[Fic] Soul Eater: 50 Sentences (Beta)
Since Inaho wanted to get back into ficcing, we chose the one-sentence fic method as a way to bootcamp ease her back in. And since crack is always easier to come up with when you have company, I decided to join her.
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Title: 50 Sentences, Shibusen
Series/Characters: [Soul Eater!] Shibusen students, employees, employers and freeloaders
Comprehensive list: Maka, Soul, Black*Star, Tsubaki, Liz, Patty, Shinigami, DeathScythe, Stein, Blaire
Disclaimer: Soul Eater belongs to Ookubo Atsushi. Am only screwing around.
Word Count: 1,903
Note: Themes/Prompts were borrowed from 1sentence's Beta set. The majority of these are liberally laced with crack. A few are a little less humorous and a little more introspective/speculative. Then, there are those that, despite being labeled as gen, could probably be read otherwise if you tilt your head sideways and squint a little.
Also: a handful can be read in conjunction with butterflycages' set of 50-sentences (will link when she posts hers up). Those are labeled accordingly and it’s actually encouraged that you have a separate tab open for each so you can pinball back and forth between them for the full, ah, unique experience.
butterflycages's set can be found here
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50 Sentences (Beta)
by kasugai gummie
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Can be taken in conjunction with butterflycages‘ #15 - Hold
#01 - Walking: “You do know that that was supposed to be a one time, never-speak-of-it-again-type thing right?” Black*Star groused, hefting Kid like a sack of potatoes on his back-to which his passenger merely rolled his eyes and tilted his umbrella left.
#02 - Waltz: Maka knew that “Practice made perfect”-and so it should’ve been no real surprise that years of stepping on Papa’s toes would help perfect Soul’s look of noble anguish despite all his “Cool Guy” posturing.
Precedes butterflycages‘ #50 - Believe
#03 - Wishes: She didn’t ask for much really: to be able to execute a job well done; to get good grades in her classes; for Black*Star to maybe (one day, someday) find a better catchphrase than “Hyo-hoo.”
#04 - Wonder: “Honorable Father, I say we submit a petition to recognize Shibusen as the Eighth; it’ll join ranks with the Great Pyramid, the Temple of Artemis, and as the eighth, its symmetry will be unparalleled and it will be perfect-!!”
#05 - Worry: On the one hand there was Patty-always willfully contributing to collateral damage no matter the locale and chasing butterflies or whatever it was that children chased; on the other there was Kid who probably spent more time in the bathroom folding the toilet paper than brushing his teeth and Liz simply has to wonder sometimes.
#06 - Whimsy: Maka couldn’t help her occasional flights of fancy, her what-if’s where her Papa wasn’t a raging womanizer and where her Mama was less unforgiving of his incurable ways.
#07 - Waste/Wasteland: There was a place to where the dregs of Death City gravitated, where the unwanted and the unwary wandered (only to never come back out), where the buildings were kept together with tape, glue, and thread; most referred to it as the “DEADMAN’S ZONE,” but Stein simply calls it home.
#08 - Whiskey and rum: “That’s right senpai,” Stein murmurs and smiles encouragingly at a very happy and not quite sober Spirit, “keep on downing those shots and this way you won’t feel a thing when I try out that new vasectomy procedure on you later.”
Follows butterflycages‘ #21 - Fool
#09 - War: The change is minute (less than two degrees from the horizontal), but the evidence is glaring and Kid makes a mental note to have Patty and Liz dig up his old house jack; they’ll start with Black*Star first.
#10 - Weddings: He remembers promising Maka that he’d give her her mother’s dress when she was of age-but in all honesty, DeathScythe would rather wear the dress himself than give away his daughter.
#11 - Birthday “You know if it weren’t for me, you would’ve never been born,” Stein says as a way of greeting and when Maka’s expression only conveys more confusion, he explains, “Apparently I turned your father straight.”
