Prompt list for the twenty-third Older Not Dead Promptathon
Firstly, thank you to those of you who submitted prompts for our twenty-third promptathon.
Thank you for being so creative with your prompts and also thank you for submitting the prompts in the correct way. I haven't had to exclude any this time!
ANGEL
Angel/Cordelia Chase. Cordelia didn't die.
ANIMORPHS
Tobias/Rachel. It's years later, the Earth is saved, and Rachel did not die.
BATMAN
Bruce Wayne/Selina Kyle. Catwoman was always a champion of good; her rescuees just tend to be furry.
BATTLE CREEK
Milt/Russ. Russ Agnew, PI investigates rumors of corruption circling FBI agent Milt.
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
Buffy/Angel. Buffy is Angel's sire.
Spike/Buffy Summers. It was always Spike from the beginning.
Rupert Giles/?. Giles never stopped practicing magic; he just didn't toy with the dark stuff after England.
BURN NOTICE
Sam Axe/Maddie Westen. (Michael dies/disappears AU) Sorry for your (our) loss.
CALIFORNIA DREAMS
Jake Somers/Lorena DaCosta. The band never broke up.
CHARMED
Prue Halliwell/Piper Halliwell. Prue didn't die, and the world discovered that the Power of Four is even stronger than the Power of Three.
CSI
Nick Stokes/Warrick Brown. Retirement, relaxation, and dealing with Gil who just got divorced.
DISNEY
Walt Disney/Mickey Mouse. Walt didn't die; he simply became a cartoon.
DOCTOR WHO
Martha/Jack. Bodyguard AU
Martha/Jack. They both stayed with the Doctor in the Tardis.
DUE SOUTH
Fraser/Kowalski. Con artist with a heart of gold Ray Kowalski.
Fraser/Kowalski. Method actor Benton Fraser, Cassavetes-like improvisational director Ray Kowalski.
Fraser/Vecchio. Benny doesn't come to Chicago.
Fraser/Vecchio. The librarian and the teacher.
Fraser/Victoria. Cynical CPD cop Victoria reports a "personality conflict" to get a new, non-corrupt partner -- and gets Fraser.
Fraser/Victoria. Master criminal Fraser, who tried to redeem corrupt CPD cop Victoria years before, returns to find that he has a grown child away at college and crippling tuition bills now tempt single-mom, beat cop Victoria.
FINAL FANTASY VII
Barret Wallace/Tifa Lockhart. (Original Game Canon) Golden years in Cosmo Canyon.
FINAL FANTASY VIII
Cid Kramer/Edea Kramer. He stops her from running away, but that means he has to watch the Sorceress within her take control.
Laguna Loire/Kiros Seagill/Ward Zabac. They're just three retired soldiers telling stories at a bar.
find a bodyguard.
FOREVER KNIGHT
Nick Knight/Lucien LaCroix. Beta werewolf Nick constantly challenges alpha werewolf LaCroix. LaCroix's combination of harsh dominance and pleasurable seduction put Nick in his place... repeatedly.
Donald Schanke/?. Schanke was never on that plane. Nick and Natalie still meet their end in the finale. Schanke and LaCroix meet again after.
Donald Schanke/?. The episode Close Call begins the odd relationship between Schanke and LaCroix
GOLDEN GIRLS
Blanche Deveraux/Dorothy Zbornac. Blanche and Dorothy meet when they're younger in the "old" South.
HAWAII 5-0
Danny/Kono. Rachel never moves Grace away, Danny never joins five-o. Years later Kono goes to Jersey for a conference meets Detective Danny Williams.
Danny/Kono. Soulmate AU
HEAT (1995)
Neil/Vincent. Neil is undercover and Vincent is corrupt but trying to go straight.
HIGHLANDER
Joe Dawson/Amanda Darieux. Joe was never a Watcher but he did fence stolen goods from time to time and that is how he meets the lovely Amanda.
