[KH Fic] Music Meme 10 + 2
The meme:
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards!
4. Do ten of these, then post them.
Unfortunately, I miscounted and did eleven. And then a song came on and my muse went "WRITE. NOW." So, there's twelve here.
Also, please note that some of the lines/words/phrases are taken directly from the song, and while I've tried to follow the theme of each song, I wasn't very successful for all of them.
Title: Ivory
Characters/Pairings: Sora, Naminé
Word Count: 45 words No, I'm not kidding. D:
Rating: PG
Summary: After everyone else leaves, Naminé remains with Sora, fixing her mistake.
1. Song - "Ivory" by Helen Trevillion
Naminé smiles to herself, wraps herself in her ivory and rewrites Sora from the base. Here is where she belongs; white and white and silent, but it is just right for drawing and penciling in the past that happened and should not have been forgotten.
Title: So Close, But
Characters/Pairings: onesided Repliku/Naminé
Word Count: 91 words
Rating: PG
Summary: In the end, he was ready for a relationship and she was ready to leave.
2. "Tortured, Tangled Hearts" by Dixie Chicks
He thought they were It. He thought they’d be Together Forever. He’d thought, he’d thought, he’d thought-
Then she tore it all up, tore It up and suddenly he realized that it was a broken dream from the start.
They had almost made it. They had almost been Together Forever. They were almost at that altar, everything was ready, he would have taken her away from here and they could be together and- and-
It didn’t work. It didn’t. She destroyed it, and he was left with a tortured, tangled heart.
Title: Reflections on the Misunderstood
Characters/Pairings: Riku, Naminé, Roxas, Sora
Word Count: 129 words
Rating: PG
Summary: Riku and Sora on the Nobodies in their lives; sometimes, you need to reflect on things to understand what you already knew.
3. "Devil in the Wishing Well" by Five for Fighting
Riku talked to Naminé, talked and talked and talked to her until he felt that he understood her, because he thought that it was important to understand her.
He felt it was important to understand Roxas, too, but even with Naminé explaining and explaining things to him, he doesn’t get it.
“The devil in the wishing well,” she calls him, with that enigmatic smile.
Sora talks and talks and listens and doesn’t understand Naminé at all, but he understands the devil in the bottom of the wishing well because he’s talked to him, though it’ll be a while before he actually realizes that he understands.
Riku talks to Sora and together they talk about Roxas and Naminé and Axel and Organization XIII and Kingdom Hearts and finally they understand.
Title: In the Moment
Characters/Pairings: Kairi, Riku, Sora
Word Count: 152 words
Rating: PG
Summary: The difference between denial and mourning is the ability to say goodbye.
4. "4 AM Forever" by LostProphets
Riku tries and tries to get his body but he can’t reach Sora he can’t he can’t and Sora was there just a second ago and now he’s not and-!
Kairi’s there and he tells her to run because that’s all he can do, but Sora’s gone and Sora’s gone and Sora where ARE you where are you where are you Sora?
Kairi runs and runs and cries and thinks about how easily Sora slipped from her grasp and how he’s not here and he’s not here and where is he, he can’t be gone, can he? She needs him!
They stay locked in that minute, Riku and Kairi, locked in the seconds before Sora was gone because it’s not real, it can’t be, he doesn’t hear them calling because he’s around, he’s not gone, he’s not de-
Kairi cries goodbye and Riku screams goodbye and Sora smiles and slips away.
Title: Coulda Been Her
Characters/Pairings: Yuffie, slight Leon, Aerith, Cid
Word Count: 154 words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Even if it won't solve the problem, Yuffie wants to help the people whose lives suck.
5. "Youth of the Nation" by P.O.D.
Yuffie frowns and leans over the table. “Any new ones?”
“There are always new ones,” Leon tells her. Aerith sighs.
“One died today.”
Yuffie curses, which earns her a dirty look from Cid and sharp looks from Leon and Aerith, but she doesn’t care. “How - how’d they die?”
“Killed.”
“Oh.”
“Not the Heartless.”
Yuffie swears again, eyes bright and mouth grim, and she stands up. “I’m going out.”
