Notes: So, a tribute to the five pilots. Each of the pilots got ten sentences, so it's a (relatively) even split. Thanks to my sister, who helped me decide which pilot got which word. Inspiration credit to LJ's 1sentence community. If I had an LJ, I'd totally do this through the proper channels, but I have no LJ. Disclaimer: Gundam Wing does not belong to me, nor do I lay any claim to the 1sentence LJ community's Beta Set of prompts. 1. Walking
As he walks through another town, he mentally scoffs at the weak-willed way these people move.
2. Waltz
Quatre sighed as he looked at the book of waltz music for violins from Dorothy; the woman could be so unsubtle sometimes.
3. Wishes
Growing up on the streets of L-2 tended to pound out the tendency of wishing, but he had learned from his time at the church that divine back up never hurt anyone.
4. Wonder
Sometimes, he wondered what it would be like to be a normal teenager; then he looked at the latest batch of idiots at the latest school, and he knew he was better suited to being a weapon.
5. Worry
He carefully examined Heavy Arms, eyes scouring every centimeter of metal for the faintest hint of scratch marks after Heero and Zechs' interrupted battle.
6. Whimsy
He hates being serious, preferring to follow his flights of fancy, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't know better than to follow a whim as dangerous as painting Wing Zero with peanut butter, no matter how angry he is about Heero's part-stealing; he'll save the peanut butter for use on Nataku, because that way he'll only get attacked with a sword.
7. Waste/Wasteland
So many people call the desert barren, but he sees potential for new life.
8. Whiskey and Rum
Wufei carefully poured a measure of alcohol into the glass and placed it before the shrine he had built to honor the memories of those lost.
9. War
He is a child of war, born under Mars the red, and while he doesn't know what to do with himself during peacetime, he doesn't want to always belong to Ares.
10. Weddings
Sometimes, the circus performs at wedding ceremonies, and Trowa wonders how people can devote their entire lives to only one person at such young ages.
11. Birthday
He blinks, surprised at the four cards sitting neatly near his plate, but then his face relaxes into what might be called a smile until Duo sings out, "aww, Wuffers is blushing!" and of course he has to defend his honor, "I am not, Maxwell!" and there is no peace even on such a special occasion.
12. Blessing
The man with the long brown braid always came in on Sundays and always sat in the back for the service, but he knew the prayers and for some reason the priest got the feeling that that young man gave the prayers more than the lip service so many others did.
13. Bias
It is more than his personal opinion that he is the best; it is cold, hard fact.
14. Burning
It hurts, but he cannot let Quatre destroy all that they have worked so hard for, and so he accepts the pain and the fire as his due.
15. Breathing
He cannot breathe, can barely feel himself choking, and suddenly the air flow is back, but everything has changed.
16. Breaking
His masters taught him to bend with the wind, but Wufei now faces it straight on and breaks when it grows too strong; each time, it takes longer to be put back together.
17. Belief
He doesn't believe in a lot, but he knows that the other pilots will do their parts.
18. Balloon
He looks at the balloon, wondering where at the festival he managed to pick it up, but then Duo shrugs it off and lets it float away, carrying dreams of the future to a place he can never go.
19. Balcony
He watches from his balcony as Trowa walks away yet again, and wonders if his friend's wandering days will ever end at his door.
20. Bane
He is death, has been raised with it since he was with the assassin who killed the man whose name he bears, and he strikes as easily from the light as from the shadows.
21. Quiet
When it is quiet is when it is hardest to forget, and so he deliberately seeks it out, determined to live with ghosts and guilt and might-have-beens.
22. Quirks
Different types of people have different habits, and he has made it his job to know and categorize what type of habit indicates what about a person.
23. Question
Some questions can be deadly, to the asker or to the questioned, and so Duo has learned to piece things together without using such clumsy methods.
24. Quarrel
Sometimes, he tired of being the mediator for the other pilots' bickering, and he no longer hesitated about letting them know when he was fed up.
25. Quitting
Quit is not supposed to even be in his dictionary, but even the Perfect Soldier has days when he just wants to throw in the towel.
26. Jump
He knows that after what J has done to him he is practically indestructible, so he jumps without hesitation, knowing that the damage won't be permanent.
27. Jester
He calmly places the mask on, thinking that the almost knowing half-smile doesn't fits more than some people might think.
28. Jousting
Whenever he crosses blades with Dorothy, Quatre is reminded of a knight fighting a dragon, but he is not always sure which of them plays which part.
29. Jewel
No jewels adorn his most precious possessions, but Deathsycthe gleams black and a small golden cross rests above his heart.
30. Just
If there were justice in the world, Meiran would have lived and piloted Shen-long and he would have died on L-5; but the world isn't just, and a person must make their own way and their own right.
31. Smirk
He sometimes thinks that he has forgotten how to smile, but the fact that he can still express amusement, however mocking and derogatory, is a faint comfort.
32. Sorrow
Despair and grief are constant companions following the death of L-5, and they are heavy taskmasters, but they are no heavier than the burdens of duty and bloodshed; Wufei gets used to having four silent watchers, inspiring guilt when he most needs strength.
33. Stupidity
He plays the bumbling fool so well that even he can't help but be taken in.
34. Serenade
Trowa blinks, surprised, but smiles slightly, pleased that Cathy cares for him enough to give him a birthday and a party for it.
35. Sarcasm
Sarcasm is the last refuge of the so-called witty, but sometimes comments just need that extra edge to truly cut the skin.
36. Sordid
When you grow up among filth and squalor and amorality, you pick up some of those traits, and he is certainly no exception.
37. Soliloquy
Heero's thoughts are always his own, never to be shared, and sometimes a part of him that a scientist tried to excise wishes that someone would make the attempt to find out what they are.
38. Sojourn
He returns to the desert whenever he needs a rest, but he knows he can never stay there for too long these days.
39. Share
Trowa has never been good at sharing, although he attempts to learn how to with the other pilots.
40. Solitary
He does his own thing, having become used to the quiet, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't sometimes wish to hear the others' voices.
41. Nowhere
It's a hard life, going from nowhere and trying to get somewhere, but at some point he made a misstep and ended up back at nowhere.
42. Neutral
He keeps his face blank of even a customary scowl, refusing to give anything away in this suddenly deadly stare down.
43. Nuance
He finds it easy to read the subtle shadings behind what others say and do, and he wonders how he didn't become the worst kind of pessimist with how many lies he sees through every day.
44. Near
It is the times when he is nearest to success that the ghosts hover the closest.
45. Natural
No matter where he goes he blends in, perfect in disguise and manners, as if he is truly meant to be there.
46. Horizon
He watches the sun rise on a new day, and reminds himself that that is what they are fighting for.
47. Valiant
He stands firm in the face of adversity, but is willing to acknowledge that it is better to bend than to break.
48. Virtuous
The moral code of his clan is strict and precise, but he no longer finds it a burden to uphold.
49. Victory
To snatch victory from the jaws of defeat is a hefty task, but Shinigami is always up for some fun.
50. Defeat
For someone who claims failure is never an option, he knows that bitter taste all too well.