Uber request meme of doom! ...or something

[rallamajoop]

You know those fic requests memes you see floating around on LJ. They generally say something along the lines of:

"Give me a character / pairing and / or a short prompt / outline of a scene / crossover idea / a summary of a giant epic / your favourite cliché / a fic I’ve written before / some other prompt-ish thing, and I’ll write you a sentence / drabble / ficlet / list of five (or more) things / first part of the story / last part of the story / sequel / missing scene / alternate version / whatever."

I always wanted to try one, but now that I finally feel like it’s a decent time for me to try it, I’m having trouble picking one out of so many different variations. So instead I’m going to say: send me a prompt of any kind or combination in that list (or any other kind you can think of, really) and I’ll see what I can do about coming up with something to go with it.

I’ll probably be aiming for something sentence to drabble length, but since this is my first go at anything remotely request meme-ish, the basic plan is to just see what comes to me. Obviously, I can’t make any promises that I’ll necessarily come up with something for any possible request, but I’m happy to have pretty much anyone show up to request whatever – although I will warn people that prompts involving smut or particularly weird pairings are most likely to result in me staring at the screen feeling embarrassed for a bit, and then going to work on something else.

In case anyone wants to know what's likely to work:

Series I have written for before
Tsubasa/xxxHOLiC
Naruto
Kingdom Hearts
Full Metal Alchemist
Final Fantasy VII
Dragonball
Chrono Trigger
Discworld
Snakes on a Something (no, seriously, I’ve done two of these now. That counts)

Series I have written v. short crossovers for
Doctor Who
Star Wars
Yu Yu Hakusho
The Matrix
Harry Potter

Series I have started writing for but never finished (take these as you will)
Trigun
Slayers
Inu Yasha
More Dragonball, Chrono Trigger and FFVII, but then I went and came up with ideas I could actually finish! for all of those three, so they don’t have to be on this list anymore! Yay!

*ahem*

Prompt at will.

Comments

[nekomiao.livejournal.com]

Doumeki and Watanuki vs Edward Elric and Roy Mustang.

That's all I'm saying.

HAHAh XD

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

LIKE I HAVEN'T DONE ENOUGH CLAMP/FMA ALREADY.

...at least I'm in practice for it? XD

[nekomiao.livejournal.com]

XDDD Yaay!

Did I say these would probably be short? I *lied*

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

When Ed pushed open the door to Colonel Mustang’s office, Watanuki and Doumeki were already arguing (or to be specific, Watanuki was just in the middle of saying “…excuse me? What makes you think Yuuko would have told me anything about this? And if you like it so much I’ll feed it all to Mokona in future!” and, after only ten minutes in their company, Ed was already thoroughly fed up with both of them.) It was doubtful that this could have actually been responsible for making the ensuing situation any more incendiary, so this fact is presented as a matter of scene setting.

“Hey, Colonel, these two weird civilians showed up in the barracks somehow. They said you’d be expecting them,” Ed announced, which was a simplified way of saying that he’d found them both in a broom closet, and neither had yet been able to offer him any sort of satisfactory explanation for how they’d gotten there, or even how they’d gotten into the building at all.

Roy said, “Huah?” with the look of a man trying to hide the fact he’d been asleep on his desk behind the guise of some seriously intense concentration on some very important papers. Consequently, he missed the spectacle of Watanuki very shifting gears from ‘about to bite of Doumeki’s head’ to ‘ready to deal with strangers in a polite, suitably self-deprecating manner’ so fast you could practically hear them screech.

Ed shot two looks at different parts of the room. The one Watanuki got said ‘he sure doesn’t look like he’s expecting anyone to me’. The one Roy got said ‘the thought I have ever owed you anything is a source of so much embarrassment that I’ll be taking it to my grave’.

“He wouldn’t be expecting us exactly,” Watanuki clarified quickly, “but Yuuko said you’d recognize her name. We’re actually here to collect…”

“Ah, a messenger boy from the estimable Ichihara Yuuko!” Roy declared without before Watanuki could finish. “And what service might I perform for her today?”

“Who are you calling her messenger boy?” Watanuki snapped before remembering which gear he was supposed to be in.

