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

mother!Aravis

[nasimwrites]

There is always a more difficult parent, Ram supposes. Father is indisputably the easiest—always predisposed to consideration, to thoughtful conversation, to offering a guiding hand. Mother, on the other hand…

Ram struggles, sometimes.

“It is not good to be so quick to anger,” Father tells him soothingly, finding him sullen and sulking after yet another disagreement. “Try to understand your mother; she does not want you roaming too far when you are this young. There will be time for that later.”

“But I am nearly twelve! And I am Prince!” Ram complains—and he does not understand until a long time later the somber look in his father’s eyes.

It takes him many more years to fully understand his mother, too: why she fears the thought of young men marching off away from family to fight, why she balks at giving him too much power while he is still too young, why she mistrusts the older lords and is not afraid to openly question them, why she clutches him so closely to her and struggles to let go.

“Do not be ashamed of being a child, my son,” she murmurs against his hair that night, when he finally takes his father’s advice and lets her put him to bed with a story and a kiss. “It is a privilege afforded to too few, and you will be a greater man because of it.”

Re: White Collar, Neal&Peter, Bargain with the devil

[wingedflight]

THIS IS SO DARK I love it

Re: mother!Aravis

[vialethe]

Awww, all of this rings so true as to what kind of parent Aravis might be. Her son going off to war must be her worst nightmare!! Good thing Ram is a good kid overall and no doubt doesn't give her too much trouble.

[sugarspankhorn]

aaaah i love this!!! the imagery of that last line is so cool, the blending of motion between literal action and metaphor is epic!!

[celeste9]

The sun had set and it was past time for Rey to return inside, to settle in for sleep so that she could rise early enough to take advantage of the cooler morning for her day’s scavenging, and yet she found herself still sitting in the sand, watching the stars. In the distance a starship was rising into the sky, preparing to blink out of sight, and Rey felt a bone-deep ache as she imagined what its occupants must feel, as she wondered if they even knew what they had, the means to escape, to go where they wished, and, perhaps, companionship.

She had scratched out another tick on her wall for today, another mark in the flood of endless days spent waiting, and with every tick the tiny voice inside her that told her she would be alone forever, they were never coming back, grew a little bit harder to drown out.

Re: White Collar, Neal&Peter, Bargain with the devil

[sheenianni]

It *is* dark, isn’t it?
It was a great prompt :)

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Oh, my heart! Rey! <3

[rustedeaglewings]

She does not, will not, accept Aslan’s words, that she won’t come to Narnia again, as if it wasn’t her home, her kingdom. When she gets her hands on the box from her siblings’ belongings, a plan is already forming in her mind and she smiles down at rings of yellow and green.

Charn greets Susan like an old friend, with blades hidden behind a welcoming smile.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

This is amazing!

[elementalraven]

hahahah love it! Cor being a good person while also internally snarking at Aravis is great, and I love the idea of them sharing a governess and being forced to learn all of this together (or maybe Cor is being forced and Aravis joins him?)!

[elementalraven]

Yesss!!! Love this! I love how Viyya subtly teaches Aravis the things she needs to know while also letting her be herself

Re: mother!Aravis

[elementalraven]

awww this is so sweet and lovely! How you can see both the struggles Aravis would face as her mother as well as her strengths, and how much she obviously loves him! Plus of course both she and Cor had such a different childhood, and it must be strange to see their son grow up like this.

Final Fantasy X, Jecht

[anonne]

They lit a small fire every evening, but Jecht didn't realise how until a few nights in. Matches, he'd assumed – striking flint would take too much effort not to notice – and then, on an evening when he must have had less to drink beforehand, he understood. Braska was lighting the fire by magic, a simple flick of his fingers that was so modest it was no wonder Jecht hadn't seen.

Magic: he was still new to it. He'd just about become accustomed to the idea that it could be used in battle, to strike down a fiend, heal an injury; but now, staring into the flames as they refracted and rebuilt the air around them, he began to wonder. What was it like, being part of a world where such things were an unremarkable feature of everyday life? How did people live, when existence itself was so different?

[rustedeaglewings]

Thanks!

Re: in the chillest land, and on the strangest sea

[edenfalling]

Thank YOU for the prompt! :)

Irrylath's life is a compounding cascade of tragedies, and even after Aeriel yanks him back from the brink he can't start to heal as long as Oriencor is still out there (and also as long as he hasn't admitted exactly how deep her abuse ran)... and then the moment she's dead, the world is saved, and he can FINALLY stop and breathe, oops, no, no time for rest and healing, gotta go rule Avaric and repay the debt he owes the Avarclon instead.

