Final Fantasy VII 100 Word Challenge

*stretches and pops fingers* Let's see if I can hit that mark this time.

Title: Anthropomorphism #1
Characters: Masamune
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Series: Original game
Author's Notes: Bwahahaha

( Anthropomorphism #1 )

Title: Anthropomorphism #2
Characters: Surprise
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Series: Crisis Core
Author's Notes: My brain is weird.

( Anthropomorphism #2 )

Title: Most Hated Character 1
Characters: Ifalna
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Series: pre-game
Author's Notes: Ifalna has been in my head a lot.

( Most Hated Character 1 )

Title: Most Hated Character 2
Characters: Streetkid
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Series: pre-game
Author's Notes: That was an odd pov.

( Most Hated Character 2 )


Title: Missing Scene 1
Characters: Cid
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Series: Original game
Author's Notes: Still working my way through the mass.

( Missing Scene 1 )


Title: Missing Scene 2
Characters: Angeal, Sephiroth, Genesis
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Series: Pre-game
Author's Notes: *hums and continues on* Anyone tired yet?

( Missing Scene 2 )


Title: Crossover 1
Characters: Cloud, Iroh
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Series: Post-game
Author's Notes: Bwahaha! Return of Iroh

( Crossover 1 )

Title: Crossover
Characters: Zack, Aeris, Wolfwood, Spike, Lilith
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Series: Post-game
Author's Notes: FFVII, Trigun, Cowboy Bebop, and Trinity Blood.

( Crossover 2 )

Title: Cid Highwind 1
Characters: Cid
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Series: Pre-game
Author's Notes: Some foul language, this one.

( Cid Highwind 1 )

Title: Cid Highwind 2
Characters: Cid, Vincent, Sherra
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Series: Post-game
Author's Notes: Slashy thoughts

( Cid Highwind 2 )

Let's see if I can't reach that 1000 point mark this time.

Title: Fortune Comes on Yellow Wings
Characters/Pairings: Cid, Shera, a chocobo
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: For prompt: superstition.

The big yellow bird yanked another chunk of plant life out of Cid's backyard and munched contentedly, feathers fluffed against the early morning chill. "A chocobo!" Shera breathed, peering out the kitchen window while Cid nursed his second cup of Mideel looseleaf black tea. "The wild ones are good luck."

"Gimme a break," Cid snorted. Shera huffed and left the heathen nonbeliever to his tea.

But later, when he made a major breakthrough in his rocket's engine and didn't lose a hand in the process, he wondered about the possibility of planting a crop of Sylkis greens in the backyard.






Title: The Monster
Characters/Pairings: Midgar
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: For prompt: anthropomorphism.

It never truly sleeps: the eerie green glow thrown against the night sky is proof enough of that. While humans are slave to the ancient rhythms of their flesh, its own rhythm never ceases and never changes. It feeds constantly, on despair, on hunger, on violence and greed. As its inhabitants go about their lives, stealing their survival any way they can, they become extensions of the city's endless avarice. The pain they inflict becomes a sacrifice to their metal mother.

The city nurtures you, cradles you, and then it consumes you. This is the beast that men call Midgar.






Title: Love, Glory and Kupo Nuts
Characters/Pairings: Sephiroth, Cloud, Zack, and a moogle
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
Author's Notes: For prompt: anthropomorphism. Finally answering the question posed in the original prompt post. ;)

The room was warm and clean and smelled of kupo-nut pastries baking somewhere nearby. The queen lounged in her silken nest and watched with silent approval as, across the room, her friend and mightiest warrior moved through the steps of his kata. His hair was unbound and shone like water, like the eyes of the younger man who sat and watched in comfort and safety.

A third man knelt by her nest, violet eyes outshining the beauty of his loincloth-clad body. "Kupo-nut cocktail?"

The moogle sighed, holding onto the last wisps of the dream as long as she could. "Kupooo...."

Title: "Set Free"
Author: brushfiretiger
Challenge: Anthromorphism
Characters: Reno's hair
Team: Turks
Rating: G
Word Count: 100
A/N: *smiles* Right back at you, Spookie.

