Watchmen Kink Meme 4: The Fab, Fantastic Four

Jan 08, 2010 10:56

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 just as well.

2. Anonymous will respond to your post and write it for you! Art and such is also acceptable/awesome. Multiple people may respond to ( Read more... )

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Growing Up Is Not An Absence Of Dreaming anonymous February 17 2010, 11:28:05 UTC
Original Prompt: What if the Watchmen was just a game the kids played? How would the story be different and yet the same? How would it be changed to be suitable for coming out of a child's mind ( ... )

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Growing Up Is Not An Absence Of Dreaming (21a/75) anonymous February 17 2010, 11:29:20 UTC
Note: I realize that the transition from the previous part is rather disjointed here, and a few of the same ideas are repeated. Sorry! I wrote part 20 while half-asleep, then wrote this part months later without bothering to read over it. >_< I can’t for the life of me figure out how to make it all flow, so I’m just going to go with it, in the interest of actually posting something, then probably chop out much of part 20 when I edit & post this in my journal.Days turn to weeks, and soon that feeling from the beginning of the year, sadness at the end of summer and excitement at the new school year’s promise, fades into a routine: homework, projects, chores, attempts at clinging to some semblance of a social life. They tear through notebooks faster than ever, which is only to be expected, considering how often now the pages of superhero activity are interspersed with records of everyday life. Seemingly every other page contains hastily-scribbled reading assignments, or messy, half-completed math problems (because much as they try not to ( ... )

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Growing Up Is Not An Absence Of Dreaming (21b/75) anonymous February 17 2010, 11:30:01 UTC
None of them really know much about Walter’s home life, but that’s unsurprising. He’s never been much for sharing personal details. From what little they’ve seen and heard of Sylvia, they gather she’s not about to win any mother of the year awards, but she is his mom, and that’s got to be better than foster care, right ( ... )

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Re: Growing Up Is Not An Absence Of Dreaming (21b/75) anonymous February 17 2010, 18:14:35 UTC
Dammit this thing is so up and down for me!
One minute I'm so happy and cuted out it hurts
The next I am so... heartbroken.

Right now it's heartbroken.

This is wonderful.
I'm so glad you've picked it up again.
Just... get Daniel to rescue him... please?
/sniffles - I'm going to go cry now.

/walks off howling

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Re: Growing Up Is Not An Absence Of Dreaming (21b/75) anonymous February 17 2010, 18:23:09 UTC
This is so painful to read sometimes, because it's so good and so god damn relatable. Always glad to see a new part, anon!

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Re: Growing Up Is Not An Absence Of Dreaming (21b/75) anonymous February 21 2010, 06:34:40 UTC
Oh gosh, this is a wonderful fic. just read the whole thing tonight. i'm so glad you've kept it up!

the whole notebook thing, as other anons mentioned, strikes a really personal memory for me. i remember being the kid who was "too old" for playing pretend by jr high, and also around that time, writing in a composition book with my childhood friends who all had secret nicknames and even a name for our group...even into high school i was trying to get my best friend to RP, write a story, or make a code language in it with me, while she and the others were mainly writing about personal life stuff, and some of the group members had quit writing entirely. (we're all still great friends, just with different interests as we've gotten older!)

none of it ever got as dramatic as this fic, though, haha. but still, makes me way nostalgic!

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Growing Up Is Not An Absence Of Dreaming (22a/75) anonymous February 25 2010, 04:45:14 UTC
They’re all perplexed, Dan most of all, at the sudden tapering off of Walter’s notebook entries, and the decreased length when he does write. He shows up for lunch on occasion, but is now perpetually absent at their after-school meetings, which again take on a decidedly lackluster tone. No one wants to admit it, but they almost prefer his absence -- they miss him, but when he’s around he’s withdrawn at best, icy and snappish at worst. They do their best to draw him into conversation, but he’s clearly not interested ( ... )

