Luain = Language

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Good Monday, my darlings! I’m classics_lover , your host this week, and today's theme is Language. Prompts can be anything to do with languages. Maybe someone is using the language of flowers, or has just learned a new language to impress their partner. Heck, maybe our fave characters are taking a new language class together. Anything to do with languages!

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.
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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...

+ MCU (Iron Man movies), Tony Stark + JARVIS, they talk in binary sometimes

+ Dragon Age, anypair, body language

+ Assassin's Creed, Desmond Miles/Shaun Hastings, sometimes Desmond speaks Arabic and Italian without realising it, fortunately Shaun is fluent in both

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[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

MCU (Iron Man movies), Tony Stark + JARVIS, they talk in binary sometimes

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Dragon Age, anypair, body language

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Assassin's Creed, Desmond Miles/Shaun Hastings, sometimes Desmond speaks Arabic and Italian without realising it, fortunately Shaun is fluent in both

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Hawaii Five-O, Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams, the ways Steve says "I love you" without actually using words

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Any (please no SPN), any, using flowers to send a message

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard/Rodney McKay, Rodney sometimes slips into French when he's feeling amorous

no fill...

[squidgiepdx]

...but oh god, I need this like I need oxygen

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams, they have their own language

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Marvel Cinematic Universe, Any, waking from nightmares speaking in other languages

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Any, any m/m, the language of love is silence

The Magnificent Seven - Chris/Vin - Fill 1/2

[katleept.livejournal.com]

He’s known many men who thought they could accomplish nothing if their mouths were closed. There are gentlemen like Ezra who strive to hide the truth with million-dollar words, and those like Buck and Josiah who always have a tale to tell, often paired with a lesson to depict or a feat over which to brag. Yet like the natives who helped to shape him into the man he’s become, Vin has little use for words beyond what is necessary.

And sometimes words aren’t necessary at all, like now as he quietly swings himself out of Peso’s saddle and onto the ground. His moccasined feet are silent as his mouth as he quickly covers the distance that remains between him and his best friend, the first person who’s felt like home in a very long time.

That’s something else that most white men do not understand: They think a home has to be a house with a bed upon which to sleep and a fireplace over which to cook food. But Vin has known many homes that had no beds or roofs and can make a fire as long as he has two dry sticks to rub together. Home isn’t a place. It’s a feeling and often a person. Wherever a man feels at home, rather it is beside another person or underneath a stretch of big, blue sky is home. His home, Vin’s come to learn over the last several months, is right here next to this long, lean man in black.

He crouches beside him, then kicks out his feet and sits down. Chris is running a blade of grass through his teeth. His keen, green eyes hold a faraway look; Vin wonders if he’s thinking about his son and wife, two people who he knows he can never replace for him and would never try no more than Larabee would try to replace those Vin has lost. He plucks a blade of grass and starts running it through his own fingers.

“I was thinkin’,” Chris muses aloud, “‘bout Texas and what you said.” His eyes flick up to his, and Vin realizes that he’s nervous, something he’s never known Larabee to be before. “You thinkin’ about leavin’ any time soon to clear your name?”

Vin shakes his head without hesitation. “Nope. Told ya it’s waited this long, it can wait longer. ‘Sides I don’t stand much of a chance of actually clearing my name. I go back there, it’ll probably be to fill a coffin.”

Larabee shakes his head. “Not gonna let that happen,” he says simply. “But when you do get ready,” he asks after a moment, his eyes touching Vin’s, “you’ll tell me, won’t you?”

Vin grins, realizing where this conversation has been headed the whole time. “You’ll be the second to know,” he says, “right after me.”

