(Star Trek/SPN) Balance of Terror (and Zombies) for theplanetmary

[aurilly]

Title: Balance of Terror (and Zombies)
Author: jaune-chat and brighteyed-jill
Fandoms: Star Trek/Supernatural
Characters Dean, Sam, Castiel; McCoy, Spock, Kirk
Pairings: Gen (hints of Kirk/Spock)
Rating: R (for violence)
Wordcount: 6,204
Spoilers: General spoilers for SPN through all aired episodes. Star Trek movie spoilers
Warnings: Violence and gore.
Disclaimer: Star

Comments

[theplanetmary]

BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED! *le happiness

[jaune_chat]

*long comment happy dance*

So happy that you enjoyed it! Jill and I have collaborated on stories before (SPN/Heroes, specifically), so this was a lot of fun to do. We spent an inordinate amount of time trying to make the symptoms fit something plausible for a mass of crazy ghosts. And Jill spent much happy writing time turning Kirk into a scared little paranoid boy.

Yay for research! (I'm a big fan of it too.) And who doesn't love zombies? Zombies are one of the most awesome horror staples!

Oh Cas. Jill said we just HAD to include Cas, and I very much agreed. Somebody had to ask a few hard questions (or just give a few hard looks) and then keep Kirk calm while everything was going down.

Mmmmm, I love red velvet cake. Particularly when it involves leaping Spock and macho Dean and Kirk.

[theplanetmary]

I like long comments and reviews, too

GhostSickness!Kirk was great and you guys wove it together really well to make it all make sense and seem plausible. It was well balanced, I mean ST has that horrible stigmata of being able to make up anything they want with no explanation and people accept it while the SPN Brass and Co. research for weeks before they even start putting something together so this was a good balance between them, it was believable. You guys did in 6000 words what took me 30000

[jaune_chat]

Hee to the length! Previously Jill and I had collaborated on an SPN/Heroes story for sncross_bigbang that ended up over 60k words long. Seriously, it was redonkulous. I think it turned out pretty well but still... 60,000+ words. I think I specifically said to her for this story, "Ok, this story can't be like our last one, we have two days to finish this, not four months

[theplanetmary]

I'm not a real big fan of Heroes, I can't follow. Only reason I caught SPN was because I was in love during Pilot and was a hopeless addict by Faith (STILL in my top five eppies). I really don't watch anything else or keep up as well as I do with The Supernatural Adventure Suspense Hour. But I'll check it out. I'm always trying to expand

[brighteyed_jill]

Bones and Cas are funny together. Good ole McCoy is so matter of fact, and Cas is so literal... Plus their rumble-y voices cause that good, low-down tickle... Uh... Never mind.

Anyway! This was a fun prompt to write, and Ghostsickness!Jim I pretty much just wound up and let go. I'm pretty proud of how we kept this baby to a reasonable size. So not like us! *gets out machete, eyes Jaune* Very glad you enjoyed this. I haven't had a chance to read your SPN/ST crossover yet, but it looks delicious.

I think the nature of SPN lends itself quite well to crossovers (and there seem to be a high percentage of them at this exchange). Gives an excuse to play with anything that has enough lore (zooooommmbiiieeesss).

[theplanetmary]

God you are so right about the rumbly. I love the raspy, rumbly, grumble and hum. Make you go a little hazy and smile kinda goofy. They both got it.

I'm glad you liked the prompt. I had fun writing 'em and thinking them up. I get all kinds ideas that never get written or passed a few sentences and i refuse to call them plot-bunnies. I bet it was fun working GhostSickness!Kirk, he's such a 'fearless' character it's always fun to see them yellow.

Let me know what you think when you get to SotE. It's got demons and angels and gore and ice. it's a little more mopey than I normally write and, oddly, has nary a single horse in it. (I'm an equestrian and ALL my fic have horses in 'em).

That's why I like SPN, it's down to earth and realistic and their world is literally our world. They reference up to date politics and popular culture and everything. It's adaptable and the nature of the characters and their purpose can blend easily... of course that leads to some pretty sloppily made crossovers, present company excluded, there have been

[jaune_chat]

If Heroes amuses, it amuses, and if it doesn't, it doesn't! Heroes is just my main fandom, and you want everyone to like what you like, you know? ;-)

Anywho, I think the reason Supernatural crosses so easily is that it's fairly self-contained. Even when Sam and Dean are trying to avert the Apocalypse, it's all done behind the scenes and under the radar, whereas other fandoms are mucking about in high-level politics (Heroes) or the whole premise of the whole is in an entirely different place (Lost). But you can easily have Sam and Dean cross paths with another fandom because you don't have to bend Supernatural canon to have some guest characters be the Freak of the Week. Supernatural is very accomodating that way!

[theplanetmary]

I was talking to a buddy of mine, trying to explain SPn and I told her just this: their world is our world. Everything that happens for us is happening for them, but not always the other way around. The reality of it is brilliant and like you said makes for easy crossovers. I think it's probably one of the most used fandoms for x-overs on ff.net because of the reasons you said, just damn easy fo it to slide in, especially with stuff like crime dramas and monster/sci-fi shows.