I like to think that building something is at least somewhat therapeutic, and also that even though he needs to present a strong regal image to the world, in private he may finally be able to lean on his family for support.

[edenfalling]

Awww 💖

Forest's Heart (Naruto; Hashirama/Tobirama)

[kalira]

Once back well within Senju territory it was easy for Tobirama to outpace the rest of the squad he had been leading; easier still for him to slip away among the trees that grew thicker and taller here than anywhere else even in Hi no Kuni.

His heart beat a little too quick as he climbed higher, racing through the branches towards the deepest part of the woods; the trees as familiar as-

"Tobi! You're home!" Hashirama cried, and Tobirama smiled as he was wrapped up in a warm embrace, his brother laughing happily and pressing kisses to his face, chakra surging, heady with delight and rich with the same implacable strength - distant and almost uncaring until it bent itself to twine around Tobirama, almost enough to make him dizzy - as the forest around them.

[primeideal]

Cuuute! :D

Re: Fill: Elementary, Sherlock/Joan, Wherever we're together, that's my home

[senmut]

Thank you! I loved the prompt, as I ship them in a QPR fashion or a hetrom way.

Re: Fill: Ted Lasso, Rebecca/Ted, "Unusual You" Lyrics

[senmut]

Thank you! I was nervous, as I am pretty sure this is only the second time I've tried to write them.

[peaked]

Kaz wasn’t at the wharf at sunset. Inej lingered for only a moment—a moment that was long enough to feel like several to her, but only seconds to an onlooker—before she turned her back on Ketterdam and boarded her ship. And when she was on the deck and ready to give an order to Specht, Kaz limped from the captain’s quarters with his black crow cane in hand and regarded her with an expectant arch of his brow.

A Fool and His Folly

[edenfalling]

"My hair is not a potion ingredient!" Howl yelped as he ducked Sophie's third lunge with the pruning shears and scuttled around the kitchen table; "Even if you did need human hair -- which you don't, unless you're making a healing potion or an emotional influence potion and need to tune it to the drinker, and I'm neither ill nor in need of an attitude adjustment -- my hair has spent so long exposed to magical charms and dyes that it would be an explosively unpredictable reagent."

"That's exactly why I need it," Sophie said, stalking Howl as he backed warily toward the stairs, arms outstretched as if his silk cape might somehow deter her; "It's a luck potion, the instructions call for a dash of folly, and you are the biggest fool I know -- and if chucking explosives into a boiling pot doesn't count as folly, I'd like to know what does! Now stand still and let me snip a piece where it won't be obvious."

The Hobbit, Thrain / cw: aftermath of torture, memory loss

[zdenka]

There is something hidden in this cell, behind a loose stone; he hid it himself, scraping away the mortar, before they broke his fingers. He tries to picture it in his mind, but every thought slips away and dissolves into fog, except those that end in a bright burst of pain and terror. He knows it is something very important, but he can't move the stone now to look, and he vaguely wishes he could remember what it was.

Casual(ty) (Naruto; Kakashi/Shisui, Obito)

[kalira]

Obito was hanging around again, Shisui observed with an exasperated sigh as he reached training ground thirteen, though Kakashi was barely paying attention to him, focused on Tenzou and offering him reassurance as he worked through exercises with his mokuton; a hopeful nudge as Obito tried to interpose himself earned no more than a sharp, dismissive response - and Kakashi had turned away again before the mournful, broken look bloomed in his eyes.

Shisui shook his head a little - he had once despaired of Kakashi's cruelty, been made uneasy by the cool nature of his heart and distant mind, but as they worked together and crept towards more had slowly grown to realise that Kakashi truly had no thought that he was being so much as unkind; had little thought for Obito at all - then stepped out of the trees, crossing to his lover and tucking himself against Kakashi's side easily, a quiet hum of pleasure building in his throat as Kakashi immediately softened and welcomed him close, arm winding around his waist and attention shifting to him with a murmured question.

"Nothing, love." Shisui said lightly, nuzzling Kakashi's cheek and grinning as he rumbled happily, returning it with open affection; Shisui slanted a glance at Obito and grinned a little wider before turning his back on his cousin, nestled into his lover's shoulder - maybe he wasn't that kind either.

Re: Adventure (Arda; Éowyn & Éomer)

[kalira]

Thank you! For sure~