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

[se_parsons]

Jericho in Medieval Germany.

[vaznetti]

Yatzee has a really cool Medieval version of Jericho here!

So I would have to do something to do with Luther and that wacky period with the revolution, or whatever it was, in Munster (?) and all that. I must think more about this.

Edited because I totally know how to close tags. Really.

[se_parsons]

Hee, I immediately thought Lollards, but then it was too easy, so I put it in Germany.

Yahtzee's is cool!

[bardsmaid]

The X-Files (including Krycek, of course) in Stalin's Russia.

[vaznetti]

It's like... extra paranoia and danger!

You wouldn't really need to change very much, would you? The outline of the conspiracy plot and the mytharc would remain more or less in place. I think, in this version, Mulder would be a detective in Moscow, Scully a pathologist -- they are both Party members, of course, Scully more of a believer than Mulder. It's set in the 30s. Krycek is the NKVD mole in Mulder's department. I suspect that a lot of plots revolve around Mulder chasing elements of the conspiracy and finding real atrocities -- work camps, confiscations, famines.

The main difference would be one of tone -- the danger being that much closer. And of course, as one gets closer to the end of the decade, the looming threat of Hitler and war: by 1941, Mulder might know enough to do some damage to the regime, but should he?

This would be pretty cool.

[bardsmaid]

Thanks for this! Any idea how Marita might fit into this scenario?

[maidenjedi]

Firefly set in Elizabethan England.

[vaznetti]

Can they be privateers? I think Mal would be a great privateer, although I guess the period is wrong for tight pants. Or, no -- they're traveling actors, always on the verge of ruin (and often on the run from the law), and River and Simon have run away and hidden with them. Mal, obviously, is the head of the company and the leading man. Wash is the playwright, and along with Jayne and Book, plays the supporting male roles. I will ignore the fact that women did not act on stage in this period and make Inara the ingenue and give Zoe the older female parts. Kaylee handles the stage machinery, and would like to act, but forgets her lines. They tried putting River in a production once, and only once, but Simon does quite well, when he can get over his sense that acting is beneath his station. I suspect you could get quite a good comedy story over the time they tried to give River a part.

[selenak]

Well, you did write one or two Rome ficlets, so I dare you: the Julii plus Vorenus and Pullo in WWI-torn Europe, country of your choice.

[se_parsons]

Or IN SPACE!!!!

[vaznetti]

I have always thought that if Lucas had been thinking (if he were capable of thinking) he would have done something like that for the Star Wars prequels. I mean, you have the huge territory controlled by a corrupt and ineffective Senate, the gradual rise of generals to such extraordinary power that the system can no longer contain them -- then an autocratic movement which portrays itself as a return to old-fashioned, uncorrupt ways, but in fact destroys everything meaningful about the old order... It could totally have worked

[se_parsons]

Oooh, I love the Atia and Octavia angle.

You know, you could totally write this for real by changing it up some. I would read that book for sure.

[hossgal]

Deadwood, Edo Japan.

(You do write Deadwood, yes?)

- hg

[vaznetti]

You know, I have stared at this and stared at this, and the problem isn't that I can't write Deadwood, it's that I don't know enough about Edo Japan to even get started on an answer! Do you have an alternate?

Surely! (...waity. you're not Shirley)

[hossgal]

Hmmm. Okay, Deadwood in Sparta (or pre-Pellopeasian (sp?) war, if Sparta alone is too tight.)

...or...*gets crafty glint in her eye*

Deadwood in the Israel of the Maccabees. *g*

- hg

Re: Surely! (...waity. you're not Shirley)

[vaznetti]

Deadwood in the Israel of the Maccabees.

Ha!!! OK, so we have the gradual loosening of Seleucid control over the region, but lets face it, it's not like the Maccabees actually control anything, so it's the perfect environment for a lawless community to grow up. Possibly, the "rush" of wealth is based around overland trade in spices, so it's off at the borders anyway. The plot, I think, centers on the attempt of the Hasmoneans to actually exercise control over the settlement as they consolidate into a real kingdom