in-progress meme
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bebootsIn a continuing effort to procrastinate on my homework (my thesis draft is staring as balefully as a pile of papers can at me from the corner of my desk), and, encouraged by the AWESOMENESS of everyone who seems to read this journal and their participation in that let-me-tell-you-a-history-story meme I held a few days ago... (People can still post prompts, by the way! It is by no means closed! You may even post a second prompt if you wish!) I've decided to participate in another meme that's been making the rounds of my f-list...
Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous.
Upon request, I will post a random line or two from any of these you choose. Assuming that the file adds up to a full line, that is.
I'm not sure if very many people know, but I do write quite a bit of random bits and pieces of fanfic. My problem is that they're generally just snippets of scenes and dialogue at best... although I have a LOT of sometimes incredibly long outlines. So my WIP folder is actually quite large. My problem is that they always seem to STAY as WIPs, and never, well, progress to completion. In any case, I will post bits (or even more than bits!) for those curious.
On a completely separate note, I'm also planning on making a picture post to go with all of the responses to the history meme, possibly tomorrow or maybe later today. You shall get a historical image to go along with the story, so that you can put names to faces! :)
Anyway, here is the list of documents in my bulky "My fanfic" folder... Some of the titles you may recognize from pieces I have posted before, but others, not so much... I also tend to have rather descriptive titles (some with fandoms, some mysteriously without!), so hopefully some will strike your fancy! Feel free to request up to three at a time. :)
A Night Fury in the King's Service - Temeraire HTTYD cross
A Traitor Redeemed - Avatar(2009)
Against Thy Own Kind
An Extension of Trust
Avatar(2009) - Time travel
Aziraphale & the Werewolf - Crossover GO & HP
Azula's Revenge - timetravel
Blue Spirit Joins the Gaang, more or less
Carlisle & House
Chid on the Dragon Throne
Childhood Friends - Toph in the Fire Nation
Chinese Formation - Temeraire
Crowley the Familiar
Dr. Horrible, turning on the League
Draco Timetravel actual fic
Dragon!Zuko fic idea
Fangs and Flamethrowers
Far Removed - hetalia idea
Fire Lord Iroh AU
For the Greater Good - Good Omens
Forgotten
Genderswitch Temeraire idea
Good Omens - HP crossover Idea
Good Omens X House crossover idea
Guillaume Laurent - Temeraire idea
Hallucination - a temeraire fic
Hikago - ghost busters
In a Land Without Technology
Invader Dib
Language barrier - hetalia idea
Laurence's privateers - Temeraire AU
Left for Dead - temeraire fic idea
Lieutenant Laurence - Temeraire idea
Meeting Fire Lord Zuko - timetravel
Nunavut Ascendancy - hetalia fanfic
Phenix!Zuko
Possession - Hikago
Professor Fell crossover idea
Reincarnation - Temeraire idea
Sasori Sensei of Suna
Star Command Zim idea
Strange, Norrell and Potter
Tea Cart Zuko & Iroh
The Betrothed - Mulan
The Tides of War - Temeraire
Tumnus in Spare Oom - Narnia HP crossover
Um... yeah. I get distracted easily...? Some of these fic bits have been sitting there untouched for several years...
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The Betrothed - Mulan
Date: 2011-02-17 12:16 am (UTC)(Sorry for the long intro - it's a long document. The following is now an excerpt from the outline as it's written now. Apologies for the tense confusion.)
She does not get much chance to recuperate from the birth, though – barely two days – before Huns attack once more. They’ve been trying to get all of the stragglers. Mulan has no choice (do or die) but to put on her father’s armour and take up the sword to defend her family – both old and young. She is fiercely determined to get them all out of this situation alive.
They are outnumbered, and things do look hopeless. But then, the sound of pounding hooves – Chinese soldiers! They push the Huns back. Exhausted but grateful, Mulan sits down right where she is. She was about ready to stammer out a thank-you when their commanders bursts in on the scene: Shang. He doesn’t look as calm and collected as he normally is. His eyes meet hers, and for a moment, Mulan forgets that she’s wearing her father’s armour, and that the relief she sees in his eyes is all for her sake…
And then he barks out: “Ping! What are you doing here?”
She can’t reveal herself now. “Pr-protecting my family.” She says, pointedly, between pants.
Understanding then dawns in Shang’s eyes as he spots Fa Zu. “Then… Mulan?”
Now she was stuck. She couldn’t claim that they left Mulan elsewhere – that would be the height of negligence, especially for Ping, a trained soldier. She has no other option but to impulsively say: “Dead, in the Hun attack. We burned the body yesterday.” Her voice was oddly flat, and she averted her gaze and hoped that the ruse worked.
Besides, Shang always respected Ping more than Mulan anyway. She could do more good now as Ping than as a woman.
The only reaction she gets out of Shang at this moment is a sharp intake of breath. His facial expression remains stern. Something inside Mulan dies a little at this lack of reaction. Had he ever loved her? (But Shang can’t show his emotions in front of his men – Mulan doesn’t quite understand that.)
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“She had a son. She did her duty as a wife. There can be no higher honour, for a woman,” Ping – Mulan – said bitterly.
Later on, after they’ve escorted the Fa family back with them to the main bulk of the army (as well as a couple other straggling refugees), Ping is let in to the tactical talks – he has much information about the current whereabouts and actions of the Huns than the Chinese army have now.
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“Mulan told you this.”
Shang doesn’t deny it.
Ping held his gaze. “You would have listened to her.”
Shang cannot deny this either.
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Shang thinks that the reason why Ping is being so belligerent and distant is because he blamed Shang for his sister’s death… which is party true. She still blames him for not listening to her – then maybe things would have turned out better for the village, if he had left a few soldiers behind to help protect it. But Mulan also doesn’t want Shang to notice more similarities between the “twins”, now that he’s spent time with both.
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