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effexI don't rec fanfic here much anymore (that's what delicious is for) but I finished reading two Avatar AUs over the weekend and folks, I am excite.
Huh. It turns out they're by the same person, I only just realized. Well.
Imagine the Ocean by Damkianna: Hakoda found the boy in the ice eight days before Kya went into labor. A 100,000+ word rewrite of Book One, with Katara as the Avatar. Amazing. Wonderful use of female characters, both canon and OC. Wonderful expansion of the Avatar world. Wonderful, wonderful look at Katara, growing up and growing into her role as Avatar. (Note: Yes, Aang's dead and it's sometimes hard to handle. Yes, he still plays a major part in the story.) In short: wonderful.
Big Damn Heroes by Damkianna: Katara pushes past the curtains that block off the bridge - they have got to get a new door fitted - and stops behind Toph's chair. "I take it we didn't drop out of hyperspace on purpose," she says. (Aka THE GAANG IN SPACE.) That last part is all you really need to know. GAANG! IN SPACE! It's not quite a crossover with Firefly, more Firefly flavored (or as the notes say, '"Firefly, but with Asians!" ... and Inuit, of course.'). I want a million more stories in this 'verse. Hell, can we swap just it for Firefly?
And now, the first half of my responses to the 15 'ships meme:
1: Momo & Izusu (Hayate x Blade)
2: Karolina & Xavin (Runaways)
3: Hermoine & Luna (Harry Potter)
4: Akane & Ukyo (Ranma 1/2)
5: Annie & Kat (Gunnerkrigg Court)
6: Agatha, Gil & Tarvek (Girl Genius)
7: Jaime & Traci (Blue Beetle)
8: Howl & Sophie (Howl's Moving Castle - book 'verse)
9: Duo & Wufei (Gundam Wing)
10: Luffy & Usopp (One Piece)
11: Troy & Abed (Community)
12: Henry & Bigfoot (Sanctuary)
13: Billy & Teddy (Young Avengers)
14: Cougar & Jensen (The Losers)
15: Sam & Gracie (Mis Congeniality 2)
pseudo_tsuga:
Karolina & Xavin, Hermoine & Luna, and Jaime & Traci get stranded on a desert island. Who makes fire? Who finds food? Who stubbornly refuses to do anything beside prepare for rescue?
...you've managed to assemble a group that includes three witches, two aliens and a kid with alien tech welded to his spine, all of whom can fly. I'm going to pretend that the 'desert island' is actually a barren planetoid. A barren planetoid in a hidden pocket dimension.
So. Due to Random Magical Happenstance*, our couples have been transported to a rock that is actually in the middle of nowhere. Xavin gets a forcefield up fast (That superskrull training has to be good for something, right?), trapping as much air as possible, and Traci organizes Hermione and Luna into putting together something more stable. Jaime powers up the bug suit and goes scouting. Karolina gets put on light-source duty.
Eventually they get an air bubble established, Jaime comes back to confirm how very screwed** they are, and Luna engorgios an avocado sandwich she had in her pocket. I give it six hours tops before they figure out how to get everyone home - Traci, Hermione and Luna (particularly good at extra-dimensional problem solving) working out the spells, Khaji Da doing the complex math, Xavin providing logistics, and Karolina quietly resolving to talk to Nico about survival training because she really, really hates feeling this useless.
Sadly, rescuing themselves prevents the epic meeting of the Runaways, the Teen Titans (plus Paco and Brenda), and an auror team led by a frantic Harry Potter. Luna gives them all woven bracelets made from ribbons (chartreuse - she was wearing them in her hair) that later turn out to be multi-dimensional transportation devices, though, so the potential's still there.
* 'I just wanted to see how Xavin was doing,' Karolina says. 'I don't think Nico's grasp on Latin is as good as she says it is.'
'Funny,' Jaime says, 'I don't think Traci's is either.'
Hermoine avoids eye contact with everyone and Luna pats her hand sympathetically.
** I started world building here - perfectly spherical planetoids, millions of miles apart, orbiting a dim red dwarf with no other stars in the sky - and lost 30 minutes before realizing that was maybe too much.
Hermoine & Luna have to collaborate on a school project. Do they get it done or just make out all the time?
Hermione has everything planned out to maximize both project* and make-out time, and it's going really well until Luna leans in to point at a passage in Hermione's book. Her hair smells like apples and she's really very close and Hermione gets distracted enough to mispronounce the latin she's trying to sound out and, well. Whoops.
* A research paper on the history of Apparition. It's not an assigned project, but a little extra credit never hurt anybody and anyway, Luna seemed happy to help.
Momoka & Izumi and Luffy & Usopp are babysitting. What horrors unfold?
Well, we're dealing with Izumi here, so there might be actual horrors involved. She's not careless with her spells, but who knows what's wandering around the Dandelion Garden (I've randomly decided that's who they're babysitting)? Especially since they've already had one trans-dimensional rift open that week (Luffy and Usopp are sad about the lack of ocean, but would doubtless prefer it to a barren planetoid).
