Original
Title: Ever Random
Fandom: Original
Character: Dominick Euclid
Theme set: Gamma
Disclaimer: Actually, this is a claimer for me. I created this (crazy redhead scientist) character, and all the ideas within, so I own them. Yays!
Rating: PG
Notes: I went on a writing binge and made myself finish this within twelve hours. On #15, alternate dimensional space is used for creating space where there is none and linking two far away places together. For instance, it could make your bedroom door open into a place halfway across the globe. It is quite convenient. And on #45, will-o’-the-wisps are supposed to carry lanterns. The house my character lives in uses them as a light source.
#01 - Snow
Dominick, as a scientist, knew the chances of two snowflakes having the exact same molecular structure was extremely, highly, very unlikely; however, there was always the possibility that two were identical, and he preferred betting on the long shots.
#02 - Child
Dominick as a child was not much different from Dominick as an adult: he still loved experiments, he was incredibly unpredictable, and he could still see the future and know that there was truthfully very little he could do about it.
#03 - Brick
Ivy was a plant most admirable, Dominick thought, because it held desperately to the brick and would not let go, but he himself could not hold on to his most precious people.
#04 - Judgment
“Of course Arisa can play in the lab,” Dominick answered, speaking of the six-year-old.
#05 - Powder
Dominick decided to amuse himself by replacing his sister’s blush with a special powder he had invented to turn things neon green.
#06 - Grim
“I see visions of the future all the time, and they are usually the bloody, horrendous, scarring, destruction of an entire culture type of visions,” stated Dominick to Virgil with the same tone one would use when saying the sky is blue.
#07 - Trap
Dominick was like a firefly trapped in a glass jar: he would glow brightly for a while, and die much too soon.
#08 - Star
The stars were much the same as living people, as far as Dominick saw it, because they were, in a sense, born, and they eventually did die.
#09 - Possession
Dominick’s will stated that his pocket watch would go to Virgil, his notes would go to whichever scientists/alchemists/magicians he was working with at the time, and, just for the fun of it, anything else he owned would go to the first person at Errant Gardens to fall down drunk on New Year’s Eve.
#10 - Bandage
As he wrapped the gauze around his torn, bleeding hand, Dominick remembered why he hated any research involving fairies, who happened to have sharp teeth in their tiny mouths.
#11 - Pearl
Dominick learned in his formative years that life was not fair, because an oyster could make such a beautiful gem from an irritant like sand, and yet Dominick was not allowed to freeze his nagging older sister into a statue with the help of an ice spirit.
#12 - Glass
Dominick did not care for his glasses only because he thought the world looked different when seen from behind glass.
#13 - Classified
Dominick never told anyone, not even his best friend, where he went when by himself in Arcrith, because even crazy redheaded scientists who had the habit of popping up in random places at random times needed quiet time.
#14 - Buttons
Zippers sounded appealing, because the one problem Dominick had with his lab coats was that there were so many buttons on them which had a habit of getting lost.
#15 - Closet
Dominick discovered the true wonders of alternate dimensional space when he fell into a closet and fell out into a snow drift a few hundred miles away from his house.
#16 - Ash
One of Dominick’s strangest quirks was his grudge against the ash tree in his backyard after he fell out of it and broke his wrist.
#17 - Definition
When his best friend’s niece thought harlot meant mother, and Dominick’s sister was about to have a baby, Dominick decided to let itself play out.
#18 - Staircase
No matter what, Dominick always followed the same habit of going up the stairs right foot first.
#19 - Nail
While studying the scientific phenomenon known as hammerspace, Dominick wondered if there was not also a nailspace.
#20 - Prey
Dominick had been waiting quietly and patiently for almost half an hour, so when his prey came into sight, Dominick pounced… and landed on top of a very surprised Virgil.
#21 - Backwards
If there was one thing Dominick knew, it was that the future was open to change, but to go in reverse was not possible.
#22 - Trouble
Weighing the consequences of coming clean on his own or letting his sister find out for herself, Dominick finally decided to deny any allegations of having changed Hypatia’s wedding ring from gold into lead.
#23 - Little
At the age of five, Dominick made a birthday request for “just a little bit” of ammonium nitrate and kerosene.
#24 - Collar
Dominick was used to surprising people, but he was the one surprised when Theda slipped a collar and dog tags around his neck in case he forgot how to get home while out wandering.
