Halloween Challenge Update
Column A (canons)
Column B (alt-verses)
Column C (prompt smorgasbord) [optional]
Bleach
Cluster Edge - artificial soldiers fighting for acceptance in post-war society
doing the right thing for the wrong reasons
Gundam Wing
Lord of the Flies - teenagers struggling for survival and dominance on a desert island
doing the wrong thing for the right reasons
Kyou Kara Maou
Ouran - visit to a (high school) host club
telling drunken stories
Ouran High School Host Club
My Own Private Idaho - rentboys/street hustlers on a road trip
Severus Snape/Zolf J. Kimberly
Final Fantasy 7
Three Amigos - big time/has been movie stars go to Mexico, where they are mistaken for and hired as real cowboy heroes
Albert Silverberg/Frank Archer
Final Fantasy 8
X/1999 - choosing sides for the coming apocalyptic war
Byakuya Kuchiki/Tseng
Kingdom Hearts
1930's New York
Never Enough
Death Note
Spaceship warfare
Looking Through You
Saiyuki
The world of classic Disney
There and Back Again
Peacemaker Kurogane
Line workers at an industrial glue factory
The Way It Should Be
Yami no Matsuei
Once upon a time in China
Gippal/Baralai
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga
Supernatural: Road trip from hell in a classic car/following job to job, killing evil sons of bitches
Vincent/Cloud
Firefly
Heroes: Group of people suddenly realize they have superhero powers
Mayama/Yamada
Heroes
Firefly: Crewmembers on a space ship in a universe with an old-west feel
want what you can't have
Supernatural
Final Fantasy X: A group of people go on a holy pilgrimage to save the world from a terrible monster
war without tears
Buffyverse
Harry Potter: Kids go to a school to learn how to be wizards
breaking and mending
GetBackers
A monster with a soul struggles to protect the city he lives in from the real monsters.
Something Wicked This Way Comes (courtesy to Ray Bradbury)
Harry Potter
Buffyverse: A high school student is chosen to be the one to protect the world from the monsters
Paper Moon (courtesy of the movie)
Final Fantasy X
Cops in New York
title: Milk in a Blue Bottle
Final Fantasy XII
Organized crime (Yakuza, Triads, Bratva, etc.)
Chris and Wyatt (Charmed)
Loveless
Trekking across Tokugawa era Japan
Severus Snape/Harry Potter
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Afterlife detectives
Slow Like Honey
Wild Adapter
Film Noir
half-asleep in frog pajamas
Magic Knight Rayearth
Angels and Demons
long night at the library
Escaflowne
Owing someone a huge debt and having to pay it
favorite color
D. Gray-man
People in jail and having to survive it.
afternoon delight
xxxHolic
Post apocalyptic world and how they survive/Post-apocalyptic search for a new world
going from bad to worse
Legal Drug
Sucked into another - magical - world
costume party
Oakne ga Nai
Fairytales (princesses, knights, dragons, witches, princes, black knights, riddles)
haunted
Fullmetal Alchemist
Band!AU: Heroes are members of a band/the recording industry: love, drama, rivalry, and hijinks ensue.
drink with the devil
Mirage of Blaze
Searching for the heart of something/someone.
the right place at the right time
Twelve Kingdoms
Eating your enemies to gain their strength
Tetsuo/Mitsui
Naruto
Reincarnating and searching for your soulmate/one true love.
What do you get the person who has everything?
Tales of Symphonia
Learning to control special powers
Guests gather for a will reading
Smallville
Ocean's Eleven - caper in Las Vegas; Rat-Pack era would be cool, too!
Stuck in a motel due to a weather-delayed flight
Castlevania
V - aliens invade Earth
Consequences of a lab accident
Suikodenverse (any of the Suikodens)
Blade Runner - futuristic noir
the calm before the storm
Final Fantasy VI
Blues Brothers - getting the band back together to save the childhood home
things turn dire before they get better
Hellsing
Alien - battling big scary aliens in space
nightfall
Gravitation
Clerks - working in a convenience store
a catch 22
Ranma 1/2
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: crossover of heroes in technologically-advanced late 1800's
alpha and omega
One Piece
Bleach: characters either die or have the ability to see the dead, and get entangled with Soul Society and Hollows
cinnamon
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Full Metal Alchemist: old Europe where people only get powers through the use of alchemy
Making out
Charmed
.hack// : characters playing in an online VR game, possibly unable to log out or just stuck between AIs and the System Administrators trying to delete the AIs
In/Out
Azure Dreams
Togaino no Chi: in the future, convicted criminals choose to play a deadly killing game to become the next head of a Crime Syndicate rather than being imprisoned for life
Doll
Breath of Fire (ALL)
DOA: fighters are gathered to particpate in a fighting tournament; author's choice of suspicious tournament organisers and/or mystical figure as the "final boss"
Mocking
Cyborg 009
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle: travelling through numerous worlds, of various timelines and AU settings, with 'copies' of characters in each new world
Yummy!
