crossovers I am trying VERY HARD not to write (...without noticeable success *sigh*)

[edenfalling]

You know how I know that I am crazy? In my free moments at work this evening, and during the last couple hours at home, I plotted almost 90% of an epic Avatar: the Last Airbender/Enchanted Forest Chronicles fusion-style crossover. (The idea being that all the Avatar characters are part of the Enchanted Forest world, and always have been.) It's

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*stares hard at the screen for about 45 seconds*

[lynati_1]

Um...well, since you're going for moderately less angsty....how abouts, his father was trying out a spell on him/using him somehow and it rather literally blew up in Zuko's face? And, I dunno, his father blames him for somehow screwing up what would have been this great offensive weapon/summon? And they need, uh, the "breath of the avatar" to make it work, (because blood is too easy to acquire and too cliched anyhow) and Zuko is all caught up in setting right what he "screwed up" by not being a good enough test subject/focal point rather than getting pissed at Daddy for using him as a guinea pig for something crazy dangerous?

Oh wait, you said he *wasn't* chasing the Avatar. *shrugs* Well, maybe you can still get anything out of the previous anyway.

Re: *stares hard at the screen for about 45 seconds*

[edenfalling]

Oh, hey, that could work with a few modifications. See, there is a plot point with an evil spell Ozai is trying to create, and which becomes relevant in the final showdown when Azula tries to use it and it goes very, very wrong, but maybe Ozai was going to test it on, I dunno, a random palace servant or something (because he is officially the advisor to the king of Veritand, but really he rules the country because the king is Mai's dad and therefore massively ineffective *grin*), and Zuko is like, "But you can't do that; it's wrong!" and gets in the way and it blows up in his face. And Ozai is all, "Rrargh! You ruined my experiment and also destroyed all my research notes and specialized rare ingredients and now I will have to start over again, damn you!" and banishes him, but with a mission that is actually of some use to Ozai rather than a mission that is designed solely to get Zuko out of the way

[uminohikari]

Shrieks, that would be so cool!

[edenfalling]

But I do not have time to write it! *wails in despair*

[uminohikari]

But it's already plotted out!

[edenfalling]

Story ideas are easy. (So easy they happen to me in my sleep sometimes, with up to 85% actual usable earth logic in some cases.) Writing, on the other hand, is hard. *mopes* (Plus, you know, I have other things I really need to finish, and a couple of them have hard deadlines I cannot slide out of.)