Pinch Hit #36

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Request 1 by jedibuttercup

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) 

Arthur/The Mage | Guinevere (LotS), Arthur/Wet Stick | Tristan (LotS), Fanfiction

I utterly adored this ridiculous movie; and I thought there was a lot of potential in the characters and worldbuilding that will likely never be realized.  So naturally, that leaves fanfiction ...

For Arthur/The Mage: Word was she was originally intended to be Guinevere?  I would be really interested in seeing how that would work out, in this version of the story.  He couldn't have taken the throne without her, and she's already established that she takes no shit from him, but he also saved her life, and they worked together well!  Plus, it would be important for Arthur's new regime to stop Vortigern's policies against the mages and court the support of those remaining, given how many other enemies are likely to be lining up to take him down.  So does it start out as a romance?  Or politics that turns to more?  If post-movie, does she get her own seat at the Round Table, and how hard does she make him work to secure her hand?  Banter, saving each other during other adventures in preserving the realm, and the presence of as many others of the cast as you want to include a plus.

For Arthur/Wetstick: These two obviously have a lot of shared history; they grew up in the same brothel and once they were big and strong enough, managed somehow to take it over (with Backlack) and run most of the other "business" in the area, with Arthur as the face of things.  Also, after Arthur's adventure in the Darklands, when they came to the rebel caves to support him, and he's come back obviously injured-- Tristan gets up to help him with a concerned expression like that's something he's used to doing, before Arthur has an attack of pride and shakes him off.  That moment implied all kinds of possibilities to me!  Any kind of friends-to-lovers or friends-and-lovers stories would work well for me with them.  Future shenanigans between them after Tristan's knighted and they have to go off on adventures to rebuild the realm would be awesome as well.

DNWs: unhappy endings, unrequested death of requested characters, partner betrayal/adultery, mpreg/ABO-type AUs, mundane/modern AUs, and "onscreen" non-con or non-con between requested pairings.  (Past non-con consistent with characters' pasts as implied by their backstory, or magic-influenced consensual sex, not a problem for this fandom.)

Request 2 by jedibuttercup

Crossover Fandom 

Daryl Dixon (The Walking Dead)/Buffy Summers (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Eliot Spencer (Leverage)/Buffy Summers (BtVS), Eliot Spencer (Leverage)/John Wick (John Wick), Teyla Emmagan (Stargate Atlantis)/Eliot Spencer (Leverage), Fanfiction

I'm always up for a fun crossover pairing, particularly battle buddy types - I find competence-squared very attractive in a pairing! - and all four of these possibilities work for me on that score.

Eliot Spencer/John Wick: Similar awesomely deadly skillsets, similar tastes in cars/etc., it just seems like these guys would get along well. Did they know each other back in the day, before they retired separately and got a team/wife?  Backstory on them as badass assassins cooperating or competing for whatever reason and falling into bed together after would be neat!  Or - does John go to him after the events of the second movie, as someone else who got out but that he knows he can count on for backup, and support evolves into more?  Epic shootouts or otherwise triumphing against insane odds and traces of the neat movie worldbuilding (ex: the continental, etc.) a plus.

Eliot Spencer/Teyla Emmagan: Eliot ending up on Atlantis somehow with the team, or Teyla meeting up with him on Earth during some team investigation gone wrong of the SGC or the Trust or something, would work equally well for me here.  It just seems like they would be mutually impressed with each other - you can go any direction with this pairing, from meet-and-part to building something more lasting, and I'd be delighted to read it.

Eliot Spencer/Buffy Summers:  I can see any number of ways these two could meet, from the team investigating something from her world to her saving one of the team from the supernatural and both sides becoming aware of each other from there - and instantly hitting it off.  He's most of the things she wants in a partner (a little monster in her man!) without being evil, and we've seen him entranced by sexy badass women fighters before!  So - hitting badguys together and patching each other up afterwards maybe?  :)  After-fight H&H-type romps, or something more long-term - whatever you like, as long as it's not domestic-cutesy for these two (or any of these pairings, TBH) would be awesome.

Daryl Dixon/Buffy Summers: The usual route this crossover seems to go is that Buffy and maybe other survivors of the Scoobies meet up with Daryl's and Rick's group after the start of the apocalypse, and she proves herself fighting zombies, et cetera.  Those are a lot of fun!  Equally fun to me, though, would be the Dixons meeting up with the Scoobies as the apocalypse begins instead - maybe Daryl's brother was incarcerated in California instead of Georgia?  Any kind of fighting vampires/zombies together in the day and being soft with each other in private storyline would work for me here. 