They let her; they know where she’s going. Down to the dregs, to find some suicide-case, some poor abused kid, to take care of for a little while. Even she knows, however, that it won’t help.
The youth of the worlds is claimed, year after year after fucking year, by tragedy and Heartless and sheer human stupidity. It’s a pity, but they’re raising them like that.
Yuffie cusses and kills and steals, and they all know that maybe, one of those sob-stories could have been her.
Title: Friends and Family
Characters/Pairings: Sora, Selphie, Tidus, Wakka; mentioned Riku/Kairi
Word Count: 71 words
Rating: PG
Summary: It's a brother and sister kinda thang.
6. "Me and My Gang" by Rascal Flatts
Selphie laughed and Tidus laughed and Wakka laughed and Sora laughed. Everyone laughed. They sped down the highway, revving their engines loudly. Sora did a wheelie that Riku - three hundred miles west of here, settled down with his sweetheart Kairi to teach her motorcycle tricks - taught him last year.
This was their gang, roving the roads. Their gang, their family; their home was anywhere they wanted, and life was their game.
Title: How to Lose Like a Hero (or a Really Big Pain in the Ass)
Characters/Pairings: Roxas, Riku
Word Count: 143 words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: This isn't the last fight, but it'll give it his best shot.
7. "Until the End" by Breaking Benjamin
Roxas groans and rolls and sweats. He pushes hair out of his eyes and tries to see around swirling darkness.
Riku can’t see. Riku is here and then there and Roxas is losing. He grits his teeth, cuts through a Heartless and swings behind him as Riku takes a shot at his back, the creeping bastard.
He considers surrender, but throws that away. He can’t win, he knows that, not with the stink of darkness rolling off of Riku in waves, so why make it easy? He has to go on until the end, to prove to himself that he’s good enough and to prove to Riku that he’s good enough and to prove to Axel that he can and will fight to the end.
It’s not enough, but it’s something, and he smirks and glares at Riku. The final fight?
He’ll win.
Title: Out with the Old
Characters/Pairings: Leon, Cloud, Sora
Word Count: 110 words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Make way, make way for the new generation -- and get your lawn out from under our feet.
8. "Red Flag" by Billy Talent
Fighting isn’t the same. It used to be, you grab some buddies and kill shit. Sometimes the shit hurt you bad, but shit never killed you. Phoenix Downs and Potions could patch anything up.
Then Phoenix Downs went out of style and Heartless moved in and suddenly, suddenly, all the kids are fighting for their, the elders’, mistakes, fighting these creatures that the kids have grown up with.
Leon grunts and sits down next to Cloud, watching Sora and Riku and Kairi.
“I hate them,” Cloud remarks, no bite in it. He doesn’t mean it. None of them do.
“I hate today,” Leon corrects, and Cloud nods and they grunt.
Title: Someone to Look Up To (You)
Characters/Pairings: onesided Repliku/Naminé, Naminé/Sora
Word Count: 174 words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It takes a while, but he realizes something: he means nothing to her.
9. "The Little Things Give You Away" by Linkin Park
Riku stares into the basin of water, frowns.
Naminé tilts her head. “Do you see anything in it?”
He sees waves crashing and a girl on the beach. She is not Naminé.
“No,” he tells Naminé.
**
“I’m drawing Sora,” she says, smiling. “Do you want me to draw you next?”
A dog begging for crumbs. “Only if you want to.”
She shrugs. “All right then. Tell me if you do.”
**
He shakes his head, frowning. Everything is clear; his memory is decidedly blank.
He looks around for Naminé - Naminé who? - and can’t find her. He looks around for Riku and Sora and the other girl - Riku’s Kairi - for good measure.
None of them are here. He frowns, thinking, and remembers a tidal wave.
Maybe I’m the flotsam, he thinks, and frowns.
**
She makes a promise to Sora and he watches her. She will repair Sora’s memory.
She can do nothing for his.
He turns and walks away, for good this time. He will not come back where he is not wanted.
Title: Heartbreak
Characters/Pairings: onesided Repliku/Naminé
Word Count: 96 words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It's not just the act itself, but the betrayal in it that breaks him.
10. "This is How a Heart Breaks" by Rob Thomas
He collapses onto the floor, eyes awake-wide but mind numb and heart torn and he can’t take any more hits.
