Genderswap Prompt Post
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lavanya_sixI'm experiencing a bit of writer's block on my current trio of projects, so I could use something to get the juices flowing again. So it's time for a fanfic meme...
RULES:
* Each person can have one-three prompts. I may only pick one out of three given, or do all three. It depends on how they strike me.
* The prompts can range from one word to a whole situation.
* It has to begenderswap related. What's the point otherwise? Time, place, or situation is all up to you.
* Pretty much anything goes, but if it doesn't, I'll let you know and you can prompt something else.
This post will have ten requester slots, with 9/10 filled. Each prompt will be written in the comments. Once the post is finished, there will be a complete list of each filled prompt in an upcoming post.
Go nuts.
MEME IS CLOSED
AtLA GENDERSWAP FANFIC PROMPT POST
* Each person can have one-three prompts. I may only pick one out of three given, or do all three. It depends on how they strike me.
* The prompts can range from one word to a whole situation.
* It has to be
* Pretty much anything goes, but if it doesn't, I'll let you know and you can prompt something else.
This post will have ten requester slots, with 9/10 filled. Each prompt will be written in the comments. Once the post is finished, there will be a complete list of each filled prompt in an upcoming post.
Go nuts.
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Rule 63'd Canon Couples [3/3]
Date: 2011-05-01 10:15 pm (UTC)"Ordered to."
"By who? Your parents?"
He nodded.
"So you do everything your parents tell you? Don't you have the balls -- " the word slipped out in an instant, too late to catch it, and Princess Zuan knew the chaperons hovering at the garden's edge would relay that breach of decorum to her father " -- to make your own decisions?"
"I don't." They were standing amid green splendor, with baby turtle-ducks babbling in a nearby pond and buttermoths ghosting along on the summer's breeze. Mao reached out and laid a finger on her scar. Zuan reflexively jerked back but his finger stuck to its target, tracing its outline. "You don't."
Zuan's heart was drumming against the inside walls of her ribcage. She slapped his hand away, face flushing with several shades of outrage. Asshole! "I hunted down the Avatar and helped conquer Ba Sing Se because I *chose* to. I could have given up but I didn't. Is there anything you can do besides act like a smug, self-satisfied stoic?"
Mao made a show of considering that question by curling a finger under his strong chin. Finally, he said, "I can actually throw knives pretty well."
"Bwah?"
"See that big apple way up there?" Zuan has too much battlefield experience to blindly follow his finger towards the spot it was pointing, so she kept watching Mao himself as a small knife slid out of his sleeve and fell into his palm. The air around Zuan's fists churned with invisible heat, ready to ignite instantly for self-defense, but, instead of her, Mao's knife struck out at the offending fruit tree.
A golden, knife-stuck apple fell to the freshly cut grass. Mao walked over and picked it up. He carved the soft flesh into quarters, then popped one into his mouth to chew.
Zuan stared back at him.
"If you want some," he said lethargically between bites, "you'll have to get your own apple."
Zuan wordlessly reached up and pulled something out of the nest that was her hair. Loose raven locks and lilies tumbled down onto her shoulders. Zuan's right hand lashed out.
Her concealed knife twanged audibly as it buried itself into the innocent tree. A newly harvested apple fell and bonked Mao on the head, rolling to a stop in the grass. Mao had stopped chewing. He stared at the apple, then looked back at her. Zuan couldn't help but smirk at the faint surprise coloring his features. A little emotion looked good on him.
After a few moments, she blushed with self-conciousness. "I'm, uh, not... the best... firebender. So I, um, train with knives. I'm not strong enough to be a sword-fighter so... yeah..."
The buzz of insects filled the void.
"I - I was bored," Mao confessed. "Royal Academy for Boys. Not much to do there."
"Yeah?"
He nodded.
Someone cleared their throat. Zuan and Mao both turned to find one of the royal household's servants standing there, bowing deeply. "Princess, his majesty wishes to remind you that your five minutes up. The next interview will begin shortly."
With that, the bowing servant backed away.
Zuan looked to Mao and was disappointed to see cracks in his demeanor had resealed themselves. Both his knife and half-eaten apple were nowhere in sight. Instead he blankly offered Zuan her own apple.
"Princess Zuan," he said, bowing slightly.
She took the apple from him, body buzzing with lightning for the first time ever as their briefly fingers touched.
And then he was walking away.
Zuan bit into her apple as she watched him go. Juice ran down her chin, smearing her carefully applied make-up. She could have honestly cared less about the next interview.
Re: Rule 63'd Canon Couples [3/3]
Date: 2011-05-02 03:02 am (UTC)Re: Rule 63'd Canon Couples [3/3]
Date: 2011-05-02 09:42 pm (UTC)Re: Rule 63'd Canon Couples [3/3]
Date: 2011-05-02 01:41 pm (UTC)Aw yeah, Zuan with her sailor-mouth. Also, "Bwah". Hee.
Also, hey - nice change with the knives/swords. I would have wondered if Zuan was a broadswordswoman or something else. Neat!
These were just awesome. Thank you sooo very much!
Re: Rule 63'd Canon Couples [3/3]
Date: 2011-05-02 01:49 pm (UTC)No prob! These were all fun to write, especially the Zuan/Mao fill.
Originally, I was going to give Zuan a naginata as a joking nod towards the weapon of the fem!Main Character in 'Persona P3P', but the joke with the apples worked best with knives.