#crossovercrack

[othercat2]

Re: Operational Security Random Thought

Murderbot in its own universe: "humans" and "augmented humans."

Murderbot in MDZS: "humans" and "cultivating humans."

[othercat2]

This Crossever is Not With Goncharov

But does have an (ex) mob boss. Let me introduce you to Vlad Taltos Easterner (read human) former restaurant owner, former fantasy setting mob assassin former mob boss current fugitive and frequent reluctant agent for his patron goddess.

Steven Brust's Dragaera novels are a fun read and have the convention of the Vlad-specific books are narrated in a "wise guy mobster" format while the Dragaeran(they're essentially elves) pov books are narrated in a Dumas pastiche format.

I am currently imagining Vlad in a xianxia setting. It is extremely hilarious because I can't think of anything more mutually incomprehensible.

My inclination would be to cross him over in tcgf, simply because of Hua "Crimson Rain" Cheng.

[othercat2]

This Crossover is Because Space Bats

So! Let me introduce you to the concept: Assiti Shards/Ring of Fire/1632-verse is a bunch of related series by Eric Flint and a gaggle of co-authors. The basic concept is that an alien race is chopping up spacetime sections and dropping them elsewhere/when as a form of art/entertainment. (They are only the macguffin and we are assured that these cosmic assholes will eventually be exterminated by an understandably aggravated descendant species of humanity.) The first series is Ring of Fire, the first book of which is 1632, in which a West Virginian town is dumped into the middle of Germany during the Thirty Years War. Intrepid and heroic Union Leader Mike Stearns decides to do a little community outreach when he and some of his union members rescue a farmstead being looted by soldiers. This immediately snowballs into the town making allies and taking in refugees much to the slowly building horror of both sides of the war.

I kind of want to dump Grantville into the middle of the Sunshot Campaign, okay? Or just at the beginning. The way the switch works is that the Assiti slice off spacetime within a certain radius, then flip it with another piece somewhen else. In the case of Grantville, the shard was exchanged with a looted farmstead in the Germanies.

Place/Times to Pull the Switcheroo

--Cloud Recesses, after it gets burned: Lan who survived the attack straggle back to find that instead of their sect, a bunch of strange buildings, and even stranger people!

--During the Cloud Recesses arc, specifically the part where they go down to the lack and discover that the lake is full of undead horrorterror. There is suddenly a new town in an entirely different topography near the lake!

--Near Lotus Pier, right at time it gets invaded. Possibly Madame Yu's bacon gets saved? She's probably a bitch about it, because her ass was saved by non-cultivator commoners.

--Yiling, roughly around the Wei Wuxian and Wen Qing perform the surgery on Jiang Cheng. Grantville ends up at the foot of the scrubby mountain where surgery takes place, just *after* the surgery so Wei Ying stumbles into town, and gets picked up by Stearn and company who have gone out to investigate wtf happened.

--The fucking Burial Mounds. Right. In. The fucking Burial Mounds. Roughly during the 3 month period Wei Ying was running for his life and inventing an entirely new cultivation method. Mike Stearns did not sign up for a zombie movie.

--Just after the Sunshot campaign, right next to the one prison camp where Wen Qing's entire extended family ends up.

People I Want Julie Sims, Sniper Girl Extraordinaire to Pot Shot (Short List)

Wen Chao

Jin Zixun

Jin Guangshan

[othercat2]

A Crossover Where Luo Binghe is Adopted By a Feral Cryptid Conservationist Grandma

Okay! So the InCryptid series is about a family that studies and protects various species of "Cryptids." Cryptids are somewhat endangered due to the usual environmental pressures and also by a secret world wide organization called "The Covenant of St. George," who has been hunting them down. This family was formerly a member of the Covenant but they ended up discovering that many of the species they were destroying were actually essential to the ecosystem and/or didn't deserve being hunted down because they were people. The Healy's have Weird Things Happen to them as a matter of course, mostly due to the entire "conservationists of weird beings and animals, some of them from strange dimensions."

