Tuesday: Female Characters

[merryghoul]

merryghoul here again, and it's now time to show love to our female characters. Femslash, gen, or solo fics, it's all welcome, as long as there are female characters present.

The rules:

• No more than three prompts to a single fandom
• No more than five prompts at a time
• No spoilers in the prompts and if your fill has spoilers, please warn and and leave at least three spaces

Format:

• Fandom, Character, Prompt
• Fandom, Character/Character, Prompt

Examples:

• Leverage, Parker/Sophie, forced to dance together
• Torchwood, Tosh/Suzie, celebrating Suzie's birthday
• Sherlock, Donovan, a break from the Yard and Sherlock

Can't find anything that matches your interests? There's always the lonely prompts.

tag=FemaleCharacters

Comments

She doesn't regret not having a normal life, not really.

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

...You have probably managed to out death!fic me on the Rachel front, which is really impressive because internal Rachel family strife was mostly *all* I wrote for a while lol. *bows to your prowess*

She sees her little sisters acting as though they are scared to pass by her room and cringes when they shatter pictures of her. They're angry at her for leaving them. She understands that anger, having felt it once before herself at a loss loved one, but she wishes they could understand why she's gone.

She wishes they could know what she knows, recognize the Earth for the battlefield it has become, but at the same time, Rachel still yearns to protect them and save their innocence. She wants them to be able to grow up without the fears that she experienced, to have no other thoughts plaguing them when they thrill in their first kisses and their promises. She wants them to be able to have the normal life she never did.

She doesn't regret not having a normal life, not really. A large chunk of her childhood was spent helping her mother take care of her sisters, and she wouldn't trade that for anything. She remembers every hug and bedtime story, each time she brushed their hair, with more fondness now in her afterlife than she ever did while still living.

Additionally, you have hit every Rachel+Jordan+Sara feeling I've ever had in these sentences perfectly. (In my head-canon Jordan is exactly the type of Rachel-esq helpless bottled up rage that she doesn't know what to deal with that you start out with here. Argh - so spot on.)

She'll see them all again, Rachel knows, but when she's reunited with Tobias, she'll do like they did in the old romantic movies at which she always used to roll her eyes. She'll run to him, throw her arms around him, and kiss him like there's no tomorrow for there really isn't any tomorrow now. There's only eternity.

Oh, my first fandom OTP. Forever so tragically messed up and so perfect for them at the same time. hell out of this fic. ♥ ♥ ♥ Mind if I pimp this out/link back to it on my journal?

Re: She doesn't regret not having a normal life, not really.

[orlidepp.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you enjoyed this so much! :-) And of course, you may feel free to share it as long as you give credit, which I know you will. I have to admit to not even remembering Rachel's sister's names. I haven't written Animorphs for years, until this comm and the inspiring challenges. :-) Great minds think alike, you know, and Tobias/Rachel was my OTP from this fandom as well. I could take or leave Jake/Cassie most of the time and just recently discovered Rachel/Cassie when I started rereading the series.

Re: She doesn't regret not having a normal life, not really.

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

I could take or leave Jake/Cassie most of the time and just recently discovered Rachel/Cassie when I started rereading the series.

*nods*

Pretty much exactly this. Cassie was kind of meh for me the first time through, but she's definitely growing on me over the years after interacting with other fans, etc. (Btw, come play at the comm sometime, we have loads of fun for being such a small fandom!)

Her sisters are Jordan and Sara. :)

Btw, friends? Going back and reading all your archived fic for our joint fandoms is totally on my to-do list. :)

Re: She doesn't regret not having a normal life, not really.

[orlidepp.livejournal.com]

I don't request friends a lot, but we've done so much talking, I think we're already at that point. :-)

And Animorphs has an active comm? I'm so going looking for it right now!

Is Naomi the mother, then?

I liked Cassie, because of her love for animals. She started out being my favorite character before Rachel took over for that very reason. I just didn't like her romance with Jake. I've had issues (*gets ready to duck if need be*) with black/white romances for years, simply because the RL black/white couples I've known are into -- shall we say? -- unsavory hobbies. Pairings like the X-Men's Logan/Ororo, USA High's Christian/Winnie, and reliving Jake/Cassie here are beginning to help me through it, though.

It's really not a prejudiced thing, but I worked for several years in a drug capital "'hood" area. Just about everybody who came in was on one drug or another or selling the mess. I don't have any problems with somebody doing marijuana, but this was the harder stuff. I also had to pretend like prostitution wasn't happening every thirty minutes in the parking lot. All this, and I was by myself on the shift.