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Multi-fandom Ficathon
(Created because, well just wishing someone else would do one, didn’t seem to be working. Also ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
upupa_epops convinced me this wasn’t a terrible idea.)
upupa_epops convinced me this wasn’t a terrible idea.)This is free-for-all kind of ficathon, which means everything goes. Any show, any movie, and book, mythology, original, crossovers, new fandoms, dead fandoms, anything.
RULES:
One. As per usual, one prompt per comment. It just makes things easier for everyone. Prompts can be anything (lyrics, a word, a picture, anything) but they should look something like this: fandom, pairing/character, prompt. Or something very close.
Example: TVD, Caroline,in the mirror you’ll find faith, plastic flowers never fade
Two. You don’t have to write anything to prompt, and the same goes the other way. You don’t have to prompt to write. But, of course, I encourage both.
Three. Please feel free to prompt as much as you want. Don’t worry about how much or how little, you’ll find I encourage spamming.
Four. When you fill a prompt, please leave a link to it here. Your header should include a title, the fandom, the rating, the characters/ships, and warnings if there are any.
Five. Leave feedback. Everybody loves comments on their work, they just do. And if someone fills your prompt, really it’s just polite.
Six. Speaking of….Be nice everyone. Just because you don’t like a prompt, doesn’t mean someone else doesn’t have the right to put it out there. Act like the awesome people I know you are. Also, please warn for anything that can be considering triggering. I’m here and around, but I really don’t want to have to be on people for things like this, and I’m hoping that it never reody quired for me to delete anything. But I will.
Seven. There will be spoilers in here for many different fandoms, it’s just inevitable. You’ve been warned.
Eight. GO FORTH AND PROMPT AND FILL PROMPTS AND PIMP THIS THING OUT. Okay, that’s not legit rule. But go forth and do so anyways. Anyone and everyone is welcome, to prompt, fill, and pimp this thing out. Seriously though, please pimp this out. More people is always better.
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Helen, Cassandra understands, isn't the foil of this war: if anything, she's a stitcher of wounds, another unheard herald trying to protect her own. When she stands next to Andromaque and Cassandra again her beauty lies and deceits; in reality she's as peaceful as the first and as mad as the second.
Their three silhouettes on the ramparts, spelling wife-queen-prophet, are like a string of pearls: sometimes they reach powerless fingers as they see the frame of a loved one fall, slain, and they can't do anything but watch as the armies walk over him and meet again and again in the deafening ring of steel.
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Nine years: what it takes for Cassandra to come to hate love, who took her tongue, her brothers, her father, her city, who will take her life.
Nine years: what it takes to bring Helen of Troy to her knees and cry for the mercy of death.
Nine years: what it takes for the high tide to rise, for the waves to ebb, for the storm to break.
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Cassandra, better than anyone else, knows what destiny holds: she doesn't lift her head when a herald walks in the throne room and exclaims, "Troy burns," just like she doesn't meet Helen's eyes as she catches her mouth in a kiss and says that they will meet again.
She runs to the temple, forcing herself not to watch her home burn to ashes, and when she gets there, she sinks to the ground.
This isn't over, says the vengeful god.
Cassandra dries her eyes. "I know," she answers the silence, and lays her head against the ground, waiting.
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This is one of my favorite part:
Cassandra is a box for secrets: in the confines of her ribcage they accumulate slowly, like lint, sure to never get out. Privately she thinks that Apollo, when he cursed her, was punishing her for that first and final lie: the dutiful I love you she whispered as he detached his body from hers in the cloaked night.
It's like the story inside the story. Secrets like lint in her chest, viscous and suffocating. Apollo curses her for lying (it makes sense that she wouldn't openly oppose gods, she is no fool) by making sure that no one believes her when she tells the truth. The fact that she sees (hallucinates) Apollo and still pray to him.
I think it's fitting for Helen and Cassandra to unite due to their separation: they are both outcasts and both beautiful and cursed for their beauty (I mean Apollo chose Cassandra because she is the second most beautiful woman in the world).
I wonder why Helen agrees to come with Paris. She does not seem to love him and regrets bringing Troy to ruins, so why?
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Actually, something you said in your journal (about abused women always showing up in your stories?) really made me think, because a lot of classic tropes and legends have typical abused figures in them. And since I'm working on a poetry thing where legendary figures (Helen, Iphigenia, etc.) commit suicide, it was right up my alley.
As for Helen going with Paris, it's complicated. In some versions of the story it's said explicitly that he kidnapped and raped her. Seeing that a) it was a goddess' choice and b) the status of women in ancient Greece, I think it's safe to say that she didn't have much of a choice. But it's always interesting to see how dual she can be, she's a fascinating character.
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