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Because I was, uh, too lazy to do a second conventional "RANDOM FACTS ABOUT _________" meme, I did it in creative writing format instead. dieinnafire gave me the idea. :(
Themes stolen from the 30_kisses community. Major spoilers for pre-canon/late-canon events in TB, as well as ... pretty much the whole Byzantium arc.
1. look over here
"Mirka Fortuna," said the Empress, "I require a favor."
2. news; letter
You are not the first, purrs Crusnik, and far away Marionettenspieler says, well, you aren't either.
3. jolt!
Little Abel bites her finger and escapes up a tree, chattering angrily; Seth sucks at the wound like a child, but makes no move towards her pet again.
4. our distance and that person
Esther's eyes are fierce and her mind can accept monsters and her hair is like blood and fire, so afterward Seth almost says, will you heal him?, but she turns it into, will you be my friend too?
5. "Hey, you know..."
We can be brother and sister again, she offers, we can be happy again, and before he even opens his mouth the look on his face has wiped the last of her childhood away in an instant.
6. the space between dream and reality
She is the battlefield, the many, the papillon host at her back, but when she sings her song she feels feathers fall and children die.
7. superstar
Of the hundred-odd roles she plays in the building of her Empire, Seth is most comfortable with her sojourns as a commoner Terran -- and that, she remembers, with the Vatican's letter in her hands, is the importance.
8. our own world
The land was green and her heart was too heavy to take a step further, so she said, we stay here, and they raised their barrier.
9. dash
You're quick, young sir -- the Empress tweaks Ion's nose -- but I'm quicker.
10.#10
A number was tattooed on her skin at 'birth,' in the place where her hip ended and her thigh began; thirteen years and one injection later, it disappeared, and she missed it not at all.
11. gardenia
Do you have a sweetheart yet?, asks the flower-seller, handing back his hat, but before the young noble can stammer out an answer, she taps a finger against her mouth and mutters, ah, I need better pickup lines.
12. in a good mood
When she is a little over four years old she asks their mother where real children come from and Lilith makes her dark sad face but tells her anyway; a week later, she gathers up her courage and asks Cain and Abel to give her a practical demonstration instead, which makes their mother laugh and is therefore better than what's real.
13. excessive chain
Vradica's slender hands are judgement (you may see me as a puppet but until you destroy me you obey), and her voice is judgement (some of my children claim too much license), but when the would-be traitors shift and murmur, she smiles beneath her veil and falls silent.
14. radio-cassette player
"Her Excellency places too much store in antiques," laughs the Duke of Tigris, and where his fingers curl about the wineglass, Solomon's Ring glints red.
15. perfect blue
Abel never had patience with her mistakes, but he taught her well and ruthlessly, and she never forgot.
16. invincible; unrivaled
Her blood sings a song that she pulls into her her palms, out of her hands in writhing organic splendour: "I'll do it," and her brothers nod curtly.
17. kHz (kilohertz)
Seth has read the Bible, but prefers to think often that man is more than dust, sin, screams.
18. "Say ahh..."
Her fangs are small and white but they pierce the traitor's neck with deadly efficiency, and she knows her victim sees nothing but light, hears nothing but chiming, chiming, chiming, feels nothing but cold.
19. red
Seth looks at the body with a clinical eye, sees still bone, slack muscle, and blood the exact color of Lilith's hair; wonders, as she always does, where her brothers have gone in the world.
20. the road home
"Crusnik like us...where will we go, what will we do?"
21. violence; pillage/plunder; extortion
Abel cleans his knives before leaving the chamber, but doesn't do the same to his hands; Seth's heart flutters too hard in her chest for words.
22. cradle
Isn't she lovely? Lilith asks; Abel folds his arms and Cain lays a hand on his brother's shoulder.
23. candy
To be blue-eyed and falsely pleasant is to be the courtier Augusta Vradica does not invite to court unless she absolutely must.
24. good night
Where are the Night Lords?, they ask, and she says, I am myself, and now alone.
25. fence
She led and put down a rebellion against herself once, and on three separate occasions conducted transactions with herself across border and barrier, concerning objects too volatile to be entrusted, too dangerous for others to destroy.
26. if only I could make you mine
"Pray that the day your Mother leaves you," she answers, "is the day her Children have outgrown her."
27. overflow
The dinner after her first assasination is a sombre affair: no one looks directly at her, so no one catches the tremor in her hands until her wine ripples, sloshes, spills.
28. Wada Calcium CD3
Perhaps it is that she was weaker, or that she was still meant to grow, but Seth remembers three days in a wracking fever, soothed by Lilith's hand at her brow, Lilith's hand feeding her bitter water, Lilith's hand bathing the wings furled from her back like bloody flowers.
29. the sound of waves
Broken on the rocks, limbs dashed and wounds salt-scoured, she finally stirs.
