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Part 6 of Small Fandoms Drabbles
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2024-02-19
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Glass Shard

Summary:

Sana carries a glass shard in her pocket. Set during the beginning of season 2.

Notes:

This idea also came courtesy of a friend-prompt that turned out to be perfect for an idea I'd been nursing for years. One of my friends gave me the prompt "glass shard", and initially I didn't have a clear idea for it. Then, it suddenly came to me that I could marry this with an idea I've had for ages about Sana and the Rumor, working through her feelings about its loss in light of what she says in season 1 episode 7 - how she's never had a place where every single piece of her belongs, and the closest she has is a ship she'd built herself from scraps.

The last line is also a callback to Sana's speech there: "if we have to keep moving, we might as well run."

(It's still my favourite TSCOSI episode <3)

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Work Text:

Sana carries a glass shard in her pocket.

It's part of the Rumor, although she doesn't know which part. It could be from any of the times she pulled the ship back together with bare hands and ingenuity and stubbornness.

She doesn't want to give it up. It's the last piece she has.

But it's not in the Rumor's nature to be static.

So, Sana pulls it out, files the edges smooth. She's weaving a brightly-coloured hanging to decorate the mess; the glass glitters in its centre.

Sana might be running, but she can still bring their home with her.

Notes:

I noodled for ages over what Sana might turn the glass shard into, and originally thought of making it something practical like a lightbulb cover or a piece of the miniature greenhouse. I even had a whole version written up with that, but it didn't sit right for some reason. I think it's because it wasn't emotional enough - and then I thought about Sana making the crew jackets and hammock, and the idea of a cloth hanging came to me, with the shard at its centre. The line about running brought it all together.

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