Vernique Denning (butterflybullet) wrote,
@ 2010-10-27 23:33:00

Meme
For this meme, choose one character of yours and one character of mine-- and then I will write out how they hook up, settle into a long term relationship and/or marriage, and describe their firstborn child/children, if any. Crack pairings and old characters are acceptable.

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	redheadspy 2010-10-28 02:27 am UTC (link)
	Corey/Anya or Kristoff/Kalypso (Reply to this)(Thread)

sandcastlegod
2010-10-28 03:09 am UTC (link)

Anya Stark had come down to New Orleans during Mardi Gras in her final year of college. She stopped at the Mayor's personal viewing party for the Endymion parade. Corey was in attendance because he'd won an art major's contest for designing and sculpting one of the showcased floats.

They ran into each other checking it out at the window, said hi, fell to talking about the holiday, how she should see it in Rio, the life, their families.
Finally, Corey was surprised to find himself asking "Do you want to go for some coffee after the parade?"
And she was surprised to find herself saying yes.

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sandcastlegod
2010-10-28 08:30 pm UTC (link)

Everyone has little things he or she does in a relationship to show that they care.

Sometimes it's knocking on her lab door every night with a hot homecooked meal.

Sometimes it's making a few polite phone calls to arrange a commission of 'the sculpture that is to slash-and-burn agriculture what the painting Guernica was to the Spanish Civil War' for a nice spot at the front of the Metropolitan Museum.

Sometimes it's leaving beautiful little figurines with encouraging notes as she's getting work done.

Sometimes it's introducing your fiance to Wall Street's top analysts when he really needs someone to listen about rewarding ecologically responsible beef ranching firms.

And sometimes, it's sitting back together to enjoy the look on one's American grandfather's face as he blusters, "You're taking her name?"

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	sandcastlegod 2010-10-28 09:18 pm UTC (link)
	Robert Antoninus Stark was incorrigible. Messy. Flippant. But he maintained perfect grades, with an especial love of math, and enjoyed making aluminum sculptures. Recycled aluminum, of course. Don't get that kid started on what the mining industry was doing to Brazil. Or, well, what it had been doing before Mom and Dad got on the case. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lytaworthington 2010-10-28 02:31 am UTC (link)
	Charlie/Vernique (Reply to this)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2010-10-28 03:35 am UTC (link)
	Vernique was a Good Girl. A guy like Charlie didn't need to be seduced in the unstable environment of timestream-hopping. Now, one waited until things had returned to normal back home, her affairs in order, with confirmation no pending relationships were goign to work out. Then one waltzed up in that little low, low, low cut red number and asked him out. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	butterflybullet 2010-10-28 08:35 pm UTC (link)
	It didn't take long for Charlie to make clear that he didn't want a spot in Vernique's rotation. He wanted a proper, old-fashioned relationship. And it didn't take too much longer after that for Vernique to decide it was worth it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	butterflybullet 2010-10-28 09:30 pm UTC (link)
	Valentina Stephanie Rogers was a hell of a shot. She kept her honey-colored pigtails back out of the way of the earmuffs at the shooting range, safety glasses over those fiercely intelligent brown eyes. Practice made perfect. Shooting range right before lunch with mom and grandma, then hand to hand lessons with dad and Grandpa Steve in the afternoon. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	wild_rose 2010-10-28 02:32 am UTC (link)
	Rachel/Corey Andrea/Kristoff (Reply to this)(Thread)

sandcastlegod
2010-10-28 04:21 am UTC (link)

"Do I even want to know what this is, Corey?" Rachel asked as she followed him along the grounds.

"Sure you do!" He said cheerfully.

And then they got there. "I think it's my best work," he said earnestly, as Rachel looked up at a huge earth-sculpted portrait of herself.
"Oh, Corey, it's very nice."
She gave him a sweet kiss on the cheek. And then, being that close, she shifted and gave him one on the mouth, for good measure. And then... well, then one thing led to another.

