Challenge II - CLOSED

[poisonangel]

This Challenge is CLOSED.

I have finished the first challenge that I opened a billion years ago!!!! And now since I’m insane, I hereby open a new one!

I’m not stating a limit, but restrain yourselves, people! ^__^ Give me a character or a fandom that I know and a theme or prompt or randomly selected word and I will give you a fic or a drabble or a drawing or an icon. My call, not yours. Mwa ha ha! Oh, and I may even disregard your theme!

Evil is as evil does...

Oh, and here are links to everything from Challenge I. Enjoy!



For missbiceps:

omg!Maou: OOC Anissina and her world’s Yozak: Love


For alarielle:

omg!Maou: OOC Alford x IC Alford x IC Conrad x IC Yozak: Sweet

omg!Maou: OOC Shinou:Bitter


For merigold21:

omg!Maou: OOC KG: Dancing


For sora_ishida:

Kyou Kara Maou: Murata and Wolfram: Legends

Kyou Kara Maou: Adelbert x Yozak: Burning Bright

Kyou Kara Maou: Conrad x Yuuri: The Window


For vain_chan:

omg!maou’s chat: OOC Anissina and chibi!IC!Conrad: Foliage


For arana_suteshi:

omg!Maou: IC Gisela and OOC Anissina and OOC Yozak: Swim


For renabunny42:

X-Men: Rouge and Nightcrawler and Mystique: Dreamworld


For slytherinblack:

omg!maou: OOC Anissina and OOC Yozak: Pink


For briarwolf:

Scrapped Princess: Fulle: Regret


For violetsquirrel:

Samurai Champloo: Mugen x Jin: Water


For jazzthejazz:

omg!Maou: IC Yuuri x IC Wolfram: Kittens

omg!Maou’s chat: OOC Conrad and OOC Alford: Truth


For deannawol:

Kyou Kara Maou: Gunter and Yuuri: Finally

Kyou Kara Maou: Ulrike and Murata: Refuge



Oh, and comments are highly enjoyed. ^__^

Edit: Not taking any more requests at this time! (This means YOU, Kindred!)

Comments

[poisonangel7.livejournal.com]

Characters: Shinou x Sage
Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou
Rated: PG
Author’s Note: I threw out your prompt word. Such is my want! Bow to my excessive power! Bwa ha ha ha! I mean, sorry!


Caught in the Tide

I knew what would happen.

Everyone was out on the battlefield fighting, trying their hardest, pushing their limits, and the entire time I was just watching the inevitable play itself out.

I’m not claiming to be psychic. I didn’t know that von Walde would nearly get his arm sliced off. I didn’t know Rufus would make a firebolt larger than a horse and stop a whole division with one blow. Actually, I’m still pretty surprised about that particular outcome.

No, I didn’t know every specific detail, but I knew the gist of the story. “And so our heroes with their impressive stamina and zeal for battle, stood on the cusp of defeat before their leader, did something completely stupid to save the day.” I never was very good at writing happy endings. I guess that’s why I read books and leave the authoring to others.

Everyone else seemed happy though. Well, wounded and dead not withstanding. It was a time for celebration. We had struck down the enemy by banding together under the direction of a rather convincing (okay, and not so hard to look at) leader.

I smiled at the feast. I smiled at the coronation. I smiled the night he pretended to be tipsy, so he could get away with kissing me.

There was nothing I could do to change the course the river wanted to follow, so why not smile? It was a good time for us, knowing that it would end didn’t change that fact.

I was the first to notice the changes in him--not surprising given how much time we spent together. I knew the cause. And he eventually realized it too. I let him tell me when he was ready. I knew what he would want to do. There was no reason to rush it. And part of me hoped that maybe just this once I could be wrong.

I wasn’t.

In the end it was all about balance. Good and evil. Gain and give. Happiness and sorrow. The natural order of things can be as oppressive as it can freeing--just another act of balance.

And so it was our Shinou, the greatest hope, was merging with Soushu, the darkest plague upon our society, and he would once again sacrifice for his people.

Knowing what will happen doesn’t make it any easier.

I ask myself, if I know so damn much, then why am I so surprised I have chosen to serve him beyond this first life? Why chase myself into the future, saddling each life I live with the burden of knowledge?

Life’s joke I suppose. I can predict the outcome of any number of actions, but I can’t guess or control my own heart.

[sora-ishida.livejournal.com]

♥ ♥ ♥

Thankyou Kindred! I really like it! It's a very interesting perspective on the Sage and his relationship with Shinou. ♥

[poisonangel7.livejournal.com]

Well, interesting perspectives I have in spades since I so rarely seem to manage to have normal ones. *snugs*

[crystaltear.livejournal.com]

I'm back to reading :)
And this is just beautiful. So sad, and the words you use to convery the power of the balance between both the two characters and the good and evil is wonderful. I always felt bad for Daikenja and all of his following selves, but this makes the sorry much more tangible than it ever is in the anime.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you so much. Murata is one of my favorite characters because of all the past lives which he acutally remembers to some degree. Heh, he's like a Trill on Star Trek. Kind of. No big worm thing.

I was actually thinking I'd post this story soon on FFN and maybe link it to the Shinou x Sage Comm.

It is fun reading your comments as you go through my fics. (I can't believe how many you've read now!)

[ex-victims.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Very nice, and it's poignantly sad, which suits Murata.

:D Great work, as always.

[poisonangel7.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much. #^_^#

Murata is one of my favorite characters to explore, but he also intimidates me the most because he is so complex. I'm glad you liked it.

[ex-victims.livejournal.com]

Murata is one of my favorite characters to explore, but he also intimidates me the most because he is so complex. I'm glad you liked it.

Hahaha, ain't that the truth. It's also one of the reasons I love reading about him--many writers have different perspectives on him as the boy, and him as the Sage.

[hikari-shiroki.livejournal.com]

Ouch, that was very touching ^^.
I hope is only the preface by the way ^^, I like it this far XD.

[poisonangel7.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you liked it. It was a one-shot and not a preface I'm afraid. I've found I can't be trusted to write chapter fics. I think I only finished 2 of the 8 or so I started (in other fandoms mostly.)