browngirl: (Minoan lady (baranduin))
browngirl ([personal profile] browngirl) wrote2007-11-29 08:14 am

Unwritten Alternate Universes

[livejournal.com profile] vassilissa's post about MCR in Bujold's world of Chalion made me curious about unwritten AUs. What are your ideas for alternate universes for fandoms, characters, and settings that you love?

As for me, completely unsurprisingly I have Minoan ideas for NUMB3RS and Doctor Who, but I've talked about those both before. One AU I'm probably never going to write, because it would be so very thoroughgoingly dark, would be what would have happened in LOTR if the Tookland had fallen to the siege the Men set on it. I even have an idea for how the Battle of Bywater could still have been won, but with that gaping hole in the Shire the entire tenor of all that came after would have been changed.

Surprisingly, I haven't come up with any AU ideas of the fashion of [livejournal.com profile] vassilissa's above, where one moves a set of characters into a fictional world; this has often had good results with RPS (I remember a couple of lovely stories where the LOTRPS cast were placed into other fantasy universes) but now I find myself envisioning Young Justice in Oz, and I'd better stop giggling before my boss catches me.

*giggle*

[identity profile] rubynye.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
*blush* Thank you. I, for one, would love it if you wanted to pick up any or all of that, but then I'd always love to see more hobbitfic from you. :)

I really like the Elizabethan actors one (but then I had that Ancient Greek actors setting, so I would be predisposed to). And oh, Dom makes a good dreamer, doesn't he? I like the other too, but the Elizabethan one may have gotten hooks into my imagination now.

Deep Impact! Oh, my, Leo torn between his pretty wife and rugged Matt (and we all know how nicely Elijah and Josh work together)... Oh, I will not beg, I will not beg!

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[personal profile] sophinisba 2007-12-02 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
The way I was imagining this AU his wife had also died in the impact and Leo was torn between Matt (who is older and in a position of authority) and this other sexy young OC played by Macaulay Culkin. I don't know, I was less into writing female characters at that time than I am now, but it also a question of not having to write Leo choosing Matt over her, because I did like her character a lot, even if I can't remember her name now. (I cry in that part of the movie where they give her the baby.)

You should write Elizabethan players omg!