Hypothetical crossovers meme

[melannen]

ellen_fremedon has started a meme, which is terribly dangerous but too tempting for me to ignore, so here:

Let's play the Hypothetical Crossover game! Name any two (or more) fandoms you know I'm familiar with*, and I will tell you how I would, hypothetically**, cross them over!

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*Fandoms I'm familiar with: written on AO3 (expand full list), tagged on DW (under fandoms: , though note my DW tags are a mess atm); marked 'read' on LT: SF and YA, comics (and art), everything. (If you want to be particularly evil, you can give me two fiction fandoms + a nonfiction book and I will mash all three.)

**I thought about saying that you can't name a pair of fandoms about which you know I have already a) written, b) hypothetically discussed, or c) declared I am not writing, but nah. Just, if you give me one of those, you deserve what you get in return!

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[melannen]

Which is which? :D

Back in the day in PotC fandom there were actually a cluster of modern-day AUs where Jack was an IRS, FBI, or CIA agent, most of which were poly and all of which were good, and now I've got distracted trying and failing to find any of them again. ): I hope they're still online! They were all excellent indulgence-fic for summer nights.

So my first thought is modern-AU for POTC, with the Peter and Neal team forced to work with a Norrington and Jack (or possibly a Jack/Will/Elizabeth!) FBI or IRS or DHS team.

But POTC fandom really has so many possibilities for crossover! And once you have a character like Neal in the picture, WC is full of possibility too. And, omg, Neal and Jack (or Elizabeth and Elizabeth) would be amazing together. The Rogue/Law-Abiding( mostly) Citizen/Sensible Yet Adventurous Woman threesome is really a classic and you could swap them around/pair them up in any configuration between the fandoms.

You could have Neal go after a lost treasure from the golden age of piracy, find it, and discover that it has transported him back in time! And Elizabeth has to go contact her many-times-great-grandparent Davy Jones (aka Will Turner) to figure out how they can go rescue him, and there are Shenanigans. Yes.

...or possibly June happens to own a similar artifact, and an old family story about how to use it, and lets the team have it so long as she gets to go along!

Really the problem here is figuring out what about White Collar wouldn't be awesome in a PotC crossover.

...DCU/Lone Gunmen is harder. Hmm.

[elf]

I completely missed the 3-way parallels. Wow. The idea of Norrington & Peter swapping prisoners for a while is mind-boggling. And of course, any Neal/Jack teamup would be both fun and terrifying to bystanders. (El & El running a pirate ship. heh.)

[melannen]

>> Norrington & Peter swapping prisoners for a while

Maybe Neal and Jack both touch the artifact, and swap places through time. :D By the time they get the time-travel McGuffin working again, Neal has his own miniature armada, and Jack has figured out Wall Street, and the problem is not so much switching them back as convincing them that they *want* to switch.

So then El finds the Pirate King to try to find leverage to get Neal back, but, uh, kind of accidentally ends up her second-in-command instead? Which leaves Peter to drag Sparrow back and sic him on Neal, on pains of ...pains. This ends badly, and results them all winding up on the Flying Dutchman and Norrington teaching Peter the only possible way to deal with pirates (that is, drink a lot of rum).

And then orgies, the end. :D