AU Writing Meme

[thisbluespirit]

Summer's over, so is my BNA subscription, so let's try a meme!

As ever with these things, anything goes from anything I know - character(s)/pairings all fine. (Not any of the characters from last time, though: Dw - Liz Shaw, Nine & Rose, Leela, Six & Evelyn, Jamie & Zoe, River Song & Romana II, The Master; Other - Justin Alastair, Harry Pearce/Ruth Evershed, Adam & Georgie, Miss Annersley & Miss Wilson, Roderick Alleyn.)

Give me a character/pairing and I will write snippets of ten different alternate universes for it. One line, ten lines, a ficlet if you're lucky.

Wild West
Coffee Shop
Shapeshifters
Fantasy/Fairy Tale
. . . In SPACE!!
Apocalypse
Schoolfic
Police/Firefighters/Medical*
Supernatural
Regency

(I tried to mix it up with some slightly different AUs from last time. Whether or not I will regret this soon, only time will tell, but I was getting rather fed up with Born Another Gender last time round.)


* Why should only one of the emergency services be left out?

Comments

[persiflage_1]

Thirteenth Doctor/Martha Jones; Liv Chenka; The War Doctor.

[justice_turtle]

Donna Noble, or have you done her in a previous round of this?

[john_amend_all]

Five &/ Tegan &/ Nyssa?

(oh, and re emergency services: No coastguards?)

[sovay]

Give me a character/pairing and I will write snippets of ten different alternate universes for it. One line, ten lines, a ficlet if you're lucky.

Poul/Leela. (Look, I was really charmed.)

[thisbluespirit]

Thansk! And aww! Unfortunately, I did Leela last time - I can do Poul, or I could do someone else? Leela is just Leela wherever you put her, I'm not sure even with Poul, I could come up with something very different for her! (Non-Doctor Who people are fine; in fact Doctor Who is the hardest to AU anyway!)

[thisbluespirit]

You don't get them on 999, or at least you didn't the one time I called, and I live by the sea! ;-p

You can add coastguards and mountain rescue if you like, if you do it, however.

I shall attempt some mix of the above, anyway, with or without coastguards. (I don't think I've seen many coastguard AUs...)

[sovay]

Unfortunately, I did Leela last time - I can do Poul, or I could do someone else?

Sorry about that: I am exhausted and glitched reading. Poul anywhere works for me, with anyone you think his company would suit if appropriate.

[john_amend_all]

Googling '999 coastguard' suggests that you do.

And if Adam and Georgie hadn't been ruled out, I think they'd have done very well in a Baywatch AU (though that's lifeguards rather than coastguards). With Adam in an Edwardian bathing costume and wincing at all the girls in bikinis...

[romanajo123]

Sarah Jane Smith :)

[jaxomsride2]

Spock and Cally

[hamsterwoman]

*peers at shared interests list* How about Sam Vimes?

[thisbluespirit]

I don't actually know Spock well enough to include him - do you want me to just do Cally, or Cally and someone else, or choose again? (B7! I realised looking at last time's results that there was no B7 in it, which is just terrible.)

[jhall1]

Maybe all we Johns think alike, as I too was wondering about the omission of the coastguards, and the first character I thought of was Nyssa. :)

[sallymn]

Deva (Blakes 7 :)

[evelyn_b]

Miss Marple?

[liadt]

Have you done Emma Peel?

[john_amend_all]

I nearly suggested her :-)

[romanajo123]

Liv Chenka!! -squees-

[persiflage_1]

😎😍 *squees with you* I ❤ Liv!

[romanajo123]

I got the third Doom Coalition box set a couple days ago (already got 1 & 2) and have been enjoying/ having hazardous amounts of feels over it ever since. Liv rocks. (...Friend? :) )

9x Samuel Vimes AUs

[thisbluespirit]

(Minus the Police/Firefighters/Medical one, as it seemed a tad redundant in the case of the first too, and too hair raising to be contemplated in the case of the third. BUt I did manage the rest, even the other things which you can sort of backform the Watch into. Discworld is already an AU of so many things!)


Wild West

Sheriff Vimes woke to the unfamiliar sounds of a scrubbing brush at work somewhere much too nearby. He risked opening an eye and lifting his head up from the pile of Wanted posters on his desk.* He registered his deputy, Carrot, in the cells, busy with a boat, a bar of soap and a scrubbing brush. He could have sworn the iron bars were gleaming, and through the window, he saw Detritus pass by with a bucket in each hand.

“All right, what’s going on? Has there been some incident I don’t want to know about?”

