2023 Three Sentence Ficathon - Post #1

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Welcome to the 2023 Three Sentence Ficathon!
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This post will remain open for new prompts until we hit 4000 comments, at which point we'll open a new one to avoid captcha as long as possible. New fills and comments on fills will always be welcome.


How to Prompt

Prompts should be one prompt per comment, formatted in this way: fandom, character(s), prompt word/sentence

Example: Star Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi, I don't like sand

Prompts may also be open ended, unspecific, or anthropomorphic, such as:

any, any, I don't like sand
or
Earth geography, sand, I don't like humans very much, either

Prompts for relationships are welcome; a / is used for romantic/sexual relationships and an & for platonic. A prompt that uses both means the relationship can be written as either romantic or platonic, such as:

Star Wars, Anakin/&Obi-Wan, I don't like sand

Prompts may be repeated if they are unfilled; there is no obligation to read through every prompt to make sure yours isn't a repeat. This year's 3SF will stay open for new prompts through Sunday, February 12th.

How to Fill

Respond to your chosen prompt with a short fic of three sentences containing the fandom & characters requested!

Prompts can be filled more than once, as many times as someone has a new idea for them.

Notes & Rules

No, fills do not need to be exactly three sentences! It's more of a guideline. Please abuse grammar and punctuation as much as desired.

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Comments

[vialethe]

Narnia, Pevensies, are you wild like me/raised by wolves and other beasts/i tell you all the time/i’m not mad

[elementalraven]

Caspian doesn’t quite know what to think of these kings and queens of old.

To the casual observer they seem like ordinary children, look a little closer and you see their royal nature shine out – a gaze that is a little to knowing, a bearing a little too proud, and their words too self-assured, too definite, like they could never imagine anyone questioning them – but this is not what truly disquiets him.

Because their royal bearing, though no less real for it, hides something else, something that is only unleashed in the tensest, most high-stake situation, something feral: it is a too-wide, almost vulpine grin on Edmund face, or little Lucy barely suppressing a snarl, it is the ferocious way Peter beats at his enemies, not stopping until they are broken mess on the ground, and the way Susan stalks instead of walks, like she is always looking for her next prey- sometimes Caspian pities Miraz, for he shivers at the thought of being their enemy.

[vialethe]

The Mandalorian, Din/Bo-Katan, baby, it’s too hard/i’m too scarred for this to work again/but you know i still wake up with you every morning/like we’re still dead

[be_themoon]

The first morning he wakes up and they're still in bed together, he freezes, not sure what to do, not sure what to say or how to move. The helmet is watching him from across the room, the soft hitch of her breath nearby half asleep half waking an odd vulnerability to be listening to, somehow different from his hands and mouth on her because that's something she'd asked him for, had shown him how to do, had -

His mouth is dry as he starts to move, and he can hear her breathing shift into awake as he puts the helmet back on, knows that she's been lying there waiting for him to leave.

[ruthchinn]

ATLA, Yue, fate

[last_haven]

"It's my fate," Yue says as she reaches for the dying fish in the firebender's hands, pulling away from Sokka, and condemning her flesh to save the world.

"It's your fate," Yue says as she sends a wave to wash Aang to safety and onward to his mission to save the world.

Fate; it's a heavy word for a heavy burden. Centuries fly by and even if she is a goddess, she still kneels to fate time and again.

But one day, she feels something change in the world, just a small shift, but when she looks, she feels the return of a soul she has not felt in ages. She sees Sokka again, but he is not Sokka--he is new, he is reborn.

He is dying. It is his fate.

Yue looks at the baby who is not her Sokka, but then maybe one day he will be someone Sokka, and her decision is already made.

In the moonlight, she puts a hand on the forehead of the tiny babe and whispers "this is not your fate" before vanishing. In the morning, his parents will find him well and squalling, his hair snow white.

[chronologicalimplosion]

Beauty and the Beast/Glass Onion, Benoit Blanc & Belle (& others?), mystery novel book club

[primeideal]

"I thought the twist was a little contrived," Belle admits. "The victim just happened to have an identical twin sister who no one thought to mention before now? That's a violation of Knox' tenth law."

"On the contrary!" Blanc fumes. "Plenty of famous people have siblings who their admirers and hangers-on might not care for. She never let the success got to her head and stayed close to her birth family; that can be admirable."

Belle rolls her eyes. She'd thought that reading detective novels with a real-life detective would be fun, but then again, that was what his video game friends had thought too.

"We'll read a Harlan Thornbey book next time," Blanc promises. "Oh, and Marta wants to talk to your staff. Make sure they're being treated fairly and standing up for their rights."

"That's fine," says Belle. The castle employees had been better about growing a spine since they'd, well, regrown their spines.

[scytale]

Fire Emblem Sacred Stones, Cormag, rebuilding

[tiki]

His life as a knight shattered too when he discovered Glen's mangled body, and out of the wreckage came a dark avenger, a madman, a beast who forswore rest and food and indeed all humanity until he found the dastard responsible and broke their bones as surely as they had his brother's.