30. kiss
01's claws slice into her throat, 02 roars, and 03 says this was never my story, dying with a smile of agreement in her eyes.
Themes stolen from the 30_kisses community. Major spoilers for pre-canon/late-canon events in TB, as well as ... pretty much the whole Byzantium arc.
1. look over here
"Mirka Fortuna," said the Empress, "I require a favor."
2. news; letter
You are not the first, purrs Crusnik, and far away Marionettenspieler says, well, you aren't either.
3. jolt!
Little Abel bites her finger and escapes up a tree, chattering angrily; Seth sucks at the wound like a child, but makes no move towards her pet again.
4. our distance and that person
Esther's eyes are fierce and her mind can accept monsters and her hair is like blood and fire, so afterward Seth almost says, will you heal him?, but she turns it into, will you be my friend too?
5. "Hey, you know..."
We can be brother and sister again, she offers, we can be happy again, and before he even opens his mouth the look on his face has wiped the last of her childhood away in an instant.
6. the space between dream and reality
She is the battlefield, the many, the papillon host at her back, but when she sings her song she feels feathers fall and children die.
7. superstar
Of the hundred-odd roles she plays in the building of her Empire, Seth is most comfortable with her sojourns as a commoner Terran -- and that, she remembers, with the Vatican's letter in her hands, is the importance.
8. our own world
The land was green and her heart was too heavy to take a step further, so she said, we stay here, and they raised their barrier.
9. dash
You're quick, young sir -- the Empress tweaks Ion's nose -- but I'm quicker.
10.#10
A number was tattooed on her skin at 'birth,' in the place where her hip ended and her thigh began; thirteen years and one injection later, it disappeared, and she missed it not at all.
11. gardenia
Do you have a sweetheart yet?, asks the flower-seller, handing back his hat, but before the young noble can stammer out an answer, she taps a finger against her mouth and mutters, ah, I need better pickup lines.
12. in a good mood
When she is a little over four years old she asks their mother where real children come from and Lilith makes her dark sad face but tells her anyway; a week later, she gathers up her courage and asks Cain and Abel to give her a practical demonstration instead, which makes their mother laugh and is therefore better than what's real.
13. excessive chain
Vradica's slender hands are judgement (you may see me as a puppet but until you destroy me you obey), and her voice is judgement (some of my children claim too much license), but when the would-be traitors shift and murmur, she smiles beneath her veil and falls silent.
14. radio-cassette player
"Her Excellency places too much store in antiques," laughs the Duke of Tigris, and where his fingers curl about the wineglass, Solomon's Ring glints red.
15. perfect blue
Abel never had patience with her mistakes, but he taught her well and ruthlessly, and she never forgot.
16. invincible; unrivaled
Her blood sings a song that she pulls into her her palms, out of her hands in writhing organic splendour: "I'll do it," and her brothers nod curtly.
17. kHz (kilohertz)
Seth has read the Bible, but prefers to think often that man is more than dust, sin, screams.
18. "Say ahh..."
Her fangs are small and white but they pierce the traitor's neck with deadly efficiency, and she knows her victim sees nothing but light, hears nothing but chiming, chiming, chiming, feels nothing but cold.
19. red
Seth looks at the body with a clinical eye, sees still bone, slack muscle, and blood the exact color of Lilith's hair; wonders, as she always does, where her brothers have gone in the world.
20. the road home
"Crusnik like us...where will we go, what will we do?"
21. violence; pillage/plunder; extortion
Abel cleans his knives before leaving the chamber, but doesn't do the same to his hands; Seth's heart flutters too hard in her chest for words.
22. cradle
Isn't she lovely? Lilith asks; Abel folds his arms and Cain lays a hand on his brother's shoulder.
23. candy
To be blue-eyed and falsely pleasant is to be the courtier Augusta Vradica does not invite to court unless she absolutely must.
24. good night
Where are the Night Lords?, they ask, and she says, I am myself, and now alone.
25. fence
She led and put down a rebellion against herself once, and on three separate occasions conducted transactions with herself across border and barrier, concerning objects too volatile to be entrusted, too dangerous for others to destroy.
26. if only I could make you mine
"Pray that the day your Mother leaves you," she answers, "is the day her Children have outgrown her."
27. overflow
The dinner after her first assasination is a sombre affair: no one looks directly at her, so no one catches the tremor in her hands until her wine ripples, sloshes, spills.
28. Wada Calcium CD3
Perhaps it is that she was weaker, or that she was still meant to grow, but Seth remembers three days in a wracking fever, soothed by Lilith's hand at her brow, Lilith's hand feeding her bitter water, Lilith's hand bathing the wings furled from her back like bloody flowers.
29. the sound of waves
Broken on the rocks, limbs dashed and wounds salt-scoured, she finally stirs.
30. kiss
01's claws slice into her throat, 02 roars, and 03 says this was never my story, dying with a smile of agreement in her eyes.