One of the members of this family is Alice Healy, who has been spelunking through various hellish dimensions in search of her husband, who was lost through a rift of some kind. So I am thinking she ends up at some point in the Endless Abyss and comes across Luo Binghe and more or less adopts him/helps him survive the absolute suck that is the Endless Abyss. Where it would go from there, I'm not sure. Luo Binghe ending up becoming an adopted member of the family and a conservationist in his own right on Earth? Thomas Price being somewhere in the demon realm in need of rescue? Thomas somehow having become a cultivator in SVSSS world?

Edit: Looks like Thomas and Alice get reuinited in Spelunking Through Hell, so maybe Thomas *and* Alice somehow find or stumble into Luo Binghe?

[othercat2]

Yet Another Bunny

Untamed/The Avengers-Marvel MCU. I am not as much in the MCU, though I’m familiar with the various plotlines. I just don’t watch movies very much so it’s very “fan fic from writers I like, plus vague comic book knowledge.”

Just. Wen Ning encountering the Winter Soldier and helping him. I have no idea of how Wen Ning ends up in the modern era. I do not have clear idea of what he’s doing except British and European colonialism almost makes him have an expression. It is not a happy one.

Since he is somehow in the Marvelverse his day job is medical doctor and his night job is also doctor but often he is beating up criminals.

Set up is: Wen Ning hears about the Winter Soldier. He goes “!!!” because the first things he hears are stories that make Winter Soldier sound like he’s living dead/a fierce corpse. This is not really great news because this also implies a demonic cultivator of great skill and very little moral sense since the WS is also enacting some really horrific deeds/assassinations.

Wen Ning decides to hunt down supposed demonic cultivator and fierce corpse as one does. He comes to the realization that WS is not a fierce corpse but someone so brutally tortured he might as well have been a puppet. This...really pisses him off.

With help from various sources, (immortal! wei ying and hubby? Immortal sizhui?) Wen Ning steals an assassin, and ends up on Hydra’s shit list, not that he cares. (They are actually on his shit list and it is hard to get on Wen Ning’s shit list.) From here, it’s a recovery fic as Bucky comes back to himself and finds himself drawn into the modern cultivation world. He and Wen Ning end up being friends and occasional partners in crime (or heroing) Though Bucky eventually makes it back to the states where he runs into Captain America...cue mutual “but I thought you were dead!”

And then eventually a connection is made between WS and Bucky and drama happens. Possibly Bucky gets captured? And some how the avengers meet Wen Ning and company?

...what nick names would Tony Stark come up with for Wen Ning, Wei Wuxian and Lan Zhan? Or Lan Sizhui?

How would I do this without doing the stupid White Dude Trained By Eastern Martial Artist Temple trope? Or at least avoiding the hell out of it by hanging a lampshade or two on it. (Obvious answer: by making fun of it. I mean, Bucky has listened to The Shadow, I’m sure, and that’s one of the examples, IIRC.)

“...and Night of the Living Metal Head here,” Tony said, indicating Wen Ning.

“The Shadow,” Bucky says.

Tony blinks a brief semaphore of confusion. “What?”

“It’s an old radio program,” Bucky says. He starts to explain the show only to have Tony wave impatiently.

“No. Seen the remake. I mean the nick names. Nick names are my thing Barnes. Get your own.”

[othercat2]

Untamed/Chalion verse thought

This is not a crossover I'd be able to manage though it might work best as a fusion, though a lot would change. Maybe. It would depend if I had them lean Quintarian or not.

I kind of like Meng Yao though he's a sack of weasels crazy, though with some reason. I just feel he'd be a much happier and stable person if he were a follower of the Bastard. (The Bastard would probably like WWX too. What if Jin Guangyao and Wei Wuxian actively had to work together?)

Random affiliations:

Nie Minjue: Father of Winter

Jiang Yanli: Mother of Summer

Nie Huisang: Daughter of Spring

Jin Ling: Son of Autumn

His name escapes me but Lan Wanji's (?) uncle would

also be aligned with the Father of Winter.

[othercat2]

Return of the Untamed Crossover Bunny

Yeah, I’ve gotten a bit further into Untamed, up to episode 27/28. So of course I have a much clearer Idea of How to Do a Crossover Between Elizabeth Moon’s Deed of Paksenarrion and The Untamed. Or at least, I stronger idea of character and plot interactions. (Also, apparently if you’re a cultivator you’re also very long lived? This might be plot important.)

