Notes: I can't remember where this particular fifty sentences prompt came from. I found it in my livejournal when I was looking through some really old posts. The title comes from a song by Tilly and the Wall.
coughing colours
-by april, 12/04/08.
01 death: Saiga clicks the shutter - one, two, three, four - and captures the soldier as he falls, flesh bitten apart by machine gun rounds.
02 life: Saiga clicks the shutter - one, two, three, four - and snatches life away through the lens of his camera.
03 jealousy: Kagura is snow-pure, her heart fresh and open and beautiful, and the first time she speaks, Saiga almost envies her innocence.
04 confusion: In the dark dead of night, while Kagura sleeps, Saiga watches her and wonders where exactly to draw the line between too far and not close enough.
05 fear: Saiga has nearly died before; Saiga is turning into a monster; but it is Tennouzu Kagura who scares him the most.
06 thunder/lightning: The sound of a shutter kill is loud and unforgiving like thunder; the flash is lightning that rakes across the sky.
07 technology: Saiga has always shunned fancy digital cameras, preferring the crisp smoothness of old mechanical models.
08 smile: Kagura smiles, and Saiga decides, come hell or high water, that he'll have a picture of it someday.
09 heaven: Tennouzu Kagura may never want to hear the word "goddess" again, but Saiga secretly thinks being near her is the closest thing he can get to heaven.
10 hell: One day, he wants to develop these rolls of film and look upon the hell his sick desires have created.
11 hair: Ginza used to make fun of Saiga's hair, like he wanted it to be this messy, or something.
12 supernova: Kagura spontaneously jumps into his arms, and the feel of her skin sends shocks up his spine; a supernova in his brain.
13 war: War is so bitter and disgusting and terrifying and painful that, eventually, life in the real world can no longer compare.
14 birthday: His last birthday, Bob and the girls [boys?] dressed up in pink; threw him a surprise party.
15 burning: Saiga has grown used to the smell of acrid plastic; he tastes it every time he takes a photograph now.
16 breathing: Kagura snores a bit when she sleeps, head resting innocuously on Saiga's thigh.
17 breaking: Saiga kept Ginza around because she was easy and convenient; when he met Kagura, breaking Ginza's heart was just as easy.
18 quiet: After leaving home, Kagura became bubbly and talkative; Saiga has grown to hate the quiet.
19 quirks: Saiga grins - "You don't find anything quirky about me getting off on other people dying?"
20 question: He wants to curb-stomp that smug bastard Suitengu Choji until he gets some fucking answers, already.
21 quarrel: Kagura tells him about some argument she once had with her mother, her eyes cast down at her feet.
22 smirk: "Say cheese," Saiga smirks.
23 sorrow: A life without sight is a soul-crushing thought, but a life without Kagura wouldn't even be a life at all.
24 stupidity: Saiga wants to grow up, pay for his mistakes, and not be so goddamn stupid all the time.
25 serenade: One of his fondness memories is of Kagura, standing the in middle of a drag club, singing at the top of her lungs.
26 sarcasm: "It's called sarcasm - when you say something you don't mean, just to, I don't know, be funny," he explains, but Kagura looks unimpressed.
27 horizon: It may be an artist's cliche, but the distant horizon is always beautiful, no matter where Saiga happens to be standing.
28 victory: "Victory and defeat are concepts that don't really matter in a world governed by greed and money," Suitengu preaches, and Saiga doesn't know what to say.
29 defeat: Defeat, Saiga thinks, is when you lose what you love most.
30 hero: Saiga is certainly no prince on a white horse, but he wouldn't mind if Kagura saw him that way.
31 wings: Saiga will always remember the goddess' wings: snow-white silk, scented lightly of expensive perfume.
32 view: Nothing has ever made Saiga feel safer than to stare at the world through the lens of his camera, especially now that he's changed.
33 promise: "I want you to keep your promise that we'll be together forever," Kagura sobs, and it breaks Saiga into pieces.
34 silence: Every time Kagura is gone Saiga's world is silent, the colours dim and washed out.
35 fall: "Sorry," Saiga wants to say when he falls onto the hood of Ginza's car, but the apology gets stuck in his mouth somewhere.
36 formal: When Kagura plays dress-up, she tries on a ruby-red evening dress; Saiga has never been so in love.
37 fever: Kagura sleeps shallowly, restlessly, and her skin burns under Saiga's hesitant touch.
38 lock: The first time Saiga decided he kinda liked his new power was when he blew up a locked door - how cool is that?
39 coffee: In restaurants, Saiga drinks beer while Kagura sips coffee loaded with sugar.
40 flying: Ginza once said that being in love is like flying, but Saiga isn't sure about that anymore.
41 metal: Saiga had a nightmare once where he kissed Kagura and then his mouth was flooded with the metallitc taste of death and decay.
42 roses: Kagura gave him a rose, once - "mind the thorns," she'd said, giggling.
43 snow: Kagura is fresh, new beauty; Ginza is liquid sex on two legs; Tsujidou is blind, helpless love; Suitengu is relentless and elegant like a snow-storm; Saiga's just plain old death.
44 summer: Summer is his favourite season, because all the world's colours are so vivid and alive.
45 taboo: Kagura is a child - soft and virginal and innocent - but Saiga wants her, all the way down to his core.
46 young: Saiga remembers being Kagura's age, but he certainly never had any of her problems.
47 wrong: He touches her knee, lets his fingers drift up her skirt, but her eyes meet his and he pulls away.
48 mad: Saiga gets lost, sometimes, in the death and destruction and beautiful glittering madness of it all.
49 god: He's never believed in God, but just like all those filthy politicians and celebrities, Saiga believes in a Goddess.
50 hunger: Saiga Tatsumi has cycled through vices all of his life, but his hunger for love - his hunger for Tennouzu Kagura - is one he knows he'll never grow tired of.