Beyond the Roundels

14. A pairing – platonic, romantic or sexual – that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.

I think, as the other question established, I'm pretty open to trying out random ships or combinations to see if they work. (I mean, is that not a good part of the fun of fic? What if, what if, what if...?)

So, I'm not sure I can think of anything in the normal way, but memes, random generators and prompts have thrown up things that have wound up being accidentally great suggestions. Also sometimes some excellently appalling ones while they were at it.

I still have a bunch of suggestions from the 15 Characters Meme I treasure gleefully, and love playing with several generators. There was also an icon meme once, where you sorted your icons alphabetically and then paired them up, which was how Liz Shaw/Silver came to be a thing and sort of took on a life of its own. So, Silver/Liz, now the surprisingly large-for-S&S crossover ship is one that sails on a regular basis, at least in my vicinity. And it's a good ship! I totally recommend exploring the tag (& the platonic edition, too.)

Written for the hc_bingo April Amnesty challenge, using these scary prompts:

heart attack / heart trouble

food poisoning

interrogation

robots / androids / AIs

(And I managed to get three of them in, and maybe even something that might count as the fourth.)

When I asked people for ideas about what crossover to write, Persiflage suggested more Silver/Liz and, so, that was what I wrote:

Heart of the Trouble (2984 words) by lost_spook
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Doctor Who (1963), Sapphire and Steel
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Liz Shaw (Doctor Who)/Silver (S&S)
Characters: Liz Shaw (Doctor Who), Silver (S&S)
Additional Tags: Robots, Community: hc_bingo, Hurt/Comfort, Bruises, Crossover
Summary: Liz finds herself caught in a trap meant to snare an Element...

For the Talking Meme, from persiflage_1: Since you write a lot of Silver/Liz Shaw fic, which other Doctor Who character would you put into an adventure with them?

I'm not entirely sure I have written a lot of Silver/Liz fic, but to my great joy and pleasure I have somehow caused a lot of Silver/Liz fic to be written, which is the best outcome, really.

(Well, actually, I probably have written a lot of Silver/Liz ficlets - 1 make it 4 out of 11, with 4 authors making up the total - but I would like to point out that most of mine were prompted by Pers, so I'm not sure which of us is mostly to blame for that.* ;-p OTOH, I think all of the others were written for me, so...)

Anyway, Liz/Silver was an accidental pairing that came up in a meme where you sorted your icons and paired them off, with fairly entertaining and improbable results, and then next thing you knew john_amend_all had written a ficlet, and then so had I... and then people were giving me Silver/Liz in fandom_stocking and the ship is a thing. \o/


I'm unsure how to answer this question, because this is me. I would put any DW character I felt capable of writing in a fic with Silver and Liz, so narrowing it down is hard!

Three or the Brig would be natural, given Liz's era and both would probably have a lot less patience for Silver than Liz does (in the fic; she is scientifically interested in him, he is a curious part of the universe that naturally she would like to explore), so that would be fun. (I feel Three, finding an Element, would be rather like a human discovering an unexpected rat or something. It'd be at least five episodes later before he could admit that one was okay and actually kind of interesting, he'd have to be locked up in a cell with Jo before he admitted that he found them unnerving, because different Time thingies.) The Brig could end up in a very bemused OT3 situation that he would never ever mention again. It did not happen. Liz humours him kindly. She has some sympathy for being bemused by Elements.

But then there is the whole wide universe of Doctor Who! I wouldn't put Adric in it (it would not be the sort of place Adric would be of any use, unless Silver and Liz needed some mathematical calculations doing, I suppose), and Dodo wouldn't be my first choice, and I can't claim to have watched The Dalek Masterplan enough to write much Katarina or Sara Kingdom, but otherwise the Whoniverse is pretty wide open.

Who do people think would be an interesting/good/hilarious addition to a Liz/Silver (or Liz & Silver fic)?


* Well, all right, me, probably. But Pers is definitely to blame for plenty of other things! ;-p (In the good way.)

Title: Echoes
Author: lost_spook
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 1152
Characters/Pairings: Silver/Liz Shaw
Notes/Warnings: None.
Summary: Liz has an unexpected visitor – over and over again.

For persiflage_1 in the 500 Prompts Meme - Prompt 482: Those who do not remember the past – Silver/Liz Shaw (S&S/DW)

( Time's Echoes )

Title: Technical Hitch
Author: lost_spook
Rating: All ages
Word Count: 540
Characters/Pairings: Silver/Liz Shaw
Notes/Warnings: None.
Summary: Liz is beginning to have her suspicions about strange happenings in her lab...

And another one, this time from persiflage_1’s prompt in dw_straybunnies July 2012 Prompt of the Month (Silver/Liz).

( Experiments )