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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atone for my sins, athelstan, pg

As time goes on, he thinks of England less and less.

It isn't that he stops missing home; it's that he feels like a traitor in his own skin. He knows the Bible by heart, whispers the words as he drags his finger across the page though the text is all-but unreadable. It doesn't make up, though, for the fact that he's seen death, seen men with their heads cut off right in front of him.

After a while, he stops mentioning it. Bjorn seems to like him more, after that. (Ragnar has never cared.)

*

He doesn't get used to it.

It doesn't matter how many times he sees it, he never quite gets used to the sight and smell of blood pouring over him. His fingers tremble and he wants to fix it, wants to save every life, but he cannot.

(There is beauty in a Viking death, yes; beauty in the funeral pyre, beauty in the words said, in the idea of Valhalla. There is no beauty in this. There is no beauty in war, in savagery.)

*

"Father," he whispers, when he cannot sleep. He is at a loss for words after that. How can he apologize, how can he atone for the sins he has witnessed? He has wrought none of the suffering but been implicit in the actions.

He clasps his fingers together, leans his forehead against them, and thinks I am sorry, Father, forgive me. It doesn't help.