Fanfiction Work-In-Progress Guessing Game: "trick"?
Oooo, you were very nearly out of luck! But I found one single mention in a very, very old WIP that I probably won’t ever complete writing:
The bound and kneeling man’s face, an older, scarred version of what they saw when they looked at each other, crumpled minutely, an agonized twitch. None of the trainers noticed, but Alphas knew their own face and all its tells. There was something on the ship that he didn’t want to be found.
The Alphas did not say a word, stacking on each other and sweeping in like they always drilled. As they rounded the corner, Alpha Leader signed quickly with his hand held low. He’d spotted the man’s precious cargo. *priority objective classified* pause *search locate classified* pause *tyrannus capture negative, declarative*
It was a nat-born cadet, about second growth cycle, hiding in a cupboard. If the creepy Lord did not have his creepy powers, it would have been an excellent hiding spot.
Alpha Second dropped out of the clearing formation and tried to relay the hiding trick they had figured out, as fast as he could talk. “Time to play a pretend game: you’re a little animal, no words! just want warm, want food, fear large things, want food, want safety. Can you try?”
The ad squinted at him.
“There’s a bad guy coming who will know where you are if your mind feels like a person-mind, thinking person-things; so you have to hide your thoughts with a pretend-to-be-an-animal game.”
The kid’s eyes blew wide. “Buir said hide in here.”
“Yeah, in there and in your mind, you gotta try, please! We’ll come get you when the bad guy is gone. As long as you can hide from him, you will be okay, I promise, but you have to start NOW, okay? Hey, it’s gonna be fine. It’s a pretending game and you’re going to win it.”
The kid nodded and Alpha Second joined the tail end of the clearing squad on their way out.
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What if..
Jyn has a toddler son who's crazy about the animated show, Dora The Explorer and of course is the biggest fan of Diego. The boy gets sturstruck at a vet clinic after rescuing a kitten from the street and encounters with Cassian who thinks the man is a real figure of his idol.
"Excuse me, mister Diego? Can you help me, please?"
"My name is Cassian but yes, I can help your little buddy like Diego does."
Ever since that they are inseparable duos.
Cassian and Jyn finally meet, attracted to each other but Cassian feels Jyn's only tolerates his company because of her son's affection. Jyn who never had real family beside her son is afraid that Cassian will someday leave just like everybody else, so she's counting it day by day
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I’m just saying, I think it’s rather dumb for kids of Athena to be considered smart, or basically geniuses. She’s not the goddess of knowledge, it doesn’t make sense for these kids to just automatically be intelligent. Knowledge and wisdom are not the same.
Give me children of Athen who have natural instinct so strong that once people realize it they never trust anything else. Children of Athena who have an air around them of a million year old warrior or commander. Children of Athena who live the longest out of the demigods. Children of Athena who can pick up anything and become a master of it as though they’ve had decades of experience. Children of Athena who aren’t just book smart, who are the very definition of street smart.
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i got anonymous flowers when i was at work btw . we saw the delivery guy walk in and assumed they were for my pharmacist bc shes married but they were for Me . thats crazy
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no no but hang on, the veteran clone trooper in the Kenobi show ! being from the 501st ??? that floored me !!!
because that clone was one of Anakin's! (and isn't that straight in the heart, right when Obi-Wan is trying to rescue Anakin's child, while thinking his Anakin-thoughts, living through his Anakin-guilt, trying to survive his sad little Anakin-centric nightmare life) and being from the 501st, Obi-Wan can assume that this clone: either went to Mandalore with Ahsoka (already a complicated mess of emotions right there, let's not even touch the topic of Satine and Maul, wonder how much and if Obi-Wan knows they all died when trying to order 66 her, while wearing her face on their helmets) OR he marched on the Jedi Temple with Anakin, murdering Obi-Wan's entire family.
so yeah. that's some heavy shit right there.
and how does he reflexively answer it (once his 6 million different trauma flashbacks pass)? with kindness.
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