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]

Yes!

Somewhere around this point, the fans of the show start wondering how the hell they're still getting away with it, and why hasn't ImpSec arrested everyone? So there are all these conspiracy theories out there about how they were kidnapped and brainwashed, or they'd been working for the government all along, or it's a Cetagandan plot (no this one doesn't make sense even to them) and the show's been government propaganda all along.

Thus Duv (Duv Mitchell, not Duv Galeni, although Galeni's the one who has to sell it to Simon) convinces them to do an All Propaganda Special Episode, wherein they tearfully confess they're working for Impsec, flash up "subliminal messages" that say OBEY every three minutes, and do such terrible patriotic routines that it goes all the way around from unfunny to hilariously bad to propaganda again.

It's widely considered their best episode yet and leaves everybody completely confused, but the eventual consensus is that nobody (especially Simon...) cares if they're ImpSec as long as they keep being that funny.

They do an ALL PROPAGANDA LIVE TOUR SPONOSORED BY BARRAYARAN IMPERIAL SECURITY on Komarr and sell out...they win an award in absentia at the Betan Comedy Festival. The Cetagandans can't figure out how they're doing it. This is not how propaganda is supposed to work, dammit!

[lannamichaels]

:D :D :D

And I have a sneaking suspicion Steve Rogers is involved in this somehow. ;)

And the Cetagandans are all confused because art, goddammit. Art.

And the Betan government wonders if they should be funding this. There's totally Betan funded Radio Free Barrayar going on. "No, we're not bankrolling this." "?? Who is??" "Uh, it seems like it's their security service." "... ... ... ???!!!" "We think it's because this way it's easier to keep an eye on the threat." "They're the ones *creating* the threat." "We know. We're hoping they don't." "Damn, this is an amazing Xanatos gambit."

[melannen]

I feel like you're hinting at me to go answer some of the other prompts instead of playing with Simon and Duv some more. :P

I suspect the Betan intel people assigned to Barrayar spent most of the Regency just being confused, even moreso than they're usually confused by what Barrayar has instead of a proper government with proper politicians. "What... what are they doing? Are they doing that on purpose? Why would they do that?" A hundred years or so later, an elderly Cordelia forgoes a memoir and instead just publishes an annotated version of the declassified Betan analysts' reports from the period, which becomes an instant comedy classic in its own way. :)

[lannamichaels]

A hundred years or so later, an elderly Cordelia forgoes a memoir and instead just publishes an annotated version of the declassified Betan analysts' reports from the period, which becomes an instant comedy classic in its own way. :)

Ha ha ha yes. The marginalia there would be amazing. I imagine "you're overthinking this" showed up a lot.

Barrayar: even more confusing when they're not trying to be. Aral thought X was painfully transparent? TOO BAD, the Betans thought he was faking them out. And the Cetagandans thought he was mocking them. Which, yeah, he probably was.

I think the Regency confused the hell out of everyone. The Butcher of Komarr... steps down? Voluntarily? On a planet that thinks peaceful transitions of power is a kind of candybar? o.O?

[beatrice_otter]

Ahahaha! Plz to write this! The annotated report or especially the comedy stuff! Either of you, it would be awesome!

[lannamichaels]

All I know is, one of them is named Stephen Vorbert. You don't even need to change the character definition: well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot.

"I don't see class. People tell me I'm Vor and I'm believe them because I own a handgun."

[melannen]

But the original prompt specified *British* comedians! ...there are just so many possibilities there that I had trouble picking only a few.

(I suspect Vorbert is not one of the core comedy group, he's a "special guest" they bring on sometimes to talk about Vor culture. Like The American on the Bugle. He always has his face blurred out to hide his real identity, but rumours abound that he's a real High Vor, maybe even a count's heir or something!)

[marginaliana]

an annotated version of the declassified Betan analysts' reports from the period, which becomes an instant comedy classic

Ahaha, OMG, yes!

[synecdochic]

I am laughing at this entire thread so much that I can't breathe.