FFXII Fic-Bit: Ticking Time Bomb

[aorin]

Your wish is my command, mariagoner , and here's the drabble as promised ;D I'm immensely glad that you've enjoyed it and even more flattered that you would consider including this into your Uses of Enchantment series. For some reason, I'm unable to come up with a better title, therefore, if something else in mind, just tell me and I'll replace it. :)

Apart from that, do expect a FFXII pic-spam within the next few days ;)

Title: Ticking Time Bomb
Fandom: Final Fantasy XII
Character(s): Larsa, Penelo
Rating: G
Summary: Five Times Larsa Had Been Tempted To Do Upon Hearing of Men Pawing at his Sky-Pirating Lady

1. For 15 seconds of his life, Larsa had toyed with the idea of officially declaring sexual harassment as a noose-hanging offence in the lands of his judicious administration, if these men were incapable of keeping their dirty paws to themselves breathing, they might learn from their mistakes better choking on a scaffold. His thoughts were made known to Gabranth, and the next day, he had found a conveniently placed half-written resignation letter on his guardian's desk)

 

2. For 20 seconds of his life, Larsa had considered dissolving the alliance with Rozarria when he realized that Al-Cid had stolen the first dance with the beautiful lady of his affections at the Southern Annual Ball. (It was that Casanova’s birthday bash, and he had to pick his dance partner, whom the young love-sick emperor had at length, painstakingly persuaded to accompany him for this one festivity)

 

3. For 30 seconds of his life, Larsa had stared unblinkingly at the name list of immigrants from the deserts, wondering if he should permit one particular man to take up residence in his lands (by heart and acute memory, he could distinguish the name and face of all the lewd men that had catcalled, wolf-whistled, or shamelessly flirted with the booty-shaking beauty, and this ill-fated man had all but did the three forbidden before his eyes). In the end, he had the man under 72 hours’ heavy surveillance and interrogation, led by none other than Judge Gabranth himself.

 

4. For 45 seconds of his life, Larsa had been outrageously tempted to remove Balfonheim from the realm by accidentally brushing the power switch of the massive juggernaut aimed towards that forsaken direction. (Inviting Vaan to test-drive the latest fighter ship proves to be a blunder, when his rather dim-witted friend had mentioned as a passing that his lady navigator has been nicknamed “Sexy Sugar Thighs” by the mass male population of that outlandish buccaneer port)

 

5. For 60 seconds of his life, Larsa had plucked off his gloves, rolled up his puffy sleeves, cracked his knuckles, visible twitch rising on his left temple and raced for the nearest battleship (with a dearly overworked Gabranth hot on his heels), when he finally found out that apparently Vaan’s airship had but one single bedroom.

 

(For countless seconds in his life, Larsa had been simply tempted to unmasked his true feelings, and let it be known to Ivalice that the one true love of His Imperial Majesty was the very same lady that these perverted scums of earth was trying to butter up. That ought to keep them away from the Future Sassy Empress for good!)

 

Comments

[skipper (from livejournal.com)]

Poor Gabby...saving the world was easy compared to guarding a jealous Solidor, wasn't it? XD

#4...just when we'd got over the whole annihilation thing...way to go Vaan ;)

[aorin107.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the late reply (better late than sorry, I say XP)

If Gabby has the hindsight and knew what was about to befall him, he'd let the Undying had his way with the world. Anything is much much much better than safeguarding jealous adolescent Solidors, as we all onviously how much damage they are capable of :)

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeee! ::rains hearts and flowers down on you for this favor::

As soon as I get a spare moment from the 438437 metric tons of work that's been crushing me as of late, I SHALL link this to my main UoE page and LJ, oh yes. XD

...And perhaps you might want to link this to the larsaxpenelo comm as well? We can always use yet more fanworks as wonderful as this. ♥

[aorin107.livejournal.com]

Sorry for the late late reply (well, better late than sorry :3)

Anyway, I just want to say that this post ain't going anywhere, so you just take your time, ok :) Besides, you have an upcoming wedding and grad school to worry about now, so don't add another ton of work to your already devasting amount of workload.

... Hmm, all right, I'll post it up at larsaxpenelo shortly :D I wasn't sure if this was worth putting up anywhere previously, but... (=U_U=)

[mariagoner.livejournal.com]

Well, I posted a link to the comm in a huge bit list of 'em... but the more publicity, the better! XD

And late reviews? Late reviews schmate reviews. As long as it all gets done in the end. ;)