(no subject)
Missed deadline. Gah. May's well finish the piece. Might be other things I could look into.
Hasn't exactly been tops today. I'm… okay, I guess. Probably do some fury pieces, I suppose. And chocobos. And fanart for things. And critters. Whee?
Title: On Route
Day/Theme: May 21- Home Is. Run. No. More.
Series: Seiken Densetsu 3
Character/Pairing: Hawk/Lise
Rating: G
Notes: Post-game- mention of spoilers. (Also, ♥)
The Tree was gone, but so was the Dark Prince, and that was some relief. No replacement for the loss of Mana, of course, but that just meant that they’d have to find a way to work around it, and there was the promise the faerie’d given them that someday it would return.
Right now, though, Hawk was just really hoping that Flammie wasn’t reliant enough on Mana to suddenly drop out of the sky while carrying them back from the Holy Land.
Lise noticed, or possibly she assumed- in some ways, she was a very sharp sort of girl, especially in a fight- and patted him on the shoulder. “Don’t worry,” she said, giving him a bright smile he caught the edge of, “the legends never said anything about the Father of the Winged Ones- or his relatives,” she added, stroking the closest part of Flammie’s fur, “suddenly disappearing.”
“Really?” Hawk said, as he tried not to clasp onto Flammie too tightly. “I don’t suppose it was because they might’ve been on them when they did?”
Lise shook her head, and smiled again. “She’s young, I’m sure she’ll adapt. We’ll do our best to make sure she does.”
“Oh?” Hawk glanced back, grinning. “Thinking of keeping an eye on Navarre?”
He couldn’t have sworn to it- it might’ve only been the wind rushing past- but he thought he saw a flush on Lise’s cheeks. “Maybe,” she said softly, and Hawk turned back and grinned into the wind.
Title: Music and Meaning
Day/Theme: May 24- just an earthbound misfit, I
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: Dahy
Rating: G
Notes: So, he likes: Midnight Oil, The Church, and The Beatles.
Dahy took the guitar out of its case and settled on the lounge. He strummed a few notes, and adjusted the strings accordingly. He hadn’t played this in a while, but he wasn’t in the mood to cook or knit tonight, and he was sick of thinking about what the future could hold, so music seemed like a good alternative.
He started with some upbeat pieces, but he didn’t tend to connect well with those, and stopped after playing through a few. He thought for a few moments, tapping the bridge, and reached over for some sheets of music. He didn’t often play this piece, mostly out of a mild fear that someone would work out why he liked it, but he was fond of it, though not all of the rest of the artists’ work.
He arranged the sheets of music so that he could see them all, and started. “Here comes the sun…”
Title: Thoughts
Day/Theme: May 25- May dangers create of us heroes
Series: Seiken Densetsu 3
Character/Pairing: Hawk
Rating: G
Running away was part of a thief’s repertoire, of course, but it wasn’t often called that, and generally it was a lot more successful than this, which felt rather… lacking, among other things. Hawk’d hardly had anything to take with him, aside from the things Nikita had given him, the things he’d taken from the ninjas who’d attacked him and Nikita’s well wishes. And he had his head and everything in it, of course, which was good in a way, but not entirely- the trip was too long and the boat too small to keep him from thinking about Navarre, and what had gone wrong.
He tried to think about the future instead.
Title: Dealing With a Parasite
Day/Theme: May 26- Sift the human storm
Series: Chrono Trigger
Character/Pairing: The world, Lavos
Rating: G
Notes: Headcanon which does not go with theology, whee! (Campfire experience = something to poke at a lot.)
Of all the people in the world, there was any number who might have been able to get started on helping the world out of the situation it was in. The trouble was that circumstances often prevented the best people coming to its aid- generally troubles in that specific time that had to be dealt with, or there’d be more trouble along the line- which was fine as far as maintaining problems at a sustainable level went, but as it went on and on, the world grew rather exasperated, and suspected that Lavos was doing this deliberately. It was a fairly unlikely situation, to be sure, but given that Lavos was an energy-stealing parasite of the highest degree, the world felt entirely justified in laying the problems with dealing with Lavos at its… whatever it had.
Finding people who could be the heroes it wanted so dearly also gave the world a rush of anticipation, and it did it best to make sure that they had the best chance they could have. Perhaps it was less than optimal, but something was always better than nothing, except in the case of parasites.
Title: On Quiet Starlit Nights
Day/Theme: May 28- Under the stars and smaller than men
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: A species of bird
Rating: G
Notes: Possibly not absolutely accurate. …Which is probably only important if you know what they're supposed to be.
It is on quiet nights such as this that they come out, creeping slowly and silently, glancing each way as they go. If they see anything unusual, or are startled- and they are easy to startle, these birds- they flee back into their cover, and stay there for as long as they feel they need to feel safe again, which may be quite some time. If nothing troubles them, though, they open their wings and take off, dark shapes in a dark sky meeting one another. How they tell that they are with their own kind and not with predators is of some mystery- observers who have studied them for years say that these birds are diurnal- but their predators are also diurnal, and would not dance.
For that is what they do, on these quiet starlit nights, and for that you only need to know that your partner is there and willing.