[megan-moonlight.livejournal.com]

MCU, Phil Coulson/Clint Barton, Clint is surprised when he find out that Phil knows sign language

[megan-moonlight.livejournal.com]

Star Trek DS9, Garak/Julian Bashir, Julian tries to write a few notes in Cardassian to surprise Garak

[megan-moonlight.livejournal.com]

Star Trek TOS, Nyota Uhura(+/Any), Uhura's knowledge of multiple languages saves the day

[megan-moonlight.livejournal.com]

Teen Wolf, Derek Hale/Stiles Stilinski, Polish pet names

[shanachie-quill.livejournal.com]

Over here because the coding didn't work:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/13212606/chapters/34668989

[megan-moonlight.livejournal.com]

Class (TV series), Charlie Smith/Matteusz Andrzejewski, Charlie loves it when Matteusz talks in Polish

[reeby10.livejournal.com]

any, any human/any non-human, language barrier

[reeby10.livejournal.com]

Hawkeye (Fraction), Clint Barton + any, sign language

[reeby10.livejournal.com]

any, any, speaking in tongues

[reeby10.livejournal.com]

DCEU, Barry Allen/Victor Stone, having trouble going from the alien computer language to English

[reeby10.livejournal.com]

Ocean's movies, Danny Ocean/Rusty Ryan, finishing each others' sentences

[geckogirl89.livejournal.com]

Angel the series, Winifred Burkle + or / Lorne, using the Pylean language as a way to secretly discuss something while the others are around

[geckogirl89.livejournal.com]

Hawaii Five-0, Steve McGarrett/Danny Williams, Steve asks Danny what he meant with the sign language heart in 1.20

[geckogirl89.livejournal.com]

Any, any (feel free to change pronouns):
I don’t speak Spanish, Japanese or French
But the way that body’s talkin’ definitely makes sense
It’s her, her body, her body, her body language
(Jesse McCartney, "Body Language")

[geckogirl89.livejournal.com]

Any, any/any: Person A tells Person B “I love you” in a foreign language because they’re too shy to say it otherwise

Fill - King Arthur (2004) - Arthur/Lancelot

[sasha-b.livejournal.com]

Once he realized how he actually felt, Arthur found he couldn't speak to it. Not at all. Not in a whisper, not shouted, not when he was alone, not when Lancelot was with him, in his space, in his rooms or in the courtyard or anywhere.

It ate at him. He was angry and afraid when he thought on it, and tried prayer, tried mental flagellation, tried distraction, tried patrols, tried sparring.

The worst of it came on a winter's evening that was as cold as any he'd ever seen, and Lancelot was sweating and taunting him as they circled one another in the ring, Arthur's Excalibur heavy and slippery as he narrowed his gaze at his opponent. Lancelot flipped his blades in arcs, the silver tone of the steel sparking reflections in Arthur's eyes that had him tripping when he hadn't meant to, sliding in the snowy muck at his feet, his own sword falling from his grasp. Lancelot stood over him, broad smile of triumph on his angular face, and Arthur snatched at the other man's trouser leg without realizing what he was doing.

Lancelot hit the ground with a surprised oof and Arthur, allowing his unconscionable feelings to roar up and take him, an idea spiraling in his mind, and grabbed Lancelot's hair and tugged.

"What are you -"

Arthur spoke into the other man's ear without meaning to, but his Greek was impeccable and the words curled up out of him, from his gut and the place he held dear and close to himself.

His mother had said those words to him in Greek, in Latin, and in the British tongue she'd grown up speaking. She'd smiled at him and tousled his hair and had told him to learn as much as he could, for it would benefit him one day.

Later on, away from the snow and the cold and away from anyone that could see Arthur's face when he spoke to the other man, he said the words again, Lancelot's body drowsing against his, the other man seemingly asleep. Arthur spoke them in the Greek, and he trailed a hand through Lancelot's dark, wild hair, freezing when Lancelot spoke without opening his eyes.

"Are you sure about that, Arthur?"

Arthur forced his hand to move, and looked anywhere but at Lancelot. Those particular words were very dangerous. The most dangerous things Arthur could say.

"You can't possibly understand me."

"My father learned Greek from traders to our lands. Why would you assume I'm an uneducated heathen? Because I come from a place so many leagues from the light that is Rome?"

Lancelot still hadn't opened his eyes. His sarcasm bit at Arthur and yet - Arthur touched his arm and the other man finally looked at him, the darkness in his gaze too deep and Arthur forced himself to meet the brown eyes that were -

Lancelot spoke a phrase then in his native tongue, one Arthur had never heard from the other man, and then closed his eyes, settling in to the warmth that permeated the bed. Arthur opened his mouth, but Lancelot laughed softly and burrowed deeper under the furs.

