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

[(Anonymous)]

any, any, muppet AU

Squid Game, With Our Very Special Guest...

[silveradept]

Before the masked guards process into the arena, a brassy fanfare and a jaunty bass line and piano accompaniment gets Gi-hun's and every other player's attention.

Do you remember childhood?
Hope that your memory's right!
Or else you'll meet your Maker,
playing the Squid Game tonight!

[(Anonymous)]

Historical RPF, any, careful what you wish for

Anne and Mary Boleyn, Henry VIII

[tellshannon815]

Anne had dismissed Mary’s remark that she should be careful what she wished for, as negotiations went on to request that the Pope grant the King a divorce from Queen Katharine. Anne had succeeded where Mary had failed; the King had put Mary aside, while he desired that Anne should become his bride, become Queen of England, the woman who would give him a son; it was natural that Mary may not have been happy for Anne.

Now as Anne lies awake in the Tower of London, awaiting her impending execution, she understands that her sister was right after all.

[whynot]

Mass Effect, Shepard, i am not a woman i'm a god

The Cult of Shepard Begins

[word_devourer]

She's higher in the Turian Hierarchy than 60% of turians (even posthumously), her datalog is permanently cached in the geth consciousness, the quarians are already planning to name a ship after her (or, at this point, it'll be a city), and even among the asari, a splinter group of heretics identify her with their Goddess.

She pulled on the threads of fate, and the galaxy twisted around her, reshaping itself to her indomitable will. Her body could turn to dust, and she'd still be immortal in a way that death can't take from her; as long as life persists in this galaxy, her name will be spoken with reverence and awe.

[dawen]

any, any, unusual domesticity

[ravenlilyrose]

The strange domesticity that grows among them all (the original Party, plus the girls, the older teens, Joyce, and Hopper) is unusual in so many ways, not only from the perspective of those who might observe them from the outside (most of them unrelated, several of them actively disliking each other not very long ago) but also for many on the inside who are unused to having people around them who care and show it. Steve Harrington goes from eating meals alone unless he throws a party or has friends over for pizza to having standing invitations at the Byers and Henderson houses and kids that show up unprompted or harass him for rides and to feed them between driving them places. Jim Hopper has been alone for so long, but now he has people who check in on him, kids who look up to him as more than just the distant chief, and a little girl to take care of and he doesn't know what to think (but he's happy, so happy, and despite all the danger, so are all the others).

[whynot]

Mass Effect, Aria&/Liara, enemies to fraught associates

[whynot]

Mass Effect, Javik & Dr. Chakwas, worthless yellow rocks

[whynot]

Narnia, Edmund/Susan, music playing from another room

CW: smut

[last_haven]

The house is empty except for them--everyone trying desperately to find their own way to beat the heat. Lucy, driven to distraction by the summer weather, had left the wireless playing in the sitting room; Susan is humming along to the song against his neck.

"I should go shut that off," he says, but he won't with the way the sheets around coiled around their legs and their bodies tacky with more than sweat--too much effort.

She slaps his shoulder, gently. "Don't," she huffs, "I love this song."

He chuckles as she goes back to her humming. "You know, this was a terrible to try and ignore the heat."

"Oh?" She stops humming again, but there is something mischievous in her gaze as she pulls his face to hers. "I don't know about that."

Well, he thinks as she climbs on top of him, maybe he was a little hasty--they may not be any cooler, but he certainly has stopped caring about the heat.

[dawen]

any, any, it's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

A Court of Fey and Flowers, Lord Airavis

[chronologicalimplosion]

(Y'know what? I was gonna prompt this for acofaf at some point but I guess I'll just do it myself)

Maybe, Lord Airavis thinks briefly as he's deep in the plot, the business with the portals to the material plane and the ending of the Bloom should feel more monumental, more foolhardy--the world as everyone knows it is shifting around him in ways they likely don't yet understand.

On the other hand, his involvement is making out with the enemy and spilling secrets and other things that come like breathing.

In the middle of the chaos that's about to change the world, pulling at every string he can get his talons on, he feels the most at home he has all Bloom.

[whynot]

Narnia, Aslan & Tash, you're playing chess I'm playing Scrabble

[dawen]

any, any, tea for two

[ravenlilyrose]

Anakin sits down across from his fatherbrotherformer master and pushes a warm mug of rich tea over to him, settling its twin in his own hands.
"Take a break, Obi-Wan; you've been working for hours and you need to rest or else you'll collapse."
Obi-Wan looks up from his paperwork with bleary eyes and ruffled hair to see his brotherchildformer padawan looking at him with soft eyes, and his arguments about the urgency of his work all fade; maybe he can stand to take a short break.

