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Watchmen Kink Meme 2: Electric Boogaloo. Or not.

Jun 23, 2009 18:19

Alright, alright, I'm back now. Here ya go kids. (You're just lucky the other one didn't run out in the middle of my vacation grumble grumble)

Rules of the meme:

1. Anonymously post a pairing and prompt you would like to see written. Since this is a kink meme, there is supposted to be a kink involved, but normal well-written prompts should work ( Read more... )

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Kind of a standard fill. 1/? anonymous June 26 2009, 04:07:23 UTC

All right, I know there have been at least two fills for the original 'swords 'n' sorcery AU pls' prompt, but I have this idea, and it won't go away, and you are going to sit through it. No intention of stepping on DnD-anon's toes, but this is going to be completely different anyway, so don't worry.Daniel isn't really sure how long he's been riding, and he has never been more glad that he stuck to his 'devil-mount' against all opposition. Just because Archie is made of magic and metal instead of spirit and flesh doesn't mean he's not alive. His steel legs flash as he gallops up and down hills that would cripple a natural horse, his metal warmed like flesh by the effort, the green spellfire that animates him crackling in his eyes and in the clear panels along his sides. They're both obeying Hollis's last order, since Hollis is the one who taught him everything he knows about survival, whether in the wilds or at court ( ... )

5/? anonymous June 28 2009, 23:05:43 UTC

Ghost Rat eventually gets used to his other guest. She's inexperienced, but willing to earn her keep. She even forgives him for his first question, which Daniel had afterward informed him was very unseemly where they came from. He still can't help but regard her with suspicion, but after she volunteers her services for brigand control while Daniel is making a patrol of the area to make sure no one is following either of them, something actually happens for the first time in weeks and she acquits herself admirably ( ... )

Re: 5/? anonymous June 29 2009, 06:13:16 UTC

I really like how you set up Rorschach's character- the whole ghost/abandoned child/wooden mask thing. Very clever and interesting.

I LOVE that he and Laurie are getting along.

Re: 5/? anonymous June 29 2009, 06:30:38 UTC

SO MUCH LOVE FOR THIS FIC. AND FOR YOU ANON

when you're done, for god's sake file off the serial numbers and try to get this published, because it's better than 90 percent of crap fantasy out there.

6/? anonymous June 30 2009, 01:44:06 UTC

They move further west, since the Tribes will aid even a Ghost of their own kin against strangers of all stripes, and beyond their lands is the Sea of Waking Dreams, which forms a substantial barrier to pursuit as well as the eastern border of Aígyptos, where Daniel knows the king. Ghost Rat simply boards up his house and puts a spare mask and his symbol by the door. Archie submits with bad grace to having his diagnostic panels covered and his ocular inputs smeared with stain to make them look more like the dark eyes of real animal ( ... )

Re: 6/? flyingrat42 June 30 2009, 05:10:29 UTC

Oh, screw anonymity. This just keeps getting awesomer and awesomer.

Re: 6/? anonymous June 30 2009, 09:18:25 UTC

Glad you like it, man. Stayed tuned for Adrian, I'm pretty sure he shows up in part 8.

7a/? (guess who's bad at swordfights =D) anonymous June 30 2009, 11:43:22 UTC

The next few days are like some strange and beautiful dream. They drift across the plains, Daniel and Laurel riding double on Archie, Ghost Rat like their shadow on the nameless white mare. As far as 'Horse' (her only name) is concerned, any friends of Ghost Rat's are all right, and she decides that Archie is just a gelding that smells funny and that it's no reason not to be friends. Laurel has to laugh at how mystified she looks every night when they stop and Archie rolls as smoothly and happily as a natural horse and then doesn't graze ( ... )

7b/? anonymous June 30 2009, 11:47:06 UTC

In the end, martial skill turns out to distributed so evenly that when they gallop away as fast as they can, the Guards don't immediately have the resources to give chase. Which is good, because while they're all wounded, Dan is going pale and muttering fretfully about how the bleeding won't stop, both hands pressed hard against his thigh. Ghost Rat has scouted ahead and knows where the nearest tent is, but he makes them double back and weave around in deceitful patterns over Laurel's most strenuous and eventually, tearful objections. He's grimly silent as Dan rests against her, nothing but dead weight, whispering thinly about how he's not sure how much blood is in the human body, and how that's the kind of thing he really ought to know and that he's very disappointed in himself ( ... )

