January EMP Meme

[enablemeplz]

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Comments

magicians, btvs, mcu — seeking crosscanon and apocalyptic aus

[ourladytrees]

offering —

» Buffy Summers first_summers — Buffy the Vampire Slayer, post-s7
The Chosen One who hangs out a lot in cemeteries and fights things that go bump in the night. 

» Daisy Johnson chuju — Agents of SHIELD / MCU, post-s7
A millennial hacker turned spy turned superhero who has a suitcase full of emotional trauma.  

» Julia Wicker ourladytrees — The Magicians, s3-4 era
A whipsmart NYC magician turned goddess turned ??? who has been through a ton of shit and somehow retained her compassion for others.

seeking for daisy—

» Bruce Wayne, especially the Robert Pattinson version — I absolutely loved the vibe of the new movie and Bruce getting back to his crime-fighting detective roots, so I'd like to drop Daisy into his verse and have her live a 'powerless' vigilante life while searching for a way back home. (Open to other Bruces too, though!)
» The Walking Dead characters, non-villains only. As mentioned below, apocalyptic things are some of my favorites, and it would be so easy to combine the worlds and have most of the heroes wiped out while failing to save humanity. Daisy already carries a lot of guilt for letting people down at other times, so why not go for the real heavy hitter? (To make Daisy less powerful in this setting, she'd be without her protective suit, so the use of her powers would have to be strictly limited else she suffer constant physical injury.) 
» Netflix Marvel street heroes, particularly Matt Murdock, Jessica Jones, and Frank Castle. Daisy grew up in NYC in the same orphanage Matt stayed at, so there's a little connection there, but I'm especially interested in bonding over how shit the vigilante job is, and how they'd never give it up either. (Daisy did her time as a vigilante and still does a bit of off-the-books dabbling when the occasion calls for it.)

seeking for julia—

» Lord of the Rings characters, especially from the trilogy or Rings of Power. I've recently become enamored with the idea of tossing Julia into Middle-Earth since other worlds are canon in The Magicians.
» Negan Smith from The Walking Dead, later seasons post-imprisonment. Julia is the one of my ladies who would understand how a person can do such horrible things and then try to make a new life for themselves after they've changed for the better. I'd just really like to explore that dynamic a bit.
» MCU folks, either magically-inclined or interested in those who are magically inclined and especially those who have been through a bit of a villain arc like Julia herself. Of particular note: Loki (show era) would be intriguing because he's a "god" and thus Julia will have some Opinions about him while acknowledging he's not the same kind of god as the assholes she's dealt with, and Bucky Barnes would understand better than most what it feels like to carry the pain of what you've done and trying to make amends.

seeking for buffy—

» Dean Winchester or Castiel from Supernatural for platonic or shipping things, and Sam Winchester for strictly platonic things. (Please someone let her big sister at the moose.) These canons and characters just work so well together and crossovers like these are the stuff RP dreams are made of.

seeking in general—

» Someone to weather the apocalypse with. These ladies are heroes and survivors who will do what it takes to protect others, even (sometimes especially) at their own expense. They're take-charge types but they'll possibly follow someone who is doing the Right Thing; antagonists need not apply unless they've turned hero. Apocalypse vibes to the tune of zombies, alien invasions, nuclear war, weird Death Stranding-esque conditions... Just about any flavor will work for a Suddenly Everything is Awful AU. Whether characters know what caused it or not, I love how these types of settings force people to confront the best and worst of themselves, and the bonds that can develop between people as everyday survival becomes a struggle.

notes —

» Rather than typing out an entire novel here, I've put together a sort of RP Resume to lay out everything a potential writing partner might want to know about me. Preferences, samples of my writing, a history of games I've been in...  
» To contact, comment here or send a PM to any journal!

[worthallthis]

Okay I dearly love apocalypse scenarios actually... and I very much enjoyed Daisy in AoS. I'm familiar with Buffy in as much as I've seen the first season, and I'm completely unfamiliar with Julia, but I am game for new CR if you think it'd fit.

I could offer you a Bucky, a Moon Knight, or a Jack Russel from Werewolf By Night. I'm good for long-term plotty PSLs if the characters and writing click, I've got a handful going right now.

Also thank god, you also prefer fade to black, per your resume page? That's one thing I always fear people will hang up on with me, I also prefer fade to black XD

[chuju]

It's so nice to see that other people have the good taste to love apocalypse scenarios too! (And yes, fade to black all for the win!)