Hasn't exactly been tops today. I'm… okay, I guess. Probably do some fury pieces, I suppose. And chocobos. And fanart for things. And critters. Whee?
Title: On Route
Day/Theme: May 21- Home Is. Run. No. More.
Series: Seiken Densetsu 3
Character/Pairing: Hawk/Lise
Rating: G
Notes: Post-game- mention of spoilers. (Also, ♥)
The Tree was gone, but so was the Dark Prince, and that was some relief. No replacement for the loss of Mana, of course, but that just meant that they’d have to find a way to work around it, and there was the promise the faerie’d given them that someday it would return.
Right now, though, Hawk was just really hoping that Flammie wasn’t reliant enough on Mana to suddenly drop out of the sky while carrying them back from the Holy Land.
Lise noticed, or possibly she assumed- in some ways, she was a very sharp sort of girl, especially in a fight- and patted him on the shoulder. “Don’t worry,” she said, giving him a bright smile he caught the edge of, “the legends never said anything about the Father of the Winged Ones- or his relatives,” she added, stroking the closest part of Flammie’s fur, “suddenly disappearing.”
“Really?” Hawk said, as he tried not to clasp onto Flammie too tightly. “I don’t suppose it was because they might’ve been on them when they did?”
Lise shook her head, and smiled again. “She’s young, I’m sure she’ll adapt. We’ll do our best to make sure she does.”
“Oh?” Hawk glanced back, grinning. “Thinking of keeping an eye on Navarre?”
He couldn’t have sworn to it- it might’ve only been the wind rushing past- but he thought he saw a flush on Lise’s cheeks. “Maybe,” she said softly, and Hawk turned back and grinned into the wind.
Title: Music and Meaning
Day/Theme: May 24- just an earthbound misfit, I
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: Dahy
Rating: G
Notes: So, he likes: Midnight Oil, The Church, and The Beatles.
Dahy took the guitar out of its case and settled on the lounge. He strummed a few notes, and adjusted the strings accordingly. He hadn’t played this in a while, but he wasn’t in the mood to cook or knit tonight, and he was sick of thinking about what the future could hold, so music seemed like a good alternative.
He started with some upbeat pieces, but he didn’t tend to connect well with those, and stopped after playing through a few. He thought for a few moments, tapping the bridge, and reached over for some sheets of music. He didn’t often play this piece, mostly out of a mild fear that someone would work out why he liked it, but he was fond of it, though not all of the rest of the artists’ work.
He arranged the sheets of music so that he could see them all, and started. “Here comes the sun…”
Title: Thoughts
Day/Theme: May 25- May dangers create of us heroes
Series: Seiken Densetsu 3
Character/Pairing: Hawk
Rating: G
Running away was part of a thief’s repertoire, of course, but it wasn’t often called that, and generally it was a lot more successful than this, which felt rather… lacking, among other things. Hawk’d hardly had anything to take with him, aside from the things Nikita had given him, the things he’d taken from the ninjas who’d attacked him and Nikita’s well wishes. And he had his head and everything in it, of course, which was good in a way, but not entirely- the trip was too long and the boat too small to keep him from thinking about Navarre, and what had gone wrong.
He tried to think about the future instead.
Title: Dealing With a Parasite
Day/Theme: May 26- Sift the human storm
Series: Chrono Trigger
Character/Pairing: The world, Lavos
Rating: G
Notes: Headcanon which does not go with theology, whee! (Campfire experience = something to poke at a lot.)
Of all the people in the world, there was any number who might have been able to get started on helping the world out of the situation it was in. The trouble was that circumstances often prevented the best people coming to its aid- generally troubles in that specific time that had to be dealt with, or there’d be more trouble along the line- which was fine as far as maintaining problems at a sustainable level went, but as it went on and on, the world grew rather exasperated, and suspected that Lavos was doing this deliberately. It was a fairly unlikely situation, to be sure, but given that Lavos was an energy-stealing parasite of the highest degree, the world felt entirely justified in laying the problems with dealing with Lavos at its… whatever it had.
Finding people who could be the heroes it wanted so dearly also gave the world a rush of anticipation, and it did it best to make sure that they had the best chance they could have. Perhaps it was less than optimal, but something was always better than nothing, except in the case of parasites.
Title: On Quiet Starlit Nights
Day/Theme: May 28- Under the stars and smaller than men
Series: Original
Character/Pairing: A species of bird
Rating: G
Notes: Possibly not absolutely accurate. …Which is probably only important if you know what they're supposed to be.
It is on quiet nights such as this that they come out, creeping slowly and silently, glancing each way as they go. If they see anything unusual, or are startled- and they are easy to startle, these birds- they flee back into their cover, and stay there for as long as they feel they need to feel safe again, which may be quite some time. If nothing troubles them, though, they open their wings and take off, dark shapes in a dark sky meeting one another. How they tell that they are with their own kind and not with predators is of some mystery- observers who have studied them for years say that these birds are diurnal- but their predators are also diurnal, and would not dance.
For that is what they do, on these quiet starlit nights, and for that you only need to know that your partner is there and willing.