#like it's about the What Could Have Been guys. the doomedness of it all.

[clownmovieyaoi]

honestly don't get the appeal in wanting a canon reddie kiss. i personally think it's more fun that eddie just straight up Dies and then we have to deal with the beautiful misery that is the kissing bridge carving scene. like there's so much more potential interpretation to richie's ending there and i find that more enjoyable. idk. also gay guy crying or whatever

[satbiym]

Dragon Yuuri AU Chapter 2

Continuation of a fic written for @isekaiyoizine

The Last Dragon: Flight by satbiym

So, maybe following the clue he had found in Hasetsu to some remote caves in the Himalayas, grabbing a torch and leaving Yuri behind - just in case - and deciding to explore the caves without any recon or preparation, hadn't been been the world's best idea.

But, if this was an example of the repercussions of poorly thought out decisions, well then… Victor wasn't going to be learning his lesson any time soon.

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"So, let me get this straight," Yuri Plisetsky said, voice trembling with barely restrained rage, "You decided to go to the caves that we both had agreed to not go into until we had a handle on the situation."

Victor smiled weakly at Yuri, ignoring the stare boring into him.

"Yura, I-"

"And then, you decided to not even tell me about it and instead went alone, into caves we haven't mapped and whose structural stability we don't know anything about." Yuri continued mercilessly, cutting him off.

Victor took a step back, the heat by his side dissipating slightly - How hot did this guy even run? - and tried to plead his case, "Yura-"

Yuri kept talking, voice much like a freight train picking up in speed and strength, until it crescendoed into a loud shout, "And now you're back with an entire motherfucking dragon by your side?!"

Silence.

"Would you rather he have half a, what did you call it? "Motherfucking dragon" by his side?" A delicate voice asked primly, breaking the detente.

Victor whirled to face the man, no - the dragon, beside him, and hissed, "Yuuri! That's not the point!"

Prince Yuuri Katsuki looked back with an arched brow, "No, I am merely curious as to what proportion of my being would satisfy this human's bloodlust."

Yuri's face darkened and pointing an accusing finger at Yuuri hissed, "Stay out of this, dragon! If that is even what you are, you may have fooled him, but you won't fool me. I'll get to you later."

Victor closed his eyes. Yeah, this wasn't going to go over well.

And sure enough…

Prince Yuuri let out a short huff of laughter, before derisively looking at a rapidly reddening Yuri and said, air tinged with imminent danger, "You will get to me later? Fool. I ruled the world before your ancestors had even stepped foot out of the ocean. Mark your words before I mark them for you."

Victor's mouth was suddenly a lot drier than it had been moments before. But he somehow spoke, trying to stave off the incoming blood bath despite the morbid curiosity about the potential winner of said blood bath. Huh, Victor Nikiforov, The Peacemaker, that was a title he'd never thought he'd have.

"Settle down, Yura. He is a dragon, that much I can say for sure. Trust me." Victor said, mind flashing to earlier in the day when Prince Yuuri had demonstrated just how much of a dragon he was.

And people said he was flashy.

Yuri looked back, betrayal in his eyes, and hissed, "What do you mean, "trust me," you're the one who got us into this mess!"

Victor winced, which, you know, fair.

Prince Yuuri sniffed elegantly (how???) and loftily said, turning back to face Victor, seemingly having dismissed Yuri, and said, "Do you have any clothes that don't make me feel like I'm being flayed? I prefer my flayings biannual and scheduled."

What.

Victor blinked and ignoring Yuri's comically widened eyes and conflicted expression as if he couldn't decide whether his rage was worth passing up the chance to ask about binnual flaying, said in as polite a tone as he could manage, "Sure thing, Your Highness, give me just one moment. I'll find you just the thing. Yura - ah - could I borrow you for a sec?"

Yuri, looking more conflicted than ever, followed as the Prince sat down next to their equipment.

Still smiling, Victor dragged Yuri away and waited until they were out of earshot but could still keep the prince in view.

"So." Victor started, only to be interrupted by Yuri grabbing his shoulders, leaning in close and with frantic eyes, whisper screaming, "What the fuck are we gonna do?!"

And maybe it said something about the state of the situation that the only thing Victor could feel anymore was a kind of warmth at Yuri's inclusion of the plurality of their mutual doomedness.

