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acerbictomes ([personal profile] acerbictomes) wrote2013-03-01 09:28 pm

implausible plot bunny amnesty: things I probably will never write

Magical Diary

Virginia fic, Virginia fic, Virginia fic! The game had a good thing going with Virginia's Main Character Flaw (getting other people to do things for her instead of doing things herself), and the way it resolved the plot (basically, MC does it for her) made me go,  "B-but character developement ;_;?".

So if I ever write this Virginia fic, which I may or may not, it will be all about her reluctance to do things for herself (even though she's pretty okay with doing them for other people) and probably include her taking martial arts classes at the mall and being TORN between THE RULES OF HER SCHOOL and her being a FOOL FOR KUNG FU. Okay, that was a pretty terrible rhyme, but you get the drift! She really shouldn't be practicing with the Muggles (w/e they call them in Magical Diary), but at the same time, she can't drag herself away.

Simultaneously, Mary Sue and Ellen are grooving on their secret society deal, and Virginia has an awkward crush on Mary Sue and is upset that her two friends are getting closer and closer together and leaving her out. Through them, there's a bit of stuff about magical society and its wariness of the Outside World and mixing technology in with magic and the Choice.

Arc words: "Somebody's gotta fight the monsters." Used when she's defending her own predilection for Red Magic, maybe contemplating a future career, but the point of the arc words is that the ending's going to be Virginia deciding to participate in the Big Tournament after all, and finding a way around the magic thing (swearing a Wizard's Vow to have her heart torn out if she uses magic to cheat in the Tournament, basically) and then at the very end, she does something unexpected (either confronts Prof, Sprout further on behalf of Ellen and Mary Sue, or tells Ellen + Mary that it's okay that she's being left out a little and she understands, or sits down next to Donald and starts trying to talk to him and connect as actual people). Everyone stares at her, and the ending sentences are:

"Hey, somebody's gotta fight the monsters.
Might as well be her."
Homestuck

The Rose/Jane Western where it's right after the Civil War, Rose is an ex-slave Union war hero homesteader and Jane is the schoolmarm and also a farmer in her own right. Includes magic: during the war, Rose wielded terrifying horrorterror magic, and the Creatures of the Furthest Ring are still trying to push their way back in. At one point, Rose finds tentacles growing out of the flank of a cow and makes a :/ face and pushes them back in. She still has magic, though: at one point she knits up a storm because IT HAS NOT RAINED IN TEN DAYS and the CROPS MIGHT DIE and she is Rose Lalonde, master of overkill. Jane is obviously her neighbor and their eyes meet over a fence and the mooing of cows and there is a very courtly romance. At one point, Dirk shows up and tries to get Rose back into the Army to train soldiers or whatever, and she's all, angsty action hero, THAT LIFE IS OVER NOW, ALSO COULD YOU BRING ME SOME BOOKS. Anyway, obviously there are outlaws and Rose has to suit up, er, sheriff up? and defend the townspeople. And uh, I have a gdoc full of links regarding Black homesteaders in California (SoCal represeeeeeeeent) for a REASON. Am pretty sure would fail so very hard if I wrote this, buuuut idk, maybe if I did even more research???

The Dave/Terezi AU where Terezi is GOD3SS OF JUST1C3 and the trolls won the game and now they are so very, very bored. Dave is the avowed atheist who bleeds out on the Houston streets and prays for help; Terezi is the ennui-ridden goddess who decides to make him her Knight for shits and giggles. Together they are the plot of a Korean drama! So she moves in and eats all his food and angsts about Vriska and he like, stares at her and says "I don't believe in you" a lot, and has to become Batman because he is HERS now. This is all greatly amusing to Terezi.

That does not mean she angsts about her personal life and issues any less. There will be paragraphs of her just having TROLLPAIN about WHAT IS HER MEANING IN LIFE and HER FIRST LOVE and SHE IS SO OLD (she is like, twenty-five, and basically got thrust into a world where she was already an established goddess and there was all this mythology about her already) and talking about her problems, and Dave just going, uh-huh, okay, can we talk about my bro issues now or what . Terezi is really emotionally resilient, but I have a feeling that, in this situation, she'd basically use Dave as a captive therapist. And of course there is Vriska the romantic second lead (spoiler alert: they end up caliginous) and Jade the other romantic second lead (or at least Dave thinks she is; she is actually super over him). Much kdrama style shenanigans follow! ...Shut up, okay, it is an excellent idea. 

The AU where Jane is Chang Apana in early 1900s Hawaii, and she is the only Chinese person on the police force and has a homemade fork weapon thingy and arrests forty gamblers at once. She patrols the area of Chinatown known as "Blood Town", and is working on this huge opium case. Going to go a bit off-standard noir AU here and have Roxy be, instead of a bar owner, a hapa interpreter (can misspell words in any language! maybe coding language parallels?). Jake is the butler for Betty Crocker Sugarcane (or a plantation scion, although that is kind of gross) and Dirk is the local newspaper editor (controlling things behind the scenes??? Yessssssss.). Note: this would also require a hells lot of research and therefore makes me sad. Sigh.
 
Sungkyunkwan Scandal

Bibliography fic! Written in notes by a grad student writing her dissertation about "The Legend of the Great Daemul's Early Life" and includes lots of distortions and inaccuracies and a few primary sources. Quoth Moon Jae Shin:

"There are dozens of them. The Blue Messenger. The Green Messenger. The Orange Messenger, The Purple Messenger and The Yellow Messenger. The White Messenger. The Salmon PInk Messenger. The Tangerine Messenger. There are dozens of them, and not a single one knows how to write. I blame you."

Also a roleswap AU in which Moon Jae Shin is the humorless scholar, Gu Yong Ha is the poor kid trying to make a buck, Kim Yoon Shik is the womanizer with a secret and Lee Sun Joon is the Red Messenger. The divergent point is the Geum Deung Ji Sa: if Yoon Hee's dad and Jae Shin's bro hadn't gone at that mission, Yoon Hee grows up headstrong and dresses up as her bro to take the civil service exam. She got in young, Lee Sun Joon followed her (they've known each other since childhood, etc.) and Jae Shin spent a few extra years training with his brother before entering Sungkyunkwan. Since Yoon Hee's dad has failed her every year she's been in Sungkyunkwan and Sun Joon stays back with her in solidarity, they are technically Jae Shin and Yong Ha's seniors.

Yong Ha's secret is that he's a joongin and has been helping people cheat for years (face it, Yong Ha wouldn't confess his crimes at a freaking entrance exam), his dad's business is struggling, and he's been masquerading as a nobleman whose parents have cut him off for years. Jae Shin's committed to being as righteous as his big bro and therefore manipulates Yong Ha into getting into Sungkyunkwan on the basis of his own name. Sun Joon as the Red Messenger writes huge tracts that nobody ever reads and doesn't do well in archery because of the arm strain of carrying so many leaflets. Actually, though, he's probably more effective than Jae Shin as Red Messenger, because what he does (besides leaflets) is sneak out to teach at an underground school for girls. Yoon Hee also teaches, but as a pretend womanizer (Cho Sun knows and is in league with her), she actually has an excuse to hang out with girls all the time.

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