July Drabble Tag Challenge

[igrockspock]

Welcome to our first community event!

DRABBLE TAG

But what is drabble tag, you ask?

Credit goes to merisunshine36 for these very simple rules:

1. Post between one and four prompts in a single comment box. Your prompts may be het, gen, femslash, poly - anything at all that gives us the opportunity to explore female characters from their own points of view

Comments

[ashen_key]

1) Christine Everheart: A journalist is someone who looks at the world and the way it works, someone who takes a close look at things every day and reports what she sees, someone who represents the world, the event, for others. She cannot do her work without judging what she sees.

2) Betty Ross: In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

3) Peggy Carter: “I love [war]. God help me I do love it so.”

4) Natasha Romanoff: to have another language is to possess a second soul

Fill: A Woman with Seven Souls (Avengers, Natasha)

[igrockspock]

In Russian, she is a child soldier, an assassin, and a spy. She speaks in Russian, but she does not think in Russian: not about her targets, not about her orders, and certainly not about their aftermath

Re: Fill: A Woman with Seven Souls (Avengers, Natasha)

[ashen_key]

Ohhhh, I love this, and the idea of Natasha inhabiting her alias to such an extent that she doesn't know Russian is just fascinating. Thank you so much!

Re: Fill: A Woman with Seven Souls (Avengers, Natasha)

[igrockspock]

And thank you very much for the lovely comment!

Re: Fill: A Woman with Seven Souls (Avengers, Natasha)

[sweetwatersong]

Absolutely beautiful. I love how English is the tricky language, how that's where her history catches up with her... which makes me wonder, is that because it's where she's finally being herself? Love it!

Re: Fill: A Woman with Seven Souls (Avengers, Natasha)

[igrockspock]

Yeah, I think English is the language where her past finally catches up to her. Now that she's left her old life behind, she has to think about what she did.

I'm glad you enjoyed the story!

Re: Fill: A Woman with Seven Souls (Avengers, Natasha)

[kawabiala]

This is a wonderful character study - it makes me feel like I understand Natasha a lot better. Even ordinary people often occupy completely different personas when they switch languages. It makes so much sense that for Natasha, it's a thousand times more extreme.

Fill: Journalistic Integrity (Avengers, Christine & Maria)

[lar_laughs]

(1/2)

The slap of leather against the faux wood of her desk is the only thing that can pull Christine’s focus away from the computer screen. She barely has time to look up before glaring black eyes are the only things in her field of vision.

“You’re going to get yourself killed,” Maria mutters, keeping her voice low since her actions have already drawn more glances than she probably intended. There’s real anger in Maria’s expression, not just the frown that’s always firmly in place while she was in work mode. Heaven forbid that someone see her smile and remember how beautiful she was, even with her hair pulled back to regulation tightness.

All the emotion in the woman’s face and voice makex Christine’s stomach flip over a few times before she’s able to calm her fight or flight response. In those few seconds, she knows that she gives Maria quite the show, all big eyes and quivering lips, but her smile is bright again when she turns back to the task at hand

Re: Fill: Journalistic Integrity (Avengers, Christine & Maria)

[lar_laughs]

(2/2)

With each word, Maria stepped closer and Christine had moved her chair back. Now, she’s against the wall with nowhere else to go. It’s time to go on the attack. Thankfully, her new shoes (cherry red stilettos that perfectly match the embroidered roses on the bottom hem of her pale yellow sheath) give her a few inches on the SHIELD agent. Christine stands straighter when Maria dares to press in, every inch the journalist that’s interviewed heads of state and royalty.

“I assume,” Christine says with every bit of ice she can muster, “they’re going to be very angry. But I can’t let these sorts of interviews dictate how I live my life. I like my life, thank you very much. It beats whatever padded cell you’d like me to stay in.”

Maria’s eyes snap with irritation but a crowd has begun to form around them. Her eyes promise this will not be the last time they discuss this. As she turns to leave, Maria glances over her shoulder. “Don’t be late on Friday. I’m making fettuccine alfredo.”

“Wouldn’t dream of it.”

Prompt: Maria

Re: Fill: Journalistic Integrity (Avengers, Christine & Maria)

[ashen_key]

Oooooooooooooooh, this is noting like I had imagined a fill being like for that prompt, and I love it.

♥

Re: Fill: Journalistic Integrity (Avengers, Christine & Maria)

[lar_laughs]

I opened a blank document, conjured up an image of Christine at her desk, and this what came of it! I'd intended for it to be Fury but really like the idea of Maria getting the short straw for this job. Glad you liked it!