Chapter 1: Constancy
Notes:
Starting with one written this year! I'll go back to collect the others from prior years, of course, though. >.>
This was originally written on the 2023 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: Any, any, for we must be sailing to know where we are, we are ships on the sea, and must keep moving on
Yama & Tochiro (Arcadia)
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This was never your kind of life, was it?
Yama's lips quirked, and he ran a hand lightly over the very tops of the bobbing flowers as the ship groaned and clicked around him. ‟Perhaps not,” he said, rubbing a petal between his thumb and fingers, then moved away, looking out into the passing stars - he didn't know where they were, or where they would be, but the Arcadia sailed onwards always, and there was a comfort in that knowledge, ‟but it seems it is now.”
Chapter 2: Pirates of the Arcadia
Notes:
Written on the 2018-2019 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: Any fandom, any character, all over again
Tochiro (Arcadia)
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The Arcadia - Tochiro - shifted with a great groan of metal, pulling in the released Dark Matter as Miime returned and forcing it back into the engine . . . but not only there.
They are my crew, Tochiro thought, gears thrumming to the beat of their Captain's running feet on the deck, I will not lose them!
Even as their Captain crossed over onto the lifeless Oceanus, following the young mate's path, all over the ship the Arcadia's crew began to stir and rise once more, the breath of life pushed back into their still, broken figures, injuries smoothing away.
Chapter 3: Before a Hundred Years
Notes:
Written on the 2018-2019 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: Any fandom, any characters, destruction begets decay
Harlock & Tochiro (Arcadia)
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Harlock rolled the glass of red brandy in his fingers, gaze fixed out the window at the glowing, swirling, wrecked planet; he cringed, thinking of the disaster he had wrought.
We caused disaster, Tochiro rumbled softly in his mind, the ship groaning around him, we thought we could protect it somehow, only for. . .
Only for the Dark Matter to ravage the Earth and leave all life to rot away, Harlock thought, sickened, and the battle to take everything from them; his eyes slid to the shattered and repaired beaker on his friend's abandoned desk, and even Tochiro’s familiar voice in his mind did little to soothe the raw ache in his chest.
Chapter 4: Stormy Night
Notes:
Written on the 2018-2019 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: Any fandom, any characters, mood lighting
. . .and only the first one of several 3SFs I've written across a handful of rounds thus far featuring this theme.
Harlock & Tochiro (Arcadia)
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Harlock sighed, tracing a fingertip along the edge of Tochiro's abandoned desk before sinking into a chair, head bowing. A bright flicker of light startled him and he jumped, turning his head just as another flashed through the windows, illuminating the room starkly for a fraction of a second.
". . .are you creating a storm outside the ship? In space?" Harlock demanded, bewildered.
If you will insist on brooding so dramatically, my friend, Tochiro murmured in his mind, you must have a stormy night.
Chapter 5: Stars and Flowers
Notes:
Written on the 2018-2019 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: any, any/any, laying down in a field of flowers and stars
Harlock/Yama
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‟Come with me, I want to show you something.” Yama had said, with a sweet, knowing smile, and Harlock followed willingly with no idea what it could be.
He couldn’t have imagined this, he thought, stretching out just a little more and nestling into the soft grass, with the incidental effect of bringing Yama to snuggle more closely against his side. Yama’s fingers trailed over Harlock’s hand and arm as they looked up at the stars soaring past with the Arcadia’s flight, the tiny flowers bobbing gently around them.
Chapter 6: What Is Behind Us, What Ahead
Notes:
Written on the 2018-2019 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: Any, any, Let's see how far we've come
Harlock/Yama
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‟Let’s see how far we’ve come.” Yama said, eye bright with determination, hands confident now on the wheel, but slower, gentler than Harlock’s own when he takes the position.
