Because I'm hella bored and can't focus on anything else right now
Ganked from suzukiblu:
Give me a character or pairing and I will write snippets of ten different alternate universe for it. One line, ten lines, a ficlet if you're lucky. 1. wild west ( Read more... )
Give me a character or pairing and I will write snippets of ten different alternate universe for it. One line, ten lines, a ficlet if you're lucky. 1. wild west ( Read more... )
Why his son-in-law thought a vacation to the middle of a desert was a good idea... Well, Pakku never had been sure how much Hakoda actually got from his mother, and how much he got from whatever Southern fool had been his father.
Pakku had offered to pay for a trip to Hawaii. He had more than enough money and little use for it beyond lavishing on his not-grandchildren. But no, Hakoda had put his foot down on the matter. They were going to Las Vegas. It would be an experience.
It was shaping up to be quite the experience, Pakku thought darkly. He'd run into Iroh while they were getting settled into their hotel. The old bastard had invited him to a 'friendly' card game.
Pakku recognized the name of the exclusive high-rollers poker lounge of the Fire Palace Casino.
He wondered if Iroh had forgotten that they had never been friends.
2. cyberpunk
"I can't help you," S0KK4 said, nursing fake burns across the facade of skin. It/he looked frayed around the edges, as if maintaining his/its human appearance took too much effort.
"Who can?" Zuko demanded.
"Well. That depends on how much you're willing to pay."
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Zuko had never, ever gone this deep into the 'Net before. People who did tended not to disconnect, and their bodies starved. This was program-space, if space even meant anything in the 'Net.
He activated the 'beacon' S0KK4 had given him. The bit of code went off, distinctive against Zuko's perceptions. He hoped it was just as distinctive to the programs and only the one he wanted would come.
Ice-cold pressure closed around him, and Zuko gasped as his connection bobbled. For a moment, he was both in his body and in the 'Net, then he snapped back into the 'Net-
In a simulacrum. It was sketchy, an idea of shapes like the program only understood the idea of rooms in theory.
S0KK4requestedassistyouwhywhoareyoutakedownshieldsstophiding-
Zuko shrieked as information fed itself directly into him, and frantically thought the 'safeword' that would disconnect him.
He felt himself fading, then a jerk went through him. Ice closed thick and terrible, heavy as drowning, and Zuko was drawn back down. The program held him in connection with the Net.
Then Zuko discovered was a mistake the attempted disconnect was as the program pushed through into Zuko's own systems.
FIRE.
3. furries
"Aren't otters supposed to be friendly?" The salamander asked, skin glistening orange and red.
Pakku bared his teeth again, his ears already folded back. "We don't all mug for cameras like loons."
"Now most loons I've met," the salamander began, then Pakku iced up his tail. The shriek was gratifying.
4. pirates
Pakku bit into the apple. For the first time in a very long, long time, the tart tang of it hit his tongue.
He smiled at the assembled children and the sea-witch. "So, tell me. What's become of my ship?"
5. ...in SPACE!!
"As a company employee, you are obligated to-" the off-world officer babbles on as Pakku hitches his dogs to the sled.
He ignores the man, stroking the fur of each of his dogs, using their presence to keep his own temper in check. His lead dog Batu rumbles under his hands.
Don't like, hurt, tear out his hamstrings-
"No," he says softly. "Not today."
Sokka is off-planet still. He is not risking Katara's brother unnecessarily. But he will also not assist the company in their attempts to kill people. Not that they think of it that way, but none of them listen when he tells them they're fools to think Petaybee is only rock and ice.
"No?" The company man says, beginning to sound angry.
Pakku lifts his eyes to the man, and the man takes a step back. "No," Pakku repeats. "I will lead a search-and-rescue team when you lose this bunch of scientists. I will not lead them out to their coordinates. Find someone else to guide them to these 'mineral deposits'."
The scorn in his voice is clear, and the man leaves shaking with fury.
Pakku strokes Batu. "We need to check the trapline."
It'll take them out for a few days, and days can stretch to weeks if Pakku is careful. Long enough to miss another attempt by the company to pick him up for questioning.
