[Meme] first lines of imaginary sequels

[edenfalling]

Found via askerian:

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]]

Comments

Re: Go on, guess the crossover :-)

[edenfalling]

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. :-)

Re: Go on, guess the crossover :-)

[askerian]

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

Re: Go on, guess the crossover :-)

[edenfalling]

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.