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

[elementalraven]

any, any, time-travelling dragons

house of the dragon, caraxes & daemon

[celeste9]

He remembers falling, his body twisting in the air, unable to make his wings beat, to fly up and up, instead nothing but down and down and down into the water, his rider locked in death with him, and both of them twisted up with the others, the killers, the ones his rider said they must end.

They have ended them, but they have ended, too, but he does not remember the impact; he only knows that he is awake, and his rider is here, whispering to him, his hands on his neck, and it is wrong, wrong, he has not been in the pit for long enough for his rider to grow and to have eggs of his own that grew into riders.

“We are leaving, Caraxes,” his rider is whispering to him, and does not seem to know that it is wrong, that they are ended, and he wonders if maybe, maybe, maybe he can save his rider from ending, instead of failing again.

[elementalraven]

any, any, time-travelling ravens

[scytale]

It was awful, this slipping through time business, made his feathers stand on end and gave him vertigo even though he'd been an expert dive-bomber since he was three months old, and of course the time vortex had dropped on him right before he'd dipped his beak into that juicy roadkill deer, which was no longer dead and hadn't even been born yet. He was hungry, and there weren't any telephone poles or high-rises to land on or any electric lights to navigate by, and the menacingly large local unkindness spoke in an archaic variant that was only used for ceremonial cawings, and was, in fact, unkind.

He was getting back home, he vowed grimly, and after that, nevermore.

[elementalraven]

any, any, time-travelling …

...cats, Genshin Impact, Neko & Hibiki

[scytale]

Neko waits and waits, but Hibiki does not return, not when the cloud disappears and the sun rises and sets and rises again, not when other humans return to the village and come to the shrine, and not even in the cycle of days later when many generations of children have passed and the original green humans have gone away and the stone human has gone still.

One day, when her moderately reliable assistant humans are discussing how to restore the stone image of her that has worn away, Neko grows weary, so she tucks herself away in a corner of the shrine and falls sleep; when she wakes up, the sun is high and the great sakura trees of the shrine are smaller, the buildings newer -- and there is a shrine maiden sweeping the grass where Neko's stone image used to be.

Neko runs toward her with a kitten's boundless energy, crying out in joy, "Hibiki!"

[vindoletta]

Wednesday, Wednesday Addams/Bianca Barclay, rivals to lovers

[(Anonymous)]

any, any, OT3 - soldier, poet, king

Leverage, Eliot/Hardison/Parker, Three In One In Three

[silveradept]

They argue about it for some time, trying to determine which of the roles is best suited for each of them as Elliot's hands dance through the tumblers and firewalls, Hardison anticipates and blocks each cut and thrust of his opponent, and Parker keeps them all on track, sometimes not saying more than a fragment or two of a sentence to remind them of the plan and where they are in it.

Ultimately, they conclude there's no way they can separate the roles, the same way they've concluded there's no way to separate themselves. Hardison boasts he knew all along, which sets Elliot off into a new argument, such that neither of them notice Parker smiling at having found the people she wants to spend a lot more time with.

[topaz_eyes]

Any, any, whose steadfast faith yet never moved (Forget Not Yet The Tried Intent, Sir Thomas Wyatt)

The Lost World, Marguerite Krux/John Roxton

[kaminagi]

She tries to tease him, accuse him of fickleness, but Marguerite can see his eyes have stopped wandering, he's fixed his sights on her alone.

"I still have plenty of deadly secrets," she tells him, Roxton is too honourable to forgive everything, she's certain of it, it will deter him sooner or later.

"And so you do, I'll survive them," he says, and his sincerity catches her off guard long enough for him to kiss her, "we'll survive them."

[topaz_eyes]

Any, any, a hundred miles later the sky has changed (Silver Wheels, Bruce Cockburn)

Flight to You

[ruanchunxian]

“The first batch of female pilots we recruited last time had just finished their training and are taking their simulator test next week; do you want to take the captain’s seat in their sims test?”

“I’d have thought you’d want to do that or have a more experienced captain in the left seat,” Cheng Xiao said in surprise.

“I’ll be running the sims from the observer seat, and I thought they’d be a little more relaxed and motivated with you in the captain’s seat, having an example to emulate and all.”

“Well this is certainly a change from Captain ‘Let’s throw two engine failures and an incapacitated captain at the new female pilot’ I had to deal with,” Cheng Xiao observed dryly.

Gu Nanting smiled. “Who said I’m still not going to throw two engine failures at them?”

[topaz_eyes]

Any, any, when I wore a younger man’s clothes (Piano Man, Billy Joel)

Doctor Who - Play Me a Memory

[word_devourer]

"Oh, I've been too many people to remember all of it," says the Doctor, "so... I try to hold onto whatever I can't remember in here."
A flickering remembrance of what could easily be an elderly human, laughing as he steps back to the TARDIS.
"Sometimes I forget that I used to be so young I wanted to look old just to be taken seriously."

[topaz_eyes]

Any, any, if you’re gonna jump it’ll be with the game (Big League, Tom Cochrane and Red Rider)

original project

[be_themoon]

The plans are clinical, careful, given in meetings they always make sure nobody is followed to, and she mostly listens at first, knows that she's the least trusted, and then one day she interrupts and says, "Somebody's going to have to be there. Physically inside, and they won't be getting out."