Dead or Alive
Cyberpunk: Futuristic, tech-driven, dark society with blurring of lines between man and machine.
detention
Eyeshield 21
Military: heroes are part of a military/mercenary unit involved in some kind of past/present/futuristic war (WWI, WWII, Vietnam, space wars on another planet, etc).
Archer/Kimblee
Final Fantasy VIII
Horror: vampires/werewolves/zombies/etc. are real.
Kamina/Simon
Gakuen Heaven
Myths: gods/goddesses/demons (of any pantheon or a particular pantheon) are real and interfere in the lives of mortals.
Rossiu/Simon
Gintama
Suikoden: Gathering an army in a pseudo-medieval world where powerful runes grant power and immortality to their wielders.
Threesome
Guilty Gear
Evil!AU: the heroes are the "bad guys" (ie, trying to take over/destroy the world, resurrecting ancient evil, etc.)
Abe/Mihashi
Heat Guy J
Final Fantasy VI: pseudo-Industrial Revolution-era meshing of machine and magic, with added evil empire!
Cross-dressing
King of Fighters
Space opera
Humiliation
Live a Live
American Civil War-era
"He hates Caucasians, despises Americans and has nothing but contempt for women"
Prince of Tennis
High fantasy
Tiramisù
Shounen Onmyouji
Ancient Rome
Piece of Art
Simoun
Wooing someone because of a bet or a job, then accidentally falling in love (10 Things I Hate About You, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, etc.)
The spy who loved me
Sousei No Aquarion
Steampunk
ridicule the ones you love
Street Fighters
Urban fantasy
forbidden love between humans and gods (mortals/immortals)
Tekken
Celtic mythology
Shatterstar/Rictor
Yami no Matsuei
Ranma 1/2: Characters who fall into a cursed spring change gender when hit with hot/cold water.
POV from the animal companion that always keeps watch
Sex Pistols
Fighting tournament
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer
Slam Dunk
Sword and sandal (Ben-Hur, Gladiator, and pretty much any Italian film made in the early sixties)
The best way to solve a love triangle? Why, a threesome of course!
Transformers
Sword and sorcery (Conan)
Where are my clothes, and why does my ass hurt?
Survivor
Soap opera (Dallas, Dynasty)
The end of an era
Weiss Kreuz
Cowboys and indians (How The West Was Won, Lonesome Dove, etc.)
Fitting in
Cowboy Bebop
Time Change (move fandom/characters into the far past or the distant future)
Getting lost in a book
FAKE
Detached assassin brought back to life by spirited character (Strain)
my destructive arsenal is bigger than yours and has more ammo too
tactics
The odd couple (Tais-toi!)
in the watermelon patch
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle
Rich and bored character is shown the other side of life by someone very different (Dirty Dancing)
Peony/Jade (Tales of the Abyss)
Nightmare of the Funeral March
Harlequin
Mizumachi/Kakei (Eyeshield 21)
Doctor Who
Turned into a cyborg by an evil organization (Cyborg 009, Zenon)
Kiriko/Black Jack
Ladyhawke
Entering an all-boys boarding school (Gakuen Heaven)
Feel something
Ghostbusters
Time Travel (Zipang, The Paradoxman, etc.)
"Love me 'cause you can and not because you should."
Gurren Lagann
Inexperienced character recruited to pilot a mecha (Gundam, Sousei No Aquarion, etc.)
Deceit
Ookiku Furikabutte (Oofuri)
Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen's classic novel about the prejudice that occurred between the 19th century classes and the pride which would keep lovers apart.
"It was a good idea at three in the morning."
Banana Fish
It's a Wonderful Life: An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would had been like if he never existed.
hatesex - "I don't know why I keep coming back for this."
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Beauty and the Beast: Belle, whose father Maurice is imprisoned by the Beast (really an enchanted Prince), offers herself instead and finds the prince inside the Beast.
Leon/Cloud
Life on Mars
One Thousand And One Nights (either use one of the tales therein -- Aladdin, Sinbad, etc. -- or use the framing story of Scheherazade and Shahryar)
pushy ukes
Magnum P.I.
