mod post: success stories
So here's our current list of success stories, i.e. stories that have been written and posted (or have started to be written and posted), based on plot bunnies posted in this community.
If there are any more stories that were written in response to plot bunnies posted here, that aren't on this list, please reply here with a pointer to them.
Ryan-Sophie bunny challenge:
A plot bunny posted by yessi_5 has spawned off a mini-challenge to see how many different ways one plot bunny can be written by different writers. The plot bunny is:
Little Sophie asks Ryan, why he doesn't call their parents "Mom" and "Dad" like she and Seth do, but "Kirsten" and "Sandy". Ryan tries to explain. (Maybe Sandy and/or Kirsten eavesdrop?)
The stories it has spawned are as follows:
- Brother, Sister by missmara
- Sophie Ponders the Meaning of Love by 60schic
- What's In A Name by smc36
- It's just the way it is by oc_gambit2
- Irrefutable truths by fredsmith518
Other bunnies that have found homes:
- smc36 has posted a story
Soccer OUCH!
based on the plot bunny submitted by anne35:
Ryan gets hurt at a soccer or baseball game/practice. Nothing too serious but still hurt. Due to his lack of self-worth and upbringing he doesn't tell the Cohens because he doesn't want to bother them or doesn't think it is worth telling. Sandy or Kirsten have to find out that Ryan got hurt through a soccer-mom newpsie. - anne35 has posted a story
When God
Closes A Door based on the anonymously submitted plot bunny:
Instead of having broken-up with AJ Dawn is still living with him and has him come to the reconciliation dinner with her at the Cohens. AJ, of course, should be rude and possibly drunk and at some time during the course of the dinner hit Ryan in front of the Cohens. - missmara has posted a story
The Camaro
based on the plot bunny submitted by anne35:
In Season Three the episode where Ryan explains the toy car to Sadie he tells that sad little story about how he and Trey would play with the cars to get their minds off what was going on in the next room. Did anyone ever write a fic showing young Ryan and Trey doing that? I can't believe one hasn't been written but I couldn't find one. - brit_girl has posted a story
May You
Find Some Comfort There based on the plot bunny submitted by
millstone1005:
I was just watching 3.10 The Chrismukkah Bar-Mitzvakkah last night. Remember how Kirsten mentioned that she and her mother had made a certain ornament and her father had said it was his favorite, and insisted upon hanging it himself first thing every Christmas? Wouldn't it be cool if somebody wrote a story about the Nichol family Christmas with young!Kirsten and her mother and father (and maybe baby Hailey), featuring the above-mentioned memory of Kirsten's? - anne35 has posted a story Exact Words
( part 1,
part 2)
based on her own reclaimed plot bunny:
Season one, set around the time of "The Outsider" minus insane Donnie and more fluff than angsty. What if Ryan was more of a normal teen-ager and getting a little bored (we know he went to parties and drank in Chino). So what if at the restaurant some other waiters asked him to go out after work. Cohens never set a curfew so he stays out until midnight no-one says anything so the next time he stays out later and so on. At some point the parents say something about his late hours but not really lay down the law (I always thought they were a bit nervous at first about parenting example "the talk" in The Perfect Couple)Anyway Ryan basically ignores this until he finally does something that "breaks the camels back" and Kirsten and Sandy have to discipline him. It would be great if Ryan also whined like a teen-ager when punished mentioning that just a few weeks before when he lived his mom he got to stay out as late as he wanted. - smc36 has posted a story
Chop Sticks based on the
plot bunny submitted by anne35:
In "The Heights" Ryan was the only member of the family using a fork, but by "The Way We Were" he had learned how to use chopsticks. Has a story been done where someone teaches Ryan how to use Chopsticks? If not, it could be a nice story involving the Cohens+1, especially if it was a cute little bonding moment between Kirsten & Ryan. - cheekymice has posted a story in the Ryan and Missy series at
http://cheekymice.livejournal.com/176027.html,
which matches the plot bunny submitted by dogsbody01:
I thought of another one:Ryan Atwood,nude model. It could be something like, he's in college had some unexpected expenses, and rather than ask the Cohen's for help.Ryan bravely bares all, for an art class.;) - brandywine421 has posted a story called
Seth Makes A New Friend
( Chapter 1,
Chapter 2,
Chapter 3)
based on the plot bunny posted by anne35 where Sandy wasn't Ryan's
public defender.
