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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.

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Dammit, and I was jonesing for some Beatrix/Dagger. *shakes fist*

Demyx, Ariel: princess stole my mizrabs (IXIII)
Xemnas/Marluxia: stalemate
Nef/Rend: PWN!

Saix, Luxord: cards and divination
Axel, Lexaeus: pyrophobic or pyromaniac?

Does this challenge work for non-fanfic drabbles too?

Always. ♥

*loves*
Okay:
Diary of Angels (you pick the pairing) - 'oh god, not again'
Tieunis/Jillia - dirt
Davinde - moon

Demyx, Roxas: high fashion

:D?

It was his first truly daring move; all his games up until now had been conservative, discreet. From the original demure May I volunteer an opinion, Superior? he had been rewarded for his insight, but always at Xemnas's pace. A little respect here, a little authority there, building up until he had been privileged above all the others, even the Superior's own peers.

Now time to see how far that went.

"I would like the witch."

A pause. After consideration, sharp burnt eyes on his unhooded face, Xemnas intoned, "Why?"

Marluxia bowed his head slightly. "To further the goals of Castle Oblivion." Wait for it: two, three. A careful dance, this chess game, edging the pawn to see if she would be able to slip forward unnoticed and become a queen. "You desire the keyblade master?"

Cool, cutting their current keyblade master right out of the equation. Poor child, unaware of the larger game going on around him. Even Xemnas, doting on the boy as he did, had decided that it was better to be safe than heartless.

That made him expendable. Another pawn, like the witch.

Those inscrutable eyes watched him. "...yes. You know that."

"And you commanded me to use the resources of the castle to do so," Marluxia picked up smoothly. Step, step... The beat of the dance keeping time to the ticking of the game clock. "In a confusing, isolated environment, manipulate the impressionable boy to our side. But we could use her connection to him. Instead of taking the chance that he might turn on us and choose to hate us, we can temper the truths in his memories... Make ourselves sympathetic."

"I thought you needed no tricks like Zexion's to use the Castle to your advantage...?"

"VI's tricks are delusions," he said, dismissive. "Useful for what they do, but not for the long term. What I shall do with the witch is no parlor trick." He leaned forward, intent, passionate. Let Xemnas see his certainty and be swayed by his logic. "It is rebuilding."

And the rebuilding could serve so many purposes, so subtly be made to serve Marluxia and not Xemnas. The Superior was not a plotter, not cunning; politics were not his game, but facts, science.

But there was still something nerve-wracking about knowing that he could not read this opponent, that the motionless face and deadened heart gave away nothing of his thoughts. Exciting, perhaps.

"...very well," the Superior pronounced finally, and a cold smile turned his lips up. "Have the witch if you like."

Marluxia darted a wary glance at him. An odd way to say it. As if... he were being humored. As if his pawn had been allowed to become a queen.

Perhaps... he does know. Nervous thoughts began to overtake him, ifs and hows, and then-- Clever. The seeds of doubt had been planted, whether or not there was substance behind them; enough to shake him, make him careful -- less confident, and thus more transparent.

Well, he would grind those seeds beneath his bootheel. "You are generous," he murmured graciously, and thought, Someday you will bow before me.

But for now, they stared at one another across the board.

Namine and Kairi: sneaking away from the boys in Halloween Town

Balthier/Vaan: lessons

Axel/Roxas, Larxene: first impressions

RikuSora, IXIII: Let's make believe
Sora, Yuufie: Ninjas in ur base
AxelRiku: Playing with fire

A bottle of whiskey and three rounds of blackjack later, Luxord shuffled the deck and began to lay out cards in a spiraling pattern without warning. Saix watched him, a hair less steady than he might have liked, and asked, "Do you only divine when drunk?"

"I never divine," the gambler said. "Do you only drink when courting time?"

His lips peeled back in a warning before he shook his head slightly. "I have nothing to fear from the future," he said, confident in this.

Luxord placed each card carefully, although it matched no spread that Saix had ever known. Maybe it didn't matter, and the magic in the spread came from his quick fingers more than the positioning.

"And the past? You cannot know the future without accepting the past."