#25 - Circle
Cats were creatures most interesting, Dominick decided, as his pet feline ghost circled his head for the sixtieth-make that sixty-first time.
#26 - Hands
Dominick watched the ticking hands on his pocket watch with a strange reverence, because he knew with each tick he was taking another step towards the destiny he had chosen for himself, and with each tick he was a step closer to his death.
#27 - Freedom
After being grounded to his room for a week, Dominick should have relished his ability to return to the outside world, but he headed two rooms down to stay in the laboratory for a week, because his freedom was found among bubbling beakers of who-knows-what.
#28 - Last
Psychics gifted with foresight often committed suicide when they were older and started seeing horrific visions of doom more and more frequently, but Dominick never once thought of ending his own life, because he saw many visions of how quickly lives could be ended, and he wanted his own to last as long as possible.
#29 - Scab
A few of Dominick’s scabs turned into permanent scars after a mishap in testing out his new form of medicine.
#30 - Crown
“King me,” announced Dominick cheerfully as the ghost with whom he was playing checkers gaped in surprise.
#31 - Time
Nothing beat Dominick’s internal clock, because he always knew just when to interrupt a fight in order to make things better-or worse, if that’s what he wanted.
#32 - Rice
“Haec oryza optima est,” Dominick said, complimenting the dinner.
#33 - Worn
Despite the compassion with which Dominick smiled, you could occasionally catch a glimpse of something tired and hardened when he spoke of the Unmistakables and murdered friends.
#34 - Paint
Some people have murals on their walls, same have numerous colors, and some have just plain white, but Dominick would have screamed if anyone ever painted over the calculations he had scribbled on his walls in the middle of the night.
#35 - Ache
Sleeping on his desk was not an experiment Dominick ever wanted to reproduce, if the pain in his back was any indication.
#36 - Cherry
Dominick was eight when he first realized that some things were not to be experimented upon, especially if the cherries that were made explosive were in your dessert.
#37 - Library
With a sigh, Dominick set down one tome and retrieved another for the long night of research ahead.
#38 - Win
Nothing was more relaxing for Dominick than winning the week’s poker game and having three other people for servants.
#39 - Loss
Few people had ever seen Dominick do anything other than smile gently, but when his grandfather’s casket was laid into the ground, it was hours before his tears stopped.
#40 - Fold
Cooking was supposed to be like science with the measuring and chemical reactions and such, but for the life of him, Dominick could not figure out how in the world he was supposed to “fold” the eggs into the mixture.
#41 - Music
It was no wonder Dominick played the piano so well, because music was another form of math and science.
#42 - Bell
Every Sunday Dominick went to church, and by the time the bells rang to signify its end, the redheaded scientist was reaffirmed in his belief that God did indeed exist.
#43 - Sleep
Dominick’s reasoning for why he slept no more than four hours at a time was, “If you see horrific, unstoppable tragedies every time you close your eyes, you want to wake up as soon as possible so you can get some rest.”
#44 - Contact
Anyone who had ever been in contact with Dominick Euclid knew their sanity had to have slipped just a little further away afterwards.
#45 - Electricity
While he would normally oppose mistreatment of any creatures natural or supernatural, Dominick let Elise and Grier install poor, defenseless, shiny will-o’-the-wisps into the light fixtures of the house because spirits had no cost, and providing electricity for over fifty rooms was expensive.
#46 - Milk
One of milk’s better qualities was that when a six-year-old psychic, a thirty-year-old alchemist/sorceress, and a ghost cat rushed past Dominick making him spill his calcium-rich drink, it did not stain his white lab coat.
#47 - Wild
Forests were wonderful places to study botany, but were also places of terror after a savage nymph sent the dryads after Dominick.
#48 - Expectation
“Damn,” sighed a thoroughly disappointed Dominick as the rose he had injected with his latest concoction instantly turned to stone, “it was supposed to turn blue.”
#49 - Mechanism
As Dominick left the house for the last time, he heard the ticking of his pocket watch stop, and he knew he would not hear it ticking ever again in his life, because the mechanism was broken, and he probably would not be around long enough to fix it.
#50 - Finale
Dominick had to make everything interesting, so it was no surprise when instead of living to be an old man and passing peacefully among his family, he died at age twenty-one in the biggest explosion of chemicals and fire anyone in Arcrith had ever seen.
