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[LupusYondergirl]

Is that Oghren giving a flying kick to Zevran in the background? Fantastic!

ToP


Edit so the new prompt doesn't get lost in the shuffle since I jumped the gun.

LupusYondergirl wrote...

All right, I know I'm jumping the gun, but I really like the idea I came up with and couldn't hold it in anymore.  I swear, I'm like a kid sometimes.

This week's prompt is:
Anders has a secret...

   

Modifié par LupusYondergirl, 06 janvier 2011 - 12:57 .

[Sarah1281]

@Miri: Nice! Though I have to wonder...if Miranda drained Anders' mana, how did he undo the spell? Or does draining mana not last very long in your universe?



@Lupus: Nice prompt! I know the feeling of it being hard to hold onto a prompt. I had to hold onto a Zevran one for FIVE MONTHS...and eventually, I revealed it in my status a week early.

[Estral27]

Haha, Matrix Nate is great! All broody



Love the prompt Lupus!

[LupusYondergirl]

@Sarah: I was thinking of something you mentioned in one of your reviews when I came up with the prompt, actually.

I don't like how the Zevran thread does their prompts. The whole contest thing just seems a bit much for what should be something quick and fun. I like our way better.

[Sarah1281]

Strangely enough, so was I for next week's prompt but it's not quite the same thing.



I just really hate contests in general. Since the Zevran prompt hiatus, they reworked part of it but the Zev thread doesn't have many regular prompters (I think Corker and I are the only ones who do it every single week) so rotation is hard and for some reason everyone else seems to like the competition.

[Miri1984]

I don't like the idea of writing these for a contest either. I write these prompts because I love writing about Anders, the reward is reading and looking at everyone else's.



And Matrix!Oghren FTW by the way. I love Nate's expression as well .

[Sarah1281]

I don't know why my mind went here, but, well...ear worm.


“…Do I even want to know?” Nathaniel asked from the doorway, scaring Anders half to death. Still, he played it cool.
 
“Do you even want to know what, exactly?” Anders asked casually, looking and sounding for all the world like nothing was even remotely odd about their current situation.
 
“Do you have any idea what time it is?” Nathaniel demanded, rubbing his eyes.
 
“No, I do not,” Anders replied calmly. “Is it important?”
 
“It is three in the morning,” Nathaniel said flatly.
 
Anders blinked. “Really? That’s rather early. Or late, depending on if you went to bed already or not.”
 
“So it is,” Nathaniel agreed. He seemed to be waiting for Anders to say something.
 
“So what are you doing here so early or late?” Anders asked after the silence stretched on so long as to begin to unnerve him.
 
“I could ask you the same thing,” Nathaniel remarked, crossing his arms across his chest.
 
“You absolutely could,” Anders readily agreed. “Except that, you know, I asked first.”
 
“I came down here because I smelled something cooking and went to go see what it was and who was making it,” Nathaniel explained. “That was when I heard the singing.”
 
Anders looked around nervously. “Singing? What singing? Are you sure it was me? And that you’re feeling well? In fact, are you absolutely positive that you’re even awake right now?”
 
“Pretty sure,” Nathaniel replied dryly. “And until I began speaking, I actually saw you singing something about sticking to the status quo.”
 
“And why shouldn’t I want to stick to the status quo?” Anders demanded. “I don’t know about you but my status quo is pretty nice right now. I don’t have to live in the Tower, I’m not being hunted down by templars who look increasingly closer to just killing me, and I don’t even have to hide my magic. Combine that with the pretty girl I’m sleeping with and the seemingly unlimited funds the Grey Wardens keep managing to accrue and this is the best status quo I have ever had.”
 
“Be that as it may, that doesn’t explain why you were singing about it,” Nathaniel said, still appearing bemused. “Or why you were cooking…whatever it is that you are cooking.”
 
Anders looked torn and remained quiet for a moment. Finally, he said hesitantly, “ Can you keep a secret?”
 
“I can,” Nathaniel acknowledged.
 
“Will you?” Anders pressed.
 
“I will,” Nathaniel confirmed.
 
Still, Anders wavered. “Would it be too much to ask you to give me your word as a Howe? That may not mean much to most people but I know it’s important to you and surely you wouldn’t risk further dishonoring it by breaking your promise to me.”
 
