rainbowfic | Entries tagged with story: the empty throne

Name: Mischa
Story: the empty throne
Colors: bistre (There was life, in all its messy splendor. And always and always, there was love), Side B (Run for the shadows in these golden years → Golden Years (Station to Station), spark (you said we were the real thing)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 546
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none, I think?
Summary: Daiyu watches Lihua as she sews.
notes: another awkward creative writing class prompt.
( you rise from the ashes )

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Name: Mischa
Story: the empty throne
Colors: bistre (Do you suppose that when we tell our brooding, haughty horde the glorious tale of their parents' exploits, we might leave that part out of it?), Side B (I'm happy. Hope you're happy, too. I've loved. All I've needed: love. Sordid details following.→Ashes to Ashes (Scary Monsters), warm light (everything's fine in the morning)
Supplies and Styles: graffiti (the Snowed In challenge, here.), canvas
Word Count: 259
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none, I think?
Summary: The eldest daughter of the youngest god in heaven fell in love with a mortal. Yin, in the early days of her marriage, before heartbreak and death.
notes:

( soon love soon )

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Name: Mischa
Story: the empty throne
Colors: elvish green ( You could have picked a better spot), bistre (we break each others' hearts, but we mend them, too)
Supplies and Styles: canvas, miniature
Word Count: 63
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none, I think?
Summary: The man calling himself Jun needs no reminders of his failure. He gets them anyway.

( his smile is not his own )

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Name: Mischa
Story: the empty throne
Colors: bistre(Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt those we love best?), vienna orange (There are no pretty words to say, 'you are fucking up real bad'), spark (Don't judge me so harsh little girl)
Supplies and Styles: canvas
Word Count: 614
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: implied suicide and depression
Summary: After Li Xiaoli's death, her lover and her mother have something of a discussion.
Notes: needs a color tag for vienna orange

( don't say a word )

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Name: Mischa
Story: the empty throne
Colors: bistre (How do you wish to die, Admiral? At the hands of numbers, or dreams?), elvish green (I know what I must do, it's just that I'm afraid to do it), spark (little fascist panties)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 880
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none, I think, but if I missed any, let me know.
Summary: I have been nothing but loyal. But against paranoia, loyalty means nothing. Emperor Jian attempts to relieve the General of the North of her command: it doesn't go entirely as intended.
Notes: and the plot gets further moving.

( we'll see how brave you are )

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Name: Mischa
Story: the empty throne
Colors: elvish green (I have wished you joy since first I saw you), bistre (All I'm asking is that you stop treating me like I'm an actor miscast in your own personal tragedy through no fault of my own), spark (If I did it fast you know that's an act of kindness)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 457
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: suicidal ideation
Summary: "I've wished you joy since I first saw you. And you're making this difficult." In the aftermath of another failed challenge, An Lieh is critically ill: Terribly Unlucky Pan ends up taking care of him. And having terrible luck in trying to figure him out.
Notes:

( I've wished you joy )

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Name: Mischa
Story: the empty throne
Colors: spark (and i sang holy holy as he buttoned down his pants), bistre (I keep my promises), elvish green (I have to believe he can come back.)
Supplies and Styles: graffiti (special bonus), canvas (at least partially) fingerpainting
Word Count: 2396
Rating: R
Warnings: oh dear god: this is going to have a ton of warnings. rape (and Lin is 15 at the onset), child abuse, attempted suicide, suicidal ideation, depression, abusive relationships. if I missed one, please tell me.
Summary: (this is what happens when your heart is broken open. forgetting and undoing. you don’t remember who and what you truly are.) Being the most beautiful person in the world has never been a blessing. Lin knows this to be true.
Notes: extremely experimental in style and disturbing in content.
( forgetting and undoing )

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Name: Mischa
Story: the empty throne
Colors: bistre (The affairs of humanity tend to be messy and complicated. And at the same time, it's the simplest thing in the world), spark (Hey they found a body not sure it was his but they're using his name), elvish green (It is but a shadow and a thought that you love.)
Supplies and Styles: graffiti (special bonus)
Word Count: 1465
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: implied rape, implied abusive relationships, implied (past) suicide attempt. if I've forgotten any, please let me know.
Summary: None of us are wearing our own face.
Lihua navigates the illusions of court and the illusions of her own household: things are beginning to be set into motion.
Notes: really rough. probably going to be revisited and revised completely later.
( this is all you have to go on )

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Name: Mischa
Story: the empty throne
Colors: bistre (I have discovered that a beautiful face and a facile wit can conceal great strength of character), spark (castles are burning in my heart), elvish green ( Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 691
Warnings: implied sororicide
Summary: "To walk the path is hard. Justice demands sacrifice. Secrets demand suffering."
A princess and the long-exiled god of justice meet and an agreement is struck.
Rating: PG-13
( something's electric in your blood )

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Name: Mischa
Story: the empty throne
Colors: spark (She's addicted to nicotine patches, she's afraid of the light in the dark), elvish green (Are you sure you do not suffer needlessly?), bistre (Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is as inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake)
Supplies and Styles:
Word Count: 1204
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: skip
implied rape, implied abuse, child abuse, suicidal ideation
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Summary: "Duty's a damn stupid thing to die for. Especially for people who don't even care about you ."

"I owe them my loyalty. I will see it done.

An Lieh has a run-in with the man he's pledged to kill, as his duty to his family demands. Instead of another duel, there's honesty about love and duty.

notes: thanks to my boyfriend, who is letting me steal and rework Pan, who is his character, for this universe.
( they would grieve more the duty left undone )

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Name: Mischa
Story: the empty throne
Colors: elvish green (You'll find more cheer in a graveyard), spark (seems we got a cheaper feel now), bistre (there is a difference between loving and being in love).
Supplies and Styles: reimaging, canvas
Word Count: 531
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: drug abuse (and overdose), child abuse
Summary: When An Lieh is still a small, very small, child still with his milk-name, his mother is the most beautiful woman that he had ever seen, seeming to step straight out of the stories that she sometimes told him.

Lieh sits like a sparrow at her knee and watches her, caught in poppy’s lying sleep, and realizes that his mother has gone away and left him behind even before he was ever born.

Notes: A reworking of a piece I wrote in 2010 and dug out of my archives of shame. Also reworked the character to add him to this setting.

( tears and poppies )

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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:
skip
Yin is Lin - from "in your heart shall burn"-'s mother. Or she will be, a good long time after this story.
.

( 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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Entries tagged with story: the empty throne

like ribbons worn bright;

soon love soon

the smallest heartbreak;

don't say a word

yes my loyalty's turned

you're a hard soul to save

forgetting and undoing

this is all you have to go on;

various storms and saints

heart moves the blade;

tears and poppies

long and lost

enough to go by

all you have to go on;

in your heart shall burn

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