Third Period: Problem, Solution, Sum, Remainder, Product, Tangent, Fraction
Okay here's my next dump of drabbles and icons. I hope you enjoy them all!
a. Problem
b. Solution
c. Sum
d. Remainder
e. Product
f. Tangent
g. Fraction
Now comes the drabbles. They aren't really the best that I've done, mainly because math doesn't inspire me in any way. However, I've still done them and I hope you all appreciate them.
a. Problem
Usagi had always believed she'd be married by the time she was twenty years old. After all, she met the love of her life before she was even born. Yet she and Mamo-chan had yet to actually wed. It was irritating. She knew that they would be married and they would rule the future together. She'd met their future daughter, and was often annoyed by the pink haired girl in her youth.
She was reminded of the young girl, Chibi-Usa, as the strip turned pink.
This was a problem. She had always thought she'd be married before she had Chibi-Usa.
WORD COUNT: 100
b. Solution
Whenever Sailor Moon had a monster problem, she could count on Tuxedo Kamen-sama to come to her aid. It was as though he always knew when she was in danger and could miraculously appear. There was no rhyme or reason to this, it just was.
Whenever Usagi had a life problem, she could count on Mamoru to come to her aid. She realized that she took this for granted. But she wasn't strong enough to find answers to her life problems alone. She had too deal with too much at night as a superhero to deal with everything in her public life as well.
And Mamo-chan could always find the perfect solution to any of her problems.
WORD COUNT: 117
c. Sum
Usagi had never been great at math. In fact, she'd never been great at any of her school subjects, other than naps and lunch. It was a shame she couldn't be graded on those. She'd probably surpass Ami-chan's marks if the school would realize how crucial naps and lunch were to a young girl's education.
But Usagi could do the basic math. She knew that two plus two equaled four. She knew that in English, 'i' went before 'e' except after 'c'.
And she knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the sum of Usako and Mamo-chan was true love. Forever.
WORD COUNT: 102
d. Remainder
Usagi had cried for hours after he left. She barely made it home after they kissed at the airport. The ring on her finger weighed a ton, but she wouldn't remove it from her finger. She couldn't. She needed that tiny, however heavy, link to him. He was so far away, and she was left behind. She'd told her parents to leave her alone. Her friends had tried calling, using both the phone and their communicators, but she wouldn't answer. She answered her communicator only to see if it had been an emergency.
She wished she were older. Then she could've gone with him. She wouldn't be the one remaining in Japan, with half of her flying around the world to get an education.
The only thing she had left of him were memories and the ring.
WORD COUNT: 137
e. Product
Usagi had a daughter. It was so hard to believe. She hadn't even had sex yet, but there she was. Her daughter. She came from the future, carrying the same name that Usagi herself had always carried. The timing had been off for Chibi-Usa to appear. She and Mamo-chan had just reunited, only to break up after her arrival. Sometimes, Usagi blamed her daughter, during those months without her Mamo-chan.
Now that she'd reunited with Mamo-chan and Chibi-Usa had left, she missed the girl.
After all, she was the physical product of the future love between her and Mamo-chan. She was a reminder that they truly were forever.
WORD COUNT: 108
f. Tangent
Mamo-chan thought in terms of math a lot, in terms of science a lot. He knew it probably wasn't normal, to think in ways quite so peculiar. But he wasn't normal. After all, he knew his past life and his future destiny when most of his peers were doubting what they wanted to do with their lives.
He would close his eyes and imagine the arc of Usako's curves. He would think of the distance between them at any moment, trying to calculate it into kilometers, feet, miles, square feet, and any other way to make it seem more bearable when they couldn't be together.
But most of the time, he thought of how he felt when they were lying in his bed, tangent to one another. His hand holding hers, her curves pressed against his body. No distance between them.
In times like that, he didn't think at all.
WORD COUNT: 150
g. Fraction
Mamoru Chiba did not know why he felt as though part of him was missing. He would have dreams of a distant kingdom, but he chalked it up to eating strange foods before bed. He would have dreams of a girl with long blonde hair in a flowing white dress, telling him to find some crystal. He would have dreams of the mysterious heroine, Sailor Moon. He would have headaches and collapse in the middle of the day, waking up in strange places that he didn't recall.
Mamoru Chiba didn't know why he felt as though he was only a fraction of a man. Instead he just wished for the knowledge to make himself whole.
