one old brand new year before (Megamind/Monsters, Inc. drabble)

[greedyslayer]

Title: one old brand new year before

Summary: Quiet dinner reminiscing on a past New Year's celebration. Crossover AU with "Monsters, Inc." (pre-canon for both films).

Previous: A daddy Megamind never had.Beginning Notes: Another quick little low-key something for New Year's--I'm just apparently on a holiday/birthday theme kick. Again, scenes

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[greedyslayer]

Oh man, I love Kid Mind. I seriously want more fic with him (which I guess is why so far this MM/MI series is planned to deal with KidMind for a while). He was just so sweet and adorable and awesome and cute. And I keep getting struck by the fact that we never hear him talk. (So now I'm pretending he shares Aang's voice actor--yes, total bald adorable kid connection. XD)

I'm glad you saw that, about him not wanting to have super memory, so he could be normal, like all the other kids, whether monster or canonically human. (I LOVE how deep down Megs just wanted to be normal--at least, that's one of the things I took from the movie.) Especially since I didn't want to outright say that or explicitly word it as well as you did, since I don't think Megs at that age could articulate what he was really feeling in a precise manner. And I don't think Minion and Randall pick up on that (yet).

Also, I wonder if with the super memory--well, it must kind of suck if you can remember your planet's doom and separation from your parents pretty well. I wonder if Megs would've liked to not remember that either....

[greedyslayer]

Kid!Megamind breaks my heart, in all the best ways. I just. Every time I watch the movie, the first five minutes make me wibble. Sometimes out loud. And oh, goodness, now you've given him Aang's voice. *melts into a puddle of goo*

Kid!Megamind makes me so sad. The movie just really works at making me feel for Megs, especially his younger self. And Aang's voice fits Kid!Megamind, doesn't it? Ohman, the cute and the sad, can't stand it, but totally love it at the same time.

And it's both sad and spot on that Minion and Randall don't get it yet. (Actually, as much as I adore Minion, I'm not sure he ever really understood just how much Megamind wanted to be "normal.")

I've kind of wanted to do fic where an upset Kid!Megamind cracks and asks Minion if he ever feels sad that there's no one else like him too. And Minion--he's not really sure how to answer since he's not precisely sure how he feels about that. His priority has always been caring for Megs. And I think that's the main thing with Minion, the priority ahead of whatever else with him--trying very hard to care for Megs (and so is heart broken to finally just try to leave when Megs says he doesn't need him anymore). But I think that didn't always work the best since I agree that he never really understood Megamind's deep desire to be "normal," no matter how much he cared about him. Which makes it all just the more sad. ;_;

But maybe it could also be Minion being more in their home planet's mindset (though I stand by the stance that Minion doesn't know much about their home planet either)--because on Megs' home planet, he'd be normal. And it just twists my heart that based on his situation Megs now thinks he's freakish and abnormal. (It reminds me of plotbunny based on others' interesting theories that the black hole just sucked the planets through time and Megs' and Metro's people are still alive. And in my plotbunny it comes of as really rather dark since his people find him mentally and personality-wise abnormal too (even unstable--like, some of his people want to put them in their version of an asylum or mental hospital), especially since they pick up that he thinks he looks 'ugly and defective, etc', when in their minds he's perfectly normal, and since he comes off as too 'human' because he was raised that way. And like Megs kinda snaps since apparently even his own people think he's a freak and he really doesn't truly belong anywhere, does he? Though his parents are like 'BACK OFF' to any of his detractors among their people, though they're still trying to come to grips with the fact that due to crazy time travel their baby's suddenly an adult who's grown up without their attention.)

Anyway, with Randall (and also Minion to an extent, I think), it's just--well, I don't think parents can ever perfectly understand their children, and vice versa (I think Minion was sort of a mix of parent and older brother in addition to servant). And I think that issue of understanding would be even more difficult and complicated as Megs' grows older since it is Randall who's doing the parenting, and my fanon says he's a bundle of issues given what happens in canon. I heard it said once that Megs' is the dreamer and Minion the practical one--but with adding Randall to their family unit, I have to think of Minion as polite, good-nature practical, and Randall as cynically practical, and that'll probably end up clashing worse with Megs' dreamer...ooh, I just reminded myself of the other Pixar film Ratatouille with Remy and his father, where it was very much Dreamer v. Cynical Pragmatist.

