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[bjornwilde]

I've two ideas...
First, one of the great traditions of Marvel comics is the What If?; which basically is to add a slight twist to an existing story or origin to make it into a different story all together. Your challenge is to come up with your own or tag in with a pup and we'll do it for you.

Second, I know I have a couple of pups who'd likely do this t-minus thing but I can't for the life of me think of user names for them and I can't be the only one right? Tag in with a pup and get suggestions for t-minus user names.

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[a1enzo]

Enzo's proooobably not going to do t-minus, because he can't have pets at the Academy. Nevertheless, username suggestions go!

[bjornwilde]

I don't get why I'm usually good with LJ names but for t-minus names I get a total blank. Something to do with doppelganger or clone maybe?

[bjornwilde]

1) What if Ben Grimm had been a samurai is still one of my favorite ideas. Or how about What If Thalia Grace hadn't died at Half-blood Hill? Would she have followed Luke into Chronus' service? Would she have seen Luke's corruption and saved him in time?

2)Val von Doom and Kate Kane/Batwoman. And how about either of my Bens?

[basic_powers]

quantumBallerina for Val von Doom, you're on your own for her colors

...do you want the list for 616 Ben and then the list for Ult. Ben?

[minkhollow]

Warehouse 13 did 'what if Pete was never born?' for the last Christmas episode (aaaaand I might drop Peteless!Claudia in on April Fools'), but there's a wrinkle to it that they didn't explore:
I think in the Peteless universe, Rebecca and Jack solved the glass-girl case by themselves, since a big portion of the time-travel shenanigans involved is that it was Myka and Pete. (Also, it seems HG was never debronzed in the Peteless 'verse? So there's that as well.)
I also think, since lack-of-Pete turned the Warehouse into a place that doesn't roll like that, Rebecca never found out what happened to Jack.

As for AUs the show hasn't proposed, I've already noodled the heck out of 'Rebecca and Jack as Claudia's foster parents,' and I have another one I occasionally toy with writing: What if HG was debronzed in the '50s?
(WHY YES I HAVE A BIT OF A THING FOR REBECCA AND JACK, WHY DO YOU ASK)

As for the T-Minus bit:
Claudia and Cata are taken care of; Sam isn't interested, partly because the thing's habit of assigning user names would probably stick him with something that would tell everyone something he'd rather they didn't know. (The other part is because if he wants to talk to Cata, he can find her at home. XD)
I'm open to suggestions for Apollo or Imp! (Apollo's would almost certainly start with 'egotistical.')

(And a completely unrelated gripe brought to you by Mom channel-surfing last night: Dear American Idol, HARRY NILSSON WROTE "WITHOUT YOU," NOT MARIAH CAREY. Some props for the Beatles' favorite musician, please?)

[leeshajoy]

Imp: llamedosianPie (li'l Don McLean reference there)

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

I've done enough AUs for Ray to not fuss over any of them too much by now, including 'what if he got tapped for the Men in Black?'. He's good.

I've considered two Gordon AUs; 'what if Gordon had taken a job at Aperture Science instead?' and 'what if Gordon flipped the G-Man off at the end of the first Half-Life game?'. In the first one things got reeeeeely ugly on account of neurotoxin release or industrial accident, and in the second Gordon only barely escaped the assault by Xen creatures when a group of newly-freed Vortigaunts grabbed him and got him out of there. He then spent the next twenty years or so surviving in Xen and trying to find his way out, while the G-Man deployed Adrian Shephard to City 17 instead. It was not pretty.

I'd be kind of interested to see what what ifs people might think of for Adrian or Ellen, though.

[minkhollow]

The obvious one leaping to mind for Ellen is 'what if her dad had decided to try to hack it on the surface?' But I don't know enough about the game to try to noodle it any further.

[alsoagreengrass]

Hit me with some What Ifs!

[genarti]

T-minus username suggestions for River gratefully accepted! She's the most likely to get one -- well, her and Trowa, but I know what Trowa's will be whenever I get around to giving him one -- but I have no ideas for her. Feel free to suggest for Regan, Uzura, or Clare, too, although two of the three will be baffled by the whole thing.

[a1enzo]

Uzura: curiousAutomaton? (Is there any actual rule to these, other than adjectiveNoun?)

