four wins in the last four weeks
I posted a story yesterday! One that I started probably back in 2006 or 2007 and never figured out how to make it work, because it was supposed to be much longer and full of actual detectiving and stuff. *hands* Instead, there is banter and snark.
Angle of Incidence (at AO3)
Supernatural/Veronica Mars; Dean/Veronica; au; pg; 2,240 words
Dean Winchester had seemed sketchy from the moment they'd met.
I do enjoy Dean/Veronica as a pairing quite a lot.
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I've been editing my yuletide signup like it's going out of style, adding and deleting offers because I can't make up my mind (my requests are set in stone, though), and I was so happy to see three other people offering "Young Allies" so that there is the possibility someone might write it for me! And then I realized that I had probably done a terrible job pimping it out - I gushed repeatedly about Blue Beetle, and once or twice about Young Avengers, but I really didn't do anything to entice people into reading Nomad and Young Allies, the books in which Rikki Barnes and Anya Sofia Corazon become girlfriends team up to fight bad guys. It's basically too late now - signups close in three hours - but I did a mini Rikki Barnes spam on tumblr this afternoon anyway, so I'm just going to link to the scans over there for this post of enticement.
Rikki Barnes is from an alternate universe, where she was Captain America's sidekick, Bucky, the granddaughter of the original WWII era Bucky. In an attempt to save her universe (she fails), she sacrifices herself, and somehow ends up in the main Marvel continuity (616). She finds herself unable to stop heroing, so she tries to meet the new Captain America.
Eli Bradley, current Patriot and also grandson of the original Captain America, tries to convince her that meeting the new Cap is a bad idea, but also that just because she's a girl without a world, it doesn't mean she's a girl without friends. (I would like to see Eli and Rikki in an equal partnership as Captain America and Bucky sometime in the future, despite what happens to Rikki in Fear Itself. I haven't read it so it hasn't happened, la la la rain of blood and toads. Can't keep a dead sidekick down and all that.)
When Rikki again tries to get close to the new Cap, Black Widow shows up and tells her that it wouldn't be a good idea, but then she passes on the codename Nomad to Rikki. In that guise, Rikki fights some bad guys who show up at her school, but unfortunately, the alternate universe version of her brother gets killed in the process.
She goes to his grave to apologize and Captain America shows up to comfort her. It's unclear whether they know of their relationship, such as it is (i.e., that she is his granddaughter from an alternate universe), especially given how close to the vest Natasha plays it with Rikki, but I would have liked to see their relationship explored more. I think it would have been good for both of them, even though when Steve comes back, he (re)establishes an avuncular relationship with Rikki.
So that's the Nomad: Girl Without a World mini. Nomad then became a backup on Captain America starting with Captain America 602. In that series, Rikki teams up with Anya Sofia Corazon,(Araña and then Spider-girl) to find the terrorist group who was responsible for all the trouble at her school.
Anya and Rikki meet cute, don't really get along at first (or, more specifically, Rikki doesn't trust Anya, who is just trying to help her), but then, in the course of fighting bad guys, they become girlfriends. Here they are having a rooftop conversation about teaming up to fight crime.
Rikki lives on her own (basically, she squats in an abandoned apartment) and picks up odd jobs off the books to pay for food and clothing (Natasha is her benefactor when it comes to crimefighting supplies, which is another relationship I'd have liked to see more of, especially given that Natasha does know who Rikki is, and of course, she's Bucky's significant other), but she eventually transfers to Anya's school so they can be BFF in civilian life as well as while they are heroing it up. They end up forming a loose team in Young Allies, named after the team of sidekicks Bucky put together during WWII, even though none of the heroes involved are really interested in being on a team.
Here's Rikki and Anya being girlfriends again, discussing how right it feels to work together.
And that is why I am requesting them for yuletide, and why you should check out their series (Anya has had her own series and she headlines in some of the current Spider Island stuff, but I was distracted by baking so I didn't pull out scans from her stuff; believe me when I tell you she is awesome, her dad is awesome, and occasionally Spider-Man shows up to mentor her).
