Fluff, Relationships, and Traditions

Sep 22, 2013 19:54


This entry is part 52 of 52 in the series 365 Challenge
So characters have habits, ways they interact with certain people and situations, things they do and like to do, stories and histories together. I've known a lot of my characters' for a long time but getting them all into fic is interesting, particularly for the ones I don't know that for.

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Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: An Absurdly Dangerous Shadow scribble_myname September 25 2013, 18:26:55 UTC
Rachelle walked in the back door to Heather’s house, where they kept the home office of their computer consultancy, took one look at the new unauthorized intruder, and said, “No ( ... )

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: An Absurdly Dangerous Shadow thecatisacritic September 25 2013, 23:44:40 UTC
Hehe. Great name for that one.

Such a funny and cute little kitten.

And Rachelle is kind of a sucker for cats, even if she'd never admit it.

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: An Absurdly Dangerous Shadow scribble_myname September 26 2013, 14:28:29 UTC
I think she's a sucker for anything sufficiently cute that takes to her over her protests. :grins:

I can tell I'm going to like little Shadow.

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: An Absurdly Dangerous Shadow thecatisacritic September 26 2013, 17:27:04 UTC
I wonder how Justus would feel about being a part of that group.

Shadow is a very likeable kitten. :)

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: An Absurdly Dangerous Shadow scribble_myname September 26 2013, 17:36:36 UTC
Well, she chose him-which was the first time she totally surprised him. That whole, "I'm here to keep you from getting too attached." She's got too much heart to let him fall into the trap he was headed for if she left the matter entirely to Shift, so a little different, but it works out. She took him on in a similar way that she took on Meld. The difference was what she was displacing.

Hm...

Must see if I CAN find a cute Justus moment.

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: An Absurdly Dangerous Shadow thecatisacritic September 26 2013, 17:47:41 UTC
:)

I think his reaction to being called "cute" would be a bit priceless.

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Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Backfire scribble_myname September 26 2013, 21:30:23 UTC
“I think she likes you because you’re cute,” Heather said critically, head tilted to the side as she looked at Justus. “Like a cat.”

Justus had been innocently sipping a carbonated soda when she made that comment, and he almost lost it quite uncomfortably when she did. He swallowed down the burn and the last of the liquid then answered, “I am not like a cat.”

“What are you two talking about?” Rachelle asked as she breezed in from his living room and into his kitchen. Perfect timing, though judging from the look on her face, it had been entirely intentional.

“He is like a cat,” Heather insisted, plunking her elbow on his upper counter and ticking off on her fingers: “He’s independent, doesn’t like to up a chair he’s already in, won’t change his mind unless you throw him off the top of something, and you like him ( ... )

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Backfire thecatisacritic September 27 2013, 02:48:09 UTC
Lol.

I was right: his reaction to being called cute was priceless. :)

And of course Rachelle gets the better of both of them in this conversation. Hehe.

I forgot: I think this is missing the word give: doesn’t like to up a chair he’s already in,

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Backfire scribble_myname September 30 2013, 15:03:57 UTC
Yeah, I think he lost most of his cute, but his reactions can certainly be. Hard to floor him, but when you do... :grins:

Rachelle is a lot harder to throw off than even Justus, which makes it a lot easier for her to do that.

It's a dialect thing. You'll hear it in our house: up the chair, up the phone, up the popcorn. Means give up or hand over, etc.

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Backfire thecatisacritic September 30 2013, 17:13:04 UTC
Yeah, the training he went through would do that, but he still can react in a cute way.

Someone should throw her off (not in a bad way, not necessarily, but then I can't think of her taking being thrown off in a good way, either.)

Oh. I've never heard it that way. It seemed like it was missing a word. Then again, I can't hardly use the dialect of my house. No one would understand, and the explanation would be humiliating for certain parties.

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Backfire scribble_myname September 30 2013, 20:23:44 UTC
Throwing her off. Hm. Still working on this one.

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Backfire thecatisacritic September 30 2013, 20:41:09 UTC
Yeah, I can imagine there's not much that does.

I don't know why I just thought maybe pregnancy would, but then she's not the type to let that sneak up on her.

And I'm not sure that would shock her, either.

Hmm...

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Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Side Effects scribble_myname September 30 2013, 21:03:09 UTC
A/N: I did mention this wouldn’t always be fluffy, right? I’m sure I mentioned it. Absolutely certain I covered the fact that there are big reasons when you walk into my angsty universe that things get… angsty. For the record, I always knew this was going to happen. Like this.

She didn’t intend on waking him up, but she wasn’t really trying for subtlety when it hit her like a slam in the gut, that sudden taste of genetic material that wasn’t his and wasn’t hers and wasn’t hitting her skin from anything outside.

Whyever on earth hadn’t she gotten sterilized when she first realized her ability was terminal?

Justus woke from his half-doze because the instant it hit her, she was sitting upright and hissing pain between her teeth, even though it wasn’t her body that was hurting. She scrambled out of the bed before he could roll over and reach her and snatched up his shirt to throw it on.

“Database? What’s wrong?” He was awake now, quiet operative voice, but she wasn’t heeding him because she was still dealing with this, pacing like a ( ... )

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Side Effects thecatisacritic September 30 2013, 21:10:46 UTC
Ouch.

Poor baby. :(

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Side Effects scribble_myname September 30 2013, 21:13:37 UTC
She is a planner to this extent: she would never plan to have kids when she didn't expect to live long enough to raise them. And at this point, yeah. That one took her off-guard.

Now, must find fluffy off-guard to cheer you up.

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Re: Kingdoms and Thorn Ficlet: Side Effects thecatisacritic September 30 2013, 21:19:17 UTC
Yeah.

:(

Of course, I did kind of ask for it/suggest it.

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