Fandom: Original
Character: Dominick Euclid
Theme set: Gamma
Disclaimer: Actually, this is a claimer for me. I created this (crazy redhead scientist) character, and all the ideas within, so I own them. Yays!
Rating: PG
Notes: I went on a writing binge and made myself finish this within twelve hours. On #15, alternate dimensional space is used for creating space where there is none and linking two far away places together. For instance, it could make your bedroom door open into a place halfway across the globe. It is quite convenient. And on #45, will-o’-the-wisps are supposed to carry lanterns. The house my character lives in uses them as a light source.
#01 - Snow
Dominick, as a scientist, knew the chances of two snowflakes having the exact same molecular structure was extremely, highly, very unlikely; however, there was always the possibility that two were identical, and he preferred betting on the long shots.
#02 - Child
Dominick as a child was not much different from Dominick as an adult: he still loved experiments, he was incredibly unpredictable, and he could still see the future and know that there was truthfully very little he could do about it.
#03 - Brick
Ivy was a plant most admirable, Dominick thought, because it held desperately to the brick and would not let go, but he himself could not hold on to his most precious people.
#04 - Judgment
“Of course Arisa can play in the lab,” Dominick answered, speaking of the six-year-old.
#05 - Powder
Dominick decided to amuse himself by replacing his sister’s blush with a special powder he had invented to turn things neon green.
#06 - Grim
“I see visions of the future all the time, and they are usually the bloody, horrendous, scarring, destruction of an entire culture type of visions,” stated Dominick to Virgil with the same tone one would use when saying the sky is blue.
#07 - Trap
Dominick was like a firefly trapped in a glass jar: he would glow brightly for a while, and die much too soon.
#08 - Star
The stars were much the same as living people, as far as Dominick saw it, because they were, in a sense, born, and they eventually did die.
#09 - Possession
Dominick’s will stated that his pocket watch would go to Virgil, his notes would go to whichever scientists/alchemists/magicians he was working with at the time, and, just for the fun of it, anything else he owned would go to the first person at Errant Gardens to fall down drunk on New Year’s Eve.
#10 - Bandage
As he wrapped the gauze around his torn, bleeding hand, Dominick remembered why he hated any research involving fairies, who happened to have sharp teeth in their tiny mouths.
#11 - Pearl
Dominick learned in his formative years that life was not fair, because an oyster could make such a beautiful gem from an irritant like sand, and yet Dominick was not allowed to freeze his nagging older sister into a statue with the help of an ice spirit.
#12 - Glass
Dominick did not care for his glasses only because he thought the world looked different when seen from behind glass.
#13 - Classified
Dominick never told anyone, not even his best friend, where he went when by himself in Arcrith, because even crazy redheaded scientists who had the habit of popping up in random places at random times needed quiet time.
#14 - Buttons
Zippers sounded appealing, because the one problem Dominick had with his lab coats was that there were so many buttons on them which had a habit of getting lost.
#15 - Closet
Dominick discovered the true wonders of alternate dimensional space when he fell into a closet and fell out into a snow drift a few hundred miles away from his house.
#16 - Ash
One of Dominick’s strangest quirks was his grudge against the ash tree in his backyard after he fell out of it and broke his wrist.
#17 - Definition
When his best friend’s niece thought harlot meant mother, and Dominick’s sister was about to have a baby, Dominick decided to let itself play out.
#18 - Staircase
No matter what, Dominick always followed the same habit of going up the stairs right foot first.
#19 - Nail
While studying the scientific phenomenon known as hammerspace, Dominick wondered if there was not also a nailspace.
#20 - Prey
Dominick had been waiting quietly and patiently for almost half an hour, so when his prey came into sight, Dominick pounced… and landed on top of a very surprised Virgil.
#21 - Backwards
If there was one thing Dominick knew, it was that the future was open to change, but to go in reverse was not possible.
#22 - Trouble
Weighing the consequences of coming clean on his own or letting his sister find out for herself, Dominick finally decided to deny any allegations of having changed Hypatia’s wedding ring from gold into lead.
#23 - Little
At the age of five, Dominick made a birthday request for “just a little bit” of ammonium nitrate and kerosene.
#24 - Collar
Dominick was used to surprising people, but he was the one surprised when Theda slipped a collar and dog tags around his neck in case he forgot how to get home while out wandering.
