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dagas_isaTitle: The Doll
Fandom: Final Fantasy IX.
Characters: Vivi
Prompt: Birth
Word Count: 385
Rating: G
Summary: Machines don't understand when they've created something more than a puppet.
Mist engines whirred and huffed, releasing a hiss of dangerous steam every few seconds when the pressure against its tank grew unbearable. From the boiler, energy flowed into another machine, and there mixed and converted into something new.
A core, filled with souls of Gaia's dead for power, rides along on a conveyor belt, under the supervision of a researcher who monitors everything. This is his pet project, the key to retaining his grant to operate this combination laboratory and factory. He's close, very close to creating something no one has ever seen before.
The egg-shaped object passes under the machine that converted the mist energy into something tangible, and tar-like goo coats it like a skin. Too hot to touch now, it moves to another machine, this time shaping the malleable lump into something that resembles a human. Hands, legs, and a head emerge from the body, making a human-like object, a doll.
Clothes complete the facade of humanity. A hat to cover the lack of hair, gloves, pants, a jacket, and boots cover most of the suspicious black. Only a blank, shadowy face indicated that this creation was something not technically alive.
The machines know not what it created, but the researcher is ecstatic to give the command that will give the new puppet a semblance of life. "Vivi," he says, his voice barely controlled.
Yellow lights, placed to resemble eyes, flash and the doll moves towards him. "Vivi, Fire." He points to a target he set up for this exact moment. In perfectly controlled motions, the doll moves its limbs and produces fire, a magic it retains at its core.
"It works!" The man laughs at his triumph and sends a message to his superiors. He and his wife will eat well tonight. So caught up in the moment, he forgets to turn the doll off, knowing that the doll will not cast spells without an instruction to do so.
What he doesn't count on, is that the doll understands more than simple instructions, even now. What no one understands the signficance of is that, beyond a machine, the assembly line has given birth to something more alive.
Title: Madain Maiden
Fandom: Final Fantasy IX.
Characters: Vivi/Eiko
Prompt: Sunset
Word Count: 359
Rating: G
Summary: Eiko delivers a message from Mog to Vivi.
Author's Notes: Pure fluff. May cause cavities.
Sunset was a perfect time for Vivi, The worlds seemed more vivid then, and the black mage always felt most alive surrounded by a bright world. The remnants of the ruined summoner's village looked sculptural against the painted sky.
The evening wind tousled his coat a little, and brought the sweet scent of dessert to his nose. Even with Eiko's dinner resting comfortably in his stomach, the apple pie brought new pangs of hunger.
"Vivi!" Eiko came running with a basket tucked under her arm. "I was looking for you! You missed dessert!" She came right to the edge of the rock he was sitting on and waited.
"Oh..." Vivi never knew where the tears came from when he choked up, or why he was crying at this, the simple missing of dessert. A small giggle from her interrupted his waterworks though, as she came to sit next to him. Her favorite moogle, Mog, followed behind.
"Don't worry Vivi, I saved some for you. Here." She opened the basket, revealing a somewhat crumbled up piece of Apple Pie. Despite its ragged appearance, it was still warm and sweet. Just like sitting here with a girl at sunset.
Is this why Zidane likes girls so much?
"Thank you, Eiko." Vivi said, wondering if she'd leave now that he got his dessert.
Eiko didn't though. "You know...." she leans in as if hesitant to tell him a secret. "I think Mog likes you." The smile crossed her young face when she pointed to her young moogle friend.
Vivi had met many moogles in his journey across Gaia, but this had been the first time he'd ever seen a moogle blush. "She seems nice."
"Mog's my best friend, She wants me to give this to you..."
Eiko leaned in and kissed his cheek. It reminded him a bit like the dusk that crowded around them and the apple pie he just ate: vivid, sweet, pure and kind of warm. Also over in a near instant as they both pulled back blushing.
"Thank you Mog."
Suddenly, he understood a little more why some people became more preoccupied with kissing and less so with sunsets.
