Challenge Post

[syvia.livejournal.com]

Challenge: [085] Alive
Title: Muscle and Sinew
Word count: 258
Spoilers: Inferred for KH2 and The Nightmare Before Christmas
Notes: Sora doesn't get it- Dr. Finkelstein attempts to explain.




"...I don't get it."

Dr. Finkelstein sighed and rested his enormous cranium on his tiny hand.

"I'm sorry. I'm trying, really I am-"

"My boy," the scientist said, fixing his beady eyes on the foreign vampire, "he is a skeleton. As such- our Pumpkin King is dead."

"But he walks and talks and thinks."

"Yes."

"So that means he's alive, doesn't it?"

"In a fashion- yes."

Sora banged his head against his hands- laying on the laboratory's kitchen table. "I don't get it! He doesn't have a heart- right?"

Patiently, the doctor continued to answer Sora's questions. "As he is a skeleton, he is air and bones, yes."

"But hearts are supposed to hold memory, and Jack has memories."

"That is correct."

"But how can he have memories if he doesn't have a heart?"

The doctor sat in his chair and looked thoughtfully at Sora for a while.

"My boy... I have decades of research, countless experiments, shelves of documents on life and bringing things to life. I made Sally and my lovely Mrs. Finkelstein-"

Said Mrs. Finkelstein looked up from her cauldron of Wormwart soup and batted her eyelashes, smiling pleasantly at them.

"-Sally's heart is red velvet stuffed with raven feathers and stitched with iron thread- my love's heart was donated by a loving housewife who didn't need it anymore. Their hearts aren't the same as yours or mine- neither is Jack Skellington's."

"So-"

"So not every living thing is made of muscle and sinew. ...Do you really think that's all there is to your heart?"

Comments

[kendarath.livejournal.com]

*heart*

[syvia.livejournal.com]

^^ Thanks.

[invisibledancer.livejournal.com]

oh man! I love this! really nice. I like how Sora is trying to figure it out; he always seems to have a hard time understanding deeper meaning or reasons behind things when it isn't spelled out for him.

[syvia.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed. :D

[aishiteru.livejournal.com]

oh that's lovely! That is literally what I just said out loud. XD Adorable, neat little concept, and truly interesting in its own way. Dr. Finklestein! This is absolutely great. I wish I had a NBC icon to honor it. XD

[syvia.livejournal.com]

^^

Finklestein is cool- and has so much potential. :D He's not bad- he's just scary!

Thanks. ^^

[lindskaba.livejournal.com]

SO CUTE! And yet so poignant. I totally love stories like that ♥

[syvia.livejournal.com]

Thankee~ :)

[kunoichi-life.livejournal.com]

*watches Syvia's drabble slide in just in time*
Syvia for the win! *jigs* er.... sorry XD. Happens sometimes.

You turned a perfectly adorable moment into a meaningful experience for the kiddy *pats Sora*. I was smiling the entire time but your ending made me sit back and just .... gahhhh. <3

[syvia.livejournal.com]

*laughs* ^^ I had the idea and figured I might as well make the attempt- ;p considering the insanity of my rl lately, I tend to get to the end of the week, check the deadline, and if I'm still within the time frame, ^^ I post.

^^ Thank you.

[i-got-spunk.livejournal.com]

For some reason, this reminds me of "the ingredients to make a perfect little boy/girl" thing from Powerpuff Girls. Me = loser

[syvia.livejournal.com]

XDD

[tabitha-dornoc.livejournal.com]

First off, TITLE LOVE. Really caught my eye. I like how it's worked in. I like how this stays completely in line with canon, and Sora is so stubbornly inquisitive that his dialogue could be right from the game. And way to go Doc, make Sora think, lol! I love how you approached this topic; very literal. Clever, sweet and lovely as usual!

[syvia.livejournal.com]

XD I dunno where it came from but I think my muse likes me right now. ;p

Thanks~.