[againsttherules]

Hrmmm, I think there's real potential for What Ifs in Jack's canon, which have to start with:

What if Jack's Mum and Dad had actually had a reasonable, sensible relationship?
I suspect that Jack would have joined the American military, and then, who knows, but I hardly think they'd have sent him to Ireland for university, so he'd never have met Epper, and well, probably, most of the plot wouldn't have taken place, and yeah, then the world suffers 2 weeks of floods, because no one finds plot tokens, and then 2 years later, gets destroyed due to the lack of charged firestone...

Also, for those that have read the books by Reilly, T-minus username suggestions, if you have one. (this is far more of a future planning, thing, for communications after book1!canon is over)

[wanderlustlover]

I love What Ifs!

Feel free to shout out other lives Edward, Star, Jean, Peeta or Marian might have had!

[sardonicynic]

So, um, I completely blame the likes of Kat and Sweeney for putting my brain on this road, but now it's there, so!

Your mission, should you choose to accept it? Is to drabble/fic something along the lines of Jean and District 1, with Jean as the girl who was on fire.

[sardonicynic]

Ooh, I capital-A-dore the What If? game. Hit up any of mine; I'll be stuck in a meeting for most of the afternoon, but I'll try my best to squeeze at least a drabble from the prompt:

→ Ben Wade (almosthonorable), 3:10 to Yuma [2007]
→ Gina Cowell (deadlinedriven), Castle
→ Kate Warner (justdidntseeit), 24
→ Mary Morstan (intendtotake), Sherlock Holmes [2009]
→ Ned Stark (houseofhonor), Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire
→ Raylan Givens (itwasjustified), Justified

[bjornwilde]

Okay I gotta admit, the idea of Ben Grimm and Raylan wandering feudal Japan as ronin fills my head with glee. I can see Raylan as the mouth piece who gets them work and Ben as the strong silent guy who gets the dead pan lines...and they fight crime!

[a1enzo]

Oh, I will accept what-ifs for Enzo as well!

[craftylildoodlepumpkin]

What if Enzo weren't a clone?

[leeshajoy]

All of my pups who are interested in T-Minus already have screennames, but I'd love to hear what-ifs! I have a hard time writing them myself because the pups get so cemented in my head.

Alyx Vance, Half-Life series (vance_prime)
D0G, Half-Life series (g00d_d0ggie)
Twilight Sparkle, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (no_vampires_plz)
the cat, Coraline (with_his_tail_high)

[arrin]

What if, after the Friendship Is Magic episodes, Twilight Sparkle returned to Canterlot?

[ceitfianna]

I'm always fascinated by AUs as I have a hard time getting them to work. I think I've only had one or two AUs that I liked enough to want to try and make work.

T-minus suggestions would be nice but I don't know if they'll end up used as some of my pups are curious just not enough to sign up.

Will Scarlett
Charles Xavier
Demeter
Sameth
William Evans
Jane Austen
Moist von Lipwigh
Tumnus
The Pirate King

[crabbycustomer]

Will Scarlett: seditiousMirth
Sameth: meticulousForgery
Jane Austen: byBook
Moist: mercurialFoliage

[inlovewithwords]

Accepting both What If? and t-minus ideas for Lois Lane and Tavi.

[crabbycustomer]

Lois Lane: streetwiseSometimes

Streetwise is a pretty good translation of Lois Lane (superior, lane) and describes her, especially in comparison to the more naive Clark. But she has a habit of wandering into dark alleys on her own and she has no clue what Clark gets up to in those same dark alleys (talking about the quickchange, perverts...) so it... comes and goes.

[ex_doeswhatsright679]

Weeeell, SV canon actually went and did my favorite What If: What if he'd been raised a Luthor. Except that I still hold his name would've been Kal instead of Clark. I love AUs though, so hit me up for both Clark and Steve.

also, maybe a T-minus for Clark? Even if I have no idea what they are.

[bjornwilde]

That's the hard part about big names like Clark and Ben, they've already had so many AUs written for them. Okay how about if Clark had landed in Atlantis instead of Kansas?

Or, seeing if I remember the early episodes correctly here, some of the radiation from Clark's landing had given Ma and Pa Kent powers.

T-minus is basically an organic cellphone that can communicate with other T-minus users across realities. solarBoyscout?

[cullenteddybear]

OPhhh What if's you can hit me

Sam Axe
Ginny Weasley
Mozzie
Emmett Cullen
Jameson Rook

[havetubawilltravel]

What if Sam managed to retire from the SEALS without the whole greymail deal?

What if Sam had never met Michael?

What if he met him in Florida post-burning?

Sam's T-Minus is obviously Sammytymes ;)(Clem wanted it to be ClemmysMan or something like that, but I overrule her ;) )

[arrin]

Oooh! Hit me with some What Ifs!