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sandcastlegod
2010-10-28 08:41 pm UTC (link)

It was like some kind of instinct. Every time she had another nightmare about becoming the Phoenix and destroying people, he'd wake her up with hot food and drink, setting the tray aside to hold her.

And Rachel was a good listener -- so much so that after a few months, she couldn't even think of touching sun-grown chocolate again.

Eventually, very eventually, Corey one day handed Rachel a peanut brittle container. The classic kind, that never actually contains peanut brittle.
Rolling her eyes, Rachel turned the container away from herself as she opened it. No springs came out. Finally, she turned to look inside.
It was a beautiful sapphire ring.

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	sandcastlegod 2010-10-28 09:40 pm UTC (link)
	Donatella Jean Drake-Summers was fire and life incarnate. And the little pyromaniac scared the life out of her Grandpa Scott. "Donna Did It" was a correct assumption more often than not, even if she hadn't meant to. (Reply to this)(Parent)

discardedheir
2010-10-28 10:46 pm UTC (link)

((same rules as other Kristoff stuff: single for ten years, and, yeah, let's say that she /didn't/ get romantically involved with his brother))

This line of thinking was completely inappropriate, Kristoff told himself. He'd helped bring her to life! But of course, she'd never been a child. Always the beautiful young woman she was now, always learning, always caring.

"Kristoff? Are you all right." Devel, he was staring.
"Andrea... would you excuse a request to have dinner with me tonight?"
"Of course. And I would like that."

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discardedheir
2010-10-31 03:37 am UTC (link)

Attentive afternoon teas. Long evening conversations in which technical exchanges and discussions of team matters gave way to talk about hopes and dreams and the meaning of identity. Eventually -- very eventually, when they were certain she was ready -- physical attentions.

Kristoff was 33 and Andrea was developmentally 22 when he finally sank to his knees with the specially modified diamond he'd made himself. "Will you be my wife?"

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	discardedheir 2010-10-31 04:00 am UTC (link)
	As a mathematician and a kindergarten teacher, Dr. and Mrs. Vernard were ideal prospects for adoption. As members of the Fantastic Four, not quite so much. But an agency specializing in placing children with obvious mutations was slightly less fussy than others. Adrian Vernard had pointed ears, iridescent hair, tons of babyfat, and overprotective parents. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ryanspector 2010-10-28 02:33 am UTC (link)
	Bea/Nicolai (Reply to this)(Thread)

charmedlife
2010-10-28 04:00 am UTC (link)

They were having a perfectly normal afternoon at the shooting range, talking about various and sundry things. Work. Home. Family.

Then, as she leaned to properly annihilate a target, her Realizations started telling her things about Nicolai's body temperature and breathing patterns.
He was worked up. He didn't get worked up from plain old firearms practice that he could literally do blindfolded.
She lowered the gun when she was finished with the target, and put the safety on.
"Nicolai?" She steps closer. "Was there something you wanted?" And closer.
Eventually, she's too close to resist. "Yes," he says, pulling her into a kiss.

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	charmedlife 2010-10-28 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	Their mothers had both warned them not to let it get in the way of their work. And being their mothers' children, neither of them did. They were impeccably professional on the field or in the office, and steaming up the bedroom or car windows off-duty. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	charmedlife 2010-10-28 09:57 pm UTC (link)
	Lea Sablinova was a pale little thing, white as a sheet with hair to match. And once she manifested, she could mind control roomsful of people like marionettes. She didn't, though. That was just bad policy, her parents and grandparents agreed. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	blinkandmissme 2010-10-28 03:46 am UTC (link)
	Julian/Giovana Jai/Cindy (Reply to this)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2010-10-28 05:15 am UTC (link)
	((in a scenario in which Gio and Andrew had somehow remained just friends/colleagues)) She'd gone running to him in frustration. Andrew was her dearest friend, but she couldn't heap all of this on him right now. She lays out her frustrations, and he offers help, and with relief she takes his hands... and kisses him. (Reply to this)(Parent)

burnwithlight
2010-10-28 09:06 pm UTC (link)

Work always came first. Not only was Andrew still a very dear friend, but what they were doing was too important to ever jeopardize with time spent on a relationship. And Julian understood that completely. She kept both of their confidences reliably, though she'd made it abundantly clear to Julian that if his ideas posed any threat to Andrew or to Genosha, love would not save him.