Joe Dawson/Methos. Joe and Methos are an established couple when Duncan meets them.
Joe Dawson/?. Joe found out much earlier that Adam was Methos
INSPECTOR LYNLEY
Lynley/Havers. Lynley if fulfilling his role as 8th Earl of Asherton and needs a personal assistant.
LABYRINTH
Jareth/Sarah Williams. Instead of simply defeating Jareth, Sarah offered up a deal: She would become his Queen gladly, if he'd free her brother.
MASS EFFECT
Ashley Williams/Commander Shepard. Ashley is a poetry teacher.
Ashley Williams/Commander Shepard/Kaidan Alenko. All three survive Virmire, and must return there years later.
Kaidan Alenko/male Shepard. Family
Kaidan Alenko/male Shepard. Reunion
Kaidan Alenko/male Shepard. Where are we?
Karin Chakwas/Zaeed Massani. (Meeting pre-game) Zaeed is injured; Chakwas is the only doctor around and has to patch him up.
Urdnot Wrex/Aria T'Loak. Wrex visits Omega at some point and has to settle a disagreement.
MASTER & COMMANDER
Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin. 21st Century AU.
MONK
Adrian Monk/Natalie Teeger. Library AU
Adrian Monk/Natalie Teeger. Natalie and Trudy had been friends so Monk and Natalie knew each other preseries.
MOONLIGHT
Mick/Beth/Josef. Vampire cop Beth hasn't dated since her divorce two years earlier. At Josef's popular club investigating a crime, she notes his bouncer Mick is unusually close to and protective of Josef, but then both men put the moves on her.
NCIS
Gibbs/Ducky. Ducky is the senior field agent; Gibbs the ME.
Gibbs/Ducky. Shannon never existed.
Gibbs/Fornell. Doctors not agents.
Gibbs/McGee. Tim is an author; his life is threatened and he needs to
McGee/Jimmy. The doctor and the author.
McGee/Jimmy. Tim doesn't meet Jimmy at NCIS, because Jimmy never comes
NCIS. to work there.
Ducky/?. Ducky did manage to get custody of his brother before Nicolas’ mother was able to leave with him. This changes things.(episode Spinning Wheel)
Ducky/?. Ducky never joins NCIS but still manages to meet each team member in different ways.
Ducky/?. Ducky starts to travel after his mother dies and he is surprised by who joins him.
ONCE UPON A TIME
Ruby/Snow White. Snow never married the Prince, or had a child with him, because she was in love with a wolf.
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
Galina "Red" Reznikov/Norma Romano. They met outside of prison.
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
Captain Jack Sparrow/Will Turner. Will never died, and he chose Jack over Elizabeth at the end of the first movie.
RAFFLES
Raffles/Bunny. Life in modern day London for two gentlemen burglars.
Raffles/Bunny. Teachers at their old school.
SAVED BY THE BELL
A.C. Slater/Jessi Spano. Jessi went to college with the rest of them.
SHERLOCK HOLMES (BOOKVERSE)
Holmes/Watson. Holmes uses his intellect and skills for the bad. Can the love of a good man redeem him?
STAR TREK ENTERPRISE
Jonathan Archer/Malcolm Reed. Family
Jonathan Archer/Malcolm Reed. Reunion
STAR WARS (FILMS & COMICS)
Leia Organa/Evaan Verlaine. Sometime after Endor, Leia took time to reconnect with the Alderaanian exile -- and the feelings that she hadn't let herself acknowledge before.
STAR WARS (FILMS)
Leia Organa/Doctor Kalonia. Han Solo realizes there's somebody else in Leia's life now.
Luke Skywalker/Biggs Darklighter. Biggs lived.
Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi. Two old Jedi Masters who never met Anakin.
SUPERNATURAL
Crowley/Dean Winchester. Crowley offers to bring back Dean's parents, to give him everything he wants, if he'll be his husband in Hell. But then the King of Hell realizes that isn't enough: Dean has to love him, too.