#12 - Blessing: He inspects the arrangement from every angle, scrutinizing it ‘til his anxiety no longer threatens to invert his brain; until he can make sure there are no flaws, no blemishes, and all he can say is, “Perfect.”
#13 - Bias: “Now, now DeathScythe-san-I’m sure little Maka prefers hanging around with that Scythe boy because they’re simply good friends and not because she disapproves of you for being such a noble patron here.”
#14 - Burning: When they finally hosed down the fire and cleared away what should have been eight raspberry crepes (even though there were only seven of them), Kid rounded on Patty and, egg beater still in hand, banned her from using any domestic appliance forever.
#15 - Breathing: Tsubaki wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry or kindly inform her Technician that those new “techniques” he was so fascinated with were commonly used by only pregnant women.
#16 - Breaking: “We need to work on that secret handshake man,” Black*Star groans, and Soul can’t even give an indication of agreement seeing as how he literally took the equivalent of a open-palm sucker-punch from Black*Star to the nose.
#17 - Belief: “Trust me, this is going to work,” Black*Star assures her with a shit-eating grin, and bungee’s into the fray, head-first.
#18 - Balloon: “Here, try these on; see if you can fit them in and fix your symmetry,” Kid suggests and barely ducks Liz’s full-arm swing of outrage.
#19 - Balcony: Maka buried her head under her sheets; it was-oh hell-three in the morning on a weekday and if she’d known Papa would end up reciting sonnets (and badly) beneath her window in a (misinformed) bid to get back on her good graces, she would have never read Shakespeare in the first place.
#20 - Bane: “I don’t care if you suddenly become the eighth wonder of the world; you are not coming anywhere near my place with those protractors!”
#21 - Quiet: “Okay, if you’re going to stay in my soul room you better damn well follow the rules: One, no smoking; two, if you’re going to dance; take it to that corner over there; three, rent is due at the beginning of every month; and four, shut up when I’m sleeping.”
#22 - Quirks: The only reason why Shinigami doesn’t comment on his son’s near manic obsession with symmetry is that, besides having better things to do with his time, he is also an avid practitioner of feng shui himself.
#23 - Question: “And you didn’t even ask,” Spirit wailed accusingly (at his rather unrepentant Tech) and continued to stare at his drastically altered appearance with something akin to morbid fascination.
#24 - Quarrel: The one time Black*Star had the gall of comparing him and Maka to an old married couple, Soul punched him in the face (‘cause they totally didn’t “bicker,” dammit!)
#25 - Quitting: “Hey Stein? I, uh, I’m getting married.”
#26 - Jump: His ego is very real and very big-but, to Black*Star’s credit, Tsubaki never has to ask, “how high?”
#27 - Jester: Tsubaki will never actually tell anyone this (especially not her partner), but the first time she met Black*Star, she honestly thought he was a stand-up comedian.
#28 - Joust: “YO, TOUCH MAN, SOUL WASSUP,” Black*Star hollers from across the hall, arm pulled back for their super-awesome-guys-only-secret handshake as he and Soul barreled towards each other, and Maka could tell you that she saw the unflattering heap of limbs, groans and incapacitated idiots coming from a mile away.
Follows #49 - Natural
#29 - Jewel: “Of course this is my natural hair color!” Black*Star retorts, and drops his pants to prove it.
#30 - Just: “Please don’t misunderstand, senpai,” Stein drawled from around a mouthful of nicotine, “you’re not the only one who I’ve given surprise facelifts to.”
#31 - Smirk: “Augh, Maka tell Soul to stop smiling like that-yes, like that, no wait, just stop... good grief, either pull that corner up a bit more or lessen a bit on the other side aaAAAH DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND HOW ASYMMETRICAL YOU LOOK-Liz, Patty, I think I’m going to barf...”
#32 - Sorrow: Even the knowledge that there was a special liqueur stock held in reserve at the Hostess club just for him and him alone wasn’t enough to raise DeathScythe’s spirits after being brutally rebuked by his daughter for the fortieth time that week (though that did not stop the pretty ladies from plying him generously with aforementioned stock).