Okay, The Deed of Paksenarrion takes place in a world that has possibly survived a Magical Apocalypse. It has some slightly Tolkienish elves, dwarves, gnomes, orcs and so on. The main action takes place on a continent with a kiind of ongoing mutual assimilation between two or more human ethnic groups, plus evil gods, good elves, really really bad elves, good gods, saints and holy orders. The two ethnic groups that cause the major amount of conflict are survivor/refugees from a very warlike imperialist culture, and an indigenous culture. The first contact went something like this:

Warlike imperialist culture: Oh hey these peoptle are giving us food and places to live and all that. This must mean they want to be ruled by us :D

Indigenous culture: These people are entering our territory looking for a place to settle. We (as the obviously stronger group) will provide them what they need to settle and they will be beholden to us.

This did NOT go well and the mageborn ended up ruling over the “peasant” culture up until there was a major revolt led by a man named Gird, who eventually became a saint. And the mageborn started to lose their powers (partly because they kept being evil assholes and got punished by the good gods) except for a small group led by a dude named Luap, who fucked up so, so badly that something extremely evil got loose and obliterated his attempted community.

Current era of the story involves an ongoing war between: really nasty worshippers of an really nasty evil god, more worshippers of a really nasty demon, a really, really horrible noble family that still has mages who tend to jump bodies (possess their own kids or whoever is available, A very few good mages, a paladin, a recovering criminal, a dragon, a half elven king whose relatives are being dumbasses or outright hostile, and an extremely horrible former bandit who would be king.

The Bunny of Doom that occurred to me:

Wei Wuxian and the Wen remnants go to the Burial Mounds as per canon. HOWEVER instead of settling Wei Wuxian is presented with an...offer of sorts. Possibly from the Dragon. Or maybe he finds a book or locates  a rift or something. In any case, on the other side of the rift is another world. Wei Wuxian and the Wen remnants go through the rift and end up in Paksworld, a good twenty or so years before the mageborn refugees turn up from the continent they blew up because Bad Things Happened.

For purposes of the story, the indigenous pop have a lot of people with golden cores, though the way they do things isn’t quite as formalized as the cultivators. (Or more accurately, not formalized in the same way.) Because Wei Wuxian is very smart, he figures this out, and a lot of information is shared and exchanged while the Wen slowly create a community. The rift is still open, or maybe needs to be guarded, so that’s what they do.

Then the mageborn turn up. This is not a “save the poor natives” bs story, so things happens somewhat the way they do in canon, except there  are more areas where the mageborn ...just...can’t...go. Because Wei Wuxian is already holding the territory, and unlike the locals, he kind of already knows what these assholes are up to.

Since the mageborn *are* refugees he does try to help! He understands! He knows all of them can’t be complete bastards! On some days though, he plays his flute and *seethes* because of the stupid and resentment and nasty the mageborn tend to leave in their wake. 

The Wen end up being a combo between rangers and paramedics, hunting Various Nasty Things. They get along fairly well with both Gnomes and Dwarves. (For the former, Wei Wuxian whines a lot because Gnomes have more laws than Lan.) They are not as familiar with elves, who find cultivators to be kind of...weird. Which is saying something since elves=weird. The Wen are a very small drop in a very large bucket, so they don’t change canon *too* much. Though I think Wei Wuxian would be pretty helpful in a lot of ways for various main characters.

[othercat2]

This AU Is Luo Binghe Trained by Other Dream (Concepts)

I no longer have my old Sand Man collection or my copies of the collected graphic novels. I haven't seen The Sandman series because I can't afford Netflix (no, really I can't mine finances are a bit delicate). Also, even small scenes I've seen are making me cry from feels, so I might not. But! Luo Binghe trained by (instead of the Elder Dream Demon), Dream of the Endless.

Or, "Elder Dream Demon" works for Dream as a Nightmare (somehow) and Dream finds out about this Highly Unauthorized Training. I'd be a bit tempted to use the @tossawary (crack?) headcanon of EDD being Binghe's Grandfather. I'm not sure if it would be PIDW or SVSSS versions of Binghe. Maybe both?