John Winchester/Bobby Singer. Bobby raised the boys while John hunted the Yellow Eyed Demon.
John Winchester/Mary Winchester. Mary never made that deal.
THE BLACKLIST
Raymond Reddington/Dembe Zuma. (No S3) Red misses Dembe's birthday while they're on the run and tries to make it up to him.
THE LIBRARIANS
Jake/Cassandra/Ezekiel. Library AU. They all still meet at a library but a non-magical one.
Jake/Cassandra/Ezekiel. The Serpent Brotherhood never searches for them, they eventually meet anyway and fall in love.
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Chris Larabee/Buck Wilmington. Sarah was never killed, perhaps because Chris never settled down with her.
Josiah Sanchez/Nathan Jackson. Josiah finds Nathan when he's still a slave -- and is being beaten by his master.
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
Napoleon/Illya. Doctors in Victorian England.
Napoleon/Illya. Illya isn't a field agent.
Napoleon/Illya. The assassin and the business man.
Napoleon/Illya. The Cambridge professor and the mature student.
THE PROFESSIONALS
Bodie/Doyle. Doyle as controller.
Bodie/Doyle. One of them is partnered with Murphy.
Bodie/Doyle. The artist and the mercenary.
Bodie/Doyle. The rich heir and the bodyguard.
VERONICA MARS
Logan Echolls/Eli "Weevil" Navarro. Aging telenovela star Eli Navarro's car breaks down while visiting family. Logan, with whom Eli had his first gay sex before he left Neptune for good, is the mechanic/tow-truck operator who picks him up.
Veronica Mars/Logan Echolls. Sheriff Veronica Mars only needs men for sex, but famous defense attorney Logan Echolls returns for their 30th high school reunion determined to catch the one that got away by any/every means necessary.
X-MEN
Charles Xavier/Erik Lehnsherr. Erik shared Charles' vision.
Logan/Ororo Munroe. A further look into that world in the '90s cartoon where Ororo and Logan were married and leading the X-Men in an alternate universe.
Sean Cassidy/Emma Frost. Sean happened across Selene slaughtering the Hellions and managed to save them -- or at least one or two of them.
Victor Creed/Logan. They were brothers and lovers and always had each other's backs.
Jubilation Lee/?. Jubilee never lost her powers.
CROSSOVERS
Jurassic Park/Jurassic World
Robert Muldoon/Owen Grady. The first park opened on time.
The Blacklist/Burn Notice
Raymond Reddington/Maddie Westen. He's charming, but even he couldn't fool her for long.
The Blacklist/Orange Is the New Black
Raymond Reddington/Galina "Red" Reznikov. A meeting in the shop and a scheme with potential.
ANY FANDOM/ANY PAIRING
?. ?/?. 25 Lives by Tongari (A beautiful poem about meeting your soulmate through many different lifetimes. It seemed fitting for an AU challenge)
?. ?/?. Coffee Shop AU
?. ?/?. Modern Day AU
?. ?/?. Photojournalist AU
?. ?/?. Regency AU
?. ?/?. Soulmate AU
?. ?/?. The hero is the bad guy, while the bad guy is the hero.
A few general points:
Remember: The whole point of this Community is that it is 'Love for the over 40s'. Therefore it it imperative that EACH half of the pairing is 40+ in the story - it doesn't matter if they are 20, 30 or 45 in canon. in the story/piece of artwork they MUST be at least 40.
The prompts are broken down firstly by fandom and then into blocks within the fandom of specific pairings and no pairing/one half of the pairing and just prompts.
Where a pairing and a prompt is given you must use that pairing with the prompt.
Where only a prompt is given, you can use any pairing within the fandom.
What you may not do is to take a prompt from one fandom and use it for another. The prompt must be used within the specific fandom; and if a pairing is listed for that specific pairing.