7c/? anonymous July 1 2009, 07:16:23 UTC

When Thinks Ahead says Daniel is dead, Laurel drags in a breath to scream, and is only stopped by Ghost Rat heading her off to say that on the plains, being dead is a temporary indisposition. Being dead forever is what you have to worry about. Thinks Ahead smiles as he? she? (now she really wishes she had paid more attention to her tutors) strips Daniel with large, graceful hands and pours something clear and silvery from a covered clay pot into the wound. It solidifies as soon as it touches, and it's a profound relief to see it just flush a little with the blood, and then remain that pinkish-silver. The iron hand that's been around her heart the whole way here finally lets go, and she slumps, suddenly tired. Thinks Ahead gestures to a soft fur robe that's the same color as the grass. Curling up in it, she wonders what kind of skin it is, but is asleep in a moment ( ... )

Re: 7c/? flyingrat42 July 1 2009, 08:40:45 UTC

Once again, fantastic. GLEE for the way you're working the other characters in, in subtle ways (I'm pleased to say I called it before Sick Wolf showed up).

Not to mention, you win a million anthropology points.

Re: 7c/? anonymous July 1 2009, 09:16:21 UTC

GLEE because I wasn't sure it was obviously Nelly enough. I mean, you could get him through process of elimination, but I wanted to do better than that and I'm glad if I did. (Also, I love the name Sick Wolf for Rolf, because goddammit, that is his fucking Indian name. I'm thinking 'sick' in the sense of 'rabid'.)

Surely not a million, it can't be that obscure.

Re: 5/? flyingrat42 July 1 2009, 13:59:01 UTC

"Ordinarily he would be worrying about all his weaknesses, since a man whose mother didn't love him is vulnerable to a thousand different magical and moral terrors, but this is more important."

Forgot to comment on this earlier. I LOVE how you throw things like this in there: you're setting up a world that is really, really compelling for its internal logic. This is the sort of setting that I would love to see other fic in, even if it had nothing to do with Watchmen-inspired characters.

...Ahem. Fantasy nerd out.
*takes off robe and wizard hat*

Re: 5/? anonymous July 1 2009, 19:39:35 UTC

Thank you for liking my world so much. XD I'm trying to keep it interesting and make it make sense.

As far as Ghost Rat goes, the idea is that women have powerful magic just be existing, and ordinarily men are at least semi-protected by their mothers. So if she actually hated and abused you, you are utterly, utterly fucked. It's the fantasy version of 'If your mother is a mean, fat whore who beats you a lot, you're going to grow up misogynistic and gynaphobic.'

8/? anonymous July 2 2009, 00:22:30 UTC

Sick Wolf decides he likes the girl when she manages to get one good kick in before she's even awake. For one so young and against a person as inured to violence as Sick Wolf, it's impressive. He pins her a moment later, as she blinks to full consciousness. The Ghost tells her to calm down, that he's Thinks Ahead's husband. She apologizes, and he lets her up. He doesn't bear her any ill-will, because he knows exactly what he looks like. He's a hulking brute with scars on his face and bones in his scalp lock. She probably doesn't know that the brand under his left eye means that he murdered his own father, but anyone can see that it doesn't mean anything good ( ... )

9/? anonymous July 5 2009, 00:11:45 UTC

The streets of Delirium are crooked less by accident and more by a marked avoidance of straight lines, and some of the buildings have five walls. Laurel feels dreamy, since the cloth over her nose and mouth can't completely filter the air. Daniel has assured them that it's harmless and will fade completely when they get about a mile from the far shore, and she's willing to go with it. Everything is strangely bright, as if the real colors of the world have come out of hiding, and Ghost Rat's mask fascinates her, the black designs seeming to slowly and continuously shift. For his part, he's pulled in on himself, twitching and muttering. She feels bad for him, because there are moments when he relaxes, and she can see proof of one of the first things she figured out about him ( ... )

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