No True Pair

Title: Strangers in the Night
Author: catdevigri
Fandom: Tales of Rebirth/Tales of Legendia
Pairing/characters: Eugene Gallardo/Fenimore Xelhes
Rating: PG
Warnings: None particularly.
Word count: 945
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Fenimore takes a wrong turn, and runs into Eugene
Author's comment: Here, Eugene (and presumably Mao) has somehow stumbled into the ToL universe.

( You help me and I'll help you. )

Title: Small Sacrifices
Author: catdevigri
Fandom: Tales of Rebirth
Pairing/characters: Eugene Gallardo & Mao
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word count: 595
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Eugene and Mao, with the title "Small Sacrifices"

( Home is what you make of it. )

Title: Banned on Three Planets
Author: catdevigri
Fandom: Original: Navigator
Pairing/characters: May Radcliff/Ringo Takeuchi
Rating: PG
Warnings: Alcohol
Word count: 528
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Ringo and May, "Sure it's illegal. That's what makes it fun."

( A more pleasant surprise than cockroaches in the hold. )

Title: Pleasure is Pain
Author: catdevigri
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist/Final Fantasy XII
Pairing/characters: Edward Elric/Penelo, additionally, some mention of Ed/Winry
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: The aftermath of an ill-advised drunken hook-up!
Word count: 440
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Ed and Penelo, with the title "Pleasure is Pain"
Author's comment: Set in the world of FMA. (featuring Ishvalan!Penelo)

( Think of her feelings. )

Title: Let's Make Havoc
Author/Artist: shiegra
Fandom: Dark Angel/The Vampire Diaries
Pairing/characters: Max Guevara/Katherine Pierce
Rating: pg13
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Katherine Pierce and Max Guevara, Military dress

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Title: Batten Down the Hatches
Author/Artist: shiegra
Fandom: Dark Angel/Gunnerkrigg Court
Pairing/characters: Max Guevara, Antimony Carver
Rating: pg13
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Trapped in a dangerous situation, Antimony Carver sees a side of Max Guevara that Antimony Carver never knew existed

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Title: I Love a Woman in Uniform
Author: catdevigri
Fandom: Original (Navigator)
Pairing/characters: Ringo Takeuchi/Marguerite Orgella (mainly one-sided on Ringo's part)
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Word count: 343
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Ringo and Marguerite, Military dress

( A uniform's a uniform. )

Title: Run From Empty Places
Author: catdevigri
Fandom: Original - Navigator
Pairing/characters: Marta Duay/Stuart Mallory
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Word count: 507
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Marta and Stuart, I'll become what I despise/Living someone else's lies.
Author's remarks: A sort of what-if. One of the fun things about no_true_pair is how it can make you come up with completely different ideas.

( If she and I... )

Title: Military Blues
Artist: catdevigri
Fandom: Crossover! Fullmetal Alchemist/Suikoden III
Pairing/characters: Sasarai/Winry Rockbell
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Prompt/challenge you're answering: Sasarai and Winry, Military dress

Ah, I suppose I'm going to crib off icedark_elf here.

As a reminder, here's the posting format:

Please include as a minimum in each post, the following headers:
Title:
Author/Artist:
Fandom:
Pairing/characters:
Rating:
Warnings: [character death, rape/non-con, and shota/chan/loli-con, or otherwise at your choice]
Prompt/challenge you're answering:

Tagging policies: Each piece will get a tag for its fandom(s), its author/artist, and the challenge round that it answers.

"I'll create new tags as they're needed -- feel free to add tags to your pieces if they're already in the tag list. That usually includes your author tag, and the '! 2010 eight characters challenge' tag. No worries if you'd prefer not to worry about it; I'll be tagging every couple of days."

Feel free to start posting once it is August 1st in your area. Anyway, I won't complain if you jump the gun a tiny bit.

Best of luck to everyone, and I hope we see a lot of excellent stories/art!!

Round Five: Mixed Bag Prompts

Coming to you early from the West Coast, but not so early elsewhere.

The guidelines:
- pay no attention to pairing order in the prompts. If you get something more interesting by flipping the roles around, please feel free!
- liberal interpretations of the prompts are highly welcomed. :)
- the numbers in the prompt list have been stripped except for the character numbers themselves (Edit: Now they really have. Ha ha, I promise.). You can copy and paste the list into your word processor, and then find/replace to put your characters' names in to the right spots.

( Onward, to the prompts! )

Feel free to 'talk and gawk,' to paraphrase icedark_elf! :D I hope there's something you like!

...Geez! Talk about starting things off with a bang! I just hit "post" and then, bam, earthquake! (woah, up here feeling the 5.9 near Mexicali) I hope you are all similarly shaken by the prompts, ha ha~

Okay...is it June 1st yet somewhere? Um, well, because I don't trust myself to get this up as "bright and early" as I said...and because I have as hard a time waiting as you do...let's just jump the gun a little!

0TP Round Five is officially open for sign-ups!

(break out the noise-makers, right? ^_^)

Once again~
June 15th: Prompts are revealed.
August 1st: Posting starts.

Comment here with your numbered list of eight characters for the July/August round of No True Pair. As per previous rounds:

- your list can contain characters from one fandom or different fandoms
- you may use your original characters
- you may have more than one list
- you can also use less than eight characters -- simply repeat the same characters until you have a name next to every number
- every character in your list will have a prompt with every other one.

This is a low pressure challenge. Signing up does not obligate you to complete any fic/art.

(But because I like making things, if you do participate, you might find a small banner awaiting you at the end...)