crack au day!

[aria]

And before I go, a meme!

Take any one of the fandoms you know I write/rec/read AND give me a type of AU (space opera AU, pirate AU, superhero AU, etc) or another time period (Ancient Rome, Regency England, etc). I will then explain the gist of the story I would write for that AU.

I should add that any historical AUs will be EXTREMELY INACCURATE, and you are probably safer with superheroes.

Comments

[polarisnorth]

I want to do something really cracked out like a Harry Potter superhero AU or a Narnia space opera. :D :D :D

[aria]

Harry Potter superhero AU: a bit like an X-Men fusion, actually! Obviously the basic plot is the same: when Harry was a year old, the mutant supremacist Voldemort came to kill Harry and his family, and mysteriously vanished instead. Harry grows up with his relatives, who don't want a mutant in the family and repeatedly try to squash it out of him, until when he's eleven Harry's contacted by Professor Dumbledore and swept off to the Hogwarts School for Mutants to fulfill his destiny, &c &c.

Harry has flight and superspeed; his best friends are Hermione, whose stunning brainpowers manifest in extremely clever thinking and telekinesis though not, to her disappointment, telepathy; and Ron, who can stretch his limbs way far and feels a bit awkward for not having a more interesting power. (Especially since Fred and George make things explode, Percy makes forcefields, Charlie can transform into a dragon, and Bill can walk through walls. It's a lot to live up to.) Meanwhile presumably Draco Malfoy makes ice, and no one's quite sure what Professor Snape's power is, but everyone has the awful feeling he can read minds.

[aria]

And a Narnia space opera, oh my god what are you.

Well, evidently there's a confederation of planets that are under the rule of the terrible dictatorship of the White Witch. Under her control, the terraforming settings on every planet are nearly too cold for habitation, and all public holidays are banned. Her secret police lurk in every spaceport, and anyone who displeases the Witch is sent to her palace in the capitol city and are never seen again; the citizenry fears that she has them atomized.

Meanwhile, the four Pevensie children live on a planet far from the Narnian Confederation. But their lives are also troubled: their planet is at war with itself, and to escape the bombings, children are being sent off in ships to a safe spaceport. Unfortunately for the Pevensies, their ship is caught in a solar storm and dragged off-course into Narnian space, where they are commandeered by General Tumnus and his ragged band of resistance forces.

The children see that the cause to free Narnia from the White Witch is a good one, especially since their own war-torn planet is one of the Witch's next targets. They join the resistance, rising through the ranks, until Lucy discovers the intelligence that there is a weapon known as ASLAN that can defeat the Witch's forces forever! In a daring final mission, they find ASLAN, defeat the Witch, and with the resistance they set about restoring peace and order to Narnian space.

[polarisnorth]

Both of these are awesome but I am really ridiculously fond of the Narnia one. If you changed a few details it could probably pass as an entirely original story, too. :D

[starlady]

General Tumnus and his ragged band of resistance forces.

The image of James McAvoy as a faun general out of space opera is priceless. *dies of laughter*