I need to know more about the Highlander crossover!
description on the tin for that is Methos and Duncan MacLeod are Caroline Forbes's godfathers.
Because there is not a single responsible adult in the entirety of Mystic Falls, and things snowball drastically from there because like the actual ask that everyone is fighting about in Vampire Diaries at the point I do canon divergence is for blood donation every three months or so.
I also wanted to go into the trauma that Caroline has to deal with, and give an actual support system. The Klaroline stuff is there but its not the point of the fic its more of un-fucking Vampire Diaries and writing Duncan/Methos as a couple co-parenting (basically Highlander canon)
What if part of the reason Rowena decided to dive so deeply into magic and achieve immortality for herself is that she was pretty ticked off not to be an immortal after Clan MacLeod had already produced two? And they were both men?! I can see her “why not me then?!” indignation.
Ok, this thought is wiggling in my mind. I haven't completely thought out the ramifications of this yet, but it seems like exactly the terrible, manipulative kind of thing that Lucifer would absolutely do.
So, we know Lucifer is making an effort to corrupt Abel, Cain finds out and makes a deal -- gives his soul to Lucifer and in exchange, Lucifer will not collect Abel's soul...if Cain murders him.
So Cain does. Ends up taking on the Mark of Cain, being corrupted by the Darkness, and ultimately becomes a demon who is Big Scary even to other demons.
But, like, what if that was just Abel's First Death? What if, after a guilt-stricken Cain flees from the scene of the crime....Abel just...got up? His soul doesn't go to Heaven, as Lucifer implied that it would, he just keeps it.
But, like, there's no way Lucifer wouldn't have known that Abel wasn't a normal person, and his soul wasn't going to pop into an afterlife like a normal person's. Like he had to have known. Which means the whole "trying to corrupt him" thing was just a ploy to get at Cain. (Which makes sense, because otherwise why is he going to allow Cain to figure out what he's doing in the first place?)
Just a quick little one-shot that's been rattling around in my head ever since I posted my crossover headcanon about Clan Macleod. It does not have a title because I'm not good at naming things and I'd also like to give a quick shout out to whoohoo.co.uk for helping me write in a Scottish brogue.
Sam Winchester was doing his "serious face" -- thin, drawn lips, furrowed brow, accusing stare. "Whatever happens, you do not get out of this car, Rowena." One day he'd realize just how ineffectual this sort of tactic was. Today was not that day.
She smirked. "Ah, Samuel, of course not."
Sam seemed to believe her -- for a moment -- before he narrowed his eyes suspiciously. He wasn't an idiot, she knew that he expected her to put up more of a fight.
Might as well drop the other shoe on him early then. "Although. This does remind me of when I first began my magical career in earnest."
"Am tellin' ye this fer yer own guid, Rowena. Ye cannae use yer magic here." Her father had been mad at her many times before -- furious even -- but this was something new. Like...disappointment and fear? He wasn't yelling, but this hoarse whisper was almost harder to bear. "There's a reason yer maw ne'er uses 'er powers."
But Rowena was never one to simply give up, even against her parents. "Ah didne mean tae, twas an accident. And they didne e'en ken it was mah fire!"
He snatched her wrist. Now he was a bit angry. That was much more normal. "Ah'm nae jokin' wi' ye. This clan es cursed enaw already."
"Curse?" Rowena scoffed, "Oh, aye, an' whit curse is 'at? Cursed ta be daft an' superstitioos?"
"Hold your tongue, lassie." This had been a very hushed conversation until now -- his voice began to rise. He must have realized it too, since he started dragging Rowena back to their family's home -- small though it was, the walls could certainly muffle this argument. Besides, he'd have mother backing him up. "Twice noo, brae warriors ay the Clan MacLeod hae been turned awa' frae th' afterlife they earned in battle."
"It's jist a story, da."
"Ye jist accidentally sprayed fire frae yer fingertips, but thes one's tay much fur ye tae believe?" The entire sentence was spat out as if it was just one word, but she understood it and....admittedly, it was a fair point.
They'd reached the door of their home, and he shoved it open roughly before pushing Rowena through the threshold and slamming it shut behind her. The whole cottage shook. Rowena's mother looked up from whatever it was she was cooking, alarmed. But father wasn't done lecturing yet. "Besides, Ah saw Duncan Macleod wi' mah ain een when Ah was a wee loon. He's nae a story, he's a real man. Twintie fife or twintie a scuttle years ago, he cam back here when his faither died. They drove him oot again, only fur they cuid nae kill him. Bit thay wilnae hae magic inviting anither curse upon us. Thay kin kill ye. 'n' thay wull."
"Ah dinnae see why nae dyin' is a curse," Rowena tried to reason, "Shouldnae we all want 'at?"
"Rowena!" Her mother's voice cut across their home. "Listen tae yer da. He knows what's best for us. Ah dornt use mae magic..."
"...and ye'll nae use yers either. That's final."
Rowena stared at both of her parents. Two very serious faces. They'd made up their minds and they would not be swayed. But Rowena had made up hers too. And if immortality was the price...she'd gladly pay it.
"Why...did you...uh, 'begin your magical career in earnest?'" Sam asked. He clearly wasn't sure he was going to like this answer.
Rowena winked and then disappeared from inside the Impala -- materializing nearly instantly on the sidewalk next to Sam, smiling broadly. "Because a man told me not to."
What if the presence of the Allspark on Earth is what gave rise to the Immortals?
I just want a crossover with Highlander where Duncan MacLeod gets very confused when his car, that Thunderbird he’s had for years, pings on his radar one day... Turns out their Quickenings are just another form of Spark energy as manifested in organics, and they can sense the bots just as well as the bots can sense them. Makes for very confused Immortals and Autobots (once they start showing up).
In my headcanon for this AU, the bot that turns out to be Duncan’s car is Drift, the former Decepticon turned Autobot Samurai. Once the shock wears off they find that they are more than compatible. This is early-to-mid-nineties, until Optimus and his crew arrive in 2007, the only other cybertronian they ever ran into was Barricade looking for a particular scout, otherwise, they had their hands full with new teenage Immortals, Watchers, and Hunters... oh my!
How different would Duncan approach things once he found out that the Game is a lie, that the code they live by is a misunderstanding of an innate knowledge they have that in the end everyone is One in the Matrix...
Unalienable
Basingstoke
Highlander/X-Men crossover
Duncan/Methos, Jean Grey/Scott Summers, various others
66K
medical horror, decapitation
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