Meme

[petronia]

From flamebyrd and a couple of others:

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing that I'm familiar with and I'll tell you something about the story I'd write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write).

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. high school / college

Fandoms/pairings: anything really, I reserve the right to inform you that what you have picked is not sexy. XD (Especially "secretly a virgin," I've never really understood that one. Does the person have to actively lie about not being a virgin to secretly be a virgin? Also, either it's not that surprising, or it feels like OOC fic, no?)

Comments

[canis_m]

Sorry but every time this meme has come up I've been biting my tongue to keep from shrieking GYOUSOU AND TAIKI HUDDLING FOR WARMTH, even though I know how that story goes already. People need to stop giving me the opening.

[flamebyrd]

I've always thought "secretly a virgin" implied that you wouldn't expect the character to be a virgin, eg. if they're a womanizer, or... like the punchline to "nudge nudge, wink wink" (apparently this sketch is officially known as "Candid Photography", what). Anyway, either way I don't find it sexy either. XD

Oh, and since we're here... Akira and Hikaru, bodyswap.

[sub_divided]

Tony Stark & the Avengers, 7-9 (you can pick one or combine them)

[troisroyaumes]

Puella Magi Madoka Magica, historical AU

Hikaru no Go, telepathy

Doctor Who, accidental-baby-acquisition

[ayalesca]

Lymond and Margaret Lennox, truth or dare. Assuming that, like, canon hasn't already gone there. It certainly has for nearly everything else on the list. XD

[petronia]

Haha well Gyousou and Taiki are wedded to the land, one cannot send them permanently to the southern isles a la Richard and Alec and therefore there must be huddling. XD

I've always assumed Gyousou was stuck in stasis down a cave system somewhere, and Taiki has to go rescue him orphic-legend style, with psychological trials. But then they have to get back up to the surface! It would be nice if Taiki were the one fatigued and out of it at this point, and Gyousou could take charge, somehow make a fire etc. but this is probably unrealistic given the shock. Of course realism is the paramount consideration. XD;

[petronia]

Poor Tony Stark. Off the top of my head -- and I do not rate as a comics continuity nerd by any means -- all of these have been done in Marvel multiverse canon except 5, 6, 9, and 12. The only ones I wouldn't bet on being canon are 6 and 9 (because Tony is too rich to be forced to share a bed with anyone).

IIRC the last time 7 happened was when Tony turned himself into the Internet then erased his own hard drive. 8 was when he gave Pepper a decot of himself (to use the GitS term) and she dressed it in a French maid costume. I am not convinced I can come up with better scenarios than the people who are paid good money to do it. But I guess, if members of the Avengers team including Tony were amnesia-ed and stranded somewhere eg. in another century or a parallel dimension, they might be obliged to share a bed. If the inn were short of straw mattresses. XD

This should probably be the one ayalesca and I were derping about, like Tony does not think WoW cuts the sauce so he reprograms the engine in virtual reality and they get stuck in it holodeck-style. (Steve is a paladin in every gaming system known to man, Natasha is a rogue idem.)

[petronia]

That is kind of horrifying, actually. XD I guess in a sense their interactions are like that anyway?

[canis_m]

Caves are de rigueur, and level of shock depends on flavor of stasis, I think. XD; Like if we're talking Han Solo coming outta carbonite then manful fire-building is a no, but if he's physically mostly OK, you know he'd pull it together for Taiki's sake.

I always figured the Magical Thingummy of Tai had some kind of portal option enabled, like the Ren bracelet, but Gyousou neglected to ask directions when he tried to go through, so he's been stuck in there--maybe in a maze for bonus psychological trials--but experiencing time differently a la yr standard "Year Outside, Hour Inside" Urashima Taro gig. This scenario advantageous obv in that PTSD is minimized and manful fire-building is a go. Only Taiki can rescue him because it's legit divine law that only the ruling pair can use the Thingummy. Which is no doubt hidden in a cave. Plus, yanno, it takes a while to make the arduous reverse journey out of the maze to the portal exit! Even the maze could be caves. A CAVE MAZE.

p.s. Is it too late to ask for Laurence and Temeraire bodyswap

[petronia]

Laurence and Temeraire bodyswap!! Well, at this point Laurence doesn't really need the experience of being a dragon in dragon society for consciousness-raising purposes -- so I suppose the question is, how much would they remain themselves psychologically, versus species-centric biological urges? Would Laurence feel Temeraire's bond for Laurence toward Temeraire in Laurence's body? That sentence is terrible, but you get what I mean I hope.

Temeraire would probably learn more about society from being human for a while, I think. Though he would also explore the physical fact itself in detail (being finally at scale to do so) and mortify Laurence thereby. XD

[petronia]

Depending on situation and how long things last Hikaru might attempt to do something about the hair. XD; He would definitely dress (as he thinks of it) a little less ridiculously, in t-shirt and jeans or whatever. Girls would then swoon all over and he'd be mystified.

If this were a canon-compliant-ish supernatural effect with cause Hikaru would be less freaked out than Akira, obviously. He'd also be better at keeping up the pretense, if there needed to be one. Akira would be freaked out and find everything embarrassing, though he'd manifest it by being pissy. For some reason I'm thinking a horrible sequel to Proof By Contradiction, however, in which they essentially end up sharing Akira's body.

[petronia]

Madoka can be transposed pretty well to any historical setting, which I guess says something about society and the core of that story. Aesthetically, I would go with the 1920s/Taisho.

Hikaru no Go: I would have to think about the best application of this. Seems like eg. "Hikaru can suddenly hear what Akira is thinking" may be funny but not the best use of the prompt necessarily.

It seems like there should have been some accidental baby acquisition in the storied past of DW, but I honestly can't think of any, except for those E.T.-like scenarios where the menacing alien turned out to be a frightened child of its species. XD; That could simply be it, I guess -- returning a kidnapped child. Mostly I think de-aging a Companion would be recipe for disaster, and for some reason I can't see de-aging the Doctor to a baby. All that agency and generator of forward momentum going poof. Maybe if it were the Master who somehow got stuck with him, that would be dramatic. XD