Weird Wednesday: Urban Legends

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Hello, everyone! I’m sherlockian_syn and this week is full of spooky themes! Today's theme is urban legends. Prompts can be related to scary stories told around the campfire (or a flashlight) that are meant to unsettle you. Is it some kind of curse? Will something (or someone) appear at a certain time on a certain day in a certain place? Go wild!

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and fandom's full name for ease adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ Astro, any, someone mentions a curse in passing and it puts everyone on edge
+ Stargate Atlantis, any, discussing how Atlantis was once only a legend
+ Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes (+/ any), Legend of Sleepy Hollow AU

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Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out the just created Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet. For more recent prompts to write, you can also use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community.

While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet and LJ's advanced search options are available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching for in the future.


tag=urban legends

Comments

Fill: gen

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

“You know what they say,” Manager said, dropping a coin in the fountain as they passed the statue of the turtle in the main lobby.

“What do they say?” Myungjun asked.

“If you don’t pay your respects to the long-life turtle, you’ll lose your voice before a big show,” Manager said.

Myungjun blinked. He paused, fished in his pocket for a coin, dropped it into the fountain.

Back at the dorm, he asked the other trainees about the long-life turtle.

“It’s just a silly superstition,” Minhyuk said.

“But he always puts a coin in,” Bin said, shoving at Minhyuk’s shoulder.

Minhyuk scowled at him and sulked for the rest of the night.

Myungjun watched the rest of the trainees for a while, and he noticed that whenever they headed out for a performance, every single one of them put a coin in the fountain, even Minhyuk, so he put a coin in too, because he was the newest trainee, and he wanted to make friends, fit in.

And then one day they were headed to a performance, and Minhyuk didn’t have a coin. He paused, patted himself down. The others paused, but Manager shouted for them to hurry, Minhyuk shrugged and they all dashed to the van.

In the middle of the performance that night, Minhyuk’s microphone cut out. He didn’t panic, because he was a seasoned performer even at seventeen years old, and Bin, his best friend and an even more experienced performer, picked up his rap part without missing a beat, but afterwards Minhyuk curled up in a corner backstage, trembling.

“Are you all right?” Myungjun asked.

“It was because I didn’t have a coin for the turtle,” Minhyuk said.

Myungjun put an arm around his shoulders. “It wasn’t that bad. You kept your cool. Bin helped out. You were a pro.”

“What if something goes worse next time?”

“You did your best,” Myungjun said soothingly.

They managed to get through the rest of the performance smoothly, but after that, Minhyuk always made sure he had no coins, no matter what.

One day, on his way to a small solo performance for a wedding for one of the company’s executives, Myungjun flipped a coin into the fountain - and saw the stone turtle lean up and catch it.

Re: Fill: gen

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Aww! This is really sweet! And I love the turtle snatching the coin!

RE: Fill: gen

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

This is so cute! Poor Minhyuk though. Thank you for the fill!

Re: Fill: gen

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

You are so welcome!

...That totally happened to him IRL one time.

But Bin also did totally rescue him one time. Our boys are pros.