H/C and a little bit of angst OK for any of these pairings, so long as there's more C than H and the story ends on a positive note, whether they're together or parted by the storyline.  Canon references, in case they matter: I've seen all of B:tVS, but haven't followed the comics continuations; I watched Walking Dead up through the middle of season six, but bailed the moment I heard the Negan storyline would be included, so nothing since then; I watched all of Leverage and SGA; and I've seen both John Wick movies.

DNWs: unhappy endings, unrequested death of requested characters, partner betrayal/adultery, mpreg/ABO-type AUs, mundane AUs (including the no-supernatural or no-zombie or no-aliens or never-an-assassin type, for crossovers where that matters), and dubcon/non-con.

Request 3 by jedibuttercup

The Mummy Series 

Ardeth Bay/Rick O'Connell, Fanfiction

Hopefully, I won't be likely to run into this issue in this particular exchange - but I'm going to be crystal clear about my preferences up front and DNW "on-screen" het or threesomes for this particular request.  [Ordinarily, I adore the pairing of Evy/Rick, and the occasional Evy/Rick/Ardeth. But I've really been craving Rick/Ardeth-centric fic lately; and it's even rarer in this fandom.  You don't have to kill Evy; I'd prefer not, in fact.  Just make Evy/Rick have parted amicably or never gotten together.  Please.]

That dealt with, on to the actual request!  There's so many potential divergence points in the films. What if whoever put that tattoo on Rick when he was in the orphanage in Cairo, took him back to the Twelve Tribes instead of leaving him there for chance or the gods to return him, but maybe they still have to deal with someone waking Imhotep or the Scorpion King or some other baddie? Or what if the watchers on the cliffs at the beginning of the first movie actually went to intercept Rick and found out about the tattoo then, before he ever got away with the key himself? Or what if he was as intrigued with Ardeth as with Evy in the first movie, and chose to stay or return when all was said and done rather than sticking with the Carnahans? Or what if Evy/Rick did get together but didn't last, and he comes back to Egypt, in time for he and Ardeth both to go to the rescue of the Carnahans for the second movie?  (Maybe Jonathan puts on the bracelet, in that scenario).  What I want is to see Rick with the Medjai, and specifically with Ardeth, in whatever form that takes for you.

If you're not comfortable that sort of divergence-AU-- what about reincarnation (or past life) fic with the pair of them? During Nefertiri's time; or during any other historic period in Egypt; or in the modern day, meeting up again and finding the other familiar, but still having to defeat some kind of supernatural foe or whatever; or even space archaeologists in the far future, protecting or digging up some other cursed artifact and having to deal with it! Just, Rick and Ardeth together, please and thank you. :) 

Other DNWs: unhappy endings, unrequested death of requested characters, partner betrayal/adultery, mpreg/ABO-type AUs, mundane/no-supernatural AUs, and dubcon/non-con.

Request 4 by jedibuttercup

Fast and the Furious Series 

Luke Hobbs/Deckard Shaw, Brian O'Conner/Letty Ortiz/Mia Toretto, Fanfiction

This fandom is one of my enduring favorites!  I'm equally thrilled with all of the characters in this very shiny movie series with its insane heists and chosen family themes. I would love to see any of them interacting, so feel free to have as many background characters or pairings as you like as long as it doesn't hit a DNW, but for front-and-center feature, I chose a couple of rarer pairings.

For Brian/Letty/Mia: I could see this easily happening in a couple of different time settings - back before movie 4 when Dom has left Letty and she's in L.A. staying with Mia, while Brian is in town working for the FBI.  Mia finding Letty & Brian plotting the undercover thing and verbal fireworks turning to more, or Brian/Mia burying the hatchet early and comforting Letty, or anything else that ends with all three of them tangled up together (and potentially going canon-divergent AU from there), racing or bringing down bad guys or just quiet-spaces-between-action scenes, I'd love any of that.  Or!  It could be in Fate of the Furious timeline when Dom's gone rogue and maybe Brian/Mia park the kids with someone safe and come in to help anyway - I'm aware this skates close to adultery there, but it could be normally-OT4 or Dom/Letty being a more open relationship, and she needs their support.  Or something!  The ladies would totally wear the pants in that threesome, and I think it would be interesting and hot to see play out.

For Luke/Deckard: OK, so Deckard Shaw's not a good guy, but that's not a deal-breaker for this fandom, right?  And after F8, we got some sympathetic backstory for him.  So just don't expect him to play happily-ever-after with any of Han's BFFs-- but he had a lot of on-screen chemistry with Luke Hobbs, and also I find both Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham pretty damn hot, both separately, and when they're fighting both against and with each other.  Take that chemistry and run with it, and I'll definitely enjoy - though preferably post-F8 when they're both already more-or-less on the same side.

DNWs: incest, unhappy endings, unrequested death of requested characters, partner betrayal/adultery, mpreg/ABO-type AUs, mundane/no-cops-or-criminals AUs, and dubcon/non-con.

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