"Now who is the uneducated heathen?"

He could only hope Lancelot would teach him.

~



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[geckogirl89.livejournal.com]

Any, any/any: Tutoring a crush in a foreign language as a way to get closer to them (e.g. Cameron and Bianca in 10 Things I Hate About You)

Fill 1/3: Stargate Multiverse, College AU, Rodney McKay/John Sheppard

[nagi-schwarz.livejournal.com]

Daniel Jackson owed Rodney, and he owed Rodney big, because Rodney was double-majoring in physics and mechanical engineering, and there was really no reason for him to be covering a tutoring shift at the language center. But Daniel was off at some fancy informational meeting for a chance to study abroad for the summer and work at a grown up dig in the burning sands of Egypt, and since Rodney was Canadian and also fluent in French, Rodney was the perfect candidate to cover one shift.

Just one.

Rodney had sat in the tutoring center and watched students drift in and out seeking help in Spanish and German and Russian and Japanese and Mandarin, but no one had come even close to his little two-person table with his little Bonjour! Je m’appelle Rodney! Je parle français! sign.

There were precisely seven minutes left in his shift - he’d brought his thermodynamics textbook with him and gotten ahead on his reading - when a shadow finally fell over him.

He looked up, and - oh.

The guy standing over him was super cute, wearing a soft-knit gray wool sweater and a pair of blue jeans that showed off how narrow his hips were. The guy had messy dark hair that was a hundred cowlicks, narrow features, bright eyes, and a soft-looking mouth.

“Uh, hey,” the guy said. “You’re not Daniel.”

“No, but I am qualified to tutor you in French.” Rodney closed his textbook and set it aside. “So, what class are you in?”

“French 1010,” the guy said slowly.

“What are you having trouble with? Conjugations? Past tense? Perfect tense? Pluperfect tense? Imperfect tense? The subjunctive? Or do you just need someone to review vocab with you on flashcards?”

The guy stared at him for a long moment. Then he finally said, “All of it.”

Rodney stared at him right back. “It’s halfway through the semester.”

The guy plunked down in the chair opposite Rodney and scooted close; their knees brushed under the suddenly far too small and intimate desk. “Well, that’s why I’m here. For help. Finally admitting defeat. Need all the help I can get.”

“Where are you in the textbook?” Rodney asked. “I’m Rodney, by the way.”

“John,” the guy said. He dug around in his backpack, came up with a very battered, obviously used copy of the beginner-level textbook.
“We’re in chapter five, but I just - don’t get. Languages.”

“So where should we start?”

John bit his lip for a moment, then cleared his throat. “Um...chapter two?”

Rodney would have had a serious freak-out if he’d said chapter one, but this was the only time he was going to cover, so -

John flipped the textbook open to the appropriate chapter with quick, dexterous hands, then turned the book around for Rodney to see. He leaned in at the same time as Rodney did, and they almost bumped heads.

John jerked back sharply. “Sorry! Sorry.” He reached out, almost like he was going to touch Rodney, then let his hand fall to his lap.

“It’s fine,” Rodney said. “So, verb conjugations. The first regular verb is aimer, to like. Do you know all the conjugations?”

As it turned out, John knew the conjugations pretty well, but his pronunciation was absolutely abysmal. His mouth was mesmerizing, though.

“I will grant you,” Rodney said, “that some of the spelling versus pronunciation rules in French are strange - after all, why don’t you pronounce the -ent in aiment? But they’re never broken, so if you memorize them now, it’ll serve you down the road. And there really is no way to get by but memorizing.”

John nodded, a blush creeping up his cheeks.

“Do you have flashcards?”

John shook his head.

Rodney twisted around, scanned the bookshelves behind him, and then his watch beeped. Right. Time was up. “Listen, my official tutoring hour is done, but -”

John started to stand.

“But I can stay a little longer, if you need it.”

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Fullmetal Alchemist, Ling Yao+/Lan Fan+Edward & Alphonse Elric, The Elric brothers have no idea how many times Lan Fan asked if she could kill them.