A recording of @castingcallwoe‘s “The most ridiculous casting tried ever written…” post.
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A/N: So ridiculous, it’s almost poetry. But, really, I had to do so many takes because I kept laughing so damn much.
hiya. do you think you could write a kakashi pov from the day he met shikako, the bell test, the wave mission, the first chunin exams, sasuke kidnapping arc, gelel aftermath, the second chunin exams, when shikako makes special jounin, and the most recent mission aftermath? kakashi has always been my favorite character and i think you+silver queen pin his character the best. you could even just do tiny snippets and my kakashi heart will be satisfied.
Hi anon, thanks for the prompt! I, too, am very fond of Kakashi although–to be honest–I feel like his “voice” always eludes me. I can sometimes get his actions/reactions/dialogue down, but his the thought processes behind those are always… ? WHAT? …
I will do my best on this prompt although, due to how close to DoS “canon” it is, it may take me a while. I wouldn’t want to contradict anything Silver Queen has written.
Missed Post (2016-02-23)
😦
Outliving The Ruins, 6/? (2016-02-22)
Carlos is pushed.
Not out of any malice, just a bending mishap, a mistimed pillar of stone jutting out at a different angle and faster speed than originally meant. It shunts him up and, thankfully, away from the nearby cliffside. But that means he is flung towards the ocean instead.
That’s not was he’s worried about–even though he can’t swim, there are a number of water benders in attendance that can easily wash him ashore–what’s worrying is what he can’t see: the invisible barrier surrounding the Isle, preventing people from leaving.
Carlos doesn’t know what the barrier will do to someone vaulted at it at high speed. He’s not even sure how it works–something to do with the Fairy Godmother’s spiritual ability to energy bend–will it just act like an invisible wall? Or is it more proactive than that–decidedly, dangerously, disastrously so?
He can see the wide-eyed dismay on everyone’s faces, his friends’ determined expressions. Jay and Evie have both shifted into bending stances–Jay trying to correct the other earth bender’s mistake by turning the shore into a grasping arm, and Evie sending a wave inland to prevent Carlos’ collision. Meanwhile, Mal is shooting towards him like a rocket, blasts of fire emitting from her hands and feet, trying to reach him first.
Their efforts won’t work.
Time seems to be slipping too fast–he’s falling closer and closer to the edge–and, impossibly, slowing. All these thoughts and observations are hurtling through his mind like he is towards the barrier.
Carlos is pushed–sent flying through the air–and, somehow, goes beyond the barrier.
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Avatars are, by definition, capable of mastering all four elements. That does not mean that they can master or even access each element’s subspecialties. There is no rhyme or reason as to which skills an Avatar might gain–whether it’s a matter wanting to learn or some hidden incapability–it has nothing to do with an Avatar’s original element, either.
The previous Avatar, Merlin, had originally been an earth bender. He had been able to metal bend and, despite the clashing elemental alignment, had also been quite skilled at spiritual projection which is an air subspecialty. But he had never been able to master healing, had found blood bending to be distasteful, and while he could technically generate lightning, it would be inaccurate to say he controlled it, much less mastered it.
Mal, as the next Avatar in line, is still young, her powers yet untested; it is too early to say which talents she may learn and master. But Avatars have a tendency to counterbalance their predecessors–in personality, yes, but also in ability. To Mal, lightning comes as easy to her as fire, while Jay’s lessons in metal bending continues to elude her. She hasn’t tried healing, but the rats and vermin of the Isle provide ample targets for her experiments in blood bending.
With all that in mind, what might be deduced about her potential in energy bending?
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Carlos goes beyond the barrier.
At first, nobody notices because nothing happens–Carlos keeps falling. There’s no real demarcation of where the barrier is, no corresponding physical wall or visible markers of where to stop. It’s a feeling mostly, according to the water benders who yearn for the sea: sudden onset nausea and weakness and dizziness that only increases the further from the island one tries to go. Not even Uri has gone past the point of the lightheadedness edging into unconsciousness–you can’t bend if you’re not awake, after all, and even water benders can drown.
And so, at first, because Carlos doesn’t show these effects, nobody notices he goes beyond the barrier. They think, maybe they misjudged the distance, maybe it’s farther out to sea than they remember, a difference in high and low tides.
Until Mal, flying too fast to feel her own encroaching symptoms, suddenly stops. The steady flames bursting from her hands and feet disappearing between one instant and the next, all momentum taken from her, so that she drops like a rock. She has the presence of mind to cushion her fall, water bending so that the waves carry her down instead of just slamming into it from height, but for some reason that is a struggle. Absolutely exhausting.
