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laurus_nobilis) wrote2009-11-06 11:53 am
laurus_nobilis) wrote2009-11-06 11:53 am
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To remind me I should be working on these...
Post an excerpt from as many random works-in-progress as you can find lying around. Who knows? Maybe inspiration will burst forth and do something, um, inspiration-y.
The amount of crossovers was to be expected, but... wow, there are a lot of giant robots here. XD (Also: seriously, Starscream, you need to shut up o.O)
Ouran - That postcanon Nekozawa/Renge thing I never finished
"Tell me," she said, her voice very firm as she looked at him straight in the eye. "What is this problem of yours, anyway? And don't just start calling it a family curse."
"Look," Umehito replied, counting on his fingers. "It's this strange condition that no one really understands. It's happened to people in my family since we can remember, but it's unheard of apart from us. It's not life-threatening or anything but it's pretty troublesome. There is no known cure, even though we've had the best doctors working on this for generations now." He rested his chin on his hands, quite confident in his arguments. "Sounds like a family curse to me."
The worst part of it, Renge thought, was that this time he was actually being serious.
"You're impossible," she sighed. "There's no such thing as curses."
"Really. And what would you call it, then?"
"A hereditary illness," she replied, without hesitation. "A… really unusual, really weird hereditary illness."
"That's what I said."
Transformers: Animated/Harry Potter - The humanized AU in Hogwarts
Optimus couldn't say that he was surprised to find out that Sentinel had become Head Boy. It was to be expected, really. And he wasn't jealous, either; he wasn't the type. A little bitter, well, maybe. But he didn't want to be in Sentinel's place or anything of the like.
He only wished he would just shut up about it for five minutes. Honestly, that was all he wanted. It seemed even that was too much to ask for. Then again, Sentinel was pointedly talking at everyone but him, so he did the only sane thing: as soon as he saw his classmate sit down, he went to take a seat to the opposite end of the Gryffindor table.
There were very few people on that side, which meant he could relax for a little while, until the inevitable happened. As soon as the sorting ceremony began, the empty seats started to fill with first years. Some of the kids look excited, others looked shy, most of them looked terrified. Optimus couldn't blame them. They'd just heard Starscream's so-called 'welcoming' speech, after all. The Deputy Headmaster took great delight in traumatizing the students as early as possible.
Transformers: Animated/Whoverse - In which Optimus and the Doctor work together, and Starscream and Jack die a lot
"Of course! That explains everything!" the Doctor exclaimed. "He's a fixed point in time!"
"And that means...?"
"He's, well - he's a fact. That's why the TARDIS tries so hard not to get near to him. Well, that's why I'd rather not get near to him. He feels just... wrong, you know? Like he shouldn't exist." He paused for a moment, thoughtful. "It's hard to explain. I don't think anyone but a Time Lord would get it, anyway."
"No, I understand," said Optimus, a long-suffering expression on his face. "I think everyone feels that way about Starscream."
Transformers G1/Piratas del Caribe - Starscream y Barbossa, BFFs inmortales
-¿Dónde vamos? -dijo una voz chillona desde su hombro. Por suerte para su dignidad, esta vez consiguió no saltar.
-Te dije que no volvieras a hacer eso -gruñó, entornando los ojos.
Jack (o, más bien, Starscream-en-Jack) se las arregló para poner cara de ofendido.
-Siempre es algo. Que si estoy flotando por ahí, que la tripulación se asusta del robot gigante translúcido, que el contramaestre no está para poseerlo…
Barbossa decidió ignorarlo por un rato. Cuando empezaba con sus discursos, no había quién lo parara si pensaba que le estaban prestando atención. Además, aunque no tenía la menor intención de reconocerlo en voz alta, sí era preferible que se apareciera de esta forma. El pobre Jack no merecía ese trato, eso era cierto. Pero al menos así había menos probabilidades de que su “amigo” intentara amotinarse.
Claro que ya había aprendido a no subestimarlo (sobre todo después de aquel pequeño incidente con el susodicho contramaestre poseído). De hecho, estaba seguro de que si Starscream estaba de humor podía encontrar la forma de ser peligroso incluso en el cuerpo de un monito, y si no hubiera sido un inmortal comprobado no se sentiría nada cómodo sabiendo que tenía tan fácil acceso a su yugular.
Transformers G1/Whoverse - Doctor!Optimus y Master!Megatron vs. la 'ciencia' de sus subordinados
Por un lado, siempre era bueno tener a Starscream ocupado en algo que no fuera tratar de dispararle por la espalda. Estas cosas, por más que fallaran inevitablemente, solían mantenerlo distraído el tiempo suficiente como para darle un poco de paz. Además, con algo de imaginación, el aparato que estaba construyendo podía llegar a servirle para causarles unos cuantos problemas a los Autobots, aunque sólo fuera utilizándolo como carnada.
Por otro lado, dejar que terminara de construirlo podía traer inconvenientes. No le preocupaba que siguiera el camino predecible y tratara de usarlo en su contra; esas cosas siempre terminaban igual. El problema era el desperdicio de recursos. Estaban en medio de una crisis energética, después de todo, algo que sus tropas parecían olvidar con demasiada frecuencia.
Sí, ésa era la respuesta. Debía desincentivar los proyectos individuales, especialmente cuando tenía la absoluta certeza de que iban a ser un completo fracaso.
O podría tomarse cinco minutos y convertir ese pedazo de chatarra en algo que trabajara con las leyes de la física y no en su contra. Pero eso traería muchas preguntas y, por el bien de sus planes a largo plazo, no era conveniente dejarse llevar por esa tentación en particular.