#25 - Circle
Cats were creatures most interesting, Dominick decided, as his pet feline ghost circled his head for the sixtieth-make that sixty-first time.
#26 - Hands
Dominick watched the ticking hands on his pocket watch with a strange reverence, because he knew with each tick he was taking another step towards the destiny he had chosen for himself, and with each tick he was a step closer to his death.
#27 - Freedom
After being grounded to his room for a week, Dominick should have relished his ability to return to the outside world, but he headed two rooms down to stay in the laboratory for a week, because his freedom was found among bubbling beakers of who-knows-what.
#28 - Last
Psychics gifted with foresight often committed suicide when they were older and started seeing horrific visions of doom more and more frequently, but Dominick never once thought of ending his own life, because he saw many visions of how quickly lives could be ended, and he wanted his own to last as long as possible.
#29 - Scab
A few of Dominick’s scabs turned into permanent scars after a mishap in testing out his new form of medicine.
#30 - Crown
“King me,” announced Dominick cheerfully as the ghost with whom he was playing checkers gaped in surprise.
#31 - Time
Nothing beat Dominick’s internal clock, because he always knew just when to interrupt a fight in order to make things better-or worse, if that’s what he wanted.
#32 - Rice
“Haec oryza optima est,” Dominick said, complimenting the dinner.
#33 - Worn
Despite the compassion with which Dominick smiled, you could occasionally catch a glimpse of something tired and hardened when he spoke of the Unmistakables and murdered friends.
#34 - Paint
Some people have murals on their walls, same have numerous colors, and some have just plain white, but Dominick would have screamed if anyone ever painted over the calculations he had scribbled on his walls in the middle of the night.
#35 - Ache
Sleeping on his desk was not an experiment Dominick ever wanted to reproduce, if the pain in his back was any indication.
#36 - Cherry
Dominick was eight when he first realized that some things were not to be experimented upon, especially if the cherries that were made explosive were in your dessert.
#37 - Library
With a sigh, Dominick set down one tome and retrieved another for the long night of research ahead.
#38 - Win
Nothing was more relaxing for Dominick than winning the week’s poker game and having three other people for servants.
#39 - Loss
Few people had ever seen Dominick do anything other than smile gently, but when his grandfather’s casket was laid into the ground, it was hours before his tears stopped.
#40 - Fold
Cooking was supposed to be like science with the measuring and chemical reactions and such, but for the life of him, Dominick could not figure out how in the world he was supposed to “fold” the eggs into the mixture.
#41 - Music
It was no wonder Dominick played the piano so well, because music was another form of math and science.
#42 - Bell
Every Sunday Dominick went to church, and by the time the bells rang to signify its end, the redheaded scientist was reaffirmed in his belief that God did indeed exist.
#43 - Sleep
Dominick’s reasoning for why he slept no more than four hours at a time was, “If you see horrific, unstoppable tragedies every time you close your eyes, you want to wake up as soon as possible so you can get some rest.”
#44 - Contact
Anyone who had ever been in contact with Dominick Euclid knew their sanity had to have slipped just a little further away afterwards.
#45 - Electricity
While he would normally oppose mistreatment of any creatures natural or supernatural, Dominick let Elise and Grier install poor, defenseless, shiny will-o’-the-wisps into the light fixtures of the house because spirits had no cost, and providing electricity for over fifty rooms was expensive.
#46 - Milk
One of milk’s better qualities was that when a six-year-old psychic, a thirty-year-old alchemist/sorceress, and a ghost cat rushed past Dominick making him spill his calcium-rich drink, it did not stain his white lab coat.
#47 - Wild
Forests were wonderful places to study botany, but were also places of terror after a savage nymph sent the dryads after Dominick.
#48 - Expectation
“Damn,” sighed a thoroughly disappointed Dominick as the rose he had injected with his latest concoction instantly turned to stone, “it was supposed to turn blue.”
#49 - Mechanism
As Dominick left the house for the last time, he heard the ticking of his pocket watch stop, and he knew he would not hear it ticking ever again in his life, because the mechanism was broken, and he probably would not be around long enough to fix it.
#50 - Finale
Dominick had to make everything interesting, so it was no surprise when instead of living to be an old man and passing peacefully among his family, he died at age twenty-one in the biggest explosion of chemicals and fire anyone in Arcrith had ever seen.