edenfalling | [Meme] first lines of imaginary sequels

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Pick one of my stories and I will tell you the first line (ETA: okay, the first few paragraphs, on the theory that context is more interesting than concision) of its sequel. Even if I was never actually planning to write a sequel. Even if it already has a sequel -- I'll give you the first line of another version of its sequel!

Do not ask me about "Strange Likenesses," because I don't yet know how that will end (basically, there is the wildly unlikely happy ending, several variants of the rather likely inconclusive ending, and the semi-likely 'rocks fall, everyone dies' ending). Everything else is fair game.

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Sequel snippets written so far:

for The Way of the Apartment Manager (So how did Naruto wind up friends with Sakura by the start of "Guardian"? I will probably continue this at some point.)

for Lemonade (Thus proving that I do so know where the story's going.)

for Endurance (This one turned into an actual fic, 900 words long. *headdesk* I am not sure how 'canon' this sequel is, though, as I'd left "Endurance" inconclusive for a reason.)

for New Horizons (ie, the story in which Ginny, Harry, and Draco have a post-DH-epilogue threesome in Greece. Naturally there are repercussions. *grin*)

for The Two Secretive Princesses (925 words on Toph and Mai during Ozai's invasion of Toure-on-Marsh. Rather dark.)
---[[or the more canonical version, which includes fewer deaths and more mentions of Aunt Ermintrude]]

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Lemonade!

It was great that Slayers had an equal voice in Council policy these days, but Faith could seriously do without the quarterly meetings. She didn't care about statistics and spells and negotiations with governments and their spaghetti-tangle of committees and operations, and Mother of God, would Willow just get to the point already?

Across the table, B's eyes were glazing over. Faith felt perfectly justified drawing her knife and starting to pare her fingernails. Yeah, it was rude, but when it came to cutting off a torrent of Willow-babble, the ends totally justified the means.

"Willow. The data is, I'm sure, fascinating, but if you would skip to the conclusion, please?" said Giles. Faith could have kissed him.

"The point. Oh. Right." Willow tidied her papers and clicked through several PowerPoint slides, looking flustered. "Well, the point is that the demon population numbers in New York City don't make sense. They're too low, even with the five Slayers we have in Brooklyn. And word from the demon bars is that there's a new assassin in town, who turned down an offer from the Order of Taraka and then killed the three operatives sent against her."

Faith blinked. Okay, for this, the meeting was almost worthwhile. "Do we know anything about this person? Name, species, prefered weapons? Do we even know she's an assassin, not just a freelance hunter?"

Willow shrugged. "We know she's female; apparently she doesn't hide that. Probably human, but that's less certain. She calls herself the Dagger of Jericho or something like that, and she's been taking most of her contracts from Wolfram and Hart, but Lorne and I don't think she actually works for them, just that they pay best, or maybe they have access to something she wants." She bit her lip, fingers drumming nervously on the edge of her laptop.

"And?" said B, sitting up and giving Willow an encouraging look. "Come on, Wills, what did you do?"

Willow flushed guiltily. "Well, I know I shouldn't go poking around anything tied to the Circle of the Black Thorn without backup, but I've been trying to keep security tighter since that thing last year with the Sarguls, and I did a scrying spell, and I think this Jericho Dagger person might not be from our world."

Faith dropped her knife, her hand curling around the black portal stone she always wore around her neck. "Do you think...?"

"Yeah," said Willow, nodding. "I think she's the Sarguls' first assassin. And I think she wants to go home."

Oh! You write Buffy/Angel fic! I haven't read a pure Buffy story in years but this sounds promising... even if you're not actually writing this. :-)

I don't write BtVS as a regular thing, but I have a few fics here, as well as two crossovers: Locked Room Problems, in which Giles and Indiana Jones are trapped in the lost temple of a demonic fertility goddess, and Lemonade, in which Faith, Duo Maxwell (of Gundam Wing), and Uchiha Sasuke (of Naruto) are summoned to a hell dimension by a malfunctioning portal spell and must work together to get home.

The crossovers are basically crack premises which I treated -- or am in the process of treating -- as if they were dead serious, mostly because it's more fun for me that way. :-)

Even if it's not a regular thing, this snippet above looks very good. I used to write BtVS a long, LONG time ago but not anymore... the last four seasons were uninspiring to me.

Faith and Sasuke... I could see them sharing things in common. (I also stopped watching Naruto though currently, I'm still keeping up with the manga.) I may have to check out some of your other stories (other than Narnia, I mean) when I have more time on my hands.

And howdy from downstate, neighbor! (I'm from NYC.)

"Lemonade" actually started because I did a crack pairings meme where one of the questions was whether Sasuke/Faith or Sasuke/Duo would work better. And I hemmed and hawed and ended up proclaiming (mostly as a joke) that they should have a threesome. And then a plotbunny attacked. *wry* This is why jokes are dangerous.

Ah, you're from the city? Which borough?

I'm a Brooklyn girl through and through. :-) Raised here since I was little and am still here today.

Umm, I don't really recognize it, but I'll go out on a limb and say... Jericho? am embarrassed at my lack of pop culture knowledge these days, since I rarely watch TV anymore

But this is awesome- the original "No, honest! It was a JOKE, except it sprouted a PLOT, and now I can't make it STOP" behind "Lemonade" could just keep on expanding exponentially! I can see it gobbling up more and more fandoms as it goes!

Nah, Willow is just guessing Jericho because she doesn't recognize the real word (nor do her informants). The assassin's proper title is "the Dagger of the Jhereg."

Her name is Cawti, and she is from Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series. This fic, should I ever get around to writing it, would be set before Cawti meets Vlad, while she and her partner Norathar (the Sword of the Jhereg) are still working as one of the most skilled assassin teams in the Organization -- which is the business (ie, criminal) arm of the House of Jhereg in the Dragaeran Empire. I picked her because while she is an assassin, Cawti also has a strong sense of justice (she later becomes a proletarian revolutionary, among other things), and she takes a dim view of non-humans killing humans. Also, I think the treatment of gods and multiple dimension in Dragaera would play very interestingly off the treatment of gods and multiple dimensions in BtVS/A:tS. :-)

Oh man, I want you to complete Lemonade and write that sequel SO BADLY right now.

It needs an actual plot, but I do badly want to see Cawti interact with the Slayers, and to see the Dragaeran gods have an epic pissing match with the Powers That Be and/or the Senior Partners of Wolfram and Hart.

[Meme] first lines of imaginary sequels

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