‟From whence?” Harlock asked, shifting in his throne and crossing one leg over the other. ‟From Earth? From the Gaia Legion? From where we first began, you and I?” he adds lightly, lips curving, and watches with amused pleasure as Yama ducks his head almost shyly.
Chapter 7: Welcome to the Arcadia
Notes:
Written on the 2020 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: Any, any, I didn't think this place was haunted until...
Tochiro (Arcadia)
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‟You know he was just fucking with us, right? There's no way haunting is real. Yattaran thought it was funny to spook us when we first came aboard, too, his . . . ghost stories are just another try.”
‟Yeah, yeah, I'm sure it is, just. . . This place is creepy - I didn't think it was haunted either, not just from Yattaran's stories! Not until-”
Tochiro swung the door closed behind the two new recruits, and ratcheted the pipes in the walls as they spun, laughing to himself under their alarmed cursing and shrieking; haunted was he then?
Chapter 8: Investigation
Notes:
Written on the 2020 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: any, any, lap-sitting
A rare peek at a tiny side-ship. ;)
Kei/Yattaran
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‟Let me look at that.” Kei said, and Yattaran opened his mouth to agree and move out of her way, then choked as she folded herself gracefully across his lap; he must have failed to stifle himself entirely, because she looked around at him questioningly. ‟Do you mind?” she asked, with a flutter of lashes and a quizzical look that had to be faked, but Yattaran pulled himself together and shook his head, dredging up a comment that wasn't half so witty as he could usually offer when bantering with her.
Yattaran struggled to keep breathing at all, let alone evenly, as Kei leaned forwards, her shapely hips and butt sliding over his lap in her tight suit as she focused on the console in front of them both.
Chapter 9: Sweaters and Storms
Notes:
Written on the 2020 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: any, any, thunderstorms and cozy sweaters
Revisiting the theme. . .
Harlock/Yama
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‟. . .is that lightning outside?”
‟Probably.” Harlock said, straightening from the chest he had been digging through with a thick cream-coloured knit that looked entirely out of place in his - their - quarters; on board the Arcadia at all.
Yama blinked at him, then looked back out. ‟We're in space.” he observed, which shouldn't have needed saying.
Harlock wrapped the sweater around him and hugged him from behind, nuzzling his neck, and Yama shivered and leaned comfortably into him. ‟Tochiro likes his aesthetic, and stormy nights are apparently a staple of ‘brooding pirates’.” Harlock supplied, and Yama smothered a laugh, tilting his head to rest against Harlock’s.
Chapter 10: Better Ways
Notes:
Written on the 2020 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: Any, any, ways to pass time when you’re immortal
Harlock/Yama
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Harlock raised his glass in a silent toast, eyes straying along the dark lines of his ship - his oldest friend.
He was just raising it to his lips when he was surprised to have it lifted from his hand, the red brandy rippling as the glass as taken away. He looked up to see Yama standing over him, giving him a soft smile.
‟Don't you think there are better ways to spend eternity?” Yama asked, and took a sip, then put the glass down. He took a step back, eye on Harlock.
Harlock rose and followed him willingly - the reason his heart was lighter than it had been in a hundred years.
Chapter 11: Night Garden
Notes:
Written on the 2023 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: Any, any, vampire AU
Harlock/Yama
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Yama twined his fingers with Harlock's own, callused and cold, and drew him out to the newly-restored garden.
Watching the shock rise on Harlock's scarred, dour face - then fade into the light clarity of joy, tears welling in his remaining eye, as he took in the garden, absolutely filled with night-blooming flowers. . .
Yama stepped in close, heart fluttering as the vampire wound an arm around him - almost clinging in a needy embrace - feeling Harlock's muffled sob and wondering how anyone could think of this man as an uncaring monster.
Chapter 12: Mood Lightning
Notes:
Written on the 2023 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: Any, Any, lightning storm in space
Back for the theme again! But how could I resist it for that prompt? . . .also it had been a few years since the last one and I’d forgotten my prior ones. XD
Harlock & Tochiro (Arcadia)
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Settling on the divan that had appeared - he had no idea how - the day before, Harlock grimaced - his eye, his face, still ached something terrible - and looked towards the wide windows that walled almost the entire room.