Trapped on a desert island
Itachi/Kisame
Man From UNCLE
Psychological thrillers, ie - Perfect Blue, Hitchcock
And suddenly, tentacles!
Spriggan
the X that humanity created is trying to wipe them out, humanity is on the run trying to survive, ie - Battlestar Galactica
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X-Force
high fantasy, ultimate battle between Good and Evil, having to use non-traditional tactics, ie - The Sword of Truth series
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Young Justice
trek across the galaxy on a treasure/scavenger hunt type quest to find their ancestral home, ie - the Faded Sun trilogy
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Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner
the pilgrimage/the impossible quest, ie - Saiyuki, Journey to the West, Hyperion, etc
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Keroro Gunsou (human versions)
Arthurian legends
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Tales of the Abyss
virtual reality, plugged in, avatars, internet as real as the real world, ie - Snow Crash
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PAPUWA
the clash between faith and the world
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Bastard!!
Heian-era Japan -- a time when spirits and mortals lived side-by-side
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Berserk
martial arts, the hero of X, ie - Fearless, Once upon a Time in China series, Iron Monkey, Hero
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Black Jack
Ladyhawke - Cursed and trying to fix it
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Cromartie
Taking part in an anime convention (Genshiken, Comic Party, Lucky Star)
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OverDrive
Crossdressing in a school setting (Ouran Host Club, Princess Princess, Dear Brother)
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Katekyo Hitman Reborn!
Stylish Criminals (Reservoir Dogs, A Clockwork Orange, Kingdom Hearts)
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Yu-Gi-Oh!
Characters as a sentai squad (Power Rangers, Sailor Moon)
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Prison Break
Sports Teams/Teamwork (Captain Tsubasa, Shoot!, Ookiku Furikabutte)
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Nana
Reinassance
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Hikaru no Go
La Belle Epoque
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Gorgeous Carat
Spies (Man From UNCLE, James Bond, etc.)
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Yu-Gi-Oh!
Nemeses meeting each other in a different way and becoming best friends (think Smallville)
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Puppetmaster Sakon
Archaeology and/or treasure hunting (Indiana Jones)
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Detectives (Magnum PI, Remington Steele, etc.)
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A couple who were once truly in love ends up in a bitter feud, playing all kinds of fiendish tricks on each other (War Of The Roses)
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A mousy character travels to a foreign land and becomes involved with a soldier of fortune; cue adventure, villains, crocodiles, and love (Romancing The Stone)
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The curse of immortality (Highlander, Meteor Methuselah, etc.)
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Master/Slave
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Puritan colony where different is dangerous (Sleepy Hollow)
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Living a life that isn't real (Matrix, Truman Show etc)
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Interdimensional task/police force
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High school clubs
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The Breakfast Club - Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought.
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Bourne Identity - A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and without memory, then races to elude assassins and recover from amnesia.
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Amélie - An innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love.
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High-stakes games of passion and betrayal (Dangerous Liaisons, Cruel Intentions, etc)
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V for Vendetta: a censored society forcing conformity, disappearing or killing anyone/thing that goes against the "status quo" as dictated by those in charge.
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Godzilla!!
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AU-'verse idea, "I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV" (characters of given series X are actually just actors, and their original canon was all just a movie/television show)
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Taisho-era Japan
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Keterburg winter wonderland... plus hotel, casino, and spa! (Tales of the Abyss town)
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Juvenile delinquents in high school (Otoko Ozora, Otokojuku, Cromartie, etc.)
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Stockholm syndrome; kidnapper/victim
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Sex changes!
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Grease - Love, gangs, and high school in 1950/60s America
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Rich people own "steeds", men who will fight against each other in a luxurious underground gambling ring -- the winner receives money as well as glory for his master, and the loser is punished with the ultimate humiliation (Kishidou Club)
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A Song of Ice and Fire -- noble families scheme for power and influence against a background of brutal dealings and disturbing omens
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Doctor Who -- enigmatic hyper-intelligent immortal leads Companion(s) on mad adventures in time and space, using his wits to survive
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Enlightenment-age scholars in Paris
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members of the Royal Navy during the Age of Sail
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Regular old college life - exams, parties, roommates, the works
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A boy and his dog(demonic or otherwise)
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Victorian London
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Pirates!
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The Family Man - A man gets a glimpse of what his life would have been like on the road not taken.
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Prompts
Bleach/Cluster Edge (artificial soldiers fighting for acceptance in post-war society) fusion - Byakuya/Renji - something for the dead.
