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Teaser: the love stories were just better in 1915
Author's Notes: part of the reason why I love these sentences is because they're quick and easy to update. Not long and tedious and nearly impossible to edit (coughEmpireFallscough) so yeah. Things go faster here.
Okay. These sentences make me depressed. Poor Nicolai.
/give us this day our daily bread/
/Turn Two: lead us not into temptation/
o01. Walking
he walks into the office, blonde and beautiful and every little girl's fantasy, much in the same way that he walks out of her life
o02. Waltz
Karin fights with the stiff movements of a trained, honed soldiers, Nicolai seems to glide across the battlefield, Galahad a mere prop in his deadly waltz
o03. Wishes
you can't waste your life on wishes, Karin tells herself as she clutches that sword, but she wishes for Nicolai's warmth and compassion all the same
o04. Wonder
the wonder of soft, plump lips, the feel of hands on hips, the glide of skin against skin, and the deep sadness that it wasn't meant for Nicolai and Karin
o05. Worry
he worries about her every time news comes in of Yuri's group and damns himself for the fool he is for worrying about a woman who will never want him
o06. Whimsy
the dream could have gone differently, he could have kissed her, lowered her to the ground, taken her then and there—the things you think of after they've already been done
o07. Waste/Wasteland
his blood is the color of my hair, Karin thinks, her traitorous mind than whispering to her that he doesn't deserve to die here, not here
o08. Whisky and Rum
"you don't drink?" Karin wants to know as she gulps down the ale, but Nicolai's too fascinated with the way it slides down her throat to notice
o09. War
she falls asleep against his shoulder, lips parting slightly, breasts moving gently, and he battles with himself not to reach out and touch her hair
o010. Weddings
it might have been unintentional, but when Nicolai stabs Yuri with the Mistletoe, Karin finds herself wed to the notion of killing him
o011. Birthday
if Nicolai had a birthday he never said it to her, but Karin always figured men so handsome and enigmatic as he didn't have birthdays as a rule; all the more reason for a woman to wonder about them
o012. Blessing
he was never a good priest so the only way he can think of to give her a blessing is to haul her into his arms and clamp his mouth over hers
o013. Bias
maybe he's just naturally inclined to hate the Demon of Domremy but Nicolai isn't too pleased when Karin breathes, whisper soft, "but he was so beautiful"
o014. Burning
they way Nicolai's fingers trail along the undersides of her breasts causes heat to coil in Karin's stomach, but he's a Cardinal and she's sure she just imagined that hungry look in his eyes
o015. Breathing
even after she goes with Yuri and fights against him, Nicolai finds thinking of Karin a bit like breathing; utterly necessary and fatal if ceased
o016. Breaking
Kato looks into Karin's eyes, as she's the only one nearby, as he turns from Yuri and he can't help but notice there's something different about them, they're like glass now with a long, narrow crack
o017. Belief
in the end it wasn't because Karin loved Yuri (if it had been that, she would have gone), it was because she didn't trust in Nicolai enough
o018. Balloon
his heart floats up to his throat, Karin's all but his, and he can tell her now, tell her those things have been boiling in him for months: Karin, I love you
o019. Balcony
if they had been cast in the roles of Romeo and Juliet, Nicolai would have been the one on the balcony
o020. Bane
Yuri takes everything from Nicolai
o021. Quiet
during the train ride to Apiona Tower, Karin finds that the only thing that soothes her to sleep is the quiet, even way Nicolai breathes
o022. Quirks
Karin's inclination to violent outbursts is just one of the many wondrous traits about her, and Nicolai would have gladly carried those bruises (not that he got the chance to)
o023. Question
"Can you truly say you don't care for me?" and Karin's silent for a good, long while because no, she's can't
o024. Quarrel
they never did get to have fights like normal couples and that one time didn't count because it was a dream and Karin did all the yelling
o025. Quitting
Nicolai's never given much thought to quitting the Church—even though he's just using it for his own means—but he has to admit that those looks Karin's been sending him are awfully tempting
o026. Jump
more than anything it's a leap of faith and Karin finds the lava much too hot for her to take it
o027. Jester
it could be funny, the honest truth of it; she's fallen nobility and he's the bastard son of a Tsar, they're almost completely alike in that aspect
o028. Jousting
in fairer times there would have been a challenge; but it's 1915 and Nicolai's the only one who wants Karin in that way
o029. Jewel
