ladyoflorien | Brevity is the Soul of Wit

Trying to get back into the swing of things after a crazy busy start to March, and then being gross-sick for a week. So Happy #FicFriday!

Continuing the new tradition from here:

Leave prompts in the comment section below
— I will respond with at least 2-sentences of fic, unless I get carried away
— You can request anything (take a look at my interests for ideas), including OF
— Leave prompts for 140 Character Fic over on Twitter, too! Use the hashtag #FicFriday
— Brevity is the soul of wit
— HAVE FUN!

If you have a #FicFriday post of your own, link me to it in the comments so I can prompt you as well! Happy writing, everyone!

My #140CharFic fills from Twitter (3/15):

Firefly
For Fi, prompt: Zoe-fear
"She was good with folk on the field. 'Keep your head up, eyes open. Probably won't make much difference, but maybe you'll live.'"

Hell on Wheels / 3:10 to Yuma crossover
For Fi, prompt: Lily-William-growth
"She's seen the growth of the railroad; if honest, helping William nurture his land and seeing what it may do brings more delight."

Seabiscuit / Changeling OC crossover
For Fi, prompt: Red/Tiwa-belief
"She never says, 'Don't look down!' Doesn't have to. Holding onto each other, he needs no reminder he's safe. His eyes stay open."

The Three Musketeers
For Fi, prompt: Porthos-old friends
"The truest companions are born from conflict. Call it ego, posturing, pride - Athos laughs, teeth stained red, and Aramis sings."

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Steve Rogers - temporarily losing the serum-effects

It's disorienting first. Next, panic strikes like an ice stiletto. But third? Third comes the relief, and its effects last longer than any other emotion.

The most frustrating thing about these fics is that 140 characters later THEY JUST STOP SUDDENLY.

Ahhhhhhhh Steve, relieved. :(

Haha, yeah this particular prompt didn't exactly suit the character limit, because I sat here going "ahahah wtf THAT is a complicated thing to work with." He'd have so many more feels than that. BUT, if it's any consolation there are two more Steve ficlets on my Twitter?

I hope it didn't "stop suddenly" haha, I was trying to make it pretty self-contained. ♥

No, I meant because I wanted more. :D

I was originally going to ask for two, "Steve Meets Howard Stark" and "Steve Meets Tony Stark" but thought the serum one might be more fun for you to play with.

Do you mean meet in an AU way from how he meets them both in canon? I can take more than one prompt. Last time Fi gave me 5. So that's never an issue -- but I'd have to have a think on those to make them different from what we've already seen.

Not specifically, more like a reflection on who he thinks they are first-go. I scrapped the idea pretty quick, but I guess my interest is more in how (or if) he compares them to each other.

Oh, LAWDY. Yet another very complicated prompt to pare down into a brief ficlet, haha. I will definitely have a think on this, though my world suddenly exploded so I may not get to write until tomorrow. ♥

Yeah, I'm no good at these prompts, as I usually want to know stuff that works better in 100-page fics. :D MY EVIL PLAN TO MAKE YOU WRITE NOVELS FOR ME.

Ha! Don't say that, because the last time I was teasingly pressured to write something longer the muse clammed up on me and I ended up just today sending a (really awful and crappy short) fill for a prompt left almost a month ago.

BESIDES, YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT OF BREVITY BEING THE SOUL OF WIT, GOSH LI. ;)

Meh, no pressure. <3 I'm quite happy with 140-char fics, I'm just terrible at prompting for them. :D Though it might seriously be time to re-read some of the old ones we came up with.

BREVITY DOESN'T ALWAYS GIVE ME THE FEELS I CRAVE, GABBY, JEEZ.

You couldn't really call it an introduction; Howard Stark reminded Steve of a Mary Shelley mad scientist at his life regeneration machine, and Steve was too busy hoping this thing would work better than his flying car did.

He was ... different. Not the Hollywood mogul and Hope for the Future he was painted as under the bright lights and camera lens, but a flawed and self-assured ego that Steve trusted just as much as he craved to knock out.

*flail*

The dichotomy of these feels are KILLING ME. The whole world screaming and fawning over Howard's genius and Steve is just like "Please don't kill me."

And still with the screaming and the fawning and the admiration and Steve gets to know him and just thinks "Wow, you are a good guy who needs a punch in the mouth."

PERFECT.

His father had been a friend, a fighter, a visionary; Steve was curious if the next generation of Stark would be different or exactly the same.

Different.

More ego, more fight, more genius. He didn't seem to care about making friends, or even just preventing Steve's disdain; his lack of attention on anything for very long made it easy (at least at first) to pretend he wasn't there.

*continued flail*

"He didn't seem to care about making friends, or even just preventing Steve's disdain" - My first thought was that this describes Steve's time in basic training pretty well, too.

Ahhhh pretending he's not there, not an easy thing to do with any Stark, but Steve's had practice.

SO. SO GREAT.

*snickers* Yeeeeeeeep. Steve and Tony have more in common than he will ever, EVER admit to. And, for all his practice, you can't ignore a Stark forever.

:D! Glad you liked them, my dear! ♥

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