memery!

[vaznetti]

As seen on yahtzee63's lj --

The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write AND give me another time period (Ancient Rome, Regency England, etc.). I will then explain what story from that fandom I would AU in that era.

It looks like fun, and I am here all afternoon -- meme me!

Comments

[musesfool]

Firefly in Ancient Rome.

[vaznetti]

Well, of course, they're pirates. Bandits, actually, in Spain in the 70s and 60s BCE

[musesfool]

Oh, awesome. I would totally read that.

[vaznetti]

It does kind of lack a plot... but Spain! and Sertorius! And Mal can be all embittered about Rome!

[aliskye]

Supernatural and 1920's America. :)

[vaznetti]

Hm. The problem with SPN is that, as Yahtzee put it, it's the same wherever you go -- in this case, they drive around in a slightly different car, still fighting evil. But instead of credit-card fraud, they make occasional money bootlegging, and this is how the Law starts to get interested in them -- so in addition to their supernatural problems, they're being hunted by gangsters on the one hand, for stealing their profits, and by the government on the other, for (supposedly) running a nation-wide bootlegging operation.

At least Dean looks really good in those hats!

[aliskye]

Yeah.....too easy, but you are absolutely correct.... I just want to see Dean in those hats. :)

[musesfool]

Mmm...Dean dressed up as a 1920s gangster would be awesome. And John. Can you imagine John? Dear god.

[anenko]

Alias - Frontier America.

[vaznetti]

Hm. So the sort of politically responsible thing to do would be to make this an AU all about expansion westward and the dispossession of the Indians, and you could actually do something quite interesting to do with mixed marriages and passing and issues like that. But I am unable to be that responsible this afternoon so -- instead of spies, they're ranchers, and the conflict is all about land grabs and cattle

[timesink]

I would totally read that, even without Sydney.

[vaznetti]

It's really just the thought of Jack Bristow as a cowboy, isn't it?

[azarsuerte]

The X-Files. Revolutionary America. :-)

[vaznetti]

This is kind of cool -- I think I'd write it as a more-or-less straightforward political story, set in an around Mulder's search for an explanation for his sister's mysterious disappearance. So the Consortium is actually a Loyalist organization working secretly within the Revolutionary movement to undercut and betray it -- and Mulder and Scully are (of course!) revolutionaries, but Mulder is torn between his political ideals and his need to investigate the Consortium, which he is sure is responsible for Samantha's fate! Cue a great deal of soul-searching and angst.

Scully, in this universe, really is a doctor: one of those over-educated New England women, and her family has no idea what to do with her, or with her strange attachment to Mulder. Mulder, of course, is far too involved in his own problems to worry about the way she's transgressing gender roles.

In this universe, Krycek is French.

[azarsuerte]

Oh man. Now I totally want you to actually write this AU!

[yahtzee63]

I'll take Alias in 1930s India, please.

[vaznetti]

Wow... talk about something I am totally clueless about!

Obviously, the backdrop is something to do with the Independence movement. All the main characters are Indian or Anglo-Indian -- the Bristows and Derevkos and Sloane -- and the larger plot movement is to do with loyalty/disloyalty to the Empire, and the question of who is trustworthy and who is a double agent. I think Irina is Anglo-Indian -- mostly I say this so that she, Sydney and Nadia can all wear both Indian and European clothes. Jack and Arvin are civil servants.

And I just got distracted by the thought of Irina and Sydney working a room in 1930s European clothes, and have become entirely distracted from any plot there might have been. Help!