"What will you do now?" the princess asks as they stare together at Valter's corpse, Cormag waiting, wondering when it will be that the spark of life will restart in his heart now that he's done the deed and slain Glen's murderer.

"Now I rebuild," he says, but even then the words ring hollow against the howling cry for death! death! death!

--

[a 2nd one because I have a soft spot for Glen Lives!AU's, and this one came up as I was writing the first]

"Come, Glen, try again," Cormag says patiently, folding his arms as his brother sighs and strives once more to lever himself from the wheeled chair and stand on his own two feet, leaning heavily on two crutches.

Glen makes it two steps forward on shaky legs, then crashes to the ground in a flurry of curses, his face darkening in either frustration or embarrassment—more likely a mixture of both, even though all who see him continually reassure him that his very life is miracle enough, given the fall he took when Valter threw him from the sky.

"That was one more than the last," Cormag says as he reaches down and hoists Glen up, and it's more than enough, he wants to say, to counter his brother's groundless shame; it's something to build upon.

[vindoletta]

Dracula/Sherlock Holmes, any/any, blind as a bat

[raisedbymoogles]

Sherlock Holmes vs. Dracula, ensemble cast, Sherlock's fascination never abates even as his Interesting New Friend becomes his bitterest enemy

[raisedbymoogles]

Carrie/X-Men, Carrie & mutants of your choice, Carrie gets a happy ending

[raisedbymoogles]

Birds of Prey (or DC in general, not picky)/Heathers, Harley & students of your choice, Harley as either a student or school counselor

[raisedbymoogles]

multifandom, any, Exhausted Leader!Character Club

Narnia, Stargates, Doctor Who, MCU, amongst others

[lyssie]

There were quite a few people milling about (well, shuffling and slumping and slouching into chairs that creaked annoyingly with every movement), some of them even digging into the snacks laid out on one table (a few with a curse or complaint about they hadn't seen that particular dish in centuries, or for how long it had been since they'd eaten), some even seemed to not be injured.

Peter Pevensie slumped into a chair with a plate of something edible, and looked around, spotting more than one familiar face amongst the lot (an elder Caspian had given him a tired wave, and that General from the SGC had tried again to recruit Peter and his siblings for his project back in the past, though Pete wasn't sure how that would work); he gave a half-hearted nod to President Romana, who reminded him far too much of Susan (he wondered if he had dirt on his nose).

"If we're all here," Nick Fury finally said; he'd been nominated sometime in the distant past to take charge, though he'd complained a lot--he pointed at someone whom Peter didn't recognize, and snapped, "You're new. You first."

[raisedbymoogles]

Transformers/Jem and the Holograms, any, joy & defiance

[raisedbymoogles]

Ace Attorney/Leverage, Phoenix & character of choice, Phoenix’s magatama is the Leverage crew’s Kryptonite

[raisedbymoogles]

Ace Attorney/historical RPF, any lawyer & Elizabeth Bathory, a political hit job is thwarted thanks to actual competent legal representation

[kalira]

any, any, tea makes everything better

Miss Marple

[smallhobbit]

"Well, Inspector, I do understand how frustrated you must be when your chief suspect has themselves been murdered," Miss Marple said. "Although he did remind me so much of the greengrocer's youngest, happy to make threats, but totally incapable of carrying them out. Now, shall we have a nice cup of tea, and see what we can learn from all this."

[kalira]

any, any, any representation of "oh god no not a feeling"

Doctor Who (Big Finish Audios) with a touch of Gallifrey, Eight/Romana

[lurking_latinist]

It had almost been easier (although Romana didn’t let herself admit it) when the Doctor was safely trapped forever in another universe and/or probably dead. The Lady President could reasonably afford to keep just a corner of one heart in mourning for a reckless renegade who’d been wrapped up in some human girl, anyway, when she’d last seen him. It was so much harder to keep her hearts safely cold and her mind fixed on the good of Gallifrey now that he was in front of her, tired, lonely and alive, pleading, “Come away with me?”

[kalira]

any, any, a collection gotten out of hand

Final Fantasy VI, NPCs, maybe channelling a little of my own expasperation XD

[siver]

Edgar and Celes exchanged a look before he frowned after the gentleman and his son leaving the auction house with their newly bought 1/1200 scale airship trailing behind them; how many could they possibly need and how many could the auction house possibly have?

The lady of the house stared in dismay as her husband and son entered with yet another of these model airships of theirs.

The boy looked on in pride as he followed his father into the room where their newest arrival joined the rest of the airship fleet helmed by imp dolls, and, looking up at his father, most earnestly asked, "Father, can we go back to the auction house?"

[kalira]

any, any, snowstorms and cosy sweaters

Preserve me from a winter wonderland (Homestuck)

[edenfalling]

"I can see the appeal on an intellectual level," Jade said halfway through the afternoon, from her position wedged into a corner of Rose's couch; shrouded in an afghan; bundled in an oversized sweater, legwarmers, flannel-lined slippers, and a wool hat with a bobble; and clutching a mug of hot cocoa in her hands (themselves protected by fingerless gloves), "but after gathering experimental data, I've concluded that winter is NOT my thing."