A few years later, during a rare visit to meet with his father, Julian revealed he had something else on the agenda.
"Mr. Bennet, I wish to ask for your daughter's hand."

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	burnwithlight 2010-10-28 10:05 pm UTC (link)
	Erik Anton Bennet Howard was excessively spoiled by his grandparents and his Distinguished Cousin, but he managed not to be rotten. Jet black hair and iridescent blue eyes that strangely seemed to glow more in the presence of crowds. (Reply to this)(Parent)

littleladylord
2010-10-28 11:11 pm UTC (link)

It was a rare, rare thing for Cindy to find herself attracted to a guy -- other than her beloved Joshua on the West Wing -- and so it took her by surprise to hear her heart flutter when she found out that Jai was currently amicably single.

Should she pursue this? From what angle? It took a great deal of planning.

So she get tickets to the stylized biopic of Rene Descartes. Complete with swashbuckling. How could he tell her no?

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	ladydevil 2010-10-28 03:59 am UTC (link)
	This is going to sound slightly cracky from me but... Aridis/Kristoff. It would be interesting to see how you think they would interact. Corey/Eliza because at one point they had some chemistry. I wonder where they could have gone with that. (Reply to this)(Thread)

discardedheir
2010-10-28 07:47 pm UTC (link)

((I think this woudl need to be so AU that Kristoff hadn't gotten back with Cassie since they were 18. So...single for ten years)).

Dr. Kristoff Vernard. was very careful approaching their makeshift allies after the battle. As far as he could tell, Asgardians were very lineage-oriented, and his brother's mother was on very bad times with the ladies' mother. The last thing he wanted was for Vincent to get himself hurt by insulting someone.
So as much as he disliked conversing with strangers, he took the initiative.

And was... pleasantly surprised.
"Thou and thy team shouldst join us for a drink to celebrate our victory, Dr. Vernard," Aridis Thorsdottir said, nudging her sister when the latter seemed reluctant to go along.
"I... well... we would be happy to, Miss."

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discardedheir
2010-10-29 02:48 am UTC (link)

It was a courtship halfway between friendly and formal, considering Kristoff's old-world manners and Aridis's free spiritedness despite being literally from an old world.
As family-oriented as they both are, they manage to figure out a way to seat group dinners keeping Vincent as far away from Svalin as possible -- and always near Aslief. That helps.

Eventually, they announce their intention, once Kristoff can avail himself of her mothers' permissions, to marry.

It's when Aridis mentions "And we shalt ask my dear friend Gunnhild Volstaggsdottir, too" that Kristoff starts to....twitch.

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	discardedheir 2010-10-29 03:02 am UTC (link)
	Miranda Aridissdottir is, without a doubt, the most brilliant girl in Asgarad. Most say she bears a striking resemblance to her Grandmother Sif, although her complexion is just slightly darker. And it is the lesson with Sif and her aunt Svalin that she likes best, in Tactics. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sandcastlegod 2010-10-28 10:55 pm UTC (link)
	The gathering of the Champions had been the first time they'd seen each other since Russia. Corey and Eliza really enjoyed reconnected as soon as their lives were no longer in danger. They talked long, long into the night about everything they'd just gone through, about the idea of moving to New Orleans, about their families. Just before bed, she kissed him. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	quitethecharmer 2010-10-28 08:21 am UTC (link)
	I leave you props here for the splendid Vernique/Vincent work you did on my own journal. muah Otherwise, I challenge you to Riley/Cindy if you feel up to it. ;) (Reply to this)

	sammyfury 2010-10-28 07:09 pm UTC (link)
	Jack Murdock and Sylvie McCoy (Reply to this)(Thread)

quadrimanial
2010-10-28 07:59 pm UTC (link)

It was a lecture series on Spanish Visual Culture. While hearing about Antoni Gaudi, Jack noticed the girl in the wheelchair on the aisle seat fidgeting.
Fidgeting with the hands just barely poking out of the long denim skirt.