Larxene throws him and he shudders, unnoticed.
He remembers what Naminé used to be like, shy and quiet and kind, but this isn’t her and suddenly he knows that she is no different from the other Nobodies, and the realization is almost worse than the pain, the throb-throb-ache that’s steady as the beat in his chest and pulse of blood in his body.
She has no beat, no blood, no heart to break, but he does.
Title: Relationships
Characters/Pairings: Olette/Seifer
Word Count: 105 words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: And that is why the girls are crying and the boys are masturbating.
11. "Shores of California" by Dresden Dolls
Seifer tries to peel off her capris; Olette smacks him.
“You said you’d take me out.”
“We are out.”
He smirks and she snorts and before he knows it she’s stomping off and then he shouts at her.
Olette tells Hayner that she just wants to dance for once; he makes sympathetic sounds and pats her shoulder, very uncomfortable.
Seifer rails at Rai. All he wanted was her! He didn’t do slow shit like dates and dancing; he was serious about her and he wanted to prove that in bed. How could she not get that?! Rai says something soothing and Fuu rolls her eyes.
Title: Recipe for a Replica
Characters/Pairings: Repliku
Word Count: 105 words
Rating: PG
Summary: He's part this and part that and none of him is himself.
12. "Remember the Name" by Fort Minor feat. Styles Of Beyond
He’s fifty percent Riku (hair and build and eyes, oh the eyes that stare straight to the soul) and fifty percent Vexen (attitude and darkness and greedy, scientific and arrogant, it’s all in the walk).
Five percent Sora (loyalty) and ten percent Naminé (memories and smiles) and twenty-five percent Axel (smirk and laugh and sneer) and still sixty percent Riku (he flips his hair a little and grins and says something dorky; Naminé smiles back at him, a true smile).
He’s all these people and it takes him fighting and fighting and losing to realize that people cannot make a person; he’s one-hundred-percent fake; nothing.
Crossposted to my IJ.
1. Pick a character, pairing, or fandom you like.
2. Turn on your music player and put it on random/shuffle.
3. Write a drabble related to each song that plays. You only have the time frame of the song to finish the drabble; you start when the song starts, and stop when it's over. No lingering afterwards!
4. Do ten of these, then post them.
Unfortunately, I miscounted and did eleven. And then a song came on and my muse went "WRITE. NOW." So, there's twelve here.
Also, please note that some of the lines/words/phrases are taken directly from the song, and while I've tried to follow the theme of each song, I wasn't very successful for all of them.
Title: Ivory
Characters/Pairings: Sora, Naminé
Word Count: 45 words No, I'm not kidding. D:
Rating: PG
Summary: After everyone else leaves, Naminé remains with Sora, fixing her mistake.
1. Song - "Ivory" by Helen Trevillion
Naminé smiles to herself, wraps herself in her ivory and rewrites Sora from the base. Here is where she belongs; white and white and silent, but it is just right for drawing and penciling in the past that happened and should not have been forgotten.
Title: So Close, But
Characters/Pairings: onesided Repliku/Naminé
Word Count: 91 words
Rating: PG
Summary: In the end, he was ready for a relationship and she was ready to leave.
2. "Tortured, Tangled Hearts" by Dixie Chicks
He thought they were It. He thought they’d be Together Forever. He’d thought, he’d thought, he’d thought-
Then she tore it all up, tore It up and suddenly he realized that it was a broken dream from the start.
They had almost made it. They had almost been Together Forever. They were almost at that altar, everything was ready, he would have taken her away from here and they could be together and- and-
It didn’t work. It didn’t. She destroyed it, and he was left with a tortured, tangled heart.
Title: Reflections on the Misunderstood
Characters/Pairings: Riku, Naminé, Roxas, Sora
Word Count: 129 words
Rating: PG
Summary: Riku and Sora on the Nobodies in their lives; sometimes, you need to reflect on things to understand what you already knew.
3. "Devil in the Wishing Well" by Five for Fighting
Riku talked to Naminé, talked and talked and talked to her until he felt that he understood her, because he thought that it was important to understand her.
He felt it was important to understand Roxas, too, but even with Naminé explaining and explaining things to him, he doesn’t get it.
