A Delicate Battle- More fic.

[axolotl_lan]

Author: Axolotl_lan *whose screen is falling off and it is concerning her*
Title: Le Papillon
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Magic runs in stages and may be mistaken for technology in the wrong hands
Prompter/Prompt: Seftimiu / Trickster has a magical heritage he's unaware of, which brings him back to the land of the living. (Death was a transformation, not

Comments

[katzedecimal]

O.O

*bows* Now that is awesome. I really like the parallels you drew here. The research shows and makes a very rich story. The use of the butterflies and the opera are really great here. (an aside, one of my favorite songs as a teenager was Malcolm McLaren's Madame Butterfly. )

[axolotl_lan]

Muahahaha- Tie!

Hee- to be honest I was more a ballet attendee as a kid. But I listened to a number of the songs before deciding.

The prompt seemed so tough but interesting I thought about it and I'm not a fan of researching but it felt necessary.

Luckily I have a folder filled with only the highlights of Tricks, Piper moments from countdown to lessen it a bit.

Thank you! -goes to click link-

[modnaf]

Oh this was lovely. I have butterflies dancing in my head <3. And also a quote from the Simpson's? Or were the Simposon's quoting something else when Bart evilly chortled they no one suspects the butterfly?

[axolotl_lan]

I'm pretty sure I was quoting the simpsons ^_~

[seftimiu]

Oh myyyyy god. I loved it. I would have commented last night, but I ended up running around town at 1-2 am looking for my teenagers. /facepalms/ and then crashed.

Anyway, I LOVE THIS and the reearch really really DOES show. It's so wonderfully put together! I love how all the elements flowed and came together as though it was meant to be.

I also just know that someone somewhere in that universe is making 'fairy' jokes. XD

This was awesome. I'm in awe of how you pulled this together!

Annnnd you used my favorite butterfly ;)

[axolotl_lan]

hee, oh Teen running- my little brother loves to do that, say he's going to be at one place and not be there. >_<'

- hopefully, the largest part of the trouble was that they hadn't left adequate information of where they'd be.

Research!~ and Flow I was hoping flow would be there.

I think there is a distinct possibility Len is thinking them, and the rest are saying them.

thank you! and I love them too, I just needed to check whether they worked and voila!

[seftimiu]

They'd gone to the fair, and one of my adult daughters forgot to pick up both her brothers at the gates, left them behind, and then he and his brother took off to the girlfriend's house, and ugh. I ended up running all over, finding them, and then they were huuuuungry, so I was at Walmart at one thirty in the mornnnning. I felt like zombie!

XD

LOL and yessss, I can see him thinking it and not saying it, but the others just blurting it out.

[thalyamuse]

This is absolutely beautiful, in prose and magic!

And I swear, the ideasphere must be strong around here this week - what is it with Trickster and butterflies?

[axolotl_lan]

^___^ I am so happy with the activity here, especially because it has mostly been Tricks/Piper + Ensemble slash which is one of my favourites.

Thank you for you compliments... and Seftimiu was the one to leave a prompt with the word cocoon, soon as that is said butterflies have to get involved ^_~

[runenklinge]

Brilliant!
Love the musical references!
And yes, I spotted the Simpsons reference^^

From where exactly was that panel again?

[axolotl_lan]

Thank you!!! Hee, I needed a simpsons reference to counter all of Hartley's poetic musical references and the occasional Countdown quotes.

that being said I am fairly certain that panel is from the issue of count down with the desperate desert Hartley on the cover, it is just before he reaches the oasis and does the cutting off of the hand bit after dunking James headfirst into the water and fighting with his voice.