Not something one sees every day.
He wondered how those... arms must look. What it would be like to draw.

But he's not going to go around drawing attention to someone's mutation.
Still, afterwards, he politely asks, "So what did you think?"
"Really fascinating. Especially the skull house. I know a guy who'd just love to top that."
"Oh? You've got a friend in architecture? Boyfriend?"
"Ohh no. I've got a basically-cousin who's a sculptor. You in architecture?"
"Yeah. Can't say skull houses would be my thing, though."
"Well, obviously, they're not for everybody. Say, do you want to get coffee?"

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	quadrimanial 2010-10-28 09:13 pm UTC (link)
	When the time eventually came, moving out of Xavier's was a really big deal for Sylvie. But the little apartment -- he helped her design new equipment that would fit the space better! -- with her fiance just felt right. And patrols by piggyback were a lot more effective than one might think. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	quadrimanial 2010-10-28 10:09 pm UTC (link)
	Hotspur Murdock, Henry Matthew Murdock to his birth certificate, was going to be a lawyer when he grew up. And a doctor. And a linguist, and a ninja and a circus performer. Look at that dimpled smile, into those quick, fierce little eyes, and try to make them pick something and stick with it. Seriously. Sylvie would dare you. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	little_gabriel 2010-10-28 11:16 pm UTC (link)
	I wonder... what would Gabriel/Sylvie be like? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-10-28 11:24 pm UTC (link)
	The Scots brogue was pretty cute as Gabriel looked up perplexedly at Sylvie on her jungle gym. "What're y'doing?" "Climbing." Sylvie backbends right into being upside down into his face and kisses him mischievously. ...Except the mood doesn't stay mischievous. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	quadrimanial 2010-10-29 03:31 am UTC (link)
	"Now, we've got t'think about how we're going to break it to them," Gabriel was explaining when Sylvie burst into a call across the house. "DAD! HOW DO YOU AND UNCLE WARREN LIKE THE IDEA OF BEING IN-LAWS?" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	blackmagicwoman 2010-10-31 04:02 am UTC (link)
	Kristoff/Kassia (Reply to this)(Thread)

discardedheir
2010-10-31 04:17 am UTC (link)

((Same dumped-at-18 caveat to better make it seem remotely plausible.))

This was absurd. He was merely going to discuss some important matters with Namor. He'd known the man since he was twelve years old; it shouldn't be that hard. But he knew there was more to it than that.
It hadn't been a problem when his brother had made an ass of himself; he could simply tell himself the girl was far too young, berate himself for any residual weakness for beautiful young women with names that sounded like "Cassie," and move on.
It was meeting her again later that was difficult. And the next year, and the next. She was beautiful, she was fierce, and she was an adult he couldn't shake from his mind anymore.

"Miss McKenzie, if you will excuse the request, could possibly presume to invite you to tea at the Baxter Building?"
"...I think I could do that."

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discardedheir
2010-10-31 04:25 am UTC (link)

At first people could dismiss it. Kristoff making someone tea and seeming as if he wanted to wait on them hand and foot and politely engage them about their opinions wasn't that weird, just weird with someone outside the family.

The family knew it was serious when Kristoff snapped at Vincent in uncharacteristically harsh Romany for attempting to give Kassia hard time.

And as foolish as it was, it was a matter of manners: Kristoff very obviously disengaged all of his armor's automatic defenses before asking Namor about marrying his daughter.

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	discardedheir 2010-10-31 04:36 am UTC (link)
	Christine Miranda McKenzie Vernard was a manipulative, but not malicious, little girl. She'd cut her teeth pulling Daddy's strings and only ever gotten better at it, the best cold read and shrewdest negotiator that first grade had ever seen. Not to mention the black curls, big blue eyes, and dimples. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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