“The devil in the wishing well,” she calls him, with that enigmatic smile.
Sora talks and talks and listens and doesn’t understand Naminé at all, but he understands the devil in the bottom of the wishing well because he’s talked to him, though it’ll be a while before he actually realizes that he understands.
Riku talks to Sora and together they talk about Roxas and Naminé and Axel and Organization XIII and Kingdom Hearts and finally they understand.
Title: In the Moment
Characters/Pairings: Kairi, Riku, Sora
Word Count: 152 words
Rating: PG
Summary: The difference between denial and mourning is the ability to say goodbye.
4. "4 AM Forever" by LostProphets
Riku tries and tries to get his body but he can’t reach Sora he can’t he can’t and Sora was there just a second ago and now he’s not and-!
Kairi’s there and he tells her to run because that’s all he can do, but Sora’s gone and Sora’s gone and Sora where ARE you where are you where are you Sora?
Kairi runs and runs and cries and thinks about how easily Sora slipped from her grasp and how he’s not here and he’s not here and where is he, he can’t be gone, can he? She needs him!
They stay locked in that minute, Riku and Kairi, locked in the seconds before Sora was gone because it’s not real, it can’t be, he doesn’t hear them calling because he’s around, he’s not gone, he’s not de-
Kairi cries goodbye and Riku screams goodbye and Sora smiles and slips away.
Title: Coulda Been Her
Characters/Pairings: Yuffie, slight Leon, Aerith, Cid
Word Count: 154 words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Even if it won't solve the problem, Yuffie wants to help the people whose lives suck.
5. "Youth of the Nation" by P.O.D.
Yuffie frowns and leans over the table. “Any new ones?”
“There are always new ones,” Leon tells her. Aerith sighs.
“One died today.”
Yuffie curses, which earns her a dirty look from Cid and sharp looks from Leon and Aerith, but she doesn’t care. “How - how’d they die?”
“Killed.”
“Oh.”
“Not the Heartless.”
Yuffie swears again, eyes bright and mouth grim, and she stands up. “I’m going out.”
They let her; they know where she’s going. Down to the dregs, to find some suicide-case, some poor abused kid, to take care of for a little while. Even she knows, however, that it won’t help.
The youth of the worlds is claimed, year after year after fucking year, by tragedy and Heartless and sheer human stupidity. It’s a pity, but they’re raising them like that.
Yuffie cusses and kills and steals, and they all know that maybe, one of those sob-stories could have been her.
Title: Friends and Family
Characters/Pairings: Sora, Selphie, Tidus, Wakka; mentioned Riku/Kairi
Word Count: 71 words
Rating: PG
Summary: It's a brother and sister kinda thang.
6. "Me and My Gang" by Rascal Flatts
Selphie laughed and Tidus laughed and Wakka laughed and Sora laughed. Everyone laughed. They sped down the highway, revving their engines loudly. Sora did a wheelie that Riku - three hundred miles west of here, settled down with his sweetheart Kairi to teach her motorcycle tricks - taught him last year.
This was their gang, roving the roads. Their gang, their family; their home was anywhere they wanted, and life was their game.
Title: How to Lose Like a Hero (or a Really Big Pain in the Ass)
Characters/Pairings: Roxas, Riku
Word Count: 143 words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: This isn't the last fight, but it'll give it his best shot.
7. "Until the End" by Breaking Benjamin
Roxas groans and rolls and sweats. He pushes hair out of his eyes and tries to see around swirling darkness.
Riku can’t see. Riku is here and then there and Roxas is losing. He grits his teeth, cuts through a Heartless and swings behind him as Riku takes a shot at his back, the creeping bastard.
He considers surrender, but throws that away. He can’t win, he knows that, not with the stink of darkness rolling off of Riku in waves, so why make it easy? He has to go on until the end, to prove to himself that he’s good enough and to prove to Riku that he’s good enough and to prove to Axel that he can and will fight to the end.
It’s not enough, but it’s something, and he smirks and glares at Riku. The final fight?
He’ll win.
Title: Out with the Old
Characters/Pairings: Leon, Cloud, Sora
Word Count: 110 words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Make way, make way for the new generation -- and get your lawn out from under our feet.