Fandom: Final Fantasy IX.
Characters: Vivi
Prompt: Birth
Word Count: 385
Rating: G
Summary: Machines don't understand when they've created something more than a puppet.
Mist engines whirred and huffed, releasing a hiss of dangerous steam every few seconds when the pressure against its tank grew unbearable. From the boiler, energy flowed into another machine, and there mixed and converted into something new.
A core, filled with souls of Gaia's dead for power, rides along on a conveyor belt, under the supervision of a researcher who monitors everything. This is his pet project, the key to retaining his grant to operate this combination laboratory and factory. He's close, very close to creating something no one has ever seen before.
The egg-shaped object passes under the machine that converted the mist energy into something tangible, and tar-like goo coats it like a skin. Too hot to touch now, it moves to another machine, this time shaping the malleable lump into something that resembles a human. Hands, legs, and a head emerge from the body, making a human-like object, a doll.
Clothes complete the facade of humanity. A hat to cover the lack of hair, gloves, pants, a jacket, and boots cover most of the suspicious black. Only a blank, shadowy face indicated that this creation was something not technically alive.
The machines know not what it created, but the researcher is ecstatic to give the command that will give the new puppet a semblance of life. "Vivi," he says, his voice barely controlled.
Yellow lights, placed to resemble eyes, flash and the doll moves towards him. "Vivi, Fire." He points to a target he set up for this exact moment. In perfectly controlled motions, the doll moves its limbs and produces fire, a magic it retains at its core.
"It works!" The man laughs at his triumph and sends a message to his superiors. He and his wife will eat well tonight. So caught up in the moment, he forgets to turn the doll off, knowing that the doll will not cast spells without an instruction to do so.
What he doesn't count on, is that the doll understands more than simple instructions, even now. What no one understands the signficance of is that, beyond a machine, the assembly line has given birth to something more alive.
Title: Madain Maiden
Fandom: Final Fantasy IX.
Characters: Vivi/Eiko
Prompt: Sunset
Word Count: 359
Rating: G
Summary: Eiko delivers a message from Mog to Vivi.
Author's Notes: Pure fluff. May cause cavities.
Sunset was a perfect time for Vivi, The worlds seemed more vivid then, and the black mage always felt most alive surrounded by a bright world. The remnants of the ruined summoner's village looked sculptural against the painted sky.
The evening wind tousled his coat a little, and brought the sweet scent of dessert to his nose. Even with Eiko's dinner resting comfortably in his stomach, the apple pie brought new pangs of hunger.
"Vivi!" Eiko came running with a basket tucked under her arm. "I was looking for you! You missed dessert!" She came right to the edge of the rock he was sitting on and waited.
"Oh..." Vivi never knew where the tears came from when he choked up, or why he was crying at this, the simple missing of dessert. A small giggle from her interrupted his waterworks though, as she came to sit next to him. Her favorite moogle, Mog, followed behind.
"Don't worry Vivi, I saved some for you. Here." She opened the basket, revealing a somewhat crumbled up piece of Apple Pie. Despite its ragged appearance, it was still warm and sweet. Just like sitting here with a girl at sunset.
Is this why Zidane likes girls so much?
"Thank you, Eiko." Vivi said, wondering if she'd leave now that he got his dessert.
Eiko didn't though. "You know...." she leans in as if hesitant to tell him a secret. "I think Mog likes you." The smile crossed her young face when she pointed to her young moogle friend.
Vivi had met many moogles in his journey across Gaia, but this had been the first time he'd ever seen a moogle blush. "She seems nice."
"Mog's my best friend, She wants me to give this to you..."
Eiko leaned in and kissed his cheek. It reminded him a bit like the dusk that crowded around them and the apple pie he just ate: vivid, sweet, pure and kind of warm. Also over in a near instant as they both pulled back blushing.
"Thank you Mog."
Suddenly, he understood a little more why some people became more preoccupied with kissing and less so with sunsets.
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Date: 2006-07-17 03:13 am (UTC)