"You went out gathering frogs in the ice on LOFAF in a sleeveless evening gown," Dave protested (somewhat hypocritically, Jade thought, given his own sweater and hat, though he'd forgone gloves and legwarmers); "What makes this different from that?"

"Physics isn't real in the Medium -- none of those planets should have had normal gravity, the light sources don't make any sense, and let's not even get into how my shrinking powers worked -- so obviously the temperatures were all fake too," Jade said as she idly kicked her well-padded foot into Dave's shin; "Real ice and snow are terrible, and the minute we're organized enough to start a second town, you and me are moving to the equator where we don't need any of these workarounds to be warm."

[wingedflight]

Narnia, any, this quote from Hell Bent:

Childhood Living (Narnia, Digory)

[vialethe]

Digory frowns and fingers the edge of the wardrobe door, shut not quite tight, of course - the children had been taught that much at least, it seems - before pulling it fully open, not so much as a creak sounding from its hinges.

Inside, nothing at all - certainly not the children who have been missing for a full day now - until he notices it at the edge of his vision, tiny puddles near the back, as if from melting clumps of snow, and reflected in them, a quicksilver flash of red and white.

“Ah, there you are, old friend,” he says (with some smug satisfaction, it must be admitted), slipping the fox coat from its hanger, incredibly light despite hanging clear to the floor even on his frame and continuing as he steps into the wardrobe, the door swinging nearly shut behind him, “Now, let us see what sort of nonsense has happened inside, hmm?”

I felt obligated to fill this since my name was in it

[kalira]

any, any, dying happily ever after

Doctor Who, Rose/TenToo (Major character death)

[chronologicalimplosion]

The other version of himself had thought his mortality was a feature, not a bug, although years and years by Rose's side had made it clear to Thete that she would not have resented any version of him for continuing on after. For a long time, he hadn't agreed with The Other Doctor, had thought him once again a selfish coward leaving what he saw as a shadow to deal with the terror of newfound mortality in an infinite and unfamiliar world.


After more than half a century of time split between Earth and the rest of the universe, though, grey-haired, in a black pinstripe suit, standing between an open blue casket and their own TARDIS behind them, once again standing in a universe where Rose would only ever be in his past, he changed his mind--he was feeling more than a little selfish himself, hogging all the time for the eulogies.

[kalira]

any, any, "not this fucking nonsense again"

[(Anonymous)]

Sakura didn't expect any better; timetravelling to the past meant plenty of unsurprising surprises, after all. But she didn't think Tazuna opening the door to the Hokage's office could get any worse. She scrunched her nose at the sharp scent of sake; forbidden memories of a Tsunade that wouldn't ever be again were better left dead and buried.

[wingedflight]

Pellinor, Hem, tapped in a house of hulls

[kalira]

any, any OT3, thinking, feeling, doing

Star Wars, Obi-Wan/Padme/Anakin

[mrv3000]

Padmé loved the men in her life (even when Anakin joked about her starting a Jedi collection), but they certainly could dither. Obi-Wan discussed and thought and planned like no one else, while Anakin's emotions definitely guided his life. So while they bickered, yet again, Padmé took out her blaster and shot the guard.

[siver]

Final Fantasy VI, Celes & Relm, a different kind of magic

[shinon]

"I won't miss it," Relm lies, bravely - "the magic, bringing stuff to life - that's - it's whatever. The art will stay with me no matter what." She looks up at Celes sidelong and says, in the brusque tone of one reassuring an even younger child over some ridiculous fear, "And you can still learn music."

[kalira]

any, any, Sex Pistols (aka Love Pistols) fusion

Castlevania (Netflix), Trevor/Alucard, Damn That Cold-Blooded Nature

[mad_madam_m]

"It's cold, it's cold, it's so fucking cold," Trevor grumbled, bundled as tightly as he could be in about a dozen layers to ward off the winter chill. His fucking luck, being born to two reptile parents; his temperature regulation was for shit.

Alucard leaned against his shoulder, a line of warmth that penetrated all the way through Trevor's thick coat. "We're almost home. I'll warm you up properly then."

Trevor pressed into that warmth, trying to absorb as much of it as he could. "Does that mean sex?"

Alucard laughed. "Of course it does."

I mean, if anybody was going to be "I am allergic to feelings and also I will have sleep-sex with someone for years before I admit they might mean something to me," it would be Trevor. Although I think Alucard would get his shit together WAY sooner than Shiro did. XD

[kalira]

any, any, a truth spell that doesn't make any difference

(Blake’s 7, Blake & Avon)

[lurking_latinist]

[[Hope it’s OK I gave this a sci-fi twist!]]

Eavesdropping from the next cell, Avon heard Blake exhale deeply as the truth drug finally took effect, and for the hundredth time the interrogator asked him, “What is your crew’s greatest weakness?”

He’s going to tell them, Avon thought, mind racing—tell them that he doesn’t trust me, that I’m not a true believer, and then they’ll turn their attention to me—should I cooperate or hold out—what will they be expecting?

“That we are so few,” Blake repeated, for the hundredth time.