the deeply stupid Code Geass idea I am not writing

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I want this out of my head, so I am going to write up the scenario so as to (hopefully) lay it to rest.

The basic idea is to add one extra fantasy element to Code Geass (well, one element with subsections, as it were) and see what it does to the plot. Logically the plot should diverge from canon at some point, because otherwise there is no point

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[askerian]

I stopped watching Code Geass about 15 episodes on, but if you wrote this I would be all over it. *__* it's AWESOME

[edenfalling]

As I actually consider the world-building this would require, I am beginning to think the opening situation is not quite the same as in canon. It's just close enough for government work, and some of the differences would need to be shown right away to lay groundwork for when things go noticeably askew from canon. Like maybe the infantry troops in Shinjuku have a least one person with a battle-useful manifestation assigned to each unit, in case the Japanese civilians also have manifestations and try to fight back. And maybe some people with avian manifestations do close-in surveillance work. Stuff like that

[Fic] "Made Manifest: Mother Wolf" -- Code Geass

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Hey, so, this is pretty tangential to the actual story idea (which will not go away, argh), but it has a werewolf? Kinda?

Anyway, 825 words about Marianne vi Britannia.

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Made Manifest: Mother WolfMarianne gave birth to her first child in a tiny, bunker-like room in the basement of the hospital wing of the imperial palace. Charles did not attend. No one was notified of the event in advance. The only people present, aside from herself and the child, were a mousy young doctor, a rather bored nurse, and the soul reader

[Fic] "Made Manifest: Mother Wolf" -- Code Geass (continued)

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Marianne pushed aside pain and bone-deep exhaustion and stood from the spartan bed, the loose, open-backed hospital gown barely long enough to reach her thighs. "You misunderstand me," she said. "I don't mean I'll make your life uncomfortable, or dismiss you from imperial service. I mean that I'll kill you. Painfully. With no appeal

Re: [Fic] "Made Manifest: Mother Wolf" -- Code Geass (continued)

[edenfalling]

They are fun ideas to play with. :-) The problem is that what I have at the moment is six or eight random climactic moment scenes plus a bunch of world-building theories, without an actual story to connect them. (And also no time, but I never have time, so I should probably stop using that as an excuse.)

Re: [Fic] "Made Manifest: Mother Wolf" -- Code Geass (continued)

[edenfalling]

No, I actually have an outline for "The War of Secret Flames," starting with Aang meeting Katara and Sokka and running all the way through the final battle against Ozai, Azula, and their wizard allies. It's just that the story would take at least 60-70 thousand words to write (it's a novel, you see) and I would rather finish my current WIPs than start new ones. I figure if the ideas are still alive when I have fewer things on my plate, I can write them then.

Re: [Fic] "Made Manifest: Mother Wolf" -- Code Geass (continued)

[askerian]

Marianne gave birth to her first child in a tiny, bunker-like room in the basement of the hospital wing of the imperial palace. Charles did not attend. No one was notified of the event in advance. The only people present, aside from herself and the child, were a mousy young doctor, a rather bored nurse, and the soul reader.
This is a very neat opening paragraph. Love the fact that she gives birth to an emperor's son in a bunker-like basement, that says a lot. And ee! Soul reader. *worldbuilding glee*

There was no sense washing or clothing a corpse, after all, and if he weren't a dragon, he wouldn't live another minute.
Man, HARSH. loooooove. *__*

all the little checks of health and size that suddenly became relevant.
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"He's strong," the reader said conversationally. "All dragons are, of course, but he's strong even among his siblings. That news should put some of the gossip to rest."Love that bit too, and how Marianne immediately goes on the offensive about any potential rumors. I guess she'd know all about the enemies that

Re: [Fic] "Made Manifest: Mother Wolf" -- Code Geass (continued)

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The soul reader did indeed know what he was implicitly threatening Marianne with; he just underestimated her likely response. *grin* I want to revise that, actually, to make it clear that he dislikes her because she's a commoner married to the Emperor, and he would like to cause her trouble.

There is definite heritability of the strength of a person's identification with his or her soul animal -- if both your parents can manifest, you are far more likely to also be able to manifest than someone whose parents cannot manifest. But there isn't a lot of rhyme or reason to which animal you will have an affinity with. Sometimes children share their parents' affinities, but sometimes you get a porcupine born to an owl, or something equally random. My thought (relating to the existence of mythological creatures as soul animals, when they don't exist for real) is that soul animals have something to do with the collective human subconscious in the World of C. So actually, the Britannian royal family have a better chance of being dragons