[raisedbymoogles]

any, any, lycanthrope AU

Blake's 7, Dayna Mellenby is a wolf

[lyssie]

Servalan has murdered her father, and Dayna gives into the wild rage boiling beneath her skin; the shift is almost seamless, this time (she and Lauren used to shift far too slowly for comfort, and play in the shallows, or dash round the ship while her father laughed and teased them with thrown sticks), and she catches a glimpse of Avon's rather shocked expression before she is clattering up the steps and out the airlock onto the surface.

It takes her only a short time to track Servalan, catching her before she's far into the scrublands, and Dayna howls her delight, startling the horrible woman.

When Dayna returns to the ship, Servalan's blood staining the silver case in her hand, Avon points a gun at her heart, "Silver bullets," he says (she smiles, not telling him they don't work upon her as she bargains for a place in his crew).

[raisedbymoogles]

any, any, wingfic

Naruto Founders, Madara

[dawen]

The heavy monsoon rains pound down just past the engawa, making the roof sing; Madara sits just past the edge where the wet begins, carding his fingers through his plumage to neaten the feathers and help shake the excess water off. He can hear his brothers inside, running around and causing a ruckus, and he wants to go join them, but first - to dry off.

He takes a towel to dry himself, which ruffles his feathers all over again, but it's not as bad as if he'd tried to towel-dry without preening first; it takes only a couple minutes to set them right again, and then he's off inside, tackling Izuna and Kuro at the same time with a cheerful yell and bearing all three of them to the floor.

[raisedbymoogles]

any, any, demonology AU

Rapunzel: Demonology AU

[slowmercury]

Rapunzel knows summoning demons is a terrible idea -- she's not stupid. She's read books, which invariably end with morals about goodness triumphing over evil and demons dragging the defeated warlocks away to burn in hell for an eternity of torture; she's even heard some firsthand accounts about that from the witch during her infrequent visits.

It's just that Rapunzel's bored. So bored. There's nothing to do in her godforsaken tower that she hasn't done already a dozen times over. She's memorized every book she owns cover to cover; she's embroidered hundreds of handkerchiefs and then unpicked the threads to stitch them again. The view out of her single window shows the forest's leaves have begun to turn the colors of autumn -- Rapunzel can't allow herself to look too often for fear she'll go mad with wanting everything she can't reach.

Rapunzel has a recurring nightmare that she died and, instead of going to heaven, the witch binds Rapunzel's soul to the tower stones and nothing changes except that Rapunzel's ghost can't touch anything so she can't even embroider anymore.

Maybe being dragged off to hell wouldn't be so bad. At least she would be going somewhere new, and hell would certainly be different from her current prison. She might even meet new people.

Demon summoning doesn't require anything except the skill to draw a perfect circle and the willingness to bleed enough to close it. (Well, it also requires risking your immortal soul but that's maybe more of a pro than a con, here.)

When that first demon asks her what her bidding is, Rapunzel blinks away the black spots in her vision from the blood loss and demands, "Get me out of this tower."

The demon nods. Moments later, a voice she's never heard before calls from outside, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!"

[raisedbymoogles]

any, any, self insert

Fill: Batman: The Animated Series

[templefugate]

"So," Harley said, "who's the new inmate?"

"Temple Fugate," Edward replied. "And no, it's not the one you're thinking of."

[raisedbymoogles]

any, any, incubus and/or succubus and/or concubus AU

Needs (Tight-Rope; Ryuunosuke/Naoki)

[kalira]

". . .you haven't been feeding?" Naoki whirled on Ryu and he cowered down, whining needily, turning sad eyes up to Naoki and looking nothing like a demon of any kind.

"I only want you, Naooo. . ." Ryu yowled piteously, and Naoki rubbed his face - then had to drop one hand to shove Ryu away, clinging to Naoki's hips and rubbing his cheek against Naoki's stomach.

"Even if I-" Naoki began, and Ryu scrambled up again immediately, breathless, invading Naoki's space until he shoved Ryu again, "if! if I . . . let you," he glared firmly and Ryu whined but remained otherwise silent, "you will have to feed off other people as well, I'm only human, I can't be your only source of energy! Ryu, listen to me!" he barked, grabbing Ryu's shoulder and shaking it; somehow he'd get it through his- his- Ryu's head that he . . . might have Naoki, and that Naoki understood how he functioned, as an incubus, and wouldn't turn him away for it.