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Growing Up Is Not An Absence Of Dreaming (22b/75) anonymous February 25 2010, 04:46:24 UTC
One hot Saturday morning Dan lies to his father (something he generally tries to avoid at all costs), claiming his homework is done and hurrying out the front door before he can be questioned further. He is in fact falling behind, not badly but enough that he feels guilty, especially since he doesn’t even know where he’s going, only that he needs to get out of the house. Only for awhile, he promises himself, then he’ll come back and spend the rest of the day working ( ... )

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Growing Up Is Not An Absence Of Dreaming (22c/75) anonymous February 25 2010, 04:47:34 UTC
Dan nods, wide-eyed. He knows about sex, from health class at school and a couple of very tense conversations with his father, and he knows, theoretically, that men can have it with men and women with women, though the idea sort of baffles him. The occasional peeks he’s managed at magazines hidden behind black cardboard signs at the liquor store where he sometimes spends his allowance on candy bars and Cokes have done little to enlighten him, though they have piqued a shameful sort of interest ( ... )

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Growing Up Is Not An Absence Of Dreaming (22d/75) anonymous February 25 2010, 04:48:55 UTC
Dan does head straight home and gets through several worksheets and a portion of his history project before he allows his mind to return to what Hollis had told him. He doodles idly in his notebook a bit, telling himself he’s taking a short break, but as the lines on the paper begin to solidify into an image, he finds himself with a sudden idea, and within minutes he’s pulling his sneakers back on and telling his father he needs to go to the store and get a poster board for a project. It’s true, but when his dad offers to drive him, he declines, instead walking the few blocks to the stationery store. He picks up the board, then lingers in the art-supply aisle. He’s spent a fair amount of time here, wishing he could have practically all of the items, though he’s not really enough of an artist to warrant the cost. Today, though, he selects a small pad of paper, running his fingers over the first sheet. It’s thick and smooth, much nicer that the notebook or copy paper he usually draws on. He picks up a set of markers as well, the ( ... )

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Growing Up Is Not An Absence Of Dreaming (22e/75) anonymous February 25 2010, 04:49:35 UTC
Dan’s been rehearsing what to say in his head for days, hasn’t yet come up with anything he likes, and now forgets all of it, so he takes a breath and just blurts out what comes to mind. “I know…we know you have a lot to deal with and you can’t be around as much and it’s okay and… You’re my best friend and we’re always gonna be friends. No matter what. You know that, right ( ... )

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Re: Growing Up Is Not An Absence Of Dreaming (22e/75) anonymous February 25 2010, 05:51:37 UTC
I think this fic has magical deaging properties, because I just responded like my twelve-year-old self would to the grappling gun bit: a shrill, girly squeal. This jerks my emotions in the best of ways, anon! Thank you!

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Re: Growing Up Is Not An Absence Of Dreaming (22e/75) anonymous February 25 2010, 06:33:10 UTC
Yay! I'm so glad you like it. :) This chapter was...kind of intense to write. XD

Thank you for the lovely comment. :)

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Re: Growing Up Is Not An Absence Of Dreaming (22e/75) anonymous February 25 2010, 06:39:28 UTC
I'm glad to see that their LARPing days aren't over yet! And I feel weird because the thought of teenage Sally and Larry dating actually makes me 'daww' somehow. :<

And also: BAWWWW, URSULA!! Seriously, Hollis, you need to call her up and ask her how she's doing or something! :<

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Rambling comment is rambling. anonymous February 25 2010, 06:49:26 UTC
...okay, gotta admit there's not much "d'awww" related to Sally and Larry in this fic. What can I say, I just don't like the guy. :/ Someone else should totally write something with them that is sweet, though. I'm all for giving minor characters some love...even the ones I don't personally care for. XD

There will, however, be a bit more Ursula coming up, sooner than you might think (hell, sooner than I even thought)... :D

Glad you like it, anon, thanks for the comment! :)

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Re: Rambling comment is rambling. anonymous February 25 2010, 07:21:09 UTC
yeah, that's why I said I felt weird about it. I think it's just because they were happy together at some point in their lives, in comparison to the horrible mess they are now. It's not that I like Sally/Larry or anything, ew! XD

And eee! :DDDDD

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