Methos wasn't sure when he had decided to start marking his birthdays on the new year. It may have been in Rome, or while he was living in Athens, he couldn't remember exactly; but it made it easier to count the years as they passed ( Read more... )

((WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS for Spartacus: Blood and Sand, season 1.))

A middle-aged man of unimpressive stature, dressed in the garments of a successful Roman and drenched in blood, appeared on the floor of the Sorting Room. After a moment, he stood up, looking around. There was supposed to be a river. And a ferryman. And a three-headed dog. But ( Read more... )

It's funny what happens when you have a room that allows you to get anything you want. Funny, as in crazy things happen ( Read more... )

((OOC: In the Skulduggery Pleasant canon, when a person first sees China Sorrows, they fall instantly in love. The ability isn't gender bias, it will affect men and women equally. In addition, within the canon, is the susceptibility to control somone once their name is known. These abilities may or may not affect the characters at Hogwarts if that ( Read more... )

[[OOC: Taken immediately after the Great Seal is performed, but before she loses her memories of the Dark Hour, Shadows, Personas, etc. Uses the semi-canon name Minato Arisato when referring to the Protagonist.]]

( Cut for a scene which might be triggering. )

Where was this? It looked vaguely like The Halls of War, with the stone walls and flaming torches, but the feel was entirely wrong. The energies were completely unfamiliar, in fact, and Discord didn't like that one bit. She was supposed to cause confusion, not suffer from it! She wasn't sure how she'd gotten here (she didn't remember being invited ( Read more... )

It was with no small amount of confusion that Ivan found himself not in the foyer of his house in Moscow, but inside what seemed to be a rather large castle he had never stepped foot in before. His round, childish face scrunched up, he slowly turned around to stare at the door he had just come through. No, that was definitely not his front door. ( Read more... )

She was safe, she was warm, and the whole situation was very much like being asleep. And then with an abrupt pop!, Arya Stark was salty and buttery and very much wide awake ( Read more... )

Yes, I did just rip off Oliver, what of it ( Read more... )

An odd question to start with, but not the strangest one she has ever been asked.  “I love bleu cheese.  It tastes great with fresh fruit.”
2. Who would you kill first, Barney or Carrottop?

Now this one was a definite contender.  “This is strictly hypothetical, I’m assuming?  Then Carrottop.  He’s just irritating.”  Maggie does not mention that ( Read more... )