No se trataba de lo que haría uno de los alumnos más brillantes de la Academia de Gallifrey, sino de lo que haría Megatron. Y eso siempre era fácil de decidir.
The amount of crossovers was to be expected, but... wow, there are a lot of giant robots here. XD (Also: seriously, Starscream, you need to shut up o.O)
Ouran - That postcanon Nekozawa/Renge thing I never finished
"Tell me," she said, her voice very firm as she looked at him straight in the eye. "What is this problem of yours, anyway? And don't just start calling it a family curse."
"Look," Umehito replied, counting on his fingers. "It's this strange condition that no one really understands. It's happened to people in my family since we can remember, but it's unheard of apart from us. It's not life-threatening or anything but it's pretty troublesome. There is no known cure, even though we've had the best doctors working on this for generations now." He rested his chin on his hands, quite confident in his arguments. "Sounds like a family curse to me."
The worst part of it, Renge thought, was that this time he was actually being serious.
"You're impossible," she sighed. "There's no such thing as curses."
"Really. And what would you call it, then?"
"A hereditary illness," she replied, without hesitation. "A… really unusual, really weird hereditary illness."
"That's what I said."
Transformers: Animated/Harry Potter - The humanized AU in Hogwarts
Optimus couldn't say that he was surprised to find out that Sentinel had become Head Boy. It was to be expected, really. And he wasn't jealous, either; he wasn't the type. A little bitter, well, maybe. But he didn't want to be in Sentinel's place or anything of the like.
He only wished he would just shut up about it for five minutes. Honestly, that was all he wanted. It seemed even that was too much to ask for. Then again, Sentinel was pointedly talking at everyone but him, so he did the only sane thing: as soon as he saw his classmate sit down, he went to take a seat to the opposite end of the Gryffindor table.
There were very few people on that side, which meant he could relax for a little while, until the inevitable happened. As soon as the sorting ceremony began, the empty seats started to fill with first years. Some of the kids look excited, others looked shy, most of them looked terrified. Optimus couldn't blame them. They'd just heard Starscream's so-called 'welcoming' speech, after all. The Deputy Headmaster took great delight in traumatizing the students as early as possible.
Transformers: Animated/Whoverse - In which Optimus and the Doctor work together, and Starscream and Jack die a lot
"Of course! That explains everything!" the Doctor exclaimed. "He's a fixed point in time!"
"And that means...?"
"He's, well - he's a fact. That's why the TARDIS tries so hard not to get near to him. Well, that's why I'd rather not get near to him. He feels just... wrong, you know? Like he shouldn't exist." He paused for a moment, thoughtful. "It's hard to explain. I don't think anyone but a Time Lord would get it, anyway."
"No, I understand," said Optimus, a long-suffering expression on his face. "I think everyone feels that way about Starscream."
Transformers G1/Piratas del Caribe - Starscream y Barbossa, BFFs inmortales
-¿Dónde vamos? -dijo una voz chillona desde su hombro. Por suerte para su dignidad, esta vez consiguió no saltar.
-Te dije que no volvieras a hacer eso -gruñó, entornando los ojos.
Jack (o, más bien, Starscream-en-Jack) se las arregló para poner cara de ofendido.
-Siempre es algo. Que si estoy flotando por ahí, que la tripulación se asusta del robot gigante translúcido, que el contramaestre no está para poseerlo…
Barbossa decidió ignorarlo por un rato. Cuando empezaba con sus discursos, no había quién lo parara si pensaba que le estaban prestando atención. Además, aunque no tenía la menor intención de reconocerlo en voz alta, sí era preferible que se apareciera de esta forma. El pobre Jack no merecía ese trato, eso era cierto. Pero al menos así había menos probabilidades de que su “amigo” intentara amotinarse.
Claro que ya había aprendido a no subestimarlo (sobre todo después de aquel pequeño incidente con el susodicho contramaestre poseído). De hecho, estaba seguro de que si Starscream estaba de humor podía encontrar la forma de ser peligroso incluso en el cuerpo de un monito, y si no hubiera sido un inmortal comprobado no se sentiría nada cómodo sabiendo que tenía tan fácil acceso a su yugular.
Transformers G1/Whoverse - Doctor!Optimus y Master!Megatron vs. la 'ciencia' de sus subordinados
Por un lado, siempre era bueno tener a Starscream ocupado en algo que no fuera tratar de dispararle por la espalda. Estas cosas, por más que fallaran inevitablemente, solían mantenerlo distraído el tiempo suficiente como para darle un poco de paz. Además, con algo de imaginación, el aparato que estaba construyendo podía llegar a servirle para causarles unos cuantos problemas a los Autobots, aunque sólo fuera utilizándolo como carnada.
Por otro lado, dejar que terminara de construirlo podía traer inconvenientes. No le preocupaba que siguiera el camino predecible y tratara de usarlo en su contra; esas cosas siempre terminaban igual. El problema era el desperdicio de recursos. Estaban en medio de una crisis energética, después de todo, algo que sus tropas parecían olvidar con demasiada frecuencia.
Sí, ésa era la respuesta. Debía desincentivar los proyectos individuales, especialmente cuando tenía la absoluta certeza de que iban a ser un completo fracaso.
O podría tomarse cinco minutos y convertir ese pedazo de chatarra en algo que trabajara con las leyes de la física y no en su contra. Pero eso traería muchas preguntas y, por el bien de sus planes a largo plazo, no era conveniente dejarse llevar por esa tentación en particular.
No se trataba de lo que haría uno de los alumnos más brillantes de la Academia de Gallifrey, sino de lo que haría Megatron. Y eso siempre era fácil de decidir.