Thursday DE: What happened next?

[bjornwilde]

 I am sick and so sleeping in tomorrow, thus an early DE and a chance for the EU folks to get the first words in.

Milliways has come under a fairy tale narrative/influence. Everyone who enters becomes some character type from fairy tales or fables. Or maybe it's just that Fairy Tale AU fanfic you've been meaning to write.

Regardless, what role do they adopt? Feel free to take inspiration from any fairy tale, from any culture, and even put you're own spin on it if you wish.

Totally inspired by Seanan McGuire's Index series. Which is amazing and you should read it.

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[splash_of_blue]

Feel better soon, Don! <3 I love this DE. (And whoo, Seanan McGuire!)

Molly is, of course, a knight in shining (pink) armour. Or maybe a good ogress.

Sam is the youngest and least-favoured of the King's many sons, the one who finally fulfils the Impossible Quest. (He didn't want to fulfil it, obviously, but...)

Raoul just... looks to the camera. And shrugs, as much as you can in full plate armour. He's literally a giant-killing knight. That's even his nickname!

McGonagall is the Good Witch who advises the hero. (Anyone who tries to suggest she wear pink will be hexed into oblivion, Good Witch or no bloody Good Witch.)

Victoria is the Hunter. She may or may not kill Red Riding Hood as well as the Wolf; it all depends on the version you're reading.

Poe... uh, may be the princess, tbh. BB-8 is his obligatory cute animal sidekick.

Coulson is the King's most-trusted advisor. He and Hill may also be the King's chief knights.

Snow Leopard Woman, like Raoul, practically is a fairy-tale character, anyway.

War is the powerful and seductive Wicked Witch who the hero must defeat to bring peace to the realm.

[splash_of_blue]

...Also, is it me or would this actually make for a really good Bar plot?

[bjornwilde]

It totally would! I’m thinking something like the IMDB flu, so people can opt out easily.

ETA: Or a free floating curse that works somewhat like a disease.

[fairy_fixit]

So uh, Fairy Fixit is already a fairy. With a job instead of a ~~~role~~~ but yeah, canon is already mostly a fairy tale. The only possible tweak to change it from an epic with backstory and mythology and cosmology into a tale would be to change Amascut (back) into just a particularly cruel trickster goddess. Who is comically afraid of cats, of course.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

It is a half-serious running joke in Overwatch fandom that Bastion is a Disney princess. (Their journal name is what I came up with after discovering that configuration_disneyprincess wouldn't fit in the character limit.) That seems close enough.

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee is the narrator who breaks all the walls. He appears in different forms, like a king's jester, a wandering minstrel, or a satyr.

Cassidy is the misunderstood beast who just wants to be loved.

Pam is the wicked queen who requires the blood of virgins to stay young and immortal.

Floki is the eccentric carpenter who is actually a wise wizard and speaks in riddles. For a price, he may or may not help you along your journey.

[bjornwilde]

Jessica would be in a Blue Beard narrative, but is his daughter rather than wife. She gets curious as why all his brides keep disappearing or where they have gone, discovers his secret and kills him. She takes his sorcerous texts and then torches the castle before disappearing into the country side. She likely ends up hunting those who are like her father.

For Hank, I honestly don't think I could do better than X-Men fairytales, which had him as a Hanuman-esk ape. I could go with the obvious Beauty and the Beast route, or a werewolf fable, but I like his as a playful companion to the hero.

Viv...while the obvious is Pinocchio, her father already had that story used in Avengers Fairytales. Blodeuwedd is tempting, but I am thinking she was created as an apprentice for Math and Gwydion, rather than as a bride for Lleu Llaw Gyffes. There's just something super creepy to me to have created a woman for someone's bride. Plus Viv is underage.

Tybalt is just to perfect for Puss-In-Boots and he would ham it up to the rafters. If I had to pick another story, I'd be tempted to spin him into a Reynard the Fox style story.

Dog would obviously be the animal companion the hero did a favor for and who returns at the perfect time to return the favor.

For Ahsoka, Sabine, and Danny, I am drawing blanks. Any suggestions?

[i_am_your_host]

I imagine Danny as being some kind of Robin Hood figure.

[bjornwilde]

That is a really good idea! And now I'm seeing the Defenders as a fairy tale magnificent seven (With Trish, Foggy, and Coleen)

[for_everyone]

We actually did a fantasy AU thread once which my brain imagined with lightsabers as crystal swords and the Ghost as a dragon and Chopper as like... some kind of ... golem-pinocchio-thing? Something. And we reimagined the world as a fantasy setting filled with portals to different realities, so you'd be going through portals to different realities instead of different planets. SOMETHING.