Promptathon 2014

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The Good Ship C/N Promptathon
of Magic and Joy: Round 3


Break out the confetti canons!!

RULES ON POSTING SUBMISSIONS
(please read before you post! <3)


The Rules. Just follow these three easy steps!

1. Leave a Prompt.
Prompts can be anything--simple or elaborate, words or pictures, songs or poems, lyrics or phrases. Anything that, to you, inspires a C/N fanwork. Use your imagination. Go WILD. All we ask is that you place anything NSFW under a cut or link, use trigger warnings when appropriate, and place anything spoiler-y under a cut with a warning. As this is a Clint/Natasha promptathon, your prompts and fanworks can include other characters, but the central focus must be on Clint and/or Natasha. If you’re posting large images, please be mindful of members with slower Internet connections and place the image under a cut or link.

And leave as many prompts as you want. I’m serious. Keep coming back, y’all. We want all the prompts we can possibly get Also, be sure to leave each prompt as a separate comment.

2. Wait a week.
Keep leaving prompts and plan your fanworks! This is a time for celebration and creating all of the things. Work hard, shippers.

3. Submit C/N fanwork like there is no tomorrow.
All submissions should either be posted here or linked to this post via a comment. We will make an official post about rules in the time leading up to submissions. Please read it before posting, as responsible partying is to be encouraged at all times.

Timeline

Prompting starts today, August 2^nd and will remain open until August 9^th. Submissions will start on August 16^th, and will remain open until August 31^st.  It is, in fact, A WHOLE MONTH OF PROMPTATHON.

If you can’t complete your fanwork by August 31^st, that’s okay. You’re still welcome to post your fanwork to the community! However, the promptathon masterlist will only include fanworks from August 16-31.

What we hope to accomplish with all this promptathon-iness:

• A chance to get in the game. Been wanting to jump into the C/N fanwork scene but not sure where to start? Now’s the time. There’s no length requirement on the works submitted, you can focus on drabbles and vidlets and short and sweet projects (or do longer more epic stuff if that strikes your fancy as well).  It’s really entirely up to you. We’re just hoping to provide a fun, no-pressure environment. If all you want to do is post prompts and share in the squee, that’s fine too!

• Meet new and awesome people. Newbie or lurker? Here is the perfect opportunity to say hello!

• Ship like you’ve never shipped before.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the mod team.

Have fun, everyone. Now fly, my pretties, fly!

SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW CLOSED.

Thanks to everyone who participated!

Comments

[inkvoices]

For a change it'd be interesting to have a de-aged fic where the de-aged person doesn't return to their actual aged self. Either by choice or circumstance or because that's just the way it is. Could be the other assassin choses to become de-aged as well. Could be it's not Clint or Natasha this happens to, but one of the other Avengers or someone from SHIELD, but Clint and Natasha end up looking after them or featuring in their life, or just plain talking about it.

[scribblemyname]

I'd love to see them both taking a chance at starting over, though any variation would be welcome.

[geckoholic]

My brain just supplied me with flashes of a teenaged Clint and a slightly exasperated Nat, but things turn tragic sooner rather than later... RESURFACING CHILDHOOD TRAUMA. REVERSED AGE DYNAMICS. Not that I think age's a big thing for them, but. I mean.

Oh man, take this prompt away from them, I DO NOT HAVE THE TIME. /o\

[inkvoices]

I don't think age is a big thing for two people who never had the usual age divisions at school since they seemingly didn't go, and with shared life experiences...

Mwahaha *points to icon* :D

Has Clint told Natasha everything about his past, or just buried a lot of it? Has Natasha ever looked after someone younger than her before? Does she even have experience of teenagers, Red Room dependent?

[geckoholic]

OMG YOU'RE TERRIBLE. But. Okay. Like. She knows there's stuff, she's not blind and she knows him well enough to sense there's things she doesn't know and they're not pretty, and sometimes he (unwillingly?) drops hints, but she doesn't ~know, yeah? And it's not like he doesn't want to talk about it to HER, he stopped talking, period, about it a long time ago. And she knows that, it's okay. Except, younger age, less time has passed, suddenly, in his head/mind/whatever. And nope, Nat doesn't have experience with that. She's trained girls a couple of years younger than her in the Red Room, but that's hardly the same, especially since suddenly-teen-again!Clint's a lot more... raw, than the adult version. She knows how to handle the adult version, how to comfort the adult version when it comes to that, but that doesn't really apply to the younger version anymore.

Not sure if it'd hurt more if he's got his memories from adulthood and is just kinda, like, thrown back into his younger mindset, or if he's forgotten anything that happened between then and the actual now and they gotta figure each other out all over again.

No, but, seriously I have no time to write this, please, cease and desist...

[scribblemyname]

But we want you to write it. I love this, but I don't think my plot bunny hops in the same direction.

[geckoholic]

Heeh. OKAY. SOLID MAYBE. Y'all are a terrible flock of enablers, did anyone ever tell you that? :P

But you do have one, too? What do you have in mind? :D

[scribblemyname]

My bunny's a little more they're de-aged together and as above, take a stab at a second shot. Not as fun I think as yours.

[geckoholic]

By which you mean, not as painful? XD

I'm warming up to it, may attempt it if I get done with the deadlines I have this month early and depending how much *quiet time* I'll have at work this month.

[scribblemyname]

Not as intense might be better. I love intense stories. Even the quiet, intimate things I like to be really intimate, and the funny to actually prompt peals of laughter. I like to feel stories. Your bunny's got more feels.

:crosses fingers for your other obligations to play nice:

[geckoholic]

Ahh, I see. Yes, I know what you mean, I prefer stuff that ~moves me~ too. XD

Well, I did drop a third deadline already (a bang, sequel to a longfic in a fandom I've fallen out of) so it miiiiiight get fit in, lol.

