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[xoverau]

I was doing this with iphignia939 last night and it was fun and I'm already climbing the walls so why not?

Give me the names of two characters I might know, and I'll make up a summary or outline for a fic that pairs them. Male, female, RPS, FPS, whatever fandom, however weird. (Because I'm xoverAU, I reserve the right to make some of them AUs.) Go!

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[xoverau]

That first part, that's what I love to explore. I love bringing two totally different people, with different views and backgrounds and friends, together. The ramifications of an "odd" pairing are so often neglected or avoided in fic, which I don't get--why put Peewee Herman with Robert Plant if you're not gonna talk about the big red chair? ...er, where was I going with this metaphor?

Oh! That's what I liked about writing Eminem back in the day. Saying, "here's the setup, now let's milk the bizarrity for all it's worth." Why plane off what makes the characters different to fit them together? I'd rather have fun with the contrast.

I disagree that your brain couldn't fill it in as well as mine, since a lot of your thinking up there gave me ideas. As often as I'm amazed to read a story that resembles something I've written or read elsewhere, I'm amazed at the totally new direction other writers and readers take from a central root.

I love the idea of Brian being (watch out! it's anvils of heavy-handed symbolism!) Healing to MM's Heart, because MM has refuted claims he's an atheist by saying that he's afraid of God. Given his childhood with the church, with sexual abuse, and with mistreatment by religious figures, knowing a good Christian might help him forgive and fear less.