Tuesday ✎ Retail [DW]

[creepy_shetan]

Hello and welcome to comment_fic! I'm creepy_shetan, and I'll be your host for this week as well. ^.^ Are you ready to get Tuesday started? Considering that the holiday shopping season is upon us...

Today's theme is retail. To quote a shady (but friendly and helpful!) merchant, "What're ya buyin'? What're ya sellin'?" >:D Let's throw some characters into a store or a shopping district and see what happens. Are they working at a shop themselves, or are they customers? Is someone window-shopping and someone else really wants to make a sale? Discounts, coupons, piggy banks, tight purses, payment methods, receipts, haggling, (the opposite of?) buyer's remorse -- if it relates to bartering for goods and services, then it'll make a great prompt today.

Feel free to add specifics to your prompts, like whether you'd prefer a gen fill over something shippy, or if you have a squick or trigger you hope to avoid. Original fiction, fanfiction, and fanfic crossovers are always welcome. ~_^

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 the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here. Unfortunately, DW doesn’t have a cut tag, so use your best judgment when it comes to spoilers.
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 things started...
+ The Witcher (Netflix and/or book 'verse), Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach (+ any), (after the Thanedd coup) buying something for himself that is not a basic necessity
+ X-Men (movie 'verse), John Allerdyce +/ Bobby Drake (+ any), (close to canon or any workplace AU) working in retail
+ author's choice, any (+/ any), just because you can buy it, doesn't mean that you should

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While the use of LJ's advanced search and DW’s archive are options, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

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Comments

[creepy_shetan]

The Witcher (Netflix and/or book 'verse), Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach (+ any), (after the Thanedd coup) buying something for himself that is not a basic necessity

[creepy_shetan]

X-Men (movie 'verse), John Allerdyce +/ Bobby Drake (+ any), (close to canon or any workplace AU) working in retail

[creepy_shetan]

author's choice, any (+/ any), just because you can buy it, doesn't mean that you should

[creepy_shetan]

any fandom(/The Elder Scrolls), any +/ any, "(Khajiit) has wares, if you have coin."

[creepy_shetan]

author's choice, any character with thieving tendencies (+/ any), "I paid good money for that!"

[templefugate]

Any, any, working as a mall Santa/mall elf

[templefugate]

Any, any, visiting a dead mall

[templefugate]

Any, any, a small, cozy bookstore

[templefugate]

DC, Zatanna Zatara &/ John Constantine, visiting a magic flea market

[cornerofmadness]

any, any, retail therapy

Not a fill, but...

[creepy_shetan]

...you might like the next theme! XD ~_^ Should be up within the next half hour!

Re: Not a fill, but...

[cornerofmadness]

cool, goes to look