And from here on, the conversation got hectic very quickly.

Hah! Take *that*, LJ comment character limit!

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

“You’re delivering a message for her, aren’t you?” Doumeki pointed out.

“You stay out of this! And it’s not a message, Yuuko says he owes her for…”

“And how is the fine Mistress Yuuko?” said Roy, quite accidentally cutting Watanuki off before he could finish what he was about to say. “Still as beautiful as ever?”

“Wait,” said Ed, in mounting horror, “you mean this is all because of something with you and one of those women?”

“What would you prefer as a job description?” said Doumeki. “House boy, maybe? Cleaning lady?”

Roy refused to look remotely chastised. “Life becomes very dull when one can’t mix some pleasure in with matters of business.”

“Cleaning what?" Watanuki blurted. "That was not an invitation for you to come up with something worse!”

“Spirit-bait would fit too.”

“REALLY, YOU CAN SHUT UP ANY TIME NOW AND THAT WILL BE FINE.”

“That’s you’re explanation for why there are people like them sneaking into the building? Because of something with one of your girlfriends?!” Ed demanded.

“Ah, Fullmetal, you’re still far too childish to appreciate the charms of a mature woman.”

“What part of Yuuko are you saying is mature?”

“He was talking to the short guy, not you,” Doumeki reminded his partner.

“WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SMALL EVERYONE FORGOT HE WAS EVEN IN THE ROOM!?”

“I didn’t say that.”

“Can anyone ever remember what we’re doing here anymore?” Watanuki yelled desperately. It was a reasonably good attempt at getting the situation back on track again, all told, but it would be horribly misleading for us to suggest to the audience that it came anywhere close to working.

To cut a long yelling match short, Watanuki eventually stormed out, with Doumeki following, having forgotten all about whatever price it was he was supposed to have collected from Roy for his employer; Ed wound up distracted and angry enough that he forgot all about two extra-dimensional schoolboys appearing out of the blue in the middle of a military installation and had to be sent somewhere quiet to cool off for a bit, and Roy returned to be pretending to be very busy with all that paperwork.

But you can bet that just as soon as Yuuko founds out Watanuki didn’t bring back whatever it was Roy had owed her, it was all going to happen all over again.


(Can’t really speak for the ‘vs’ from your request, since I don’t think either pair won, but it’s safe to say Watanuki and Ed both lost miserably XD)

Re: Hah! Take *that*, LJ comment character limit!

[nekomiao.livejournal.com]

Aah!! I didn't see the second part!! AND I LOVED THIS! *clings*

<3<3<3<3<3

This was too awesome.

Re: Hah! Take *that*, LJ comment character limit!

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

*takes a bow* And I even managed to go a whole fic without mentioning a single spoiler! Go me! (srsly, you *need* to catch up with the manga for xxxHOLiC - this series just won't let me stop turning out new fic for it lately and I could really use more people I can rant to about recent chapters before it drives me completely insane ^^;;)

PS: Since I know you've got a birthday coming up, if you do come up with any more requests - from this or any other series I've written for - feel free to throw them my way, and I'll see what I can do about getting something written before the day.

Re: Hah! Take *that*, LJ comment character limit!

[tarutar.livejournal.com]

That was hilarious! :D Absolutely great fic, I'd love to read more of your works!

Re: Hah! Take *that*, LJ comment character limit!

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

Thanks. ^_^ I should really do some more request memes sometime, I did have fun with these. Everything I've written should be archived under my memories, if you're looking for more (and I've got plenty of new stuff in the works too).

Re: Did I say these would probably be short? I *lied*

[nekomiao.livejournal.com]

IS THAT WHERE IT ENDS?! *shakes you*

hahaha I love the way you write darnit!! And the ideas you come up with!!

Re: Did I say these would probably be short? I *lied*

[rallamajoop.livejournal.com]

It ends with the note in the brackets (you saw both comments, right? I broke the LJ character limit, so I had to reply to my reply to get it all in, and you've only replied to the first one, so I'm just double-checking).

As for the idea, the only common ground I could come up with between those four was that two of them drive the other two insane - from there, the rest was pretty much a foregone conclusion. =D