her movement (especially when she's, uh, climbing things). She's always layered, because the cold can be deadly, two of her baby brothers died of exposure. Her figure is slim and boyish, unhealthily skinny with malnutrition. Her hair is shorn short because she'd been unable to get the damn bubblegum that a brat had stuck in it while she'd been asleep out.
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Fic: cowardice
Title: cowardice
Fandom: Les Miserables
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Relationships: Bahorel/Laughing Mistress, Bahorel/Feuilly, Bahorel/Feuilly/Laughing Mistress
Characters: Bahorel
Word Count: 411
Summary: Bahorel has been called many things, but never a coward. Leastwise, not by anyone other than himself.
Bahorel is always ready for a fight. He’s keen with his fists, and also with his words. There is a reason he studies law, even if he is lazy about it. He is, all his friends agree, the bravest of them. On occasion, when he has worried them, he is also the most foolhardy. But he has never been called a coward.
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Fic: The Abaisse Stables
Title: The Abaisse Stables
Fandom: Les Miserables
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Relationships: none
Characters: Éponine Thénardier
Word Count: 458
Summary: Eponine was sick to death of people calling her “Pony” and then snickering as if they’d just made the best joke in the universe.
Eponine was sick to death of people calling her “Pony” and then snickering as if they’d just made the best joke in the universe. As if she hadn’t heard it five thousand times already. Yes, it was so hilarious that the girl with the weird French name worked with the ponies.
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Fic: Leap Of Faith
Title: Leap Of Faith
Fandom: Assassin's Creed 1
Rating: PG13/T
Warnings: canon-typical violence, implied/referenced canon character death
Relationships: Altaïr ibn La'Ahad/Malik A-Sayf
Characters: Malik A-Sayf, Altaïr ibn La'Ahad
Word Count: 808
Summary: Malik ponders what he has lost, regained, and still finds himself lacking.
How he had ended up here was still a bit of a mystery to him. He’d kept his skills up, to be sure, never truly accepting the fact that he’d been ‘retired’ by Al Mualim. He had painstakingly relearned all his previous skills, including climbing. But he’d not done this since…
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