- 60schic has posted a story
Everything But which
matches the plot bunny submitted by indigorayne:
Taylor's bedroom the morning after "earth girls are easy", or right after he jumps in ;) - cheekymice has posted a story
The Tempest
based on the plot bunny submitted by dunbaby:
It's not that I don't like the pool house -- because I do, really. But, I don't like how living in the pool house separates Ryan from the family. If anything bad ever happened in the middle of the night, the Cohens would have no idea. Now, I have read lots of great fanfic where it was to everyone's benefit that Ryan lived in the pool house (two of my favorites being "Spiral" by Brandywine where Ryan saves the Cohens from a fire and "The Accidental Hero" by Cheekymice where Ryan gets the jump on some robbers). I love that, but I would love to see a story where living in the pool house--being separated from the family is to Ryan's detriment. What if a situation arose where something bad happened to Ryan because he was in the pool house? It could be a fire, an earthquake, a storm, robbers... whatever. The point is that Ryan gets hurt and the Cohens feel bad. - fredsmith518 has posted a story
Assumptions
based on the plot bunny submitted by dogsbody01:
Caleb says something really hurtful about Ryan, in front of both Kristen and him. Her response is to treat it as a joke, and Ryan wonders if he should start packing. - smc36 has posted a story
Stalker Ryan
based on the plot bunnies submitted by indigorayne:
(1) Ryan, dressed all in black with binoculars and a camera, is heading out and Sandy asks him where he's going and he says to stalk Taylor. (2) Similar to the one above but he has Sandy make him sandwiches to take with him. - smc36 has posted a story
Frank Atwood Is Not a Nice Man!
based on the plot bunny submitted by millstone1005:
Frank falls off the wagon, makes the rounds of the bars on the wrong side of town, eventually ends up at the bar where Ryan lived/worked, they call him to come get him, Ryan and his father get into a fight and Frank hits Ryan. - famous99 has posted a story
What's in a Name
based on the plot bunny submitted by indigorayne:
Ryan wants to change his last name to Cohen before going off to Berkeley. - missmara has posted a story
A Week... A Month... A Year... For School....Forever based on the plot bunny submitted by millstone1005:
The story behind Ryan's statement to Kaitlin: "When I moved in with the Cohens, I gave it a week. Here I am." - erinkayehashet has posted a story
Coffee Makes a Good Prop During
an Awkward Conversation based on the plot bunny submitted by krisherdown:
The awkward [coffee] with Ryan and Frank (the one that occured prior to the Cohens' dinner). - fredsmith518 has started posting a story
The New Start based on the
plot bunny submitted by millstone1005:
Ryan is a cousin. In this scenario, Dawn is related to either Sandy or Kirsten, maybe a first cousin (so Ryan would be Seth's 2nd cousin). [...] - tonksified has posted a story
Anything For You
based on the plot bunny submitted by millstone1005:
The entire Cohens+1 family moved into the Cooper/Roberts house. - missmara has started posting a story
Family based on the plot bunny
submitted by indigorayne:
Daniel is a teen or young adult and has heard all his life that his father is violent and that is why his mother doesn't want him around Daniel, for his protection. Daniel decides to find him - to confront him, maybe he has a chip on his shoulder or maybe he's just curious (reason is up to the writer). When Daniel finally meets/confronts/spies on Ryan(again writer's choice) instead of the violent man his mother portrayed he sees a loving, patient, involved husband/father. Prefer but not necessary that he be married to Taylor. He and his wife are raising at least one foster/adopted child and at least one biological child. As I believe Sandy said "the more the merrier".
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