[livejournal.com profile] 31_days Drabbles: One "A. I.: Artificial Intelligence", one origi

Aug. 15th, 2005 08:35 pm
matrixrefugee: the word 'refugee' in electric green with a background of green matrix code (Guadalupe)
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The first one I started writing last night and it's one of the most lyrical pieces I've written for the fandom. The idea for the second one came to me at Mass today: I was crying happy tears as I wrote it.

Title: Elements of Hope
Day/Theme: August 15: Air and stars
Series: "A. I.: Artificial Intelligence"
Character/Pairing: Gigolo Joe-David (Just *friends*, get yer heads outta the gutter. Yeeks.)
Rating: PG



Their journey had started on the earth, as they escaped from a firey demise; they had crossed over the water to find the answer to David's question. Now they flew through the air in an amphibicopter that would have taken David away from him, but which now he, Joe, piloted toward Man Hatten, bringing David to find his Blue Fairy.

The stars faded in the night sky as the morning drew near, but the luster of the stars remained in the blue eyes of the Mecha-boy at his side, growing brighter as David spoke with a child's enthusiasm of his Mommy, of Henry and Martin, how he would be able to go back to them and make his home with them, once the Blue Fairy made him real.

His enthusiasm filled the air around him with a palpable warmth, which Joe sensed though he could barely comprehend it. He had been built to respond to the warmth of passion, not that of innocence. And yet, somehow he knew that the stars in David's eyes were now reflected in his own green eyes.

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Title: "Dormition and Assumption"
Day/Theme: August 15: Air and stars
Series: NA Original fic
Character/Pairing: None. Original fic
Rating: G

Note: I wrote this in honor of today's feast in the Catholic calender, the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In some of the apocryphal gospels, there are accounts of the Virgin Mary's death and assumption (or "dormition", as the Catholics of the Eastern Rite call it), from the Apostle's point of view. I was inspired to write from the viewpoint of the central player in this dramatic moment...



Maryam felt the blackness recede into the darkness of night lit by soft starlight. Some gentle yet inexorable force lifted her, body and soul, from the heavy earth that enclosed her and drew her through its substance, much in the way He had passed through her being into the world, so many years before. Her bearers lifted her through the air, till she no longer felt its resistence. She seemed to float through the stars like a ship caught in a strong river current, so fast the starlight turned to streaks. They broke through the event horizon of the universe itself, passing beyond space and time as she knew it...

And then she gazed upon his face, *His* face, at once joyful, luminous, sorrowful, glorious; the face of He Who breathed air into the firmament of earth, Who set the stars on fire; He Whom she had brought forth to give back to His Father in sacrifice for the sake of the creatures He had dwelt among, to save them from themselves...

Date: 2005-08-16 12:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/guttersnipe_/
Muy bien. :O Much love for the first... Joe was definitely the part I enjoyed best of the movie, and I enjoyed his portrayal here. Poor Joe and his vague comprehension... Hrum. Second one was interesting, as well; definitely enjoyed the image of rushing through the stars.

Date: 2005-08-16 02:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] matrixrefugee.livejournal.com
::Grins:: My sentiments exactly, re: Joe. He's a tough character to write, but I love the challenge he brings.

Date: 2005-08-16 04:17 am (UTC)
troisroyaumes: Painting of a duck, with the hanzi for "summer" in the top left (Default)
From: [personal profile] troisroyaumes
Ah. I love the second one very much. (And now I feel even more terrible for missing Mass today. >_<)

Very nicely done.

Date: 2006-01-08 08:57 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I love this line in your story "the luster of the stars remained in the blue eyes of the Mecha-boy" that's poetry!

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