AU challenge prompt table!
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au_challenge! I'm not 100% sure I'm going to do anything very much with it - I find with AUs I tend to either have a teeny idea I'll wring the juice out of in half a page, or it's some horrendous sprawling monster that needs more attention than it's worth. But I very much enjoy thinking the thoughts. I've swapped out several I didn't want to touch, and subbed in some others that grabbed me.
Initial thoughts:
- Magic AU is absolutely RoL-verse, I just don't know how yet.
- 17th century AU is English civil war, Biggles & Co are the world's most reluctant roundheads, Bertie just wants to go to parties and wear lace and Algy really hates Cromwell, but Parliament are so clearly *right* they have to support it; while von Stalhein is the world's most protestant Cavalier, he came over with Prince Rupert of the Rhine and really really hates this.
- I don't know what anyone else means by Religious AU, but I absolutely jumped to 'they're all lay clerks in a cathedral choir and they have some sort of endless simmering feud with von Stalhein the sacristan'.
- Musician AU: Biggles & co are a world-famous string quartet touring behind the Iron Curtain to improve international relations when Biggles decides they absolutely have to help vS (the pianist they have been performing quintets with) to defect. Algy (cello) is absolutely livid.
- Mirrorverse: something something WWI didn't happen and the great powers are still playing out their power struggle all over their dominions, now von Stalhein is covertly supporting the early independence movement in India with German money and Biggles is something vital in the colonial service. I would absolutely be doing this just so vS can lay a 'have you ever considered you may be on the wrong side?' on Biggles at some point.
- Time Travel AU: That One Where The Nazis Develop Time Travel And Von Stalhein (Pursued By Biggles) Travels Back To WWI To Stop Tiny!Biggles Screwing Up His Palestine Campaign, Thus Ensuring Germany Wins WWI. Featuring the revelation that von Stalhein is doing this because he believes that if Germany wins WWI there won't be a WWII, and that's got to be a net gain, don't you agree, Bigglesworth? Also featuring older!vS and older!Biggles being horrified over their tiny former selves and possibly finding out all the stuff that the other got up to in 'Flies East' for the first time. Von Stalhein finds out Biggles spent 50% of his time traumatised and sobbing in his quarters. Biggles finds out that von Stalhein literally never slept. It's a learning curve for them both.
so yeah. Not sure I'm going to actually write any or all of those. But golly it's fun imagining.
au_challenge! I'm not 100% sure I'm going to do anything very much with it - I find with AUs I tend to either have a teeny idea I'll wring the juice out of in half a page, or it's some horrendous sprawling monster that needs more attention than it's worth. But I very much enjoy thinking the thoughts. I've swapped out several I didn't want to touch, and subbed in some others that grabbed me.| Futuristic AU | Magic AU | 17th Century AU | Ancient History AU | Religious AU |
| Musician AU | Vampire AU | Roommates AU | Mirrorverse AU | Different Powers AU |
| Bookshop AU | Thief AU | Free Space | Office AU | Medieval AU |
| Restaurant AU | Zombie AU | Time Travel AU | Rom-Com AU | Ghost AU |
| Crime AU | Dark Academia AU | Steampunk AU | 20th Century AU | Canon Fusion (Movie) AU |
Initial thoughts:
- Magic AU is absolutely RoL-verse, I just don't know how yet.
- 17th century AU is English civil war, Biggles & Co are the world's most reluctant roundheads, Bertie just wants to go to parties and wear lace and Algy really hates Cromwell, but Parliament are so clearly *right* they have to support it; while von Stalhein is the world's most protestant Cavalier, he came over with Prince Rupert of the Rhine and really really hates this.
- I don't know what anyone else means by Religious AU, but I absolutely jumped to 'they're all lay clerks in a cathedral choir and they have some sort of endless simmering feud with von Stalhein the sacristan'.
- Musician AU: Biggles & co are a world-famous string quartet touring behind the Iron Curtain to improve international relations when Biggles decides they absolutely have to help vS (the pianist they have been performing quintets with) to defect. Algy (cello) is absolutely livid.
- Mirrorverse: something something WWI didn't happen and the great powers are still playing out their power struggle all over their dominions, now von Stalhein is covertly supporting the early independence movement in India with German money and Biggles is something vital in the colonial service. I would absolutely be doing this just so vS can lay a 'have you ever considered you may be on the wrong side?' on Biggles at some point.
- Time Travel AU: That One Where The Nazis Develop Time Travel And Von Stalhein (Pursued By Biggles) Travels Back To WWI To Stop Tiny!Biggles Screwing Up His Palestine Campaign, Thus Ensuring Germany Wins WWI. Featuring the revelation that von Stalhein is doing this because he believes that if Germany wins WWI there won't be a WWII, and that's got to be a net gain, don't you agree, Bigglesworth? Also featuring older!vS and older!Biggles being horrified over their tiny former selves and possibly finding out all the stuff that the other got up to in 'Flies East' for the first time. Von Stalhein finds out Biggles spent 50% of his time traumatised and sobbing in his quarters. Biggles finds out that von Stalhein literally never slept. It's a learning curve for them both.
so yeah. Not sure I'm going to actually write any or all of those. But golly it's fun imagining.
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Date: 2024-08-30 04:35 pm (UTC)YES EXACTLY. I did wonder if Raymond was the director of music and Biggles was the organist (honestly I cannot imagine Biggles as anything but tone deaf when he tries to sing, so I cannot in all conscience put him in the choir), but I think Biggles would be an absolutely dynamite conductor, so I think probably Raymond as organist.
Bertie is clearly an amazing countertenor. Every single countertenor I have ever sung with is basically Bertie. They have all been six foot tall, extremely posh and faintly apologetic.
Haven't decided yet about Algy and Ginger (except Ginger came up as a chorister and has somehow managed never to leave even though he's a second bass now). Von Stalhein has an amazing voice but absolutely refuses to dep with them. Biggles is determined to win him over.
no I refuse to get invested in this.
EvS finding tiny Algy incredibly adorable would be a hilarious and inevitable outcome of this.
YES. Older!von Stalhein is going to spend approx 60% of his time being horrified that there are these BASICALLY CHILDREN apparently being the best agents in British Military Intelligence and wondering what on earth Raymond thought he was doing. Hanging out in the mess in Kantara watching Algy with horrified fascination thinking 'YOUR VOICE HAS BARELY BROKEN HOW DID ANYONE EVEN LET YOU JOIN UP'.
Tbh somewhere around In Australia I feel like EvS could have asked Biggles if he was sure he was on the right side...
You Know, You Are Not Wrong There.
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Date: 2024-08-30 08:43 pm (UTC)EvS has Views about all of Biggles's conducting choices, and Raymond's playing...