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Pakka clenched her fists. Ice sparkled in her dark hair, filmed over her skin. "I'm going to learn to fight," she hissed, "And you can't stop me."
7. schoolfic
"Hey, chief!" One of the pale-skinned, gold-eyed boys called, then yanked hard on Pakku's ponytail, pulling the leather tie off entirely.
One of the other boys gave an "Indian" war-whoop, and the whole group of them roared with laughter.
Pakku knelt and picked up the leather tie, pulled his hair back, and retied his ponytail. Then he looked at the boy who had actually touched him. The boy blinked, something like fear appearing in his eyes, then Pakku punched-
He was gratified to hear the boy's nose break under his fist.
8. police/firefighters
"Fog setting?" One of the younger members of his crew asked tersely, already adjusting the spray setting on the hose nozzle.
"Don't be a damn fool," Pakku snapped. He glared at the raging apartment fire in lieu of glaring at his crew. "If you throw that wide a water spray on there right now, the steam will kill the firefighters inside."
9. urban fantasy
Mai woke up in Katara's bedroom. Around here, she could hear the running of water and the soft playing of the violin.
She shivered and pulled the blankets tight around her. "She wouldn't like it if you were here."
The violin broke off. "You brought back the black sword."
"Yes." She licked her lips, glad the stromkarl hadn't continued to play. His music enchanted women and children, fae and human alike, and she'd have followed him into the water to hear more of it.
"Fool of a girl," he said harshly. The stromkarl sat on the edge of the bed, and one icy hand seized her by the chin. His features shifted, took on Zuko's face, then someone else entirely. The resemblance to Zuko was pronounced, and without the iron-burn, she could see how purely Tuatha de Danaan they both were.
"You have only met a handful of the Unseelie of New Orleans, and you think you know something about them," the stromkarl hissed, still wearing the Tuatha's face. "You brought back his son. Now the whole of the court will turn out to find that boy, and you gave the most powerful weapon you've ever had to the selkie prince."
"Why are you telling me this?" Mai asked, smothering fear under ice.
An odd smile twisted the stromkarl's face as he shifted back to the one he normally wore. The one she loathed, because it looked too much like-
"You know why," he said, then picked up his violin to play. The bit of ice magic in her flared in response to the music, the perfect music from her grandmother's music box.
She turned away to hide her tears.
10. harem
Firelord Azulon keeps a harem of beauties. Fire Nation ladies, Earth Kingdom ladies. Women with exotic eyes, shapely breasts, glossy hair, sweet breath. Beautiful, beautiful women, most of whom are accepting, if not happy, of being here. Of taking the Firelord's favor as he bestows it, of the wealth and luxury that comes with being one of his chosen.
In the middle of it all, the Water Tribe man scowls and hates.
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And another random note, I first read that Pakka is Pappa. I was having a gigglefit of my life. Why? Pappa is a finnish word for grandpa.
The urban fantasy is way to cool to be real. I love it how you link all of these together.
You have me failing around like an idiot but that's nothing new. ^^
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2) Violent computer programming. *strokes the program, if one could.*
3) So vicious, are't you, Pakku? *grins*
4) BARBOSA!PAKKU, BARBOSA!PAKKU. *babbles, loudly*
5) This is very neat. I've seen this same world between you and Pux. *pets Pakku and his bond with his doggies.*
6) Vicious Pakka!
7) ... the boy very much deserved that, yes he did. *strokes poor Pakku, whom school is trying to assimilate? Or just racist boys?*
8) Interesting bit of information.
9) I've got to read more urban fantasy. I enjoy this. *purrs*
10) This verse. *grins* I suspect some of the women in the harem to attempt to play with the handsome Watertoy every once and a while, yes?
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7. Just kids being racist, the way I was imagining it.
8. One of my good friends is a firefighter. I sat her down and talked with her about it last night, which was very enlightening.
9. Charles challenged me to keep all the cyberpunk and urban fantasy ones in the same 'verses. We'll see how that goes.
10. They do! Pakku does not approve.
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