Plot-bunny: Highlander/His Dark Materials

[marbleglove]

A few days ago I wrote a snippet that added deamons from the His Dark Materials universe into the Highlander universe. But the more I think on it, the more problematic that particular fusion is for immortals

Comments

[lyndseas]

Immortals with daemons is fascinating

[marbleglove]

First, awesome cthulu kittie icon

[lyndseas]

It's a squitten! :D ...you do not want to know the story behind it. really. It will ruin the cuteness forever, or at least 5 minutes

[marbleglove]

Cute little squitten! I am now incredibly curious, but I'll take your advice and not ask. I'm already having images of Kronos having as his daemon the attack bunny from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.You're right, in the books, discussing daemons was taboo. The primary character got away with it by being horrifyingly rude little girl. But there's no reason to believe she would ever question the idea of changing daemons. And yeah, it would be a lot like how homosexuality "just doesn't exist" in some times and places. And some poor people grow up thinking there must be something very wrong with themselves. And ow I really want a side story just about some one in some small town going through some major event and having their daemon changed, and having to deal with strange bigotry and finding a support group and discovering that it's not that strange after all

[lyndseas]

A wise choice. And that's totally what Kronos's daemon would be like (well, not necessarily a bunny, but same concept), especially if we're going with the daemons eating each other idea. (I will admit that all I know about the bunny is that it has fangs and probably attacks people, so I may be missing nuances

[marbleglove]

Ah, you need to see the scene with the bunny. Luckily YouTube is here to solve our problems. Watch

[lyndseas]

That is such a Kronos bunny. :D

[marbleglove]

Okay, yeah, what's-her-name is probably not a good example. And while I remember that soldiers tended to have large attack dogs, I don't remember them ever actually attacking anything. So, yeah

[lyndseas]

People could think that the horses are their daemons, if we're going with the first death makes Immortals able to separate from their daemons theory...the daemons are off scouting/making further mayhem, the villagers or whoever see the four of them with horses and no other animals, and debate rages over whether they all have horse daemons or if they're all daemonless.

if you have a character you like but no plot, make something horrible happen to your character.

Oh, how I wish that would actually fix the plotting problems I'm having with my current percolating stories.

[marbleglove]

Ooh, I like that theory. And maybe periodically one of the daemons does decide to be a horse and go raiding with them, so the rumors are all very unclear when one generation says "Yes, there was proof that the horse was a daemon" and the next generation says, "no, there was proof that they weren't," and, of course, it's all spread in rumors and maybe the horsemen don't have daemons or maybe they have multiple daemons, etc.

Of course, throwing trouble at ones main character doesn't help them get out of trouble, so it only works for the first half of the plot. Unless, I suppose, the various horrible things cancel each other out: the plague wipes out the advancing army whose bodies then fertilize the famine-stricken land, and the hero just needs to persevere while everyone else dies.

Do you want to let your thoughts continue to percolate or do you want help brainstorming?

[lyndseas]

These stories have been percolating for years, so brainstorming help would be awesome. Extremely abbreviated summaries

RE: #1, Buffy/Dresden brainstorming

[marbleglove]

Ooh, I like both of these plots a lot. I'm going to respond to them in two different comments though

Re: #1, Buffy/Dresden brainstorming

[lyndseas]

I'm not sure that Xander and Gard will ever meet, actually, since she's not working for Marcone on a long-term basis. Although, I suppose Marcone will need a magic person for those times when Xander really can't be there because he has school and the meeting has to be then, or Dresden will be there too and nobody wants to let that cat out of the bag yet. Though, I suppose that if she's subbing for him, he'll have to fill her in on the security protocols or whatever

Re: #1, Buffy/Dresden brainstorming

[marbleglove]

I really like the idea that in the Dresden universe being a wizard is something that you either are or are not, while in the Buffy verse it's a way that you act or do not act. It's a useful distinction

Re: #1, Buffy/Dresden brainstorming

[lyndseas]

Oh! The little bad guy (or maybe a group?) breaks one of the laws of magic, which gets the White Council after him. But Xander's taken the kid(s) under his wing, and he's very Not Amused by them getting put on trial. And the White Council's like, "Okay, you can have one of them as your apprentice, but only one." although there's debate over that, since Xander isn't even 18 yet. And Xander's pissed. But I think it'd be more fun if he managed to talk them into it (somehow...?), because to some extent the alternative falls under breaking the universe (though I don't think anybody he knows would object too much to him eliminating the White Council

Re: #1, Buffy/Dresden brainstorming

[marbleglove]

Yeah, I think you're right about where Xander would draw different lines for different people