Friday: Genre/Fandom Swap

[nevcolleil.livejournal.com]

TGIF, prompters! I'm nevcolleil, wrapping up my week here as your guest host. Sorry for the late start today! Your theme is Swap. Suggest a new genre for your new fandom or pluck one character out of it and swap him or her with a character from another fandom.

The rules:

♥ No more than five prompts in a row.

♥ No more than three prompts in the same fandom.

♥ No spoilers in prompts.

If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space.

Prompts should be formatted as follows:

Fandom, Character+/Character, Prompt

A few examples...

+ X-Men, any, medical drama

+ Any fandom with adult supernatural creatures, any, high school au

+ Criminal Minds/Suits, Reid +or/ Mike, Reid is taken under Harvey's wing; Mike is a member of Hotch's team

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Visit the lonely prompt archive and brighten someone’s day. For more recent prompts to write, you can also use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community.

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[scribblemyname]

MCU/X-Men, Natasha and/or Clint + Remy and/or Belladonna, Natasha as Assassins Guild and/or Clint as Thieves Guild

[scribblemyname]

Andromeda/Firefly, Seamus Harper +or Wash, they left to see the skies

[scribblemyname]

Firefly, any, police procedural

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The People (Zenna Henderson)/Escape to Witch Mountain, Tia, Tony and Tia escaped to the Canyon group

[scribblemyname]

X-Men/Escape to Witch Mountain, Tia, Bolt managed to keep Tony and Tia by taking them to Chalet and Tia runs into the X-Men or Emma Frost when she grows up - Oh! obviously, they're mutants in this AU

[likewinning.livejournal.com]

Captain America or MCU/Inglourious Basterds, Steve & the Howling Commandos as the Basterds and/or Sam and Natasha (or anyone) running a cinema

[tigriswolf]

Supernatural, Dean/Castiel, Stargate Atlantis AU – Castiel is a native of Pegasus and Dean’s on an away-team

[tigriswolf]

The Hobbit (Jackson films), Firefly AU – Kili is River and Fili is Simon

[tigriswolf]

Avengers movieverse, Steve + Bucky, Star Trek AU – they were on Tarsus IV; Bucky was on the save list and Steve wasn’t

[tigriswolf]

Avengers movieverse, Steve/Bucky, Inception AU – Steve’s the forger (pre-serum in RL, please) and Bucky’s the point man

[tigriswolf]

Avengers movieverse, Natasha/Steve/Bucky, This Means War AU where Natasha & Bucky are best friends/kick ass spies and Steve is the civilian they both fall for – and during their insane rivalry, they realize that they love each other, too

[likewinning.livejournal.com]

Buffy/MCU, always-a-girl!Steve +/any, Brooklyn happens to be right on top of a Hellmouth; Steve's the Chosen One

[ivotedforsaxon.livejournal.com]

Any, any, Repo the Genetic Opera!AU.

No fill but

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I heart you so much for this prompt.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Burn Notice/Leverage, Any+ensemble, "How the hell are you?"

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Fullmetal Alchemist, Any, superhero A.U.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

BtVS/Fullmetal Alchemist, Winry's the Slayer, Ed and Al her best friends, and Maes Hughes is her Watcher

[icarus-chained.livejournal.com]

Greek Myth, Hades/Persephone, Mad Max/desertpunk AU

[icarus-chained.livejournal.com]

Star Trek TOS, McCoy +/ Any, dieselpunk superhero AU (a-la 30s/40s Gotham or the Shadow's NYC)

[marlex.livejournal.com]

Young Wizards/Dresden Files, Nita/+Kit, they're still wizards, but in the Dresden Files universe

[marlex.livejournal.com]

NCIS or CSI or Criminal Minds, ensemble, workplace sitcom AU

[marlex.livejournal.com]

Young Wizards/Harry Potter, Nita/+Kit, they get letters inviting them to Hogwarts

[marlex.livejournal.com]

NCIS, Abby/McGee, monster movie AU

[marlex.livejournal.com]

Dresden Files/Harry Potter, Harry Dresden is the new defense against the dark arts professor at Hogwarts

[iamduvet.livejournal.com]

Madlax, Elenore,Madlax,Margaret,Vanessa, Superhero A.U.

