[A thunk. A jolt as the Forge strikes the ground and finds itself face up. Dropped in movement, the sounds of breath and the edge of a red sneaker in an uneven beam of light against brick and pavement. On closer inspection, the shoe's only half red - stopped in a skidded trail of the same red (darker, thicker, god it's almost black but for the ( Read more... )

Okay.

First things first. Because first things should come first unless...

...I have no idea where I was going with that.

Anyway.

Summers and Elric Muffin Alchemy Incorporated is proud to announce its official opening. We've been kind of open for a while, but we like to think of this as Opening: The Sequel, or---

Um, Dawn, the sign says...

---dangit. ( Read more... )

[It's a very messy Rapunzel greeting you this evening. She has purple and yellow smears on her face, but judging by her huge grin she doesn't seem to notice.]

So, I was walking by the Door today, and look what I found!

[She turns the Forge to face her feet. Sitting on the ground is a case full art supplies. Paints mostly, but there's some ( Read more... )

Hayate!

[Video begins transmitting in the same instant that Riza shouts her dog's name, having dropped her Forge into a box. The landscape it shows over the lid of a jar and the edge of the box is the ruins of Hawkeye's apartment. The little dog is standing near a torn-up wall and a jagged hole in the floor. At the edge of the hole is a brightly ( Read more... )

[Forge turns on.]

[Video]

[A pretty pointy chin. A small, pointy nose. Ridiculously sensuous broad mouth. Pale skin and a wafting curlicue of long, dark hair. Can't see her full face, picture cuts off below the eyes ( Read more... )

[The camera cuts in on a face, features sharpened by the heavy contrast of light and dark.]

Haruno Sakura is dead.

[It is Naruto’s face and Naruto’s eyes to be true, but in those silent seconds the shadows on those cheekbones and around those eyes make him look older and leaner. Like someone else. Despite the oranges and golds in what ( Read more... )

( OOC cut because it's violent and bloody. Be warned! )

Pick your monthly malady. No more Moony, just privatus interruptus.

ooc/ I wasn't going to do Broadcast Mind at all this round; give it a break after last time. Then I saw "Deathly Hallows". The unshown is always the most maddening and enticing…

Aw, heck, just call it part of my campaign to make Bella go blind. /ooc

* * *

( 'Wotcher,' she said. )

It's a little uncomfortable, seeing people's minds. I'm sorry if I happened to see yours, before I learned to look away.

[She goes quiet for a bit, and then... huffs.]

Um!

[...]

Have you ever been somewhere that's so, um, full of memories that you want to... not be there? That's a real question.Anyway, if you can't find me, I'm probably on ( Read more... )

I apologise for the delay in this promised announcement. I hope it didn't cause anyone anxiety, or further misconceptions.

[In either lifetime, this feels like the strangest thing he's ever done. This has always been the thing to hide, to want to deny. …Different world. Different rules. Adapt and deal with it.]My name is Remus Lupin. On my world, ( Read more... )