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beccaelizabethI have like a regular cast in my head, imported from all my favourite shows, some more than others. They come with handy ready built sets of issues and things they've been through and, on the whole, horrible ends they need saved from. And whenever I play with a new canon, one of the things I tend to do? Is import all these events and see how they would run in the new place.
Ethan Rayne, Doyle, Lindsey, Wes, there are so many people in the Buffyverse need saving. And since characters played by Wentworth Miller got more of my attention that includes some one off character with one (1) fanfic on Ao3. And then I start thinking there are so many others need the help at least as much...
So science fiction settings are usually harder to import them into. I mean, you can translate Ethan to a mad scientist, but you lose a whole religious layer or have to rebuild it very different. And so on and so forth. But they work pretty great in Legends of Tomorrow, because absolutely anything goes in Legends of Tomorrow, they could time ship team up with the starship Enterprise one week and hop back to hang out with Methos when he's young the next. But because time travel you end up having all these deaths you want to fix and a canon devoted to the idea you on the whole cannot fix them. Boo.
But reading post canon Harry Potter fanfic gave me plenty of ideas for like what if I inherited a mansion and could move all my friends in and those friends were, thus far, quite a lot of Highlander and a large part of the Buffyverse and some of the Rogues from the Arrowverse and just a dash of Merlin and an option on, like, everyone else you can think of. Not sure what plots to put people through, but could nick their canon history and replay it with a different set of people around them, plenty of plots there.
And then reading Pathfinder gives me similar translate it and run it again ideas. The translation changes people a lot, and I know some of my vague ideas are more from D&D, and I really want to portal my character in so that's more of a Banestorm GURPS setup, but throw it all together and shake a bit and you've got adventures to run in plenty.
But they're kind of the same ones.
And it's making me look at the two settings and wonder if I should save one for when I have new and different ideas (hah) and put the characters in to the other.
Except, it's also weird that it's bothering me, because how many stories are set after or around the exact same moments of canon? Sure it's odd to mash up so many fandoms and file the serial numbers off, but there are so many fixit fics, even for the... non hero characters I tend to get attached to.
So in Legends fic I know how I would wind a plot around to save Richie Ryan and Ethan Rayne and of course Leonard Snart and along the way plural Thawnes and at least one Merlyn.
But I also would drop all those same problems into any other setting I was playing with, and figure out how to save them all there. For the same reason I think fixit fics at length and in detail. But, somehow, it feels... like I should be more Original in stuff that could be Original Fic.
I mean it's not, it's all fic like pieces, but it's not very good fanfic once everyone is smushed together because I'll be reinventing the characters and only keeping the parts I like, so, it is also original.
But still, I could get a lot of plots if I just took canon about the people I want to include and, like, threw it all at each other.
And with the existing built in metaphor stuff in the source texts it wouldn't hardly have to be shouty about issues at all.
... now if only words went all in a row for me at some point...
Ethan Rayne, Doyle, Lindsey, Wes, there are so many people in the Buffyverse need saving. And since characters played by Wentworth Miller got more of my attention that includes some one off character with one (1) fanfic on Ao3. And then I start thinking there are so many others need the help at least as much...
So science fiction settings are usually harder to import them into. I mean, you can translate Ethan to a mad scientist, but you lose a whole religious layer or have to rebuild it very different. And so on and so forth. But they work pretty great in Legends of Tomorrow, because absolutely anything goes in Legends of Tomorrow, they could time ship team up with the starship Enterprise one week and hop back to hang out with Methos when he's young the next. But because time travel you end up having all these deaths you want to fix and a canon devoted to the idea you on the whole cannot fix them. Boo.
But reading post canon Harry Potter fanfic gave me plenty of ideas for like what if I inherited a mansion and could move all my friends in and those friends were, thus far, quite a lot of Highlander and a large part of the Buffyverse and some of the Rogues from the Arrowverse and just a dash of Merlin and an option on, like, everyone else you can think of. Not sure what plots to put people through, but could nick their canon history and replay it with a different set of people around them, plenty of plots there.
And then reading Pathfinder gives me similar translate it and run it again ideas. The translation changes people a lot, and I know some of my vague ideas are more from D&D, and I really want to portal my character in so that's more of a Banestorm GURPS setup, but throw it all together and shake a bit and you've got adventures to run in plenty.
But they're kind of the same ones.
And it's making me look at the two settings and wonder if I should save one for when I have new and different ideas (hah) and put the characters in to the other.
Except, it's also weird that it's bothering me, because how many stories are set after or around the exact same moments of canon? Sure it's odd to mash up so many fandoms and file the serial numbers off, but there are so many fixit fics, even for the... non hero characters I tend to get attached to.
So in Legends fic I know how I would wind a plot around to save Richie Ryan and Ethan Rayne and of course Leonard Snart and along the way plural Thawnes and at least one Merlyn.
But I also would drop all those same problems into any other setting I was playing with, and figure out how to save them all there. For the same reason I think fixit fics at length and in detail. But, somehow, it feels... like I should be more Original in stuff that could be Original Fic.
I mean it's not, it's all fic like pieces, but it's not very good fanfic once everyone is smushed together because I'll be reinventing the characters and only keeping the parts I like, so, it is also original.
But still, I could get a lot of plots if I just took canon about the people I want to include and, like, threw it all at each other.
And with the existing built in metaphor stuff in the source texts it wouldn't hardly have to be shouty about issues at all.
... now if only words went all in a row for me at some point...
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Date: 2018-11-07 12:50 am (UTC)I think, in a non-magic world, he might fit in politics. Sounds icky, I know, but ignore what's actually happening in the world right now, look at it in a more scifi with complex politics way... He'd thrive there. Behind the scenes, poking people's sensitive spots, making polite insinuations while metaphorically backstabbing. Or front-stabbing.
WHAT I MEAN is, despite the fact the candy factory was science as well as business and marketing, and that Halloween was a planned result, etc, those were scientific means to a chaotic end, relatively speaking, rather than a scientific end in mind. Maybe.