#33 - Stupidity: “You know you really amaze me sometimes,” Maka says, dryly, and Soul can only give her a drunken thumbs-up from under Black*star’s deadweight and what felt like a trashcan.
#34 - Serenade: “When the moooon hits your eeeeyes, like a biiiig pizza pieeeeee, that’s how I won over your mama!” DeathScythe finishes, proudly.
#35 - Sarcasm: It takes an unusually cruel punishment game and twenty years off his expected life-span, but Kid manages to approach the insufferable Weapon after the two-hour-long session without hitting too many walls (“Ah yes, Excalibur, I just wanted to tell you how happy I am having finally managed to find time and sit in on one of your weekly readings-so awe-inspiring were your legendary feats, such bravery and cunning...”)
#36 - Sordid: Stein didn’t even pause for breath, even though he’d already reduced his senpai into a weeping, in-denial mess in the corner (“Oh and remember that one project we had where I performed XXX-ed on your XXX and XXXX-ed the lower half of your-”)
#37 - Soliloquy: “BEHOLD YOU WORTHLESS PEONS FOR THE GREAT ME, THE ONE AND ONLY BLACK*STAR, SOLE SURVIVOR OF THE STAR CLAN HAS ARRIVED TO ASSASSINATE YOU ALL ON THIS AWESOME DAY AND I’LL DO IT WITH MY EYES CLOSED AND YOU’LL NEVER KNEW WHAT HIT YOU YOU PRESUMPTUOUS BASTARDS HAHAHAHAH-”
#38 - Sojourn: The flashing strobe lights and the fanfares were nice and all, but after the tenth consecutive rehearsal of Black*Star’s new entrance, Tsubaki was ready for a break.
#39 - Share: “B-but dearest, I don’t understand-if there’s enough DeathScythe to go around, why are you speaking of divorce?”
#40 - Solitary: Before Maka and the imp there was only Soul, and nowadays Soul can’t help but feel a little resentful over the fact that he can no longer entertain his one-person tea parties without fear of some sort of potentially embarrassing interruption or other.
#41 - Nowhere: They were stranded and lost and Liz figured that they had at most two more minutes before Kid realized just how asymmetrical the island was.
#42 - Neutral: Sometimes Kid likes to tell himself that he stands on middle ground for all issues (because what’s more symmetrical than a line that divides the extremes?), but it doesn’t take much more than a well-placed threat concerning his wall decor and “seven centimeters” and twin conspiring grins to topple him off his fence.
#43 - Nuance: “Hi, yes, I’d like to file a complaint with your Color Solution Center, because you see, I specifically ordered a liter of ‘Jonquil’... not ‘Jasmine Yellow’ and the incompetent fool who processed my order was an entire shade off and now my walls are two completely different colors.”
#44 - Near: “Papa, in some countries they call this stalking.”
Precedes #29 - Jewel
#45 - Natural: “Boys, we were wondering: are those really your true hair colors?”
#46 - Horizon: The first time Kid watches a sunrise is also the first time Liz and Patty have to physically drag him away from the cliff when he refuses to leave his vantage point even after the sun had finished rising and all.
#47 - Valiant: “HAVE NO FEAR MAKA, FOR PAPA IS HERE TO SAVE THE DAAaaaa-” and DeathScythe can only mourn to his girlfriend later how his baby was growing up so fast and defeating her very own Kishin all by herself.
#48 - Virtuous: “Oh,” Soul chokes from behind his bloodied hand, trying his utmost best to look away from Blaire’s interpretation of a nun’s habit, “my god.”
#49 - Victory: “Look, look you guys at this beautiful and amazing product that will cure me of my disgusting asymmetry-aaaah, I’m so happy I can barely contain myself oh happy day~”
#50 - Defeat: “I’m sorry it washed out Kid... but the box was labeled as temporary, you know.”
