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beccaelizabeth) wrote2024-02-10 12:12 pm
beccaelizabeth) wrote2024-02-10 12:12 pm
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Alien school
I was thinking about Whoniverse spin off plot bunnies
as you do
and thinking about Trion.
Turlough was in school on Earth. Which on the one hand is a Secret Princess of an origin story, the whole thing where he doesnt have to go to school anymore because someone noticed his true nature, though that one usually involves less assassination. But onthe other hand is just kind of nuts, necause aliens from another planet looked at Earth and thought 'hmm, boarding school'.
So I was thinking, what it, more than one alien place did that?
Or, more apropos to current events, what if one place did that, but for all their refugees?
There'd be a stash of alien asylum seekers in a boarding school waiting to have their claims processed, in a theoretically safe third nation.
But given Torchwood and a few bits of UNIT it's a tough sell to say Earth is actually factually safe for aliens. So the story would put England in a position of defending its human rights record, by way of non humans. Probably in pursuit of a trade deal. A seperate one to Europe or America. But with people who had used Earth as a convenient stop off for at least decades.
And then all the alien students would have different backgrounds and problems to work through.
Also while I'm at it I'd make one student a goblin, trying to get away from the evil of the so called goblin kings. Just... attempt to defuse that mess by way of making them an actual individual character, sort of thing. Pathfinder has Outsiders that take over goblin clans and try to lead them into evil, and Pathfinder goblins mostly donlt live to middle age, which happens age 20, so there's a lot to unpack if we borrow enough Pathfinder. Abandoned planet of the children level stuff, a sci fi staple.
... honestly I'm mostly coming up Pathfinder ideas because that's what I've been reading that isnt Doctor Who, but there's so much DW you can grab plenty from all over.
Class did the alien student thing but they were isolated among humans.
But you could do an entire school, secret safe.
It's need a lot of specifics and an age range to aim at to turn into Story though...
ETA: Imagine if Ace spent a few weeks being a waitress then got a lift home. But got delivered through the door marked aliens.
So there's someone from Earth, or several someones, and not all of them from England. But they're in the system as offworlders now and they're getting a new perspective on the process...
as you do
and thinking about Trion.
Turlough was in school on Earth. Which on the one hand is a Secret Princess of an origin story, the whole thing where he doesnt have to go to school anymore because someone noticed his true nature, though that one usually involves less assassination. But onthe other hand is just kind of nuts, necause aliens from another planet looked at Earth and thought 'hmm, boarding school'.
So I was thinking, what it, more than one alien place did that?
Or, more apropos to current events, what if one place did that, but for all their refugees?
There'd be a stash of alien asylum seekers in a boarding school waiting to have their claims processed, in a theoretically safe third nation.
But given Torchwood and a few bits of UNIT it's a tough sell to say Earth is actually factually safe for aliens. So the story would put England in a position of defending its human rights record, by way of non humans. Probably in pursuit of a trade deal. A seperate one to Europe or America. But with people who had used Earth as a convenient stop off for at least decades.
And then all the alien students would have different backgrounds and problems to work through.
Also while I'm at it I'd make one student a goblin, trying to get away from the evil of the so called goblin kings. Just... attempt to defuse that mess by way of making them an actual individual character, sort of thing. Pathfinder has Outsiders that take over goblin clans and try to lead them into evil, and Pathfinder goblins mostly donlt live to middle age, which happens age 20, so there's a lot to unpack if we borrow enough Pathfinder. Abandoned planet of the children level stuff, a sci fi staple.
... honestly I'm mostly coming up Pathfinder ideas because that's what I've been reading that isnt Doctor Who, but there's so much DW you can grab plenty from all over.
Class did the alien student thing but they were isolated among humans.
But you could do an entire school, secret safe.
It's need a lot of specifics and an age range to aim at to turn into Story though...
ETA: Imagine if Ace spent a few weeks being a waitress then got a lift home. But got delivered through the door marked aliens.
So there's someone from Earth, or several someones, and not all of them from England. But they're in the system as offworlders now and they're getting a new perspective on the process...