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Theme Prompt: Pyrrhic Victory
Title: An Unworthy Sacrifice
Fandom: Transformers IDW1
Relationship: Optimus Prime & Prowl
Rating/Warnings: Teen | War, Apocalypse mention
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 400
Summary: In which Optimus loses his temper.

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Here are this week's votes tallied, and below the cut are our winners for Challenge #201 – Pyrrhic Victory!

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Total Challenge Words Written: 2463

Congratulations to both of you, and thank you to everyone who took the time to cast their votes! [personal profile] autobotscoutriella will be making this week’s banners, so keep an eye out for those this weekend.

You may now post your Challenge 201 entries to any additional communities, blogs, archives or sites as you'd like! We also have a FandomWeekly AO3 Collection if you'd like to add your stories there!
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Here are the entries for this challenge:

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Please Note: Because we only have 3 entries this week, there is only a First Place and Runner Up to vote for!

In order to vote, please reply to this post using the form provided. All comments are screened, and entries are listed in the order they were submitted. For your vote to qualify, you must fill out your entire voting card (both spots) in order to be counted. Winner votes are worth 2 points, Runner Up votes are worth 1 point. Meeting the bonus goal on an entry gets an extra point for that submission.

When voting, please copy/paste the ENTRY NUMBER and the FIC TITLE from the list above into the spot you're voting for (this prevents accidentally mis-numbering a vote and casting it for the wrong entry). It should look like this:

First Place: 61. Fic Title Here
Runner Up: 88. Another Fic Title

Please note that you cannot vote for your own entry, and that votes cannot be made anonymously. You do not have to be a member of the community in order to vote, nor have submitted an entry for this week; everyone is welcome to participate in the voting. IP addresses are logged to prevent duplicate voting.



Voting closes Wednesday, December 6, at 9:00PM EST.
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Theme Prompt: #201 - Pyrrhic victory
Title: Ash and smoke
Fandom: Game of Thrones
Rating/Warnings: PG. Spoilers for Season 8.
Bonus: Yes
Word Count: 1,000 words
Summary: Tyrion comes to realise his error too late.

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Theme Prompt: #201 - Pyrrhic Victory
Title: What It's Worth
Fandom: Original Work
Rating/Warnings: None
Bonus: No
Word Count: 638
Summary: Kit and Alex talk after the event.

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Theme Prompt: #201 - Pyrrhic Victory
Title: Bitter Victory
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating/Warnings: PG / None
Bonus: No.
Word Count: 825
Summary: Buffy has won the battle and saved the world, so why does she feel so awful?



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Challenge 201:
PYRRHIC VICTORY
n. a victory that is not worth winning because so much is lost to achieve it

Some fights, whatever they may be about, just aren’t worth it. Maybe winning the fight requires sacrificing something: crossing a deeply-held moral line, destroying a weapon or tool that you know you’re going to need later, or even losing a friend or family member. Maybe you can win, but it’ll require so many resources that you won’t be able to do anything else afterward. Maybe the plan all along was to lose this fight, and somehow you didn’t.

How do your characters handle victories that just aren’t worth it? Have they ever experienced it? What did it cost?

Write a story about a pyrrhic victory.

BONUS GOAL: “We’re about to achieve a tremendous victory we don’t want.”

If your submission includes this line, it will earn an extra point to be tallied in voting!


Challenge ends Monday, December 4 at 9:00PM EST.
• Post submissions as new entries using the template in the profile
• Tag this week's entries as: [#] submission, 201 – pyrrhic victory
• If you have questions about this challenge, please ask them here

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