Izumi, Momoka, and Luffy go off to fight it, leaving Usopp with the kids (all the kids). When they get back - tired, happy, and covered with goo - Usopp's just finished putting the kids down for naps and is hanging art projects on the wall. Usopp is aces with kids, you know it's true. Unfortunately, he's worn out from kid-wrangling and the others are worn out from monster-wrangling and they all fall asleep until the owner gets home. The kids don't do too much damage, though, so she's not mad. Usopp and Izumi's hair will grow back eventually.
zanzando:
Jaime & Traci & Henry & Bigfoot meet the Doctor (NINE!) while he's on a much needed vacation. Naturally, they must team up and save the world (probably not Earth) from certain destruction!
Harry and Bigfoot are surfing in Hawaii (there's a Sanctuary outpost on one of the smaller islands, I'm sure) when a trans-dimensional rift (aka Favorite Plot Device) opens on the beach and Traci and Jaime spill out. They're happy to be off the barren planetoid but less happy when Khaji Da tells them they're on the wrong Earth. A really wrong earth, none of that multiverse stuff*. Jaime and Khaji Da start arguing about the math while Traci goes to reassure Henry and Bigfoot, who are trying to figure out if their surfboards would be effective weapons, that the guy in alien bug armor shouting at himself isn't 1) dangerous or 2) crazy.
They've just finished introductions when a man in floral board shorts and a leather jacket comes running down the beach, shouting at them to 'run, c'mon, move move move!' The giant writhing tentacles oozing up from the ocean make for a convincing argument, so Henry snatches his phone from their towels and he and Bigfoot take off. Traci and Jaime power up and turn to face it but the Doctor snags their arms as he goes by, pulling them away. 'I said run, not fricassee! How difficult is that to understand?' He says, rounding a bend and skidding to a stop in front of a large blue box. He kicks aside a large beach towel and umbrella to get at the door. 'OI, YOU TWO,' he shouts after Henry and Bigfoot. 'IN HERE.' He shoves Jaime and Traci inside as the ground starts to shake and holds the door open just long enough for Henry and Bigfoot to join them before slamming it shut. Seconds later, something heavy and slightly squishy thuds against the other side.
'Well, that was exciting," the man says, turning to face the group. "Hello, I'm the Doctor. Which one of you boneheads opened that rift?"
And then I started edging into actual fic territory. But needless to say, they manage to stop the creature from tearing open the rift, send it home, send Jamie and Traci home, and Henry, Bigfoot, and the Doctor all get back to their vacations. Until the next emergency.
* We're talking Marvel vs. DC at the very least.
Huh. It turns out they're by the same person, I only just realized. Well.
Imagine the Ocean by Damkianna: Hakoda found the boy in the ice eight days before Kya went into labor. A 100,000+ word rewrite of Book One, with Katara as the Avatar. Amazing. Wonderful use of female characters, both canon and OC. Wonderful expansion of the Avatar world. Wonderful, wonderful look at Katara, growing up and growing into her role as Avatar. (Note: Yes, Aang's dead and it's sometimes hard to handle. Yes, he still plays a major part in the story.) In short: wonderful.
Big Damn Heroes by Damkianna: Katara pushes past the curtains that block off the bridge - they have got to get a new door fitted - and stops behind Toph's chair. "I take it we didn't drop out of hyperspace on purpose," she says. (Aka THE GAANG IN SPACE.) That last part is all you really need to know. GAANG! IN SPACE! It's not quite a crossover with Firefly, more Firefly flavored (or as the notes say, '"Firefly, but with Asians!" ... and Inuit, of course.'). I want a million more stories in this 'verse. Hell, can we swap just it for Firefly?
And now, the first half of my responses to the 15 'ships meme:
1: Momo & Izusu (Hayate x Blade)
2: Karolina & Xavin (Runaways)
3: Hermoine & Luna (Harry Potter)
4: Akane & Ukyo (Ranma 1/2)
5: Annie & Kat (Gunnerkrigg Court)
6: Agatha, Gil & Tarvek (Girl Genius)
7: Jaime & Traci (Blue Beetle)
8: Howl & Sophie (Howl's Moving Castle - book 'verse)
9: Duo & Wufei (Gundam Wing)
10: Luffy & Usopp (One Piece)
11: Troy & Abed (Community)
12: Henry & Bigfoot (Sanctuary)
13: Billy & Teddy (Young Avengers)
14: Cougar & Jensen (The Losers)
15: Sam & Gracie (Mis Congeniality 2)
pseudo_tsuga:Karolina & Xavin, Hermoine & Luna, and Jaime & Traci get stranded on a desert island. Who makes fire? Who finds food? Who stubbornly refuses to do anything beside prepare for rescue?
...you've managed to assemble a group that includes three witches, two aliens and a kid with alien tech welded to his spine, all of whom can fly. I'm going to pretend that the 'desert island' is actually a barren planetoid. A barren planetoid in a hidden pocket dimension.
