Tuesday: Chess

[enochia.livejournal.com]

Hello again. It's enochia, a first-time host. Today is Tuesday and the theme for this day is “chess”. Your characters can play the game, talk about it, compare a conflict to it. Or you can use chess-related metaphors, figures (is someone somebody’s pawn?), other phrases (gambit). Anything related to chess goes. (Yes, that includes the musical and songs from it.)

Give your prompts according to these rules:

- No more than three prompts in one fandom
- No more than five prompts in a row unless one of your prompts is filled. Then you can prompt again.
- No spoilers in prompts
- If your fill contains spoilers, please warn and leave plenty of space

Please keep the codemonkeys in mind and obey formatting rules:

Fandom, Character, Prompt
Fandom, Character/Character, Prompt
Fandom, Character + Character, Prompt

Examples:

Prince of Tennis, Inui + Yanagi, chess vs. shogi
any, any/any, “A good chessplayer having lost a game is sincerely convinced that his loss resulted from a mistake he made and looks for that mistake in the opening, but forgets that at each stage of the game there were similar mistakes and that none of his moves were perfect. He only notices the mistake to which he pays attention, because his opponent took advantage of it.” (War and Peace)
Harry Potter, Ron, he is sick and tired of explaining how conflict between Dumbledore and Voldemort does not correspond to a game of Wizarding chess on a grand scale.

If there is nothing that catches your fancy, take a look at the lonely prompts.

tag=chess

Comments

[enochia.livejournal.com]

Prince of Tennis, Inui + Yanagi, chess vs. shogi

[enochia.livejournal.com]

any, any/any, “A good chessplayer having lost a game is sincerely convinced that his loss resulted from a mistake he made and looks for that mistake in the opening, but forgets that at each stage of the game there were similar mistakes and that none of his moves were perfect. He only notices the mistake to which he pays attention, because his opponent took advantage of it.” (War and Peace)

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

Animorphs, Rachel + Ellimist or Crayak, she's not even an ant on the chess board in the grand scheme of the universe but she still changed the game

[enochia.livejournal.com]

Harry Potter, Ron, he is sick and tired of explaining how conflict between Dumbledore and Voldemort does not correspond to a game of Wizarding chess on a grand scale.

[ladysugarquill]

Love this prompt.

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

The Legend of Korra, young!Tenzin + Fire Lord Zuko, Pai Sho

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

Any, any female character, pawn to queen

No fill, just...

[enochia.livejournal.com]

LOL, I wrote this one for Dany of ASOIAF/GoT when I was preparing the sample prompts, but decided against posting it since I realised the theme might be a bit difficult in hindsight and wanted to leave easy to think of prompts to other posters.

Might fill it if no one else does, though.

[enochia.livejournal.com]

Hellblazer, John Constantine(/any), in a zugzwang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugzwang)...again.

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

Rizzoli & Isles, Maura +/ Jane, they don't play chess anymore

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

NCIS, Gibbs +/ Jenny, he gives her a set of handcarved chess pieces her first Christmas as Director - and doesn't include a note

[enochia.livejournal.com]

any, any, dead as a piece of liver (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Knights_Defense,_Fried_Liver_Attack)

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Avengers, Coulson/any, checkmate

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Leverage, Eliot/Quinn, fighting (and sex) is like a chess game if you can find an opponent who plays by the same rules

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Any, any two characters who are rivals or enemies with UST, AU where they are the top two chess players in the world with completely opposite personalities and styles

[daria234.livejournal.com]

Burn Notice, any (crossovers okay too), two brilliant spies trying to outsmart each other (canon has said it's like a game of chess)

[mangacrack.livejournal.com]

Naruto, Shikaku and/or Shikamaru, when your enemy is changing to rules faster than you can figure them out

[mangacrack.livejournal.com]

Supernatural, Sam, he always had been better in chess and strategy than Dean

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

The Demonata, Bartholomew Garadex + Lord Loss, the first game

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

The Demonata, Juni, pawn

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

The Demonata, Bec + Lord Loss, chessmaster

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Vampire Babylon, Dawn, the queen of the board

[doreyg.livejournal.com]

Horrible Histories, Charles I/Oliver Cromwell, Checkmate

[livingtolaugh.livejournal.com]

any, any, "we don't want the whole world saying they can't even win a game." (Chess musical)

[chasingtides.livejournal.com]

Leverage/X-Men, Nate and Professor X, chess masters

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Fullmetal Alchemist, Roy Mustang(+/Riza Hawkeye), Taking the queen back.

fill (drabble)

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Roy knows that he's known for his destructive power rather than his skill for strategy. It's the impression he's cultivated, ever since he realized he'd play more effectively as a useful weapon than as a potential adversary.

Power can help him move across the board as fast as he dares, and he dares much. Cleverness, if suspected by the wrong person, can be dangerous.

It can rob him off a crucial piece.

(Not his knight, not his tower, despite her attempts to shield him.)

They believe they've taken his queen permanently off the board.

He's eager to prove them wrong.

[with-rainfall.livejournal.com]

Animorphs, Gafinilan/Mertil, one teaches the other to play chess