Nathaniel rolled his eyes at this childish behavior. “Anders, just get on with it.”
 
“Right,” Anders said, clearing his throat. “I bake. Strudels, scones, even apple pandowdy.” He gestured towards the stove. “Someday, I hope to make the perfect crème brulée.”
 
“Okay…” Nathaniel said slowly. “I don’t see why that’s a big secret. It is a little odd that I’ve known you for four years and yet never knew this about you but other than that, I don’t see what the big deal is.”
 
“I can’t be good at cooking!” Anders exclaimed urgently.
 
Nathaniel looked doubtful. “Why not?”
 
“Because if anyone knew then they’d make me help out when we’re on the road,” Anders explained matter-of-factly.

“So you’re hiding your cooking abilities to get out of work,” Nathaniel summarized, unimpressed.
 
“Precisely,” Anders agreed. “And you can’t tell anyone unless you’re willing to sacrifice your precious Howe honor.”
 
Nathaniel gave a long-suffering sigh. “And the singing?”
 
“You can’t tell anybody about that, either,” Anders replied promptly.
 
“Why?” Nathaniel asked sarcastically. “Are you afraid you’ll be asked to entertain people while on the road now?”
 
“I had not thought to worry about that,” Anders confessed. “Although now that you mention it…but no, that’s not it. I’m a mage.”
 
“And that has what, exactly, to do with singing?” Nathaniel demanded.
 
“I can’t be a mage and a singer!” Anders insisted. “That would be like…like you being a noble and a pick-pocket!”
 
Nathaniel raised an eyebrow.
 
“Okay, bad example,” Anders admitted. “But it just can’t be done!”
 
“Why not?” Nathaniel pressed.
 
“I…don’t actually know,” Anders conceded. “But it can’t.”
 
Nathaniel began muttering under his breath and Anders was fairly certain that he caught the words ‘crazy mages.’ “So you’re reduced to the singing and the baking in the middle of the night?”
 
“I haven’t been caught yet,” Anders said with a nod. “Well…unless you count by the dog but he can keep a secret.”
 
“Right,” Nathaniel said decisively, spinning on his heel. “I’m going back to bed.”
 
“But…but I haven’t told you about the hip hop and my cello-playing yet!” Anders called after him.
 
Nathaniel kept walking.
 
“If you leave now, you won’t get to have any of the crème brulée!” Anders cried out. “And while it’s not quite perfect yet, it is most certainly getting there!”
 
Nathaniel paused. He turned and inhaled the succulent scent wafting from the oven.
 
He sighed and came back towards Anders. “Alright, fine. Tell me all about your completely unnecessary secret life as a singing cello-playing hip-hopping baker mage. This had better be some good crème brulée…”

[Miri1984]

I knew I loved him for a reason! (my husband is a bit of a singing chef - maybe the talents go together?). Lovely.



Oh, and as for being able to turn Alistair back with no mana - I figure he'd have lyrium on hand .

[LupusYondergirl]

“I can’t be a mage and a singer!” Anders insisted. “That would be like…like you being a noble and a pick-pocket!”

My roommate came to find out why I was laughing so hard. Seriously.
That, and I have the mental image of Anders singing and happily bustling around a kitchen. In an apron.

(note to self- do not discuss the romantic status of various friends with roommate while typing.  As Anders is not my friend the bartender.)

Modifié par LupusYondergirl, 06 janvier 2011 - 03:33 .

[cave_fatuam]

Oh, Lord. In my head he's wearing a frilly 1950's housewife apron and sining "That's Amore!".
Also, now I really want to make an apple pandowdy just to smell it. Never eat it though. I don't eat baked fruit. -shudder-

Modifié par cave_fatuam, 06 janvier 2011 - 03:55 .

[Estral27]

Brillant Sarah!! I can just imagine Anders slaving over a hot fire, carefully checking on his strudels. I love it!

[SgtElias]

So. . . perhaps a rather stupid question, but . . . is today prompt day? Or tomorrow? And are there any serious rules I should know about?

[LupusYondergirl]

Normally prompt day is Thursday, I'm just bad with secrets so I had to blurt it out. There's a list of the prompt giver rotation here as well as archives of most of the past prompts (but it looks like we're a bit behind there. I may do it tonight since I'm pretty good with bbcode.



