Friday Fairy Tales

[streussal.livejournal.com]

It's streussal here with today's theme: fairy tales. Possible prompts include anything involving fairy tale tropes, creatures, AUs, actual fairy tale fandoms... Whatever your heart desires, my lovelies~

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...
+ Hansel and Gretel, Hansel/Gretel, we tend to bruise easily; bad in the blood
+ Princess Tutu, Rue +/ Ahiru, "Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t."
+ Empire, Andre Lyon + Jamal Lyon + Hakeem Lyon, the three little pigs

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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Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Peter Pan, Any, Fairy tale gone wrong

Filled (tw. mentions of child murder)

[truthwritaslies.livejournal.com]

There are hundreds of tales about children stolen by Fae. Stories of changelings and tricksters and the brave parents or siblings who dare the courts of the Sidhe to bring them home.

Peter should have been just another story, a child who toddled off and was lost but quickly found once more. Perhaps, if his father had been more attentive or his mother not died in childbirth he would have.

But stories have their own paths and not all of them are kind.

Peter had been found not by any of the usual Fae but by a creature some named a god, though whether it was in truth it did not deign to say. The creature took him in and nursed him on wild honey, goats milk and it's own blood until he was as strange and unnatural (or perhaps too natural) a being as itself.

It taught him many things: things no human child should ever know. Things about blood and magic and nature and death and the rebirth of the world. Then it gave him it's own name and created for him a sanctuary.

All it asked was that when he was done with his playthings (playfellows) that he give them to it as a sacrifice, to keep the island ever new, to keep him and itself ever young.

Peter agreed with all the solemnity in his young heart. Then the creature cut the heart from his chest and bound him to the island.

The Lost Boys know there is something not right with Peter. There is something wild and wholly alien in his eyes when you leave him alone too long. They know that sometimes one of them will disappear and Peter will return alone. They all pretend not to know what it is that stains his clothes long after his hands have been washed clean.

Peter forgets his lost friends as quickly as the day passes into night.

Always be listening my child, and if you hear him crowing be sure the window is latched tight. For Neverland is as much a realm of nightmares as any other dream and Peter Pan is it's dark king.

Re: Filled (tw. mentions of child murder)

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's dark and creepy and I love it so very much! Thank you!

Re: Filled (tw. mentions of child murder)

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Oooh!

Now you've gone and made me want to rewatch all the Peter Pan scenes in Once Upon A Time. *sigh* At least that actor was good, even when the storyline made no sense.