Luxord placed each card carefully and Saix felt like steel, rooted in place and staring at the cards. "I have nothing to fear from what is past," he said. "It's gone. Done."

"Ah," Luxord said with fine irony. "I suppose that's why I'm the one laying down the cards, and you're just going to read them."

Saix slammed his fist down, making a card jump, and Luxord was already there, straightening it. "I don't need you to divine the future! The Superior's wish is to consult you in this. I've entertained you for the better part of the evening, now do your job."

Luxord finished the spread in silence, and for a moment Saix thought he had won. But when it was done, the gambler observed, "It's a shame the past is gone, or else you might be able to look into it to see why he no longer asks you alone." Then, before Saix could snarl at him again, "Is it good?"

He chose to overlook the jab and studied the lay of the cards. They were just numbers, symbols and faces, and the pattern meant nothing to him, if indeed it meant anything at all. But when he looked closely -- looked beyond them -- there was meaning there; yes, even the future. Twelve would bear witness to a great import, and then they would be thirteen, and of them the last would be the truest. In his heart, he would be the only self he had ever been, knowing no future... no past.

Lucky, Saix thought, enviously, and then everything fell to pieces, the meaning gone.

Luxord was lucky too, if he could face his past with no reservations, no regrets and no longings. Yet still... "Why don't you divine?" he said, mutedly.

"Because that would be cheating." Luxord got to his feet and left the room.

Saix felt like steel: perhaps because he didn't think of the past, and perhaps because he couldn't.

yay!

Haruka, Watanuki: white rabbits
(Are you up on the xxxHolic scanlations? if not, replace "Haruka" with "Doumeki")
Baralai, Gippal, Paine (or some combination of thus): respect points
Zidane Tribal: something in the Institution XIIIverse

...since I was too silly to give it to Crysi when I had the opportunity~

DiZ/Xeha!Riku: unspoken

plus

Roxas/Larxene: tolerate
Donald, Sora: retreat

♥

My kosher challenges are:

Lucia, Sgt. Joe: they grow up so fast, don't they?
Kantarou, Youko (pre-Haruka's release): 朧月夜

My pathetically hopeful, blast-from-the-past challenge is:

Zero/Erts: either "I'd like to walk around in your mind" or "coldest night of the year," whichever sparks an idea

. . . . wait, you meant Final Fantasy Tactics, not Tactics Tactics. *headdesk*

....Sooooo perfect. *.*

*gurgles* Thanks. :D

Tactics Tactics is also okay. XD

(I hope it's all right if I'm a lurker... :) )

Jade/Peony: "it's good to be the king"

Mm, tasty bonus points! *snaps at them longingly*

Xemnas/Namine, the power of submission
Donald, Goofy, the odd couple (pair if you dare! >D)

...hell with bonus points, it's my OTP:

Roxas/Axel, Valentine's Day

Demyx/Xigbar: anywhere else and back again
Sora/Riku/Kairi: simple gifts
Maleficent , or / Pete: Childhood dreams

Lurkers are welcome. ♥

I want more drabbles! :D Because your writing makes me wibble.

Tsuzuki/Hisoka: collarbone (I am soooooo not subtle in my encouragement for you to write, as Stephen Fry calls it, man-on-man action)
Riku/The DARKNESS: sweet memory (is that a pairing uncommon enough for a cookie? :3 and by pairing, I don't mean bizarre darkness-tentacle rape D: I mean seductive mind!crack~)
Sirius/Remus: shaking

aaaaaaaaaaaaand yes. Most of my prompt ideas tend to follow a pattern, have you noticed? *clings to her OTPs*

Conrad/Alford: Age differences

♥

Oh, boy. I really need to play KH2 so I won't have to be all, *doesn't read potentially very good fanfic due to spoilers* It gets really annoying. XD;

I REQUEST.

Jack, Shannon: jungle!doctor = shaman-type? (shut up, you knew I would request something with her if I requested at all XD)

AND.

Clay/Saki: glasses and good-byes. (ahaha, I'm so old school. ...you love me. XD)

You don't actually have to do either of those if nothing comes to you. I am content to just wave and say hi.

You = Good People ツb

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