No real rules, per se. Once a week whoever is up in the rotation posts a prompt, it can be vague or specific or anywhere in between, and we all write and/or draw something inspired by the prompt, trying to stick to an hour or so.

The Zevran thread does it as a contest so they're a bit stricter on the time limits and such, but we're laid back. You don't have to participate every week, but anyone who wants to can join in, so feel free. If you want to be added to the rotation to give a prompt I can pop you on the list, just let me know.

[SgtElias]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

Normally prompt day is Thursday, I'm just bad with secrets so I had to blurt it out. There's a list of the prompt giver rotation here as well as archives of most of the past prompts (but it looks like we're a bit behind there. I may do it tonight since I'm pretty good with bbcode.

No real rules, per se. Once a week whoever is up in the rotation posts a prompt, it can be vague or specific or anywhere in between, and we all write and/or draw something inspired by the prompt, trying to stick to an hour or so.
The Zevran thread does it as a contest so they're a bit stricter on the time limits and such, but we're laid back. You don't have to participate every week, but anyone who wants to can join in, so feel free. If you want to be added to the rotation to give a prompt I can pop you on the list, just let me know.

Thanks for the info! I'll definitely be participating! Probably. After school.

:happy:

[Miri1984]

Mmmm. Just finished booking my birthday present. An hour and a half at the day spar - head & scalp, neck, shoulders and back and hand foot and ankle massage. Man I wish it was my birthday every day. Plus I get to hang out at the hotel pool for a couple of hours afterwards. WITHOUT CHILDREN.



Mmm. I think I know what Anders' secret is going to be, but I might spend my time on the massage table working through the details .

[Margaret_TheElf]

LupusYondergirl wrote...

“I can’t be a mage and a singer!” Anders insisted. “That would be like…like you being a noble and a pick-pocket!”

My roommate came to find out why I was laughing so hard. Seriously.
That, and I have the mental image of Anders singing and happily bustling around a kitchen. In an apron.

I feel I must draw this now, might post it tomorrow. When it is officially Thursday for me. *scuttles off*

[LupusYondergirl]

My Anders has many secrets. I'll probably do two for this, since the one I want to write is really, really dependent on following AOA. Since yeah, I'm the jerk who came up with a prompt to fit something she wanted to write already.

[Miri1984]

@Lupus, see, that's the POINT of these prompts, as I see it. If you want to write it I want to read it .

[cave_fatuam]

@Miri, That sounds promising in all the right ways. ; )
@Lupus, I think we're all more than willing to indulge you. 

Oh, I have a feeling my prompt is going to be shmoopy and sad. XD
Maybe I can cook up a cute picture to make up for the depressing-ness and/or sickeningly sweetness.

Modifié par cave_fatuam, 06 janvier 2011 - 06:16 .

[Miri1984]

 More birthday goodies! Gala - I love you, you know that right? Linky Check out the collar of her robes. I laughed for ages. 

:wub:

[Galagraphia]

@Sarah, I just looooove you! This story was so hilarious and cute! (But now I'm hungry...)



@Miri, I'm glad you like it!

[SurelyForth]

Hey, I'm on a computer that lets me stay logged in long enough to post. How novel!



Anyway...yay, Anders thread! And yay to the new prompt; it's one of those that made my brain explode with the potential of it, although Sarah's will be difficult to top for the imagery alone.

[Galagraphia]

 Surely is back!

(there's nothing like these dragon icons to express my feelings!)

[SurelyForth]

Galagraphia wrote...

 Surely is back!

(there's nothing like these dragon icons to express my feelings!)

With good reason. They are adorable!

Funnily enough, I had a Fallout New Vegas/DA hybrid dream last night and your Incinerator Anders figured in quite heavily (but in a utilitarian, kick ass way, not a sexy way).

[Galagraphia]

 @Surely, funny, my grandpa used the device that looked just like the flamethrower to spray on vegetables in his garden.


Offtopic, but I know a few people here who love Jowan  Today it struck me that he reminds me of Edward scissor-hands. He's so cute and innocent and it always gets him into trouble. And when he tries to fix things it only makes everything worse.

Oh, and BTW (in case you haven't seen it yet), there's a comic  about Jowan (and crazy!Cullen), first chapter contains a lot of Anders.