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Drabble Challenge cuz why not
Need to get cracking on my writing, Crysi made it look tempting, and, heck, I have way too much free time, what with the "can't find a job" thing. Challenge me!
Each person can ask for up to 3 drabbles, and you can ask for 1-3 people in each drabble. All genders and orientations welcome. Pairings are indicated by / and regular interaction with , -- but I'm Le Subtle and your pairing may or may not be nearly invisible.
I'm still on a KH kick, but you may also request: Tales of Symphonia/the Abyss, Suikoden I-III, Warcraft, Lost, Kyou Kara Maou, most of CLAMP, and Final Fantasy VI-XII (minus XI and VIII, although VIII characters may be requested in KH-verse, and plus Tactics). If you're really jonesing on something else, ask and I'll tell you. (In advance, I know nothing of Avatar.)
The format is Character/Character: prompt, as follows:
Luxord, Namine: fortune-telling
Marluxia/Zexion: politics are sexy
Balthier/Fran: the AU where he never took off the Judge costume
You can also request specific storylines, as follows:
Namine, Cid: the tea (AS)
Sora, Roxas, Xemnas: you know nothing (IXIII)
(No requests for NNK canon yet; there isn't enough of it to go around.)
Bonus points if you request at least one pairing that nobody I know writes.
Each person can ask for up to 3 drabbles, and you can ask for 1-3 people in each drabble. All genders and orientations welcome. Pairings are indicated by / and regular interaction with , -- but I'm Le Subtle and your pairing may or may not be nearly invisible.
I'm still on a KH kick, but you may also request: Tales of Symphonia/the Abyss, Suikoden I-III, Warcraft, Lost, Kyou Kara Maou, most of CLAMP, and Final Fantasy VI-XII (minus XI and VIII, although VIII characters may be requested in KH-verse, and plus Tactics). If you're really jonesing on something else, ask and I'll tell you. (In advance, I know nothing of Avatar.)
The format is Character/Character: prompt, as follows:
Luxord, Namine: fortune-telling
Marluxia/Zexion: politics are sexy
Balthier/Fran: the AU where he never took off the Judge costume
You can also request specific storylines, as follows:
Namine, Cid: the tea (AS)
Sora, Roxas, Xemnas: you know nothing (IXIII)
(No requests for NNK canon yet; there isn't enough of it to go around.)
Bonus points if you request at least one pairing that nobody I know writes.
no subject
Zexion/Sora: paradox
Xaldin/Saix: mirror
Only two for now....in case I decide I want an OTP-ish one later ^^
[Also, I suck at coming up with good prompts, so feel free to just not use the ones I gave at all]
Lexaeus, Zexion/Sora?: "Mimic"
Lexaeus stepped out of the corridor and they both startled; Lexaeus because the one who turned to face him had wide blue eyes and spiky brown hair, and Sora because he had not expected to encounter anyone here. The giant summoned his tomahawk and started to growl, "How you got to this place I don't know--"
"Calm down," Sora said, his young voice cool. "Who are you looking at, Lexaeus?"
He allowed the illusion to waver, Zexion flickering briefly into view before he built it back up again, and Lexaeus eased slowly, bracing the butt of his weapon against the ground. "What are you thinking?" Lexaeus demanded.
"I knew you wouldn't like it," Zexion murmured, turning back to the sphere in the center of the room.
His friend stepped up behind him to see what he was seeing. In the polished crystal of the sphere was the real boy, talking to his companions with a crestfallen look. There was no trace of artifice in his features, no hint of deception or extraneous knowledge -- only pure emotional reaction.
It explains much about Roxas. Without Sora's heart, there is nothing left of him, Zexion thought. It was so tempting to reach out to the sphere, to touch his image. It was hard to believe that such a being could exist.
"Why?" Lexaeus asked simply. "You have tried this before, with XIII. You cannot mimic the keyblade."
That was a good memory too. Sora stretched in the sphere, and Zexion watched thoughtfully and did the same, stretching every muscle in the same order, perfect imitation of Sora's movement. "We need him," he said. "We need Riku. There's no better way." His way would not have involved Marluxia's underhanded plotting, but for reasons unknown to him, the Superior had chosen to give him the witch and free reign.
Lexaeus shook his head. "Send me word when you're done."
It unnerved him. Zexion tried not to smile as the big man left; he would make it up to him later. But for now, this was what he did -- what he was skilled at, what he loved. He never had to question Lexaeus's attachment to the still, old places of the worlds they went to.
This, too, was surely above reproach.
He watched Sora's expressions, those impossibly feeling expressions. Could he really make those expressions, even craft them with illusions? When he looked at himself in the mirror, Sora's eyes and Sora's hair and Sora's thin wiry body, he drew the darkness to him, drew the shadows, painted his face until he saw himself wide-eyed and unassuming. He twisted those features into surprise, into a broad grin, into furrowed anger.
All natural, all... emotional. Sora might well have been in two places at once.
Zexion smiled, trailing a hand over his stomach. You're as good as mine now.
There was no mistaking this smile for Sora's.
Re: Lexaeus, Zexion/Sora?: "Mimic"
Ooooooooh, nice! Very very nice. It's creepy to visualise those last few paragraphs...of Zexion imitating Sora's expressions.
But for now, this was what he did -- what he was skilled at, what he loved. He never had to question Lexaeus's attachment to the still, old places of the worlds they went to.
That was my favourite line...I'm such a sucker for good use of elements. ♥
Re: Lexaeus, Zexion/Sora?: "Mimic"
That was the hottest thing I've read in ages.