[raisedbymoogles]

any, any, magical girl AU of a property that is really not equipped for it

Go! Go! Dark Defender Daniel! (Amnesia: The Dark Descent)

[jigglygrlcarrie]

this ended up getting long lol but I couldn’t resist combining two of my passions (magical girls and survival horror) into something silly.

—

“Daniel, there it is! That Gatherer has one of the pieces of the Orb embedded in it!” Agrippa’s voice rang out over the battlefield.

“Right!” The young man answers, raising the extremely marketable Eternal Lantern high into the air and drawing forth the Shadow Blade (sold separately) from its glowing center with a showy gesture.

“Paint the man, cut the lines….” He begins chanting, swinging the blade in intricate patterns that hang and glisten in the air like rays of light, forming a sigil that magically binds the monster of the week in place. Reality itself begins to tear and distort around them, but the man presses on undeterred. “…Cut the flesh…” Piles of flesh begin to pool at his feet, lurching forward toward the monster like sickening tendrils, lashing out and wrapping around them. “…Watch the blood spill…”

The flesh squeezes the Gatherer tighter, tighter, as Daniel races forward, driving the blade into the undulating cocoon. “LET IT COME!”

The scene explodes into a fog of red mist and deep red sparkles, leaving only the shard of the sacred Orb behind.

[raisedbymoogles]

any, any, "What is a man? A miserable pile of (fill in the blank)!"

Fallen London, the Masters

[scytale]

IRRELEVANCE, wrote Mr Iron with one hand, and with the other, KNIVES.

"Wickedness and desire," said Mr Wines with a smile, "which we do so enjoy and profit by -- and of course, they are also made of dreams."

Mr Eaten said nothing at all, yet.

[loveandrockmusic]

Narnia, Peter Pevensie, every inch a king

[ravenlilyrose]

It gets blurrier the more time they spend in England, and sometimes she forgets to look for it, but her brother is every inch the king Aslan Himself proclaimed him to be, and Lucy could not be more proud of her oldest brother. In Narnia, Peter had fallen into the role of High King easily and naturally, still needing to be taught the details of ruling a kingdom, but embodying the spirit of kingship immediately: loving his people, staying strong for them, and being the leader they needed. Here in England, he still does those things for the other three, and later graciously accepts first Eustace and then Jill into their fold with warm strength, but when he walks among the people who are only of this world he is still every inch a king: he is diplomatic and kind, giving them respect, but not allowing them to change him, as though he is an ambassador to this strange land and must represent the land he rules to everyone he meets.

[whynot]

Narnia/Sandman, Dream & any, Narnia is part of the skerries

[wingedflight]

36 Questions, Judith, becoming a better version of myself on my own

[whynot]

Narnia/Sandman, Dream & Jadis, a plum gig

[whynot]

Narnia/Sandman, Death & Aslan, the same way twice

Each Sacrifice

[silveradept]

"Did you enjoy being killed again?" the woman in causal and revealing clothing said to the lion on the Stone Table as she leaned against the structure.

"It is…deeply unpleasant, even if it is necessary," the lion rumbled.

"You're a lot like my siblings," the woman with the ankh said disapprovingly, "so caught up in Duty that you think you have to make the same mistakes a second time."

[whynot]

Narnia, Lucy/sea girl, there are no mermaids in England

[lyssie]

This reincarnation thing was a tricky and disrupting business to begin with, and Lucy had told herself that her hopes and dreams most likely weren't possible; still, she does think it was lucky chance that Susan gave in when she insisted on the flat with the large tub you could practically swim in.

Lucy never bothered thinking hard about how easy it was to find the others, but for this, she will thank Aslan (when she isn't quite so distracted by the impossibility before her that is beyond her wildest imaginings; well, almost beyond), "I do think Susan might have warned me," she says as she steps into the loo, taking in the lounging mermaid in their tub.

The sea girl smiles, cheeky and smug as she holds out a hand to Lucy, beckoning her into the water, "I asked her not to."

[wingedflight]

Narnia/Scarlet Pimpernel, any, we appear to have a vigilante problem

Shortly post-Prince Caspian

[violsva]

“It is not,” said Caspian, “that I mind so much having them escape justice—actually, can I say I prefer it? It’s better for everyone if the last few Telmarine rebels are out of Narnia, without anyone having to escalate matters to an execution; but if only they would stay in Calormen!”

“Unfortunately, sire,” said Trumpkin, “the reason they are wanted by Narnian justice in the first place is their refusal to allow you to rule in peace; this ‘Pimpernel’s’ actions are just going to give Calormen dangerous intelligence about Narnia’s defenses.”

[ravenlilyrose]

Star Wars, any character other than Obi-Wan, infinite sadness

[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.