[Duets 2025] Prompt #7
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lyricaltitlesPrompt: 7: Different lyrics that start on the same word {"I"}
Title: 'I Imagined that I was a Man of Importance'
Author:but_can_i_be_trusted
Fandom: Pokémon (Spoilers for Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen)
Characters: Giovanni
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted tovocab_drabbles
Artist: Boyz II Men
Album: Evolution
Song: 'Girl in the Life Magazine'
Summary: It's humiliating to discover your own hubris.
You really thought you had it all, didn't you? And you had yourself fooled into thinking that you always would.
It's humiliating to discover your own hubris.
Once, you had so much going for you: Power and prestige, enough of both to make a patrician green with envy. Lackeys at your beck and call, their hearts filled with loyalty and unquestioning obedience. A name that would strike terror into anyone who dared to cross you.
Once, you were important.
Once. Once wasn't even that long ago. But it might as well be ages away, that precious time when you thought you were at the top.
You're nothing now. As good as nothing, at any rate, compared to what you used to be. On the run, far from prying eyes and probing questions. A ghost of the man you once were. All that you had has slipped right through your fingers, like so much water or sand. If these are your just deserts, then how harsh they are.
Perhaps someday you can build it all back up again. Make the name Giovanni a force to be reckoned with once more. Next time, if there's such a thing as next time, you'll need to do better. Be stronger. Hold on to everything, including yourself, with a far more forceful grip.
For now, you hide away, resentful. Possibly regretful, as you nurse your wounded vanity.
Title: 'I See Danger in Your Eyes'
Author:but_can_i_be_trusted
Fandom: Labyrinth
Characters: Sarah, Jareth
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Artist: Robin Hustin x TobiMorrow feat. Jex
Album: Top 50 NCS
Song: 'Light It Up'
Summary: His eyes are pulling her in.
His eyes are pulling her in.
This ballroom, with its glitter, and its strange sense of confinement, unnerves Sarah, but in ways that she's unable to explain to herself. There's beauty here, but it's beauty with a falseness.
She doesn't know what she's doing here. Doesn't know where she was, or what she was doing, prior to this. The sparkle all around her seems to drive everything else out of her mind.
But then there's him. The one who's whirling her across the floor. Less false, but just as oddly beautiful, as the ballroom.
He's...Sarah doesn't know the words to put it in. But something within her feels it.
Whoever and whatever he is, with his shine and his mysterious eyes and his voice...
Whoever he is, he's a threat. He's dangerous.
Sarah's not sure why, but she knows that she needs to get far away from him. And soon.
Before it's too late.
Title: 'I Imagined that I was a Man of Importance'
Author:
but_can_i_be_trustedFandom: Pokémon (Spoilers for Pokémon FireRed/LeafGreen)
Characters: Giovanni
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Notes: Crossposted to
vocab_drabblesArtist: Boyz II Men
Album: Evolution
Song: 'Girl in the Life Magazine'
Summary: It's humiliating to discover your own hubris.
You really thought you had it all, didn't you? And you had yourself fooled into thinking that you always would.
It's humiliating to discover your own hubris.
Once, you had so much going for you: Power and prestige, enough of both to make a patrician green with envy. Lackeys at your beck and call, their hearts filled with loyalty and unquestioning obedience. A name that would strike terror into anyone who dared to cross you.
Once, you were important.
Once. Once wasn't even that long ago. But it might as well be ages away, that precious time when you thought you were at the top.
You're nothing now. As good as nothing, at any rate, compared to what you used to be. On the run, far from prying eyes and probing questions. A ghost of the man you once were. All that you had has slipped right through your fingers, like so much water or sand. If these are your just deserts, then how harsh they are.
Perhaps someday you can build it all back up again. Make the name Giovanni a force to be reckoned with once more. Next time, if there's such a thing as next time, you'll need to do better. Be stronger. Hold on to everything, including yourself, with a far more forceful grip.
For now, you hide away, resentful. Possibly regretful, as you nurse your wounded vanity.
Title: 'I See Danger in Your Eyes'
Author:
but_can_i_be_trustedFandom: Labyrinth
Characters: Sarah, Jareth
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Artist: Robin Hustin x TobiMorrow feat. Jex
Album: Top 50 NCS
Song: 'Light It Up'
Summary: His eyes are pulling her in.
His eyes are pulling her in.
This ballroom, with its glitter, and its strange sense of confinement, unnerves Sarah, but in ways that she's unable to explain to herself. There's beauty here, but it's beauty with a falseness.
She doesn't know what she's doing here. Doesn't know where she was, or what she was doing, prior to this. The sparkle all around her seems to drive everything else out of her mind.
But then there's him. The one who's whirling her across the floor. Less false, but just as oddly beautiful, as the ballroom.
He's...Sarah doesn't know the words to put it in. But something within her feels it.
Whoever and whatever he is, with his shine and his mysterious eyes and his voice...
Whoever he is, he's a threat. He's dangerous.
Sarah's not sure why, but she knows that she needs to get far away from him. And soon.
Before it's too late.