
Holes in the Brick Route: Victory Ball
Someone needed to bleed and right now. DG’s hands both fisted on the nearest ruffle, but she didn’t rip the pink monstrosity off. Her butterflies over her official introduction to the realm in celebration of their victory at the Eclipse collided together to form a Japanese robot of dread now marching in her stomach. No, she couldn’t face her adoring public in pink making her skin crawl.

Summary: None of this was worth a lousy medal.
In Chapter Eighteen of Tin Man: Dragons and Ninjas, I got the idea to do something cute. The miniseries flashbacks all had young DG dressed in reds and pinks while adult DG wore blue in homage to the original Dorothy Gale. When I realized she wore a pink velvet dress when she was killed by Azkadellia and brought back to life by the Queen and she also had reoccurring nightmares of what had happened in the O.Z., I thought giving her a loathing of the color pink made perfect sense. This story was written for tm_challenge Round 12A: Honored, but with only two submissions no prizes were awarded. I hope you enjoy it.