dolevalan | Entries tagged with character: benjamin barker

Title: Now
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Benjamin Barker, Nellie Lovett
Prompt: 036, Smell
Word Count: 203
Rating: G
Summary: One of three little drabbles.
Author's Notes: First fics post-movie. The movie will, of course, influence a little bit...but the continuity, such as it is, is mainly the same as my pre-film fiction. If it matters, which it likely doesn't.

( Smell )

Title: Not a Day Goes By
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Benjamin Barker, Anthony Hope, Tobias Ragg, Beadle Bamford, Johanna Barker, Nellie Lovett, Beggar Woman, Jonas Fogg
Prompt: 006, Hours
Word Count: 1593
Rating: PG
Summary: As the title and prompt might suggest.
Author's Notes: I promise you, I've not given up, and I'm not dead. And I figured I should squeeze out one last fic before the movie comes out, hm? Sorry I've been so MIA.

( Hours )

Title: Even When They Leave
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Benjamin Barker, Lucy Barker, Johanna Barker
Prompt: 074, Dark
Word Count: 333
Rating: PG
Summary: Not all things heal with time.
Author's Notes: Not much to say on this one. Brief as it is.

( Dark. )

Title: Counting Sheep
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Sweeney Todd
Prompt: 007, Days
Word Count: 235
Rating: G
Summary: A nightly ritual.
Author's Notes: A tiny little birthday drabble.

( Days. )

Title: Sweet Dreams
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Anthony Hope, Benjamin Barker, Lucy Barker, Johanna Turpin (Hope)
Prompt: 085, She
Word Count: 596
Rating: G
Summary: Things change, and things stay the same.
Author's Notes: I didn't give up! I promise. Things have been rather crazy, as real life will be, and I've been (ssh) working on a novel, which has been eating my creative energy. But I wouldn't want

meerkitty868 to starve for lack of Sweeney-fic. And I really do miss my fanfic now and then. Also... this is the last piece I'll ever post to procrastinate doing homework in my undergraduate career, which is just surreal. Enjoy.

( She. )

Title: Moon on a String - part four
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Benjamin Barker, Mrs. Lovett, Lucy, mention of the Judge and Johanna
Prompt: 050, Spade
Word Count: 1391
Rating: G
Summary: Benjamin returns to London to find the world on its head.
Author's Notes: Sorry for the long delay in finishing this piece - I had a version of part four finished when I posted part three, and then I wasn't satisfied, so I kept re-writing it. I'm still not sure I'm satisfied, but I'm more satisfied. Also, as regards the prompt, it's in reference to calling a spade a spade. I realize that, from reading it, this may be a bit obtuse, but it did make sense to me.

( Spade )

Title: My Friends
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Todd, Lovett, OCs
Prompt: 073, Light
Word Count: 1102
Rating: PG-ish
Summary: Living history, perhaps?
Author's Notes: I'm actually pretty pleased with this one. I considered expanding it into a series of stories, but I like them together this way better.

( Light. )

Title: Homecoming
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Johanna, Anthony, Beggar Woman, Turpin, Sweeney
Prompt: 027, Parents
Word Count: 2441
Rating: PG-13 for violence
Summary: Johanna sees more than she bargained for.
Author's Notes: Well, after almost 2 months of nothing, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised when this fic ran away with me, length-wise. I usually try not to just straight-out novelize bits of the musical, as I think it's really not the most interesting place to go in most cases, but I'd been wanting to do this point-of-view piece for a long while and seeing the revival made me finally sit down and write it. Note that, as with most of my fanfic, I did't attempt to make it particularly revival or original, stealing bits from both. The dialogue isn't mine, as I lifted it from the libretto.

( Parents. )

Title: Memory
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Sweeney, Beggar Woman, various O.C.s
Prompt: 076, Who?
Word Count: 1,537
Rating: G
Summary: A chance encounter leaves an impression.
Author's Notes: This is actually not at all the fic I intended to write. I intended to write some humorous crackfic inspired by the discussion over at the Sweeney Todd community. And then I started writing and this popped out instead. Go figure. It's much longer than I expected, and neither humorous nor any sort of crossover (though, as usual, there are plenty of original characters - I should stop that). But I spent some time on it...and the fic pleasantly surprised me.

( Who? )

Title: Never Far Away
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Benjamin Barker
Prompt: 024, Family
Word Count: 776
Rating: G
Summary: Benjamin's heart is a million miles away.
Author's Notes: I think this is actually a better Christmas story than the one I wrote at Christmas. Ah well.

( Family )

Title: Passage
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Benjamin Barker
Prompt: 051, Water
Word Count: 375
Rating: G
Summary: The beginning of a voyage
Author's Notes: I've been trying to write this fic all week and it has just obstinately refused to be written. Stubborn little thing. Here it is, in any case.

( Water )

Title: Requiem
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Benjamin Barker (Tobias implied)
Prompt: 071, Broken
Word Count: 341
Rating: PG-13
Author's Notes: Sorry these have been relatively short and far between - end of term is killing me. But I should be a bit more productive in a week or so.

( Broken )

Title: Perfect
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Benjamin Barker, Johanna
Prompt: 093, Thanksgiving
Word Count: 100
Rating: G
Author's Notes: A holiday drabble a day early.

( Thanksgiving )

Title: Other Roads
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Lucy Barker, Judge Turpin, Daniel O'Higgens, Johanna, Tobias, Mrs. Lovett, Beadle Bamford, Benjamin Barker
Prompt: 082 - If
Word Count: 3056
Rating: R
Author's Notes: In addition to the usual fanfic disclaimer, I should add that the "10 things that never happened" format is not mine. I've seen it used in various places, so I don't have a specific person to credit or anything, but I find it interesting, and it worked well for the prompt, at least in theory. I hope it's apparent, but just to be clear, these are 10 seperate little AU ficlets. They aren't connected to one another beyond being things that never actually happened.

( If )

Title: Farewell
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Benjamin Barker, Anthony Hope, Jack Dawkins
Prompt: 003 Ends
Word Count: 2346
Rating: PG
Author's Notes: A long one, yes. I got a bit...carried away, perhaps. In any case, a note on the dates. The "real" Sweeney's trial was in 1801, but the muscial is simply set, as far as I could discover, "in the 19th century." To make the crossover work, I've decided the events of the play take place in the early 1840s. This fic takes place circa 1840-41 or so. In case you were wondering, Jack Dawkins is, in fact, transported to Australia in the third book of Oliver Twist.

( Ends )

Title: The Dance
Fandom: Sweeney Todd
Characters: Benjamin Barker, Lucy
Prompt: 001, Beginnings
Word Count: 630
Rating: G
Author's Notes: My first for