#needs more thought

[rhyslahey]

OK, OK. More Classicist-Teen Wolf brain rot:

Lydia as Antigone. Peter as Creon. Scott and Stiles as Polynices and Eteocles. Deaton or Derek as Koryphaios. Maybe Deaton as Tiresias.

[i-make-fun-of-spn-characters]

I love the office references in your posts! They’re perfect and make me grin every time!

Thank you!

Ahem... Btw:

Chuck = Michael

Sam = Oscar

Dean = Meredith

Castiel = Dwight

Jack = Erin

Death = Toby

Most of the angels = Angela

[leafatlaw]

my dream is that one day I’ll just post a bunch of fic rec lists on here to universal fame and acclaim

[tobacconist]

yan-a-tanjig? tan-a-tanjig?

could work...

30:- dick-a-jig 40:- tan-jigget 50:- dick-a-tanjig 60:- tether-jigget 70:- dick-a-tetherjig 80:- mether-jigget 90:- dick-a-metherjig 100:- kant(?) pip-jigget(?)

[gretchensinister]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

gem omens?

[fiercefray]

i need from dusk till dawn season 4 confirmation already. otherwise i would need to rework things to end it all nicely in three books for my fanfiction...

[uozlulu]

The inspiration:

Juha Bach said that Ishida is his successor (whcih could mean anything)

Ishida's schrift = antithesis = "between two selected targets [he] can completely reverse anything that has already happened"

So plausibly he could switch the physical damage between Juha Bach and Ichigo and then open it up for someone to deal the killing blow.

Potential things that can happen if Juha Bach is killed:

if the killer has Quincy blood, they take Bach's place in Quincy hierarchy, but if they don't have Quincy blood then ??? Do all Quincy end? Does the shinigami or fullbringer die with Bach? Does Bach's power go to the most worthy? Does it go to the closest peson with Quincy blood? Or do they go to Ishida because Bach named Ishida his successor?

Juha Bach becomes the Soul King and must follow the laws of the univeerse. Maybe the Soul King is like the key to a computer programa rather than an autonomous diety.

If this fic is structured as an explorations of some of the futures that Bach has scene, here are some options (or one could be extremely expanded and be the only exploration):

Ishida arrives after defeating Jugram, runs into a well placed trapped and is near death. He switches his state and Bach's state. Ichigo is uanble to do anything due to current injuries so Ishida must finish Bach off. When Ishida does this things can go numerout ways:

Bach dies transfering both Soul King and Quincy powers to Ishida, who must now become the Soul King to fill the void.

Ishida's attack separates the Quincy and Soul King powers. Once Ishida gains the enhanced Quincy powers from Bach, Bach becomes Soul King and is trapped a bit like Jafar in Aladdin (1992)

Bach dies and his powers transfer to Ichigo who is in closer proximity, so either Ichigo becomes Soul King or the Quincy to end all Quincies. Howeer, since Ichigo is part Hollow, it's possible that the Hollow might nullify the Quincy power and thus he just becomes Soul King or the Quincy powers kill the Hollow in Ichigo and maybe eliminate his Shinigami powers or enhance them.

Ishida has begun to show the potential to see the future in bits and pieces since he's not just Bach's chosen successor but his rightful successor. He evades the trap and switches Ichigo and Bach's wound states, which leads to:

Ichigo deals the killing blow, which of course could lead to Quincy powers transfering to Ichigo because he killed Bach or transfering to Ishida because he's the chosen successor.

Could also lead to Ichigo nullifying Bach's Quincy power, which then brings into question if that would nullify all Quincy or perhaps inadvertantly kill all Quincy? Ichigo would become the Soul King, however, because the Soul King power is also in play here. This might be the more horrific for Ichigo ending considering not only would he become responsible for the deaths of hundreds of people, family and friends would be part of the body count.

Could also lead to similar situations described in the previous opening scenario like Ishida succeeds Bach and Bach becomes Soul King.

Some other things to consider:

Who would replace the Zero Division?

What about Orihime?

What about Sado, Renji, and Rukia?

What are the trash dads squad up to? Like what if there's a legend about what happens when Bach dies and so Ryuuken makes it there in time to face the consequences so Ishida doesn't have to? Like what if Ryuuken becomes Soul King and Ishida succeeds Bach beacuse the Quincy have to have someone in that position to survive?

Clearly this is going to be some kind of dark and angsty, the real question is do I want a long fic made up of all the possiblities or commit to one possiblity and go for it?

Which possiblity would even be the best to explore if I only had to pick one?

[corinthreean]

Do you have your own rough outline about Thomas as the lost heir? Like how did it happen, why it's never mentioned and how many people know that Mary had a twin brother. You're good at this and I would love to read your take on it! Not an actual fic or something, but one little post with a general outline of this. Please?

WELL! It’s really an AU - obviously, canon Thomas is not the lost heir, or we’d know about it by now. It would be one hell of a twist to waste, lmao. 

But in this AU, these are my basic thoughts, pretty much off the top of my head as I type this:

Firstly idk if he’s really Mary’s twin? That would stretch belief a little. It would be hard to hide from Cora that she gave birth to two babies, lmao, unless Mary isn’t hers and she knows it and adopts her but not the male heir because she wants her own son, and won’t have his inheritance threatened - but that doesn’t seem very Cora, does it? 

So, no, not her actual twin. But Cora and Thomas’s mother were pregnant at the same time, and they were born close together - Thomas the unacknowledged bastard above a clock shop, Mary in the lap of privilege, Robert aware of both. It’s all very Dickens. 

He was probably conceived when Robert was a dashing young soldier in training. A few months later he receives a letter from his mother telling him she and her new husband need a place to live and pulls a little Thomas-stylin blackmail to get the money for them to settle down above a clock shop. 

Thomas’s childhood is not ridiculously awful, but his father is not kind to him, and favours his siblings, despite that he is the first-born - and he makes the leap early on, as a young teen, to guessing that it’s more than just him being different, that he can’t be his real son; they don’t look very alike, he’s much taller than his siblings, his hair is that particular jet black that nobody in his family shares. 

Then finally, his mother tells him whose son he is, and it’s like he’s been cheated and vindicated all at once. He’s always had ‘airs and graces’ and dreamt of better things and known he was worth more and it’s like this proves it. He is worth more, he’s got blue blood. 

He leaves home. He works as a hallboy, for a while, and in the meantime, he writes to Robert twice but gets no response. And then he sees an ad, in the paper, for a Footman at Downton Abbey. And in typical cocky young!Thomas style, he decides to just… insert himself into his real father’s life, where he can’t ignore him. 

AND then, there he is, standing at the dining table, being introduced as their new footman, and Robert absolutely recognises him before Carson even says his name. It would be impossible not to - he and Mary have the same skin, the same eyes, the same hair. 

I don’t really know why no blackmail actually occurs, I haven’t thought it through, I kind of want to jump ahead to the bittersweetness of the both of them just being used to living as they do - Thomas is never going to chase after Daddy’s approval like a schoolboy, so he doesn’t bring it up, even when he valets for him. Robert is certainly never going to bring it up, though he finds - he finds himself keeping an eye out, from time to time. Just keeping him out of harm’s way, like at the cricket match. Encouraging second chances from Carson in as subtle a way as he can.

In a servant and master way, they even kind of get along. 

Better than he did with his step-father, anyway.

And then he pulls that stunt at Brancaster.