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Fin
Completed: April 21, 2008
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... am torn between doing another 4koma and seeing if I can render the three boys in my regular Amano-influenced style. Hrm. :\
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Title: 50 Sentences, Shibusen
Series/Characters: [Soul Eater!] Shibusen students, employees, employers and freeloaders
Comprehensive list: Maka, Soul, Black*Star, Tsubaki, Liz, Patty, Shinigami, DeathScythe, Stein, Blaire
Disclaimer: Soul Eater belongs to Ookubo Atsushi. Am only screwing around.
Word Count: 1,903
Note: Themes/Prompts were borrowed from 1sentence's Beta set. The majority of these are liberally laced with crack. A few are a little less humorous and a little more introspective/speculative. Then, there are those that, despite being labeled as gen, could probably be read otherwise if you tilt your head sideways and squint a little.
Also: a handful can be read in conjunction with butterflycages' set of 50-sentences (will link when she posts hers up). Those are labeled accordingly and it’s actually encouraged that you have a separate tab open for each so you can pinball back and forth between them for the full, ah, unique experience.
butterflycages's set can be found here
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50 Sentences (Beta)
by kasugai gummie
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Can be taken in conjunction with butterflycages‘ #15 - Hold
#01 - Walking: “You do know that that was supposed to be a one time, never-speak-of-it-again-type thing right?” Black*Star groused, hefting Kid like a sack of potatoes on his back-to which his passenger merely rolled his eyes and tilted his umbrella left.
#02 - Waltz: Maka knew that “Practice made perfect”-and so it should’ve been no real surprise that years of stepping on Papa’s toes would help perfect Soul’s look of noble anguish despite all his “Cool Guy” posturing.
Precedes butterflycages‘ #50 - Believe
#03 - Wishes: She didn’t ask for much really: to be able to execute a job well done; to get good grades in her classes; for Black*Star to maybe (one day, someday) find a better catchphrase than “Hyo-hoo.”
#04 - Wonder: “Honorable Father, I say we submit a petition to recognize Shibusen as the Eighth; it’ll join ranks with the Great Pyramid, the Temple of Artemis, and as the eighth, its symmetry will be unparalleled and it will be perfect-!!”
#05 - Worry: On the one hand there was Patty-always willfully contributing to collateral damage no matter the locale and chasing butterflies or whatever it was that children chased; on the other there was Kid who probably spent more time in the bathroom folding the toilet paper than brushing his teeth and Liz simply has to wonder sometimes.
#06 - Whimsy: Maka couldn’t help her occasional flights of fancy, her what-if’s where her Papa wasn’t a raging womanizer and where her Mama was less unforgiving of his incurable ways.
#07 - Waste/Wasteland: There was a place to where the dregs of Death City gravitated, where the unwanted and the unwary wandered (only to never come back out), where the buildings were kept together with tape, glue, and thread; most referred to it as the “DEADMAN’S ZONE,” but Stein simply calls it home.
#08 - Whiskey and rum: “That’s right senpai,” Stein murmurs and smiles encouragingly at a very happy and not quite sober Spirit, “keep on downing those shots and this way you won’t feel a thing when I try out that new vasectomy procedure on you later.”
Follows butterflycages‘ #21 - Fool
#09 - War: The change is minute (less than two degrees from the horizontal), but the evidence is glaring and Kid makes a mental note to have Patty and Liz dig up his old house jack; they’ll start with Black*Star first.
#10 - Weddings: He remembers promising Maka that he’d give her her mother’s dress when she was of age-but in all honesty, DeathScythe would rather wear the dress himself than give away his daughter.
#11 - Birthday “You know if it weren’t for me, you would’ve never been born,” Stein says as a way of greeting and when Maka’s expression only conveys more confusion, he explains, “Apparently I turned your father straight.”
#12 - Blessing: He inspects the arrangement from every angle, scrutinizing it ‘til his anxiety no longer threatens to invert his brain; until he can make sure there are no flaws, no blemishes, and all he can say is, “Perfect.”
