Games Wednesday
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username and today's theme is Games. Prompts can be any board game, sport, or videogame. How long have Edward and his family from Twilight been playing baseball? What’s the point of the living chess game in The Prisoner? Does the game of Go mean something profound to the Serenity’s crew in Firefly?
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.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
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...
Tron universe, Tron + Any, they’ve wandered far from the grid and lightcycles. And what does Bioshock mean, anyway?
Discworld, Death + Lord Vetinari, HOW DO THE HORSES MOVE AGAIN?
Due South, Benton Fraser/Raymond Vecchio OR Benton Fraser/Stanley “Ray” Kowalski, Games are a good way to fill up those long Canadian winter nights
We use 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 2016 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 1 (not very current), Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 2, or the Calendar Archives, or for more recent prompts, you can use LJ's advanced search options to find prompts to request and/or fill.
While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheets 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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username and today's theme is Games. Prompts can be any board game, sport, or videogame. How long have Edward and his family from Twilight been playing baseball? What’s the point of the living chess game in The Prisoner? Does the game of Go mean something profound to the Serenity’s crew in Firefly?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.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the spoiler cut.
If there are possible triggers in your story, please warn for them in the subject line!
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...
Tron universe, Tron + Any, they’ve wandered far from the grid and lightcycles. And what does Bioshock mean, anyway?
Discworld, Death + Lord Vetinari, HOW DO THE HORSES MOVE AGAIN?
Due South, Benton Fraser/Raymond Vecchio OR Benton Fraser/Stanley “Ray” Kowalski, Games are a good way to fill up those long Canadian winter nights
We use 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 2016 collection. See further notes on this new option here.
Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 1 (not very current), Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet 2, or the Calendar Archives, or for more recent prompts, you can use LJ's advanced search options to find prompts to request and/or fill.
While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheets 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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Date: 2016-09-21 12:58 pm (UTC)(Why'd you have to go and cut your hair
and get a belt that works, Riku? I ask this without actually having played DDD. Blame 2.8 HD at TGS for this prompt.)no subject
Date: 2016-09-21 01:02 pm (UTC)(Again, blame TGS for this prompt. >_>;; If only I still had one of my old Laruku icons...)
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Date: 2016-09-21 01:05 pm (UTC)(* Yet! Still holding onto hope for certain people.)
(** Sin counts for this.)
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Date: 2016-09-21 01:11 pm (UTC)1/2 vampire!Louis/incubus!Harry
Date: 2016-09-26 04:41 pm (UTC)(Um, the worldbuilding for this 'verse involves various realities all existing parallel to each other; fae and demons can travel between them. Vampires only naturally occur on Earth, where the humans live. Most humans are not aware of the other species. Except hunters, obviously.) (Also, if you're curious: Niall's a shifter, Zayn's fae, and Liam is a hunter.)
(takes place after both of the previous parts I posted today)
(also, annoyingly enough, this is BARELY over the character limit)
Now that they finally have a hideaway, safe from Louis' extended 'family' and those bastards who keep trying to capture Harry (most of whom are dead now), Harry has insisted that every evening after dinner, they play some kind of game. He hasn't explained, but Louis figured out after the fifth time that it reminds Harry of the happier days when he was younger, before - well, before all the shit that makes Louis want to rip people apart happened.
So, as is always the case, what Harry wants, Harry gets.
It's only been three years since they met, since Harry accidentally gave Louis a purpose again, and there's still so much neither of them have shared, so many secrets, but none of that matters because they have centuries more. It had been an eternity of dread, before a curly-haired demon tried his glamor on Louis. It had been an endless hell.
When he was human, Louis had fancied himself a poet. Had imagined himself finding a woman who didn't mind his love for men (perhaps even a woman who loved women), and they'd share a bed often enough to have children, and Louis would dote on them just like he doted on his sisters, and he'd find work as a writer of some kind -
Except he died at 22, drained dry and turned by the man he didn't believe was a vampire. He watched his family grow old and die, and none of them gave him permission to turn them, so he didn't. He buried them. His mother and his sisters and his brother and his nieces and his nephews. They alone received any of the scant goodness left in him.
Louis had believed himself to be a decent man, when he was alive. In death, he became a terror. He never forgave Nick (still hasn't), but because he died all those years ago...
"Scrabble!" Harry announces, plopping onto the floor and setting the game up on the coffee table.
It's only been three years. They've been the best since he was human, since he first held Dorie and Ernie. He can't imagine a life without Harry, now.
Marriage is a human invention. Some of the fae have what's translated as a marriage, but it's more of a soulbond. Demons, as Louis understands, have different levels of matings, from meeting up once every few years to continue the population to spending all hours together because it's painful on a spiritual level to be apart. Vampires have mates, though the younger ones still refer to each other as husband or wife because it's what they're familiar with.
Harry's mum mated with a fae, and they call each other husband and wife, which still weirds Louis out sometimes. He has yet to meet them because Harry realized at some point that Louis is still furious with them for what led Harry to Earth. So it’ll be a long while before Harry’s comfortable introducing them.
