Day 3 . Like a Storm of Lions . Riddick x Grimm

[jedibuttercup]

Title: Like a Storm of Lions
Author: jedibuttercup
Disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not
Rating: PG-15
Prompt/Prompter: hiddencait, who asked for: "Riddick + Grimm. Mostly I'm thinking Riddick as some kind of a Wesen, though damned if I know what kind. That or hell, maybe Jack is or Riddick adopts a more animalistic Wesen (because we know he's got a thing

Comments

[hiddencait]

Unf that was everything I'd hoped for from this crossover - so so fantastic! The choice of creature for Riddick (and Jack - oh my heart!) was spot on, and so much love for bonus saving of the puppy. That was my main complaint with that movie; I'll never be on board with killing off a dog as a plot point LOL.

But yeah, this turned out awesome! Thanks again for indulging my ficcy whims!

[jedibuttercup]

:) I had actually been looking for an excuse to use that "like a storm of lions" quote in a Riddick fic for a long time; this was the perfect fic prompt for it. And when I went looking for the first time Riddick could have realized Johns was a Grimm, and it turned out to be that particular scene ... yeah. (I know the whole mythology of these films makes a huge deal about Riddick only killing when he has a reason, but did he really need any more reason to put Santana on his list? *shakes head*)

All of which is to say, I'm so glad you enjoyed the story!!

[jedibuttercup]

It's a quick shortcut for character motivation and for getting the audience to hate the bad guy more - but really, did we need any more reason for that with Santana? :) I was glad to be able to work saving the critter into the story.

This is one of those that I definitely read to myself several times for audio/visual clarity - glad that came through so well for you. Vin Diesel just has this tendency to hit me in the id with his action movies, I guess ... *coughs*

Oh, and the Quercy thing? True story: a long, long time ago I needed to come up with a were-form for Ronon Dex, in a story in which he met Oz. I kind of have this head-canon for Pegasus languages, where since Ancient is an ancestor of Latin, and the Pegasus Ancients lit off earth however-many millions of years ago, then whichever animals were around that long ago? Not a stretch to think Latinate wordforms for them might be recognizable! So I looked up catlike creatures in the long-long ago fossil record, and found the false saber-tooths! I picked the Nimravus for

[jedibuttercup]

... I think having them on the same screen, period, would make my year. :)

[dharkapparition]

have no idea why, after reading this, this sone popped in my head:

Do a little dance
make a little love
get down tonight...

As always, brilliant melding

[jedibuttercup]

:) Lol. Glad you enjoyed the story!

[tpeej]

Nicely done.

[jedibuttercup]

Thanks! :)