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!

Comments

[melannen]

Oh god. This shouldn't be so difficult! And yet it is.

I've already done the AU where Watson was soulbonded to a companion animal during his military service, see, so I can't just go for that one.

And starlady has written the one where there's an Aerial Service which accepts women and thus Mary becomes a Captain of the Skies, so I can't just put her on a Longwing and be done with it.

Man. Okay, so, if we keep a world where dragons are about as prominent as they are in Temeraire-as-it-is canon, I don't think Holmes' life would be all that different. He'd encounter Eastern dragons and related concepts during his travels in the East, but that would be about it, really, dragons don't come to London much.

If you instead posit that Temeraire's reforms keep going forward, and England 1890 has a much more integrated dragon population, you run into the problem that I haven't read the last Temeraire book (actually possibly last two now? I really need to catch up) and thus am no longer confident in my ability to extrapolate accurately.

There *is* the story where Madelyn Mack brings a dragon egg of unknown breed home from one of her world traveling adventures, though, and insists on raising it in her chalet. A great many rose-bushes get destroyed in the process, and it follows Peter the Great around like a duckling. Does that count?

...or I guess there's the obvious one where Sherlock is a dragon who has refused all captains until a wounded military doctor named Watson turns up at the aerie on a visit to a friend, and after that they are inseperable and solve all the mysteries.

Yeah, let's go with that one. Sherlock is out of Perscitia by Temeraire, and the only other hatch of that cross - older than him by a [human] generation has settled happily into harness in Westminster, but Sherlock is less willing to sit still and far less willing to take orders (even if Mycroft insists that it's the humans who do what he wants, not the other way around.)

Anyway Sherlock is uninterested in military service, but also uninterested in any of the other employement options available to a dragon of his size, until Watson points out that he cannot feed a gullet of that scale on his pension alone. They finally agree to work as troubleshooters for Mycroft but eventually strike out on their own, especially after Sherlock discovers that there's a hidden criminal network, run by a dragon, who is systematically undermining all of the dragon integration work, and they have to fly all over the world disassembling the network. (Lian is probably involved somehow.)

[zlabya]

Cool Temeraire-world/Holmes crossover! I like the way you weave the characters' personalities into the new story.

[liviapenn]

Anyway Sherlock is uninterested in military service, but also uninterested in any of the other employement options available to a dragon of his size, until Watson points out that he cannot feed a gullet of that scale on his pension alone. They finally agree to work as troubleshooters for Mycroft but eventually strike out on their own, especially after Sherlock discovers that there's a hidden criminal network, run by a dragon, who is systematically undermining all of the dragon integration work, and they have to fly all over the world disassembling the network.

I love this. For some reason a dragon criminal mastermind on Moriarty's scale is so much more plausible than a human one. Oh! And obviously, dragon!Moriarty wouldn't be Sherlock's "Napoleon of crime," but his "Lien of crime." :D

... not to mention there's those mentions in canon of Moriarty's creepy reptilian mannerisms... Why does this make so much sense?

[melannen]

I don't know, but I do really want Moriarty-as-dragon now. It would would really, really well. Also the Reichenbach fight would be glorious with both of them part-Celestial dragons.

[ellen_fremedon]

Moriarty-as-dragon makes so much sense. I love this.

[taelle]

Sherlock is out of Perscitia by Temeraire

... that makes soooo much sense suddenly. My brain is happy, thank you.

[melannen]

I am glad it makes sense to you! Yeah, I kind of want to pretend his canon mom's name is Perscitia ever since I wrote this.