ideas for au bingo

[amelia_petkova]

Ramblings on story ideas for au_bingo are behind the cut to spare the people on my f-list who aren't into fan fic.


Looking at my card, I think I could get a Bingo using either column 2 or 5. I have enough ideas for both; the bigger issue is going to be do I have enough time to write and edit everything. This is mostly to help myself keep things straight but I'm open to hearing if people really want me to write any of the ideas below.

Column 2
--Other: Hospital
*Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit (use the immortality as the main plot point)

--Historical: World War II (which geographical setting to use?)
*Petshop of Horrors (manga version)
*Witch Hunter Robin
*Supernatural
*Hazards of Love by The Decemberists (musical album)

--Other: Disney
*Revolutionary Girl Utena (possible movie match-up: Hocus Pocus)
*Princess Tutu (possible match-up: Freaky Friday)
*Merlin (possible match-up: Mary Poppins. Merlin is Mary Poppins; Arthur & Morgana are the children)

--Historical: Pirates
*Merlin (Humor. Arthur vs. Morgana as pirate captains. Merlin & Gwen commiserate about their respective employers.)
*Gingersnaps (Ginger & Bridget are werewolf pirates)

--Alternate History: Author’s Choice
*prompts suggested by au_bingo: canon event changed; major historical event changed; personal life of a character changed; someone was never born; someone died/didn’t come back
*Revolutionary Girl Utena
*Cowboy Bebop
*Vision of Escaflowne (canon event changed: Folken didn’t fail dragonslaying ritual)
*Ranma 1/2
*Merlin
*Labyrinth
*W.I.T.C.H.
*El laberinto del fauno (someone died: Captain Vidal)
*Hazards of Love (personal life of a character changed: Margaret is the “daughter” of the Queen instead of William)
*The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper
*Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle
*Waking the Moon by Elizabeth Hand
*Mortal Love by Elizabeth Hand
*The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
*The Ordinary Princess by M.M. Kaye
*The Princess Bride (movie or book version)
*Chronicles of Narnia (someone died: Edmund in LWW)

Column 5
--Other: Criminals
*Princess Tutu
*Merlin (characters use their magic to commit crimes)
*Labyrinth (use the labyrinth itself)
*Gilmore Girls (humor)
*Hazards of Love (the characters may commit crimes together but they definitely don’t get along)

--Fantasy & Supernatural: Ghosts
*Merlin
*Labyrinth
*Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
*Chronicles of Narnia

--Alternate History: Someone never died
*Utena (Utena’s parents)
*Cowboy Bebop (Julia)
*Merlin (Igraine)
*El laberinto del fauno (Carmen)
*Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander

--Other: Castaways
*Petshop of Horrors
*The Princess Bride (forced to live in the Fire Swamp)
*Chronicles of Narnia

--Other: Detectives
*Utena
*Princess Tutu (Ahiru goes undercover to investigate deaths at a ballet academy)
*Vision of Escaflowne (use Hitomi’s visions)
*The Birdcage (movie starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane) (the nightclub is the cover for a detective agency)
*Gingersnaps (investigating a string of werewolf attacks)
*Gilmore Girls (detective agency run by Lorelai & Rory; humor)
*Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie (Who killed Captain Hook?)
*Little Women (detective agency run by the sisters)
*Chronicles of Narnia
*Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman