Heroism on Fridays
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schweinsty, it's been a pleasure hosting this week, and today's theme is heroes/heroism. Apropos of nothing, today feels like an excellent day for prompts about characters who go through hell and come out of the other side standing, who never stop fighting, who believe in and work for a better world for everybody--whether in big, showy battles or in the simple act of getting up every morning and not giving up.
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...
+ Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom, Everyone soon knows the Herbology professor Does Not Stand for bullying
+ The Force Awakens, Finn +/ Poe Dameron, His worst nightmare is the one where he didn't manage to defect
+ Star Wars, Leia Organa, Every morning she remembers Alderaan and promises herself she won't let it happen again
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 2017 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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schweinsty, it's been a pleasure hosting this week, and today's theme is heroes/heroism. Apropos of nothing, today feels like an excellent day for prompts about characters who go through hell and come out of the other side standing, who never stop fighting, who believe in and work for a better world for everybody--whether in big, showy battles or in the simple act of getting up every morning and not giving up.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...
+ Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom, Everyone soon knows the Herbology professor Does Not Stand for bullying
+ The Force Awakens, Finn +/ Poe Dameron, His worst nightmare is the one where he didn't manage to defect
+ Star Wars, Leia Organa, Every morning she remembers Alderaan and promises herself she won't let it happen again
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 2017 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: 2017-01-20 11:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-20 11:36 am (UTC)Fill: Finn/Poe
Date: 2017-04-01 02:00 am (UTC)“I had a nightmare,” the other man murmurs.
Poe frowns, covering a yawn as he turns in Finn's arms. He squints, but it's no use: it's too dark to see him. “Do you want to talk about it?”
There's a long moment of silence before Finn speaks haltingly. “I was back in the First Order. Like I never left.”
“Okay.” Poe won't judge him when it's clear how upset he is, but that doesn't seem like such a bad nightmare to him. “But you did. You're here with us now.”
He feels Finn shake his head. “That wasn't it, though. I was in a TIE fighter. I guess I got promoted. There was a battle...and you were there, too, in your X-wing.”
Poe knows exactly where this is going. “You killed me.”
Finn shudders. “Yeah. It was awful.”
“I'm sure it was.” Poe pulls his boyfriend into his arms, aiming for a kiss on his cheek but landing closer to his chin in the dark. “But it wasn't real,” he says gently. “You're part of the Resistance now, and I know you would never hurt me.”
“Of course not,” Finn agrees heartily, burying himself in Poe's chest. “But...”
“No buts,” Poe tells him. “We all have bad dreams sometimes.” He lets out a bitter little laugh. “If that's the worst you've got, you're lucky.” He can feel Finn looking at him in the dark even if neither of them can see, but the former stromtrooper doesn't ask. Poe is grateful.
“I guess you're right,” is all he says. “I'm sorry I woke you up.”
“Don't worry about it.” Poe settles back into his pillow, one arm still tight around Finn. “I'm always here for you.”
“Same for me,” Finn murmurs as he drifts back to sleep.
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Date: 2017-01-20 11:36 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-01-20 02:15 pm (UTC)Not a fill...yet
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Date: 2017-01-20 02:19 pm (UTC)Fill 1/2: merman!verse
Date: 2017-01-20 10:29 pm (UTC)Steve had done a thousand insane, brave, heroic, borderline suicidal things in his time, a whole lot of them in the name of family, friends, and country. A significant number of them for love, too.
But there were some things he was too afraid to do, even for love.
Especially for love.
He'd about had a panic attack when he'd woken up that morning and realized he was in love with Danny. His alarm went off, he opened his eyes, and that was his first thought.
Danny.
When you woke up, I asked you your name, and you said Danny.
Danny was his first thought every morning and his last thought ever night.
Steve was in love with Danny. It scared the hell out of him. He was more than willing to admit to himself that he was attracted to Danny, because Danny was fine-looking - strong jaw, bright eyes, pretty mouth, broad shoulders. Plenty of people were attracted to Danny, and there was no shame in Steve counting himself one of their number.
And okay, maybe he had a bit of a ridiculous crush on Danny. The things he told Danny he found irritating, like his tendency to talk too much and over-think things and wave his hands around when he talked? He actually found those endearing and, on really pathetic days, cute.
But that wasn't the same as being in love.
Steve woke up that morning, and his first thought was of Danny, and his second thought was, I should tell him about my tail, and his third thought was, Hell no, he'd lose his mind,, and his fourth thought was of the two women who'd rescued him after he escaped from the Benedetti gang in Trenton, and how they were okay with what he was.
Steve had spent the rest of the day quietly freaking out, even as he directed a homicide investigation, talked to witnesses, talked Jerry down out of another conspiracy theory tree, fielded phone calls from Mary about what to do for Joanie's birthday, dropped Grace off at Step-Stan's.
He was in love with Danny, and he wanted to tell Danny everything about him. He'd never told anyone else about this part of him, not Catherine, not Mary, not Dad, not even Joe White.
Steve had never figured out why his mother insisted on not telling Dad and Mary about the Sea People, but there had been something in the urgency of her voice, in the shadows of her eyes, when she warned him to never, ever tell anyone about it, that had always stopped him from saying the words aloud.
When I'm in the water, I can grown gills and a fish tail and swim underwater for forever.
(He wasn't sure it was actually forever, but he'd once gone three whole hours without surfacing and hadn't felt any the worse for wear.)
Steve couldn't sleep that night, lay in bed staring at the ceiling, and wondered. Dare he tell Danny how he felt, let alone about being Sea People?
The decision about the face of the Sea People was taken from him, two weeks later, when they were kidnapped by some angry stragglers from the Benedetti Family, who offered Steve a choice - let himself drown, or let Danny drown. He told them to put him in the water, and he heard Danny screaming his name as they pushed him into the tank massive and started to seal the lid shut. He could see Danny through the glass, struggling against his captors.
He held his breath as long as he could, which was longer than most humans, even the well-trained ones, like the pearl divers. His body wouldn't let him go without oxygen for long, and when he felt the shakes start, he started to squirm out of his clothes, much to the puzzlement of Danny and the gangsters outside the tank. He managed to get his underwear off right before the change hit.
And then there was panic and confusion, and Danny took advantage of the gangsters' shock to overpower one of them, take his gun, and lay waste to the rest.
Then he opened the tank, and Steve took a gulp of fresh air, reversed the change, and climbed out. Brought his soaking clothes with him and wrung them out as best as he could before he pulled them back on, never meeting Danny's gaze. He'd just pulled on his shirt when Kono, Chin, and Lou burst into the warehouse, guns at the ready.
Fill 2/2: merman!verse
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Date: 2017-01-20 02:20 pm (UTC)Filled: Leverage/SG Multiverse
Date: 2017-07-07 11:29 pm (UTC)Re: Filled: Leverage/SG Multiverse
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Date: 2017-01-20 02:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-20 02:27 pm (UTC)You've Been Saving Me Too
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Date: 2017-01-20 07:09 pm (UTC)Fill: MCU, Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers, Flower Shop AU
Date: 2017-07-07 02:19 am (UTC)Re: Fill: MCU, Bucky Barnes/Steve Rogers, Flower Shop AU
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Date: 2017-01-20 07:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-20 11:03 pm (UTC)Not a fill
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Date: 2017-01-21 11:12 pm (UTC)http://archiveofourown.org/works/9413618
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