Chocolate, sleepiness, and Tales of Symphonia fanfic
I just had chocolate pudding. It was instant, so it wasn't warm, but it was still quite good. ^_^ I had ice cream right before it, too, hahah, so I should be all sugared up, but I'm not. Instead, I am rather sleepy. I tried to fall asleep in history class, but the desk wouldn't let me. (Plus, I saw Jess and Kandra laughing at me. Hahah.) I sort of wish I could have taken a day off like Ben and Annie did, but at this point, I think I can get through a year without missing a day of school. I'm a girl with a mission. :D
Anyway, the good stuff: Tales of Symphonia fanfic, specifically, COLLOYD. Come on, everybody loves Colloyd. (Except the people who hate Colette. Which is a sadly large number. :( For you people, there is a teensy bit of ZelosxSheena in the second.) I signed up for LloydxColette at the 55themes comm. I have to write 55 ficlets within 2 months. This is good for me--I usually don't feel any pressure to write, and having the list of themes makes it easier to get inspiration. :) Anyway, the first two!
Theme #35: Non-stop fighting
Title: Oblivious
(mentioned ZelosxSheena)
and
Theme #55: Suicide
Title: Juliet
(pre-game angst)
Oblivious
“Zelos, you have exactly five seconds to come up with a decent explanation as to why your hand is on my ass.”
“Well, you see, Sheena, that’s really quite a funny story…”
Lloyd sighed and went back to lighting a fire. “Zelos and Sheena never stop fighting. It’s crazy.” He glowered at a particularly stubborn match. “And it’s driving me crazy.”
Colette carried over an absurdly large pile of firewood for a girl her size. “I think they’re in love.”
Lloyd almost dropped his (finally!) lit match on his pants. “What? In LOVE?”
Colette smiled. “Yep!”
“But-but-they’re always fighting! They hate each other!”
Neatly stacking the wood a short but safe distance away, the blonde shrugged. “People express their love in different ways.” She put the last piece on the stack and turned to look him in the eye. “Oftentimes, the person they love doesn’t even realize it.”
She had put an odd emphasis on the last bit. And what’s with the intense stare? Colette never does stuff like that. Huh.
“Or maybe they do, but not consciously,” Colette concluded, sighing.
“Whatever you say, Colette. Whatever you say.”
fin
Juliet
Lloyd was not happy with Professor Raine’s assignment.
“What kind of idiot kills themself just because somebody else is dead? Romeo and Juliet are stupid!”
“I don’t know,” Colette responded quietly. “I think they died for love.” “She set her cup of chocolate milk down at that. “How could you live without someone you loved with all of your heart? How could you not feel you had failed them?”
“What? If they really loved you, they’d want you to live! Duh!”
“But if you would die to save the person you loved, wouldn’t you die to be with them?”
Lloyd poured himself more milk. “Nope. I’d see ‘em again eventually, naturally. No reason to speed things up.” He downed the glass in one gulp. “There’s nothing out there worth killing yourself over. Nothing worth giving up on life. Nothing.”
Colette poured more chocolate into her milk and stirred.
“Sorry.”
fin
“I dreamt my lady came and found me dead-
Strange dream that gives a dead man leave to think-
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips,
That I revived and was an emperor.”
Romeo and Juliet, Act V, Scene 1.
Anyway, the good stuff: Tales of Symphonia fanfic, specifically, COLLOYD. Come on, everybody loves Colloyd. (Except the people who hate Colette. Which is a sadly large number. :( For you people, there is a teensy bit of ZelosxSheena in the second.) I signed up for LloydxColette at the 55themes comm. I have to write 55 ficlets within 2 months. This is good for me--I usually don't feel any pressure to write, and having the list of themes makes it easier to get inspiration. :) Anyway, the first two!
Theme #35: Non-stop fighting
Title: Oblivious
(mentioned ZelosxSheena)
and
Theme #55: Suicide
Title: Juliet
(pre-game angst)
Oblivious
“Zelos, you have exactly five seconds to come up with a decent explanation as to why your hand is on my ass.”
“Well, you see, Sheena, that’s really quite a funny story…”
Lloyd sighed and went back to lighting a fire. “Zelos and Sheena never stop fighting. It’s crazy.” He glowered at a particularly stubborn match. “And it’s driving me crazy.”
Colette carried over an absurdly large pile of firewood for a girl her size. “I think they’re in love.”
Lloyd almost dropped his (finally!) lit match on his pants. “What? In LOVE?”
Colette smiled. “Yep!”
“But-but-they’re always fighting! They hate each other!”
Neatly stacking the wood a short but safe distance away, the blonde shrugged. “People express their love in different ways.” She put the last piece on the stack and turned to look him in the eye. “Oftentimes, the person they love doesn’t even realize it.”
She had put an odd emphasis on the last bit. And what’s with the intense stare? Colette never does stuff like that. Huh.
“Or maybe they do, but not consciously,” Colette concluded, sighing.
“Whatever you say, Colette. Whatever you say.”
fin
Juliet
Lloyd was not happy with Professor Raine’s assignment.
“What kind of idiot kills themself just because somebody else is dead? Romeo and Juliet are stupid!”
“I don’t know,” Colette responded quietly. “I think they died for love.” “She set her cup of chocolate milk down at that. “How could you live without someone you loved with all of your heart? How could you not feel you had failed them?”
“What? If they really loved you, they’d want you to live! Duh!”
“But if you would die to save the person you loved, wouldn’t you die to be with them?”
Lloyd poured himself more milk. “Nope. I’d see ‘em again eventually, naturally. No reason to speed things up.” He downed the glass in one gulp. “There’s nothing out there worth killing yourself over. Nothing worth giving up on life. Nothing.”
Colette poured more chocolate into her milk and stirred.
“Sorry.”
fin
“I dreamt my lady came and found me dead-
Strange dream that gives a dead man leave to think-
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips,
That I revived and was an emperor.”
Romeo and Juliet, Act V, Scene 1.