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shadowsong26 ([personal profile] shadowsong26) wrote in [community profile] rainbowfic2024-08-21 10:47 pm

Halloween Orange #30

Name: shadowsong26
Story: Push
'Verse: Lux
Colors: Halloween Orange #30. Be wicked and lovely and don't live in fear.
Supplies and Materials: graffiti (Lilith Faire 2024 Day Four: Main Sage), photography, life drawing, stain, yarn, novelty beads (She's a rebel/She's a saint/She's the salt of the earth/And she's dangerous. - "She's a Rebel", Green Day), glue ("Today's tip is to err on the side of adventure. Trust that good luck will pull you through if you take risks.")
Word Count: 269
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Dimana
Warnings: Don't think so, no.
Notes: Constructive criticism welcome, as always.


For as long as she can remember, Dimana has always been one to push forward; push at boundaries. Egg herself and other people on. Bet high, pick fights, play the game and win--and even if she loses, she still revels in the challenge, in living on the edge.

So it both is and isn't a surprise when she links up with her sisters and her eyes burn red. Because on the one hand--even with all her wild energy burning across the stars, even knowing the Family lore, even she never would have bet on being a goddamned Horseman.

But on the other hand, since she is one--of course she's War; she's that little push. Of violence, sure, but even more of competition and challenge. Of keen edges and tested boundaries and taking risks. Nothing new there, just dialed up to eleven by being something beyond a person.

The real surprise, though, is the other side of it. She's always been one to push forward, not so much to stand her ground, defend what's hers--whether that's a person or a place or a principle.

Walking across that lobby, stepping into that elevator, linking up with her sisters, though--it all falls into place. She gets it, in a way she never had before. She'd always been the love 'em and leave 'em type. Until now.

She still is who she is. She will still push and push and push, find that edge and sharpen it. Burn her way across the stars.

She'll just do it while standing firm beside them, and holding the line.

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