There are eyes on her, and it would be uncomfortable if she hadn't had to spend the last few years learning how not to care when his eyes were on her, learning how to be unfeeling and nothing, learning how to be someone he didn't even want to care for anymore, and she raises a languid hand into the air, not asking a question, not being anything more than what she's already been reduced to.

"That was me volunteering. I have training to resist interrogation - I was trained by them."

[topaz_eyes]

Any, any, “Who keeps cutting all these onions?”

Hades, Zagreus & Achilles - Pain

[word_devourer]

"I had told you, Prince," says Achilles, seemingly unaffected by the eye-watering fumes, "that they were not to be trusted."
Zagreus, who for all his divinity, is nonetheless corporeal and thus subject to physical assault, blinks away tears.
"I understand, sir," he says, blearingly looking over at the Head Chef, who seems delighted to be chopping up something other than fish for once, "I won't bring them back again."

Ianto Jones

[mxcatmoon]

Torchwood, Ianto Jones, Ianto being Ianto.

[mxcatmoon]

Any, any, that ship has sailed.

That Ship Has Sailed (Veronica Mars, Veronica/Logan)

[ultra_fic]

In the beginning, even though they were only twelve, she had ideas that it would be her and Logan - from the way he looked at her the first time they met, with that infectious smile but eyes that told her there was more to him that there seemed - but Lily had other plans, and Duncan had shown more of an interest in Veronica, so the moment passed.

In high school and college, there had been more than one attempt to make it work - from the unexpected kiss on the Camelot balcony, to the time he saved her life on the roof of the Grand, to fights over her work and his drinking and more - but perhaps they were both too damaged then, so the moment passed.

In the end, when they were reunited in Neptune, she had sworn it would never happen, and yet it was impossible to resist - when he was cleared of suspicion in Bonnie's murder, when she was free of her old relationship - and this time, at least she knows in her heart that, no matter how far the ship takes him away, he'll be coming home to her soon, because this is their time.

[lyssie]

Sandman (TV), Modern Johanna Constantine, all my friends are dead

[lyssie]

Sandman (TV), Ric the Vic, I begged my God to speak / and tear me apart

[whynot]

When the sacred becomes mundane, when you reduce the sacred to the facts and battle strategies and secret contacts and Johanna Constantine's little quips -- you don't need faith. What you need is a drink and the belief that you're doing this for the greater good. You take on cutesy nicknames like Ric the Vic because God works in mysterious ways, and one of the most effective ways is to drag the evil to the light and watch it burn, with a little help from the local ghostbuster (even if Johanna hates it when you call her that).

[lyssie]

Sandman (TV), Modern Johanna Constantine, like a broken clock

[mxcatmoon]

The Sentinel, Jim /& Blair, a sticky situation

[lyssie]

Leverage, Sophie Deveraux, you swapped your queen out for a pawn
Garbage - A Woman Destroyed

post 4x01

[be_themoon]

She moves among the groups in the tent, swapping personas by the moment, always under the radar, ignoring Hardison's frantic calls for their friends in her ears.

Later, by the side of the table, she looks at him, reads the lies in his eyes and the barely held together framework of him, and oh, Nate, but it was always going to come down to a choice, wasn't it?

And it was never going to be her.

[lyssie]

Leverage, Breanna Casey, I eat my anger 'cause I am angry, man / I smile and say you're right because I can
Garbage - Flipping the Bird

[dariaw]

Code has always been easy for Breanna.

Make a friendly joke of it when someone assumes you're stupid; pretend to be confused when someone talks shit about your life mattering, says your sexuality is a choice, thinks your gender makes you fodder for catcalls and comments; watch the powerful from afar as they destroy bodies and hopes and dreams and lives, and never, ever act like you can see them for what they are.

The anger used to slip out of her, unvarnished, a hacksaw with teeth in search of righteous justice; now, she encodes it, her personal cryptography of rage; she wraps it tight in a Trojan horse, where it remains, undetected, until the moment she decides to release havoc.

[apprentice_lurk]

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Zelda, AU - Zelda was kidnapped as a child and raised as a Yiga

[scytale]

any, any, just as stars surrounding the silver moon must hide their gleaming faces when she grows full and shines most brightly over the earth...

Enchanting (Lady Marguerite Blakeney, The Scarlet Pimpernel)

[woodmr]

“Why, if the words were only changed from English to French, we might be in one of your old salons,” said a recently arrived French émigré as she joined Marguerite’s party at the concert that evening.

“Indeed, Countess, it would take more than translation to bring our circles together,” was the wry answer given, long repeated and admired after the other was but an afterthought among those in attendance. For though Lady Blakeney now wore the gilt of her husband’s noble ancestors, Marguerite retained a sangfroid all her own—cultivated on the stage and in revolutionary spirit—that captivated the English court as no mere aristocrat could.

[schoolsasaint]

Ring of Fire, any, exotic pet trade

[vindoletta]

Arcane, Sevika/Jinx, Daddy's girl

[schoolsasaint]

A Little Princess, any, good English cooking

[schoolsasaint]

A Little Princess, Sara, bread economics

[ravenlilyrose]

Stranger Things, any, found family