I’ve been thinking about your Sheena/ Gray swap au, and I’ve been wondering
What are the parallels/ equivalents to both the coffee shop scene in Sydney and the crackle goes kiwi caper?
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For the coffee shop I don’t think much has to change! I had a couple ideas written down from a while ago:
Relatively mundane places for her to hang out yk.
For the equivalent of the Crackle Goes Kiwi Caper, it would have to be a whole new caper for Sheena! The Kiwi caper is written to be specific for Gray so she’d get the same treatment with her own caper.
(The Kiwi caper could still happen (Since Gray would be part of the operative roster) It’s just separate from Sheena’s story. And Gray is on VILE’s side ofc.)
To make it specific I’d need to know Sheena’s job- I’m not sure what her job would be. Compared to Gray who’s V.I.L.E. role is literally just “an electrician but evil” HIS JOB IS SUPER EASY TO FIGURE OUT- Tigress is uhhhh a cat (that’s not a job unfortunately) and mean (she could be a nurse?? /j).
She mentions liking jewelry which is where I’ve seen ‘something in fashion?’ be suggested as a job from, which is better than nothing but I’m not entirely sure if I like it. It’s what I’m running with but yeah,,, it sucks that her V.I.L.E. role doesn’t have a real life job counterpart BUT I think it makes things feel weirder and more out of place (which is a good thing!)
She’s normal and thats sososo weird because Carmen can’t imagine her being anything but ‘Tigress’!! As opposed to Gray whom she learnt the backstory of, since they were actually friends in the academy- she can imagine Gray living a normal life but I assume Carmen never really learnt much about what Sheena was doing before-hand. “I like shoplifting” isn’t a life story Sheena.
It makes the brainwashing more sinister to me, no matter what Sheena’s doing it feels out of character and I guess that’s the point since she’s brainwashed, she’s literally not herself!
Since I’m not sold on what Sheena would do for a job idk how the caper would work,,, the only thing that comes to mind is maybe setting it in Türkiye? since they have a big culture around stray cats?? Or if we’re running with fashion as her thing then I guess the ‘most fashionable countries’ would be France and Italy- South Africa comes to mind for fashion as well.
but I’d argue you could set it anywhere there are fashion events everrrrywhere.
ALSO since Sheena & Carmen’s dynamic is a lot more hesitant on Carmen’s side (as opposed to how she is with Gray in canon),
^ This is how they are basically*
Maybe instead of dragging Sheena into this caper Sheena was already there? If it’s fashion for example maybe Sheena is attending the event, here to watch or maybe participating somehow? Again depends what her job is.
And she ends up being involved in the caper out of necessity or accident!
*Carmen does come around to Sheena don’t worry! But there is the underlying sinisterrrrrr-ness about her that freaks her out for a bit. Maybe by the end of Sheena’s caper Carmen would be over that? Hmmmmhmmmhmm.
