PREQUEL/SEQUEL MEME. >:O

[askerian]

It's not like I have enough fics to write already, after all. :D

As always!
-You take a fic or ficlet or multipart I've written, and choose whether you want a prequel or a sequel, and/or which character you want to concentrate on (not necessary but always appreciated) and/or a timeframe (i might tell you nothing interesting happens at that point, alas) and/or some aspect of the plot you were curious about idk etc.
-They shall be snippets or ficlets or otherwise roughly comment-sized, which means there's an even chance I'll come out of this post with yet another sprawling, all-devouring 'verse on my hands.
-I make no promise to actually write your prompt. I'll give it a fair try, is all I can offer.
-You can post up to five prompts. I might write one, I might write all five, I might write none.

Not as always!
This time on top of prequels and sequels you're also free to choose a scene and ask for a different POV on it in the same timeframe, or ask what Other Character was doing at the time. (I reserve the right to reject the prompt if the answer is "nothing that interesting.")

Eligible fics:
Just about any of them, teamworkverse, restoreverse, my ofics, even Garou. Random drabbles, fics that already have a sequel, weird crossovers, blahblahblah.

Yes, that means Crossed Wires too.

My ffnet page
My homepage
The archive for all those ficlet that already have a sequel or three. (note, if the ficlet isn't in there that doesn't mean it's not eligible. I'll add it later, no prob.)

Non-eligible:
-Locker Room Therapy (got a few in progress already!)
-Tripletsverse (Naruto/Naruko/Kyuubi) in general (you can ask about a specific fic in the series but you can't just say "tripletsverse! Dude, it spans months and I haven't yet decided some things, I don't think it'll ever officially have an end.)
-Detective Conan/Magic Kaito fics, sorry Jo. .__.
-Duo in Firefly. I have no clue on earth what to do with that one, sorry.
You can try for Heero in SGA but the prompt will have to be awesome, because the inspiration for this one doesn't fly high. Sorry.



Fics so far! :D
NaruSasu... IN SPACE!!, Sasuke meets some more clone-y in-laws (three comments! This is off to a good start. >__>)
Psychic wolves: Heero & Mary prequel
Jet/Zuko sequel from that Jet/Zuko/Katara thing
Byakuya POV from Ichigo Has Two Girlfriends : Brother In Law Edition
Amateur Palemates Smuttin It Up!! now featuring kinky!auspistice!Karkat. Gamzee POV.

Waterbender!Heero, training. (GW/AtLA fusionthing)
Sasuke/Juugo sequel to the Team Hebi Does Sasuke fic


Teamwork: Itachi stabbing Sasuke from Sakura POV

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Waterbender!Heero

[askerian]

He was never sure what was the difference between a punch that would draw water to follow, and a punch that was just a punch. Trial and error had provided a few moves that worked most of the time. (Unless the moon was in the wrong area of the sky, or not the right crescent, or some other criteria he didn't grasp.)

They felt the same to him. He could spread his hands and pull his fingers up like there were strings tied to it and water would stream up in thin ribbons, and he never, ever stepped onto a weak patch of ice and crushed through into the water (somehow the way he set his feet seemed to thicken his footing for him), but a punch was a punch was a punch.

The correct way to throw a punch had been drilled into him from (almost) as far as he could remember, scruffy, stolen Tribe furs and a pale, sun-eyed face, no, keep a strong root, you want the power to break through the enemy's guard. Passable. Do it again. A hundred times.

Yes, sifu, he would say, and get a gruff I'm no one's teacher as a reply.

But just as he'd taught Odin how to build an igloo, keep warm, how to track in the snow (really they had taught each other, that one, he'd been too little to really know much), Odin had taught him. How to fight, how to kill.

Odin might not have known much about tigerbears or killer seals in specific, but killing, that he knew. It was more of a mindset than a skill set; the skill set was nice to expand on, but just a tool in the end.

The important thing was planning and determination. Setting a goal, scouting out all obstacles, and then going right through.

Water didn't like that much, it would follow him for half a kata and then slop back in its ice-hole, down its beach, leaving him without that extra power, that extra reach. Heero kept practicing anyway, every night in the circle of his camp's firelight. Step-step-low, left-jab right-jab-uppercut, elbow-in-stomach, leg-sweep, palm strike to the heart.

When he did it right the palm strike left his snowman target peppered in daggers of bright ice.

Shallow wounds. Good distraction, though. He decided to drill, this night, just the palm strike, just to see how far it'd fly, how long and sharp and deep he could make it.

Water pulled him the wrong way, sometimes. Fouled his footwork. Ice rarely did.

Sometimes, when he let himself think, he suspected he'd have had better luck with Imperial Army teaching if he'd been meant for fire. He tried not to let himself, though. Wasn't like there was anyone to put him down if midnight sun madness caught hold of him.

Just existing, that worked well enough. Just hunting and drilling and -- maybe, when it didn't remind him too much, too violently -- maybe some experimenting.

Heero was a bender, in theory. Another skill, another tool to use. In practice he tried not to count on it.

Re: Waterbender!Heero

[ravelqueen.livejournal.com]

*incoherent squeening sound* omg you wrote it!!!

*flail* asodufaksdfakhf

this was perfect and wonderful and clearly I need to tweak the rules more often^^

did that get you inspired for more of this verse? because I would be down with that^^

Re: Waterbender!Heero

[lordryous.livejournal.com]

OMG so epic, please say you'll do one for each of them. even the pair of non-benders, cause Trowa needs a scene where he runs outta ammo. Maybe he's an archer ^^.