Bittersweet 2, Transparent 10: Souvenir

[bookblather]

Author: Kat
Title: Souvenir
Story: In the Heart
Colors: Bittersweet 2 (memories), transparent 10 (Flight)
Supplies and Materials: Miniature, stickers ("The French word for 'memory' is souvenir."), brush (requite), modeling clay (free), feathers ("He had such beautiful eyes."), canvas.
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG
Summary: Danny gets her first tattoo.
Warnings: teenager death.
Notes: References Blinding.


She's eighteen and one day old when she gets her first tattoo. She's been planning it since she was fifteen.

There was a boy, and yeah, that's a dumb reason to get a tattoo. But this boy glowed. He had so much where she had nothing. He had parents who loved him, wealthy and carefree—to her he was shining, a shooting star, and when he kissed her she thought she could fly.

He died. She drew it at the funeral. A phoenix in flight on her left shoulderblade, light and freedom.

She'll fly for him. For herself.

She'll fly.

Comments

[finch]

That sounds like a beautiful tribute, and nice job building up the emotions in this piece.

[bookblather]

Thank you very much!

[isana]

Wow, Danny had lost him when she was so young and she still remembered to get a tattoo in his memory. That's love, all right.

[bookblather]

I don't know if it's love so much as what he came to represent to her, but yeah. Thank you!

[dark_kana]

Oh, this is beautiful!
So much emotion in so little words.
Wonderful job! ^^

[bookblather]

Thank you!

[board_walk]

Beautiful.
So few words, and yet you completely ensnare the reader. And the emotions come through so well. For a moment, I think I was 18 again, remembering how fiercely I felt *everything* at that age.

[bookblather]

Yeah, exactly. There's so much inside you boiling out when you're that age. Thank you!

[kay_brooke]

That is a really lovely reason to get a tattoo. I love how Danny just goes for what she wants, and how she tries to turn her pain into something meaningful.

[bookblather]

Yeah, very much. Danny... has some difficulty turning her anger and pain to productive means; I think this is the first time she really manages it.

Thank you!

[shipwreck_light]

This is just gorgeous. I really hope you know that. It's so little, but it's so touching, like a smirky little stuffed toy in your pocket forevers.

[bookblather]

Awwwww. <3333 Thank you.