Three Sentence Ficathon 2016!

[alette]

(Because one didn't seem to have started this year, and I admit to wanting very much to participate in one of these challenges!)
Presenting the Three Sentence Ficathon 2016!

The Steps:
1. Prompt the fandom/pairing/situation of your heart, preferably in the following format: fandom, character/pairing, prompt word/sentence. .
2. Find a prompt by someone else (or heck, your own) that catches your interest.
3. Fill the prompt in no more than three sentences. (NB: This is really more of a guideline
4. Revel in reading the (hopefully large) amounts of fics thereby produced.
5. PROFIT!

Comments

[ghostwings]

FFX/X-2, Rikku, absent friends

[sidonie]

After the end of Sin, after the disbelief and wild celebrations and the sheer exhaustion of it all, the five who saw that battle and survived it all disperse; Lulu and Wakka have a life in Besaid to return to and Kimahri a place to reclaim, Yuna needs time alone for grieving, and Rikku – Rikku goes back to the desert, the stinging sands and old machina buried beneath the earth; she goes back home, though Home is there no longer, with the goal of building it back again.

It's not a bad life, but it is a solitary one, even with her family working beside her; more than that, she's gotten used to arguments around the campfire, the delicious horror of Yevonite ghost stories – and how messed up is it that Sir Auron always told the scariest ones? – and Yuna's laughter, and it's too quiet without them.

She could get used to quiet, she thinks, she could learn to live with it – until one day she sees Yuna standing at the crest of a dune with a machina weapon at her hip and a gleam in her eyes like a call to action, and she knows that whatever happens next, her life is about to get more interesting, more dangerous, and a lot less lonely; she leaps from her salvaged speeder with a whoop of delight, calls out her old friend's name and runs to meet the future with open arms.

[ghostwings]

I really enjoyed this--having gone through so much during the pilgrimage, of course it takes some adjustment to get used to life without them by your side, whether it's because they've gone their separate ways, or because they've gone beyond the reach of the living entirely. I really like the ending, with Rikku coming to terms with the idea of a less adventurous life--when then comes Yuna, much-changed from her summoning days, to pull her right back in to a new adventure. (I also was rather taken by the idea of Auron telling ghost stories!)

[sidonie]

Aw, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

And I think Auron would be a surprisingly good storyteller in general, if you can actually manage to get him to say anything at all.