#13 - Bias: “Now, now DeathScythe-san-I’m sure little Maka prefers hanging around with that Scythe boy because they’re simply good friends and not because she disapproves of you for being such a noble patron here.”
#14 - Burning: When they finally hosed down the fire and cleared away what should have been eight raspberry crepes (even though there were only seven of them), Kid rounded on Patty and, egg beater still in hand, banned her from using any domestic appliance forever.
#15 - Breathing: Tsubaki wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry or kindly inform her Technician that those new “techniques” he was so fascinated with were commonly used by only pregnant women.
#16 - Breaking: “We need to work on that secret handshake man,” Black*Star groans, and Soul can’t even give an indication of agreement seeing as how he literally took the equivalent of a open-palm sucker-punch from Black*Star to the nose.
#17 - Belief: “Trust me, this is going to work,” Black*Star assures her with a shit-eating grin, and bungee’s into the fray, head-first.
#18 - Balloon: “Here, try these on; see if you can fit them in and fix your symmetry,” Kid suggests and barely ducks Liz’s full-arm swing of outrage.
#19 - Balcony: Maka buried her head under her sheets; it was-oh hell-three in the morning on a weekday and if she’d known Papa would end up reciting sonnets (and badly) beneath her window in a (misinformed) bid to get back on her good graces, she would have never read Shakespeare in the first place.
#20 - Bane: “I don’t care if you suddenly become the eighth wonder of the world; you are not coming anywhere near my place with those protractors!”
#21 - Quiet: “Okay, if you’re going to stay in my soul room you better damn well follow the rules: One, no smoking; two, if you’re going to dance; take it to that corner over there; three, rent is due at the beginning of every month; and four, shut up when I’m sleeping.”
#22 - Quirks: The only reason why Shinigami doesn’t comment on his son’s near manic obsession with symmetry is that, besides having better things to do with his time, he is also an avid practitioner of feng shui himself.
#23 - Question: “And you didn’t even ask,” Spirit wailed accusingly (at his rather unrepentant Tech) and continued to stare at his drastically altered appearance with something akin to morbid fascination.
#24 - Quarrel: The one time Black*Star had the gall of comparing him and Maka to an old married couple, Soul punched him in the face (‘cause they totally didn’t “bicker,” dammit!)
#25 - Quitting: “Hey Stein? I, uh, I’m getting married.”
#26 - Jump: His ego is very real and very big-but, to Black*Star’s credit, Tsubaki never has to ask, “how high?”
#27 - Jester: Tsubaki will never actually tell anyone this (especially not her partner), but the first time she met Black*Star, she honestly thought he was a stand-up comedian.
#28 - Joust: “YO, TOUCH MAN, SOUL WASSUP,” Black*Star hollers from across the hall, arm pulled back for their super-awesome-guys-only-secret handshake as he and Soul barreled towards each other, and Maka could tell you that she saw the unflattering heap of limbs, groans and incapacitated idiots coming from a mile away.
Follows #49 - Natural
#29 - Jewel: “Of course this is my natural hair color!” Black*Star retorts, and drops his pants to prove it.
#30 - Just: “Please don’t misunderstand, senpai,” Stein drawled from around a mouthful of nicotine, “you’re not the only one who I’ve given surprise facelifts to.”
#31 - Smirk: “Augh, Maka tell Soul to stop smiling like that-yes, like that, no wait, just stop... good grief, either pull that corner up a bit more or lessen a bit on the other side aaAAAH DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND HOW ASYMMETRICAL YOU LOOK-Liz, Patty, I think I’m going to barf...”
#32 - Sorrow: Even the knowledge that there was a special liqueur stock held in reserve at the Hostess club just for him and him alone wasn’t enough to raise DeathScythe’s spirits after being brutally rebuked by his daughter for the fortieth time that week (though that did not stop the pretty ladies from plying him generously with aforementioned stock).
