Thursday: Legacy
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argentum_ls, pinch-hitting for the week, and today's theme is legacy. Prompts can be anything from the mark one leaves (or wants to leave) on history, to gifts left to or received from someone else, to any other interpretation you can devise.
The rules still haven't changed:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
No spoilers in prompts.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space.
Prompts should be formatted as follows:
Fandom, Character+/Character, Prompt
Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+The Tomorrow People (2013), Luca & Sophie, He doesn't want to become like his family and she chose to lock her powers down, but what happens when they are forced to confront their genetic legacies?
+Leverage, Hardison, He can hack anything, the newer, the better. But it's the old systems, the outdated ones that are still somehow chugging along, that give him the biggest challenge.
+Being Human (US), Aidan, He'd never given any consideration to how he wanted to be remembered, until suddenly he had to.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Visit the lonely prompt archive and brighten someone’s day. 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.
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argentum_ls, pinch-hitting for the week, and today's theme is legacy. Prompts can be anything from the mark one leaves (or wants to leave) on history, to gifts left to or received from someone else, to any other interpretation you can devise.The rules still haven't changed:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
No spoilers in prompts.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space.
Prompts should be formatted as follows:
Fandom, Character+/Character, Prompt
Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+The Tomorrow People (2013), Luca & Sophie, He doesn't want to become like his family and she chose to lock her powers down, but what happens when they are forced to confront their genetic legacies?
+Leverage, Hardison, He can hack anything, the newer, the better. But it's the old systems, the outdated ones that are still somehow chugging along, that give him the biggest challenge.
+Being Human (US), Aidan, He'd never given any consideration to how he wanted to be remembered, until suddenly he had to.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Visit the lonely prompt archive and brighten someone’s day. 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.
tag=legacy
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Date: 2014-07-03 01:30 pm (UTC)Titantic, Jack Dawson, the only evidence he ever lived is an 80 year old story and a sketchbook at the bottom of the ocean
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Date: 2014-07-03 01:45 pm (UTC)Once Upon a Time, Jefferson, for the eying of my scars, there is a charge
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Date: 2014-07-03 01:50 pm (UTC)Teen Wolf (TV), Claudia Stilinski + Gerard Argent, “I owe you,” she says, “for what you did to my son.”
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Date: 2014-07-03 01:54 pm (UTC)Avengers movieverse, author’s choice, 5 marks Captain America made on popular culture in-universe
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Date: 2014-07-03 01:57 pm (UTC)Avengers movieverse, Bucky + Steve,
Will you take a moment, promise me this
That you'll stand by me forever
But if God forbid fate should step in
And force us into a goodbye
If you have children some day
When they point to the pictures
Please tell them my name
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Date: 2014-07-03 06:39 pm (UTC)--
is there some idea to replace my life?
Neither of them took on the costume, the shield, any of it for the glory. It was never so they could be some story in the history books.
History never gets it totally right, anyway.
What history forgets, when it writes about Captain America, is that before he was a legend, a thing for kids to dress up as for Halloween, a story teenagers swear up and down they saw saving someone, swear up and down saved them - what they forget is that once, he was just a dumb kid from Brooklyn who wouldn't back down from a fight.
Bucky (James Buchanan Barnes, as the history books call him) never forgets that. He takes on the shield, the costume, the whole mess of fame and infamy blended together (because they still talk about it, he knows, who he was for half a century, rarely who he was before) - he takes it all on not because it's the right thing to do, or even because he wants to - but because he knows it would've made that dumb kid from Brooklyn laugh at him, to see him like this.
Once, three lifetimes ago, Bucky figured he and Steve would grow up, that he'd come back from the war and they'd both settle down, that they'd marry nice girls from their neighborhood (or, considering their neighborhood, maybe not all that nice) and have a couple kids. They'd see each other all the time, for years, until their own families grew bigger, until -
Well, Bucky always figured he'd have a much earlier expiration date than this. He figured, someday, he'd just be a picture in a photo album, and one of Steve's grandkids would point to him and ask who he was, and Steve would smile and say, "Oh, that jerk."
He knows that will never happen now. He knows all he has left of Steve's legacy is a shield, a costume, a name. It's not enough. Nothing could be. But he keeps going, for that kid he used to know. He has to.
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Date: 2014-07-03 08:51 pm (UTC)Oh my god. *weeps*
Thank you!
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Date: 2014-07-03 08:50 pm (UTC)Avengers movieverse, author’s choice, 5 men who owe their lives to Bucky Barnes
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Date: 2014-07-04 12:59 am (UTC)(Have recently started watching Airwolf, and during the episode "Moffet's Ghost" Moffet in the video reminded me of Crowley.)