Now, ions. (Which, amusingly enough, have to do with a chara named Ion.)
Title: Transformation
Fandom: Code Geass
Characters/Pairing: Rolo, Nunnally, a bit of Rolo/Nunnally if you squint.
Rating: G
He meets her once before the assignment, a quiet, helpful little girl who can’t see and can’t walk but does her best anyway. He scoffs at her foolishness; does she not realize that she’s just a tool of the empire? He may be in the same position, but at least he is aware of it.
But when she speaks to him briefly, her words are warm and kind, and for once Rolo feels like he’s not being seen as a tool - because she can’t see him at all.
He feels some sort of kinship with her then, a connection of like souls, but this is the last time he sees her, and gradually that feeling ebbs away, pushed aside by the greater of being a person, alive and happy and himself, and when it’s Nunnally’s name that threatens his peace, he finds that any small affection he felt for her has completely mutated into a bone-deep hatred.
Title: Fiction
Fandom: Keisha'ra
Character/Pairing: Marus, Marus/Urban if you squint.
Rating: G
Living was simple, until Urban entered his life. Even though Oliza was the one who made the challenge, Urban was the one who dragged him in by his feathers, even after she’d disappeared.
No, that was unfair. He had been drawn in, drawn by the way Urban’s left eyebrow rose when making a challenge, the quirk of his lips as the words lingered in the air between them. He was absolutely infuriating, and Marus wanted to take him up on those challenges and prove him utterly wrong in his assumptions about avians.
It was almost unreal, how quickly he settled into serpiente life. Not precisely comfortable with his location, of course, but not nearly as out of place as he had expected. He supposed that made it easier when he was permanently thrust into their culture. Or maybe it didn’t. At first, it only seemed like words on a page, describing someone else’s life, someone else’s trials.
But eventually he had to accept that his life wasn’t simple anymore, and that Urban complicated things, twisting the strands of what he’d always perceived as his fate and knotting them up, until the unbroken threads led to a new, unexpected future.
In the end, he couldn’t say he minded.
Title: Replication
Fandom: Tales of the Abyss
Characters/Pairing: Guy, slight mention of Jade/Guy.
Rating: G
Guy sometimes hates Jade, because of who he used to be and not who he is. It’s irrational, to love someone in the present and yet wish more than anything that it would be possible to erase them in the past. But each time they come across a replica, he remembers Ion, and what he suffered; he thinks of Sync, and of Asch’s pain at being replaced, and Luke’s self-recrimination at being nothing more than a cheap fake. They’re cruel fates, and it seems as if all the replication of a person’s soul does is bring pain to them and those around them. And in the end, it is Jade who bears responsibility.
Title:Contribution
Fandom: Tales of the Abyss
Character/Pairing: Iooooooooooooooooooooon. ;_;
Rating: G
Ion is always being protected, coddled and kept out of harm’s way, because he’s too weak to protect the people he cares about. He does what he can when it falls within the scope of his abilities, but even as Fon Master, half of the time he feels like a figurehead, because he’s only a replica and he doesn’t deserve the respect of a real Fon Master. And even then, he can’t keep himself safe, and he makes his friends worry about him once more when he’s kidnapped.
So he reads the Score for Luke, and prays that with this knowledge, Luke and the rest can avoid the cruel fate contained within. There are other replacements for him, other “Ions” that can take his place as a figurehead of Daath, and this is the only thing he can give to them, his friends that have always protected him. And when he pulls Tear’s contaminated fonons into his own body, he ignores their protests, because finally, finally, he can do something for them. And he doesn’t mind dying in the process, because he’d never really lived until he met them, and their lives are more precious than his own.
Title: Exhalation
Fandom: Pita-Ten
Character/Pairing: Shia
Rating: G
Shia has never wanted to hurt anyone. She’s the exact opposite of what a demon should be, and the rest never fail in reminding her of it. She’s too kind, too sweet and generous, and she balks at taking sustenance from anything more than an animal.
She accepts Misha’s kindness without a word of protest, even though living near the angel’s purifying aura is slowly killing her. It’s just another way she is a failure as a demon; she values friendships and the ties of the mortal world more than self-preservation. Every brush of fingers, every accidental touch (and every deliberate one - Misha is a very touchy-feely girl) sends pain shooting up her nerves; still, she smiles softly and ignores it, because what’s important is the time she shares together with them, with Misha and Kotarou and Takashi and Koboshi.
She’s no kind of demon, and yet somehow, as her last words trickle into a sigh, she’s the truest demon of them all - she has smiled her way into all of their hearts, and with her death, she leaves behind more pain than a thousand hurtful demonic tricks.