WORD COUNT: 115
a. Problem
b. Solution
c. Sum
d. Remainder
e. Product
f. Tangent
g. Fraction
Now comes the drabbles. They aren't really the best that I've done, mainly because math doesn't inspire me in any way. However, I've still done them and I hope you all appreciate them.
a. Problem
Usagi had always believed she'd be married by the time she was twenty years old. After all, she met the love of her life before she was even born. Yet she and Mamo-chan had yet to actually wed. It was irritating. She knew that they would be married and they would rule the future together. She'd met their future daughter, and was often annoyed by the pink haired girl in her youth.
She was reminded of the young girl, Chibi-Usa, as the strip turned pink.
This was a problem. She had always thought she'd be married before she had Chibi-Usa.
WORD COUNT: 100
b. Solution
Whenever Sailor Moon had a monster problem, she could count on Tuxedo Kamen-sama to come to her aid. It was as though he always knew when she was in danger and could miraculously appear. There was no rhyme or reason to this, it just was.
Whenever Usagi had a life problem, she could count on Mamoru to come to her aid. She realized that she took this for granted. But she wasn't strong enough to find answers to her life problems alone. She had too deal with too much at night as a superhero to deal with everything in her public life as well.
And Mamo-chan could always find the perfect solution to any of her problems.
WORD COUNT: 117
c. Sum
Usagi had never been great at math. In fact, she'd never been great at any of her school subjects, other than naps and lunch. It was a shame she couldn't be graded on those. She'd probably surpass Ami-chan's marks if the school would realize how crucial naps and lunch were to a young girl's education.
But Usagi could do the basic math. She knew that two plus two equaled four. She knew that in English, 'i' went before 'e' except after 'c'.
And she knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the sum of Usako and Mamo-chan was true love. Forever.
WORD COUNT: 102
d. Remainder
Usagi had cried for hours after he left. She barely made it home after they kissed at the airport. The ring on her finger weighed a ton, but she wouldn't remove it from her finger. She couldn't. She needed that tiny, however heavy, link to him. He was so far away, and she was left behind. She'd told her parents to leave her alone. Her friends had tried calling, using both the phone and their communicators, but she wouldn't answer. She answered her communicator only to see if it had been an emergency.
She wished she were older. Then she could've gone with him. She wouldn't be the one remaining in Japan, with half of her flying around the world to get an education.
The only thing she had left of him were memories and the ring.
WORD COUNT: 137
e. Product
Usagi had a daughter. It was so hard to believe. She hadn't even had sex yet, but there she was. Her daughter. She came from the future, carrying the same name that Usagi herself had always carried. The timing had been off for Chibi-Usa to appear. She and Mamo-chan had just reunited, only to break up after her arrival. Sometimes, Usagi blamed her daughter, during those months without her Mamo-chan.
Now that she'd reunited with Mamo-chan and Chibi-Usa had left, she missed the girl.
After all, she was the physical product of the future love between her and Mamo-chan. She was a reminder that they truly were forever.
WORD COUNT: 108
f. Tangent
Mamo-chan thought in terms of math a lot, in terms of science a lot. He knew it probably wasn't normal, to think in ways quite so peculiar. But he wasn't normal. After all, he knew his past life and his future destiny when most of his peers were doubting what they wanted to do with their lives.
He would close his eyes and imagine the arc of Usako's curves. He would think of the distance between them at any moment, trying to calculate it into kilometers, feet, miles, square feet, and any other way to make it seem more bearable when they couldn't be together.
But most of the time, he thought of how he felt when they were lying in his bed, tangent to one another. His hand holding hers, her curves pressed against his body. No distance between them.
In times like that, he didn't think at all.
WORD COUNT: 150
g. Fraction
Mamoru Chiba did not know why he felt as though part of him was missing. He would have dreams of a distant kingdom, but he chalked it up to eating strange foods before bed. He would have dreams of a girl with long blonde hair in a flowing white dress, telling him to find some crystal. He would have dreams of the mysterious heroine, Sailor Moon. He would have headaches and collapse in the middle of the day, waking up in strange places that he didn't recall.
Mamoru Chiba didn't know why he felt as though he was only a fraction of a man. Instead he just wished for the knowledge to make himself whole.
WORD COUNT: 115