The prompts under 'Any Fandom & Any Pairing' are just that. They don't have to be a fandom already listed; they can be any fandom at all.
You may write as many stories/produce as many pieces of artwork as you wish. There are no limits. And the same prompt can be used by multiple people - you do not have to claim a prompt. Just select the one(s) you like and write/make graphics.
The theme of this twenty-third promptathon is 'Alternative Universe/Alternative Reality'.
This promptathon begins on 1st February and runs for the entire month of February.
Posting guidelines can be found here.
Previous prompts may not be used during the current promptathon. They will be available (along with the prompts from this promptathon) next month.
We look forward to the stories/artwork.
Happy writing and graphic-making!!!
Thank you for being so creative with your prompts and also thank you for submitting the prompts in the correct way. I haven't had to exclude any this time!
ANGEL
Angel/Cordelia Chase. Cordelia didn't die.
ANIMORPHS
Tobias/Rachel. It's years later, the Earth is saved, and Rachel did not die.
BATMAN
Bruce Wayne/Selina Kyle. Catwoman was always a champion of good; her rescuees just tend to be furry.
BATTLE CREEK
Milt/Russ. Russ Agnew, PI investigates rumors of corruption circling FBI agent Milt.
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
Buffy/Angel. Buffy is Angel's sire.
Spike/Buffy Summers. It was always Spike from the beginning.
Rupert Giles/?. Giles never stopped practicing magic; he just didn't toy with the dark stuff after England.
BURN NOTICE
Sam Axe/Maddie Westen. (Michael dies/disappears AU) Sorry for your (our) loss.
CALIFORNIA DREAMS
Jake Somers/Lorena DaCosta. The band never broke up.
CHARMED
Prue Halliwell/Piper Halliwell. Prue didn't die, and the world discovered that the Power of Four is even stronger than the Power of Three.
CSI
Nick Stokes/Warrick Brown. Retirement, relaxation, and dealing with Gil who just got divorced.
DISNEY
Walt Disney/Mickey Mouse. Walt didn't die; he simply became a cartoon.
DOCTOR WHO
Martha/Jack. Bodyguard AU
Martha/Jack. They both stayed with the Doctor in the Tardis.
DUE SOUTH
Fraser/Kowalski. Con artist with a heart of gold Ray Kowalski.
Fraser/Kowalski. Method actor Benton Fraser, Cassavetes-like improvisational director Ray Kowalski.
Fraser/Vecchio. Benny doesn't come to Chicago.
Fraser/Vecchio. The librarian and the teacher.
Fraser/Victoria. Cynical CPD cop Victoria reports a "personality conflict" to get a new, non-corrupt partner -- and gets Fraser.
Fraser/Victoria. Master criminal Fraser, who tried to redeem corrupt CPD cop Victoria years before, returns to find that he has a grown child away at college and crippling tuition bills now tempt single-mom, beat cop Victoria.
FINAL FANTASY VII
Barret Wallace/Tifa Lockhart. (Original Game Canon) Golden years in Cosmo Canyon.
FINAL FANTASY VIII
Cid Kramer/Edea Kramer. He stops her from running away, but that means he has to watch the Sorceress within her take control.
Laguna Loire/Kiros Seagill/Ward Zabac. They're just three retired soldiers telling stories at a bar.
find a bodyguard.
FOREVER KNIGHT
Nick Knight/Lucien LaCroix. Beta werewolf Nick constantly challenges alpha werewolf LaCroix. LaCroix's combination of harsh dominance and pleasurable seduction put Nick in his place... repeatedly.
Donald Schanke/?. Schanke was never on that plane. Nick and Natalie still meet their end in the finale. Schanke and LaCroix meet again after.
Donald Schanke/?. The episode Close Call begins the odd relationship between Schanke and LaCroix
GOLDEN GIRLS
Blanche Deveraux/Dorothy Zbornac. Blanche and Dorothy meet when they're younger in the "old" South.