"Don't you think this is a little overdramatic?" Harlock asked, taking in the brilliant, eye-smarting flashes of purple and blue lightning lashing through the deep purple-black clouds that billowed around the ship, sailing itself through dead space.
Do you not think it suits our mood? Our being? Tochiro whispered through his mind, the ship groaning around him, and the lights dimmed to a reddish glow.
Harlock sank back, closing his eye, and he couldn’t hear the lightning out in space around them, but it seemed as though he could almost feel it.
Chapter 13: Out of Place
Notes:
Written on the 2020 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: Any crossover, two or more characters who happen to share the same name/nickname, any
So this one does feature a crossover, with the movie Moon Child.
Kei (x2)
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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Kei picked himself up with a groan, taking in his surprisingly dark surroundings - too dark for human eyes to comfortably make out - and then pausing as he saw a huge skull and crossbones on the wall nearest him . . . where was he. . .
"And how did you get aboard the Arcadia?"
Kei looked up at a slender woman in a bright pink suit, another skull and crossbones snug against her cleavage, a heavy gun balanced with ease in one hand as she inspected him.
"Kei, what have you got there?"
Kei blinked, looking around and then freezing there on the cold grating as a suit of armour with a glowing face clanked into view; his eyes darted back to the woman as his fangs throbbed with the urge to bite and uncertainty pulsed through him.
"Not sure yet." she said, eyes flicking over Kei assessingly.
Notes:
The other Kei is, of course, a vampire (tiny and cute and angsty):
Chapter 14: Necessary Revolution
Notes:
Written on the 2023 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: any, any, it's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
Harlock/Yama
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"I should feel guilty." Yama said, frowning slightly, fingers splayed on the window. "It was my actions that. . . I'm the one who spoke, who gave the broadcast that brought all this down."
He took a breath as Harlock's arms slid around his waist, leaning backwards against his lover, closing his eye and shutting out the sight of the scrambling mess of ships and humanity below.
"I am pleased if you do not," Harlock said, tightening his embrace just a little, "it was not all your doing . . . and a pretty lie to content themselves with as they die is not better than this; the Gaia Coalition was . . . playing out a debt that would eventually come due and hoping they could keep it forever at bay."
Chapter 15: Reforestation
Notes:
The
threesentenceficathon is running again for the 2024 round! This is my first Harlock 3SF written this year.
Written for the prompt: Any, any, I’ll take this potted plant to the woods and set it free
Harlock/Yama
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Are you sure? Harlock wants to ask, but he knows Yama would never have taken this step if he were not - if the plant were not ready. He swallows down the surge of nerves and dizzying joy that makes his eyes burn with the edge of tears, brushes his fingers along Yama's elbow - he holds the large pot close in his arms, but smiles around a leafy branch at Harlock - and walks at Yama's side down to the mostly-barren land Yama swears was once and will again be a forest.
"You'll be free." Yama says as he settles on his heels, the sapling planted for the first time in wild earth, and Harlock hears the echo of Tochiro's hopes and fierce certainty at the back of his mind. "You'll be free, and you'll grow strong, and one day we will gather a forest around you. . ."
Chapter 16: (Un)Natural Devastation
Notes:
Another 3SF from the currently-running round, written for the prompt: Any, any, growth and decay
Harlock/Yama
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"This is not natural! This devastation!" Harlock nearly snapped, and then took a step back as Yama surged to his feet, glaring.
‟No! No it’s not, and it's your choice that made it happen,” Yama said, fierce, and Harlock bowed his head, because it was true and beyond that it was what he had said himself, pressed Yama to recognise, ‟but Harlock it was a mistake, and you cannot undo it no matter how much you brood over it, and you are working to put it right, you have to let go of it someday!”