Before Vincent Valentine came into our life, every day was like prison, spent tied up secure in bindings. Oh sure, it was for our own good considering the dangers we could put Reno into, but it wasn't how we were meant to be.

Vincent understands that.

Now when Reno comes home from work, Vincent sets us free. He's gentle loosening the leather restraint, never pulling a single one of us short in haste. It's obvious we're special to him as he runs his fingers through us, grips us tight during passion, or falls asleep, face pressed in our ginger softness.

Title: Laying Down the Law
Characters: Cloud's anus.
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: R
Word Count: 100
Notes: Inspired by a LOT of bad pr0n rants.

( Guys, girls, everybody... )

Title: Cid Don't Know
Character: The Highwind Bikini Babe
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100

There's an art to making a good pinup. Makeup, hair, lighting, all of that to create unbelievable fantasy.

Take Miss September. If the Captain knew how ordinary she looked off set, he might never have transferred her image so faithfully to the side of the ship.

But he doesn't want ordinary, doesn't want to know that it was a wig, or airbrushing, or a gel bra. He doesn't want to know that she only modeled to pay for school. He wants the fantasy he paints in his mind when he looks my way, while the real thing makes his tea.

Title: Of Women And Machines
Characters/Pairings: Cid and the Highwind
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100

"I mean, it's not like anything would change. She's pretty much been doing the wife thing for me for - ugh, too long. Except without the sex."

His conversation partner was pointedly silent, and Cid glowered at her. "I am not," he declared, "in it for the sex. I just - well, hell. You know."

This time the silence was comforting. Cid smiled and drew a small box out of his pocket. "Anyway, you'd better keep this tonight." He pulled himself upright and placed the box on the console. "Thanks for listening, girl."

Under Cid's retreating footsteps, the Highwind sighed.

Title: Easily Distracted
Characters/Pairings: Chocobo Ranch area chocobo
Team: Avalanche
Rating: G
Word Count: 100

Oh, hell no. I am not doing this.

Look, there's this swamp, right? And in this swamp there's this huge-ass snake. Any normal person would avoid that swamp - but then there's you. You strode right into that swamp like you owned it.

After you got done being digested, you figured out that the only way to cross that swamp was on chocobo-back. So here you are, waving cheap greens and a new materia, but let me tell you, Mister Spike-head, that I am not falling for it. Not if you had a hundred of those damn purple...

...ooh. Shiny.

Title: You Are Not Him
Character: Sephiroth's coat
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
A/N: Ever wondered why Genesis’ coat looks like this during CC and yet like this in DoC? Where did he get those straps?

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Title: The Root of the Problem
Characters: Cloud's hair.
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100

You sow what you reap and you reap what you sow. As you are planted, so shall you grow. Neat rows, straight lines, such is the norm.

But not for us, no, not with this mess at our feet, this tangle we grow from, springing from a head that doesn't know itself and never did. Always shifting, our foundation, love, hate, calm, rage, pride, shame. Up and down this one goes, since he was a little boy, trying and failing and trying and hoping.

We are rooted in such utter confusion. How could we be anything but what we are?

Title: Growing
Characters: Aeris's Flowers-The jungle covering Midgar
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100

Growning

We started from such humble beginnings. Just a few flowers in a broken church, where a stray beam of sun gleamed down. We grew on water, earth, her love, and the love she had with another. They liked to be together among us, and from them, we grew strength.

He’s our father, in a way, just like she is our mother.

When destruction came, we grew, the power of the world there for us. When the water came, we grew, if more scattered.

For years, we have grown, and we have spread.

This place of humans is ours now.

Title: A Position of Honor
Characters: Tifa's Bra
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100

( You have to be made of tough stuff to hold up under this kind of pressure. )


Title: Neglect
Characters: Seph's boxers.
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100

( Life is so unnerving for a servant who's not serving. )

Title: Myopic

Challenge: Anthropomorphism

Character: Hojo’s eyeglasses

Team: SOLDIER

Word count: 100

 

 

 

 

Lesser sorts have shattered, broken by the weight of evil witnessed. Now, even I am close to breaking.

