[challenge] humanAU!Wreckers Age Meme

[ajremix]

So, doing something slightly different for this challenge. Using my human version of the Wreckers, you the challenger get to pick a character and an age you'd like to see a short drabble of. As always, one prompt per person at a time. This will likely go on for a couple days or so, so once your prompt is fulfilled you can prompt for another one. Just don't mind the slow response times, please.

CHALLENGE CLOSED since I'll be away from my computer pretty much all day tomorrow and then I've got work on the weekend. I'll be finishing up the last couple prompts as soon as I can.

Comments

Re: Whirl - 9

[meallanmouse.livejournal.com]

Heee! I was hoping to see one pop up among the many about that time! All mine! :D

It shows interesting insights into his parents too. Hrm. /thinks

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Twist, 9.

(Dun wanna change the age! >.>)

Twin Twist - 9

[idiosyn.livejournal.com]

Lucky you! I was planning on this happening in the 7-9 age range so you hit the jackpot! *throws streamers*

(yeah, i sensed a pattern there |D)
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Armando was ecstatic. Keyword being 'was'. He had been chosen to play Saint Joseph in his Sunday school's Christmas Nativity play. Armando thought it was the bestest thing ever and so did his parents and all his brothers and sisters.

Then his oldest sister, Mercedes, told him, "Why are you so happy about it? Don't you feel sorry for Joseph?"

Armando, being the child he was, was confused. "Sorry? What for?"

"He was told by God's angels to marry a woman and accept a baby that wasn't even his. And then he gets told to go here and do that and all of it isn't his choice, he's just told to." She shook her head, probably at the fact she didn't expect her little brother to get it. "It's just really sad."

But Armando did get it. Sort of. At least maybe he got it. And he did think it was really sad. Because Joseph really didn't do much except for what he was told. He didn't perform any miracles, he didn't save any souls, he wasn't even martyred like other saints. All he did was help protect Mary and Jesus.

Which, when he thought about it, was an important job, but it also made Armando sad for Mary, too. Because she was told she had to have a baby, no one asked her if she wanted one. And then she had to watch her only son grow up, knowing he'd die and she and Joseph never had the big, happy family that Armando adored and he didn't think how anyone could be happy with that kind of life.

It was sad. It was incredibly sad. Even if they were told by God's angels that that's what they had to do, they really didn't get to do what they wanted with their lives. Armando didn't even like when his parents made him eat spinach, even though they said it was to make him big and strong. How would he take it if God told him to do something he didn't understand or want, just telling him it's for the good of everyone in some far-off future?

He moped about the house for days after, thinking about this and how sad and hard Joseph and Mary's life must have been. They must have been incredibly strong people, he thought, to have been able to live that kind of life. And maybe what was important was that not only was that sad, but they still made the best of their lives as they could. They still helped raise Jesus to be the savior, Joseph still protected Mary's virginity as best he could and Mary was still pious even after the Ascension. They were still happy and loving, even knowing what was going to happen.

Armando made up his mind. He was going to play Saint Joseph and make him the strongest, most loving, protective father he possibly could.

Re: Twin Twist - 9

[meallanmouse.livejournal.com]

...gwaaaaah! Made me tear up at work, damnit!

(And, especially in light of, well, you know. WAAAUGH!)

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I love the comparisons at the same age, I admit. =)

Springer now? Niiine.

Springer - 9

[idiosyn.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry D: I'd send you love and feel-betters, but all I can do is give you drabbles so I hope they help?

And I'm just realizing now how big a part Kraken Mare played on Springer's early life. It's pretty much the only part of his childhood he still adores...
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Eric splashed into lake, jumping at the waves that lapped the shore. He loved the long summer breaks when his family would go down to Kraken Mare's southern shore to go camping. He liked the part of the lake where they lived at, too, but this part still had a forest around it!

He splashed the treated water at his mother and father and little sister where she clung, squealing, to his father's back. His mother chased him up and down the shore line in front of their camping site, laughing and threatening to throw him into the lake. She only got to dunk him once, though, because by then all the fishing equipment had been brought out.

"Fishing!" Eric bolted over to his dad as the boat slid from its trailer and into the water. "It's time to go fishing!"

"Yes, it is," his father dropped a towel on the boy's head. "Get Sara onboard and put a lifevest on her, now."

"Oh, oh, Dad!" He tugged at the tail end of a shirt, giving the most heart-melting puppy eyes his sparkling green eyes could produce. "Can I drive the boat? Please? Can I, please?"

The man looked at his son for a moment before grinning. "Tell you what, when we get into deeper waters, I'll let you have a go, okay? Now hurry up and get your sister ready."

"YAAAAAAAAY!" He tore down the sands to where Sara and their mother were making little sand castles. "I GET TO DRIVE!"

His father called after, "And no jumping into the lake until after we get enough fish for dinner!"

Re: Springer - 9

[meallanmouse.livejournal.com]

(Drabbles are shiny. And I'm all reminded now about how kids are all about showing off their bruises after they take spills. Bah. XD)

Well, it makes sense particularly since the local water hole would be a play area. =)

And that reminds me about how I used to go fishing as a kid, at my grandparents. And they are happy memories, indeed.