Comment Ficathon

[goodbyebird]

Hey all, and welcome to the very first comment ficathon at the_old_guard! How better to celebrate that the posts have already crawled off the first page, and we're sitting at exactly 69 members (nice).

Prompts will be accepted from now through Friday 31st, and fills for another two weeks after that.

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HOW TO PROMPT
• Leave a comment with either character(s) or ship, and a prompt.

Example: Nile & Andy, face masks mess with facial recognition software.

• Only one prompt per comment, but leave however many prompts you'd like.

• This is open to anyone with a dreamwidth account (it's free).


POSTING GUIDELINES

• Limit fic to one comment (16,000 characters inc. spaces maximum). If it's longer than that, you can post the fic in your own journal/new post to the community/AO3, and provide a link to it in the comment. All fic or links to fic should be posted in comments to this entry.

• Prompts can have multiple fills.

• Please stick to the pairings and prompts given.

• Please format your subject line as follows:

Title (if you have one, Untitled if not), characters/pairing, rating.

Example: Chains, Andy/Quynh, PG.

• If you write about anything that would typically warrant a warning note (i.e., graphic violence, non-con, racism, body horror, etc.), please include one at the top of your comment.

Example: [warning: sex with dubious consent].

• Please link to your work in the Fills thread.

CLOSED for prompts and fills

Comments

Quynh, rescued by mermaids

[lyssie]

Quynh, rescued by mermaids

Because I just thought of it, and I crave it.

Re: Quynh, rescued by mermaids

[lailah_tov]

She's never alive long enough to think clearly—her body's stubborn magic pushes the water out of her lungs, but there's only water there to breathe back in—so it's a great surprise to her when she claws her way out of the blackness, coughs and heaves, and finds her head above the waves and sweet air filling her aching lungs. Her arms are slung over the strong shoulders of two... women? They have the heads of women, but their hair is like seaweed, their necks are gilled, and beneath the water she feels the powerful movement of their tails.

They stare at her, puzzled, concerned. She croaks out her name. They frown and shake their heads. Human language seems unknown to them.

But they saved her, somehow. They saw her and saved her. They understood that like them, she is something different.

She turns her face to the sun, which she thought she'd never see again. Strength comes back into her legs and she kicks slowly, doing her part to keep herself afloat, though the mermaids still hold her up effortlessly as they bob in the ocean currents. There's no land anywhere in sight, but perhaps her rescuers will guide her to shore. It doesn't matter where, as long as there's a boat she can take to England and Andromache.

As though they've read her mind, one mermaid guides her onto the back of the other. She grips with her knees as she would on horseback and her... mount? makes an amused sound. They begin to move through the water at a surprisingly fast clip.

Her chemise is in tatters and the sun beats down on her bare back. She's desperately hungry, and thirsty for fresh water. She might die again before they get where they're going. That's fine. Worse things have happened.

This will do nothing to convince them I'm not a witch, she thinks, smiling, as she rides the mermaid toward an unexpected future.

Re: Quynh, rescued by mermaids

[lyssie]

It is highly embarrassing, but the sound I made when the notification this had been filled popped up was... loud.

This is EXCELLENt and perfect, and exactly what I was hoping for. I am happy-dancing, here. =D

She might die again before they get where they're going. That's fine. Worse things have happened. I love this, it's a gut-punch of practicality in amongst the confusing THERE ARE MERMAIDS, fantasy-ness.

Re: Quynh, rescued by mermaids

[lailah_tov]

^^ glad you liked it!