Harlock's head snapped up, his eye wide, and Yama lifted his chin in challenge.
"Meanwhile, life is returning to the earth, and yes, while this one might have been unusual," Yama stepped forwards, softening a little, and lifted a hand to Harlock's cheek as his breath hitched, "plants are burned or torn or choked down and fight to grow again all the time; it's the never-ending cycle everything that lives goes through."
Chapter 17: Pirate Flag
Notes:
Written on the 2023 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: any, any, symbols
Kei/Yattaran
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‟Some kind of welcome we get, isn’t it?” Yattaran observed as the half-dozen patrol ships approached them, shouldering his favourite axe. ‟Everywhere we go, battlestations and klaxons. . .”
‟Truly unfathomable.” Kei laughed, brushing her fingers over his belt buckle - tracing the skull and crossbones there. ‟I wonder whyever that could be.” She turned away with a flick of her hair, moving to slip into her hardsuit as Yattaran watched appreciatively - and idly categorised the number of their ship’s favourite emblem on both of them. It was worth checking - occasionally new ones quietly showed up on their own.
Chapter 18: Needed Distraction
Notes:
Written on the 2024 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: Any, any, flowers
Harlock/Yama
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‟Come here.” Yama insists, breaking into Harlock’s thoughts as he struggles to reconcile their flight plan with the half a dozen planets they’d like to aid or visit for supplies, not to mention the fractured bands of Gaia Legion ships roaming everywhere who would love to take on the Arcadia, and he shakes his head, but- ‟Come. Here.” Yama repeats, firm, already pulling him bodily away, and Tochiro - traitor, Harlock mutters at the back of his mind, and Tochiro only laughs - opens the door before them, only to slam it tight at their heels.
Harlock knows he won't be able to get back into his study until Tochiro decides he can, but as Yama drags him halfway across the ship to the greenhouse deck and shoves him down-
Harlock’s breath catches as he almost collapses onto a soft slope of earth, bobbing white flowers all around him, and he can hardly begin to regret the interruption as he runs his fingers over their petals and looks up to meet his lover’s knowing gaze.
Chapter 19: One Problem
Notes:
Written on the 2024 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: Any, any character with complicated outfit(s), how do you get out of this thing?
Harlock/Yama
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‟All right. . .” Yama said against Harlock’s mouth - warm and slick and so much softer than he’d- all right, imagined - and pulled him a little closer, indulging in another lingering, heated kiss. ‟I really do want to fuck you,” he said, and Harlock made a choked sound; Yama laughed, biting his lower lip and holding it captive for a moment, ‟I do have just one problem. . .”
‟What is that?” Harlock asked, voice low and rough, his hands sliding over Yama’s sides, thumbs tracing along his ribs, then his hips, making him shiver.
‟How the fuck does any of this come off so I can get to your actual- you?” Yama demanded, tugging at the high collar of Harlock’s cape again even as he leaned back and let one hand splay over one of the bolted on metal bands on Harlock's clothes.
Chapter 20: Occupations
Notes:
Written on the 2024 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: Captain Harlock, Any, Crew Downtime
Kei/Yattaran
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‟Are you really cleaning your gun again? When we have nothing to do?” Yattaran asked, leaning on the top of the cabinet beside Kei; it looked like she was messing with the alignment, probably upgrading, as well - she wasn’t an engineer, but most of them had picked up enough to fiddle with their own gear at least - but still.
‟Mm. . .” Kei pursed her lips, looking up at him, her hands stilling on the oversized weapon balanced across her lap. ‟Have you something better to suggest?” she asked, and Yattaran stilled; that . . . sounded like a dangerous question, even though he had, actually, immediately considered something better.
