Ten-Request Meme

[persephone_kore]

Snagged from labellementeuse

The first 10 people to comment on this post get to request a drabble (or ficlet, if I feel like it) on a subject/character of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal (not that I'd enforce it if I could, but that's how it supposedly goes). Post all fandoms you're willing to write(/draw) for.

Fandoms:
X-Men (and satellites) (may include X-Project)
Harry Potter
Young Wizards
Neopets
Abhorsen (warning: I don't have the books with me)
Star Wars (warning: limited knowledge of EU and obscure movie details)
Enchanted Forest Chronicles
Winnie the Pooh
Vor (...maybe?)
write-ins may be considered, especially since I suspect I'm forgetting something

Special Rules: If I'm not able or willing to do your request in good faith due to cluelessness, differences in interpretation, or sheer defeat (such as discovering I can't do a decent Miles-voice; I have no idea), I will ask if you want something else or reinterpret wildly. Though I suppose I could probably do a hundred words of almost anything; whether they'd be any good or just embarrass us both is another question.

Edit: First ten people to comment requesting a ficlet! There are considerably more comments than requests, as I've filled the first few in the comments and some people have responded further. I'm currently at 6 requests, 6 completed. (Maybe I should give them their own posts?)

Comments

[dreagoddess.livejournal.com]

You have 15 comments but not 15 challenges yet, so I'll throw another one out there.

*thinks*

*blinks and sporks away the Star Wars/Brady Bunch crossover that appeared for no reason*

Okay...Christopher Lee. As many movie incarnations as you can pile together. *grins wickedly*

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

I don't know anything about the Brady Bunch! Well, not much.

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"Where are we?"

Dooku looked around the curiously flat, silvery landscape and the blowing snow, then pulled up the hood of his cloak and returned his gaze to his padawan. "I haven't the faintest idea."

"I'm sure this isn't what the planet looked like when we landed the ship."

"So am I." Dooku looked back to check that their scanner was still getting a signal from the beacon on their ship, then squinted ahead at a brown shadow with corners. "That may be a building up ahead."

It was. At least, it was part of a building. The edges of the walls looked as if it had been detached from the middle of a much longer one and plonked down in the middle of this odd plain. There was a small sign on the door in an alphabet Qui-Gon wasn't familiar with. Dooku said it was an obscure rendition of Basic, and read that the occupant was a healer, specializing in teeth and named Wonka. He knocked.

Silence.

Dooku knocked again more insistently.

There were footsteps, and then, to Qui-Gon's surprise, the door swung open a crack instead of sliding. A white-bearded man with Dooku's nose peered sternly at them over a pair of lenses. "Do you have an appointment?"

"Yes," Dooku said, "but not here. We were hoping for coordinates and directions--"

"I have several patients here who do have appointments." Wonka looked even more disapproving. "You may come in, but you'll have to wait."

They followed him in. Qui-Gon fumbled with the strange door mechanism, but got it to close. At least it was warm inside, though it smelled strange. Chemicals, smoke... blood.

Wonka left them in a sitting room; through the next door, Qui-Gon glimpsed a man who looked even more like Dooku reclining with his mouth wide open to display elongated canines. He heard Wonka saying, "I don't care if you only drink one thing, you must still--" before the door shut.

He looked around the small sitting room, filled with other people who must be the rest of Healer Wonka's appointments. He decided to avoid the sinister-looking individual examining a tube of lipcolor and wandered over to a man with long, sleek white hair and beard, white robes, a long staff, and a strained expression.

"Hi," he said. "I'm Qui-Gon Jinn." He paused expectantly.

...Except for the hair, this person looked an awful lot like Wonka. He turned a level gaze on Qui-Gon that at first seemed disconcertingly familiar and then grew just plain disconcerting as the weight of centuries descended on it. "Saruman the White." With the staff, the old man gestured to his companion. "This is the Mouth of Sauron."

Qui-Gon had been trying not to look. It wasn't that he was unfamiliar with the being's form; he was too young to have met most of the galaxy's species, and unfamiliar shapes were just new. But injury and infection were a different matter, and the Mouth looked as if Sauron had avoided all forms of dental hygiene for some decades. The rows of teeth were yellow, the breath that emanated from it was foul, and long raw cracks extended from the lips. "I see," Qui-Gon said bravely. "Pleased to meet you."

"If you think this is bad," Saruman said darkly, "you should see his Eye."

Qui-Gon thought Saruman seemed unhappy, but for once in his life he slipped away after as little small talk as he could manage and ended up talking to a detective named Sherlock until Dooku -- who was never, never clumsy and had therefore clearly done it on purpose -- brushed against a door standing slightly ajar and caused it to swing further open.

Something that looked rather like a stick-model of a droideka leaped from an upper shelf to attack him.

Qui-Gon jumped to his feet, reaching for his lightsaber, but there was no blaster-fire. Dooku had already plucked the thing off his shoulders and was holding it by one gangling limb at arm's length. "What is this?" he asked of no one in particular.

Wonka appeared in the other doorway again, looming with fury. "That," he said ominously, "is an orthodontic appliance."

Dooku looked at Wonka, then at the orthodontic appliance, then up at their host again. "Ah," he said politely. "For what species?"

Qui-Gon had no idea why this got them thrown out, but he didn't mind.

[dreagoddess.livejournal.com]

Aiiiiiieeee!!!!!! You even used Fu Manchu! *gigglefits hysterically* Wonderful!!! *wild applause*

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Thank you!

[polgarawolf.livejournal.com]

*Can't breathe for laughing!!!*

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

I am glad to amuse. :)

[polgarawolf.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad I thought to click on your tag for SW fic, because I really needed the laugh, yesterday, and this was just hilarious!!!