She can’t swim.
Thankfully, from her place on the shore, Evie notices and quickly creates a small ice floe for Mal to rest on. She lets the other water benders tow it to shore because she is still focussed on Carlos who is still in danger from his own lack of swimming ability.
Evie raises a spout of water to catch him, gently lowering him to sea level, before creating yet another ice floe which she pulls back. Carlos still shows no symptoms, even when he crosses back over the barrier.
Already, their fellow islanders are talking amongst themselves; trying to make sense of what they just witnessed and what it might mean.
“Maybe it’s because he’s not a bender,” someone suggests, but that is immediately shot down. Plenty of non-benders have tried to leave–none of them have succeeded.
“What if it’s intent? Or lack of it–he didn’t mean to go so far, after all,” someone else says, which is met with considering noises.
“How does energy bending work?” another person asks.
Another answers, “How should I know–I’m not an air bender.”
For a tiny, eternal moment, everyone falls into silence, considering:
Carlos–an air bender?
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A/N: I missed this series 😀
I’ve also numbered it for easier reading (though I do have a part one and part two to 3/? because they are both very short and I’ll probably consolidate them when I transfer this series to ao3).
So regarding elemental subspecialties, according to the Avatar wiki energy bending is a separate “element” altogether (or, rather, predating the four elements) but I kind of feel like it has too much in common with air’s subspecialty of spirit projection for them to be separate? So… yeah. I think it’s essentially just really advanced spirit projection and thus an air subspecialty which is why Fairy Godmother can do it even though in the show we only ever see Avatars (and lion turtles) do it.
Spots and Bells (and Unnamed Tales) — now on ao3!
Combining all of my loosely related and untitled Miraculous Ladybug ficlets into one collection called Spots and Bells (And Unnamed Tales) on archiveofourown. Check it out here!
what are your dos ships? (I’ve been lookin for a Neji/Shikako ship since forever)
… am I allowed to answer this? I kind of have this notion like, because I run the dosbysilverqueen blog, I’m contractually obligated to stay neutral. I mean, that’s a silly feeling, so I’m going to ignore it, but that’s my first gut instinct.
Let’s see, for DoS ships… I have to admit that I greatly enjoy how DoS is gen–more about friendship and family than romance–because I’ve always been the type of fan who prefers what the fandom comes up with for ships than what the original does? Or rather, that the original work picking a specific ship almost ruins the magic of it–it makes it real in a very specific way and it can’t be undone. Or un-canon-ed… if that makes any sense.
From a fan’s point of view I am, obviously, quite fond of GaaraxShikako (unsurprisingly, given that my Dreaming of S(omething) series revolves around the first Dreaming of S(erenity) that was inspired by their Grass Chuunin Exam battle), and I do think it is my most favorite? In the sense that, if something had to become “canon DoS” then I would mind that the least–because there have been multiple moments of creating a foundation for a romantic relationship. Not immediately of course, but if–for some odd reason–SQ did a sudden time skip straight to the epilogue and showed ShikakoxGaara then I wouldn’t be all that surprised or disappointed?
Same with KibaxShikako, though I find that less feasible only because I feel that Shikako views a lot of the Konoha-nin (especially the Konoha Twelve/Thirteen) as, well, assets? Or… characters. Well, no, but I’m unsure about how to say this… like, Shikako can’t view any of them in a romantic sense because she knows too much about them from her own reader’s POV that there might be… not necessarily a consent gap but like a… knowledge disadvantage.
And there’s also the Westermarck effect which, technically, only applies to children raised together from birth to six years old and so doesn’t actually apply to Shikako and the rest of the Rookie Nine. But I feel like it’s something that would linger with Shikako–they are characters, they are children, they are assets that need to be kept alive–and so she wouldn’t be able to view any of them romantically (at least, not for a long while).
Which is probably why I’m fond of a conflicted/unrequited!SasukexShikako; because not only is she basically the first girl to befriend him as himself (and not the school idol) but she’s also the closest thing he has to family? So, like I’ve mentioned before, there is no doubt that Sasuke loves Shikako but I don’t think even he quite knows in what way–romantic or platonic. And Shikako for sure loves him platonically, but I feel like the consent/knowledge disadvanatge applies to him especially–seeing as how Shikako has literally changed his fate on multiple occasions. She has way too much power over him–and way too many secrets she’s hiding from him–for her to ever feel like she can be in a romantic with him.
