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I'm going to try something. It requires your participation! And perhaps some sparkly text:
~*ROUND-ROBIN COMMENTFIC PARTY!!*~
That's right! Right here on this post. Here's how it works, I think:
1. Anyone can reply to this post with commentfic. Anyone can start, and anyone can continue. That's right, even you!
2. Any genre, any ship, any fandom. Crossovers okay!
3. One commentfic thread is allowed to branch off into several commentfic threads. TITS, you can click 'Reply to This' at any point in an established thread.
4. You can comment with just one sentence, or you can go up to the character limit. If you exceed the character limit, post two comments. Whatever.
5. Threads will go for as long as they have to.
6. If this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.
These guidelines will be added to/modified as the situation arises. Questions/concerns? Go!
That's right! Right here on this post. Here's how it works, I think:
1. Anyone can reply to this post with commentfic. Anyone can start, and anyone can continue. That's right, even you!
2. Any genre, any ship, any fandom. Crossovers okay!
3. One commentfic thread is allowed to branch off into several commentfic threads. TITS, you can click 'Reply to This' at any point in an established thread.
4. You can comment with just one sentence, or you can go up to the character limit. If you exceed the character limit, post two comments. Whatever.
5. Threads will go for as long as they have to.
6. If this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.
These guidelines will be added to/modified as the situation arises. Questions/concerns? Go!
and then it exceeded the character limit?
"What, Merlin?"
"You know, Raptor Red is right. We do have a biological imperative."
"To do what?" she asks. "To make more petri dishes?"
"Oh for Mendel's sake. You know exactly what I mean."
"Merlin Raptor," she says sweetly. "What you're suggesting couldn't possibly be a violation of fraternization regulations, could it?"
She wonders if she should do the
humanemagnanimous thing and spare him, but it his embarrassment is awfully entertaining, and she thinks that with Morgana Raptor busy, entertainment might be in short supply for a while.Of course, Morgana returns at exactly this moment, her raptor-face looking tentatively happy. "What's going on?" she asks, and Merlin Raptor jumps a foot in the air.
"I've solved the mystery of Raptor Red's appearance!" he announces. "She's time-travelling."
Gwen Raptor thinks she will be nice to him. After all, there are plenty of things she can think of that will fluster him even more.
no subject
FAT ARTHUR REX
OH DARWIN
FOR MENDEL'S SAKE
<333333
The only question better than "what if they were dinosaurs" is "what if they were time-traveling dinosaurs?"
UNLESS
OMG WHAT IF THEY WERE
Morgana Raptor chokes, "You're not being serious, are you, Merlin?"
"Of course I am! It explains her total stupidity about science and evolution and..."
"You do not have permission to speak like that about my girlfriend, Merlin Raptor," snaps Morgana Raptor.
"What the fuck? She is not your girlfriend. It doesn't work like that. You two have serious problems you need to work out," says Merlin Raptor, ever the self-preservationist.
"I think the general's personal life is the general's problem," says Gwen Raptor, thinking it's really time that she stop this.
"As is yours, Staff Sergeant," says Morgana Raptor sweetly.
"Hey, does that mean - " Merlin Raptor starts to ask.
"If you finish that sentence, you will lose any immunity you think you have," Morgana Raptor tells him.
"But - "
"Let me make myself perfectly clear, Private," says Morgana Raptor coolly. "If you finish that sentence, I will not be able look the other way."
Merlin Raptor falls silent. Well, not really, but raptor language doesn't really have the nuance to qualify; it's deliberate and specific much like science itself. More like, he pauses for a breath and to redirect his thoughts. The he says, "So? Time-travelling? I think she's time travelling."
"You would be right," says Raptor Red, appearing from the undergrowth. Gwen Raptor takes a moment to wonder what's up with all these sudden appearances today, but it only makes sense - it's not a large compound, and you can't help but hear raptors' conversations. And both Morgana Raptor (she loves Morgana Raptor) and Raptor Red have a tendency to be a bit, well, dramatic. Raptors don't have drama, but humans do, and raptors put a lot of effort into understanding the psychology of the opposition.
They are also very good at adapting their language; when Raptor Red appeared here, almost six full human months ago, she didn't speak a word of their language; now they can pretty much understand everything she says and vice versa.
"I suppose it is time for me to tell you my story. I was investigating a temporal displacement, and suddenly I ended up here."
"That's not really a story, Red," says Morgana Raptor, amused, at the same time that Gwen Raptor asks, "A temporal displacement?" She always thought "temporal" had something to do with the brain.
"I now believe it to have been a rend in the space/time continuum," explains Raptor Red.
"I think you're making this shit up," say Merlin Raptor and Morgana Raptor, pretty much at the same time, and Morgana Raptor glares at Merlin Raptor.
"Pretty much, yeah," grins Raptor Red. "But I was really investigating something weird, and I did really end up here."
"Were you, like, in the prehistoric version of the FBI?" asks Merlin Raptor, and Raptor Red smiles even more broadly.
"Raptors are the most intelligent dinosaurs ever," she says. "And we are also brightly colored. Of course I was."
...wtf I already started an FBI AU in this comment-fic party. D: