The Mouse's Roar

have I mentioned how much I love 31_days ?

Title: The Moth and The Flame
Day/Theme: August 18- feathered by moonlight
Series: Avatar: The Last Airbender
Character/Pairing: Zuko/Katara

Everything about her glows. 

In the sunlight, her skin radiates golden bronze, like the statue of an ancient goddess, like he imagines Agni’s wife must have looked like. When she is happy, a dusky blush illuminates her face, and somehow the pinkish tint ends up reflecting onto his cheeks as well. 

But, it’s only in the moonlight that she really shines.  

There is something unearthly that flickers in her eyes when she stands under the moon, as if she’s channeling the spirits themselves. The water she is bending glitters around her like liquid diamonds, and on the nights when the moon is full and heavy, he feels as if she could overturn the oceans themselves until they billowed over the continents and drowned the land beneath them.  

His heart is tight as he watches her, the power in her movements suffocatingly beautiful. He marvels at her ability to both freeze him in his tracks and melt his bones under his skin at the same time. He remembers the story of the moth who would destroy himself out of love for the flame, annihilate himself to be one with her. He wonders if the flame could love the sea with such a passion, and extinguish himself to be with her.
 

Zuko takes a running leap into the ocean (to Katara) to find out exactly that.

wrote another drabble! yay for creativity! it's all because of this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1XUbJEPShE (or download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?jzmj03wq2dw) and the August 10th prompt at 31_days

Title: Gently Into that Good Night
Day/Theme: Aug. 10 - out of the lightning dream
Series: Cowboy Bebop
Pairing: Spike/Julia

It felt like she would never stop falling, like she was floating in midair, like time had stopped. It started again suddenly, and she was on the ground before he could blink, like a crumpled doll, broken and still. It felt unreal, impossible, that after all this time apart, all this time he’d spent looking for her… She couldn’t leave him like this, not again. It couldn't be true. He turned her over on his lap, and her eyes slipped open, like she was half asleep.

“It’s all just a dream,” she murmured, before going limp in his arms. If it was a dream, did that mean he was still sleeping? That she’d woken up somewhere, without him? Yes, it had to be a dream, because this couldn’t be his life. This couldn’t be all there was to it. This suffering, this loneliness, this couldn’t be living. He would wake up now, he’d leave this dream and find her again. Vicious would do it, Vicious would shake him into consciousness. He owed his former partner that much.

And when that sword plunged into his chest, he didn’t feel it at all. He could feel the blood pouring out of his wounds, the gun in his hands, the roaring in his ears, but there was no pain. And then it was quiet, and there was light. When he fell, it was like that odd sensation of settling back into your body right before you wake in bed. He knew then that he would see her again soon.




::sigh:: as much as it makes me want to cry, I love the ending to this series.. it's so freaking shakespearean!

( i'm getting really good at these fake cuts! )

see told ya i'd be writing fic!  this is the Mr and Mrs. Elric piece though.. the Royai will be coming in a few days i hope... i need some inspiration..

and! at the behest of my entire f-list (seriously you guys), i have started reading the FMA manga.. i can take a hint! so let's where it takes me eh?

also, smartycat ! did you notice the new chapter of skip beat!??? ren really needs to kiss that girl til she's good and weak-kneed... god he is so yummy, i just can't take it anymore

woohoo second drabble in 48 hrs!! again for 31_days but this time a Relena-centric one! So I know you'll all enjoy ^_~

follow the fake cut

in other news, i've been reading a lot of poetry by Rumi lately... he really had a way with words.. i was able to hunt down the original persian so i could get a feel for the rhythm as well as the meaning.. it's been a fun project during my home-bound fortnight..

I've also finally gotten around to finishing up the first season of FMA!  I actually stopped watching a couple episode after Maes died so it's been nice to catch up!  Though I've already been spoiled for most of the big plot points... my next project is to watch the end of Wolf's Rain.. I think I was 4 or 5 episodes away from the final ep and it got licensed.  I didn't enjoy the dub enough to watch religiously.  Actually the only dubs that ever really hooked me (other than GW of course) were Cowboy Bebop and Trigun.

yay for having the time to enjoy my life again! work really sucks the fun out of living >_< if only i didn't have to worry about money

wheee! I finally drabbled after almost a year of no fanficcing!! it's not much, but it's for Avatar, which is a series i've been dying to write for quite a while...  it was for 31_days of course.. i may write more zutara drabbles for the rest of this month's prompts, since they all seem pretty good and easy to work with...

anyway, without further ado, here's my little Zutara niblet... enjoy!

Fulfilling the requests from smartycat (lederhosen) and wordynessie (staircase), as well as a prompt from 31_days for today's date ("God made the distance between me and you")... it was supposed to be Tamaki/Haruhi, but it came out as more of a "how am i even friends with this person?" fic...