And with InoxShikako. Well, that ship is complicated not because Ino’s feelings are complicated for Shikako–I kind of feel like Ino would be okay with either a romantic relationship with Shikako or maintaining their platonic friendship, unlike Sasuke who is unsure what he wants–but because Shikako has also changed Ino’s fate for the worse (at least, given her latest feelings about damaging Team Ten…). So not only is there a power disparity and secret-keeping there’s also guilt on Shikako’s part–which there isn’t really with Sasuke.
That being said, I am now wondering about the SakuraxShikako ship. But like, way after everything in canon has been settled; like when everyone’s nineteen or so. Because Shikako has definitely changed Sakura’s life–majorly, considering she’s not on Team Seven anymore–but not necessarily for better or worse and not even on purpose. So Shikako would be free from any guilt or secrecy because any differences with Sakura–she’d have such different formative experience than the one canon Sakura had–aren’t really Shikako’s fault. It would remove a little of that consent/knowledge disadvantage because while Shikako knows what canon Sakura would be like it’s not some kind of benchmark that she keeps in her head about how she’s failed/succeeded (not like with Sasuke and Ino, probably). It’s just… different. Yeah, I think that’d be interesting.
As for the members of Team Gai. Well. If I had to ship one of them with Shikako I probably would have originally gone with TenTenxShikako given the steps between acquaintances to friends to lovers isn’t so off. But then thinking about it further (and also keeping in mind that Shikamaru and TenTen are dating, and it’d be really weird to date one twin then the other) that’s kind of… boring? Like… where’s the spark? The passion? And also I’d be a little worried about TenTen’s self-esteem? Like it’s one thing to be friends with a kunoichi who is from a clan and a prodigy at sealing and already a tokubetsu jounin at age thirteen etc. etc. But it’s another thing to date one? Like… ouch–I’d be torn between jealousy and guilt over being jealous constantly.
Given Lee’s eternal, unwavering love for Sakura and also his very disconcerting first/second impression of Shikako (post-Orochimaru battle in the Forest of Death, right after she totally demolished the Sound Genin even though she was so injured and tired and probably concussed) I don’t really think a romantic ship could form between them? Definitely not for a long time. Because Shikako is very clearly not what Lee is looking for–and because Lee is oddly sexist? Like, he doesn’t have anything against kunoichi being shinobi but his “ideal woman” is essentially a damsel in distress whose affection can be won by defeating Sasuke in battle (that’s straight up canon) or by rescuing her from the Sound Genin. And Lee’s continued crush on Sakura (in canon) is because she’s so overtly feminine, or his idea of femininity–pretty and passive–that it always made me very uncomfortable whenever his crush on her was brought up. Especially when she made it clear that she liked Sasuke and he’d still try to pursue her/impress her by trying to defeat Sasuke. I DUNNO. He grows out of his crush on Sakura (eventually) but I have no idea if he’s grown out of that weird idealized femininity, but either way Shikako wouldn’t want that. Like… at all.
And now for Neji. I’ll be honest, anon, until you brought it up I hadn’t ever really thought about it? But now that I do I’m just like… hm… yeah… yeah? Alright! Because Neji is one of the few of the Konoha Twelve that isn’t really in Shikako’s sphere of influence nor someone whose life she feels obligated to improve. Mostly because… she can’t do anything about his life. There’s no way she could have saved his dad, she can’t affect Hyuuga Clan politics, and Naruto has already changed his view on life/Hinata. So… it’s, much like the GaaraxShikako ship and the SakuraxShikako ship, something different and… freeing?
Now as for the specifics of the NejixShikako ship–I do enjoy how Neji’s first/second impression of Shikako is basically the same as Lee’s but instead of being discomfited, Neji is… impressed? He respects her ability and her decisions even if he doesn’t necessarily agree, or maybe because they are so different. Two points that I’d want to see addressed in this ship would be the topic of fate and the Caged Bird Seal–because these are both things which are vital to Neji’s character and which Shikako could possibly change. Because her very existence proves that fate can be changed… and given her reputation as Konoha’s newest budding fuinjutsu master. Well, it wouldn’t make any sense for her not to at least be curious about the Caged Bird Seal.
