"Would you like a blindfold, Mr. Tucker?"

  [ Shou Tucker, in the Fifth Lab, in search of the Gate ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 37
  Beta - Mattador of the Hot Pants
  For - Demidevi's Gen & Squick Contest; winner in both categories
  Ref. - author's notes

"His father's best sword hangs over the mantle; it is a long, razor sharp, perfectly balanced katana, sheathed in deep greenish black and accented in patina bronze."

  [ Vicious: a creation myth for a character too inscrutable to have a story ]

"Why are you crying, little brother? She tried to kill you. She didn't even go limp when she died. You're lucky I could do that. I saved you."

  [ seven stories in one, or one story in seven, of Sirrus and Achenar ]

  Spoilers - Myst
  Canon - written before realMYST, Uru, Myst IV and V
  Beta - Dester'edra
  For - Aitrus5, by dedication
  Ref. - author's notes

"Spike, breathing curls of gray-white, brushed Vicious' hair away to bare his face and ran a thumb down the narrow scars that creased their ways out from his eyes."

  [ the Russian kind, of course: a six-bullet slice of Spike and Vicious, before the Bebop, before Julia, with weaponsex ]

  Spoilers - slight for ep. 26
  Beta - Switchknife

"When you talk to snakes, everything comes in long stripes, and everybody stares at you as the little scaly garter winds around your wrist and flicks its tongue and murmurs about how blades of grass go this way and that..."

  [ Tom at ten, the crazy boy ]

  Canon - written before bk. 6
  Beta - Dester'edra

"All he had to do was snap his fingers. Again. Agan in this endless night of terror."

  [ Roy, meeting Lust ]

  Spoilers - through ep. 15
  For - mattador, by LJ ficlet request