[Fic] "A Whirlwind Visit" -- Oz
Jan. 1st, 2021 08:34 pmAnd then I wrote a treat for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
aurilly, because why not!
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A Whirlwind Visit (2230 words) by Elizabeth Culmer
Fandom: Oz - L. Frank Baum
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Button-Bright & Polychrome
Characters: Button-Bright, Polychrome
Additional Tags: Family, Friendship, Yuletide Treat, Homecoming
Summary: The first time Polychrome took Button-Bright to visit the kingdom of the sky fairies, all went well. They were both determined that the second visit would be even better. Button-Bright asked Princess Ozma and the Wizard to help him pack and shrink a whole week's worth of food, Polychrome asked her aunt for help weaving a blanket of moonbeams to keep Button-Bright warm in the chill of the upper air, and they picked a week that should start and end with sun, but have some rain in the middle so Polychrome could show off the sky kingdom in all its moods and weathers.
It was a very good plan.
Unfortunately, it went awry.
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It was late on Christmas Eve, and I was at my parents' house without access to most of my various canon sources, so I poked around the prompt spreadsheet until I found something that I thought I could write fairly quickly and without needing extensive canon review. (And the canon is also entirely in public domain and available online.) I actually wrote a story about Button-Bright as my Yuletide assignment two years ago, which concluded with him sending a letter to his parents to let them know he was safe and living in Oz. That still nagged at me a little, so when I saw aurilly's prompt about Button-Bright and Polychrome perhaps ending up in Philadelphia for a while, that struck me as something I really wanted to write, right now.
I did no planning for this whatsoever, which is why Button-Bright's parents don't actually appear on-page and instead all the interaction is with a housemaid and a cook -- basically, it occurred to me as he rang the doorbell that his family is filthy rich and would have a servant to answer the door. I also backfilled some of the opening, because it's important the first visit to the Sky Kingdoms went well, and also I think sky kingdoms (whether made of fairy magic and clouds and rainbows, or floating islands, or I think I once read about one that was held up by hot air balloons?) are inherently cool.
I think I will keep an eye out for future excuses to write Button-Bright and/or Polychrome, because I've enjoyed both this story and my 2018 Yuletide assignment a LOT. :D
aurilly, because why not!-----
A Whirlwind Visit (2230 words) by Elizabeth Culmer
Fandom: Oz - L. Frank Baum
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Button-Bright & Polychrome
Characters: Button-Bright, Polychrome
Additional Tags: Family, Friendship, Yuletide Treat, Homecoming
Summary: The first time Polychrome took Button-Bright to visit the kingdom of the sky fairies, all went well. They were both determined that the second visit would be even better. Button-Bright asked Princess Ozma and the Wizard to help him pack and shrink a whole week's worth of food, Polychrome asked her aunt for help weaving a blanket of moonbeams to keep Button-Bright warm in the chill of the upper air, and they picked a week that should start and end with sun, but have some rain in the middle so Polychrome could show off the sky kingdom in all its moods and weathers.
It was a very good plan.
Unfortunately, it went awry.
-----
It was late on Christmas Eve, and I was at my parents' house without access to most of my various canon sources, so I poked around the prompt spreadsheet until I found something that I thought I could write fairly quickly and without needing extensive canon review. (And the canon is also entirely in public domain and available online.) I actually wrote a story about Button-Bright as my Yuletide assignment two years ago, which concluded with him sending a letter to his parents to let them know he was safe and living in Oz. That still nagged at me a little, so when I saw aurilly's prompt about Button-Bright and Polychrome perhaps ending up in Philadelphia for a while, that struck me as something I really wanted to write, right now.
I did no planning for this whatsoever, which is why Button-Bright's parents don't actually appear on-page and instead all the interaction is with a housemaid and a cook -- basically, it occurred to me as he rang the doorbell that his family is filthy rich and would have a servant to answer the door. I also backfilled some of the opening, because it's important the first visit to the Sky Kingdoms went well, and also I think sky kingdoms (whether made of fairy magic and clouds and rainbows, or floating islands, or I think I once read about one that was held up by hot air balloons?) are inherently cool.
I think I will keep an eye out for future excuses to write Button-Bright and/or Polychrome, because I've enjoyed both this story and my 2018 Yuletide assignment a LOT. :D