 

Made by skilled hands, shaped to counter a humble malformation, I made clear to his eyes things that would never be clear to his heart. I have been splattered with unnamable fluids, dropped into living Mako, and briefly abandoned among untranslatable documents.

 

I have seen birth and death, and moments where the two are not distinguishable.

 

Perhaps now, as the seeds of Jenova take firm root in him, he will no longer need me and I can find my own tormented peace.

Title: Meteor
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100

( Meteor )

Title: Holy
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100

( Holy )

Title: Cock Fight
Characters: Zack and Seph's anatomy.
Team: SOLDIER
Rating: R
Word Count: 100

( It's a love/hate kind of thing. )

Title: Mother
Characters: The Planet
Rating: PG
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100

They are her children.

They are a plague.

They are her murders, as well as those who save her.

She will destroy them one day, just to save what she can. But it is not today, though she is tempted.

They take what they want, and do little to give back.

But they are life, and she is their mother.

Though her, they flow, pale, green, joining things that they had killed.

Only to rip that glow out to power their own desires.

They are humans, and they live in her, on her, and she will keep them.

For now.

Title: Made For Walkin'
Characters: Sephiroth's boots
Team: Avalanche
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 100
A/N: Aftermath of this fic from a different perspective.

Odin's codpiece, our boss can be thick sometimes. You're good for him, Zack - he's that much less tense when you're around, rests less of his weight on the balls of his feet in preparation for an attack - but one person can only do so much. You really need a mirror-twin, you know. Two is always more stable than one.

But in the meantime - you want to get up close and personal with us? Great, let's go. We'll have you on the ground for us in no time.

We know a good idea when we hear it, too.

Title: Dust
Character: Zack's Sword
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100
(Author's note: This was actually a slightly longer piece I originally wrote for my own interest)


Dry as dust. Dull blade. Rust. I miss him, ache for him to take me in his hands, holding me once more. No caresses but the brush of bone dry wind. No loving touch, instead the freezing, rusting rain.

He fell…

The bitter cry of grief...if only I had the chance again, I would not fail him.

Until I return to dust, until I am mineral and rock, I will remember him, the shining star that he was, taking comfort in the life stream. He will be there long after I am elements, a rust-brown layer in the cold earth.

Title: Ride
Character: Fenrir
Team: SOLDIER
Word Count: 100

Do you have any idea what it is like, to ride the open plains, with the wind all around you and all sound stolen away until all you can feel is the rumble of your heart and the warmth of your rider on top of you? There isn’t even the distraction of flesh and blood to get in the way, just clean metal and oil in your veins, and strong hands guiding you. With weapons in your flanks, deadly and ready to destroy anything in your way, there’s nothing to stop you.

Can you hear the wind singing?

The award for the most unromantic team goes to....SOLDIER!  The cheap bastards managed to cut corners on romance for 80 points.  Avalanche stuck their feet in their mouths for 50 points and the Turks barely even tried to impress for 30.  But we still love them anyway.

This week's prompt is #36 - Anthropomorphism

Take those inanimate objects, those nonhuman beings, those natural or supernatural phenomena and give them human qualities and characteristics. 

Make those swords talk, the Lifestream dance, the Mako cackle, chocobos complain.

Jenova is fair game here since she is an alien-type species and therefore nonhuman - let's hear her whisperings, see her play dress up, get a glimpse of her thoughts.

Do Rude's sunglasses dread being broken?  Does Masamune thirst for blood?  Does Reno's mag rod get a charge or a thrill out of the job?  If Cloud's motorbike could talk would it complain about not getting enough rest? What does Jenova actually tell Kadaj?  Is Tseng's cell phone just completely drained? Do moogles dream?  And of course, I have no issues with you anthropomorphing Cait Sith or Nanaki some more. 

Give those objects a voice, but do it in just 100 words.