2023 Three Sentence Ficathon - Post #1

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Welcome to the 2023 Three Sentence Ficathon!
As of 16 Jan 2023 this post is NOW CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS! PLEASE POST YOUR NEW PROMPTS HERE, IN POST 2! Do continue to fill prompts here but please put all new prompts in Post 2.



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

Re: The Silmarillion, Fëanor

[regshoe]

Ohoho! Very nice, vivid and ominous and very Fëanor :D

Whoop, it's time for that sequel then!

[last_haven]

In spite of temptation, Lucy did tell the others what the fish shepherdess had said of the eastern waters, or at least she did about the sandbar so the ship didn't run aground. By the time they had rowed out to the sandbar, Lucy was half certain the rest she had been told would also turn out to be true--that there truly was nothing but more sea in the Utter East. In her mind, she was already imagining plans for the return trip.

And yet, Aslan waited for them. For the first time, bitter disappointment warred with utter joy to reunite with the lion and she was afraid it must have showed--his stately gaze had always been kind, but this time she was afraid she also saw pity there.

While she stood, nearly trembling, Reepicheep was all too eager to bid them farewell, and then Eustace was quite happy himself at the thought of going home, but Lucy nearly swayed when Aslan told them that they'd grown too old for Narnia, and if they left, it would be the last time they would return.

But then Lucy focused on one very specific word. "If?" she repeated, eyes wide.

The great Lion chuckled at that and agreed--if they were not so eager to leave Narnia just yet, he didn't see the reason to hurry them home. While Eustace did say that he was definitely ready to go home, to which he would be sent in a moment, Caspian was busy squeezing Edmund for joy when he said he would stay and Lucy tossed her arms as far as she could around Aslan's neck and nearly cried.

Before they returned to the ship, Lucy did have one last question for Aslan. "Why did the sea people claim that there's nothing but water east of here when we just saw Reepicheep head into the Utter East?"

"Because there is nothing past here but water," he answered and when she glanced past him, she saw nothing but water all the way to the horizon. When she looked back from the water, he was gone as well.



"What do you suppose that meant?" the sea girl asked.

Lucy frowns before she answered. "I think it means that you can't just enter the kingdom of Aslan's Father so easily. I think you have to get there only when you are meant to, and if you try beforehand, you just keep swimming on forever. Or maybe until you hit the far coast of Narnia's landmass."

Her companion hummed thoughtfully and laid her head onto Lucy's chest. "And so your journey is done, but you have returned to me anyway. What shall you do now? You are returning to your Narnia, aren't you?

"Oh, ah, I rather wanted to ask you about that," she began, sitting up, making the sea maiden lift her head again so they could look in each other's eyes. "I do plan to go back with the others to Narnia, but what do you say about, maybe... joining me?"

The girl paused and sat up, her eyes staring at the water around them. At last, she spoke. "My people traveled far, but never upon land before."

"You could be the first!"

She turned her gaze from the sea to Lucy and, slowly, smiled. "I would like that."

[Miraculous Ladybug] archival ink

[alexseanchai]

"Excuse you, I have five tattoos," Marinette says with exaggerated primness, whipping off her blazer to show them off: on one shoulder, a yin-yang in red resin and uninked instead of white and black, and on the other, two mandarin orange halves and a baguette with an orange-sized globe, on which the Black and Adriatic Seas are weirdly tiny next to the proportionately sized Mediterranean and Aegean. She tugs her collar down to show off the third tattoo, the A&W Root Beer logo but in wintergreen and plum blossom pink, framed by buttercups and bluebells, with the W reversed and a heart replacing the ampersand; she has to strip down a little to uncover the fourth one (Marinette explains, rolling down one thigh-high and flipping up her skirt), on which the hiragana guiding pronunciation make clear the 知己 written in black over the polka-dot red tiki torch is not hanzi reading zhījǐ but kanji reading chiki, though the idea of a friend who knows you that deeply comes across in either language, and why are there hiragana for ta, te, and to but not ti or tu, anyway?

"These must all have meant something to me before," Marinette muses, examining the black kitten on her forearm (his bitty claws out to disembowel a ball of yarn as green as his eyes) that prompted this conversation, and across the room, the tall blond cute guy whose attention she's been trying to get for six weeks turns away.

Re: Narnia, Aslan

[alexseanchai]

*cackling*

Uchiha Come with Ninneko (Naruto; (Madara/)Tobirama, OC ninneko)

[kalira]

"You know," Tobirama said, eying the calico perched on his desk, giving him an imperious look, "I don't think I actually invited this."

Aoi sniffed, her tail swishing, and smirked at him; it was very recognisable as a smirk, though her face couldn't actually make such an expression. "You invited us when you took up with our summoner," she said, tail curling neatly around her delicate paws.

Tobirama huffed, lips twitching, and reached into his desk drawer for a bit of smoked, dried salmon; Aoi's eyes were locked on his fingers and her toes flexed slightly as she watched, waiting.

That Settlers game (in space)

[archersangel]

Naomi had just upgraded her second Outpost to a Starbase and was getting more Dilithium.

