Have a little snippet from an unpublished 911 fic that may or may not ever really come to life.
Eddie looks up towards the sky as the roar of a jet engine reaches his ears. He watches, inexplicably mesmerized, as the miniscule black dot climbs higher and higher. Finally, it disappears, swallowed by the vast sun-bleached sky of an early spring afternoon.
“What are you looking at?” Eddie jumps as Buck’s voice brings him sharply back down to earth.
His best friend drops into the chair opposite Eddie, staring at him with a curious raised eyebrow.
“Oh, nothing,” Eddie shrugs, picking up his coffee cup. “Just, the sky out here. It's so endless. It makes you feel so small and alone if you look at it for too long.”
No pressure tagging: @andiwriteordie @melisusthewee @natliecole @nooneisstraight @hunter-sylvester and anyone else who wants to do it!
Some day you'll wake up to discover someone you only ever knew through a screen has disappeared.
Orphaned all their AO3 fics, left all the servers, cleared their friends lists, made their accounts private, and just vanished into the digital ether.
They haven't died. You're pretty certain about that. They just got tired of fandom and vanished like a thief in the night. At least you hope that's what it was. You have to hope because you don't have any way of actually contacting them anymore.
Rules: Share 15 or fewer lines of dialogue from an OC, ideally lines that capture the character/personality/vibe of the OC. Bonus points for just using the dialogue without other details about the scene, but you're free to include those as well!
Thank you @greypetrel for prompting me to return to my favourite little Dragon Age blorbo! It was also fun going back through my published fics pulling out bits of dialogue. I refrained from using anything from any of my WIPs, and I've also shuffled around the dialogue so it's not necessarily in order to keep you on your toes.
Quinn Trevelyan
"Sadly, they don't give me the exciting jobs like standing vigil on a mountain far removed from anyone of any importance."
"I look terrible. Why did no one tell me I look terrible?"
"It's a useless library anyway."
"Perhaps I am fond of baubles."
"May I sit up now, my lady? Or do you wish for me to remain bent over for you a while longer?"
"I've done a very foolish thing, Solas."
"I hope you're not about to insult the appearance of a man who spent several nights sleeping in your barn."
"You'll have to be more specific. I've done a lot of things."
"If I let you keep the coin can we do something more exciting?"
"This is Orlais. No assassin is going to strike before the canapés are served."
"I assure you, I've never had any complaints."
"Do we have any brandy?"
"She wants to be wooed, Dorian. Flowers and poetry and candlelight and it's just absolutely ridiculous! Who does these things?! And why don't we have any decent books on it?!"
"It wouldn't kill you to break the rules every once in a while. You might even find you enjoy it."
"Andraste's tits..."
Tagging: no one specifically because I've been so out of the loop lately that I don't know who has and hasn't done this yet... so if you have some good blorbo dialogue then consider yourself tagged!