But these two matters would also be very… Okay so, it’s canon that Neji dies. And Shikako has already gotten in trouble with her fuinjutsu. I almost feel like Shikako would be, at least subconsciously, reluctant to be in a relationship with Neji–at least, before the whole Madara/Kaguya madness. Because then he’d be one more person she’s responsible for. And she’d put so much pressure on herself to prevent his death which would just… it’s a lot for her to juggle and it would absolutely wreck her if she failed. Of course, if this relationship starts after the whole Madara/Kaguya madness then that’s a different story. And, because she’s already been through the end of the world, she’d be more willing to get involved in the politics of the Caged Bird Seal. What does clan politics matter to her anymore? She can do whatever she want… essentially, timing is very important.
prompt; shikako in the epilogue and boruto the movie. how do you think it would go and how would she change everything? your opinion and everything. if you decide to write a story about this, i want to request a shikako and kakashi scene because we rarely see them interact (meaningfully) and i really miss those interactions.
Hi, anon! Well, I haven’t actually watched the Boruto movie, but I’ll see what I can do about Shikako in the epilogue world.
I’m a little wary, though, to be honest because there’s SO MUCH that she’s changed that I honestly don’t know what would still be the same in the epilogue.
I will do my best to include a scene with Kakashi (which shouldn’t be too difficult since I’m very fond of him, too). But this one miiiiight take me a while.
Thanks for the prompt, anon!
Dreaming of S(peculation), a DoS remix drabble (2016-02-19)
Strangely enough, the rumors originate not from Suna or Konoha, but from Kiri–specifically, with Mei Terumi. Of course, when asked about the matter, she will only smile and say, “A mere misunderstanding; I just wanted to prepare for my own possible political nuptials.” As she explains, she sends a wink towards Kakashi who is reluctantly acting as one of Tsunade’s guard.
Needless to say, this does not impress the Hokage’s other guard–but then again, Shikamaru’s brow has been stuck in a near permanent furrow for the past few months. Mostly, Tsunade brought him along for entertainment.
Both of them, actually. God knows she’s been needing something to laugh at. Having two people more stressed out about Shikako’s near engagement than her makes the situation less headache inducing.
At least Tsunade’s not dealing with the girl in question. Or her fellow catastrophic Lucky Sevens teammates.
Or her almost fiancé.
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“This is unacceptable!” Councillor Odo shouts. Despite his seat being furthest from the corner of the hall Kankurou’s claimed, his voice is just shrill and put upon enough to cut through the distance. “We cannot have our Kazekage engaged to some… girl from Land of Fire! She’s not even of noble birth!”
While the other councillors are less vocal, most of them have expressions which make their similar lack of approval quite clear. But there are a fair few who don’t, a few who look almost… considering.
“Hey! What does a wrinkled old blowhard like you have to do with this? Who are you anyway? Shikako isn’t some girl! She’s amazing and way better than you’ll ever be!” Naruto shouts, bristling with anger, as if the world of politics were settled with volume and not finesse.
For obvious reasons, the position of Konoha’s ambassador to Suna had to be temporarily reassigned. Unfortunately, the only person both sides could agree on as a replacement was Naruto who… well… probably would never get this assignment ever again if the councillors had anything to say about it.
Kankurou does find this absolutely hilarious, though, because it’s not like he has to put up with the codgers that frequently. The only reason why he’s here is because he’s acting as–and this is the best part–Gaara’s guardian seeing as how Temari is away doing her job as Suna’s ambassador to Konoha and neither party of this alleged engagement is over the age of majority.
Old enough to kill for your country, and old enough to lead a village, but not old enough to decide who he can marry. Diplomatic marriages, who knew?
Gaara, for once in his reign as Kazekage refusing to be involved in the village’s political matters, spends the entirety of the discussion failing to hide his laughter.
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In the mountains of the Land of Lightning, one very pissed off sword-wielding chuunin is slashing all of the training posts into pieces. The pieces of stone that fall are small enough to be considered pebbles.
Given that Netsui has literally only met Shikako Nara twice–once during their infuriating matchup in the Grass Chuunin Exams, and the second during an absolutely bizarre mission which she would like to cut out of her brain if necessary–it doesn’t make very much sense that she should care so much about hearsay on some stupid marriage. It’s not like that’ll affect either of their combat abilities so it shouldn’t matter. But Kumo has always been very… encouraging of their shinobi’s emotions and irritation at one’s self-appointed nemesis is close enough.
“You know you’re going to have to fix those before you leave, right?” Akantai says, and Netsui bites back the automatic growl because it’s not like there are many people lining up to talk to her even years after that shameful excuse for a fight.
“I will,” she grits out, because that’s all she can say before she goes on to hack away at the remaining two training posts. Of course, once that’s done now she has to talk.