Seven then rolled the number that required her to place the Klingon on one of the planets near Naomi's newly upgraded Starbase.

Naomi muttered a word that Seven was sure that her Mother would not approve of.

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Aww, this is what I was hoping for! All the feelings. I love Oliver not believing Clark will hear him or be able to make it and Clark has a timely last minute save. OF COURSE HE WILL COME FOR YOU, OLIVER. <3

Thank you so much for picking and filling my prompt! :D

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This is PERFECT. I love the idea of Natasha being Bucky's constant and how you packed so many feelings into three lines. Just playful with something more underneath and then even MORE feelings. I just love it all. :D

Thank you for picking and filling my prompt! :D

Fae Ways (Labyrinth; Jareth & the Labyrinth)

[kalira]

Worth it, think you, to teach the mortals - such fleeting creatures - such fleeting lessons? the Labyrinth asked, groaning down to her bones as Jareth winced - his own magic ached with the fractures the girl had lashed into it - and extended himself, rebuilding their world around themselves.

"It is our purpose and our way." Jareth said mildly, sinking down a corner that rippled from rough sandstone to crystal to vines to moss-covered granite as he settled.

And when they fail? the Labyrinth asked, and Jareth conjured a crystal, using it to peer in at the village - one he and his Labyrinth kept the mortals running the challenge far from - inhabited by all those once-human-children, grown and changed now, safe where they had been unwanted or unvalued.

"That is also our purpose," Jareth said softly, and smiled sharply; not all who failed to reclaim their child, or failed the Labyrinth, left with the promise of their dreams - not all left ever, their blood and life seeping into the Labyrinth, "and our way."

Kingdom Hearts, The Sea Salt Trio, No Emotions Means No Shame

[silveradept]

"So, to hear you tell it, you got yourself stranded in a world that's in perpetual winter on purpose and then, when you want to relax in a…sauna, you called it, sometime nicked your clothes," Roxas said.

"That's right," Axel said, "but it didn't stop me from completing the mission, and I daresay that both Queen Elsa and Princess Anna were very impressed with my forward fashion sense."

Xion pinched the bridge of her nose and sighed, having seen Axel flailing in the air as he took the short route down the mountain with nothing to break his fall but the snowdrift at the bottom.

[anonne]

Oh no T_T

Karkat & Sollux & John - 'Let's see Paul Allen's terrible program.'

[word_devourer]

"3 SWEEP DELAY, WITH A 50% FAILURE RATE, LOCKS YOUR AUDIO SETTINGS TO BE TURNED ON THE WHOLE TIME, AND SCREAMS AT YOU THE WHOLE TIME," says Karkat, spinning the screen around with a smug grin.
"wow, really u2ed your brain for iit, huh," says Sollux, and scoffs before continuing with, "miine generate2 an entiire arg where every 2tep give2 you one biit of the correct re2pon2e, and iif you miiss one, you have to 2tart over."
"oh!" says John, clapping his hands together, and showing what appears to be an absolute hash of characters on the screen, "well mine works perfectly, but only in a version of the universe that you can only reach through metanarrative bullshit; it won't even run here."

Dave & Davesprite - I know I wrote this, but I have questions

[word_devourer]

"The fuck is going on here," says Davesprite, floating down next to his unspritely alternate self, who has his head in his hands and a load of magazines in front of him.
"Shit, man," says Dave, picking up a magazine entitled 'Great Tits and Thick Cocks,' which does indeed feature a pair of, admittedly anthropomorphized gray birds next to a large, admittedly quite sexualized rooster, "I was fuckin with the alchemiter to see if I could do some stupid bullshit like this cause I thought it'd be funny, but this is actually pretty fuckin hot."
"Hell yeah bird sex is hot," agrees Davesprite, floating to more of a sitting position, "but if you're looking for the good stuff, you're gonna have to make it yourself, like I did."

Made Small (Naruto; Mito, Kushina) - CW: post canonical character death

[kalira]

"It's too much! How could they reduce me to such, how could they- I choked on it every day, and now even my death to save them isn't enough for them - any more than my life sacrificed, whether I fought it or no, was enough to sweeten their looks and their words." Kushina spat, her mouth twisting as she folded her arms around herself, turning, her hair lashing around her shoulders and back.

Mito pursed her lips, shaking her head slightly as she took in the pale imitation that would have called herself an Uzumaki princess. Kushina had been young when she came to Konoha, and her family's memory of their blood and what it meant to be Uzumaki faded, and so Kushina had been made small and surrendered to bitterness long before she had forced her boldness even in her death.

FF7 Crisis Core, Cissnei & Tseng

[anonne]

"You're not even gonna try looking the part?" said Cissnei, casting her eyes over Tseng's ever-present dark suit. "Zack thinks this is a vacation. Bad enough having us here in the first place."

"I'm sure he doesn't mind having you here," said Tseng, not looking at her – she had realised he tended to avoid doing so while she was wearing her bikini. "He's a SOLDIER First Class; we can't just let him wander around the world without backup. Especially unarmed."

Cissnei glanced at the parasol Zack gripped with both hands, and thought, no worries there.

