Meme of Procrastination!
The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write in (or think I should), and give me a type of AU (space opera AU, pirate AU, superhero AU, Ancient Rome, etc). I will then explain what story from your chosen fandom I would write for your chosen type of AU.
Yeah, I am rather predictable, aren't I... :-) And ooohh, Saiyuki in Ancient Rome! Cool.
Gaius H. Akaius is a respected - and, in some quarters, feared - young patrician with a bright future ahead of him. He is already a senator, even at his young age, and no goal seems to high to aspire to. Though sometimes, late at night, the fact that every goal Gaius sets his sights on comes so easily, that every possible opponent always falls to his cutting rhetoric or behind the scenes maneuvering with no more than a brief struggle, seems, somehow... disappointing.
In his search for worthy opponents, Gaius overreaches himself and suddenly finds himself the governor of a remote province untouched by civilization and torn by rebellion... with no more than a handful of troops, and the prospect of utter disgrace in Rome should he fail to keep the province.
Gaius leaves not knowing who his powerful enemy in Rome is, and arrives to find that his province is already all but lost, even the Roman citizens half under the sway of the charismatic young leader of the barbarian rebels.
And so, finally faced with a challenge, Gaius chooses to confront the barbarian prince alone... and forge an alliance that could change the face of the world.
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I mean, I really really want to read this story too, now, but I have way too many unfinished fics gathering dust on my harddrive already! And this would be far too long! And... *whimper*
who I feel will be hot and sexy and shirtless, and possibly gleaming with some sort of oil.
The hotness and sex appeal is part of his charm, the shirtlessness just more comfortable in summer. The oil - well. You never know what meetings with strange Roman people who imagine they have some right to your land will lead to, and it's never a mistake to be prepared. (For battle. What else?)
For his part, Gaius finds himself rather distracted by that impossible hair color. And the brashness. And the barbarian's remarkable uncouthness and lack of civilized manners.
It's all rather... appalling. Yes. That was the word he was looking for. Quite.
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