rainbowfic | Entries tagged with color: verdigris

Name: Mischa
Story: the empty throne
Colors: verdigris (covered in vines), bistre (Those who are too rigid in their beliefs will break rather than bend with fortune's blows), spark (every finger in the room is pointing at me)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 531
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: implied rape & abusive relationship (forced marriage)
Summary: The Jade Empress almost wishes, in silent moments, that everything could have turned out differently. But she doesn't see any other choices that could have been made.

Or why the Jade Empress made the judgment that she did.
( long and lost )

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Name: Mischa
Story: the empty throne
Colors: bistre (O, dear my lord, Let this breast on which you have leant, Serve now as your shield.), verdigris (rusted away), spark (I'm still the angel to a girl who hates to sin)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 531
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: child abuse (neglect)
Summary: The first time Daiyu meets the Third Princess Lihua, her lady, her charge, she knows that someday, someday, she will die for her. She knows, in that moment, she could make a different choice, but instead, she chooses to stay.
Notes:
( would it be enough to live on/if my love could keep you alive )

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Name: Mischa
Story: the empty throne
Colors: bistre (that which yields is not always weak), spark (you don't need my voice girl, you have one of your own), verdigris (worn away)
Supplies and Styles: graffiti (Lilith Fair Village Stage 8/20 - Miranda Lambert, "Gunpowder and Lead"), fingerpainting, canvas
Word Count: 771
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: implied rape, implied abusive relationship.
Summary: When the world was young, everything was bright, far brighter than even she remembers, and the brightest thing of all was her father's smile. Yin remembers.

The eldest daughter of the Most-Beloved, the youngest of the gods, remembers a world before it was broken, before it was dimmed. Her father taught her to make her choices, and live with them: Yin chooses to fight for him.
Notes:
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Yin is Lin - from "in your heart shall burn"-'s mother. Or she will be, a good long time after this story.
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( there's a place where fear won't find you )

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Name: Mischa
Story: the empty throne
Colors: bistre (to damnation and beyond. I have sworn it.), spark (We'll see how brave you are), verdigris (spider web)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 878
Rating: R, to be safe
Warnings: oh god. this is not a good world at all. human sacrifice, implied abusive relationship, implied rape, implied attempted suicide. if I have forgotten any, please let me know.
Summary: "Breaker of Chains, grant me the power to make a difference." Lihua is the youngest princess of her house, devoted to the gods and to the welfare of her people, though she has little power of her own: she prays, and one finally answers.
Notes: needs story tag.

( in your heart shall burn )

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Name: Mischa
Story: tales from the drowned world
Colors: verdigris (bits of pottery and glass), bistre (genius requires an audience),
Supplies and Styles: graffiti (the self-insert challenge), canvas
Word Count: 169
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: N/A, I think
Summary: Myca Valeth has a dream: and in this dream, he meets a most curious young man.

( a revelation in the light of day )

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Name: Mischa
Story: as if words could be undone
Colors: octarine (Real children don't go hoppity-skip unless they are on drugs), spark (She never let on how insane it was in that tiny kinda scary house), verdigris (abandoned)
Supplies and Styles: seed beads, canvas
Word Count: 196
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: child abuse, depression
Summary: Stela remembers, once, laughter and joy. But those memories are years gone, before the crushing weight of perfection.
( you're a ghost )

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Name: Mischa
Story: as if words could be undone
Colors: octarine (He'd never realized that, deep down inside, what he really wanted to do was make things go splat.), spark (they say you were something in those formative years), dry well (verdigris)
Supplies and Styles: canvas
Word Count: 546
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Mikha attempts to bond with her newest sibling. By teaching him how she fights.
note: I think this needs the color tag for spark

( plant stars in the ground )

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Name: Mischa
Story: as if words could be undone
Colors: octarine (The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his), verdigris (crumbling plaster)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 140
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: N/A, I think
Summary: Sorin has never learned how to wield a weapon in either of his lives. Let his siblings, their mother, go out into the world and do what needs to be done: they will need a sanctuary, somewhere safe to return to.

( the light in me will guide you home )

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Name: Mischa
Story: as if words could be undone
Colors: octarine (I hope we are not going to have any of this 'foul fiend' business again), halloween orange (be wicked and lovely and don't live in fear), verdigris (mildew)
Supplies and Styles: canvas
Word Count: 367
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: N/A, I think
Summary: Sevda dies: Mikha lives.
Notes: ...once again, I forgot to get a tag for this story. Oops.

( a choice to make )

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Name: Mischa
Story: tales from the drowned world
Colors: halloween orange (an island's not a prison -- that's what men make bridges for), octarine (The trouble is that things never get better, they just stay the same, only more so), verdigris (Place where the window used to be)
Supplies and Styles: fingerpainting, miniature
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: suicidal ideation, depression
Summary: There are many things Rusalka Semik has never been able to have or do, as the sea-god's son. He's given up dreams of ever leaving.
Notes:
...so after all this time, I just realized I never asked for a tag for this story. Oops.
( there are no bridges between islands )

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Name: Mischa
Story: as if words could be undone
Colors: atomic tangerine (the four horsemen), verdigris (broken wall), octarine (he moved in a way that suggested he was attempting the world speed record for the nonchalant walk), halloween orange (all i long for is to roam -- must this be my only home?
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 217
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: depression, self-blame.
Summary: Mira wanders, does work, and has an unwanted meeting.
Notes: Someday I will get around to explaining exactly what is up with Mira and his siblings. This story is not that story.