Victor kept smiling, making sure to keep an eye on Prince Yuuri who was now - yep - curiously sniffing aluminium foil, as Yuri furiously said, "What are we gonna tell the Paladin?! We were told to hand over every finding but we can't just hand the dragon over to him! Who knows what that rich fuck will do to him! Victor!"

Smiling serenely, Victor looked away from Prince Yuuri Katsuki who was now tentatively licking the aluminium foil, and said with confidence he did not feel, "Yura, we are going to steal a dragon."

"Aw, fuck." Yuri whispered under his breath, shoulders slumping, "I had a feeling you were gonna say something like that."

Nodding to himself, Victor patted Yuri on the shoulder before power-walking away and trying to convince a disgruntled dragon prince of an extinct species that aluminium foil wouldn't make a tasty meal.

Shaking his head, Yuri started his preparations.

They were going to steal a dragon, after all.

[depizan]

30 Day Character Challenge (the one I reblogged here), day twenty-five. 

Part 5: What If

If your character is a sci fi character, what would they be like in a fantasy setting? If they’re fantasy, what would they be like in a sci fi setting? If they’re in a realistic setting, pick one or the other.

Star Wars kind of straddles those definitions, as it has some pretty strongly fantasy elements despite its sci-fi setting. Of course it also has elements of westerns and makes at least visual references to World War II movies and in general is one of the most genre blendy franchises I can think of outside of anime/manga. Nonetheless, I count it in the big sci-fi umbrella, and the question is mostly concerned about settings, and it very definitely has all the trappings of sci-fi.

That said, I’m not sure how much things change if you switch out tall ships for starships and actual wizards for Jedi and the like. Fantasy and sci-fi - at least the adventurous versions thereof - share a whole ton of the same tropes even when you’re not dealing with something that’s half fantasy already.

Kyrian

Spy...agent...whatever you’d call the job in a fantasy world for the evil empire run by wizards. So it’d be songs and bardic tales rather than holothrillers that made him think the job would be awesome, and his marksmanship would be with a bow (or crossbow depending on exactly the era the fantasy was going for) rather than a blaster, but otherwise there’d be little difference. Same ethical dilemmas, same desire for a world at peace, same inability to do his job right, same eventual doomedness.

If one wanted to up the angst factor, he could’ve been recruited from the traditional fantasy sucky orphanage or even the streets, giving him a slightly different reason to start out with some loyalty to the evil empire of evil. (Especially given that fantasy evil empires of evil can be even less subtle than the Sith Empire.)

Jezari

Again, not too different - captain of a fast sailing ship, working unofficially for the crown of the good kingdom (or republic or whatever). Loyal crew. Smuggling - or piratical - background. Secretly the daughter of one of the kingdom’s supposedly celibate warrior-priest-wizard-thingies. Soft spot for people in trouble, good at rescues, afraid of the evil wizards of evil. Of some near-human species that’s probably really some kind of divergent human, not that a fantasy world has the genetic knowledge to work that out.

Given the slightly different tropes, dad was probably a pirate captain, done in by his treacherous first mate. (Who was then later done in by Jezari in a duel.) Again, given the slightly different tropes, she probably retrieved her father’s - now her - ship at the same time as she skewered her father’s killer.

I kinda answered this a little when @anecdotesandelderthings prompted me to write the start of a traditional fantasy with Jezari as the hero.

Savler

Okay, so bounty hunters aren’t really a fantasy thing - despite prices on people’s heads turning up in fantasy - but mercenaries are, so she’d be a sword for hire. Definitely hailing from whatever is that world’s piratelandia, where her family does basically the fantasy equivalent of what they do. And in a fantasy novel, she’d get a cool maybe-bad-guy eyepatch. (Of course, this would not in any way affect her fighting skills because it never does.)

In a fantasy world, she’d probably pretty much be working for various nobles, since they have the money. Which might well make her activities grayer regardless of which country’s nobles are involved.

And I suppose in a fantasy world, Mako would have magical talents in place of her technical ones, making her some variety of unlicensed - rogue - whatever wizard. (Unless instead of growing up on the streets, she climbed out the window of the wizard school dorms and ran away for a life of adventure. Though that would just be a different sort of rogue wizard situation.)

In a truly traditional fantasy, they’d be the impossible people mentioned in some prophesy about saving the world, and probably not quite work out the fact until after the world was saved.

(Terrifyingly, I could fantasy them and no one would ever know they were escaped star wars fanfic characters. O_o)