5 Drabbles

[watersandwilds.livejournal.com]

It's been a while since I've seen the series, and, alas! I don't have access to the episodes at the moment, so I apologise if anything is really wonky canon-wise. Enjoy! :D

Title: Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?
Author: watersandwilds (Nefret)
Pairing/Characters: Garibaldi/Booze
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Addiction
Spoilers: Spoilers for Garibaldi's arc in Season 5, though nothing truly major.
Summary: He’d forgotten how appealing it was to feel nothing at all.
Disclaimer: I do not own Babylon 5 and this drabble is entirely for fun and not for profit.


Title: In the Footsteps of Virtue
Author: watersandwilds (Nefret)
Pairing/Characters: Londo
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Spoilers: Spoilers for "The Geometry of Shadows" and "The Long, Twilight Struggle"
Summary: He'd achieved the image and the victory he sought.
Disclaimer: I do not own Babylon 5 and this drabble is entirely for fun and not for profit.


Title: The Scariest Thing Out There
Author: watersandwilds (Nefret)
Pairing/Characters: Susan
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Spoilers: Spoilers for "Midnight on the Firing Line"
Summary: Her mother had always seemed warm, but now she seemed hollow.
Disclaimer: I do not own Babylon 5 and this drabble is entirely for fun and not for profit.


Title: Memory
Author: watersandwilds (Nefret)
Pairing/Characters: Delenn
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
Spoilers: Spoilers for everything past the end of Season 1.
Summary: Delenn hated her hair.
Disclaimer: I do not own Babylon 5 and this drabble is entirely for fun and not for profit.


Title: The Shadows of Sensation
Author: watersandwilds (Nefret)
Pairing/Characters: Talia/Susan
Rating: R
Warnings: Sexual Content (I'm probably being hyperactive with the rating, here. It's pretty tame.)
Spoilers: No specific spoilers, per se.
Summary: Trust. There was more loaded in that word than Talia knew.
Disclaimer: I do not own Babylon 5 and this drabble is entirely for fun and not for profit.

Comments

[amatara.livejournal.com]

Ooo, nice drabbles! :) And I love that you tackled such a broad range of characters - Delenn, Susan, Londo, Garibaldi: they're all so different, and that difference comes across very well in the mood of the pieces. Also, I admire you to no end for being capable of telling a coherent story in a mere 100 words (I never tried it myself, but it seems incredibly hard!)

Incidentally - if I might pitch in and defend Londo just a teensy bit (not that he's got an awful lot to be defended for at the point of the series in which you describe him, but still...) As I recall, Londo didn't ask to be present to witness the bombing of Narn - Refa expected him to be, and while Londo didn't refuse, I always interpreted his reaction as one of being horrified at the prospect. Of course, the latter is personal interpretation, as it was never stated explicitly, so you're perfectly entitled to be of a different opinion. :) Just - I'm a Londo girl at heart, you see (because of his actions in later seasons, not those in s2 and s3), and I was kind of itching to throw in my five cents on this. *g*

The Delenn story is my favorite - I adore it! This
She hated that it felt like penance, and yet still wasn’t enough.
in particular, is so beautifully said, and fits her very well.

Thank you so much for sharing!

[watersandwilds.livejournal.com]

I really enjoy the challenge of cramming huge ideas into 100 words. :) I'm glad they worked!

Defend Londo, away! I adore him. It's entirely my fault, mea culpa -- I'd forgotten about that. It's been a while since I've seen the series. *headdesk* :P

Thanks for reading! I'm really glad you enjoyed them.

[alexcat.livejournal.com]

Of the five, the Londo one was my favorite... so few words to say so much! Your quotes were all very well chosen too! Well done. I really like a good drabble!

[watersandwilds.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm really glad you enjoyed them! Londo's a delight to write -- I'm glad you thought it turned out well. :)

[vjs2259.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing these; drabbles are hard to do well, but these are very good.

Delenn's and Talia/Susan's are my favorites. I've always thought hair would be terrifically difficult to get used to if you'd never had any. My son's hair all fell out when he was one year old; the number of comments and even fear of 'contagion' was interesting, when not appalling. It's an integral part of our identity as humans, apparently.

As for Susan/Talia, I've spent a lot of time wondering how much Susan revealed to Talia in their brief time together. I was researching in the scriptbooks recently and came across JMS's explanation for Talia's (I mean, the actress here) leaving. I guess he really did intend for this to be a big romance. Sigh, what might have been.

[watersandwilds.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm really glad you enjoyed them.

Given how much time I have to spend getting my hair to at least pretend to co-operate, I imagine Delenn would be incredibly uncomfortable with suddenly having a full head of the stuff. I hope your son wasn't too badly treated by his peers (and his peer's parents)--- having dead skin cells on the top of your head isn't really much to write home about at the end of the day.

I wish they'd been able to develop the Susan/Talia arc -- I would have loved to have seen where they were going with it. But I can't imagine, given that telepathy in the B5 universe seems to be strengthened with physical contact, that Talia wouldn't have known that Susan was a latent telepath. But that's just a personal theory.

Thanks again for reading! I'm really glad you enjoyed them. :)

[vjs2259.livejournal.com]

At least he was a boy. Some girls with the condition...*shudder*

The one thing that bothers me about Talia knowing about Susan's telepathy is that means PsiCorps knew after Talia's embedded personality took over. You'd think they would use that knowledge. Telepaths aren't permitted to serve in EarthForce, for instance. There's a lovely dark AU in that concept somewhere.
I wonder if Susan held back enough to keep it hidden, and if Talia's fate just reinforced her mother's dictum to keep herself hidden and secret and safe. Leading to the inevitable with Marcus. Poor girl.