[scribblemyname]

Is this a trope or a fandom? I'm a wee short on fandoms here I know, but I do know Greek myths pretty well. Not sure on the desertpunk bit. Is this it? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DesertPunk

Not a Fill, But...

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Okay, I just have to say that I love that prompt.

[icarus-chained.livejournal.com]

Desertpunk is a genre, yes, and that's the one. I mostly put Mad Max (the film series) in because it's probably the most famous example of the genre, so people would have an idea that by desertpunk I meant 'vaguely Mad Max flavoured'. Post apocalyptic desert wasteland with roaming gangs and isolated settlements where the remnants of civilisation attempt to set up various micro political systems, with tech shortages, gas shortages, water shortages, and possibly Tina Turner ;) That sort of thing.

MiniFill: Ancient and Most Insane House of Dresden

[purplemoon3.livejournal.com]

Ron felt like he was going to pass out, but used every last ounce of his Gryffindor braverism to continue to plant one foot in front of the other. The high of endorphins had pulled his lips into a grin as he ran the ordered number of laps around the Black Lake. Harry, that is Boy-Who-Lived-Harry and not Call-Me-Gandalf-Harry, was keeping a steady pace with the Next-to-Youngest Weasly heir and occassionally shooting worried looks at him. Ron appreciated Harry's determination to stick with him, though he did think it slightly unfair that Hermione only had to run half the laps that they did on account of her managing the Shield Charm before everyone else.

Still, despite the ache in his calves (though Ron wasn't sure what baby cows had to do with anything) and the pain in his empty gut the day was glorious. In the far future Ron would be two hundred and twelve, balding, covered in wrinkles and dragon pox and he would still remember this day as being the best in his life.

"If you can dodge a wrench-" Professor Dresden's words were loud, cutting through the empty air outside like a... like a something that cut a lot. Ron's grin grew wider as he rounded the turn of the lake, easily picking out the mass of terrified, green robed Slytherins who had proclaimed the muggle art of 'running away' both undignified and cowardly. "-you can dodge a spell!"

With a wave of his hand Professor Dresden launched all sorts of ancient muggle devices toward the green mass, and the howls of pain and 'My Father Will Hear About This!' warmed something that was itself a tiny bit Slytherin within him. Rubber ducks, wrenches, and a great deal of right shoes* were hurled with a force hard enough to bruise. Some targets dodged into the mud as was prescribed. Several tried the earlier demonstrated shield spell, but few managed to cast it successfully.

Ron laughed maniacally as the scion of Malfoy took a football to the stomach and crumpled to the ground.

"AGAIN!" Professor Dresden shouted at his students, "WHAT ARE YOU, HUFFLEPUFFS?** I'VE SEEN CAREBARES*** WITH MORE FIGHT THAN THIS!!!"

*The shoes had been donated to the Ministry for educational purposes after a strange, decidedly magical and never before seen, blue creature had stolen all of the left half of the pairs.

**It should be pointed out that in fact Professor Dresden has a great deal of respect for the 'Puffs, on account of their house being the only one to not only complete their laps without complaint but upon having their shield charms tested instead of dodging the projectiles they attacked the Professor en masse.

***During Finals week Professor Dresden was unanimously declared Best-Hogwart's-Professor-Ever after declaring his own finals canceled and instead using the testing time to make everyone watch Return of the Jedi, which was projected from the eyesockets of his pet skull.

[wrong-song.livejournal.com]

Highlander/BtVS, any, Joe is Buffy's watcher and/or Giles is Duncan's watcher

[purplemoon3.livejournal.com]

Thor/Dokapon Kingdom, Weber + Loki, "Hey, Kid. Wanna see some magic?"

Re: MiniFill: Ancient and Most Insane House of Dresden

[xanth-love.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I really want to see more of that story. "If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a spell!" LMAO

Re: MiniFill: Ancient and Most Insane House of Dresden

[marlex.livejournal.com]

This exceeded any and all expectations I had when the idea for the prompt entered my head. Thank you very, very much! Great story!

