shedding every color trying to find a pigment of truth

[clari_clyde]

Sometimes, I think that people would be lazy readers if they could - skimming to get to the good stuff. Hence, I try to pack as much as possible into a sentence. Anyways, I need a break from a series of vignettes I’m wrting and I’m in need of a writing exercise: Pick a character or a pair and a keyword and I’ll write one - and only one - sentence

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[clari_clyde]

Oooh, this is hard - so many ideas that I wanna pack into this one:

“Mary, this is all for Mary,” he likes to tell himself not realizing that his feelings of vengeance and fear and insecurity were slowly becoming a force of hate that would soon overwhelm his care for his sons and his love for his late, beloved wife.

So, how do you like?

[clari_clyde]

His love for his family, I don’t think that will ever go away. It’s just that, his need for vengeance became so great that his better judgement got cloudy and he couldn’t raise his boys properly. I mean, I really really get that he still tried but, how he raised them was fairly dysfunctional. Does that make sense?

[hannahrorlove]

Bumblebee, shape.

[clari_clyde]

Oooh, this one’s a toughie, I don’t think about Bee’s shape as much as I do Jazz’s:

Mimicking the boxer’s sparring with the punching bag, Bumblebee had to appreciate the human desire to meld form with function - not only was there an efficiency to the way the athlete move but there was also grace and fluidity that made the motions soothingly easy on the blue optics - and shape is carried effortlessly and beautifully through time and space.

I like to think he’s just downloaded off the internet vids of Muhammed Ali.

[juxtoppozed]

If only fighting evil could be mundane so that shopping for clothes and crushing over boys wouldn’t seem so irrelevant.

I love that...and love a heroine who has her priorities straight.

[clari_clyde]

In S1 and S2, she’s trying to balance being normal with being the Slayer. I think it’s in S3 when she has her powers taken from her where she realizes how much she defines herself as The Slayer. Buffy in S1 would have been happy to have lost her power, whereas Buffy in S3 aims to get them back. Buffy is someone who “grew” into her role and that fascinates me.

[lstarrunner]

Optimus Prime: Nostalgia.

Mirage: Things that are Obvious.

Ironhide: Things that are Hidden.

Soundwave & Shockwave: History.

[clari_clyde]

Damn, you chose some good ideas… Meaning you chose some ideas that are really hard to fit into a sentence. I’ll try to knock them out before I leave for home this Thursday.

[lstarrunner]

Shiny. Wouldn't be worth your time if it were easy, now, would it?

You don't have to use the words, just the concepts. Ironhide is the most open 'Bot I can think of, outside of maybe Swoop, and Mirage the most secretive, hence the challenges. And I uphold that there's 'bad blood', if you will, between the 'Waves. They have a history of some kind and I wanted to see what you'd put in your universe.

[clari_clyde]

Where do you see bad blood between the two 'Waves? I'm writing this one now, but I'll have time on the airplane to either watch DVDs or read comics. If there are nuances I'm missing, I wanna pick up on them.