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gryphonrhi

I know what I'm doing tomorrow...

Dec 30, 2012 23:30

My favorite Highlander has a birthday coming up -- his 495th, to be precise. (Connor MacLeod, born January 1st, 1518; still with us. What fourth movie?) So I thought I'd spend the day before Connor's birthday writing short fics* -- a few sentences, three or four paragraphs -- if you guys wanted to give me prompts, other characters for him to ( Read more... )

fandoms: due south, characters: connor, fandoms: marvel, memes, writing: story ideas, fandoms: highlander

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keerawa December 31 2012, 09:46:55 UTC

I'd love to read a sci-fi or magical crossover fic where Connor is a bystander in a crowd and accidentally outs himself as Other when something insane/impossible/horrifying happens because he is completely calm or possibly even amused by it.

gryphonrhi December 31 2012, 21:01:15 UTC

...how do you feel about Avengers? Say, set in the Opportunities-verse?

keerawa January 1 2013, 00:33:34 UTC

Ooh, sounds fantastic!

Can't Get Behind The Line When It's A Cluster(f*ck), pt 1 gryphonrhi January 1 2013, 07:09:20 UTC

Bloody LJ... I like the DW comment lengths better! Okay. Here. Have part 1!

His quickening crawled suddenly, spiking in surges until it felt like someone was yanking barbed wire under the skin. It was all Connor could do to hold silent, bent over his mug and wondering if someone had dropped something in his coffee, if the government had gone mad enough to try some new energy weapon in the middle of Manhattan… and then it leveled out ( ... )

Re: Can't Get Behind The Line When It's A Cluster(f*ck), pt 2/3 gryphonrhi January 1 2013, 07:13:07 UTC

Connor was heading a phalanx of mortals when the black SUVs pulled up ( ... )

Re: Can't Get Behind The Line When It's A Cluster(f*ck), pt 3/3 gryphonrhi January 1 2013, 07:13:59 UTC

Connor grinned despite himself. "It's an attempt at food." He nodded, though. "They can catch up to wherever we've gotten by then." He glanced across his line, meeting the eyes of his walking wounded, and saw that none of them wanted to go off in a strange SUV. Good. He'd thought he had a surprisingly sensible force ( ... )

Re: Can't Get Behind The Line When It's A Cluster(f*ck), pt 3/3 keerawa January 1 2013, 07:36:28 UTC

Fantastic! I can imagine Connor forming a cohesive unit out of any civilians he came across who weren't panicking. After all, back in the day, it wasn't just professionals who responded in a crisis - it was everyone.

I particularly like the detail about him passing out the business cards an noticing that someone of the lads and lasses with him needed a steady job.

Re: Can't Get Behind The Line When It's A Cluster(f*ck), pt 3/3 gryphonrhi January 1 2013, 20:32:41 UTC

::wry:: If it's roughly modern time, I imagine several of them *do* need better/steadier jobs. And they've just put their lives on the line; he thinks they deserve better.

And yeah, Connor's lived through the days of volunteer militias, and fire brigades. ::amused:: He went because he wasn't sure the city'd make it if people didn't, and he organized because he knew what he was doing. I *liked* his lads and lasses! Some great people in that line of his.

Glad you liked it and thank you for such a neat prompt!

Re: Can't Get Behind The Line When It's A Cluster(f*ck), pt 3/3 springwoof January 1 2013, 09:53:07 UTC

That was wonderful! I liked Connor balancing risk and duty, even as he decided on duty and went to defend his city. And I liked that he was able to quickly form an impromptu army, and find roles for all the people in it, fighters or not.

Re: Can't Get Behind The Line When It's A Cluster(f*ck), pt 3/3 gryphonrhi January 1 2013, 20:29:14 UTC

Connor knows major threats when he sees and hears them, so, yeah, he went. He'll cope with everything as he finds it/figures it out. But he couldn't have been the only one out there trying to help, so he organized as he went and tried to keep them alive where he could.

Yeah, I liked the one Buddhist who just went, "I'm sorry, I can't shoot them. But I can watch your backs while you stop them hurting others." Connor thought offering to walk *backwards* into enemy fire was insanely brave and immediately said yes.

Anyway: short version -- thank you, I'm glad you liked it too!

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Re: Can't Get Behind The Line When It's A Cluster(f*ck), pt 3/3 gryphonrhi January 3 2014, 04:57:20 UTC

Now I have this image of Thor slugging down boom-boom and calling it a mighty drink; another! ::giggling:: Thank you for the image!

And yeah. I probably will revisit it. ::amused:: I have to figure out a timeline for that!

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