Re: MiniFill: Ancient and Most Insane House of Dresden

[purplemoon3.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. Glad you liked it! Harry believes in practical application of defensive tactics, because not all spells can be blocked and that develops an unfortunate habit when the killing curse is involved.

Re: MiniFill: Ancient and Most Insane House of Dresden

[purplemoon3.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the prompt! I got to wondering what kind of things Dresden would teach, then I thought about how much he runs to/away from danger, and it snowballed from there. Practical applications! First, he will train them to avoid danger when possible, THEN they can learn how to fight it.

Except for the Hufflepuffs. They have special lessons in group tactics.

Steve + Bucky vs some random unlucky vampire

[tigriswolf]

(Definitely inspired by this where Bucky is a dhampire descended from Dracula. *hands*)

...


Stevie Rogers was always getting into fights even before the whole vampire thing happened. She was shouting at a bully who'd been beating on one of the queers from down the street and when the man turned to face her, she saw that his face was -- wrong.

"What was that, girlie?" he hissed, lunging for her as the man on the ground crawled away.

"You heard me," she said, dodging to the side, quicker than she'd ever moved before.

"You're the Slayer!" the man cackled. "Oh, it's my lucky day."

She was able to avoid his grasp and her breath stayed even (which was a pleasant surprise), and her flailing punches were actually landing on him, what was going on?

"Hey, bloodsucker!" Bucky shouted from the mouth of the alley, "Catch!" When whatever he threw hit, the man went up in flames, screaming.

"Stevie, c'mon," Bucky said, waving her over. "We've got to get out of here."

"He called me a Slayer," Stevie told him as she hurried to him. Bucky made sure to look both ways before they carefully walked up the street towards their apartment. "What was he?"

Bucky sighed. "A vampire. And of course you're the Slayer -- not like you're trouble enough already."

"A vampire, really?" she asked.

Bucky glanced down at her. "You know where my ma's folks came from?"

Stevie nodded. Bucky's smile was strained and a little sad. "There's a reason they left the old country, a reason I never really believed. I thought Slayers were bedtime tales 'til I saw you fightin' a thrall."

"Thrall?" Stevie repeated.

"Wait 'til we're home," Bucky said. "I'll tell you everything I know."

…

Everything he knew turned out to be a lot, and Mrs. Barnes told her some more, but when the old Brit showed up and tried to muscle his way in, Bucky refused to let him. “You can’t trust the Watcher Council, Stevie,” he said, and how he could be so sure, she didn’t understand.

But Stevie Rogers trusted Bucky Barnes more than she trusted herself, so she listened to him.

Before he returned to wherever he came from, the Brit told Bucky, “We know what you are, boy.”

Bucky just grinned at him, head tilted cockily, and he shot back, “Then you know to keep your distance. She’s got me watching her back and that’s more than you and your council’ll ever do.”

…

Stephanie Rogers lasted the longest until Buffy Summers. How she finally died, no one is sure.

What no one knows is this:

“Please,” Bucky whispered, curled around Stevie as she died in his arms. “Please, please, let me, please.”

“Okay,” she breathed.

Twelve hours later, she woke up to Bucky watching her, hands clasped tightly together, fear in his eyes.

She smiled at him and his entire body sagged in relief.

They said goodbye to their families and walked into the sunlight together, holding hands and discussing what to do next. War was raging in Europe, so they chose to avoid it. But South America – “I’ve always wanted to sketch some of those rain forest flowers,” she told Bucky.

He kissed her and said, “Then let’s go.”

Re: Steve + Bucky vs some random unlucky vampire

[likewinning.livejournal.com]

Oh mannnn. I think you probably know by now that I love things that manage to be both adorable and sad, and this is everything I could hope for. The last bit is gorgeous. Thank you thank you thank youuuu so very much for all the fills today. They made my ridiculous work day a million times better. <3

Re: Steve + Bucky vs some random unlucky vampire

[tigriswolf]

C'mon, I couldn't let Stevie die! So now they're both immortals with all the strength of a vampire and none of the weaknesses. *glee*

I'm so glad you like it! I hung out on comment_fic instead of working on my thesis today and it was a lot of fun.