Carrot paused in his task and leapt up to salute, despite Vimes’s instructions not to Darn Well Do That Again. “Cleaning up the town, as ordered, sir!”


*Some of them might not even have been used as a dartboard by Nobby and Fred.


Coffee Shop

“It can’t be that bad,” said Sybil. “I think it’s a splendid idea – gets the police right out into the community in a positive way.”

Vimes remained uncheered. Vetinari, current head of the Town Council, had said something like that when he proposed the members of the local police station help out at the community café.

“It won’t be positive when Nobby finally manages to poison one of the customers, it’ll be a Public Relations nightmare!”


Shapeshifters

“Wizards,” muttered a rather scrawny seagull with a vile-tempered expression, or rather he would have said it had he not had a beak. “How to make the current watch resources stretch further and increase vigilance, Ha, Bloody, Ha.”

The glossy eagle beside him merely took flight over the city.


Fantasy/Fairy Tale

It must have been round about chapter three: Captain Vimes raced into the room, his underpaid guards close behind, ahead of them only one man with a gleaming sword…


. . . In SPACE!!

First Security Officer Vimes pulled himself off the floor and yet again cursed the day he’d signed on with the Ankh-Morpork, the creakiest old rustbucket of a so-called passenger liner left in the service.

It took him a while longer to register that something particular had woken him and that that something was a distressed female, now looming over him.

“Officer,” she said, without seeming to take in his current condition. “One of my pets has been murdered!”

“Your… pet?”

“Yes – poor little fellow – a most intriguing specimen I picked up last planetfall. Perfectly harmless, but –”


Apocalypse

Vimes watched the boiling lava flood the city below from a ledge on one of a range of mountains that hadn’t been there till yesterday.* What they were suddenly doing there was anyone’s guess, since the wizards had sworn on their very hats it wasn’t them, honest. And since ‘anyone’ now amounted to Vimes and his solitary hooded companion, he was buggered if he knew. Typical, really. They’d only just got the Watch House rebuilt again. With a new dartboard and kettle and everything.

“We could be the only ones left,” he said, to his fellow survivor, trying not to look at the view again.

NO, said his companion, turning to face him. I AM AFRAID NOT.

Vimes froze, his brain gradually catching up with his senses, or at least, whatever part of him that was left working through some similar sort of metaphysical process. “Oh. Right. Bugger that, then. At least I didn’t feel anything. The smoke, I suppose, eh?” He hoped it had been the same for the rest of them, and feared not.


*including the sinister smoking one that had not, it turned out, contained any dragons, despite Sybil’s convictions on the subject, but had nevertheless proved Significant.


Schoolfic

The headmaster surveyed Vimes with a dispassionate air. The boy was, it had to be said, not the most prepossessing member of the Sixth Form, but nevertheless Mr Vetinari was certain of his choice.

“Ah, Vimes,” he said, after a pause perfectly judged to cause unease in even the most troublesome of his pupils. “Congratulations. You’re to be St Ankh’s newest head boy. I trust you will do the school proud.”

The boy’s gaping, horrified expression was, even Mr Vetinari felt, somewhat amusing.


Supernatural

The trouble with these academics was that they just weren’t practical enough, faffing about with a lot of wild garlic and rosaries and prayers and what have you. Vimes let the professor get on with it, but he had a back up plan of his own. The bloody vamp was going to get a shock when it showed up tonight and instead of a fetching young lady in a white nighty, he found a bewigged PC Nobbs in the bed, and Carrot and Colon behind the curtain, ready with an over-sized crossbow loaded with a large and exceptionally pointy wooden stake.

And just in case the damn thing got sneaky, Vimes and Cheery would be down here in the basement with the young lady in question and a vat of holy water. Blood-suckers were the worst. It wasn’t anything personal, it was just that a thousand years’ history as a serial killer equalled a hell of a lot of paper work.


Regency

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the last thing a beleaguered night watchman wants on his patch is a genuine Lady looking for a missing mongrel from her Home for Stray Animals, but, nevertheless, that was what life had decided to throw at Captain Vimes…

[persiflage_1]

The 3rd and 4th boxset are the BEST! Though 3.01 makes me sob every damn time I listen!

Friend certainly though I don't post much here (nor on LJ)

[elen_nare]

Oh, blast it, now I'll have to do it too, you're a terrible influence ;) (I like the new AUs!)

Susan Pevensie?

[thisbluespirit]

Ha, sorry! not sorry

I'm sorry, I don't think I could do Susan - anybody else?

[elen_nare]

Bea and Evie?