If I ever wrote fic for this movie, I know I'd have to try and incorporate "Jaffar sits in a box" somehow. That image is so ingrained in my head now. I'm not sure how it would work. Maybe he gets transformed into an actual cat by some sort of spell gone wrong? Whenever Princess starts paying attention to Ahmad, he frantically rubs his face on her leg and meows.
Aaaaahahahahaha! That'd be fucking adorbz. Really, I'm actually surprised they didn't do that in the movie, because it'd make so much sense for him to take the shape of a cat and go wandering around. And it's mentioned in at least one Arabian Nights tale that there once was a sultana whose cats went around the palace, eavesdropping on everybody during the day and then whispering all they'd learned into her ears at night. That's where I got the idea for that bit in Defy Not the Stars where he sent her all those cats and then came to her in the shape of Bahadur.
I do think he'd do that thing where he lies down on her book when she tries to read, though. Every time. I just had Noki do that when I was trying to type fic because it was an emotional bit and she saw me tearing up.
You should write that fic at some point. I'm still waiting for you to post that Torsten ficlet on Ao3 so I could rec it to hell and back! I have been going onto your Ao3 page to check whether it's there, no joke.
All my fic ideas are either goofy box-sitting crack, or just really sad. I might write a short fic where his Blue Rose plan succeeds, he marries the Princess and they have a seemingly-perfect relationship, but he's slowly breaking from the guilt of knowing that his whole marriage is based on a brainwashing spell. My brain always throws unhappy shit at me.
I'd forgotten about the Torsten ficlet! Will try to get that up soon. I'm thinking about starting a new ao3 account, though, because the old one has all those mediocre Who fics on it and I sort of want a fresh start. So, that might happen. If so, I'll tell you my new username.
Awww! I have old Who fics on there that I don't think are all that great and which I'd want to delete or orphan, but I still keep getting tons of hits on them and apparently one got at least one fangirl into rimming IRL, so... yeah. It's weird when your old stuff makes you squirm and go "aaah, I hope nobody takes this as representative of my usual writing" but then there are people who love it. WTF
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If I ever wrote fic for this movie, I know I'd have to try and incorporate "Jaffar sits in a box" somehow. That image is so ingrained in my head now. I'm not sure how it would work. Maybe he gets transformed into an actual cat by some sort of spell gone wrong? Whenever Princess starts paying attention to Ahmad, he frantically rubs his face on her leg and meows.
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I do think he'd do that thing where he lies down on her book when she tries to read, though. Every time. I just had Noki do that when I was trying to type fic because it was an emotional bit and she saw me tearing up.
You should write that fic at some point. I'm still waiting for you to post that Torsten ficlet on Ao3 so I could rec it to hell and back! I have been going onto your Ao3 page to check whether it's there, no joke.
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I'd forgotten about the Torsten ficlet! Will try to get that up soon. I'm thinking about starting a new ao3 account, though, because the old one has all those mediocre Who fics on it and I sort of want a fresh start. So, that might happen. If so, I'll tell you my new username.
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