“Is this about that Nara?” Akantai asks and that’s it. Netsui can’t even–
“Of course it’s about that damned Nara! Why is she even getting married now? That makes no sense! She’s not even in her prime yet, much less past it, and she’s going to ruin her career by shacking up with some guy and popping out babies? What?”
“Some guy… as in… the Kazekage?” Akantai says slowly, in disbelief.
“Whatever!” she shouts back, unappeased.
“Maybe they’re trying to make a new bloodline,” Akantai suggests, before making a quick jump back to dodge a swipe from Netsui’s sword.
“This is such bullshit!”
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It is a very tense and awkward silence that greets Ino when she gracefully and subtly sneaks into the official meeting between Suna’s ambassador, the Nara family, and–for some reason–Sasuke.
She’s not surprised to see the scowl on Sasuke’s face, given his not so secret conflicted feelings for Shikako even to this day; but she’s not expecting the stiff, displeased smile on Yoshino-san’s face much less the mild frown on Shikaku-san’s which, for anyone else, would be scowls. Shikako’s exasperation and Temari’s barely hidden bewilderment, however, makes sense. This is practically an omiai–or the precursor to one–and Ino is more than happy to sit in and watch.
“Are you implying that my daughter somehow isn’t good enough to be engaged to your brother?” Yoshino asks, looking somehow more lethal in her pink yukata than Sasuke, brooding in the corner with his sword still strapped to his back and no less than twenty kunai in reach.
“Oh my god, kill me now, please,” Shikako mutters, face in her hands, no doubt absolutely embarrassed by everything about this situation.
Temari’s left eye twitches before she valiantly attempts to talk her way out of this verbal trap, “As my brother’s representative in both my capacity as Sunagakure’s ambassador and as the head of our family, I can say with utmost certainty that our reluctance in this engagement has nothing to do with Shikako as a person. Rather it’s more to do with–”
“She’s second in line in succession to the Nara Clan,” Shikaku-san adds, throwing fuel onto the fire that is Yoshino-san’s indignation.
“She’s also an extremely powerful shinobi,” Sasuke contributes, simultaneously messing with Shikako and being a faithful teammate.
“And very pretty,” Ino says, just because.
Shikako makes a noise not unlike Ino’s chameleon summons when they are particularly hungry and cranky.
“Yes?” Temari responds, confused, before glancing at Yoshino-san and repeating, more firmly, “Yes, she is. But the problem is that my brother hasn’t had any say in this engagement that appeared out of nowhere and, frankly, looking at Shikako it would seem like she hasn’t either.”
“No, I have not,” Shikako says definitively, which would have ended the topic of conversation and that just cannot be done.
Sasuke, Shikaku-san, and Temari all seem to be relaxing, which gives Yoshino-san the opportunity to say, “Which isn’t to say that she’s against such an engagement. Just that these matters ought to be handled in a more formal manner.”
Shikako sends a startled look to her mother.
Which then jerks immediately in Ino’s direction when she says, “The Yamanaka clan have very reputable matchmakers.”
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It takes three months to put down the rumor of Shikako and Gaara’s whirlwind engagement. Though it still lingers and pops up every now and then–whispers of heated looks and midnight assignations spreading around the Elemental Nations.
Jiraiya writes a book based on it; it becomes a best-seller.
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A/N: So it was less about politics and tabloids and more about rumors and everyone needlessly voicing their opinion but…uh… hope you enjoy, anon, and thanks for the prompt.
This took me a lot longer than I would have preferred because someone Netsui wanted to keep ranting about their eternal hatred for Shikako and I kept having to parse it down to relevance.
Adventures of Jack and Ness (2016-02-18)
One is fire, the other ice; and how terribly cliché that makes them and their relationship. How weak and foolish and naive.
Because fire and ice are extremes, forces of nature capable of destroying anything with their power. But combined they sputter and melt and cease to be anything but puddles and steam.
They are opposites and there is no way to combine their strengths–only cancel each other out. They are fire and ice and in no world can they be together and succeed.
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He laughs–a jarring, abrupt thing more cough than levity. He’s been beaten and belittled and betrayed and all he can think of right now is how funny this all is. How hilarious it is that his death is entirely his own fault.
“You idiot, get up!” Ness shouts at him, tugging at his arm, trying to pull him to his feet. But everything hurts, and she is small and has no leverage. Jack stays on the ground.
“We have to go now,” she tries again, actual worry threading into her voice, “They’re coming, Jack, we have to go now!”
He deserves this, yes, but she doesn’t. For her, he wobbles into a crouch, which is enough.
She drops down under his arm, bodily hauling the both of them upright, running and dragging and trying.
