On the shoulders of giants (the one that's not really a fic)

Apr 25, 2011 15:31


title: On the shoulders of giants
rating: pg
disclaimer: this is not real
summary: X-MEN AU aka this isn’t really a fic at all!
note: i’m actually pretty excited about the new X-Men film that’s coming out. And I thought how cool would it be if there was a football/X-Men AU! I wouldn’t know how to write that but I let me share my ramblings with ( Read more... )

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eleventy9 April 25 2011, 07:51:32 UTC
badass icon is badass! i would love to write it but i honestly do not have the attention span for long fics (and this feels like a sprawling epic), at least not enough to do it justice. unless i post random, disjointed scenes every now and then.

real madrid/brotherhood vs barca/x-men is quite fitting! i was actually imagining the other team as liverpool since my fic writing is limited between them and real haha.

the man visiting xabi was supposed to be mourinho. i found it fitting that he would have a "god-like" power like healing.

rogue is a better example! she totally slipped my mind.

i love the idea of cris silencing the constant stream of noise for kaka. cris bringing kaka peace? who would have thought.

maybe sami could have a power that absorbs massive shocks or something. i like the parallel of two powers complementing each other.

your suggestions are awesome! telekinetic iker with the constant hand posing makes so much sense! pique constantly shocking people makes me laugh. as does multiple pipitas. i also want marcelo and pepe to have powers they can use to be super annoying. like invisibility or walking through solid objects. and sergio with wings! of course!

thanks so much for commenting!!!

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sashatwen April 25 2011, 08:06:12 UTC
Hey! Random disjointed scenes are totally cool! Make it an epic drabbleverse. Then, when you're done, make it a drabbleverse community so other people can post drabbles/fic in the same universe. It could go into many directions. ;-)

It's also a great rp idea. (Look at http://x-journal.net/ or their wiki, the game's been running for years...)

real madrid/brotherhood vs barca/x-men is quite fitting! i was actually imagining the other team as liverpool since my fic writing is limited between them and real haha.

Wait, now I am confused. Who are the equivalent of the X-Men then, and who's coaching them? Was Mourinho supposed to be Magneto? Does that make Liverpool evil misguided? Or are things less black and white in this universe, which I would absolutely love! *g*

I LOVE LOVE LOVE your idea about Samisut having complementary powers! So Sami's powers would be like Bishop's? He could even be a cop in real life! Ooooh, yes, I would love that! :DDDDD <3 <3 so much.

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araelwen April 25 2011, 08:24:39 UTC
I definitely also love Sami and Mesut having complementary powers. And in ~seriousness I think that really suits Sami as well. He's boss and unflappable.

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sashatwen April 25 2011, 08:33:31 UTC
Oh, I definitely agree. So, him having energy absorbing powers like a walking battery would mean he would also have to release the energy eventually? Massive force blasts. Awesome.

Lol. I can see it now: Mesut punching Sami really hard to charge him up before a fight. And Sami enjoying it.

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araelwen April 25 2011, 08:47:01 UTC
Is that a euphemism, eh? eh? (wink wink nudge nudge eyebrow) ;-P

But yeah. I think that's a good idea.

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sashatwen April 25 2011, 08:53:17 UTC
HahaHAHAHAHA. It wasn't meant to be, but I like your line of thinking. I guess it... ehm... depends on the situation. ;-)

Marcelo: "Hey, Mesut, don't you need to hit big bro here before we go and kick ass or something?"
Mesut: "Eh..." (blushes)
Sami (grinning): "Oh, trust me, he took his time charging me up earlier."
Marcelo (covering his ears in panic): "Geeze! TMI! TMI!"
Iker: "Carpe diem, I always say. Now focus people, before I kick your asses."

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araelwen April 25 2011, 09:18:28 UTC
LIKE BUTTON! LIKE BUTTON!

Especially: lol ilu Iker.

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eleventy9 April 25 2011, 08:49:02 UTC
oh, i just meant i hadn't put too much thought on who the other side/team/professor x eqivalent would be. i was more caught up on real madrid players and xabi's back story. mourinho would def be the magneto-type character

and in my head i just assumed the other team was liverpool since i only write about those two teams. but your idea of it being barca makes much more sense. does that make sense?

my x-men knowledge is not as good as yours so I don't know who bishop is!

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sashatwen April 25 2011, 09:10:41 UTC
Hmmm... You know, given that Mou's been all over as a coach, it could also work in such a way that some of his former pupils/team members defected and formed their own team after disagreeing with his methods. That way, there would not necessarily have to be an Xavier character, and it could make the line-up for teams a little more flexible.

Do you want Real Madrid as Mourinho's or the opposing (X-Men) team? Cause I have trouble seeing Saint Iker as a brotherhood member.