HAWAII 5-0
Danny/Kono. Rachel never moves Grace away, Danny never joins five-o. Years later Kono goes to Jersey for a conference meets Detective Danny Williams.
Danny/Kono. Soulmate AU
HEAT (1995)
Neil/Vincent. Neil is undercover and Vincent is corrupt but trying to go straight.
HIGHLANDER
Joe Dawson/Amanda Darieux. Joe was never a Watcher but he did fence stolen goods from time to time and that is how he meets the lovely Amanda.
Joe Dawson/Methos. Joe and Methos are an established couple when Duncan meets them.
Joe Dawson/?. Joe found out much earlier that Adam was Methos
INSPECTOR LYNLEY
Lynley/Havers. Lynley if fulfilling his role as 8th Earl of Asherton and needs a personal assistant.
LABYRINTH
Jareth/Sarah Williams. Instead of simply defeating Jareth, Sarah offered up a deal: She would become his Queen gladly, if he'd free her brother.
MASS EFFECT
Ashley Williams/Commander Shepard. Ashley is a poetry teacher.
Ashley Williams/Commander Shepard/Kaidan Alenko. All three survive Virmire, and must return there years later.
Kaidan Alenko/male Shepard. Family
Kaidan Alenko/male Shepard. Reunion
Kaidan Alenko/male Shepard. Where are we?
Karin Chakwas/Zaeed Massani. (Meeting pre-game) Zaeed is injured; Chakwas is the only doctor around and has to patch him up.
Urdnot Wrex/Aria T'Loak. Wrex visits Omega at some point and has to settle a disagreement.
MASTER & COMMANDER
Jack Aubrey/Stephen Maturin. 21st Century AU.
MONK
Adrian Monk/Natalie Teeger. Library AU
Adrian Monk/Natalie Teeger. Natalie and Trudy had been friends so Monk and Natalie knew each other preseries.
MOONLIGHT
Mick/Beth/Josef. Vampire cop Beth hasn't dated since her divorce two years earlier. At Josef's popular club investigating a crime, she notes his bouncer Mick is unusually close to and protective of Josef, but then both men put the moves on her.
NCIS
Gibbs/Ducky. Ducky is the senior field agent; Gibbs the ME.
Gibbs/Ducky. Shannon never existed.
Gibbs/Fornell. Doctors not agents.
Gibbs/McGee. Tim is an author; his life is threatened and he needs to
McGee/Jimmy. The doctor and the author.
McGee/Jimmy. Tim doesn't meet Jimmy at NCIS, because Jimmy never comes
NCIS. to work there.
Ducky/?. Ducky did manage to get custody of his brother before Nicolas’ mother was able to leave with him. This changes things.(episode Spinning Wheel)
Ducky/?. Ducky never joins NCIS but still manages to meet each team member in different ways.
Ducky/?. Ducky starts to travel after his mother dies and he is surprised by who joins him.
ONCE UPON A TIME
Ruby/Snow White. Snow never married the Prince, or had a child with him, because she was in love with a wolf.
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
Galina "Red" Reznikov/Norma Romano. They met outside of prison.
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
Captain Jack Sparrow/Will Turner. Will never died, and he chose Jack over Elizabeth at the end of the first movie.
RAFFLES
Raffles/Bunny. Life in modern day London for two gentlemen burglars.
Raffles/Bunny. Teachers at their old school.
SAVED BY THE BELL
A.C. Slater/Jessi Spano. Jessi went to college with the rest of them.
SHERLOCK HOLMES (BOOKVERSE)
Holmes/Watson. Holmes uses his intellect and skills for the bad. Can the love of a good man redeem him?
STAR TREK ENTERPRISE
Jonathan Archer/Malcolm Reed. Family
Jonathan Archer/Malcolm Reed. Reunion
STAR WARS (FILMS & COMICS)
Leia Organa/Evaan Verlaine. Sometime after Endor, Leia took time to reconnect with the Alderaanian exile -- and the feelings that she hadn't let herself acknowledge before.
