BRAVE - END OF MOVIE SPOILERS!!!
anonymous
July 13 2012, 16:45:17 UTC
I hope this is right. First time posting stuff... D:
In the final bit of the movie when Merida is protecting her mother from Fergus's rage, she isn't quick enough with her block and she takes Fergus's blow instead.
Whatever can happen after that- Does she fix the tapestry? Does she lose her leg to her father? Does Fergus take the opportunity to finish Elinor? Does Mor'du even show up? Up to you!
Re: BRAVE - END OF MOVIE SPOILERS!!!
anonymous
July 13 2012, 19:50:17 UTC
Seconded.
Now I'm visualizing Merida losing an arm or leg, and a guilt-ridden Fergus contacting his old enemy-turned friend Gobber, from the Viking wars, to help him make a prosthetic limb for her.
BRAVE FILL Arrow Straight, Arrow True (1/4)interrobamAugust 13 2012, 00:43:44 UTC
(A/N: Takes place during the battle in Merida's room. Sorry for any continuity issues with the movie, I saw it a long time ago and don't remember all the details.)
Arrow Straight, Arrow True Merida was an archer by passion and a swordswoman by blood, but her father had both blood and passion in his hands when he lowered his blade to the head of his wife. Merida was youthful, and recently arrogant, so she drew her own weapon and readied her nerves. Yet Fergus had fought vikings, mercenaries, bears of legend: when he struck the blow his daughter was too slow and unpracticed to block it. It cut through the flesh of her arm clean and deep: he had put in enough thrust to split an animal's skull and despite all her years in the forest, all her muscle, she was felled like a sapling. Fergus pushed her aside and prepared another strike. Elinor smelled the blood, she knew that her child had been hurt, and the magic that kept her dumb broke easily beneath the fury she felt. She lunged. Fergus readied his sword. Merida felt the scream that
( ... )
BRAVE FILL Arrow Straight, Arrow True (2/4)interrobamAugust 13 2012, 00:44:44 UTC
She healed slowly, but she healed nonetheless. On the first day that she awoke full and lucid they tried to feed her a stew. She took one bite. Bear. She spat her mother's flesh onto her sheets and sobbed until they gave her bread and wine and the blessing of sleep. The next time they knew better. They brought her rabbit and she ate it voraciously, bare handed. She asked after her father. He was brought to her room, looking a hundred years older than she remembered him.
“You're doing well lass. I was afraid I'd lost you too, you know.” Merida looked away from him, away from the arm she no longer had.
“How are the boys?” The King's face grew dark.
“Gone.”
“Gone?” She turned her head sharply “What do you mean gone “Mor'du took everything from me.” His face turned to her's, it was weathered and afraid “Everything but you.” Merida looked pointedly, painfully, at the still raw stump pressed close to her stomach
( ... )
BRAVE FILL Arrow Straight, Arrow True (3/4)interrobamAugust 13 2012, 00:45:22 UTC
“For archery.” Fergus' voice was wheedling, expectant. Merida stubbornly refused to react, to hope. She took her new arm off, returned it to it's box
( ... )
BRAVE FILL Arrow Straight, Arrow True (4/4)interrobamAugust 13 2012, 00:45:56 UTC
She had let loose an entire quiver before she even grazed the target. She swallowed the yelp that rose within her, berated herself for her own enthusiasm. It could have easily been a fluke. She shot six more, missed six more, the ground before and long past the target were scarred like a battlefield. The seventh arrow of the second quiver she held in her hand for a long while. She closed her eyes, pressed the arrow to her lips
( ... )
Re: BRAVE FILL Arrow Straight, Arrow True (4/4)disneykinkloverOctober 18 2012, 03:22:30 UTC
This is hauntingly good and I am on the verge of tears. *Sniffles* :`( Angst fest ahoy! But it is awesome; I love how you delved into how both Merida and Fergus would react and Merida regaining her archery. Loved the end, too; nice touch. :)
In the final bit of the movie when Merida is protecting her mother from Fergus's rage, she isn't quick enough with her block and she takes Fergus's blow instead.
Whatever can happen after that- Does she fix the tapestry? Does she lose her leg to her father? Does Fergus take the opportunity to finish Elinor? Does Mor'du even show up? Up to you!
((as long as it's dramatic; poor Merida.))
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Now I'm visualizing Merida losing an arm or leg, and a guilt-ridden Fergus contacting his old enemy-turned friend Gobber, from the Viking wars, to help him make a prosthetic limb for her.
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Arrow Straight, Arrow True Merida was an archer by passion and a swordswoman by blood, but her father had both blood and passion in his hands when he lowered his blade to the head of his wife. Merida was youthful, and recently arrogant, so she drew her own weapon and readied her nerves. Yet Fergus had fought vikings, mercenaries, bears of legend: when he struck the blow his daughter was too slow and unpracticed to block it. It cut through the flesh of her arm clean and deep: he had put in enough thrust to split an animal's skull and despite all her years in the forest, all her muscle, she was felled like a sapling. Fergus pushed her aside and prepared another strike. Elinor smelled the blood, she knew that her child had been hurt, and the magic that kept her dumb broke easily beneath the fury she felt. She lunged. Fergus readied his sword. Merida felt the scream that ( ... )
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“You're doing well lass. I was afraid I'd lost you too, you know.” Merida looked away from him, away from the arm she no longer had.
“How are the boys?” The King's face grew dark.
“Gone.”
“Gone?” She turned her head sharply “What do you mean gone “Mor'du took everything from me.” His face turned to her's, it was weathered and afraid “Everything but you.” Merida looked pointedly, painfully, at the still raw stump pressed close to her stomach ( ... )
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