[Meme] random fandom genre or temporal AU summaries

[edenfalling]

Found via hungrytiger11 and selenak:

Take any one of the fandoms you know I write/rec/read AND give me a type of AU (space opera AU, pirate AU, superhero AU, etc) OR another time period (Ancient Rome, Regency England, etc). I will then explain the gist of the story I would write for that AU.

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[edenfalling]

Iiiiiinteresting. *ponders* Okay, you know what? Just for fun, I am going to do Regency England WITH DRAGONS (i.e., Temeraire) instead of plain old Regency England.

So Hinata is the young captain of a Longwing named Sakura, Naruto is Sasuke's dragon, and they are in England because they were from French aristocratic families and had to flee the Revolution. Itachi betrayed the Uchiha family to the Terror, because secretly they were going to sell out several other fleeing families, and has ended up as a scout in Napoleon's advance forces, secretly gathering information to pass on to England. Madara is working for Napoleon as his evil spymaster.

The Konoha adults run the covert at... some random place in England or Wales... and away we go from there. :-)

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On a less cracked out note, perhaps Sakura is a rebellious young lady in a minor village, Hinata is her more demure friend, and Naruto and Sasuke are soldiers in a regiment briefly stationed nearby. This ends with Sakura disguising herself as a boy and running off to join the army, plus hijinks in... hmmm... the Peninsular War in Spain. Which I would need to read the Sharpe novels to do anything more detailed about.

And I have no idea why people with Japanese names are in England at that time, but whatever.

[hungrytiger11.livejournal.com]

I have no idea why people with Japanese names would be in England either but adore the idea of this dragon business and Itachi acting as a n English spy.

[edenfalling]

Have you read Naomi Novik's Temeraire series? It's basically the Napoleonic Wars WITH DRAGONS, and it's incredibly fun, especially because Novik doesn't forget that there is a world outside Europe and that other countries would also be made different by the presence of intelligent dragons.