Drabble On Ficathon 2024 - Prompts & Fills!

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PROMPTING FOR DRABBLE ON FICATHON 2024 IS NOW CLOSED BUT FEEL FREE TO CONTINUE POSTING FILLS.

Welcome to the first round of Drabble On Ficathon!

This is the 2024 prompt/fill post where you can comment with as many prompts as you want, and fill as many prompts as you want.

If you haven't already, please check out the General Info Post over here before you start.

A Few Reminders:
How to Prompt:
Only one prompt per comment.
Please use this format:

• Fandom, Character or Ship, Word/Sentence Prompt

Examples:

• Teen Wolf, Stiles Stilinski, He was born more magic than human.
• Twisted Wonderland, Leona/Silver, sleep
• Harry Potter, Any, Canon Divergence AU - Triwizard Tournament
• Any, Any, "How do you want to do this?"

How to Fill:
Reply to whichever prompt(s) you like with a drabble or a drabble variation.
You can fill as many prompts as you want, fill the same prompt multiple times, and fill a prompt even if someone else has already left a fill for it.
All fills should be complete.
If you find it easier to post elsewhere and just link the fill here, you can do that too.

A Few More Notables:
Any ratings and any CWs are possible. Those who are posting fills can choose to include tags but it's not required.
If you're posting to AO3 and want to add it to the collection, you can find it over here or on the sidebar.

Have fun drabbling!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Any, Any, "starlight has never looked so beautiful" (quote or vibes)

[rionaleonhart]

Final Fantasy VII, Cloud/Aerith/Tifa/Barret, making it work.

[rionaleonhart]

Danganronpa V3, Kaede/Rantaro, guilt.

[rionaleonhart]

Uncharted, Nate/Elena, a quiet moment in the midst of chaos.

[(Anonymous)]

Any, Any, gossiping about someone's relationship

[(Anonymous)]

Any, Any, claiming bite

[(Anonymous)]

Any, Any, a ghost between them

Reverse: 1999 - Shamane/Kaalaa Baunaa

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Title: Gravitational Pull
Fandom: Reverse: 1999
Character/Pairing: Shamane/Kaalaa Baunaa, Kaalaa Baunaa, Shamane
Rating: G
Word Count: 1000
Summary: There is no obstacle quite as inconvenient as the dead, as a ghost, as a memory...
Tags: Post-Canon AU, Developing Relationship, Light Angst, Misunderstandings, Courtship, Past Character Death(s), Pining, Not Actually Unrequited Love
AO3 Link

[(Anonymous)]

Any, Any, waking up

Fill: Waking Up (Original Fiction – Woofwoofverse)

[flailingfrog]

Things are not okay. Looking back, you would say things haven’t been okay for a very, very long time.

It can be hard to admit that to ourselves. It’s very hard to admit to yourself even now.

But you look at them, and you look into the chasm of nothing behind their eyes as they consider the person before them, the person you have just told them ‘no’ to harming, because you don’t need to, to get this job done, and you’re painfully aware that when you leave, they’re going to hurt someone.

And you’re going to have to leave.

[(Anonymous)]

Any, Any, "I just want to be someone you can rely on."

Reverse: 1999 - Shamane/Kaalaa Bauna

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Title: Where the River Leads
Fandom: Reverse: 1999
Character/Pairing: Shamane/Kaalaa Baunaa, Shamane, Kaalaa Baunaa
Rating: G
Word Count: 1000
Summary: ...except perhaps oneself.
Tags: Post-Canon AU, Developing Relationship, Light Angst, Misunderstandings, Past Character Death(s), Pining, Not Actually Unrequited Love
AO3 Link

[(Anonymous)]

Any, Any, ripping someone's throat out

[(Anonymous)]

Any, Any, late-night encounters

[(Anonymous)]

Title: Sleep It Off
Fandom: Sasaki to Miyano
Rating: M
Ship: Sasaki Shuumei/Miyano Yoshikazu
Warnings: Mild Sexual Content, Alcoholism
Summary: A very drunk Miyano confronts Sasaki about Sasaki's feelings.
AO3 Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61866181

[chanter1944]

Any, any, treasuring semi-precious gemstones

[chanter1944]

Band of Brothers, George Luz, musical talent

[chanter1944]

Dragonriders of Pern (Anne McCaffrey), Breda and whoever else you like, the first clutch laid at Xanadu Weyr contains a gold egg, but there are ten girls standing along with a crowd of boys, and some of those girls are not hoping for the queen

[(Anonymous)]

Any, Any, character is smarter than people think

Fill: Character Is Smarter Than People Think (Original Fiction – Woofwoofverse)

[flailingfrog]

[CW: Ableism and fantasy racism]

“You have a brain? You don’t seem like you have a brain.”

