Monday's Theme: Fairy Tales and Legends

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Hello, everyone. I’m daria234 and today's theme is Fairy Tales and Legends. Prompts can be anything related to fairy tales, legends, etc.: fairy tale AUs, how characters became legendary, how characters are similar to fairy tale characters, etc.

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.
If your prompt or fill contains anything that can be a trigger for the reader, please add a warning for that to give the reader the chance to decide if they want to read or not.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing. 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...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Faith Lehane/any, poison apple
Marvel Cinematic Universe, Steve Rogers/Bucky Barnes, Robin Hood AU
Agents of SHIELD, Skye, her favorite movie is Mulan
Leverage, Parker/Hardison/Eliot, Hansel & Gretel & the Hitter



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 2015 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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In your dreams you fly.

Not in the rickety metal plane of your day job but on your own feathered wings. Higher and higher you circle, the sound of your father's voice lost far below you: pulled away from you by passing zephyrs.

In your dreams the joy you feel cannot be contained and a euphoric madness takes hold of you. You call challenges to Helios and strain ever higher. You reach to pluck the wool from the clouds, to weave yourself raiment fit for the Gods.

But your father's warning proves prophetic and in your dreams your wings begin to break, the feathers falling from your shoulders and arms like leaves in the fall.

You cry out for mercy from the god you have so callously offended, but his temper is as hot as the wheels of his chariot and he deems your pride all the protection you'll need on your journey back to Gaea's loving embrace.

You wake up crying out in fear but you do not remember your dreams.

At school you were made to read the myths of ancient civilizations. Icarus is the one that has stuck with you the most, your longing for flight echoed in this long lost soul.

Despite the warning of Icarus, though, You cannot help but take to the skies at every opportunity, even if you will never really fly on your own.