AndrAIa notascreensaver
Thirteen numbered_doctor
Kaidan Alenko notamutant
Marian Hawke birdofkirkwall
Kanaya Maryam bloodyvirgo

[kd7sov]

Hmmm. What If Kanaya... had lived as close to Tavros as Vriska and Equius did to each other?

[kd7sov]

Most of my What-Ifs tend to be in the form of "[character] never existed", or else crossovers of one sort or another. But I'm willing to see what ideas y'all have got for me.

Felix venusadept_2
Kain baron_dragoon
Fluttershy needs_fern

[craftylildoodlepumpkin]

What if Fluttershy had never reverted back to her sweet self from her mean ways in 'Putting your Hoof Down?"

[withherhands]

I'd love to hear What-If suggestions for Jack Bauer. (Though one obvious one is what if Teri didn't die at the end of S1? EXTRAPOLATE.)

[anthologia]

What if Jack Bauer WASN'T BADASS?

[anthologia]

I AM NOT TECHNICALLY IN YET but planning to re-app next cycle, so. T-MINUS IDEAS:

Phillipa Cobb: atoningPrincess, maybe? Cause I think of her as kind of like a mob princess, only for the extraction business. And she's studying to use those skills to help people.

Rose Zeller: ...I really don't know what I would call her. ._. [something]Badger?

Jack Slater: Oh man, I can't even. Something with Mediator seems too obvious.

Sam Goode: inheritanceSidekick?

Freya McAllister: ...I got nothing.

Pomona: lol would not use it mostly likely, but give it a try if you want anyway.

[genarti]

Freya: man, I wish I knew her canon better. certifiableEvidence?

Pomona: friendlyMalus?

[ladyoflorien]

Late, but I'm up for suggestions on both!

• Leela - eyeeyecaptain
  
• Porthos - srspirate
  
• Grace Augustine - donthidemycigs
  
• Renee Walker - whathastobedone
  
• Ray Carling - flickedmethevs
  
• Lily Bell - maidenofthewest
  
• Zoë Washburne - someonetocarryyou

I'm kind of brain dead right now, so ideas of my own are sparse. Main thoughts: What if Leela never found out she was a mutant, and stayed on the planet with the lonely Cyclops? What if Grace's soul transfer to her Avatar worked? What if Ray never missed his interview with the army?

May expand on these later.

[crabbycustomer]

It is not a very elaborate reference, but... lacksPerspective for Leela. >.

[ashen_key]

I...am so very brainsleepy tonight, I cannot think of 'what if's for my characters. And I never got the hang of t-minus. So, your mission, should you choose to accept, is t-minus suggestions and 'what if's for:

Trudy Chacon
Jake Sully
Medusa
Delia of Eldorne
Peggy Carter
Kait Galweigh

[crabbycustomer]

One that is probably TOO on the nose for Kait: shiftingLoyalties

[bbq_platypus]

I can think of two slightly different hypotheticals for Leela.

First, what if the Doctor had never returned to her home planet? She still would have been exiled, and I suspect her strength and wit would be enough to help her survive a few years - let's say ten, at least - before getting jumped in her sleep by something invisible.

Second, what if she had not forced herself onto the TARDIS after the Doctor refused to let her on? I suspect she would have played a major role in helping to rebuild the society of the reunified descendents of the Mordee expedition. She also probably would have married Tomas and lived a reasonably happy, if somewhat less interesting, life.

We don't really know enough of Borgel's life to formulate any what-if's.

It would be equally pointless to do a what-if for Jim. Jim regrets nothing.

[crabbycustomer]

I will have to come back to this tomorrow! I am always up to help people with T Minus names, but I didn't see this until late.

For the record: the rule is two words (exactly two words, not mushed up), but missing punctuation is fine (archanidsGrip). Cultural/classic references are allowed in canon, so it can be culturally specific (timaeusTestified). They are usually polysyllabic, punny, work on multiple levels, and are pretty ominous.

Sometimes it helps to pick an appropriate letter pair and then twist yourself up trying to state a simple idea with the right initials--that is how Andrew Hussie named all the trolls.

Or they're just dumb puns sometimes. (centaursTesticle)

[craftylildoodlepumpkin]

Would love any or either for:

craftylildoodlepumpkin - Juliet O'Hara
hey35andholding - Clementine Johnson
filemyclaim - Dixie Cousins

[crabbycustomer]

For Clem: steelyDame