it's on the train ride to Domremy, she's in Nicolai's lap somehow and his hands are in her hair and she feels like she's finally worth her weight in gold
o030. Just
"why am I doing this?" Yuri demands but Karin says nothing, just waits for him to get back to digging Nicolai's grave
o031. Smirk
Nicolai doesn't smirk—Yuri does—he smiles and it's much more feeling and warm, which is odd because Nicolai is the evil one
o032. Sorrow
she sobs for days on end after they come back from Mount Fuji and both she and Saki know it has nothing to do with Yuri
o033. Stupidity
"I'm stupid," Anne will whisper when she holds baby Yuri for the first time and neither she nor Ben will quite understood, "I was hoping he'd have green eyes"
o034. Serenade
his mother never got the chance to sing him to sleep and so when Karin starts to sing her German folksongs, Nicolai's heart weeps
o035. Sarcasm
"I missed you, bright eyes, but my aim is improving," Yuri tells Nicolai as the battle begins and in her heart Karin's saying it too, though she actually means it
o036. Sordid
Astaroth taunts him in Japan, sends him horrible images of Karin, and what she's probably doing with Yuri right now
o037. Soliloquy
the ramblings of man after a torture session: "Karin… Karin… why can't you—why don't you—why him, why not me, I need you, love me, I'm sorry, I love you, stay with me—don't touch me, get away!—please Karin, make the hurt stop—Father Almighty!—I'll kill you, where is she, Astaroth get out of my head!"
o038. Sojourn
"I only liked him for a little bit," Karin tells Lucia as the woman raises a knowing eyebrow, "honestly, he's not in my heart anymore"
o039. Share
there's only one Thera Seed left and Karin's heart flutters like a schoolgirl when Nicolai is kind enough to share
o040. Solitary
in Apiona Tower Nicolai pauses to look out a window along the spiraling staircase and Karin's heart breaks then and there; he looks so alone
o041. Nowhere
Karin loses a sense of time and place when Nicolai pushes her against the wall and slides his hand up her leg
o042. Neutral
you'd think Karin and Nicolai would be on opposing sides, good and evil, but they're not because they don't want the other to lose
o043. Nuance
"Oh my God," Karin breathes in Nicolai's dreams and it's the way her voice invokes the Creator's name that has him smiling wide
o044. Near
this is the closest she's been in months, Nicolai thinks as Karin bends down beside him, her face a mask of concern, and he thinks that this is the moment he has been waiting for, the moment when Karin touches him again and he can handle everything else if Karin just whispers his name lovingly into his ear for a few moments, but then she's gone and Yuri's there and all Nicolai can see is red
o045. Natural
it's almost instinctive for Karin to lace her fingers with his when she sees the first monster and she doesn't realize they're still holding hands until well after the battle has been won
o046. Horizon
if Karin was stronger, she would wish for a future with Nicolai as she floats up in the vast blue sky above her
o047. Valiant
"I'm much more heroic than you," Nicolai muses aloud to Yuri in one of his dreams, "so why is it she chose you?"
o048. Virtuous
she wasn't a virgin when Ben Hyuga took her to his bed for the first time in 1889, but she was in 1915, just ask Nicolai
o049. Victory
for the first time in his life—a life of getting the short end of every stick they threw at him—Nicolai tastes victory because Karin's going to chose him
o050. Defeat
but, of course, she doesn't
notes: again, 'lead us not into temptation' taken from the "The Lord's Prayer". Original, it was supposed to be called 'look not upon our sins' but I wanted to stick with TLP. So, yeah. Last sentences group is Anastasia/Kurando, cute… and ripe for angst (see Russian Revolution and Romanov massacre). Why is every couple in this game ripe for angst?
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Tiger5913: that's because I can just write sappy sentences without worry of a plot. XD
MikoNoNyte: actually, this is the format for the 1sentece community. You should check it out and make sure I'm not a dirty liar. The numbers are taken from the list they give you when they chose your theme set (they're in a nifty table labeled 1 to 50, too!). Kinda like Lost. Those numbers still don't have a point at all, but God knows we see them all the time. Also, the rules are that for each little word thingy they give you, you can only write one sentence about it. Which mean you can't do a whole lot, plot-wise… I tried to do an actual challenge where is which word was part of a story, but didn't like it. So I decided to stick with my normal style, pick a couple, read the themes, and write something about how the word pertained to the two people. The o0number thing and later of capitalization and punctuation is just something I use to define my style. Most people in 1sentence do something of the sort. Don't worry, though, there are tons of people who don't like the 1sentence thing.