Disclaimer: I do not own Tales of Symphonia.
This is basically a big collection of drabbles, oneshots, etc, based on TOS. Primarily because I've never done one before and also I have so many TOS ideas that I just had to write a few down. I will also warn you now that there will be ALL KINDS of genres and pairings, and they will probably be pretty weird. Ratings change per chapter.
Genre: General, introspective.
Rating: K
Pairings: Onesided Tabatha/Mithos.
Enjoy!
Tabatha liked cute things.
As a doll, she wasn't supposed to have preferences. She wasn't supposed to have feelings. Technically, if you wanted to nit-pick, she wasn't supposed to be alive, either.
But she was, and she did.
As an example, Tabatha liked the Gnomelettes that visited Altessa's sometimes. She found their brash, in-your-face attitudes endearing. She supposed (again, something dolls did not do) that the Gnomelette's were like this to make up for their lack of size. Sometimes Tabatha brought them food. Altessa would gruffly remind her that they didn't really appreciate it, but Tabatha brought it regardless. She disagreed with Altessa's opinion. (Again, dolls were not supposed to argue with their masters.)
Tabatha found the heroes that visited cute. The obvious candidates for this were Genis and Presea; Although Tabatha knew the truth behind Presea's sad, glassy-eyed stare, and why she seemed so much wiser then some of those older then she, her sad little smiles and her slow, measured reactions were really quite...cute.
Genis, meanwhile, spoke like a genius, but he was still a child in so many ways, but he was always trying to be so grown-up.
Lloyd and Zelos were strangely similar in their cute factor. It was something about their easy-going, optimism that did it. It was hard to explain, but if you looked at it closely, you could just see it.
Sheena and Colette were cute. Colette, the clumsy, sweet-natured Chosen, a clueless saviour of her dying world. Her heart-felt speeches, angelic gold hair and blue eyes all seemed to meld in seamlessly with her silliness and gentle demeanour.
Sheena is like Colette in that way. The fumbling, adolescent awkwardness that a Mizuho ninja should not really possess was reason enough to consider Sheena Fujibayashi cute, but there was also her feisty, stubborn loyalty that made her so strangely endearing.
Raine and Regal seemed completely bizarre choices for being cute, but Tabatha could tell you why with a smile. Raine's blunt, logical standpoint may have been part of who she was, but Tabatha also noticed the strangely tender looks she would sometimes shoot Genis' way, before reminding him to calm down, be careful or another admonition to cover up the moment of softness.
Regal, on the other hand, behaved something of a silent elder brother- Calm, composed, but concerned at the same time.
And, as foolish as it was, as big a mistake as it was, Tabatha also found Mithos cute.
And technically, dolls aren't supposed to make mistakes.
