Monday - Manners

[trinityday.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone! I'm trinityday and I'll be your guest host this week.

Today's theme is manners.

Ps & Qs. Social graces. Poise and deportment. Some people's default mode is to be polite. Others... not so much. So tell us about your characters following proper etiquette, their mishaps, everything that has to do with manners in general.

For the sake of our code monkeys, please remember not to go crazy and to limit yourself to 3 prompts per genre and 5 prompts in a row total. If your prompts get answered, then feel free to leave some more later in the day.

Spoilers are not allowed in your prompts until a week (7 days) has passed from the original air date. If there are spoilers in your fic, please remember to warn people by bolding and leaving at least 3 spaces.

Also, remember to thank your fic provider. Not only is it the nice thing to do, but it often helps encourage them to write even more.

The proper formatting for leaving your prompts is as follows, the third example being for crossovers:

Harry Potter, Lily/James, it's polite to reciprocate oral sex
Doctor Who, Doctor/Donna, the correct form of greeting on Earth in the 73rd century
Torchwood/Highlander, Methos/Jack, the proper etiquette for attending your own funeral

If none of today's prompts catch your eye, there's always the Lonely Prompts list to look through.

theme=manners

Comments

[sunsetdawn20.livejournal.com]

House MD, Chase, becoming House

[falconwhitaker.livejournal.com]

Becoming House

The hardest part of becoming House was abandoning his manners. No good little Catholic boy behaves like House, oh no: a good little Catholic boy is quiet, polite, tactful, speaks when he's spoken to. Chase had tried to shake off that attitude when he left seminary school, but it was hard. It was like trying to pull up a tree with his bare hands: those beliefs and behaviours were so deeply rooted into his mind and soul that digging them out would have left empty inside, a shell of a human being.

It wasn't until he started working with House that he realised what he could fill that void with: a harsh, tactless, devil-may-care attitude, the conviction that he was always right, the ability not to give a flying shit about anything if he tried. And he wanted that, because not caring was looked so much easier.

It was still hard to get rid of his good little Catholic boy manners - sometimes he relapsed into them when he least expected - but every day, they faded a little more, their roots in his heart loosened, and he became just a little bit more like House.

Just like he wanted to be.

[sunsetdawn20.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! This is awesome! I love that Chase consciously wants to become House in tihs and struggles to be like him. Great story.

[falconwhitaker.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :) I've always thought of him as consciously trying to be like House, in a sort of hero-worship obsession kinda way. :)