#33 - Stupidity: “You know you really amaze me sometimes,” Maka says, dryly, and Soul can only give her a drunken thumbs-up from under Black*star’s deadweight and what felt like a trashcan.
#34 - Serenade: “When the moooon hits your eeeeyes, like a biiiig pizza pieeeeee, that’s how I won over your mama!” DeathScythe finishes, proudly.
#35 - Sarcasm: It takes an unusually cruel punishment game and twenty years off his expected life-span, but Kid manages to approach the insufferable Weapon after the two-hour-long session without hitting too many walls (“Ah yes, Excalibur, I just wanted to tell you how happy I am having finally managed to find time and sit in on one of your weekly readings-so awe-inspiring were your legendary feats, such bravery and cunning...”)
#36 - Sordid: Stein didn’t even pause for breath, even though he’d already reduced his senpai into a weeping, in-denial mess in the corner (“Oh and remember that one project we had where I performed XXX-ed on your XXX and XXXX-ed the lower half of your-”)
#37 - Soliloquy: “BEHOLD YOU WORTHLESS PEONS FOR THE GREAT ME, THE ONE AND ONLY BLACK*STAR, SOLE SURVIVOR OF THE STAR CLAN HAS ARRIVED TO ASSASSINATE YOU ALL ON THIS AWESOME DAY AND I’LL DO IT WITH MY EYES CLOSED AND YOU’LL NEVER KNEW WHAT HIT YOU YOU PRESUMPTUOUS BASTARDS HAHAHAHAH-”
#38 - Sojourn: The flashing strobe lights and the fanfares were nice and all, but after the tenth consecutive rehearsal of Black*Star’s new entrance, Tsubaki was ready for a break.
#39 - Share: “B-but dearest, I don’t understand-if there’s enough DeathScythe to go around, why are you speaking of divorce?”
#40 - Solitary: Before Maka and the imp there was only Soul, and nowadays Soul can’t help but feel a little resentful over the fact that he can no longer entertain his one-person tea parties without fear of some sort of potentially embarrassing interruption or other.
#41 - Nowhere: They were stranded and lost and Liz figured that they had at most two more minutes before Kid realized just how asymmetrical the island was.
#42 - Neutral: Sometimes Kid likes to tell himself that he stands on middle ground for all issues (because what’s more symmetrical than a line that divides the extremes?), but it doesn’t take much more than a well-placed threat concerning his wall decor and “seven centimeters” and twin conspiring grins to topple him off his fence.
#43 - Nuance: “Hi, yes, I’d like to file a complaint with your Color Solution Center, because you see, I specifically ordered a liter of ‘Jonquil’... not ‘Jasmine Yellow’ and the incompetent fool who processed my order was an entire shade off and now my walls are two completely different colors.”
#44 - Near: “Papa, in some countries they call this stalking.”
Precedes #29 - Jewel
#45 - Natural: “Boys, we were wondering: are those really your true hair colors?”
#46 - Horizon: The first time Kid watches a sunrise is also the first time Liz and Patty have to physically drag him away from the cliff when he refuses to leave his vantage point even after the sun had finished rising and all.
#47 - Valiant: “HAVE NO FEAR MAKA, FOR PAPA IS HERE TO SAVE THE DAAaaaa-” and DeathScythe can only mourn to his girlfriend later how his baby was growing up so fast and defeating her very own Kishin all by herself.
#48 - Virtuous: “Oh,” Soul chokes from behind his bloodied hand, trying his utmost best to look away from Blaire’s interpretation of a nun’s habit, “my god.”
#49 - Victory: “Look, look you guys at this beautiful and amazing product that will cure me of my disgusting asymmetry-aaaah, I’m so happy I can barely contain myself oh happy day~”
#50 - Defeat: “I’m sorry it washed out Kid... but the box was labeled as temporary, you know.”
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Fin
Completed: April 21, 2008
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... am torn between doing another 4koma and seeing if I can render the three boys in my regular Amano-influenced style. Hrm. :\