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Date: 2016-09-26 04:41 pm (UTC)He sinks down across from Harry and accepts the letters Harry gives him. It’s only been three years. That’s barely a blink for either of them. Harry’s grown a little, filling out some. He still looks frightfully young, as he will for the next century or so. He’ll age past Louis until he’s at the peak of attraction, and then he’ll stop until he actively wills his body to resume aging. But Louis will forever look like his 22-year old self, and that hasn’t bothered him this much since Lottie grew past him, sixty years ago.
“What’s wrong?” Harry asks, so Louis shakes himself out of his head in order to focus on the game.
He hoards a few pieces, cheats a little, and Harry lets him. He has to pull his dictionary app a couple times, either to prove or disprove a word, but it’s fun, as all game nights are. Nothing exists outside their den.
When he lays down his final tiles, he can hear Harry’s heart begin to pound.
As a boy, in a world that barely exists anymore, Louis had imagined his future. What he has now is nothing like that dream.
“Marry me?” he asks, consciously dropping every mask, every glamor, every distraction.
In return, Harry lays himself bare and says, “Oh, yes.”
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Date: 2016-09-27 06:31 am (UTC)Re: 2/2 vampire!Louis/incubus!Harry
Date: 2016-09-27 07:09 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2016-09-21 01:14 pm (UTC)Mini-Fill (= drabble): Jeremiah (TV) - Kurdy, Smith, Rose
Date: 2016-09-21 05:41 pm (UTC)Amazed Kurdy was standing in the small yard behind the school. When Smith had told him that his daughter was living here, he had refused to believe it at first. To picture him as a father was more than difficult. Smith was his friend, yes, but he also was the weirdest guy with he had ever met.
To see him in such a hilarious state, playing a game of tag with the little girl, running, laughing, swirling her around was somehow strange but touching. Hard to believe that this was the same guy who insisted that he was God's messenger.
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Date: 2016-09-21 04:51 pm (UTC)Fill: Weiss Kreuz
Date: 2016-09-21 08:42 pm (UTC)"I'll help you," Yohji said patiently.
Omi sat at the head of the table, DM screen up, surrounded by paper, mechanical pencils, and more dice than Ken knew had existed. Aya already had his character sheet laid on the table, pencil beside it, dice arranged all in a row at the top of the sheet.
"So," Omi said, "tell me who your characters are, and then we can get started."
"Yohji helped me build mine." Ken was on the soccer team and not much prone to TTPRGs, but he had a crush on Aya, so of course he'd agreed to play as soon as he learned Aya was a regular at one of Omi's games. What Ken didn't know was that Yohji had a crush on him, and that was why he'd spent painstaking hours building a suitable character for him.
"I'm playing, um, a half elf fighter." Ken squinted at his character sheet.
Omi scribbled a note in one of his many campaign notebooks. "Excellent. Yohji?"
"I'm playing the bard, as always," Yohji said. "Full elf, of course. They're the best-looking."
Omi made a muffled noise that could have been called a snort, but said nothing. "Okay. And Aya?"
"I'm playing a half-orc barbarian," Aya said.
Omi paused, blinked at Aya, but the nodded and made a note.
Yohji stared at him. "What? But you always play a paladin."
Aya smiled, not nicely, and said, "I'm chaotic neutral."
Omi grimaced and made another note.
Three hours later, Ken had acquired a slave, Yohji had been beaten to near unconsciousness a dozen times, and all Aya ever did was grunt and punch things.
They hadn't even made it out of the tavern where they'd started, though they'd been kicked out a few times. Yohji had managed to talk them back inside every time, but he hadn't managed to sufficiently charm the wealthy NPC who had a paying job for them.
"I'm going to roll diplomacy yet again," Yohji said, "and try to speak to the Great and Powerful Mamoru-sama."
Omi nodded. "Okay. Don't forget to add in your charisma. In the meantime, Ken?"
"Can I get a sparkly collar for my slave?"
Ken was far too enamored with slave ownership for anyone's comfort.
"Roll a spot check," Omi said helplessly. "Aya?"
"Let's see who I punch next." Aya grunted and scooped up his dice.
Yohji deeply regretted ever telling Ken that Aya liked D&D.
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Date: 2016-09-21 06:41 pm (UTC)Highlander, Methos (or any other old immortal), the Game has not always been
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Date: 2016-09-21 06:43 pm (UTC)Harry Potter, any + Arthur Weasley, anyone explaining Monopoly to him
(inspired by this)
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Date: 2016-09-21 06:43 pm (UTC)any mythology, any gods, playing dice with worlds
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Date: 2016-09-21 06:44 pm (UTC)author's choice, author's choice, "There's no [verb] in [noun]!"
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Date: 2016-09-21 06:45 pm (UTC)RPF, One Direction vs Simon Cowell, "Do you think this is a game?"
