Writing challange

[narcasse]

Since I’ve reached 100 Trinity Blood fics at Sunsets, it’s Nuit Blanche, I’m meant to be writing pr0n and we’re into the countdown to International Narsus Month: drabble/ficlet/maybe even something longer requests are open. Prompts such as fandom, character, prop or location are welcome or name a genre, a point in the canonical storyline etc. Crossovers are fine too: I’ll see what I can do with them.

Fandoms I can probably write in at the current time being: Meine Liebe, Trinity Blood, The Matrix, Sherlock Holmes, Yugioh AU, Sunshine, Batman, The Hellbound Heart, Stargate, XXXholic, Greek myth, Saiyuki. There may be more that I’m missing from that list too so try me.

Not limited to one request per player since I’m in the mood to be writing.

Comments

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

I’m still puzzling out your hieroglyphics prompt but in the meantime was there a specific prompt for Kuroshitsuji?

And thank you. That’s just 100 uploaded to the archive though, discounting the AUs and extremely silly pieces that I just post to LJ.

[shu-maat.livejournal.com]

God, you are amazing... your piece about Yuuko and Clow is so fascinating... I could see the images in my eyes -lights, flowing hair and garments, fire in the braziers- and hear the song in my mind while reading, the crotales ringing in my ears. I cannot thank you enough for accepting my little suggestion, and turning it into this! I'm truly honoured...
"Many years later" is magnificent, too...
(about Kuroshitsuji, mmm, I was wondering about a little chat between Sebastian and Elizabeth. I know it's strange and perhaps you don't like her character, or maybe it's just me that I'm not much into yaoi... but I was just wondering about it, don't mind it if it's not intresting.)


PS: maybe Levy has already asked you about it, or I'll tell her myself, but... how do you feel about translations of your fanfictions? I love your stories so much I think it's a pity that they aren't know a bit more. Translating your deep, intricate and elegant style would be such a sweat and maybe it's not for me ^^' but first of all I'd like to ask you about it. Sorry if you have already discussed it with Levy!

Kuroshitsuji- a little chat between Sebastian and Elizabeth

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

I should thank you for recommending the music. It just worked perfectly to the extent that that piece more or less wrote itself.

I really don’t have anything like a grasp on Elizabeth’s characterisation and I managed to misread your prompt as Ciel and Elizabeth which didn’t really help so instead you get this:

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She’s talking but he can’t bring himself to listen. Not because it is aimless prattle but because she’s talking about their wedding day, the future of a happy marriage, of the light and beauty she will bring to their home. He doesn’t want to listen. She is talking to him of a future that can never be.

He is also only twelve years old after all.

The next time she brings up the future that lies between them it has less to do with childish delights and there is, though never improperly, the hint of a more adult touch to their promised union. She will, she is telling him, bear children to carry on the Phantomhive name and that alone troubles him.

He is fourteen at the time.

Generalities are becoming specifics by the time she broaches the topic again. She talks of the alliance that will form between them, of the great joining of their noble families.

He is sixteen.

Now at last her speech has taken on a touch of urgency to it. They are not yet wed and they have been betrothed for far too many years. The sweetness of a lingering courtship is turning into scandal in the eyes of the world.

He will be eighteen for only a month longer.

She takes his hand, the hand upon which he hears that cursed ring, and smiles sadly. “You’re not going to marry me.”
“Elizabeth…”
She lets go of his hand and turns away.
He starts to reach out to her but then remembers why he cannot. She is right after all.
The sunlight lights up her golden hair like a halo, the window frames her as if she is walking away from him on a shimmering pathway to Heaven itself.
“I…”
“You’re going to run away with that silly butler of yours, aren’t you?” She’s laughing but he still can’t see her face.
She’s given him an excuse. He’d be a fool not to take it. “Yes.”
“I thought so. Ciel, I know this isn’t what you want to hear and I promise I won’t ever say it again but-“
And then she is in his arms and his kiss is full of desperation and despair because he daren’t say it himself, that he loves her too.

He has just turned twenty-one.

She leans over the coffin, smiling sadly, uncaring of propriety.
“I wish…” Then she shakes her head and gently brushes her lips against his instead of indulging in fruitless dreams.

Elizabeth Middleford is only twenty-two.

That Sebastian hasn’t aged in the slightest doesn’t surprise her, not does the carefully worded promise of being able to fulfil any wish she might make.
“You can’t bring him back.”
“Madam, if you so desire I can-“
She laughs, an echo of the childish laughter of the past. “Even a Duke of Hell cannot return the dead to life. I know you, Rhadamanthus, and I will not accept your contract.”
He bows low and seems more amused than angry at being discovered. “As you wish, my lady.”

She is ninety-two and on the eve of her next birthday she will die.

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As long as I’m notified I have no problem with translations at all, though mostly it seems to be Russian fandoms that tend to broach the topic.

Re: Kuroshitsuji- a little chat between Sebastian and Elizabeth

[shu-maat.livejournal.com]

Blessed be misreads, if they lead to this....
Dark, touching, perfect. Elizabeth's characterization eludes me too, but that's why I was curious about how a great writer could handle her. And the hypotetical growing-up of her and Ciel is something I wonder a lot about. So I couldn't have asked for more. Thank you, thank you for granting us such jewels....

Re: Kuroshitsuji- a little chat between Sebastian and Elizabeth

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

I’m glad you liked it. I don’t know how well I’d qualify as ‘a great writer’ though since just about the only impression I have of Elizabeth is of a rather cheerful little girl who’d like her fiancé to happier. She’s too young to really have much of an understanding of Ciel’s duties to the Queen yet and since we never get to see her in a private setting there’s nothing else to really go on. I would speculate that she might worry about Ciel more than is apparent and that because the reader only ever gets to see her around Ciel (and at a ball) she’s likely to put up a good front of being cheerful on those occasions, especially around Ciel because she’s trying to cheer him up. Even when she’s trying to make him wear ‘cute clothing’ she’s probably basing that on a combination of the fact that wearing something bright and pretty makes her happy so she’s trying the same solution out on him and because she’s already being an attentive fiancé who wants her future husband to look his best. That particular scene at first glance seemed to be a case of her being annoying but once I thought about it, it really does seem to be more a case of Elizabeth wanting to be helpful and cheer Ciel up. And her actions at the ball regarding the dress seem to corroborate that she enjoys pretty things.

Admittedly, I ought to get back to the manga at some point so there may be more evidence of her personality to be found but from what I’ve read those are the conclusions that I’ve come to.

[levy.livejournal.com]

..and I intrude in the conversation just to say, I had actually planned to do some, and I've already done two - your meme piece about Paula and Andrea and Delilah - but never get to a really satisfactory translation and kinda drop the duty there... but if it's still okay for you, Narsus, we can try to run your translations account four-hands, Shu, how about it ?
:)

[shu-maat.livejournal.com]

Levy, it was exactly what I was thinking about... *_______*
It would be a honour to me, if Narsus is okay with it!

[levy.livejournal.com]

Deal done. Make a list of pieces you wont to translate then, I'll do mine ASAP, and then we'd start to plan the job, okay?

[shu-maat.livejournal.com]

Roger, o captain, my captain!!