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100 Drabbles #9 and #10
Prompt: Wander
POV Character: Clark
Date: lifespan
Summary: A life meandering from one side of the tracks to the other.
In first grade, Clark Masters knew that he wanted to be a superhero. When he grew up, he would wear spandex and a mask, and fight crime.
In fifth grade, he lit candles with his mind, and realized that dreams do come true. Code name, Flamethrower. Awesome.
In high school, Clark discovered environmentalism. He could be a superhero in other ways.
In college, he was introduced to vigilante crime.
Some time in his late thirties, Flamethrower retired, and Clark Masters went back to running a mostly legal alternative-energy power plant with a small bureau of hit men on the side.
Prompt: Rain
POV Character: Feathered Justice
Date: April 23rd, 830
Summary: A day in the life of a parakeet.
Feathered Justice does not sleep. Feathered Justice is always vigilant. Feathered Justice takes her job very, very seriously. 'Who's a good boy?' she squawks every morning, at exactly 6:30am. Karthik hates it, but she is better than that piece of cheap technology he keeps at his bedside. As soon as Karthik is out of bed, she squawks the weather, which she knows because she has been awake flying routines and checking for crime since 5:45am. She watches to make sure that Karthik dresses appropriately for work, and hauls out the portable umbrella because he already forgot she told him it's raining.
(Feathered Justice is a parakeet I adopted from the NaNoWriMo Adopt-a-Superhero forum. She is the Badass Normal Semprevivo of birds.)
I am on a roll with these!
EDIT: Two more, and then I'm going to go read A Wizard of Mars.
Prompt: Blue Skies
POV Character: Quentin
Date: 370 – 374
Summary: College years of a future supervillain.
College was good to Quentin. People began to recognize him in the streets. Some thanked him for his political activism on their behalf, while others cursed his name for being heir to a large corporation that out-competed their small businesses. It depended on whether he was in his natural, unassuming skin, or his rich, good-looking alter. On campus, he attended some classes as Quentin, genius political scientist, and audited classes as Gracie, the neurotic, overly friendly lesbian who was the hit of every party she attended. He had connections, no enemies worth considering, and a powerful future; life was good.
Prompt: Lazy
POV Character: Stephen
Date: daily life since 378 or so
Summary: Stephen can't even begin to comprehend 'lazy'.
Wake up at 5:00. Run down stairs to the lobby of your apartment building. Say hello to the doorman, then run up seven flights of stairs back to your apartment. Make use of the chin-up bar in your room until you have recited the names of the seventy satrap of D'Sezan. Eat breakfast; purchase a flower for each lady on your team; fly to work. Fill out paperwork that everyone else will have missed yesterday. When Reed arrives, accept assignment and fly to stakeout. Deal with maka there; return home and read the newspaper; follow up on article of choice.
I realized that I'm inordinately fond of practically all of my characters. I have very few towards whom I am either indifferent, or actively dislike. It's just easier for me to write people I like, even if they're not likable people. Like Sambiya ... awful person, great character. And even characters I set out not to like, like Stephen, end up being endearing. Mostly, I think, because Stephen is part Rock Lee, and I adore Rock Lee like no other. He's also part Mr. Incredible ...
POV Character: Clark
Date: lifespan
Summary: A life meandering from one side of the tracks to the other.
In first grade, Clark Masters knew that he wanted to be a superhero. When he grew up, he would wear spandex and a mask, and fight crime.
In fifth grade, he lit candles with his mind, and realized that dreams do come true. Code name, Flamethrower. Awesome.
In high school, Clark discovered environmentalism. He could be a superhero in other ways.
In college, he was introduced to vigilante crime.
Some time in his late thirties, Flamethrower retired, and Clark Masters went back to running a mostly legal alternative-energy power plant with a small bureau of hit men on the side.
Prompt: Rain
POV Character: Feathered Justice
Date: April 23rd, 830
Summary: A day in the life of a parakeet.
Feathered Justice does not sleep. Feathered Justice is always vigilant. Feathered Justice takes her job very, very seriously. 'Who's a good boy?' she squawks every morning, at exactly 6:30am. Karthik hates it, but she is better than that piece of cheap technology he keeps at his bedside. As soon as Karthik is out of bed, she squawks the weather, which she knows because she has been awake flying routines and checking for crime since 5:45am. She watches to make sure that Karthik dresses appropriately for work, and hauls out the portable umbrella because he already forgot she told him it's raining.
(Feathered Justice is a parakeet I adopted from the NaNoWriMo Adopt-a-Superhero forum. She is the Badass Normal Semprevivo of birds.)
I am on a roll with these!
EDIT: Two more, and then I'm going to go read A Wizard of Mars.
Prompt: Blue Skies
POV Character: Quentin
Date: 370 – 374
Summary: College years of a future supervillain.
College was good to Quentin. People began to recognize him in the streets. Some thanked him for his political activism on their behalf, while others cursed his name for being heir to a large corporation that out-competed their small businesses. It depended on whether he was in his natural, unassuming skin, or his rich, good-looking alter. On campus, he attended some classes as Quentin, genius political scientist, and audited classes as Gracie, the neurotic, overly friendly lesbian who was the hit of every party she attended. He had connections, no enemies worth considering, and a powerful future; life was good.
Prompt: Lazy
POV Character: Stephen
Date: daily life since 378 or so
Summary: Stephen can't even begin to comprehend 'lazy'.
Wake up at 5:00. Run down stairs to the lobby of your apartment building. Say hello to the doorman, then run up seven flights of stairs back to your apartment. Make use of the chin-up bar in your room until you have recited the names of the seventy satrap of D'Sezan. Eat breakfast; purchase a flower for each lady on your team; fly to work. Fill out paperwork that everyone else will have missed yesterday. When Reed arrives, accept assignment and fly to stakeout. Deal with maka there; return home and read the newspaper; follow up on article of choice.
I realized that I'm inordinately fond of practically all of my characters. I have very few towards whom I am either indifferent, or actively dislike. It's just easier for me to write people I like, even if they're not likable people. Like Sambiya ... awful person, great character. And even characters I set out not to like, like Stephen, end up being endearing. Mostly, I think, because Stephen is part Rock Lee, and I adore Rock Lee like no other. He's also part Mr. Incredible ...