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Charles and Erik, Post-X3

( 'I don’t believe in ghosts, Charles,' he says. 'If I did, I would have far more people haunting me than you.' )

 

Yes, my favourite is Alan Moore's. (If we're not counting my icon.) But they're quite versatile, aren't they....

Romance: "I never promised." "I believed anyway."
Porn: Sorry. There are too many cocks!
Thriller: Secrets destroyed -- shredded paper and brains.
Genre: The spaceships landed. We all ran.
Comedy: Is there really a toenail fairy?
Coming of age: I turned my parental tracer off.
Horror: They said silver would work. Bastards.

I can do fanfic as well...

Charles/Erik:* He felt safe underneath the helmet. Charles let him.
Moon/Zao:* The diamonds are sharp and cold, like your touch.

Origin stories are always necessary, right?

Clark: No one else could taste sunlight.
Bruce: They died more slowly in nightmares.
Diana: Just don't ask what Hippolyta traded.
Dick Grayson: Green. Red. Green. Red. Red. Red.
Dexter: Magnificent moon, magnified in Harry's knife


*(Actually a 9 word story. Oops.)

This format amuses me, obviously. The six word story only works because the person reading is capable of filling in all the blanks, of creating a story themselves around the mere suggestion the author provides.

Want one? Give me a character and get 6 words, give me a pairing and get between 6 and 12.

So, that first line game was fun. And I learned that I *can*, actually, write really short things (as opposed to the moderately short things I usually write). Also, I might have learned that am something of a fandom whore, if I didn't know it already.

Here are first line drabble things I've written...

( For Penknife: 'Erik looked out over the sea of tents.' )

( For lovelyzelda: 'As he drove towards Soho, Crowley didn't bother to avoid the glassy eyed pedestrians who idiotically wandered into the street.' )

( For louiselux: 'The water, when it came, was cold.' )

( For daegaer: 'And there was war in Heaven.' )

( For musesfool: 'He has many names, none of them his.' )

And, if that isn't enough, I played louiselux's game and put together some ficlets made *entirely* of first lines.

 
( From louiselux's lines. )

( From daegaer's lines. )

Well, I got all ready to go to bed, and then it got something stuck in my head. Damnit.

Sigh. Who needs more than four hours of sleep each night? Apparently, not me.

This is probably your fault, trismegistus. I'll think of a reason why later.

( So I wrote something, which is an x-men fic. )

Um, yeah. 2am fic, so I expect lots of complaints.