works by aestivates

Title: Dive(rgent)
Author: napple
Fandom: Free!
Pairings/Characters: Rin/Rei
Rating: G
Word Count: 3974
Summary: A sight Rin wishes he could see a little more clearly.
Notes: Written for tawnyPort as part of the First Annual Iwatobi Christmas Fest!

Prompt: "Something--age, genetics, too much squinting in big college lecture halls--makes Rin's vision deteriorate until he needs glasses. He's embarrassed about it but Rei either notices or Rin eventually is forced to ask for guidance on glasses shopping, care, etc."

Also available on AO3 here!

( The girl in front of him was holding out a loose stack of familiar papers. )

Title: Nobody Promised This Would Be Easy
Author: napple
Fandom: Homestuck
Pairings/Characters: Karkat focus. Implied Dave+Karkat (♦).
Rating: PG
Word Count: 610
Summary: Moirallegiance, Davekat, and Horse_ebooks. At least you know what you're in for.
Notes: For dumafire by indirect request, and quietelegy for reasons. (Fantastic art at the end is also by quietelegy!)

Available on AO3 here.

( He finds you outside in a rarely-visited shadowy corridor, folded up between wall and floor with your knees tucked into your chest like a pathetic curled-up wiggler. )

Title: Carrot Cake
Author: napple
Fandom: Homestuck
Pairings/Characters: Dave/Karkat (♥)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 973
Notes: From imagineyourotp: "Imagine the flood of relief person A or B would feel when their partner finally wakes up in hospital after sustaining severe injuries that nearly killed them."

( Dave spends so much time at the hospital the nurses have taken to calling him by his first name. )

Title: Home
Author: sira
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Pairings/Characters: Sora
Rating: G
Word Count: 358
Summary: What's it like, anyway? To realize you've stopped living for yourself?
Notes: sob. This started out intending to be my RP sample for a Sora application, but it turned itself into an introspective drabble instead, which really doesn't work as well. But that's okay, because I ended up liking it anyway, which is what counts! ♥ It takes place shortly before Sora makes his final decision about Mickey's message.

( He had never begun to believe it was over. Not really. )

Titles: In The Night; Dreams; A Ghost; Meaning
Author: sira
Universe: Standalone.
Rating: G
Notes: Written months ago for CW portfolio. Mostly just experimentation with different forms of poetry, so again, not mindblowing, but I'm fond of them!

( falling into a place you could have only imagined )

Title: Sandbox
Author: sira
Fandom: Kingdom Hearts
Pairings/Characters: Roxas-centric. Featuring Sora, Olette, Hayner, Pence, Seifer & co., and Setzer.
Rating: G
Word Count: 815
Summary: Because sometimes you don't always need a second chance; just a way to say, "See you around."
Notes: Inspired by cygna_hime's "Second Chance" prompt at kh_drabble, but unfortunately too long for the challenge. I'm working on forcing myself not to obsessively go over and edit things, so it's far from my best work, but I really hope it's worth the few minutes to read!

Also available on FFN here.

( 'Sorry for ruinin' your castle. It was kinda stupid-lookin' anyway.' )

Title: You Are My Phoenix (Why Remus Lupin Never Pursued Poetry As A Career)
Author: sira
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairings/Characters: Remus/Sirius
Rating: G
Word Count: 235
Notes: This is from 2004. FIVE YEARS AGO. I recently rediscovered it while reading back on ancient ship threads at SCUSA, and it amused me enough that I just needed to keep it archived somewhere, though it's definitely not meant to be taken seriously lmfao. Spawned from the HMS Wolfstar (S/R) question, "If they were to write a poem to each other, what would they write?"

( I know you must think that I have gone mad; To have written you a poem (and I know it's bad) )

Title: The Flute
Author: sira
Universe: Standalone.
Rating: G
Word Count: 792
Notes: Written for CW class. The assignment was to join together three stories with different subjects but a common theme, and a final conclusion that ties it all together. The main theme here is music.

( It's nothing but a tune, a song, a dance. )

Title: Longshore Drift
Author: sira
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Characters: Kikumaru Eiji, future!Rokkaku Chuu.
Rating: G
Word Count: 423
Notes: This is uh. My RP sample for an Eiji application at an RPG, that sort of turned itself into a drabble. ;; Knowing the backstory is required to fully understand what's going on in this scene, but I'll spare you the tl;dr (which can be found here @ aestivates). Basically, Eiji moved out to Chiba (because Eiji+Chiba=foreverOTP) for his last year of high school when his grades weren't doing so well, and went on this epic journey of self-discovery and all that cheesy wonderful stuff, giving up tennis and leaving everything else he's familiar with and loves on the way. So he finally graduates high school, and the first thing he does is play tennis against the Rokkaku Chuu kids. Which brings us to the result. ♥

( Right then, collapsed on the court, battery utterly spent for the first time in literal months, Eiji can't be happier. )