Better living through inking

[new_kate]

Seems like every time I feel down I get hit with insane amount of work, and just can't get myself in gear. To focus, I attempted to write Saiyuki High School challenge drabble where the ikkou are girls *waves to hibem *, which I wanted to do yesterday but got distracted by how much girl Hakkai is Willow, with predictable results. So I tried again, and came up with something so off and vaguely disturbing that I'm keeping it here.

Loser

(PG-13, Saiyuki High School challenge, 100 x 4 words)

Boys like me because I’m pretty and friendly. Girls? Not so much.

“Such a slut… So tacky… Have you heard that thing about her father?”

Whispers.

“No way!”

The looks of fascinated revulsion.

The boys kinda prefer to like me after school, under the stairs, in the maintenance closet, in the car park. I walk the halls alone and listen to the whispers.

On that day I flunked another test, the cramps were killing me and a huge zit was growing right under my bra strap. It couldn’t get worse anyway, so…

I thought - there had to be someone like me there. Someone who'd understand.

 

I grab the tray and turn around to scan the room.

Not the empty table. Enough.

Not the boys. So not in the mood to sit on someone’s lap while he hand-feeds me French fries and has a sly grope.

Not the nerdland. Worse than cheerleaders. They wouldn’t push or trip you or say anything, but they never meet your eyes, and when they talk you don’t get a single word, and they have to be doing that on purpose.

Shit, I’m standing in the middle of the cafeteria, and everybody’s going to start staring at me in three… two… one…

“Hey, Grace! Over here!”

 

It’s only that freaky little kid, but beggars can’t be choosers. I’m halfway to the table when I see who else is there and nearly drop the tray. That one, with her perfect hair and perfect skin and perfect grades, she’d never let me…

“Sandra, that’s Grace! Remember when you guys were on a field trip, and Hudson took my lunchbag, and I was so hungry I cried, and Grace said he's a creep and if he doesn't give it back…”

“That’s her?”

That is a completely new look. Shocked fascination, I think.

Sandra’s eyes aren’t blue, by the way. They are honest-to-god purple.

 

“…And I lost it again and kicked the shit out of Hudson, and they’ve sent me back to therapy…”

“I know the story, Gem, shut up. Hey. You smoke?”

“What if I do?”

“I know a place we could go after lunch. Harley will be a look-out. Here she comes. Do you know her?”

I don't think I've met her. I would remember.

She wears glasses and her hair’s a mess, but once those eyes hit you, that’s it. She’s so skinny, and hardly even an A-cup, - talk about perky though, – and totally doesn’t wear a bra…

Yeah. To hell with boys. Girl power!

ETA: And now it's continued here

And then I've found the ultimate therapy - inking!!! This is what happened to the sketch I did for wildelamassu's birthday:

I'll probably hate it tomorrow, but I don't today, so here you go. Would tone it, too, except photoshop crashes every time I reach for blending properties - one of those days, I suppose. Heh. 

Comments

[new-kate.livejournal.com]

Let me just squee and huggle you for a moment. This is the nicest thing ever. I'm totally overwhelmed, so, so happy. Thank you so much!
*hugs and won't let go* ruuuuuuune....
Okay, I wrote more of this, hope you still like. It's, like, turned into a concept ^_^
And now I need to go rummage through your shiny icons. Which ones are up for grabs? *wags tail*

[hibem.livejournal.com]

:waves back with much squee:

I would love to see more of this 'verse, but I don't like the way the breaks between the drabbles interrupt the story. Feels to me more like one fic than a series of drabbles... though, of course, any time you take the trouble to make drabbles it seems like a shame to not point it out. Maybe just take out the numbers? But anyway- 58 femslash = *squeeeeeee* and whoa, what's up with Sandra being, like, civil and omg your description of Hakkai has me all shivery with the rightness. :loves:

And is that Tenpou and Nii? with the collarbones! :brain breakage due to hot:

_{PS: *squee!*}

[new-kate.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I won't put the numbers in the other sets, see if that'll work better. There are actually holes between drabbles, time jumps, so it doesn't quite flow (yes, I use format as an excuse to be lazy ^_~)
I was thinking Sandra's kinda civil because since she didn't have orphan childhood and haven't spend last three years on the road, begging for living and shooting rapists in the head, she's juuust a bit more mellow. Plus Hudson is very scary. (He's actually Homura +_+)
And that's indeed Tenpou and Nii! They just do something for me, heh. Happy it worked, thank you!

[kintail.livejournal.com]

Love the drabbles! Perky A-cup girl power, very hot! They could definitely be encouraged to break out of their little 100 word boxes and strung together into more of a fic. At first I was expecting different viewpoints for the different drabbles, and needed to figure it out for each one, where if they were one continuous ficlet that wouldn't be needed. And I'm curious to see it continued.

And wow, impressive drawing, even if it has me wondering "but, what, how, eh?" ~_^

[kintail.livejournal.com]

And I forgot to say "Yes!" to Female-Hakkai = Willow. So scarily true on so many levels....

[new-kate.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Heeeee, now you've put ideas in my head, and I went and wrote different viewpoints.
I'm actually writing a POV fic right now, so yes, I'm all about POVs at the moment. So much fun!
And there's no good reason for this drawing ^_^ wildelamassu ussued a birthday challenge to try a new pairing/angle, so... Well, there is that split soul theory, which is why I tried to give Tenpou a touch of vaguely dangerous "go forth, minion" look, but mainly? It's allll about the matching outfits. Labcoats are so sexy...

[wildelamassu.livejournal.com]

Ooh! I'm going to include -this- one in the birthday meme response post. ^______^

(Actual feedback on drawing in other comment.)

[naanima.livejournal.com]

MWAAHAHABWAHAHAHA! Girl POWER! *giggles*

And Tenpou and Nii?!... You know Tenpou and Nii would be such good drinking buddies (or at least good companions of the intellectual wanker type ^^)

[new-kate.livejournal.com]

I know! They would so hit it off! They both have this boredom problem, and restless minds, and matching labcoats... Tenpou might like bunny slippers, they look much more comfy that his traditional ones. And then they could double-team Kenren or Goujun - or both, - and Nii would persuade Ten-chan to make a play for Konzen. And you just know Nii would be banging Kanzeon, he's like that, and... ooh, the possibilities ^_^

[naanima.livejournal.com]

And you just know they are PLOTTING behind those glasses of theirs. But never world domination because to the two of them, the world, by itself, is so terribly boring. It is the poeple in it, the way they can change it, manipulate those who would bring the most change (amusement) that would make them happy. Ohhhh, bunny slippers, it would make perfect sense.

And your mind is a Evil, evil place. But if you write I'll read it *__* (and double teaming both would be a wonderful idea *__*). But darling, are you sure it would Nii doing the banging. I mean, we are talking about Kanzeon. The Merciful One probably likes to experiment, and if Nii is willing.... ohhh, the possiblitites.