D.Gray-Man/Evil!Main!Characters!AU - Allen/Ravi - "I think we should give them what they deserve, don't you?"
Digital Devil Saga/Line workers at an industrial glue factory - Gale/Cielo - "...have you been walking in the fixative room without a respirator again?"
Firefly/Transformers - Mal and Optimus Prime - "wait, wait, wait...back up a second."
Fullmetal Alchemist/Postapocalyptic!AU - Greed - last man standing
Fullmetal Alchemist/Harry Potter fusion - Severus Snape/Kimberly - "Something to share with the class, Mr. Kimberly?"
Gakuen Heaven/Ouran Host club crossover - Kyouya/Nakajima - "the sweetest prey is another predator"
Gokusen 2/Nobuta wo Produce - AkiraxRyu, HayatoxShuuji - That guy kind of looks like you.
Harry Potter/Fullmetal Alchemist - Molly Weasley and Izumi Curtis having tea - The leaps mothers make for their babies.
Hellsing/Eating your enemies to gain their strength - Alucard - every dog has its day.
Hellsing/Fairytales - Alucard and Integra - "yes, my queen"
Hellsing/Fullmetal Alchemist: Pip/Havoc - smoke break and "Shit, man, these fights are for monsters, not us."
Hellsing/S-CRY-ed - Seras/Scheris - Loyalty to masters
KAT-TUN/NewS - KoyamaxAT-TUN - "Switching Kamenashi and Koyama"
Keroro Gunsou / Captain Harlock universe - Garuru x Giroro (human versions) - Space pirates!
Keroro Gunsou / PAPUWA - Keroro platoon (human versions) vs. Harlem group - Welcome to Papuwa Island, it doesn't exist on any Pekopon.
Keroro Gunsou / PAPUWA - Dororo (human version) & Tottori - A ninja's failure is poetic.
Keroro Gunsou / PAPUWA - Kururu (human version) & Komoro (human version) - Toxic evil. (Koyasu pun, I just want to see it. ^^)
Kingdom Hearts/Ouran Host club fusion - Sora/Kyouya - "But...what if someone SEES me like this?"
Kingdom Hearts/Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga - Gale/Cielo/Roxas - Culture clash
Legal Drug/Yakuza!AU - Kakei/Saiga - "go bring me something...pretty"
Loveless/Band!AU - Ritsuka/Soubi - music strong as steel, thick as chains.
Loveless/inexperienced character recruited to pilot a mecha - Ritsuka and Soubi - "...was it supposed to make that noise?"
My Boss, My Hero/Hana Yori Dango - SoujirouxSakurakoji - Hitting on a cute girl
My Boss, My Hero/Hana Kimi - NakatsuxSakurakoji - Confusion and Cross dressing
One Piece/NewS - All cast - Grand Line is scary!
Saiyuki/Harry Potter fusion - Sanzo and Minerva McGonagall - comparing teaching methods.
Sandman/Avatar: The Last Airbender - Desire/Azula - "Poor child. Everything is so empty for you."
Sandman/Slayers: Death and Phibrizo - sisterly advice
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner / PAPUWA - Shintarou & Raidou / Tanno & Azumi - Stranded on a tropical island with fish in fishnets.
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner / tactics - Haruka & Raidou - Come on tengu, just get in the tube already!
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner / tactics - Kantarou vs. Raidou - My tengu is cooler than yours~
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner / tactics - Raikou & Narumi - Deals with the devil.
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner / tactics - Raikou x Raidou - You have a skill I desire...
Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga/Inuyasha - Serph/Miroku - Protection from the sun
Suikoden/cyberpunk - Albert/Yuber - war machine.
Suikoden/cyberpunk - Miklotov/Camus - getting paid at the end of the day.
Suikoden/Firefly fusion - Mal and Oboro - price negotiations
tactics / Shounen Onmyouji - Raikou x Guren (Touda) - Soldier Badtouch.
XXXHolic/Eyeshield 21 - Hiruma and Yuuko - Dealing with Devils
Yu-Gi-Oh!/Kingdom Hearts - Sora/Roxas (and-or) Yuugi/Yami - Other selves and magic items.
- Some of the suggestions submitted allow participants the option of cross-over or fusion possibilities. (For example - chichiri_no_da's submission of (Supernatural: Road trip from hell in a classic car). You can play with that two ways. Let's say you choose Bleach from Column A and the above from Column B. You can create say a Bleach/Supernatural fusion or simply create a Bleach AU (using Supernatural's plot). Keep that in mind!
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