It comes out friendly enough, at least partially because he’s the kind of guy who you get enough beer in him and he starts laughing, (and someone should tell him that drinking on a job like this isn’t ever advisable, but it’s not about to be you) but you know what he’s doing, are used to people looking at you and seeing something lesser because you’re a dweller, or the wrong kind of steppefolk, or because you’re just plain odd, but you have a routine here, a part that’s comfortable to play, a part that belongs to a you much younger than you are now, so you cock your head and act like you have to think about it.

“I don’t know. Presumably, no? People tend to have them, right?” And you say it like you’re a gullible little whelp, like you’re just making conversation right on back, like there’s any world in existence where Precious is the brains behind this operation, and you can feel Precious frowning from where he’s sitting, watching with everyone else on what they’re expecting to be an easy mission because they don’t realize you’re here to hurt them. It’s been centuries since anyone has.

You do, by the way. Have a brain. You read the research papers on your folk greedily as they come out, digging into the medical terminology as deeply as necessary, because you learned a long time ago you can’t trust a hospital with your biology.

And even if you hadn’t, you’ve seen your creator spatter enough of your folk’s brains across the walls of the caverns below to know the fact.

But this answer sells the stupid, gullible act better, and you’re going to need that to get his guard down enough to get into his room and into his bag tonight.

He laughs, and you laugh, too, like it isn’t a mean thing, like you’re compatriots as he thinks. As if you’re not wishing you could give him a bloodier death than your schedule allows. (You don’t have to kill him. Precious is going to be mad he’s dead. You’re going to lie about why you killed him, and Precious is going to know, but he’ll probably let you lie. Probably.)

From across the fire pit, Precious snaps, because he can never just let you work, “Stop it. He’s odd.”

Something cruel crosses the man’s face, and maybe you won’t have to lie to Precious about why you killed him after all, but you pretend you don’t see it as he says, “We were just fucking around. Calm down.” He turns to you, makes you complicit as he asks, “You’re cool, right?”

You nod, which’ll piss Precious off later.

He grins, goes back to being an ass.

He doesn’t find it as funny later that night when you stab him. At least, you assume he doesn’t. You’re not stupid enough to let him wake up for it.

[(Anonymous)]

Any, Any, “You deserve better.”

Fill: “You Deserve Better.” (Original Fiction – Woofwoofverse)

[flailingfrog]

They look at fae when fae says it, and fae’re still smiling, but for the first time since the pair’s met, they’re not.

They take Beyond’s cigarette straight from faer hand, and Beyond doesn’t think now’s the time to tell them that new research is showing that something like them’s really better off getting a vice they can inject or, honestly, rub on the gums. Beyond’s got some great crystals straight from the cavern, some great spirits, too, if they’re a drinker, and they don’t need to lie to Beyond, fae knows dwellers can drink. And fae could lie and tell us with a straight face that it’s because fae values the autonomy of all the commonfolk of Mirror and sure, that one’s obvious, but that wouldn’t stop it. But it’ll humor us with the truth instead: if fae keeps the silence awkward enough, this bastard’s gonna break and say something fae can use, which is exactly what happens when after one huff, two, three, Dove says, “So do a lot of people.”

And then fae grins, because fae’s got them, and fae says, “But I’m not making this offer to a lot of people: I’m making it to you.”

[linky]

Any, any, another time

[linky]

Any, Any, Ocean

Fill: Ocean

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Title: Salt Tinged Breeze
Fandom: Reverse 1999
Rating: General Audiences
Content Warnings: None
Summary: At night, when Windsong couldn’t sleep, she could hear a humming that started when she withdrew to her quarters and the first dog-watch began.
Wordcount: 500 words (oops)
- Link to fic on Ao3

[linky]

Kamen Rider OOO, Ankh/Eiji, Ice Cream

[linky]

Any, Any, First Date

[(Anonymous)]

Any, Any, running to save someone

Fill: Running to Save Someone (Original Fiction – Woofwoofverse)

[flailingfrog]

Stupid. The word is a loop, useless as you even as you run. You don’t weave through the crowd because it parts around you in crashing waves, a benefit of your Goddess’s blessing of pure fear, a blessing you’ve wasted with your carelessness.

How dare you commit such disrespect. You got comfortable, and that is the second worst thing an ascendant can do.

Were you someone else, perhaps you’d find comfort in the fact your disrespect isn’t yours alone, but that doesn’t change that as you skid into the alleyway where Responsible—and how ill ezi will be after this one, with a name you’re lucky not to bear in this moment—and her forks already crouch amongst the trash you let him sulk in he is gone and you don’t know where and you might never see him again.

You failed, and not only did you fail but you failed Her, and you failed Her again. Every opportunity she puts in front of you, you squander, and that, that is the third worst thing an ascendant can do.

The worst, of course, is fail.

You wouldn’t be too late if you hadn’t created the opportunity.

You need to sit.

[linky]

Any, Any, Piracy

[endlesstwanted]

Stranger Things, Any, summer plans

[endlesstwanted]

Stranger Things, Eddie/&Steve, only one bed

[endlesstwanted]

Stranger Things, Will Byers, colours