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 04:48 pm (UTC)Ahahaha, okay, I'll make a note of that :D I'm pretty sure I'm not qualified to write it but I do very much enjoy the idea...
I tend to have unhelpfully particular preferences when it comes to AUs. I don't often go for major setting changes unless they've got a helpful hook that I can relate really closely to the canon set up (so for Biggles characters I'd really want to give them a war-time background, ties to empire, etc etc); but I am an absolute sucker for canon-divergent AUs (so more parallel universe than AU, I guess.) I'm idly batting around another idea triggered by that line in 'Flies Again' where Algy says that if Biggles lived in South America he'd have half a dozen different revolutions running at the same time, which just - but what if. What if Biggles' father got posted to the embassy in some small fictional South American state instead of to India. What if Biggles grew up there. What if he got really angry about halfway through the 1920s because he kept seeing one corrupt incompetent dictatorship being toppled by another corrupt incompetent dictatorship. What if he decided to Do Something About It. What if von Stalhein got a job there to reform the security service for the new President. What if he had to track down this political dissident. What if there was lots of pushing each other against walls and Biggles having to get vS out of trouble when the revolution breaks. WHAT IF.
etc etc etc.