the random icon meme

[nemuri]

 the random icon meme

1. comment with your character with character name and canon in the subject line. click random icon-- that icon will be your writing/scenario prompt!
2. taggers reply by also hitting random icon, and coming up with a response for that icon. try not to change the icons!
3. remember, your icons are the tag prompts!
4. rinse and repeat, be one with the madness  :)

Comments

[nyc_merlin]

They're good for the soul. And you're kinda cute. [Look at how adorable Dean is. Don't resist the cute.]

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Cute, huh. [Now he's in an offensive stance, flicking on his lighter and drawing the flame into his opposite palm.] I doubt I'll be so "cute" when you're getting those third-degree burns treated. If I even leave you alive.

[nyc_merlin]

Hey, easy, take a deep breath. I'm not a threat to you. [He stands with his arms at his sides, perfectly open to attack but calm and peaceful.]

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[Well, shit.]

Why's everyone so scared of a good fight?

[nyc_merlin]

Dude, I'm not like a hero or anything. I have a job, a routine and unless someone starts something I usually use my powers to turn on the coffee maker from bed. [He shoves his hands into his pockets and shrugs.] Violence isn't really my thing.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Boring. [He raises the flame up to eye level, letting it light his eyes and cast all kinds of unsettling shadows over his face.] You get power, you should use it the right way. To take power.

[nyc_merlin]

No thanks. Unlike you, my power comes from the city. If I get greedy it will stop me. So, I'm just going to chill and make money. I'm much happier. You can have your war.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[He looks distinctly skeptical.]

The city? What's that supposed to mean?

[nyc_merlin]

Exactly what I said. The city is my source of power, and a living breathing thing like any other environment.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

New York's alive?

[Yeah, that obviously freaks him out a little.]

[nyc_merlin]

In a sense. It's aware through magic.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[Still shocked.]

So, what - only you guys can feel it?

[nyc_merlin]

I could show you if you wanted. [He wiggles his fingers at him.] But it involves touching you and working some magic on you.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[This'll take some thinking. Mutants can really fuck with you through simple touch, as Rogue has proven many times. But this sounds interesting, and he's really wanting to call bullshit right now.]

Yeah, fine. But if anything about me's different when you're done, you'll get fucked up one way or another.

[nyc_merlin]

Don't bite my fingers off, okay?

[He reaches out, rests his fingers gently on John's temples and then dips his consciousness into New York City through his own magic. It is a living, breathing thing to Dean's mind and immensely powerful. He only spends a few seconds there before he pulls them both out.]

Ta-da.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[John finally snuffs out the flame in his hand, giving Dean a look that's half-wary, half-impressed.]

That's really what it feels like?

[nyc_merlin]

To me, yeah. Cool isn't it? All that... vastness and life.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Must be what Cerebro feels like.

[Not that he has good memories of Cerebro now. Since, you know, it nearly killed them all.]

[nyc_merlin]

Say what? Who's Cerebro?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Bigass computer-thing. Only really high-level telepaths can use it. When you hook up, you've got a mental link with every mutant in the world - strong enough to pin down where they are, what they do, everything.

[His expression is foul.]

If you can see the weakness in that, you're just as smart as the psycho we just ran into not long ago.

[nyc_merlin]

Okay, that's creepy. Why would anyone build that?

[ex_outofcontrol435]

[He laughs a bit at that, rather snidely.]

You must not know that many mutants if you don't know about Xavier's. Charles Xavier's the high-level telepath behind it, and he uses it to recruit. For his school and for the X-Men.

[A sidelong look.]

You do know about the X-Men.

[nyc_merlin]

Yes, I know about the X-Men. I've never met any, which is weird because superheroes love my club.

[ex_outofcontrol435]

Well, you still haven't. [He turns like he's about to leave, firing that over his shoulder.] But you've met one of their enemies.

[nyc_merlin]

[He sticks his tongue out at him.] See ya later, cutie.