word game: money

[museaway]

This week's word is...
MONEY

How to play: Find the word in any WIP and comment with the sentence containing it. Just the one, ideally! The less context, the more hilarious & interesting it can be.

Rules:
- All fandoms, all ships, all writers welcome
- Give a head's up for disturbing/distressing content
- If you share a sentence, please read some left by other writers and drop at least one person a comment. (If you leave the first comment, thanks for starting us off, and we hope you'll pop back around later!)

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Comments

Excerpt from my revived wedding fic for last year's ASSW [Fandom: Tomb Raider]

[bens_writingjournal]

The redhead yelps upon feeling her template grab her by the shirt and pull her into a strong hug. She barely has time to reciprocate it, hands clumsily running around her coat's silky texture, before she clutches onto it as tightly as she can.

"Yulia…" Lara says, sighing. "With all those seven years, how can I even say no to such a proposal?"

"Is that a—"

"Yes, Yulia," she says shakily, tears of joy in her eyes, "I will marry you."

Yulia laughs heartily with a delighted grin. "I know I might've spent some money on hunting a fitting ring for this moment, but—"

She's cut off by a lingering kiss from her template, and Yulia is more than eager to return it. By the time the two break it, they let their foreheads touch each other.

It's worth it, indeed.

Re: Excerpt from my revived wedding fic for last year's ASSW [Fandom: Tomb Raider]

[nicky_gabriel]

I didn't know these characters, but from all the pieces you share every week, I think I know them quite well already :)

Re: Excerpt from my revived wedding fic for last year's ASSW [Fandom: Tomb Raider]

[bens_writingjournal]

Ah, it's always a delight to know that! Anyway, the gist is: Lara Croft is an avid adventurer who has... plenty of issues, shall we say, (I'm definitely not playing armchair psychologist, but I'm very fascinated with going into a character's head to see how their trauma affects them) primarily PTSD (stemming from parental abandonment and witnessing a lot of the horrors in her adventures).

Doppelganger (or Yulia, as I call her in my fics, after The HARDKISS vocalist Julia Sanina) is Lara's clone who's artificially created by an emotionally abusive, spiteful, quasi-immortal ex-queen of Atlantis named "Jacqueline" Natla as a weapon against Lara (she hates her this much). But Lara manages to free her clone from the "Ohk eshivar" command, and Doppelganger/Yulia subsequently kills Natla. However, having a severely abusive mother figure like Natla for so long is bound to leave heavily emotional scars for someone like Doppelganger...

Re: Excerpt from my revived wedding fic for last year's ASSW [Fandom: Tomb Raider]

[nicky_gabriel]

Oh, that is interestinig! Thank you :)
Now, I will understand more about them when I'm reading your 'glimpses'.

Re: Excerpt from my revived wedding fic for last year's ASSW [Fandom: Tomb Raider]

[anakiddwrites]

PROPOSAL AAAAAAH i just know the charas from your posts here but im already giggling here, the proposal is so cute and the kiss so tender, happy for them

Re: Excerpt from my revived wedding fic for last year's ASSW [Fandom: Tomb Raider]

[poppyseedheart]

CUUUUTE i love ladies in love! Particularly love your use of physical emotion cues: the clumsy fumbling around her coat, the sigh, the tears of joy, the lingering kiss and forehead touch :') really immersive and beautiful.