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3SF round-up, weeks 2-3
I had grand plans for this ficathon, and then work blew up on me and I spent two weeks proofreading large columns of numbers and a bunch of irresponsible hyperbole about what those numbers mean. Anyway, couple more things from Three-Sentence Ficathon 2021 (post 1, post 2).
Avatar: the Last Airbender, Sokka & Katara
Katara can and will kick anyone's butt. This is something Sokka didn't fully understand back home, where life was routine and everyone knew everyone and all the fights that were gonna happen had been had years ago - but out here in the world sometimes you see her do this mystical arm-wavey type of gesture and take out three guys at once with a wall of water and that's his sister, and it's actually really cool.
He's trying to come up with some suitably backhanded and big-brotherly way to tell her this, you know, without getting too mushy, but then she says, "Hey, Sokka - I don't think I say this enough, but your battle plan the other day was really sharp."
Ghost Trick, Sissel & Jowd
Sissel's spectral presence sidles into the back of his mind and says, "Hey Jowd, there's no easy way to say this, but - my powers have let me down. I'd appreciate it if you could, uh, bail me out?"
Jowd sets down his teacup, the morning coming into sharper focus at once, the way it does in the moments before crisis - and Sissel says, "I got my body stuck up a tree."
Spinning Silver, Irina/Mirtnatius
Every blow she struck against Chernobog landed on his body; every insult and threat Chernobog gave her came out of his mouth. It couldn't be avoided, anyway - but he wouldn't have avoided hurting her, if he could have, and he suspects she found it satisfying to retaliate - in fact refuses to imagine otherwise, as it's the one thing that lets him hope he'll ever understand her.
Husband and wife should be frank about these things, and about the barnyard-cat wariness ("ha," Mirnatius stops himself saying, "do you know what I used to do to cats?") that keeps them circling each other - how else to believe that the circles will get smaller, or that one day their alliance will seem natural?
FFVI, Sabin/Shadow
Death comes slow and ugly, like it was always going to. Shadow - Clyde - whoever he is, whoever he used to be, this corpse in the making - lies pinned down in the rubble, and dimly sees a sooty tear-streaked face emerge from the murk, and knows there isn't going to be a knife.
"Baram," he says, and the figure shushes him, and begins moving stones, and carries him out into sunlight.
FFVI+FFIX crossover, Terra & Eiko
Madain Sari was a strange place, and Eiko a strange little girl, and whatever she called them - eidolons? - it was still Terra's people painted on this wall, still remembered despite everything, even if only by one parentless child.
"But it's not just me," Eiko said, "so it's fine," and through a cleft in the canyon wall, Terra could see glimpses of white fur and the bounce of a moogle's pom-pom.
We really are alike, Terra decided, and grabbed her hand, and said - trying not to sound too excited - "Eiko, please introduce me to your friends."
Avatar: the Last Airbender, Sokka & Katara
Katara can and will kick anyone's butt. This is something Sokka didn't fully understand back home, where life was routine and everyone knew everyone and all the fights that were gonna happen had been had years ago - but out here in the world sometimes you see her do this mystical arm-wavey type of gesture and take out three guys at once with a wall of water and that's his sister, and it's actually really cool.
He's trying to come up with some suitably backhanded and big-brotherly way to tell her this, you know, without getting too mushy, but then she says, "Hey, Sokka - I don't think I say this enough, but your battle plan the other day was really sharp."
Ghost Trick, Sissel & Jowd
Sissel's spectral presence sidles into the back of his mind and says, "Hey Jowd, there's no easy way to say this, but - my powers have let me down. I'd appreciate it if you could, uh, bail me out?"
Jowd sets down his teacup, the morning coming into sharper focus at once, the way it does in the moments before crisis - and Sissel says, "I got my body stuck up a tree."
Spinning Silver, Irina/Mirtnatius
Every blow she struck against Chernobog landed on his body; every insult and threat Chernobog gave her came out of his mouth. It couldn't be avoided, anyway - but he wouldn't have avoided hurting her, if he could have, and he suspects she found it satisfying to retaliate - in fact refuses to imagine otherwise, as it's the one thing that lets him hope he'll ever understand her.
Husband and wife should be frank about these things, and about the barnyard-cat wariness ("ha," Mirnatius stops himself saying, "do you know what I used to do to cats?") that keeps them circling each other - how else to believe that the circles will get smaller, or that one day their alliance will seem natural?
FFVI, Sabin/Shadow
Death comes slow and ugly, like it was always going to. Shadow - Clyde - whoever he is, whoever he used to be, this corpse in the making - lies pinned down in the rubble, and dimly sees a sooty tear-streaked face emerge from the murk, and knows there isn't going to be a knife.
"Baram," he says, and the figure shushes him, and begins moving stones, and carries him out into sunlight.
FFVI+FFIX crossover, Terra & Eiko
Madain Sari was a strange place, and Eiko a strange little girl, and whatever she called them - eidolons? - it was still Terra's people painted on this wall, still remembered despite everything, even if only by one parentless child.
"But it's not just me," Eiko said, "so it's fine," and through a cleft in the canyon wall, Terra could see glimpses of white fur and the bounce of a moogle's pom-pom.
We really are alike, Terra decided, and grabbed her hand, and said - trying not to sound too excited - "Eiko, please introduce me to your friends."