For all you shatter is our seeming, And in breaking we are free

Well, that went well. Apparently, throw enough genres in a blender and my brain will do some strange places -_-; Um. Yes. Heh. So, the Original Character Meme ended up producing sketched ideas for the following:

- A crime-solving embittered skaldic lawspeaker with a dark past, in a Viking Crime Fiction story.

- A librarian-scholar with an interest in prophecies and apocrypha running afoul of a divination cult in 1870s Britain, in a Steampunk Bibliomancy story.

- An amnesiac ship's AI who believes it was originally one or several consciousnesses stripped by an alien monolith and strewn throughout the cosmos, in a Stitchpunk Space Odyssey story.

- A horrified survivor of a cybernetic instrumentality event, in a Sci-Fi Cybertech Horror story (came kind of close to Galactic Duality, so possibly some cheating there).

- An alternate Orpheus lost aboard the Asphodel Space Station searching for a guide deeper into the Hades space sector, in a Noir Space Opera Mythology story (again, kind of more fanfic than original, whoops).

And finally:

- A pair of supernatural bakers in 1877 Constantinople (a domovoi and a djinn) who get caught in the middle of supernatural murders and spy drama as the Russo-Turkish war builds to a close around them, in an Urban Fantasy Bakery Spy Drama. Because why not?

For sablin27. Partially inspired, at least aesthetically speaking, by the art and fanart of Tianzi Yang. Cyberpunk angels, yes.

Title: Neon Angels
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Dresden Files bookverse
Characters/Pairings: Harry, Sanya, mention of Marcone and the Denarians. Harry & John, Harry & Sanya
Summary: There's a viral infection about to poison the city cybersphere, demons in the neon. And whether he likes the man or not, Harry Dresden, cyberwizard, is going to give the local mob boss a heads up before the cascade failure hits
Wordcount: 1243
Warnings/Notes: AU, cyberpunk, implausible technobabble, concept sketch
Disclaimer: Not mine

For rileyc, who wanted a Sam Spade type detective AU of James Asher. Which, to me, apparently meant Don Simon as a femme fatale -_-;

Title: Dead Men's Shade
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: James Asher series
Characters/Pairings: James Asher, Lydia Asher, Simon Ysidro. James/Lydia for this snippet
Summary: James Asher, private detective, walks into his office one day to find a very dangerous young man keeping company with his wife
Wordcount: 1175
Warnings/Notes: AU, noir, 1st person POV. Also, Simon being creepy.
Disclaimer: Not mine

For gryphonrhi, for the five sentence meme. I suspect there have been any number of fics on this theme, but hey, what's one more? *smiles sheepishly*

Title: All Weather Friends
Rating: PG
Fandom: Avengers movieverse
Characters/Pairings: Phil, Natasha, Steve, Pepper, Thor, Nick, Tony. Phil & everybody, basically
Summary: Five people who reacted to the knowledge that Phil Coulson isn't dead
Wordcount: 1358
Warnings/Notes: Coming back from the dead
Disclaimer: Not mine

For godoflaundry, for the five sentences prompts. It, ah, got away from me a fair bit -_-;

Title: And He Makes Three
Rating: PG
Fandom: Discworld (Watch series)
Characters/Pairings: Sam Vimes, Sybil Vimes, Havelock Vetinari, Young Sam, Carrot Ironfoundersson, mention of Cheery Littlebottom and Fred Colon. Sam/Sybil/Havelock
Summary: Sam/Sybil/Havelock, making a relationship work in ways little and large, from early trysts to an established relationship. Five prompt ficlets
Wordcount: 1495
Warnings/Notes: They make an oddly functional family, I think. Which possibly proves my insanity
Disclaimer: Not mine.

For a prompt by sablin27, who wanted Jack Frost and Molly Grue.

Title: The Tough Get Going
Rating: PG
Fandom: Rise of the Guardian (2012), The Last Unicorn (1982)
Characters/Pairings: Jack Frost, Molly Grue, mention of Schmendrick, Amalthea and the Man in the Moon. Background Molly/Schmendrick
Summary: Just a few years after waking up from the ice, Jack Frost has a magical encounter he sorely needed. The magic does as it will, after all.
Wordcount: 2727
Warnings/Notes: Molly is transported briefly to the RotG 'verse. Um. H/C, angst and warm fuzzies.
Disclaimer: Not mine, either of them. Heh.

5 ficlets for franavu. Um. The third ficlet references the Librarian from Discworld, and the fourth and fifth ficlets refer to the events of my story Drumbeat in Tribute.

Title: Impromptu Zoology
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Dresden Files (between Changes and Cold Days)
Characters/Pairings: Waldo Butters, Molly Carpenter, Harry Dresden, John Marcone, Nathan Hendricks.
Summary: Shark, Zebra, Orang-utan, Meerket, Jaguar. The zoology of survival, in a world of monsters.
Wordcount: 962
Warnings/Notes: I haven't read Cold Days just yet. Timeline might be a little confused
Disclaimer: Not mine

Well, sort of. For ciaranbochna, who wanted Marcone and 'lost'. Not sure how close this managed, since it ended up as much or more about Butters -_-;

Title: Drumbeat In Tribute
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Dresden Files (post-Changes)
Characters/Pairings: Waldo Butters, John Marcone, Nathan Hendricks, Sigrun Gard, mention of Harry Dresden. Butters & Dresden, Marcone & Dresden, Marcone & Hendricks, Butters & Marcone
Summary: It used to be that mobsters in the morgue was the most alarming thing Butters thought a coroner might have to deal with. It had been a long few years since then, though a wounded Gentleman John Marcone was still pretty alarming
Wordcount: 1867
Warnings/Notes: Set between Changes and Ghost Story, SPOILERS for the end of Changes. Also violence and injuries, but fairly canon-typical
Disclaimer: Not mine

For egelantier. I think this will be the only one I get up tonight -_-;

Title: Sorrow, Not Remorse
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Downey films)
Characters/Pairings: Mary Watson, Sherlock Holmes. Mary & Sherlock, Mary/John, Sherlock/John, potential Mary/Sherlock/John
Summary: Set post GoS. Mary Watson and Sherlock Holmes, in the aftermath of his return, picking apart all that lies between them. For John's sake, maybe. But also for their own
Wordcount: 4107
Warnings/Notes: Spoilers for Game of Shadows. Theoretically for the theme of 'atonement', I'm not sure how close I came on that -_-;
Disclaimer: Not mine

Short Tony Stark meta for nihstel, who asked me the following question:

When Tony Stark looks at things, what does he see?

Okay. Firstly, I am not an authority on this. And second, I'm presuming you mean what he sees that makes him act the way he does, what he sees that makes him Tony Stark and not someone else. Because he sees the normal things, he does, a car is a car and a person is a person, he sees that part of them. Everyone does, to an extent. But what Tony sees that makes him different, that makes him Tony ...