8. "Red Flag" by Billy Talent
Fighting isn’t the same. It used to be, you grab some buddies and kill shit. Sometimes the shit hurt you bad, but shit never killed you. Phoenix Downs and Potions could patch anything up.
Then Phoenix Downs went out of style and Heartless moved in and suddenly, suddenly, all the kids are fighting for their, the elders’, mistakes, fighting these creatures that the kids have grown up with.
Leon grunts and sits down next to Cloud, watching Sora and Riku and Kairi.
“I hate them,” Cloud remarks, no bite in it. He doesn’t mean it. None of them do.
“I hate today,” Leon corrects, and Cloud nods and they grunt.
Title: Someone to Look Up To (You)
Characters/Pairings: onesided Repliku/Naminé, Naminé/Sora
Word Count: 174 words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It takes a while, but he realizes something: he means nothing to her.
9. "The Little Things Give You Away" by Linkin Park
Riku stares into the basin of water, frowns.
Naminé tilts her head. “Do you see anything in it?”
He sees waves crashing and a girl on the beach. She is not Naminé.
“No,” he tells Naminé.
**
“I’m drawing Sora,” she says, smiling. “Do you want me to draw you next?”
A dog begging for crumbs. “Only if you want to.”
She shrugs. “All right then. Tell me if you do.”
**
He shakes his head, frowning. Everything is clear; his memory is decidedly blank.
He looks around for Naminé - Naminé who? - and can’t find her. He looks around for Riku and Sora and the other girl - Riku’s Kairi - for good measure.
None of them are here. He frowns, thinking, and remembers a tidal wave.
Maybe I’m the flotsam, he thinks, and frowns.
**
She makes a promise to Sora and he watches her. She will repair Sora’s memory.
She can do nothing for his.
He turns and walks away, for good this time. He will not come back where he is not wanted.
Title: Heartbreak
Characters/Pairings: onesided Repliku/Naminé
Word Count: 96 words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: It's not just the act itself, but the betrayal in it that breaks him.
10. "This is How a Heart Breaks" by Rob Thomas
He collapses onto the floor, eyes awake-wide but mind numb and heart torn and he can’t take any more hits.
Larxene throws him and he shudders, unnoticed.
He remembers what Naminé used to be like, shy and quiet and kind, but this isn’t her and suddenly he knows that she is no different from the other Nobodies, and the realization is almost worse than the pain, the throb-throb-ache that’s steady as the beat in his chest and pulse of blood in his body.
She has no beat, no blood, no heart to break, but he does.
Title: Relationships
Characters/Pairings: Olette/Seifer
Word Count: 105 words
Rating: PG-13
Summary: And that is why the girls are crying and the boys are masturbating.
11. "Shores of California" by Dresden Dolls
Seifer tries to peel off her capris; Olette smacks him.
“You said you’d take me out.”
“We are out.”
He smirks and she snorts and before he knows it she’s stomping off and then he shouts at her.
Olette tells Hayner that she just wants to dance for once; he makes sympathetic sounds and pats her shoulder, very uncomfortable.
Seifer rails at Rai. All he wanted was her! He didn’t do slow shit like dates and dancing; he was serious about her and he wanted to prove that in bed. How could she not get that?! Rai says something soothing and Fuu rolls her eyes.
Title: Recipe for a Replica
Characters/Pairings: Repliku
Word Count: 105 words
Rating: PG
Summary: He's part this and part that and none of him is himself.
12. "Remember the Name" by Fort Minor feat. Styles Of Beyond
He’s fifty percent Riku (hair and build and eyes, oh the eyes that stare straight to the soul) and fifty percent Vexen (attitude and darkness and greedy, scientific and arrogant, it’s all in the walk).
Five percent Sora (loyalty) and ten percent Naminé (memories and smiles) and twenty-five percent Axel (smirk and laugh and sneer) and still sixty percent Riku (he flips his hair a little and grins and says something dorky; Naminé smiles back at him, a true smile).
He’s all these people and it takes him fighting and fighting and losing to realize that people cannot make a person; he’s one-hundred-percent fake; nothing.
Crossposted to my IJ.