[greedyslayer]

I think I might do a little drabble on that. It's just, Minion seems like he'd be in the same boat, and I do feel bad for him, but he doesn't seem as affected by all of it as Megs, since he IS more focused on helping Megs that he doesn't seem to probe his own feelings, or simply have something like that. I think when Megs is a little kid he'd sorta pick up on that and approach Minion about it while feeling completely miserable, because he does want to know if his best friend feels just as horrible and ever wishes to be just like the others, at least other Earth fish (though I kind of doubt Minion saw many of those in his early life on Earth).

It upsets me too a bit, even though I came up with the idea. I just...like to torture my favorites in fic apparently. I'm trying to think of the lighter elements for it, but it's all coming out pretty grim so far.

Monsters, Inc. makes for a good rewatch, especially with a sequel coming out in 2012. It's such a good movie.

But I should really do at least a small drabble for Tangled/Megamind. I'm trying to think of a way their worlds could cross and it's kinda getting involved (I'm thinking either just plain dimensional crossing somehow or actually a twist on modernizing a fairy tale so that an AU!Modern Rapunzel could be more naturally a part of Megamind's world.)

[greedyslayer]

That's good reasoning behind Minion sorta being a bit indifferent to being...different. (This may loosely relate--but I'm thinking of for some LULZ in a later MM/MI installment that Minion totally crushes on the banished Loch Ness Monster.)

That said, Minion doesn't have any more friends than Megamind does, so surely he still gets lonely?

Yeah...those two are like really all they had for the longest time. ;_;

That's what I was kind of thinking with Tangled/Megamind crossover...it'd have to be a chaptered AU and I don't think I'm up for that either.

I kind of think it would be amazing to see Megamind as the one who climbed Rapunzel's tower, instead of Flynn. I mean, can you imagine the warped picture she would get of the world from asking him?

It would be neat! :D

I was actually thinking of something similar for again major AU. Just sort of thinking of other ways/people to make Megs reconsider his career choice. Like, Rapunzel and Pascal bail, and they meet up with Megs and Minion, and since Rapunzel's even more new to the world, she rather buys into Megs' view, or just really grows to trust him--basically, I want some LULZ with Rapunzel (and maybe Pascal to an extent) as Megs' new junior sidekick(s) before movie canon events with happen so there'd be new players to shake up the Game. XD

OMG, YAY! Will read! And on Metro Man! I <3 Megamind to a ridiculous extent, but Metro Man was refreshingly not a complete jerk and I think he's rather complicated too, so YAY! for more fic on him.

[greedyslayer]

And Nessie IS huge in comparison to Minion's actual size...and so far I'm thinking she has a thick Irish accent and is quite fond of the drink and maybe a wee bit crazy (canon gives no hint why any of the "famous" monsters were banished to the Human World in "Monsters, Inc.") and finds the humans looking for her amusing and rather loves baiting them occasionally. I was thinking that eventually Minion's crush becomes more sincere and is reciprocated and then he and Nessie are like Small Guy/Big Girl couple. XD And Megs LOVES teasing Minion about it from, from crush to actually getting together period.

Yes, I want henches Rapunzel and Minion just being affable and adorable together in the background of Megamind's schemes. XD And just the thought of Minion and Megs going crazy over trying to think of Rapunzel's henchwoman costume and code name (I'm thinking actually calling her "Tangled" for meta LULZ). And they make her a flying pan that can deflect lasers.

[greedyslayer]

...I meant "frYing pan," not "flying pan"...though now a flying pan that deflects lasers sounds cool.

Thanks for the encouragement! :D

[greedyslayer]

OMG, serious LOL. XD