So. Due to Random Magical Happenstance*, our couples have been transported to a rock that is actually in the middle of nowhere. Xavin gets a forcefield up fast (That superskrull training has to be good for something, right?), trapping as much air as possible, and Traci organizes Hermione and Luna into putting together something more stable. Jaime powers up the bug suit and goes scouting. Karolina gets put on light-source duty.
Eventually they get an air bubble established, Jaime comes back to confirm how very screwed** they are, and Luna engorgios an avocado sandwich she had in her pocket. I give it six hours tops before they figure out how to get everyone home - Traci, Hermione and Luna (particularly good at extra-dimensional problem solving) working out the spells, Khaji Da doing the complex math, Xavin providing logistics, and Karolina quietly resolving to talk to Nico about survival training because she really, really hates feeling this useless.
Sadly, rescuing themselves prevents the epic meeting of the Runaways, the Teen Titans (plus Paco and Brenda), and an auror team led by a frantic Harry Potter. Luna gives them all woven bracelets made from ribbons (chartreuse - she was wearing them in her hair) that later turn out to be multi-dimensional transportation devices, though, so the potential's still there.
* 'I just wanted to see how Xavin was doing,' Karolina says. 'I don't think Nico's grasp on Latin is as good as she says it is.'
'Funny,' Jaime says, 'I don't think Traci's is either.'
Hermoine avoids eye contact with everyone and Luna pats her hand sympathetically.
** I started world building here - perfectly spherical planetoids, millions of miles apart, orbiting a dim red dwarf with no other stars in the sky - and lost 30 minutes before realizing that was maybe too much.
Hermoine & Luna have to collaborate on a school project. Do they get it done or just make out all the time?
Hermione has everything planned out to maximize both project* and make-out time, and it's going really well until Luna leans in to point at a passage in Hermione's book. Her hair smells like apples and she's really very close and Hermione gets distracted enough to mispronounce the latin she's trying to sound out and, well. Whoops.
* A research paper on the history of Apparition. It's not an assigned project, but a little extra credit never hurt anybody and anyway, Luna seemed happy to help.
Momoka & Izumi and Luffy & Usopp are babysitting. What horrors unfold?
Well, we're dealing with Izumi here, so there might be actual horrors involved. She's not careless with her spells, but who knows what's wandering around the Dandelion Garden (I've randomly decided that's who they're babysitting)? Especially since they've already had one trans-dimensional rift open that week (Luffy and Usopp are sad about the lack of ocean, but would doubtless prefer it to a barren planetoid).
Izumi, Momoka, and Luffy go off to fight it, leaving Usopp with the kids (all the kids). When they get back - tired, happy, and covered with goo - Usopp's just finished putting the kids down for naps and is hanging art projects on the wall. Usopp is aces with kids, you know it's true. Unfortunately, he's worn out from kid-wrangling and the others are worn out from monster-wrangling and they all fall asleep until the owner gets home. The kids don't do too much damage, though, so she's not mad. Usopp and Izumi's hair will grow back eventually.
zanzando:Jaime & Traci & Henry & Bigfoot meet the Doctor (NINE!) while he's on a much needed vacation. Naturally, they must team up and save the world (probably not Earth) from certain destruction!
Harry and Bigfoot are surfing in Hawaii (there's a Sanctuary outpost on one of the smaller islands, I'm sure) when a trans-dimensional rift (aka Favorite Plot Device) opens on the beach and Traci and Jaime spill out. They're happy to be off the barren planetoid but less happy when Khaji Da tells them they're on the wrong Earth. A really wrong earth, none of that multiverse stuff*. Jaime and Khaji Da start arguing about the math while Traci goes to reassure Henry and Bigfoot, who are trying to figure out if their surfboards would be effective weapons, that the guy in alien bug armor shouting at himself isn't 1) dangerous or 2) crazy.
They've just finished introductions when a man in floral board shorts and a leather jacket comes running down the beach, shouting at them to 'run, c'mon, move move move!' The giant writhing tentacles oozing up from the ocean make for a convincing argument, so Henry snatches his phone from their towels and he and Bigfoot take off. Traci and Jaime power up and turn to face it but the Doctor snags their arms as he goes by, pulling them away. 'I said run, not fricassee! How difficult is that to understand?' He says, rounding a bend and skidding to a stop in front of a large blue box. He kicks aside a large beach towel and umbrella to get at the door. 'OI, YOU TWO,' he shouts after Henry and Bigfoot. 'IN HERE.' He shoves Jaime and Traci inside as the ground starts to shake and holds the door open just long enough for Henry and Bigfoot to join them before slamming it shut. Seconds later, something heavy and slightly squishy thuds against the other side.
'Well, that was exciting," the man says, turning to face the group. "Hello, I'm the Doctor. Which one of you boneheads opened that rift?"
And then I started edging into actual fic territory. But needless to say, they manage to stop the creature from tearing open the rift, send it home, send Jamie and Traci home, and Henry, Bigfoot, and the Doctor all get back to their vacations. Until the next emergency.
* We're talking Marvel vs. DC at the very least.
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Date: 2011-03-06 02:03 pm (UTC)