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

Comments

Re: Part 2

[mentalguru]

Yeah. I just guess that Waternoose gives off the grandfather like image, while Sulley is like your favourite Uncle, but in the end that's a lie on Waternooses end, but not Sulley's. Randall unfortunatly knows W's true self and hence suspecting Sulley would make sense to me, esepcially since yes they seem close too- Sulley seems to have the relationship Randall may have wanted but in the end, W really didn't even care that much himself for Sulley. He's mad he banished his 'top scarer' not Sulley himself. That's actually something Sulley partially shares with Metroman actually- except for him the cape was all anyone saw, Sulley at least had other people, but I think it was worse for Sulley because he saw W like a father and genuinely cared for him. Which is why W exiling them and revealing his true nature is perhaps one of the greatest moments for Pixar I think for me, even if they have used the good guy-> actually bad guy thing a bit much at points.

Honestly, Sulley also seems a fair bit older than Randall, and he could have been a father figure to him, or a big brother figure anyway.

Sulley tried a little in the movie with the handshake. But Randall wasn't having any, and it was the Boo situation which really soured things on Sulley's end. I kind of felt Randall just didn't believe it, even though even from an outsiders persepctive the true rivalry seems to be MIKE and Randall. Mike is more competitve than Sulley by miles.

It's kind of interesting of course when we have to remember characters don't have all the knowledge viewers have- it makes for some great stories I think. :)

Re: Part 2

[greedyslayer]

I see it as part of why Waternoose really is the main villain--I find it worse that he screwed over someone he seemed to care about. PBL really puts it well, a fake friend being worse than obvious enemy. It would've been nice if Pixar had paralleled Waternoose's "good guy-->actually a bad guy" with Randall being validated as not so bad after all. Pixar should do it sometime, or again, I imagine they must've done something like that before, though all that comes to mind right now are Sid's toys not being cannibals despite Woody's initial impression in the first Toy Story.

That'd be neat AU fic--Sully was old enough to be a father/uncle/big brother figure to Randall, which seemed like something he really needed.