You have such a good assortment of characters in that list. I'm especially intrigued by Moon Knight since I haven't gotten to do much with him yet.

[fightingevilbymoonknight]

Happy to oblige with my boys here :3 Gimme a lady you'd most like to play, and I can set something up if you like! What kind of apocalypse are you most itching for? Zombies, aliens, asteroid crash, freak ice ace like in Day After Tomorrow? Take your pick, or I can surprise you.

[chuju]

Hmm... I think Daisy wins this round, and it would be great if you could set something up! I'll go with surprise me for apocalypse flavor because all of those sound good.

[skeine]

I know our other PSL wound down but I loved writing and boomeranging with you, and I felt like we had some great synchronicity with how we approached character development! Plus "Everything Bad" is definitely my jam for AU. If anyone on my roster strikes your fancy, I'd be up for another try at it?

[chuju]

I've been thinking of you and our writing adventures lately and really missing both, so thank you for saying something! I would absolutely love to do a thing, of the Everything Is Awful variety or otherwise.

Since when do you have someone from Marvel?? I've been itching for a Loki for a few different possibilities.

[skeine]

Oh yay! ☺️ That makes me happy to hear. I've also really missed them.

I've sort of always had a low-level Loki muse (lbr he's exactly my type of character) but I've admittedly only ever done meme threads with him and I usually play him from quite early on (usually post-Avengers) because I was never super thrilled with Ragnarok-era development on either him or Thor. I've watched the Loki series (although I'd want to rewatch it first if I decided to play him from that) but that's why I didn't offer him straightaway to your ad. But hit me with some ideas you've been itching for and we'll see what clicks?

[chuju]

One thing I've been really hoping for with a Loki is Daisy getting to meet the asshole who killed Phil Coulson. I haven't approached anyone for it before because I'd want to write it with someone I knew and trusted to handle it well, which you would definitely qualify as, if you were interested. I don't know how much you know about Daisy and Agents of SHIELD, but Coulson becomes Daisy's surrogate father, so she would have a lot of opinions and probably punches for our favorite Trickster.

I'm not a fan of the Ragnarok-era either, fwiw. So post-Avengers or series era is a-okay by me.

[skeine]

Ooooh that'd be an intense setup!! I'd absolutely be up for tackling that. Were you still thinking something along the apocalypse AU (might be a good impetus to force them together, "we have to survive/BUT WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE YOU??") or something more in line with actual MCU? I watched the first... two? Three? Seasons of AoS and know some of the major beats from later on but I can get caught up by wiki.

I'm definitely more confident in writing him earlier era so let's go that way 👍

[chuju]

An intense but delicious setup! You make a good point about Apocalypse AU forcing them together so Daisy can't just pull a Hulk and beat him to a pulp. And then we can squish some timelines around — I pull Daisy from post-AoS because she goes through some amazing development in those later seasons, but time travel and alternate timelines are a Thing, so we can make it work!

[skeine]

Works for me! (But I hope she does kick his ass regardless of setup!)

Where's a good spot to hash out some further details? Plurk, discord, PM?

[chuju]

(Oh, there will absolutely be some ass-kicking. He deserves it!)

Discord's probably the most reliable for me! I'm at taintedcrimson#0896

[bialy_wilk]

I know we've already got plenty going on, but... I don't have a Dean, but I can offer a Wynonna Earp, who is a similar kind of character! Also Sookie Stackhouse, which might be an interesting mix for Buffy.

My only MCU is Sharon Carter, who is currently undergoing a villain era that I don't love, but am willing to play with in the context of similar comics canon for her.

[ourladytrees]

You have such good taste in characters, wtf. I guess we're going to have to add a few more things to our list. Also, I saw in your own post that you have characters from The Expanse?? You've been holding out on me!

[bialy_wilk]

You know how it is, you wanna woo a potential writing partner first before dumping ALL THE CHARACTERS on them first!

But

like

let's talk Expanse

[ourladytrees]

Well, the wooing has been successful, so gimme.

Real talk: I don't have any Expanse characters myself, but I freaking love Bobbie Draper. (Holden's okay too, but he's no Martian Marine.) I haven't read the books yet, only watched the show, and I haven't finished it yet because life got away from me. But! I'm actively working on fixing that little problem.

I'm sending you a plurk friend request because you're not getting rid of me.

[bialy_wilk]

Yes, good.

Also, I mean, Jim is great, but Bobbie is Bobbie. How do you get better than Bobbie? You don't! And she's even better in the books! So if there's anyone you want to pit against her, I am here for you. And that.