Oi, life sucks.
So, I'm in the computer lab right now with sunglasses on and the monitor set as dim as I can read it with said sunglasses on. I'm about to go to poli sci which had just as bad lights. I apologize to everyone I'm letting down. My photophobia seems to be diminishing, which means, in short, that I should be able to do things again, possibly even by tomorrow. God, everyone must think I'm a drug addict--wearing sunglasses inside. Well, I have fic offerage, for 100_women. It includes Lufia II fic, X-Men fic, and even LotR fic. Well, it's just three drabbles.
Title: Midlife Crisis
Author: agunagirlafix
Fandom:: X-Men 616 Comicverse
Character: Kitty Pryde
Rating: PG
Prompt: 001 Beginnings from 100_women
Word Count: 223
Some people have midlife crises and have to start their life over at thirty-five, forty, or even fifty. Kitty Pryde was thirteen-and-a-half when she had to make her first life-altering decision. She was only fourteen when she changed the future of the planet. She saved the world too many times to count by the time she was of age and had spent extended time in both England and Japan.
So it was only natural for her to have a midlife crisis at seventeen-and-a-half. She wasn’t the age to buy a fancy new sports car, get a young, hot boyfriend, or gamble all her money away. No, Katherine Anne Pryde just wanted to start over. She wanted to live an entirely new life. And that was what the Robert A. Heinlein Academy at the University of Chicago was for her. It was a chance to give up nothing-she could save the world from a sterile lab, carefully studying genetics, rather than putting her life on the line every two seconds for a cause she wasn’t sure would end in the harmony she was striving for.
It was a whole new beginning for her that was supposed to give her a sense of peace. And it even lasted for almost a year before she had a mental breakdown, having to start over once again.
Title: Nether World
Author: agunagirlafix
Fandom:: Lord of the Rings
Character: Eowyn, Lady of Rohan
Rating: PG
Prompt: 002 Middles from 100_women
Word Count: 170
She was in that awkward place, a void that she didn’t know how to fill. It was the overlaps that contradicted each other that poured into the null area. Her father loved her and cherished her, but never respected her nor could he see her strength of will and arms.
Her brother attested to her power privately, reminiscing about the shield-maidens of yore, but when their father spoke, calling Eowyn his lily, his flower, not his shield-maiden, Eomer said nothing.
Aragorn had filled her with hope, praising her and calling her strong. But then he left to keep the flower in its prime, not letting the shield maiden cut the flower in full bloom or let it develop into the fruit it had ability to bear. No, she was to remain behind and take care of Rohan in her father’s absence. While others looked after her, of course.
She couldn’t know who she was, being told she was both one thing and another, in a place where middles didn’t exist.
Title: Final Moments
Author: agunagirlafix
Fandom:: Lufia II
Character: Selan
Rating: PG
Prompt: 003 Ends from 100_women
Warning: End of game spoilers
Word Count: 194
“Hold my hand, Maxim,” she said quietly, her mouth barely able to make the words, dry blood crusting at the edge of her lips, but her husband couldn’t reach her. The building was crumbling around them and Doom Island was going to be their end, ironically, their doom. At Maxim’s cry, Artea and Guy had made it out safely, against their every will to save the man and the woman, but Selan and Maxim, they were the martyrs necessary to save the world. They had done their duty.
Jeros. Their duty. He would be raised without a mother, but he would be alive and would have the blood of Maxim running in his veins, the blade clutched feverishly in Maxim’s hands someday, somehow, passing onto him as well. Humanity had survived the test-they had offspring and they had defeated the Sinistrals, but she couldn’t let it end like this.
With strength she didn’t know she had, she dragged her mortally wounded body over to Maxim, wrapping her arms around him, ignoring the sharp pain as bone pierced flesh, just wanting to whisper, “I love you…”
Because that was the way it should end.
Title: Midlife Crisis
Author: agunagirlafix
Fandom:: X-Men 616 Comicverse
Character: Kitty Pryde
Rating: PG
Prompt: 001 Beginnings from 100_women
Word Count: 223
Some people have midlife crises and have to start their life over at thirty-five, forty, or even fifty. Kitty Pryde was thirteen-and-a-half when she had to make her first life-altering decision. She was only fourteen when she changed the future of the planet. She saved the world too many times to count by the time she was of age and had spent extended time in both England and Japan.
So it was only natural for her to have a midlife crisis at seventeen-and-a-half. She wasn’t the age to buy a fancy new sports car, get a young, hot boyfriend, or gamble all her money away. No, Katherine Anne Pryde just wanted to start over. She wanted to live an entirely new life. And that was what the Robert A. Heinlein Academy at the University of Chicago was for her. It was a chance to give up nothing-she could save the world from a sterile lab, carefully studying genetics, rather than putting her life on the line every two seconds for a cause she wasn’t sure would end in the harmony she was striving for.
It was a whole new beginning for her that was supposed to give her a sense of peace. And it even lasted for almost a year before she had a mental breakdown, having to start over once again.
Title: Nether World
Author: agunagirlafix
Fandom:: Lord of the Rings
Character: Eowyn, Lady of Rohan
Rating: PG
Prompt: 002 Middles from 100_women
Word Count: 170
She was in that awkward place, a void that she didn’t know how to fill. It was the overlaps that contradicted each other that poured into the null area. Her father loved her and cherished her, but never respected her nor could he see her strength of will and arms.
Her brother attested to her power privately, reminiscing about the shield-maidens of yore, but when their father spoke, calling Eowyn his lily, his flower, not his shield-maiden, Eomer said nothing.
Aragorn had filled her with hope, praising her and calling her strong. But then he left to keep the flower in its prime, not letting the shield maiden cut the flower in full bloom or let it develop into the fruit it had ability to bear. No, she was to remain behind and take care of Rohan in her father’s absence. While others looked after her, of course.
She couldn’t know who she was, being told she was both one thing and another, in a place where middles didn’t exist.
Title: Final Moments
Author: agunagirlafix
Fandom:: Lufia II
Character: Selan
Rating: PG
Prompt: 003 Ends from 100_women
Warning: End of game spoilers
Word Count: 194
“Hold my hand, Maxim,” she said quietly, her mouth barely able to make the words, dry blood crusting at the edge of her lips, but her husband couldn’t reach her. The building was crumbling around them and Doom Island was going to be their end, ironically, their doom. At Maxim’s cry, Artea and Guy had made it out safely, against their every will to save the man and the woman, but Selan and Maxim, they were the martyrs necessary to save the world. They had done their duty.
Jeros. Their duty. He would be raised without a mother, but he would be alive and would have the blood of Maxim running in his veins, the blade clutched feverishly in Maxim’s hands someday, somehow, passing onto him as well. Humanity had survived the test-they had offspring and they had defeated the Sinistrals, but she couldn’t let it end like this.
With strength she didn’t know she had, she dragged her mortally wounded body over to Maxim, wrapping her arms around him, ignoring the sharp pain as bone pierced flesh, just wanting to whisper, “I love you…”
Because that was the way it should end.