Fandom: Code Geass
Characters/Pairing: Rolo, Nunnally, a bit of Rolo/Nunnally if you squint.
Rating: G
He meets her once before the assignment, a quiet, helpful little girl who can’t see and can’t walk but does her best anyway. He scoffs at her foolishness; does she not realize that she’s just a tool of the empire? He may be in the same position, but at least he is aware of it.
But when she speaks to him briefly, her words are warm and kind, and for once Rolo feels like he’s not being seen as a tool - because she can’t see him at all.
He feels some sort of kinship with her then, a connection of like souls, but this is the last time he sees her, and gradually that feeling ebbs away, pushed aside by the greater of being a person, alive and happy and himself, and when it’s Nunnally’s name that threatens his peace, he finds that any small affection he felt for her has completely mutated into a bone-deep hatred.
Title: Fiction
Fandom: Keisha'ra
Character/Pairing: Marus, Marus/Urban if you squint.
Rating: G
Living was simple, until Urban entered his life. Even though Oliza was the one who made the challenge, Urban was the one who dragged him in by his feathers, even after she’d disappeared.
No, that was unfair. He had been drawn in, drawn by the way Urban’s left eyebrow rose when making a challenge, the quirk of his lips as the words lingered in the air between them. He was absolutely infuriating, and Marus wanted to take him up on those challenges and prove him utterly wrong in his assumptions about avians.
It was almost unreal, how quickly he settled into serpiente life. Not precisely comfortable with his location, of course, but not nearly as out of place as he had expected. He supposed that made it easier when he was permanently thrust into their culture. Or maybe it didn’t. At first, it only seemed like words on a page, describing someone else’s life, someone else’s trials.
But eventually he had to accept that his life wasn’t simple anymore, and that Urban complicated things, twisting the strands of what he’d always perceived as his fate and knotting them up, until the unbroken threads led to a new, unexpected future.
In the end, he couldn’t say he minded.
Title: Replication
Fandom: Tales of the Abyss
Characters/Pairing: Guy, slight mention of Jade/Guy.
Rating: G
Guy sometimes hates Jade, because of who he used to be and not who he is. It’s irrational, to love someone in the present and yet wish more than anything that it would be possible to erase them in the past. But each time they come across a replica, he remembers Ion, and what he suffered; he thinks of Sync, and of Asch’s pain at being replaced, and Luke’s self-recrimination at being nothing more than a cheap fake. They’re cruel fates, and it seems as if all the replication of a person’s soul does is bring pain to them and those around them. And in the end, it is Jade who bears responsibility.
Title:Contribution
Fandom: Tales of the Abyss
Character/Pairing: Iooooooooooooooooooooon. ;_;
Rating: G
Ion is always being protected, coddled and kept out of harm’s way, because he’s too weak to protect the people he cares about. He does what he can when it falls within the scope of his abilities, but even as Fon Master, half of the time he feels like a figurehead, because he’s only a replica and he doesn’t deserve the respect of a real Fon Master. And even then, he can’t keep himself safe, and he makes his friends worry about him once more when he’s kidnapped.
So he reads the Score for Luke, and prays that with this knowledge, Luke and the rest can avoid the cruel fate contained within. There are other replacements for him, other “Ions” that can take his place as a figurehead of Daath, and this is the only thing he can give to them, his friends that have always protected him. And when he pulls Tear’s contaminated fonons into his own body, he ignores their protests, because finally, finally, he can do something for them. And he doesn’t mind dying in the process, because he’d never really lived until he met them, and their lives are more precious than his own.
Title: Exhalation
Fandom: Pita-Ten
Character/Pairing: Shia
Rating: G
Shia has never wanted to hurt anyone. She’s the exact opposite of what a demon should be, and the rest never fail in reminding her of it. She’s too kind, too sweet and generous, and she balks at taking sustenance from anything more than an animal.
She accepts Misha’s kindness without a word of protest, even though living near the angel’s purifying aura is slowly killing her. It’s just another way she is a failure as a demon; she values friendships and the ties of the mortal world more than self-preservation. Every brush of fingers, every accidental touch (and every deliberate one - Misha is a very touchy-feely girl) sends pain shooting up her nerves; still, she smiles softly and ignores it, because what’s important is the time she shares together with them, with Misha and Kotarou and Takashi and Koboshi.
She’s no kind of demon, and yet somehow, as her last words trickle into a sigh, she’s the truest demon of them all - she has smiled her way into all of their hearts, and with her death, she leaves behind more pain than a thousand hurtful demonic tricks.