I must confess I also struggle to find a coach other than Pep or Jogi Löw that I could see as an Xavier (idealistic, human-friendly) character. Unless you want to bring Aitor Karanka into this. ;-) I guess a veteran player/football legend like Zidane could also work?

@Bishop: Have a wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_%28comics%29

Basically, his powers work like battery. He absorbs, stores and redirects all kinds of energy.

Bishop's a time traveller (not powers related) and a police man, and back when I still read the comics, there was a time he basically worked in District X (New York's mutant ghetto) for the NYPD as a cop for mutant matters. Hence the idea of Sami as a cop. Plus, lunar_art writes him as a cop, which might have influenced me as well.

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eleventy9 April 25 2011, 09:27:33 UTC
i see what you mean about iker but i imagine (this character of) iker as someone who had to grow up too quickly and has seen a lot of awful things happen. he, like xabi, is prepared to see the world in shades of grey rather than black and white. he doesn't want to hurt people but he will do anything to protect his own and he sees mourinho as someone who can force that change into their favour where they don't have to hide anymore, where they are no longer "the other." HMM I SEEM TO HAVE PUT A LOT OF THOUGHT INTO THIS.

I GUESS WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS:

i would use the brotherhood (mou) and the x-men (pep) as a basic template for the fued with mou not necessarily being all "evil" and pep not necessarily being all "good". all they know is they just don't agree with each other. does that even make sense??

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sashatwen April 25 2011, 09:37:34 UTC
You make absolute and total sense!

The way your current line-up goes though is that you mainly feature brotherhood characters as your main protagonists. Would the "X-Men" team be secondary characters? Would you also write from their perspective? Would that be tough or fun to write for you, considering you don't usually write them and already have so many characters to deal with?

(As you can see, I have spent too much time BETAing fics. Sorry if I seem overbearing.)

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eleventy9 April 25 2011, 10:04:07 UTC
i would say the main characters would be from the brotherhood. i think it might be good/fun to break it up by switching to the "x-men" sometimes but i would mostly try to keep a tight reign on the main brotherhood characters..

not at all! i kinda love discussing it. and i love getting your pov and ideas! i'm just not sure how i'd work stevie into this. you know, if i was going to write some of it...

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sashatwen April 25 2011, 10:29:00 UTC
I would totally buy Mourinho just having recruited Stevie sometime in the past. It's like most of the members of the X-Men are American, but some (like Storm, Banshee, Colossus...) were recruited abroad as well.

Oooh, so Kakà and Cris wouldn't be enemies, but on the same side then. Gotcha. Cris canceling Sami's powers, BTW, could even be dangerous when he's charged up, cause all that stored up energy then has to go someplace else... Kaboom much?

Oh, and multiple Pipitas would also make great Mou!spies!

I also see you wrote Esteban fic! Ooooh, I love me some pirate. What would his powers be, I wonder...

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eleventy9 April 26 2011, 23:05:51 UTC
i am a fan of the pirate! i imagine his power to be something that's not too "flashy". something similar to shadowkat perhaps? a no fuss power but incredibly useful.

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sashatwen April 27 2011, 05:45:20 UTC
I agree, but I don't feel shadowkat's power is for him. I don't even know why. I don't see him as the "sneaky" type - but then neither is Shadowkat, really. She is a very brainy character though, so it would fit.

I don't actually know that much about Esteban, although I instinctively love him. Mou hasn't been using him much as a player lately. Maybe a luck-based power? Thinks just have a tendency to work out for him, short or long-term?

Teleportation? That's always useful.

This is not necessarily for him either, but do we have a feral mutant yet? Feral mutants display (atavistic) characteristics of animals, such as heightened senses, agility, sharp teeth or claws, fur, and some of them can shapechange into the animal at will. Don't know who to give this power to though.

Oh, why do I now think of Pique as a were-dog? An unassuming, cute one. No, scratch that image.

Also, Messi needs to have shrinking powers due to his RL growth-hormone deficiency as a kid. (The power of wikis...) Maybe something like, the more he shrinks, the faster he becomes.

And we do need to reserve some powers for Barça... I wish someone here were a Cule and could act as consultant!

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eleventy9 April 27 2011, 06:21:41 UTC
teleportation works for me. i also know very little about esteban, i think outside of spain there just isn't much about him. i think i am attached to him because he reminds me a little of xabi? my favourite is showing.

i don't know who would best suit the feral mutant power. Maybe valdes?

haha. i get the feeling that whatever power he gets, it'll always go awry.

i had to salvage some cool powers for barca, otherwise it'll seem very one sided. i was thinking:

pep - something telepathy-based? dream projection?
puyol - can generate earthquakes/sound waves
xavi - fire manipulator
alves - super speed/agility
messi - i originally wanted to give him teleportation but the shrinking power is pretty cool.
iniesta - ...i don't know
villa - uh. i got nothing. or he can have super-speed and alves can have shadow kat's power?
valdes - feral mutant

who else is there?

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