Rude feels like they've been in this exact situation at least once a week for the past four years, stakes high and so keyed-up that they aren't thinkin' right, which probably applies more to him than it does for Reno, because the kid's never thought on anything for longer than a second in his life anyway. There's always this moment, a fragment in time where it feels like anything can happen, like everything's already happening; Reno's eyes will lock with his and whatever the fuck it is that's always been hanging between them feels like it's finally coming together and - and then Rufus calls them, or Tseng barges in, or whatever crisis of the month finally decides to show up and it's showtime, moment lost.
Except - except this time they're in their little shitty apartment just on the outskirts of downtown, Rude doing his best to read the paper while Reno screeches at the top of his lungs to the radio while he half-succeeds at cooking them brunch, and Rude's just told Reno that he needs to shut up, and Reno had said make me, and
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This. Is. Brilliant. Seriously - the prose is sharp and vivid, Rude's voice is spot-on, the tension is fantastic, and the whole thing came together jus perfectly with the kiss at the end. Thank you!
Luna believes in things she can’t see and things she can but that other people can’t, and lots of people make fun of her for it. But then again, there are perfectly reasonable things that they themselves have proved, or that exist out in the Muggle world, and lots of people don’t believe in those either, so she doesn’t really see much of a difference. More than anything, Luna has faith in the power of belief.
ps, you are swiftly becoming my favorite writing partner this year - both the prompts and the fills have been lovely.
Thank you, this is great! I love how matter-of-fact Luna is about her beliefs, and the fact that she operates according to her own logic rather than pure foolishness. She's always been an interesting character, and you captured her thought processes very well here.
But then again, there are perfectly reasonable things that they themselves have proved, or that exist out in the Muggle world, and lots of people don’t believe in those either
This is, I have to say, an excellent point. It's a little rich for the other wizards to be constantly making fun of Luna for believing in things everyone knows are false when they know perfectly well how easy it is for them to hide an entire magical society from the rest of the world.
PS, thank you! There haven't really been many prompts I'm able to fill, but I've gotten some wonderful fills for my own prompts, including yours, and I'm having a great time. :)
Thanks! I really like Luna and I think her defining line is when she's putting up lost posters for all her stuff at the end of book five and says "oh it's all right, people always return them by the end of the year," because she's so trusting but not exactly naive.
Yes! I was also thinking of how much technology the muggles have created and the wizards tend to be too superior to think they might have anything to learn from these inferior humans who don't even have magic. Honestly, I don't know how their society functions.
She has heard there is a land far from Illyria where they call the demi monde the floating world, where courtesans and acrobats mingle in the lantern light beside fast flowing rivers as they ply their water trade and boys and girls are never what they seem. Viola has always found the desciption peculiarly appropriate. Women are like water, she thinks as she painstakingly glues the first of many boars' bristles onto her upper lip; they always change.
The period doesn't really fit-Edo-period Japan ran from 1600 to the 1860s and Shakespeare probably wrote Twelfth Night in 1600 and as far as I know never even heard of Japan-but I liked the imagery of water and gender fluidity. Thanks for the great prompt!
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Except - except this time they're in their little shitty apartment just on the outskirts of downtown, Rude doing his best to read the paper while Reno screeches at the top of his lungs to the radio while he half-succeeds at cooking them brunch, and Rude's just told Reno that he needs to shut up, and Reno had said make me, and ( ... )
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ps, you are swiftly becoming my favorite writing partner this year - both the prompts and the fills have been lovely.
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But then again, there are perfectly reasonable things that they themselves have proved, or that exist out in the Muggle world, and lots of people don’t believe in those either
This is, I have to say, an excellent point. It's a little rich for the other wizards to be constantly making fun of Luna for believing in things everyone knows are false when they know perfectly well how easy it is for them to hide an entire magical society from the rest of the world.
PS, thank you! There haven't really been many prompts I'm able to fill, but I've gotten some wonderful fills for my own prompts, including yours, and I'm having a great time. :)
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Yes! I was also thinking of how much technology the muggles have created and the wizards tend to be too superior to think they might have anything to learn from these inferior humans who don't even have magic. Honestly, I don't know how their society functions.
ps: yay, writerfriends!
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She has heard there is a land far from Illyria where they call the demi monde the floating world, where courtesans and acrobats mingle in the lantern light beside fast flowing rivers as they ply their water trade and boys and girls are never what they seem. Viola has always found the desciption peculiarly appropriate.
Women are like water, she thinks as she painstakingly glues the first of many boars' bristles onto her upper lip; they always change.
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