war stories ficathon

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War Stories: A Comment Ficathon



Welcome to the war stories ficathon. Some quick guidelines:

What can I prompt and how do I do so?

Basically whatever you want, as long as there's a core component of a war story therein. Can be pre-, post-, or intra-war as long as it is, at its core, about the war. I'm pretty general with my concept of fictional conflicts, so if you've got a battle or a zombie apocalypse or a revolution, you're good to go. That means you can take a fandom that has a canonical war (like, say, Harry Potter) or you can take a fandom that doesn't have a war (like, say, New Girl) and plop them into a Hunger Games war AU or a zombie apocalypse. Have fun with it. I'm grim about my war stories but you don't have to be.

Prompts should contain the following format:

Fandom (not optional, can be multi-fandom or crossover) - Characters/Ship (optional) - Timeline (optional) - Prompt (which may be a plot, song lyric, quote, etc., but is not optional)

In other words, you can leave a character and/or a ship, and/or a timeline, which are optional, and a prompt, which is not. If you want, you can just leave a set of song lyrics and see what people do with them. If you want, you can just leave a timeline with those lyrics, or a just a character, or all three.

How do I respond?

There are no restrictions in terms of word count, format, tense, point of view, etc. Please title all of your response fics as such in bold at the top of your comment (make sure to close the bold tag!) since LJ took out comment titles because they're dumb:

Title - Character/Ship - Timeline

Presumably, your fics will contain these three things even if they weren't in the prompt. You can also fill prompts that have already been filled. If something speaks to you, as it were, it doesn't matter if there's already fic for it. You can write your own.

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[rumpledlinen.livejournal.com]

harry potter, hermione(/ron), leaden trumpets

They write about her in the Prophet.

She has an interview with someone--she hears the name and lets it wash over her, nods and smiles at all the right times.

"You're a hero," the woman says, holding out a hand. Her nails are clipped too short and her smile is too big. "I want to thank you personally for what you did.

Hermione smiles and takes her hand and feels like she's going to be sick.

*

She goes to her parents, in Australia. She undoes the curse and twists her hands together, tears streaming down her face. They don't forgive her, but they will; she places all of her hope in that.

Ron is there with her, rubbing her back and whispering into her ear, and she loves him so much she eels faint with it. He's the only one that understands, he and Harry--he understands and he throws away the paper when it comes, offers to take her to Muggle restaurants. (They don't go back to Diagon Alley. Not at first.)

"I love you," he whispers into her collarbone, and she shivers and nods, feeling the moonlight streaming in through their window.

I love you, too, she thinks, and it's not a lie.

*

What they don't understand is that she's not a hero, she's nothing special. When she heard what Harry did, that he was going to kill himself, all that ran through her mind was I wouldn't. She's not a hero, she's a girl who was thrown into war and thrown against the ground. She packed dirt under her fingernails but didn't ever fully give herself to the fight.

She's not ashamed of this. Ron tells her that he too thought like that -

("I couldn't have done what Harry did," he whispers against her hair. It comes out broken, like a secret. "I couldn't.")

- and it should make her feel better, but nothing these days does.

*

She sits with a mug of tea and her fingers shake, these days.

She wonders if it's ever going to pass.

[anr]

Nicely done! :)

[rosegilmore.livejournal.com]

this was loveley