Shades that Dye the Screen

by reminiscent-afterthought

There are many possibilities: many words, many worlds, many contexts in which they exist. A collection of drabbles spread across different fandoms, characters and prompts within the Duel World challenge.

10. Makoto I, Colourful

A/N: Written for the Duel World Challenge at the Anime and Manga Fanfiction Challenges forum. All drabbles are exactly 100 words.

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Fandom: Colourful
Character/s: Makoto
Duel: Vs. Jerry Beans Man
Prompts: small, strong

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They were just little dots on a page, but together, they became something profound. Meaningful.

He hadn't realised that at first, even though he knew better than most how intricate and delicate that balance of colours was. He dabbled in them all the time. Reds and blues and yellows and green – and yet even he'd only been seeing a smeared result and not the individual threads that lay beneath.

Once he realised that, he could see the colour in everything. Those small, muted strands that had been too inconspicuous to notice before. That he'd thought was only grey and black.