I need a Rikki/Anya icon. Hmm...
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/397446.html.
people have commented there.
Angle of Incidence (at AO3)
Supernatural/Veronica Mars; Dean/Veronica; au; pg; 2,240 words
Dean Winchester had seemed sketchy from the moment they'd met.
I do enjoy Dean/Veronica as a pairing quite a lot.
***
I've been editing my yuletide signup like it's going out of style, adding and deleting offers because I can't make up my mind (my requests are set in stone, though), and I was so happy to see three other people offering "Young Allies" so that there is the possibility someone might write it for me! And then I realized that I had probably done a terrible job pimping it out - I gushed repeatedly about Blue Beetle, and once or twice about Young Avengers, but I really didn't do anything to entice people into reading Nomad and Young Allies, the books in which Rikki Barnes and Anya Sofia Corazon become girlfriends team up to fight bad guys. It's basically too late now - signups close in three hours - but I did a mini Rikki Barnes spam on tumblr this afternoon anyway, so I'm just going to link to the scans over there for this post of enticement.
Rikki Barnes is from an alternate universe, where she was Captain America's sidekick, Bucky, the granddaughter of the original WWII era Bucky. In an attempt to save her universe (she fails), she sacrifices herself, and somehow ends up in the main Marvel continuity (616). She finds herself unable to stop heroing, so she tries to meet the new Captain America.
Eli Bradley, current Patriot and also grandson of the original Captain America, tries to convince her that meeting the new Cap is a bad idea, but also that just because she's a girl without a world, it doesn't mean she's a girl without friends. (I would like to see Eli and Rikki in an equal partnership as Captain America and Bucky sometime in the future, despite what happens to Rikki in Fear Itself. I haven't read it so it hasn't happened, la la la rain of blood and toads. Can't keep a dead sidekick down and all that.)
When Rikki again tries to get close to the new Cap, Black Widow shows up and tells her that it wouldn't be a good idea, but then she passes on the codename Nomad to Rikki. In that guise, Rikki fights some bad guys who show up at her school, but unfortunately, the alternate universe version of her brother gets killed in the process.
She goes to his grave to apologize and Captain America shows up to comfort her. It's unclear whether they know of their relationship, such as it is (i.e., that she is his granddaughter from an alternate universe), especially given how close to the vest Natasha plays it with Rikki, but I would have liked to see their relationship explored more. I think it would have been good for both of them, even though when Steve comes back, he (re)establishes an avuncular relationship with Rikki.
So that's the Nomad: Girl Without a World mini. Nomad then became a backup on Captain America starting with Captain America 602. In that series, Rikki teams up with Anya Sofia Corazon,(Araña and then Spider-girl) to find the terrorist group who was responsible for all the trouble at her school.
Anya and Rikki meet cute, don't really get along at first (or, more specifically, Rikki doesn't trust Anya, who is just trying to help her), but then, in the course of fighting bad guys, they become girlfriends. Here they are having a rooftop conversation about teaming up to fight crime.
Rikki lives on her own (basically, she squats in an abandoned apartment) and picks up odd jobs off the books to pay for food and clothing (Natasha is her benefactor when it comes to crimefighting supplies, which is another relationship I'd have liked to see more of, especially given that Natasha does know who Rikki is, and of course, she's Bucky's significant other), but she eventually transfers to Anya's school so they can be BFF in civilian life as well as while they are heroing it up. They end up forming a loose team in Young Allies, named after the team of sidekicks Bucky put together during WWII, even though none of the heroes involved are really interested in being on a team.
Here's Rikki and Anya being girlfriends again, discussing how right it feels to work together.
And that is why I am requesting them for yuletide, and why you should check out their series (Anya has had her own series and she headlines in some of the current Spider Island stuff, but I was distracted by baking so I didn't pull out scans from her stuff; believe me when I tell you she is awesome, her dad is awesome, and occasionally Spider-Man shows up to mentor her).
I need a Rikki/Anya icon. Hmm...
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/397446.html.
people have commented there.