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Afterimages [August 10th] [Fai; Kurofai] [Tsubasa]
Title :: Afterimages
Prompt :: August 10th, “out of the lightning dream” [31_days]
Characters/Pairing :: Fai; Kurofai implied
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Allusions to spoilers for Celes/Fai's backstory.
Wordcount :: 175
Summary :: There is a boy, and there is a tower, and there is a taste of ozone in the wind.
( weighs his words down like a gag as he watches and waits ) -
Infinities [August 9th] [C!Syaosaku] [Tsubasa]
Title :: Infinities
Prompt :: August 9th, “but what would you change if you could?” [31_days]
Characters/Pairing :: C!Syaosaku
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Not specifically spoilery, but intended to tie in with current canon.
Wordcount :: 105
Summary :: She times herself with nothing but the sound of his breaths.
( purpose and endpoint and path all at once ) -
Endpages [August 8th] [Winry/Sheska] [FULLMETAL]
Title :: Endpages
Prompt :: August 8th, “love is a ghost train rumbling through the darkness” [31_days]
Characters/Pairing :: Sheska, Winry; Winry/Sheska implied and vague allusions to implied past Winry/Ed
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Set post-movie.
Wordcount :: 135
Summary :: She needs something to keep her here, now that she can't leave.
( whispered through the miles of telephone wire or standing starkly in blacks and whites or coming so close against her skin ) -
Monomane [August 7th] [Himawari] [xxxHOLiC]
Title :: Monomane
Prompt :: August 7th, “seven for a secret never to be told” [31_days]
Characters :: Himawari
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Allusions to spoilers for Himawari's backstory.
Wordcount :: 125
Summary :: She wears it like a second skin.
Notes :: Monomane (imitation or mimesis) - the intent of a Noh actor to accurately depict the motions of his ( Read more... ) -
Thresholds [August 6th] [Watanuki] [xxxHOLiC]
Title :: Thresholds
Prompt :: August 6th, “three thousand five hundred miles away” [31_days]
Characters :: Watanuki, abstract mentions of Yuuko and Doumeki and Himawari
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Spoilery-ish for 185.
Wordcount :: 100
Summary :: The shop, he thinks, is home.
( and he remembers waking up to scarlet lips and the smell of blood and the softness of Himawari's smile ) -
Firebreaks [August 5th] [Watanuki/Himawari] [xxxHOLiC]
Title :: Firebreaks
Prompt :: August 5th, “lay me down in a field of flame and heather” [31_days]
Characters/Pairing :: Watanuki, mentions of Himawari; Watanuki/Himawari implied
Rating :: PG
Wordcount :: 135
Summary :: He weaves her wreaths of flowers to rest atop her hair, and he does not know whether or not this is a dream.
( and he thinks of red threads, of connections that span worlds ) -
Circumvolution [August 4th] [C!Sakura] [Tsubasa]
Title :: Circumvolution
Prompt :: August 4th, “try to keep myself away from me” [31_days]
Characters :: C!Sakura
Rating :: PG
Warnings :: Allusions to spoilers for 223+.
Wordcount :: 200
Summary :: There is a difference, she believes, between walking the future in dreams and putting yourself directly into the future's path.
( shattering like swordpoints and softening the sharpest edge as she whispered against his skin ) -
Shadowpuppets [August 3rd] [C!Sakura] [Tsubasa]
Title :: Shadowpuppets
Prompt :: August 3rd, “when everybody loves you, you can never be lonely” [31_days]
Characters :: C!Sakura
Rating :: PG
World :: Tokyo
Wordcount :: 110
Summary :: She does not allow herself to wonder if there are familiar faces there on the shadows, in the dark.
( this country has left its mark on us, too ) -
Temperance [August 2nd] [Othello; Othello/Mitsume] [Ororon]
Title :: Temperance
Prompt :: August 2nd, “paint myself in blue and red and black and gray” [31_days]
Characters/Pairing :: Othello; Othello/Mitsume
Rating :: PG-13
Wordcount :: 125
Summary :: I'm going to make you want it.
( red smearing over the swelling blacks and blues of his skin like waves beating against the darkest of surfs ) -
Revolving Blades [August 1st] [Squalo] [Reborn!]
Title :: Revolving Blades
Prompt :: August 1st, “come up through the summer rain” [31_days]
Characters :: Squalo
Rating :: PG-13
Wordcount :: 225
Summary :: He keeps careful lists, of technique after technique after technique.
( being conventional is for bitches )