melodytree | Entries tagged with event:trick or treat

Title: Dessert Properly Prepared
Fandom: Hansel und Gretel (fairytale)
Pairing/characters: Witch
Rating: T
Contains: Horror, implied cannibalism
Summary: Once, she had owned a candy shop. (Witch backstory)
Notes: Written for Healy for Trick or Treat 2016. Title stolen from this semi-relevant quote:
"The dessert, properly prepared, contributes equally to health and comfort; but 'got up' as confectionery too often is, it is not only distasteful to a correct palate, but is deleterious and often actually poisonous." - ‘The Complete Confectioner, Pastry-Cook, and Baker’ by Eleanor Parkinson (1864)
( Once, she had owned a candy shop. )

Title: Passing the Night
Fandom: Fukigenna Mononokean
Pairing/characters: Itsuki, Mononokean, mentions of Aoi
Rating: G
Contains: Grief/mourning
Summary: In the aftermath of Aoi's death, Itsuki tries to cope as the new master of the Mononokean.
Notes: Written for augusta_brie for Trick or Treat 2016.
( He had spent much time here alone before )

Title: Endure as Long as Life
Fandom: AtLA
Pairing/characters: Kyoshi, OCs
Rating: G
Contains: N/A
Summary: Kyoshi and her training. Four nations, four elements, and four ideas she absorbed.
Notes: Written for The Wavesinger for Trick or Treat 2016.
( There is much to like about the Fire Nation. )

Title: They Enter Into All Things
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Pairing/characters: Zuko, Ursa, ensemble
Rating: G
Contains: N/A
Summary: The palace was strange after Zuko's mom disappeared, and it was strange years later when he returned to it.
Notes: Written for Riverbanks for Trick or Treat 2016. Title stolen from Confucius, The Doctrine of the Mean:

"How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them."
( Once, on a dark winter night, when Zuko was quite young, and Azula even younger )

Title: Neon Lights and City Sights
Fandom: Fallout 4
Pairing/characters: M!SS, Nick
Rating: G
Contains: N/A
Summary: Sometimes Nate stopped and thought too much about the city before the War, and all Nick could do was wait the moments out.
Notes: Written for tuesday for Trick or Treat 2016; November hit like a hurricane and I forgot to crosspost when authors were revealed.
( He had the distant-eyed look of someone who'd been through too much )

Title: Her Fetters Burst
Fandom: Hannibal
Pairing/characters: Abigail Hobbs
Rating: G
Contains: N/A
Summary: Abigail doesn't know what to do. She decides to find the person who does. (Post-Mizumono Abigail lives!AU)
Notes: Extra treat for reeby10 for Trick or Treat.
( Abigail has two scars on her throat now, overlapping )

Title: Hidden Route
Fandom: Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Pairing/characters: Dating Sim Protagonist/Tomoda
Rating: G
Contains: Meta meta meta
Summary: He was getting tired of living his last year of high school over and over. He decided to try something slightly different.
Notes: Extra treat for Liviania for Trick or Treat.
( What he did know was this )

Title: Work in Progress
Fandom: Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun
Pairing/characters: Nozaki, Sakura, background Sakura/Nozaki, ensemble
Rating: G
Contains: N/A
Summary: The ghost of a mangaka demands that Nozaki finish his incomplete work.
Notes: Extra treat for fluffybunfor Trick or Treat.
( It wasn't the first time that Sakura had seen Nozaki show up to school looking absolutely exhausted )

Title: The Enlightened Prince and the Wise General
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Pairing/characters: Iroh, OCs
Rating: G
Contains: N/A
Summary: In the aftermath of the siege on Ba Sing Se, a soldier testifies on his conversations with the enemy General Iroh.
Notes: Extra treat for cricket_aria for Trick or Treat.
( In the aftermath of the siege on Ba Sing Se, there was much to be done )

Title: Shadow, Specter, Spook
Fandom: Hetalia
Pairing/characters: Taiwan, America
Rating: G
Contains: N/A
Summary: Taiwan convinces America to dress up with her for this year's Halloween party. There won't be any ghosts there, right?
Notes: Extra treat for VampirePaladin for Trick or Treat.
( I kind of wanted to do a pair costume kind of thing this year )

Title: Truth Alone
Fandom: Hetalia
Pairing/characters: Liechtenstein, Switzerland
Rating: G
Contains: N/A
Summary: Liechtenstein wants Switzerland to make up for a mistake; fortunately, he pulls through.
Notes: Written for chaoticrandomness for Trick or Treat. Spot the historical reference I used for my plot.
( Liechtenstein looked in the mirror and couldn't help a wince. )

Title: Shade and Light
Fandom: Pokemon
Pairing/characters: OC Trainer, Yamask, Omastar, Pidgeot
Rating: G
Contains: N/A
Summary: Clara is worried that there's something wrong with her new Yamask. Crying in the night can't be normal, right?
Notes: Extra treat for cookinguptales for Trick or Treat. Inspired by a certain horrifying pokedex entry.
( She really had to get her 'dex changed to only show reliable information )

Title: You Live Like You Dream Alone
Fandom: Your Life RPF
Pairing/characters: You, Your New House's Poltergeist
Rating: G
Contains: N/A
Summary: You are not choosy about movies. Your 'ghost', however, is. (You do not believe in ghosts.)
Notes: Extra treat for PinkCoffeeMosquitoJelly for Trick or Treat.
( Your new house came cheap )

Title: Nothing Softer and Weaker
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Pairing/characters: Aang/Katara, Gaang)
Rating: G
Contains: N/A
Summary: Snippets from a life Katara might have led, if a fever had burned her eyesight out in childhood.
Notes: Written for attackfish for Trick or Treat 2014.

Title comes from Laozi:
There is nothing softer and weaker than water,
And yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things.
For this reason there is no substitute for it.

( She has yet to walk into the central bonfire )

Title: After the Fireworks
Fandom: Mulan
Pairing/characters: Fa Mulan, Li Shang
Rating: T
Contains: Character death, graphic descriptions, unhappy ending
Summary: The Huns are defeated; China is saved. Until something worse follows.
Notes: Written for Ghostie for Trick or Treat 2014.

( Everything went back to normal, for about three weeks )

Title: Under Roses
Fandom: Avatar: the Last Airbender
Pairing/characters: Azula/Toph, Zuko
Rating: G
Contains: N/A
Summary: Azula finds herself captivated with a small but powerful earthbender beating up the competition in an underground tournament.
Notes: Written for terajk for Trick or Treat 2014

( The Blind Bandit is small, tiny, so young-looking )

Title: I'm Right Out Here
Fandom: Frozen
Pairing/characters: Anna, Elsa
Rating: G
Contains: Implied character death
Summary: AU. Anna died years ago. Elsa stills hears her voice sometimes, eternally childlike.
Notes: Written for MiraMira for Trick or Treat 2014. Background music strongly recommended.

( It's not real )