Plot Bunny Crossover from HELL
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herewiss13For reasons beyond my concious understanding, my mind took to wandering on my bikeride to work today. First it thought of the Elemental Masters series by Mercedes Lackey, a volume of which I'd read recently. For those not in the know, it's a relatively inoffensive group of romance-lite fantasy novels set around the turn of the century (the latest takes place during WWI) in which various people in the English country-side command the power of the elements through a variety of intermediary creatures (salamanders, gnomes, undines, slyphs, etc.) In other words: your typical Lackey novel set as a period piece.
Then my brain thought: who else is running around the fictious British country-side during WWI?
Why: Mary Russel!!
At this point, the entire set-up crystalized in a moment of horrible clarity. Mycroft, taking notice that an ancient and exclusive gentleman's club has just inducted a Indian Woman doctor (see: The Serpent's Shadow), decides that he needs to find out what's what...for the good of the realm. So he asks Holmes to look in on the matter. Holmes takes Russel with him and before you can say "boo", the two avatars of logic and rationality find themselves tumbling down the rabbit hole of magic.
Given their temperments, it'd be very easy to portray both Holmes and Russel as Air Masters (Air being symbolic of the intellect)...but Holmes as a mage is just too silly. The Scholasticistic nature of that universe's magic (a word I just made up), referring as it does to alchemical symbology and various ancient mythos would definitely appeal to Russel's scholarly nature. You _might_ just be able to let it slide that she was an Air Master who had repressed her talents after that traumatic crash in her childhood.
But why stop there?
Rather than command one element, why not let her command them _all_? Why not make her a Master of the Quintesence, the fifth element that contains the other four. Wouldn't that be neat?
No, that would be ridiculously silly. Russel has enough inherent talents as it is. Any more and she's be up for pre-humous sainthood.
But you can't just introduce the pair to magic and keep them totally seperate from it. It'd be like showing kids a candy story and only allowing them to press their noses up against the window.
So then my brain came up with the perfect, and final, solution. Russel's intellectual talents would allow her to grasp magical theory very quickly. Then she'd come into possession of a magic jewel that would allow her to command the creatures from all the elements. Magic via McGuffin rather than genetic inheritance.
The name of this fantastical gem could only be the Mah'Risu.
...it was at this point that my brain finally coasted to a complete stop and I realized that I'd have to make a livejournal entry to commerate the event. This is what happens when you allow two Mary-Sue rich series to collide in your sub-concious. Here's hoping it never happens again.
;-)
Then my brain thought: who else is running around the fictious British country-side during WWI?
Why: Mary Russel!!
At this point, the entire set-up crystalized in a moment of horrible clarity. Mycroft, taking notice that an ancient and exclusive gentleman's club has just inducted a Indian Woman doctor (see: The Serpent's Shadow), decides that he needs to find out what's what...for the good of the realm. So he asks Holmes to look in on the matter. Holmes takes Russel with him and before you can say "boo", the two avatars of logic and rationality find themselves tumbling down the rabbit hole of magic.
Given their temperments, it'd be very easy to portray both Holmes and Russel as Air Masters (Air being symbolic of the intellect)...but Holmes as a mage is just too silly. The Scholasticistic nature of that universe's magic (a word I just made up), referring as it does to alchemical symbology and various ancient mythos would definitely appeal to Russel's scholarly nature. You _might_ just be able to let it slide that she was an Air Master who had repressed her talents after that traumatic crash in her childhood.
But why stop there?
Rather than command one element, why not let her command them _all_? Why not make her a Master of the Quintesence, the fifth element that contains the other four. Wouldn't that be neat?
No, that would be ridiculously silly. Russel has enough inherent talents as it is. Any more and she's be up for pre-humous sainthood.
But you can't just introduce the pair to magic and keep them totally seperate from it. It'd be like showing kids a candy story and only allowing them to press their noses up against the window.
So then my brain came up with the perfect, and final, solution. Russel's intellectual talents would allow her to grasp magical theory very quickly. Then she'd come into possession of a magic jewel that would allow her to command the creatures from all the elements. Magic via McGuffin rather than genetic inheritance.
The name of this fantastical gem could only be the Mah'Risu.
...it was at this point that my brain finally coasted to a complete stop and I realized that I'd have to make a livejournal entry to commerate the event. This is what happens when you allow two Mary-Sue rich series to collide in your sub-concious. Here's hoping it never happens again.
;-)
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yay! a stupid question for you!
Date: 2005-09-22 07:09 pm (UTC)where did the terminology "plot bunny" come from??
i mean, i seriously doubt it had _anything_ to do with rabbits...
Re: yay! a stupid question for you!
Date: 2005-09-22 08:16 pm (UTC)Plus they're fuzzy, cute and generally useless. Plot bunnies are all those ideas which will never get turned into stories.
Re: yay! a stupid question for you!
Date: 2005-09-23 04:29 am (UTC)