Personal Space
Brazil hadn't been an easy place to live for the people who already lived there. It hadn't been going to be easy for them having moved there either. Slavery may have been gone but it had left its marks, as the street urchins roaming the favelas...
Driftwood
_'I hate this.'_ Afternoon. Skyscrapers concealed what was left of the setting sun's light with hard lines, cold stone and sharp angles. Mano missed the reassuring ocean depths and iron hull wrapped around her like a protective cocoon. The swarming...
Old Wounds
It was raining when he found him. He'd been out looking for the skunk for what felt like far too long, considering how little time he knew he had. Possibly also considering how long it had been, depending on just what he meant by that. But the longer...
Before A Fall
Things weren't going so bad for Soma - it wasn't even a tournament month. He'd been getting a few patients he'd needed to take care of here and there, but just the right amount, not so much that it was proving overwhelming for him to keep up. It's...
Milgram
The chimera moved between the spaced out bamboo poles as seamlessly as a performer would've spun on a dance floor. Any misstep would've landed him in the water below him, and he \*was\* deathly afraid of water. Thinking about how Rakim had had to...
Bellerophon
Diaz knew that the chimera, having trounced him soundly, and with there being only one fight left, wasn't going to have to leave the ring until the tournament would be over. He certainly didn't expect to see the monster get out of the ring where the...
Pride Rock
"Hey, that's...!" Klein tilted his head at the otter's exclamation quizzically. "What? Cheating?" The therapist sighed, thinking back on his own taunts at the skunk earlier during the fight. "Fair enough," the shifter shook his head resignedly. "So...
And Unjust Alike
The tournaments had never been Soma's favorite time of the year. It wasn't that the healer had anything against martial artists, but every time the tournaments came around, more of them would get hurt. The more of them got hurt, the more of them he...
Diaz & Mandrake
Mandrake's modus operandi usually involved inviting his patients to his own office rather than going all the way to meet them where they dwelled, but as shut-ins were difficult to draw out of where they lived for obvious reasons, the otter had decided...
Grim Forge
People who die and who go to heaven realize that some of the people who they cared about in life were sent to hell and that they're no longer allowed to interact with each other. The split shifts, from being simply between demons on one side and angels...
Shinai & Rajiv
Shinai the weasel lives in a dirt cheap, cramped, sparsely furnished dwelling in the burning hot Arizona desert. Weasels were long stereotyped as cowardly, so he first became a combatant to disprove that misconception and resist that label - he would...
Volk
In Volk's world, undeath ends up playing the social role of indefinite life extension reserved for the upper class. The wolf doesn't believe that there's such a thing as the afterlife, and unlike other undead-fighting heroes, he has no interest in...