The AU Meme

[browngirl]

I saw this meme and loved it immediately. My version is a mashup of the ones I saw in penknife and miakun's journals:

The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write AND give me a type of AU (space opera AU, pirate AU, superhero AU, etc.) or a time period (Ancient Rome, Renaissance England, etc). I will then explain what story from that fandom I would write for that AU.

While I will very much not mind being asked for a Minoan AU, I like other time periods and settings too!

Comments

[penknife.livejournal.com]

LotR, superhero AU!

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

I must apologize for taking so long to write this. My week got away from me.

Bilbo Baggins always seemed to wear a secretive smile, seemed to be able to be anywhere he wanted at any time, to leave a room before anyone could notice. Frodo put his uncle's abilities down to tricks he'd learned during his journeys, until he inherited his uncle's Ring, which allowed him to walk unseen and silently if he chose. But his cousin Merry had deduced old Bilbo's secret and demands that Frodo share with him; when Merry puts on the Ring he vanishes --- because he can run faster than the fastest horse. And when their young cousin Pippin finds out, one touch lightens his heels until he's swooping around the ceiling.

The fun they have with these new powers is soon ended when the wizard Gandalf informs Frodo that the Ring is an artifact of evil that will bring destruction to the Shire if it's not destroyed. Can even these abilities help small hobbits journeying through the wide world? And will Frodo's servant Samwise, who refused to even go near Frodo's ring and thus has no powers, prove the strongest of all?

*laughs at myself*