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Date: 2016-09-22 01:11 am (UTC)FILL: Friends, Joey Tribbiani & Mozzarella, Joey Tribbiani/Rachel Green, Phoebe Buffay Pt 1
Date: 2017-01-09 11:42 pm (UTC)Joey didn't mean to break the cheerful dog, but his depression over Rachel impacted Mozzarella in a way he hadn't anticipated.
It all started when Rachel went in briefly to the coffeehouse for a cup of coffee while he was hanging out with Phoebe. Joey asked her how it was living with Ross and was glad to hear that things were going well for her. But apparently Ross put on boring documentaries all the time. If he had the chance to live with Rachel, Joey would do anything to make her happy, to make her comfortable staying with him forever. Joey hoped Ross knew how lucky he was.
Joey didn't feel like this when Chandler moved in with Monica. He had been sad and wistful, of course. Chandler was his best friend, and Joey never liked it when things changed. But he was also happy for Monica and Chandler, underneath it all, and he adjusted to the idea of Chandler moving out once he considered getting a hot female roommate.
This isn't like that at all. Joey had grown so comfortable living with Rachel, and ever since he recognized his feelings for her, he found new sources of joy that were not tainted by the remorse and pain that accompanied them. If Rachel could love Joey back and they could be together, he would be in heaven.
When Rachel had left Central Perk, Joey had turned to watch her leave, wishing that he could be her to-go cup. At least it got to go with Rachel. He missed her like crazy, and the moments they spent together felt all too brief and short. Joey remembered being unhappy about the idea of spending less time with Chandler when he moved out, but the time they regularly spent together as friends eventually became enough for him. Joey didn't feel the stabbing pain in his gut when he saw Chandler after he moved out, and he never drank something expired because he missed Chandler so much. That must be the difference between loving someone as a friend and being hopelessly in love with them.
Phoebe had expressed her sympathies to him. Joey also wished he could get over Rachel, but that was looking less and less likely by the day. Gunther came by, and she ordered a scone from him. When, Gunther asked him what he wanted, Joey let out everything he felt in a heartbroken fit of longing before agreeing to try one of their red bagels.
Later, that day, Phoebe stopped by his apartment (how he hated saying that, it should be his and Rachel's apartment) with her friend Wendy's dog. She told him that this dog would be a "real live furry playmate" who would cheer him up because he was "the happiest dog in the world." For a while, Joey felt uplifted. The dog was sweet and playful, and true to Phoebe's description, he constantly wagged his tail and always seemed to be smiling. The dog's fur was soft and soothing to pet, and his light coloring inspired Joey to name him Mozzarella.
Joey played fetch with the dog, who bounced giddily after his tennis ball. He even ran when Joey pretended to throw it. When he came back with an identical ball, Joey felt confused since he didn't remember having that in his apartment.
Joey stood up and smiled hesitantly when Rachel entered the apartment with some of his clothes that she had accidentally packed when she moved out. She immediately noticed the cute dog and kneeled down to pet him. She started talking to the dog in this adorable high-pitched baby talk voice, and Joey's heart melted. She was so wonderful, and Joey only fell a little more in love with her. When she left, Joey sat down in front of the recliner and called Mozzarella over to him. He told the dog the one thing he hadn't been able to tell any of his friends, that he loved Rachel. He stroked Mozzarella's soft fur and poured his heart out to him. Even though Mozzarella wouldn't understand what he was saying, it felt like such a relief just to be able to say it. He knew it was wrong to be in love with Rachel, but a dog wouldn't judge him.
FILL: Friends, Joey Tribbiani & Mozzarella, Joey Tribbiani/Rachel Green, Phoebe Buffay Pt 2/2
Date: 2017-01-09 11:43 pm (UTC)"So, between her and me being friends, and her history with Ross, it just isn’t going to happen," Joey explains. "It would be like you falling in love with a cat."
Phoebe enters in a good mood, but it quickly disappears when she sees how Mozzarella doesn't move when she leans down to pet him. In his own misery, Joey hadn't even noticed how subdued Mozzarella became, thanks to him.
"He’s miserable! What happened to him?" Phoebe asks.
Joey guiltily admits that he talked to the dog about Rachel. He couldn't help it. He needed to tell someone how he felt after seeing her again.
"Oh Joey, you bummed him out! This was the happiest dog in the world, and he spends half a day with you, and look at him!"
Joey does, and he notices that Mozzarella is gazing at them with doleful eyes.
Joey frowns. "He's breathing!"
Phoebe tells him to act happy because the dog is looking at them, and he tries his best. When that doesn't work, Phoebe says she's going to take the dog back to her friend, but Joey is determined to prove that the dog is fine. He tries to get Mozzarella to play fetch with the tennis ball, which the dog loved earlier, and Mozzarella barely shifts his eyes. Joey then tosses a meatball for him, but the dog barely lifts his chin.
Poor Mozzarella is now another victim of his wrong, inappropriate feelings for Rachel. Joey goes over to the despondent animal and frantically pets him. "My God, what have I done to you, huh? I broke the dog! Pheebs, I broke the dog!"
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