Fic Idea: Iron Gotham Chefs
Okay, so at the end of work today (which totally didn't suck, yay) I had this completely random chain of though that led to an idea for a fic.
So you may or may not know, but Iron Chef Cat Cora is gay, and she and her partner are pregnant. Somehow "lesbian chef" bounced around in my mind until it hit Daria Hernandez, the (now ex-)girlfriend of Renee Montoya, from Gotham Central.
The idea is, Daria gets invited to go on an Iron Chef-like show outside of Gotham, and Renee takes some time off to go with her. Now, that right there can be pure fluff (which certainly isn't a bad thing), but for a little action, we can have "and then a supervillain attacks!" Said supervillain would, naturally, be the Condiment King. He attacks the show, holds the competitors (including Daria) hostage, and Renee gets to be all badass and save everyone. And she blows off everyone's astonishment with "Oh please, I'm a cop from Gotham City, this kind of stuff happens to me all the time."
And now that last line has inspired an even more elaborate version of this fic, described as "Die Hard on a cooking show, with Renee Montoya in the McClane spot." Condiment King takes over the cooking show with a gang themed around condiments, natch, so you have Ketchup, Mustard, Mayo, tag-team duo Sweet & Sour, BBQ, etc. And Renee has to go around the building taking them out with improvised weapons, crawling through suspiciously large air vents, and gradually losing her clothes along the way. And then you get "I'm from Gotham, this happens to me all the time."
Now if only I had some actual writing talent.
So you may or may not know, but Iron Chef Cat Cora is gay, and she and her partner are pregnant. Somehow "lesbian chef" bounced around in my mind until it hit Daria Hernandez, the (now ex-)girlfriend of Renee Montoya, from Gotham Central.
The idea is, Daria gets invited to go on an Iron Chef-like show outside of Gotham, and Renee takes some time off to go with her. Now, that right there can be pure fluff (which certainly isn't a bad thing), but for a little action, we can have "and then a supervillain attacks!" Said supervillain would, naturally, be the Condiment King. He attacks the show, holds the competitors (including Daria) hostage, and Renee gets to be all badass and save everyone. And she blows off everyone's astonishment with "Oh please, I'm a cop from Gotham City, this kind of stuff happens to me all the time."
And now that last line has inspired an even more elaborate version of this fic, described as "Die Hard on a cooking show, with Renee Montoya in the McClane spot." Condiment King takes over the cooking show with a gang themed around condiments, natch, so you have Ketchup, Mustard, Mayo, tag-team duo Sweet & Sour, BBQ, etc. And Renee has to go around the building taking them out with improvised weapons, crawling through suspiciously large air vents, and gradually losing her clothes along the way. And then you get "I'm from Gotham, this happens to me all the time."
Now if only I had some actual writing talent.