This turned into more like pick a random file of preexisting stuffs and oh we’ve been talking about Sith!OC lately hmmm let’s go back into those three years of hell we haven’t entirely figured out yet – basically, aaaaaaaahhh!
Well, I was tagged by @sanerontheinside, and I like this game, but I don’t keep WIPs for fanfic. I write a large chunk of a chapter in a notebook at work, transcribe it and finish it up and post it in one night, and keep chapters in separate files. So everything that exists, my readers have already seen! But I will go ahead and write seven sentences that might appear at some point in the Venge series.
I’m too close to bedtime to think of people to tag, so – I tag anyone who wants to do this!
A few more than seven lines, and this is an older piece (that is waiting for me to have the spoons to edit it).
Julian follows Matthew out the door, his frown fading into a blank expression. “I’ve never heard of a particularly extended life-span being a byproduct of genetic engineering. Particularly not in humans.” It certainly hadn’t been part of the changes made to his genetic code, nor that of any of the others he’s met. “Especially not anything as practiced half a century or more in the past.”
“I don’t doubt it.” Matthew tucks his hands into his pockets, and turns his face slightly up towards the sun. “This was done about two hundred and fifty years ago, back when they first started experimenting. An extended lifespan was the first thing they tried for – as were fast healing and a complete immunity to illness.”
“As I recall, the first genetically engineered humans were created with enhanced strength and IQ, as well as resilience to disease and increased endurance.” Julian isn’t buying Matthew’s claim of genetic engineering, not when he’s done the research into the history of what had been done to him without his knowledge or permission.
T – Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
Farscape:
Talyn and Crais Are. Not. Dead. Not dead, can’t make me believe it, don’t care what your stupid canon says. Nope. Nope. *crosses arms, and puts on a mulish expression* Not. Dead.
U – Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.
Susan Ivanova, from Babylon 5. And why I love her can be summed up in two quotes.
From early in the show: “On your trip back, I’d like you to take the time to learn the Babylon 5 mantra: Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova’s recommendations. Ivanova is god. And! If this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out!”
From late in the show: “Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova. Commander. Daughter of Andrei and Sofie Ivanov. I am the Right Hand of Vengeance. And the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I am Death incarnate. And the last living thing you are ever going to see. God sent me.”
Elim Garak, from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
He is a lying liar that lies, and yet, there’s always some – or a lot – of truth in what he says. He cares more than he wants to let on even to himself. He’s more than a little interested in Julian Bashir, even if they weren’t allowed to show a relationship between them on screen as more than friends in any obvious fashion. He’s very good at hiding his hurts, physical and emotional. He’s cunning, conniving, intelligent, and dangerous.
Methos, from Highlander.
“I’m just a guy.” – you’re a bloody survivor and a constantly evolving metaphor for humanity, you git.
“I didn’t just kill a hundred, I didn’t just kill a thousand. I killed ten thousand. And I was good at it. I was Death on a horse.” – of himself some three thousand odd years before the present day of Highlander, and pretty much a reference to how it is seen from the vantage point of today, that the time was barbaric, bloody, brutal, and life was short. (and in some places, yes, it probably was, but not everywhere, not even everywhere the Horsemen would have gone in this universe)
“Just because I don’t like to fight, doesn’t mean I can’t.” – when one of his old enemies comes stalking him, he tries to avoid the guy, but then Joe’s daughter gets kidnapped by this old enemy, and Methos isn’t going to let his best friend’s kid get killed, so. And that is the line he says right before he beheads the man, so.
V – Which character do you relate to most?
Hmm.
Boromir, from Lord of the Rings.
Always trying so hard to live up to the person that his father wants him to be, and never giving himself time to rest because of it. Defending his younger brother because no one else will dare to do so against Denethor. Taking the whole damned world on his shoulders, defending against darkness, and falling because of it.
My struggles might not be as epic, but why he does what he does? It feels all too familiar to me.
Usually I write third person limited, as if I’m telling a story that was told to me. Sometime from several points of view. It keeps things close, but it allows a little more wiggle room than first person.
13. Which of your characters would you want to be stuck in an elevator with?
If I absolutely must be stuck in an elevator… Haerviu. He’s calm, he knows how to keep other people calm, and he’s been around long enough to be familiar with a lot of things, including panic attacks.
Because I have been stuck in an elevator before, although a particularly crowded one, and the only reason I didn’t pass out was there were a couple people who noticed I was panicking. (Conventions where you know half the people there are awesome, because then you have a lot of people to look out for you.)
Methos convinces Henry of a less violent path, and offers him a potential reward for patience. Henry asks for one thing, but only if another is willing.
There's a Mirror on the Wall 