STAR WARS (FILMS)
Leia Organa/Doctor Kalonia. Han Solo realizes there's somebody else in Leia's life now.
Luke Skywalker/Biggs Darklighter. Biggs lived.
Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan Kenobi. Two old Jedi Masters who never met Anakin.
SUPERNATURAL
Crowley/Dean Winchester. Crowley offers to bring back Dean's parents, to give him everything he wants, if he'll be his husband in Hell. But then the King of Hell realizes that isn't enough: Dean has to love him, too.
John Winchester/Bobby Singer. Bobby raised the boys while John hunted the Yellow Eyed Demon.
John Winchester/Mary Winchester. Mary never made that deal.
THE BLACKLIST
Raymond Reddington/Dembe Zuma. (No S3) Red misses Dembe's birthday while they're on the run and tries to make it up to him.
THE LIBRARIANS
Jake/Cassandra/Ezekiel. Library AU. They all still meet at a library but a non-magical one.
Jake/Cassandra/Ezekiel. The Serpent Brotherhood never searches for them, they eventually meet anyway and fall in love.
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
Chris Larabee/Buck Wilmington. Sarah was never killed, perhaps because Chris never settled down with her.
Josiah Sanchez/Nathan Jackson. Josiah finds Nathan when he's still a slave -- and is being beaten by his master.
THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
Napoleon/Illya. Doctors in Victorian England.
Napoleon/Illya. Illya isn't a field agent.
Napoleon/Illya. The assassin and the business man.
Napoleon/Illya. The Cambridge professor and the mature student.
THE PROFESSIONALS
Bodie/Doyle. Doyle as controller.
Bodie/Doyle. One of them is partnered with Murphy.
Bodie/Doyle. The artist and the mercenary.
Bodie/Doyle. The rich heir and the bodyguard.
VERONICA MARS
Logan Echolls/Eli "Weevil" Navarro. Aging telenovela star Eli Navarro's car breaks down while visiting family. Logan, with whom Eli had his first gay sex before he left Neptune for good, is the mechanic/tow-truck operator who picks him up.
Veronica Mars/Logan Echolls. Sheriff Veronica Mars only needs men for sex, but famous defense attorney Logan Echolls returns for their 30th high school reunion determined to catch the one that got away by any/every means necessary.
X-MEN
Charles Xavier/Erik Lehnsherr. Erik shared Charles' vision.
Logan/Ororo Munroe. A further look into that world in the '90s cartoon where Ororo and Logan were married and leading the X-Men in an alternate universe.
Sean Cassidy/Emma Frost. Sean happened across Selene slaughtering the Hellions and managed to save them -- or at least one or two of them.
Victor Creed/Logan. They were brothers and lovers and always had each other's backs.
Jubilation Lee/?. Jubilee never lost her powers.
CROSSOVERS
Jurassic Park/Jurassic World
Robert Muldoon/Owen Grady. The first park opened on time.
The Blacklist/Burn Notice
Raymond Reddington/Maddie Westen. He's charming, but even he couldn't fool her for long.
The Blacklist/Orange Is the New Black
Raymond Reddington/Galina "Red" Reznikov. A meeting in the shop and a scheme with potential.
ANY FANDOM/ANY PAIRING
?. ?/?. 25 Lives by Tongari (A beautiful poem about meeting your soulmate through many different lifetimes. It seemed fitting for an AU challenge)
?. ?/?. Coffee Shop AU
?. ?/?. Modern Day AU
?. ?/?. Photojournalist AU
?. ?/?. Regency AU
?. ?/?. Soulmate AU
?. ?/?. The hero is the bad guy, while the bad guy is the hero.
A few general points:
We look forward to the stories/artwork.
Happy writing and graphic-making!!!