[Meme] Writer in the Attic

[edenfalling]

I probably should not open cans of worms, but...

Out of utter curiosity, if I was chained up in your attic, and I had to write you one story, what would you request? Or alternatively, what's something you always hoped I'd write but know is never going to happen?

(Found via askerian and joisbishmyoga)

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[askerian]

Moar Team Seven Adventures in some faraway ninja place that you get to worldbuild in shiny awesome ways! I'd love some more "capturing Sasuke for his own good and dragging him away". *_*

[edenfalling]

Hmmm... *ponders*

[lurker-lost.livejournal.com]

Princess Tutu. Somehow, I just think your style of writing would be AMAAAZINGLY well suited to that canon, especially with all your world-building and careful focus on themes -- nrgh.

Or possibly any kind of crazy crossover, because you just seem to be able to pull those off beeter than anyone has any right to XDD

[edenfalling]

From what I have learned about Princess Tutu through fannish osmosis, I think it would be right up my alley -- aside, perhaps, from the animation quality. *wry* I keep meaning to try watching it one of these days...

Crossovers have slowly become something of my guilty pleasure as a writer, because they're so fundamentally silly, and yet constructing them so they seem to make sense and play out logically is such fun. *stomps firmly on baby plot bunnies*

[lurker-lost.livejournal.com]

Princess Tutu's animation quality isn't actually that bad -- it's the art that most people have a problem with. The show at the time was deliberately made to look a little dated, it was supposed to look kinda oldschool shoujo. Now of course it actually IS dated, and most people take just one look at it and assume all sorts of things about it based on the fact that the character designs have HUGE eyes, the main (or so we think!) male character looks like a girl, and everyone's in ballet clothes (including me, actually XDD).

But chances are, if you start watching it, you'll like it. The characters are just that endearing <3

All I want to say on the topic of your crossovers is ENABLED. =DD

PS: Do I need to have any knowledge of Anita Blake's books to enjoy Weregild? I haven't got around to reading it yet because I don't have time for a multichap at the moment, but I know exactly NOTHING about Anita Blake's stories. Of course I'll probably end up reading Weregild anyway at some point, and I'll find out then, so maybe this question is sort of redundant ^^;;

[edenfalling]

I should see if Princess Tutu is on Netflix, in that case!

As for "Weregild" -- I am using the Anitaverse more for the setting and for background and secondary characters, and I am ignoring at least half the series (as far as I am concerned, the first nine books are frustrating but entertaining, but books ten and onward should never have been written) so you definitely don't need any detailed knowledge. My main characters are all from Inception, and the plot is kinda-sorta a variation on the movie. The same general character alignments are in place, though the details are obviously very different, since the people are now vampires and lycanthropes and so on instead of dream thieves.

I think if you have the following information, the rest should sort itself out as you read: Vampires, shapeshifters (who are all called lycanthropes whatever animal they shift into), and people with various magical and/or psychic powers have existed for all of human history. Vampires were recently legalized in America, via a court case that defined them as people instead of corpses or monsters; they still can't vote, though. A master vampire wakes each sunset under his or her own power, can bond a human servant, and can often call a specific animal (and the lycanthropes of that type). Lycanthropes nominally have equal rights, but in practice, if you're "outed" as a shifter, you'll lose your job, your friends, etc. Animators raise zombies; necromancers are super-animators who have power over all the dead.

Anita is a necromancer who lives and works in St. Louis. She is also a licensed vampire executioner (meaning she can hunt down rogue vampires if given a court order) and she consults for the local police on weird cases. The two men in her life are Jean-Claude, the vampire who is kinda-sorta nominally in charge of the preternatural community in St. Louis, and Richard Zeeman, a werewolf who heads the local pack. The three of them are bound in a power-sharing arrangment called a triumvirate, but their personal relationships are an unholy mess.

Also, the vampires are governed by a council of the oldest, most powerful, and scariest among them. One Council member -- the Earthmover -- died in book three. His seat is still vacant at the end of book nine.