Tuesday: Canon Divergence
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with_rainfall and today's theme is ‘canon-divergent AU’. Prompts must be canon-divergent and alternate universe — in other words, if something had gone differently (diverged) in canon, what would have happened? Role reversal AUs also count. However, AUs that significantly change the setting (e.g. high school AU, historical AU), remove or add significant powers/contexts (e.g. all!human AU Aziraphale and Crowley, royal!Little Women AU, vampire!AU Harry Potter) without basis from the plot, or fusions (e.g. Marvel characters go to Hogwarts) would not count for this prompt.
Be aware that by the topic’s very nature, prompts are likely to contain spoilers.
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...
+ Harry Potter, Harry, Snape mentors/raises Harry
+ Pagan Chronicles, Isidore, Pagan goes to the parley with the king of Aragon
+ Any, any/any canonical enemies or strangers, five meetings that never happened
We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2021 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
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.
with_rainfall and today's theme is ‘canon-divergent AU’. Prompts must be canon-divergent and alternate universe — in other words, if something had gone differently (diverged) in canon, what would have happened? Role reversal AUs also count. However, AUs that significantly change the setting (e.g. high school AU, historical AU), remove or add significant powers/contexts (e.g. all!human AU Aziraphale and Crowley, royal!Little Women AU, vampire!AU Harry Potter) without basis from the plot, or fusions (e.g. Marvel characters go to Hogwarts) would not count for this prompt.Be aware that by the topic’s very nature, prompts are likely to contain spoilers.
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...
+ Harry Potter, Harry, Snape mentors/raises Harry
+ Pagan Chronicles, Isidore, Pagan goes to the parley with the king of Aragon
+ Any, any/any canonical enemies or strangers, five meetings that never happened
We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2021 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
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.
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Date: 2021-02-09 09:48 pm (UTC)FILL Prodigal Son, Malcolm Bright, Martin Whitly, Gil Arroyo, GHOST
Date: 2021-02-21 05:49 am (UTC)The little boy's life changes that day, and not for the better. The Surgeon may have dealt with the inquisitive police officer, but he wasn't about to let something like that happen again.
That was the day Malcolm's training began.
Martin had forced him to look at Gil's dead body. "Are you happy, son? You did this. You," the Surgeon told his son. "You brought him here to die."
Malcolm cried, even before Martin put him to work. And work he did- Martin made sure Malcolm Whitly would never call the police on his father again. He made him an accomplice.
Gil could only watch in horror, there but not truly present, as the little boy and his father loaded his body up and disposed of it. And he mourned- for the possibilities of his life, for the family he and Jackie had longed to have. For his wife, who will never know what happened to him. And for the horrified little boy who called the police looking for help. Who tried to warn him.
Maybe that's why his spirit stays with Malcolm, instead of with his body. Because he feels a responsibility to this boy, who asked him for help. Who he can't save, now.
So he watches, as The Surgeon brings home new victims. As forcing his son to help dispose of their bodies becomes making him watch their torture.
He's wished, desperately, futilely, that there was something he could do to stop it all. But it's not until Martin declares it time for Malcolm's first kill that everything changes.
The boy- and he is still a boy, a gangly pre-teen with acne and a voice that cracks when he begs his father not to make him do this- retreats to the bathroom, saying he just needs a moment. And Gil wants so desperately to comfort him, to save him from this, that he somehow becomes real, just for a moment.
"You're a better man than Martin Whitly ever was," he says to the terrified face staring back at him in the mirror. "You don't have to do this."
His grip on the corporeal world is slim, and it slips through his fingers. He can only pray it's enough.
This time, when Malcolm Whitly calls the police to tell them there's a body in his home, they come, and they believe him. They find Martin Whitly lying in a pool of blood, a terrified woman tied up in the corner. His son covered in the streaky red remains of the hardest choice he's ever had to make twice.
The choice to stand up for what's right, in spite of his father.
Re: FILL Prodigal Son, Malcolm Bright, Martin Whitly, Gil Arroyo, GHOST
Date: 2021-02-21 08:11 pm (UTC)RE: Re: FILL Prodigal Son, Malcolm Bright, Martin Whitly, Gil Arroyo, GHOST
Date: 2021-02-22 05:40 am (UTC)Re: Re: FILL Prodigal Son, Malcolm Bright, Martin Whitly, Gil Arroyo, GHOST
Date: 2021-02-22 05:51 am (UTC)Re: FILL Prodigal Son, Malcolm Bright, Martin Whitly, Gil Arroyo, GHOST
Date: 2021-02-22 06:19 am (UTC)Re: FILL Prodigal Son, Malcolm Bright, Martin Whitly, Gil Arroyo, GHOST
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Date: 2021-02-09 11:20 pm (UTC)FILL Jeeves & Wooster, Reginald Jeeves & Bertram Wooster, Role Reversal
Date: 2021-02-21 07:21 am (UTC)Didn't fit here, so I posted it on AO3:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/29602746
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