Crossover Roulette: Two Random Characters
For womenverse, for two women characters randomly selected from fandoms I provided. I got Alt-Astrid from Fringe and Dawn from Buffy!
How They Met
Fandom: Fringe, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: G
Words: 441
Notes: This didn't quite get to the heart of what these two have in common, but I might get there sometime.
Dawn wound her ankle around the rung of the lab stool and looked around the lab. Pretty decrepit, she thought to herself. So far, Harvard, or what they’d seen of Harvard, was kind of disappointing. Everything so old, and covered in ivy-not bright and fresh with big windows and modern sculptures and stuff, like UC Sunnydale. Umm. Like UC Sunnydale used to be.
She gazed at the other, variously-assorted people around her, doing stuff: Willow peering at a computer screen alongside the pretty woman in the lab coat, her name started with A; they were pointing and nodding like Willow always did when she met up with another nerd. Buffy and Giles were talking with the super-cute guy, Peter, looking at a map on the table. Xander was hovering around behind the other two, the old guy, Walter Bishop and the woman named Olivia-Xander clearly smitten, and trying to flirt, or not flirt. Dawn rolled her eyes and sighed. Just like them to escape an apocalypse, drive all the way across the country, and end up in the mess of some other weird mystery.
Suddenly there was a commotion from the back room and a kind of flash. The locals looked up, exchanged glances, and paused, while the California transplants just looked surprised and wary.
Shortly there emerged from the back room a young woman, dressed in fatigues and a beret, obviously military and looking familiar….
"Agent Farnsworth!" exclaimed the woman in the lab coat--Astrid, that was it--"Is everything okay?" She rushed forward, and once she was standing in front of the other, their resemblance was glaringly obvious. The newcomer nodded jerkily and looked with alarm at the strangers in the room. The expressions of the locals reflected some of this alarm, save Walter Bishop, who waved the test tube in his hand, merrily, and called out a welcome.
"Um yeah, well, you might notice a resemblance, in fact these two are distantly re-" began Peter Bishop placatingly. Now it was the Sunnydalers' turn to exchange glances, this time knowingly. "Doppelganger?" asked Willow brightly. "Carbuncle spell?" essayed Giles. "Poorly-worded wish to a Vengeance Demon?" chirped Buffy.
Deciding the only cure for her boredom was to get involved in the proceedings, Dawn unwound from her seat, walked over to the two women, and patted them on the shoulders. “Don’t worry about us, we’ve seen it all,” she said pertly. “Now, since you’re here, why don’t we sit down and you can explain everything?”
As if on cue, everyone around them looked relieved and resumed their action, while Astrid, Agent Farnsworth, and Dawn made their way to the office to grab coffee and chat.
Icons
Fanmix
I see both of these young women as sometimes feeling ostracized, different, left out. Major identity issues, right? But they also have strength and power and independence. So, here is a fanmix honoring that.
Pink-Don't Let Me Get Me
…I wanna be somebody else…
Taylor Swift-The Outside
So how can I ever try to be better?
Nobody ever lets me in
I can still see you, this ain't the best view
On the outside looking in
Superchick-Me Against The World
They said don't try to change the world
You're just a girl
So it's...me against the world today
I'm gonna do it my own way
And though nobody understands
I'm gonna make a one girl stand
I can't waste time on what they say
We're gonna change the world someday
Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians-What I Am
What I am is what I am Are you what you are or what?
Cass Elliott-Make Your Own Kind of Music
…Even if nobody else sings along…
Avril Lavigne- Anything But Ordinary
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please
Cyndi Lauper-True Colors
I see your true colors And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Garbage-When I Grow Up
When I grow up I’ll be stable
When I grow up I'll turn the tables
How They Met
Fandom: Fringe, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: G
Words: 441
Notes: This didn't quite get to the heart of what these two have in common, but I might get there sometime.
Dawn wound her ankle around the rung of the lab stool and looked around the lab. Pretty decrepit, she thought to herself. So far, Harvard, or what they’d seen of Harvard, was kind of disappointing. Everything so old, and covered in ivy-not bright and fresh with big windows and modern sculptures and stuff, like UC Sunnydale. Umm. Like UC Sunnydale used to be.
She gazed at the other, variously-assorted people around her, doing stuff: Willow peering at a computer screen alongside the pretty woman in the lab coat, her name started with A; they were pointing and nodding like Willow always did when she met up with another nerd. Buffy and Giles were talking with the super-cute guy, Peter, looking at a map on the table. Xander was hovering around behind the other two, the old guy, Walter Bishop and the woman named Olivia-Xander clearly smitten, and trying to flirt, or not flirt. Dawn rolled her eyes and sighed. Just like them to escape an apocalypse, drive all the way across the country, and end up in the mess of some other weird mystery.
Suddenly there was a commotion from the back room and a kind of flash. The locals looked up, exchanged glances, and paused, while the California transplants just looked surprised and wary.
Shortly there emerged from the back room a young woman, dressed in fatigues and a beret, obviously military and looking familiar….
"Agent Farnsworth!" exclaimed the woman in the lab coat--Astrid, that was it--"Is everything okay?" She rushed forward, and once she was standing in front of the other, their resemblance was glaringly obvious. The newcomer nodded jerkily and looked with alarm at the strangers in the room. The expressions of the locals reflected some of this alarm, save Walter Bishop, who waved the test tube in his hand, merrily, and called out a welcome.
"Um yeah, well, you might notice a resemblance, in fact these two are distantly re-" began Peter Bishop placatingly. Now it was the Sunnydalers' turn to exchange glances, this time knowingly. "Doppelganger?" asked Willow brightly. "Carbuncle spell?" essayed Giles. "Poorly-worded wish to a Vengeance Demon?" chirped Buffy.
Deciding the only cure for her boredom was to get involved in the proceedings, Dawn unwound from her seat, walked over to the two women, and patted them on the shoulders. “Don’t worry about us, we’ve seen it all,” she said pertly. “Now, since you’re here, why don’t we sit down and you can explain everything?”
As if on cue, everyone around them looked relieved and resumed their action, while Astrid, Agent Farnsworth, and Dawn made their way to the office to grab coffee and chat.
Icons
Fanmix
I see both of these young women as sometimes feeling ostracized, different, left out. Major identity issues, right? But they also have strength and power and independence. So, here is a fanmix honoring that.
Pink-Don't Let Me Get Me
…I wanna be somebody else…
Taylor Swift-The Outside
So how can I ever try to be better?
Nobody ever lets me in
I can still see you, this ain't the best view
On the outside looking in
Superchick-Me Against The World
They said don't try to change the world
You're just a girl
So it's...me against the world today
I'm gonna do it my own way
And though nobody understands
I'm gonna make a one girl stand
I can't waste time on what they say
We're gonna change the world someday
Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians-What I Am
What I am is what I am Are you what you are or what?
Cass Elliott-Make Your Own Kind of Music
…Even if nobody else sings along…
Avril Lavigne- Anything But Ordinary
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be anything but ordinary please
Cyndi Lauper-True Colors
I see your true colors And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Garbage-When I Grow Up
When I grow up I’ll be stable
When I grow up I'll turn the tables