I can't write this ship one-tenth as well as you, but someone needs to do a TUA prompt

[melivian]

"Well, you said we were raising her to be self-sufficient," says Lila, coughing at the cloud of black smoke billowing from the oven as she pulls out the charred mess of hotdogs, whole onions, frosted cereal, and gummy bears glued to the baking dish, "so unless you want her living on raw eggs because she can't boil water someday, I don't see why you're this upset."

"I meant after we've taught her enough that she's ready," Diego hisses through gritted teeth--he'd definitely be yelling if Grace weren't sitting on his lap while he rubs aloe vera on her tiny burnt hand--"not when she's four years old!"

And for all she's been practicing her truth-telling lately, Lila can't bring herself to say sometimes, four years is all you get, or if you're not ready in time, you'll be forced to depend on the wrong person--some walls are harder to tear down than the one in Berlin, especially the kind you build inside yourself over a lifetime--so instead she flashes her most sheepish smile and says, "Okay, maybe this wasn't my finest hour as a parent."

Newsflesh, Shaun Mason, Goddamn Irwin

[silveradept]

"Well, when you put it that way, there's really only one thing I have to say about all of the bullshit that I want through to get up to this specific moment, Doctor."

Making sure both he and the person responsible for George's death and subsequent resurrection were in the frame of the camera, he extended the middle fingers on both of his hands to one of the many murderers of countless lives over the last several years.

"I've had more fun fucking with you than I ever did doing stunts with the amplified."

The bathhouse scene: extended edition (nsfw)

[arveldis]

His lips are cold and bruising against hers, tasting of pine, and she presses the length of her bare torso against his cool skin, seeking relief from the fire that dances along her skin, arching as he kisses and nips down her neck, across her clavicles; his hands map the lines and curves of her body, caressing, kneading, gripping, as she sits astride him on the bathhouse bench, her knees clenched tightly around his waist as the wild feeling builds and builds within her.

His cool fingers fall between her legs, stroking the heat of her, and she rakes her nails down his neck with a gasp, needing, needing, needing; and as his lips cover hers in another commanding kiss, he shifts, and she finds herself laid in a pile of blankets that smell of fir and frost. He is above her now, still stroking, until the wildness within her pulls as taught as a bent bowstring, and he joins with her in a flash of pain that is soon smoothed away by the cool whisper of his fingers over her waist and hips, the cold press of his lips against hers, the steady pulse of him within her, until the heat within her flares and breaks in a shattering moment, and she looks into the ancient eyes of the death-god and sees that they are lit with memory.

FFX, Auron

[anonne]

Walking this same road again with Jecht and Braska's children was too like the first time; perhaps Auron's memories deceived him, but he could swear Tidus and Yuna were making the same remarks that their fathers had made ten years ago, taking down the same fiends, even standing in the same places on the paths while they waited for their companions to catch up.

It might have hurt less to disabuse himself of such ideas. But after so long, reliving that first pilgrimage was irresistible: it was why he was still here, after all. Letting go of those thoughts would make him more pyreflies than man, and he wasn't ready for that yet.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Eddie and the Weasels, Comedy

[silveradept]

"That's terrible lock for youse," the weasel said, laughing and keeping his gun trained as Eddie held one half of a rope in his hands.

"Hey, Roger, what's the hardest part—" Eddie began.

The rest of the statement was left unsaid as the rope at the weasel"s feet ran out of play and hoisted the weasel rapidly into the air as the counterweight crashed to the factory floor.

Re: Discworld, Rincewind & Death - shit shit shit shit

[laughingpineapple]

Delightful! It's all amazing but "contriving to be both steady and motionless, while also keeping up with Rincewind at a dead sprint." is so... so Death. I love this

[militarypenguin]

Her slumbers on Gaea have been restless, induced by shock or illness and followed by nightmares that stir her awake. She expects a similar sleep to claim her as she lies in the grass, staring at her home hanging in the sky hopelessly out of reach as the nighttime air nips at her skin.

The moon's white glow beckons her gaze down to face Van, who lies a few feet away; his brows are furrowed, and his lips that spoke of promises to return her home are tightened into a scowl, but the moonlight reveals a softness in his features and, for once, she's guided into sleep.

Re: Narnia, Aslan

[laughingpineapple]

BWAHAH perfect

Ill-Thought-Out (Tight-Rope; Ryuunosuke/Naoki)

[kalira]

"I was just doing what I thought was best!" Ryu protested, pouting childishly as he paced across the hall; he paid no attention to his brothers scattering out of his path. "I thought I was-"

"Yes, well, don't think without assistance in future, mm?" Naoki said, smiling sharply at his idiot. "And if you ever try to part yourself from me again, I don't care what reason or how good you think it is. . ."

Ryu seized him around the waist, spilling apologies for those attempts and professing adoration as he hauled Naoki in tight against himself, and . . . Naoki gave him a few moments and one stroke of Naoki's fingers through his tousled hair, then twisted free of his hold and threw him to the floor. "Not in daylight, Ryu." he snapped, pushing Ryu away as he rose to his knees at Naoki's feet and yowled a pleading protest.

Re: Love, uh... finds a way.

[laughingpineapple]

Applause!