Buffyverse Original Character inspired by a poem posted by Makd
Hi,
as the heading says the original character I created was inspired by reading a poem posted by Makd on her lj. That poem was this one. And reading that inspired the drabble and the character below that.
Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
From And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou. Copyright © 1978 by Maya Angelou. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. For online information about other Random House, Inc. books and authors, visit the website at www.randomhouse.com. - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15623#sthash.iOtsWcFd.dpuf
Title: Chattel
Author: kerkevik
Fandom: BtVS (pre-series)
Word Count: 100
A/N: a) Chattel slavery, also called traditional slavery, is so named because people are treated as the personal property (chattel) of an owner and are bought and sold as if they were commodities. It is the original form of slavery and the least prevalent form of slavery today.[8]
b) Louisiana became a U.S. State on April 30, 1812 and on December 10, 1817, Mississippi was the 20th state admitted to the Union.
c) This would have been the US flag at the time of this drabble.
Chattel born and lived.
She was valued less than a hound when sold in Mississippi, just before it became a state.
She wouldn't have known her mother from any other woman in the fields.
If not for her watcher she'd not have known her father.
Or that she had been born in Louisiana, just before it became a state.
He had owned her mother before her, and used them both in the same way.
But he wasn't a vampire; he was Human.
And she was Human; not a monster.
So she left him lying there.
Chattel she would not die.
Goddess watch over us all,
'tis ok to be Takei,
Ray.
as the heading says the original character I created was inspired by reading a poem posted by Makd on her lj. That poem was this one. And reading that inspired the drabble and the character below that.
Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
From And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou. Copyright © 1978 by Maya Angelou. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc. For online information about other Random House, Inc. books and authors, visit the website at www.randomhouse.com. - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15623#sthash.iOtsWcFd.dpuf
Title: Chattel
Author: kerkevik
Fandom: BtVS (pre-series)
Word Count: 100
A/N: a) Chattel slavery, also called traditional slavery, is so named because people are treated as the personal property (chattel) of an owner and are bought and sold as if they were commodities. It is the original form of slavery and the least prevalent form of slavery today.[8]
b) Louisiana became a U.S. State on April 30, 1812 and on December 10, 1817, Mississippi was the 20th state admitted to the Union.
c) This would have been the US flag at the time of this drabble.
Chattel born and lived.
She was valued less than a hound when sold in Mississippi, just before it became a state.
She wouldn't have known her mother from any other woman in the fields.
If not for her watcher she'd not have known her father.
Or that she had been born in Louisiana, just before it became a state.
He had owned her mother before her, and used them both in the same way.
But he wasn't a vampire; he was Human.
And she was Human; not a monster.
So she left him lying there.
Chattel she would not die.
Goddess watch over us all,
'tis ok to be Takei,
Ray.