[inkvoices]

YEP. Ooo, I am fascinated by your thinky thoughts. And ouch, that helplessness of not knowing how to help/comfort Clint, and I imagine when that's one of the things that she's good at that she likes being good at, helping someone without killing or lying or anything being involved, being able to comfort someone by being her....I wonder how she'd have to change, how she'd approach this....

Both would hurt, self-awareness and not being able to do anything about it or losing so much of his life. Which would hurt Natasha more, d'you think? A Clint that remembers her but can't relate to her anymore, she's a memory not a present reality, or a Clint that doesn't know anything about her? And which would make him easier to handle as a teenager?

[scribblemyname]

I vote self-awareness would be harder because he'd be more likely to withdraw and there'd be this emotional distance and loss on both their sides whereas with memory wipeout, yeah it'd hurt, but you can build something new a lot easier than change something as deeply entrenched as what they have.

[inkvoices]

Better never to have loved at all than to have loved and lost?

[scribblemyname]

Not quite. More that better to start over new than to gut and overwrite what you had.

[inkvoices]

Part of me is all 'but it's still Clint, there's still something to overwrite' and part of me thinks 'yes, but Natasha is used to that, to becoming someone new' ...

[scribblemyname]

I guess to me, I see him as the one solid in her life and to have his whole perspective on her/care for her shift like that seems to me like it would be harder than him not remembering her. She's got more experience with changing herself or helping him be himself or memory being fluid, I would think, than the other.

:shrugs: I think it depends a little on your core reading of the characters. Either side would hurt. That one seems worse to me though.

I know it was easier for me to lose loved ones due to growing apart, memory loss, death than through radical relationship shift that left me with not only nothing left, but what I originally had tainted.

[geckoholic]

Yeah, exactly. I imagine their dynamic as pretty equal and level, and both letting their guard down around each other in ways that they probably never have around anyone else, and I still maintain that MCU!Nat is a lot more empathetic and caring that she lets on, so yes, it'd mean SO MUCH to her that he'd let her comfort him back if needed. That what's between them is not patronizing or some I'll-worry-about-you-but-won't-let-you-worry-about-me bullshit. And now she's face with a version of him that hasn't yet learnt to let ANYONE do that, since -- if we roll with comics backstory -- the people who were supposed to teach him that growing up taught him that letting your guard down may get you a black eye or worse, and he has yet to meet anyone who ~doesn't treat him with some variation of the carrot-and-stick policy (I have a sea of feelings about Clint's comic canon childhood and adolescence, in case you couldn't tell, ahem). And I imagine Natasha would probably try to get level again, put herself in a mindset she's tried to forget about since she settled in with SHIELD and put the red room behind her. The tools are there, you know? They can still understand each other, in some ways more than ever. She'd have to do for him what he did for her, at the start: help him get settled, let things scab over. That's part of what I meant upthread, re: age dynamics. When he brought her to SHIELD, he was the one who was already settled and secure in his place in life, she wasn't. Now it's the other way around. OMG I'm rambling... /o\

And I kinda think self-awareness and not being able to do anything about it would hurt her more, and him too (which means it's what I'm leaning towards, ahem). Loss of control for him, and he'd HATE THAT, and for her it'd be... Like. Having him completely reverse would be a somewhat straight-forward process. Having him remembering and aware would be more of a tease, if you will, and also make for a more erratic process of working things out. It would shove their old status quo into their faces more often, would keep it present in their minds a lot more than the alternative, which would've made it possible for her to make a clear cut and start fresh with him. And I think it'd make him a lot harder to handle too. Easier to approach, maybe, what with their old baseline still being somewhere in their minds, him ~remembering that he trusts her, but also more frustrated and embarrassed about how things are now.

I'M GETTING TOO EXCITED HERE, SOMEONE PUT A STOP TO THIS. XD

[scribblemyname]

But I want you to keep rolling because I WANT and LOVE this fic idea and you articulated it better than I did why I thought that'd hurt more, but YES!

[geckoholic]

Oh god, I'm supposed to be writing my Avengers RBB, like, right now. BUT. THIS. I'M ACHING TO GET INTO THIS. AND IT'S BOTH YOUR FAULT.

And yeah, it's like... Dumb metaphor, but there's a reason why, at some point, old houses get torn down and rebuilt from scratch rather than renovated and repaired. It IS easier to build something anew than try and get something you already had to change and adjust, just as you said.

[inkvoices]

*high fives scribble_myname* And our work here is done

[scribblemyname]

:high fives back:

[geckoholic]

So, uhm. The bad news is, I so totally won't get this done in time for the promptathon deadline. The good news is, since it muscled my originally planned Marvel Bang fic straight out of the way this past month and right now stands at 11k anyway, I basically went 'ah, fuck it' and submitted it for the bang instead. Which means it'll get posted later, but it will, definitely, get posted. I don't really have a choice on the matter anymore now, lol.

You know. In case it's of interest. XD

[scribblemyname]

Quite pleased anyway. :grins:

FIC: Tell Me Never - R - warning for deaging and mentions of childhood abuse

[geckoholic]

Tell Me Never (14491 words)
Rating: R
Warnings: Mentions of childhood abuse, Age Regression/De-Aging
Summary: When Natasha and Clint are sent in to retrieve a piece of alien tech, it's supposed to be a standard mission: go in, pose as buyers, secure the tech. But things go south, Clint gets hit with the tech that seems to be some sort of weapon, and the next morning he wakes up as a seventeen-year-old.

I know this won't be masterlisted anymore, but I'm commenting with it anyay. For the record, or something. XD