Enjoy!

wheeee! finally finished that 1xR fluff piece i've been (sorta) working on for the past month (on and off)  i got the inspiration from one of the themes from 31_days of course... i rarely write fic otherwise, rite?

anyway, when i call this fluff, it's seriously all fluff, no plot, no character development, jus all the stuff in between that we love so much...

i swear it does...i'm like braindead when i'm working... and as soon as my contract ends.. ta-da! i have ficcage...

dedicated to smartycat and coley_merrin

Goong drabble! (spoilers for ep 14)

i love this drama so much, but has anyone else noticed that the scanlations on the manwha have ceased since the drama started airing? i guess they're to busy watching to translate...

but it's not for champloo :(

it's for naruto! of which i've only seen like 16 eps! yeah so i might have the dynamic totally wrong (lemme know if i do, i'll find out once i watch more anyway)

ok so we got sasunaru, sasusaku, and narusaku...

(oh and a lot of profanity... the f-word...multiple times...used in various forms)
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this might go up for today's theme at 31_days as well... haven't decided yet...

Thanks so much for the card smartycat!

i wrote this drabble for you (and 31_days) because you introduced me to this great manga...

Title: The Art of War
Day/Theme: December 18/"Art is far feebler than Necessity"
Series: Tokyo Crazy Paradise
Character/Pairing: Ryuji/Tsukasa
Rating: PG


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(now to start reading death note)

and dude..this is the first FMA thing i've written, like ever.. i knew i liked 31_days for a reason... makes me think of random things like this..

Title: Fuel
Theme: October 28 - Miss Machine
Series: FullMetal Alchemist
Character/Pairing: Ed/Winry
AN: This theme totally screams "Winry!".. the AU is..vague...i've got an entire backstory in my head with Roy as the high school principal (and the bane of Ed's delinquent existence) who insists on miniskirt uniforms for girls and Hawkeye as the vice-principal who's always there to give him a good smack upside the head, but alas, none of that made it into this little ficlet.

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we really need more hours in the day... anyway i wrote this for 31_days it's my first longer than drabble-length piece for FMP...i wanted to flesh this out some more, but now that the theme has passed i really have no motivation to do so...

Title: Balance
Date/Theme: October 26th - Lover/Fighter
Series: Full Metal Panic! (The Second Raid)
Character/Pairing: Kurz/Melissa, Sousuke/Kaname
AU: Underground boxing ring (i dunno where it came from, honestly)
AN: This was only inspired by TSR and since it's an AU has no spoilers for the new series... enjoy!

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look at this! i'm writing again!! and for 31_days no less!

Title: The Less Fortunate
Date/Theme: Oct. 24, 'The pavilions of love and the tents of war'
Series: Harry Potter
Characters: Harry/?
Rating: PG
AU: WWI (Harry returns to deliver news of Ron's death in the war to his loved one(s))


He looks as if he's come straight from the front lines with his wild hair and his bright eyes that look at everything but her own. His hand is clenching around the edges of a weathered envelope and she wonders if he means to give it to her at all. The wound on his forehead will most likely scar from the looks of it, but she thinks that it will be an asset to his features rather than a flaw; his face is rather delicate and his green eyes almost feminine.

There is something that seems frayed about him and she wants to take his hand and offer him tea and a warm blanket and seat by the fire.

He insists on standing at the door though, as he struggles to deliver his missive. She can feel the amused smile drop from her face as the words tumble out of his mouth. They fall on her like so many physical blows and it is all she can do to remain standing. When it is over, he finally looks at her and she sees in his eyes all the pain she feels, multiplied by guilt.

She is the girl with no shoes, but he is the man with no feet.

So, she takes his hand and offers him tea and a warm blanket and a seat by the fire.




that felt good...haven't written one of these in a while.. i left the pairing ambiguous, but those who know me, know who the girl is meant to be...

seems like everbody's drabbling these days... makes me miss raine_mystique

anyway, i've gotten a bit behind on the themes for 31_days so here's another one that didn't make the deadline...

( Aug 7, Theme: Twiggy vs James Bond (Full Metal Panic) )


if you're wondering about the hyperlink in the drabble, it's the mp3 of the song that inspired the theme..i'd like to think it's playing in the background of the scene ^^

and in case you're interested, two more of the themes i actually got done in time...

Aug 6, Theme: To the lords and ladies of Byzantium: (Original Piece)

Aug 16, Theme: Kingdom of the mad (Inuyasha)

as you can tell...i've missed a lot in between... hopefully i'll be inspired to fill those in...

I don't know how many of you guys know about 31_days but it's a comm for writing drabbles based on the theme for a given day of the month...I missed posting for the Aug 5 theme so i thought i'd post it here instead..

 ( Aug 5, Theme: a boy (Gundam Wing) )

and in case you're curious, here are my entries for the previous themes:

Aug 1, Theme: Be indomitable, o my heart (Emma)

Aug 2, Theme: A school of morality (Eternal Sabbath) <---dedicated to smartycat and grandlarseny

Aug 3, Theme: Like Hamlet (Cowboy Bebop) <---dedicated to cute_nessie fellow Spike/Julia fan

Aug 4, Theme: She left her life on Monday (Howl's Moving Castle) <---dedicated to coley_merrin of course, 'cause she made me watch the movie (which is awesome and i totally recommend it)

the think i like about this comm is that it makes me write outside my comfort zone (i.e. the GW fandom) and the themes are complicated and challenging... you guys should all give it a try, it's fun!