( playing a song to the land )

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Name: Mischa
Story: as if words could be undone
Colors: octarine (When the least they could do to you was everything, then the most they could do to you suddenly held no terror), halloween orange (I was a little more than they expected), verdigris (and no one remembers this place anymore)
Supplies and Styles: canvas
Word Count: 219
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: child abuse, (past) suicidal ideation, depression.
Summary: Mira's backstory, or at least part of it.
Notes: ...still couldn't figure out how to end it.
( bury my lovely )

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Name: Mischa
Story: fragments of stars falling
Colors: atomic tangerine (nuclear bomb), octarine (It is almost impossible for anyone to be in a street without breaking the law), verdigris (scavengers), halloween orange (you can't unmake your own mistakes)
Supplies and Styles: canvas
Word Count: 439
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: death, child/teenage soldiers, Zorya's swearing
Summary: A very long time ago, Alexia Laskaris made seven enchanted weapons for humanity. Zorya Starfall is taking one back (or: "so how did Zorya get her fancy magic sword, anyway").

( meditation on war )

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Name: Mischa
Story: i never promised you a rose garden
Colors: octarine (There were a few seconds of total silence as everyone waited to see what would happen next.), white opal (castles in the sky), verdigris (rot)
Supplies and Styles: None
Word Count: 758
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: None needed, I think?
Summary: "Observations tell us only so much about the man." In the midst of an unfortunate detour, two friends have a somewhat uncomfortable talk about a mutual problem.
Notes: This is a favorite fragment of a scene from a much longer draft (twenty pages) that I originally wrote for a creative writing class. I need to rework a fair bit of it before I post that draft here, first, but I liked this bit nearly as it was, so here it is.

( ...and sometimes, I can't say he's entirely wrong about that )

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Name: Mischa
Story: fragments of stars falling
Colors: white opal (hope), atomic tangerine (doomsday), dove grey (there is a period for hope and one for mourning), verdigris (cryptic marks), halloween orange (There are laws we must obey, certain ways this story goes.)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 2823
Rating: R
Warnings: quite a lot of background violence, child/teenage soldiers and their deaths, the narrator's swearing.
Summary: What happens to Lilia, but not yet what happens after. Sequel to no surrender, no retreat.
Notes: Finally managed to finish this: I've been trying to write it as long as no sweet moment set aside, so I'm glad I did. So also just as rough and uneven in characterization given the long period of time it's been in development hell. This and no surrender, no retreat were originally planned as one story but I couldn't make it work at the time.
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I'm not sure whether this would qualify for the season bonus or not given that Lilia dies. On the other hand, given the setting is basically "everything sucks for everyone forever", she's definitely treated as well as everyone else. ...also wow, I am the winner of the "ironic titles" award.
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( faith shall save thee )

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Name: Mischa
Story: fragments of stars falling
Colors: dove grey (memory becomes your partner), atomic tangerine (reconstruction), white opal (moonlight sonata), verdigris (dissolution),
Supplies and Styles: novelty beads, "who wants to live forever" (Queen)
Word Count: 1378
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Zorya's language, child/teenage soldiers, apocalypse aftermath.
Summary: There are a lot of things that Zorya misses from the old world, but she thinks that she misses music the most. Zorya, Lilia, the very shittiest of acoustic guitars, and some songs: Zorya remembers, and Lilia's never heard any of the music she remembers.
Notes: Super rough because I don't actually remember where I was going with it. Probably uneven on characterization since it's been at least a year since I've written these characters.

( who waits forever )

greenling

Name: Greenling
Story: Lordsverse
Colors: Famous #4 (Our hair is perfect while we're all getting shit wrecked, it's automatic, honey), Rose #23 (Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset? And he's carrying a beautiful rose in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk.), Verdigris #17 (Dissolution)
Supplies and Styles: Graffiti (I Need A Break: The lifespan of 75 percent of wild birds is 6 months.), Eraser (Lordsverse!Jaymie), Mosaic technically, Sketch, Miniature
Word Count: 100
Rating: G-PG13ish
Warnings: Uh... use of fantasy recreational substances?
Summary: I drew a thing and it's not the same scene as the fic but I have a new AU now. Have a snippet of fantasy college Jaymie.

Comments, criticism, and questions are all appreciated.

( 'You couldn't have known, brother.' )

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Name: Mischa
Story: the empty garden
Colors: white opal (dream), dove grey (You never had her, so you haven't lost her / like spare house keys.), verdigris (dig it out), halloween orange (It’s a shot of ‘dumb idea’ with a ‘bad plan’ chaser.)
Supplies and Styles: canvas, fingerpainting, charcoal
Word Count: 750
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Know, o princess, that in a place now forgotten and lost beneath sand and sea, was where the greatest folly of wizards and man began.
Warnings: trigger warning for suicide.
( know, o princess... )

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Name: Mischa
Story: tales from the drowned world
Colors: verdigris (gone from this world), halloween orange (I can't promise to obey you, I can't swear I won't betray you), white opal (solitude), dove grey (he hath awakened from the dream of life)
Supplies and Styles: canvas (creation story)
Word Count: 948
Rating: PG-13
Summary: From water we came and to water we will return. A creation story.
Warnings: N/A (I think).
( from water we came and to water we will return )

greenling

Name: Greenling
Story: All Great Things
Colors: Verdigris #16 (Scavengers)
Supplies and Styles: Sketch, Tapestry
Word Count: n/a
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Summary: Another post-apocalyptic landscape, and done with verdigris.
Comments, criticism, and questions are all appreciated.

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Entries tagged with color: verdigris

long and lost

enough to go by

all you have to go on;

in your heart shall burn

a revelation in the light of day;

better off believing

plant stars in the ground

harbor

live in shadows die in sunlight

and now you must endure;

four for starting over

something that was left behind;

meditation on war

of little talks

faith shall save thee

one sweet moment set aside;

Famous #4, Rose #23, Verdigris #17

evening on the ground;

what the water gave us;

Verdigris #16

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