‟Perhaps something like,” she began lightly, ‟re-calibrating your entire workstation for the third time this cycle? Taking two full days and nights?” she questioned, and Yattaran relaxed a little; her light tone said danger but the arch of her eyebrow and the slant of her half smile said she was teasing, and Yattaran was perfectly up to the challenge of returning it - and maybe coaxing her away from her task for the night.
Chapter 21: Groggy Mornings
Notes:
Written on the 2024 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: Any, any, ghost in the machine
Harlock/Yama, Toshiro (Arcadia)
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Harlock tilted his head, watching as the door swung open a breath before Yama would have stumbled into it, and a subtle shift of the entire ship angled the flooring beneath his feet.
I like him, Tochiro said, and Harlock snorted; that had been more than obvious long before he first time he pulled these tricks for Yama’s sake. *And it’s cute how he never quite wakes up until he’s in the greenhouse bay.
He is, Harlock returned, shaking his head, trailing his fingers along the wall as he made his own way out of their quarters. I don’t recall you ever being so accommodating for me, he added wryly, and Tochiro only laughed, closing the door at Harlock’s heels.
Chapter 22: Good Times and Trouble
Notes:
Written on the 2025 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: Captain Harlock, Any, Wine and A Good Time
Harlock/Yama, Yattaran
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‟Isn’t. . . Isn’t Yattaran's idea of a ‘good time’. . .” Yama trailed off, looking down the corridor after the handful of crew whose laughter still echoed back to them.
‟I'm sure he can’t get in too much trouble.” Harlock said idly, and Yama eyed him instead.
. . .though he supposed any level of bar fight or street scuffle couldn’t possibly match the sort of trouble they got into on a regular basis - their latest having been taking strafing runs through the Gaia Legion’s faltering blockades - no matter how much or what kind of alcohol he or any other crew chose along the way.
Chapter 23: Fantasies Realised
Notes:
Written on the 2025 round of the Three Sentence Ficathon, for the prompt: any, character who wears full body armor (&/any welcome!), the armor stays on during...
Kei/Yattaran
(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)
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Yattaran nuzzled his lover’s face, murmuring his thanks for her indulgence in this play and still admiring her spread out before and on him; it would have been delicious if Kei could have worn her hardsuit as well - at least in pieces, open - but she wore it rarely compared to him anyway . . . and there was no way they could have gotten close enough to-
‟Hm.” Kei sniffed, but she smiled at him and stretched languorously in a way he knew her too well not to see was calculated - body all whipcord and silk, she looked lovely mostly bare against his hardsuit - then reached to drag a fingertip along his jaw. ‟You are far too attached to that,” she said, giving him a smile both sweet and sharp, ‟but I have an idea for cleanup and how you can make these bruises up to me . . . when you can get yourself out of that.” she said, and Yattaran straightened, suddenly tense with anticipation, as she pulled back.
A murmuring tease as she walked away, stripping away the last pieces of her brilliant pink suit and letting them fall, and Yattaran scrabbled thoughtlessly to key his hardsuit to release; he had never considered the zero-gravity shower in such a way, though he knew Kei loved it, and suddenly he had a whole new fantasy.
Notes:
I am well aware a zero-gravity shower would be terrible and not work at all like it is shown in the movie to do, but it is so shown, so heyo. >.>
Chapter 24: Unmuted
Notes:
Written between rounds of the Three Sentence Ficathon, in 2025, for the prompt: Any, any (/& any) + outsider PoV, "you're still on comms"
Kei/Yattaran
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‟Just for you, I’ll make there be time for a massage,” Yattaran said, warm and rumbling with a laugh, ‟back on board; at least if you get your shapely ass back without any scuffs.”
‟You’re still on open comms.” Kenta said, wincing and hoping not to-
‟So?” Kei asked, voice low and throaty, and Kenta only just stopped himself from jerking back as she stepped out in front of him; he couldn't see her face through her helmet, but the snap of her boots on the deck plates and the pop of her hip as she turned made her impatience quite obvious enough without any need to see her glare at him.
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