He laughs again–feels a stab of pain in his lungs, but laughs regardless–in surprise.
They might actually make it.
—
She believes. She wouldn’t act if she didn’t believe. Everything for her is straightforward, she does as she says and says as she thinks and thinks only the truth.
Or her perception of it.
Ness believes and that is enough to save their lives. Enough to get them away from this wretched scene of mayhem, to someplace where they can rest and restock and heal.
It won’t be enough to set them free–they will always be hunted, chased down until they are finally caught–but it is a temporary respite. Enough to matter, enough to believe in.
—
Maybe they are fire and ice. Maybe they do weaken each other–dousing and thawing until they are no longer things to be reckoned with. Maybe there is no world in which they succeed.
But maybe they are not fire and ice. Maybe they are a spectrum of heat, or the lack thereof. It is not about being outliers, but about coming together and reaching equilibrium.
Maybe in this world, they don’t need to succeed. Maybe all they have to do is be enough.
Word Prompt (J8): Judgment (2016-02-17)
In the middle of battle, Leanne runs and lives to fight another day. A strategic retreat, she’ll explain to her team, though no doubt they’ll hold it against her. Just one more failing in a long list of them.
Coward, Thunderbolt is fond of spitting in her direction.
Amateur, Starling will note in a far more objective tone.
Weak and distant and always falling behind.
Even Zenith, who doesn’t view her presence as a total eyesore, will say, “Not everyone is cut out for this. Civilians,” he’ll finish with a shrug, as if that explains it.
And maybe it does.
Because Leanne is a civilian. Or she was one up until a few months ago. She wasn’t born into this like Caleb, wasn’t trained for it like Henry, doesn’t have an endless well of power sparking at her fingertips like Tetsuki.
She’s just a girl who inherited a pocket watch that doesn’t tell time.
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For the first eight years of her life, Leanne lived with her grandparents. Not too unusual, she supposes, except that she has siblings. Two of them, in fact, one on either side of her in age. But both of them lived with her mother during that span of time. And while Leanne did join them eventually–both of her grandparents passing away–it’s something that marks her as… different.
Eight years is not so much, in comparison to a person’s total lifespan, but that first bit is enough. Victor and Faye are much closer to each other than they ever were with her, their mother falls silent when it comes to the matter of Leanne’s baby stories.
Even in her own family she is an outsider.
Perhaps she gets that from her father–forever a wanderer; a fleeting, intangible presence in her life, even when she lived with his parents. He’s the one who gave her the watch, even though Victor is the oldest.
He’s the one that doomed her to this fate.
—
Leanne is nearly seventeen when she gets a visitor. A strange visitor.
Doctor Ellen Kaiza is not so much a celebrity as she is an urban myth, name so ingrained with the meta-human movement that it might as well be synonymous.
What the hell is she doing here?
Leanne isn’t a meta-human, not as the doctors classify it, anyway. Green, photosynthesizing hair might have counted fifty years ago, but not anymore. If that counted, Kaiza wouldn’t be here for Leanne. Not when Victor can actually boost plant growth, or Faye can occasionally harden her skin into tree bark, and both of them with the same hair as her. But even then, technically, neither of them count as meta-human either.
Leanne’s maternal grandmother did–a combination of powers that were stronger in a time when the requirements were lower–but that’s not what Kaiza is here for. Who Kaiza is here for.
No, this is about Leanne’s paternal grandmother–more specifically, Leanne’s broken pocket watch that she inherited from her father, who inherited it from her paternal grandmother.
The broken pocket watch made for Leanne decades ago, before she or her father were even born.
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In the middle of battle, Leanne runs and lives to fight another day.
Except when Leanne runs, she goes farther than just one day. She runs into another year, another decade, another century. She runs backwards and forwards, jumps back and forth, unable to control when or where she lands.
Her pocket watch isn’t supposed to be able to do that. She figured it out, slowly but surely, but there are rules to it. One hour–that’s it–she can change one hour per day. Undo it, rewind it, relive it, tweak it. It’s not supposed to do this.
Or at least, she thought, it wasn’t supposed to do this. It’s been broken for a long time. What does time mean to someone like her?
In the middle of a battle, Leanne runs.
She never stops running.
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A/N: Laalalalala, does not contain the woooooord again, but I don’t caaaaare… Just trying to kick start my writing because I have so many things I want to write but none of them are working! *cough* The Many Faces of Rudiger Smoot *cough* Light It Up (Burn It Down) *cough* political Dreaming of S(omething) *cough*
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