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beekeeperofeden) wrote2018-02-13 02:49 am
beekeeperofeden) wrote2018-02-13 02:49 am
Fic Meme: Existing AUs
I want to roll around in AUs but can't figure out where to start, so ask me questions about my existing AUs (or suggest new ones if you want to make my life harder) and I shall try to answer them in the form of prose.
Leave up to five requests. I guarantee at least one (1) commentfic response. (If you post a variant of this to your own journal so I can poke you for fic, I'll guarantee two.)
[Meme is still open]
Fills (organized by AU):
Come Into My Parlor (index):
Heaven is Overrated (index):
Leave up to five requests. I guarantee at least one (1) commentfic response. (If you post a variant of this to your own journal so I can poke you for fic, I'll guarantee two.)
[Meme is still open]
Fills (organized by AU):
Come Into My Parlor (index):
language immersion camp from hell (warning for corpses and vague horror)
Didn't Dinin end up in the festival of lights because Entreri made a break for it?
Didn't Dinin end up in the festival of lights because Entreri made a break for it?
When drider!dinin gets lost in the Festival of Lights, how did he find his way home to his crevasse?
Heaven is Overrated (index):
no subject
In your Space-opera!AU, how does Jarlaxle get a hold of the Nightmare class ship, if at all? Or since that’s likely to spawn a full-length fic - what does Artemis have to say when this endeavor proves to be (un)successful?
Same AU, does Artemis a weapon analogous to the Jeweled Dagger, in terms of his attachment to it and the ties to his reputation? What kind of weapon is it (presumably a blaster?), what does it look like, and does it have some sort of special effect like the dagger?
Do Dahlia and Artemis meet in the Space-opera AU the same way they did in cannon?
What would it look like if Jarlaxle and Dahlia started a bar-fight together, solely to annoy Artemis? I think this spawned from your Herding Cats AU, but I imagine it’d fit in the Space Opera one too.
(In case it isn’t clear – I really love Space Opera settings (though not Star Wars, for some reason?))
If those don't work, let me know and I shall try to do better!
does Artemis have a weapon analogous to the Jeweled Dagger
I'm going for the intimidation factor rather than the vampiric one, since I cannot think of a suitable way to psuedoscientifically explain a vampiric blaster.
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Drizzt shuddered as the crackle of fire splashed across his skin, making his muscles spasm. He fell to the ground and tried to find the location of the burn and gauge how badly injured he was.
"Unfamiliar with blasters, drow?" The human's tone was conversational as he knelt to get closer. Drizzt tried to move, reach for his knives, but another wave of pain stopped him. The human -- Artemis Entreri, he had called himself -- twirled the gun with the sort of careless familiarity that implied years of practice. "I wouldn't make much money as a bounty hunter if I could only bring in corpses. It doesn't kill targets unless I want it to." A cruel glint flashed in his eyes. "Most of the time."
Across the hangar, Regis still hadn't moved. Drizzt fought the sinking feeling in his chest with everything he had learned of this human in the past few hours.
It took several times to get the words out through numb lips. "Ly-lying." This man was a professional, a perfectionist. He wouldn't tolerate the kind of error rate he was implying.
Entreri's grin flashed in light. "Perhaps, but perhaps not." He stood up. "I get paid either way, so you'll have to follow me to find out."
He picked up Regis, who was still unmoving, and left. It was hours before Drizzt could move again enough to stand.
what does Artemis have to say about stealing the spaceship?
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"Congratulations, you have your ship." Entreri pulled out another wire from the weapons control panel and pointed at the bulletin that had flashed across all the cockpit displays. "Also, warrants for your arrest in three sectors."
The image was grainy, clearly pulled from a soldier's helmet-cam, but Jarlaxle wasn't hard to recognize. He peered at the display critically, tapping his chin.
Then, what Entreri had said sank in. Jarlaxle raised an eyebrow at his -- guide? unwilling accomplice? partner? -- at the human and tilted his head in curiosity.
"Warrants for my arrest?" He tapped the display, zooming in on the other grainy picture, the one that showed Entreri. "Unless that's a particularly dour statue, I believe we're in this together."
It was such an odd turn of phrase that Jarlaxle was very tempted to repeat it. Entreri rolled his eyes. "I was not foolish enough to introduce myself, so their other warrant is for an anonymous human."
"And there are already warrants out for you in more than three sectors already?" Jarlaxle guessed at the other reason Entreri might be blase about this development. Entreri eyed him for a moment, then shrugged, as seemed to be the reaction every time Jarlaxle revealed how much information he'd dug up on Calimpshan.
"Well, if we wish to keep this ship long enough to destroy anything interesting, we will need to get the weapons unlocked." Jarlaxle leaned against the panel and looked down at Entreri, who was surrounded by pieces of the system.
"If you wish to do this yourself, you are welcome to."
"No, I'm more than pleased by your work. Simply curious about how long it will take." The stealth system was what had drawn him to this ship, but there was no denying that the plasma cannons were very, very pretty. But unless Entreri could get around the security systems locking them, they were nothing more than expensive hull decorations.
"Faster if you would help." Entreri held a bundle of plastic-coated wires out to him, not looking away from the panel he'd pulled out. "Strip these."
Jarlaxle grinned and put a hand to his belt in delight. "Now? Abbil, if you needed moral support you could have just asked."
Entreri did look at him then, and Jarlaxle enjoyed how bad humans were at hiding their emotional reactions. "The wires, Jarlaxle. Strip the casing off the wires. And keep your clothes on."
Re: what does Artemis have to say about stealing the spaceship?
I'd actually managed to forget just how over-the-top Artemis was in the beginning, which is amazing since he did chase Drizzt basically -everywhere- for a while.
These are wonderful! Thank you for sharing!
Re: what does Artemis have to say about stealing the spaceship?
Early series Entreri is fun. He's just so damn joyful about his villainy.
Thanks for showing up with prompts! I utterly adore this format for writing/storytelling. (I might play around with a few more of the questions when I have time. btw, you only asked four questions, technically, so you've got one left if you want it...)
Re: what does Artemis have to say about stealing the spaceship?
In Herding Cats, how would they all respond should one (or several) of them at some point realize they would like to have children? (Presumably this happens rather further into the future than current period (and assumes they're all living together?), and I suspect Drizzt is the most likely person to want kids.)
Alternate option - modern college AU. What are Jarlaxle and Artemis's majors, if they should somehow both be attending at the same time? Or not, I'm just curious what you'd think they went to school for, if at all.
(This one stems from the 'over-dramatic villainy' comment above that immediately made me think "Wow, yeah, he'd fit right in with the theater majors I knew.")
Re: what does Artemis have to say about stealing the spaceship?
You're not getting a prose answer to this one, but for college AU...
For Artemis, my first instinct was to go with math, but I'm really digging the theater major idea. Going into theater is hard, but Entreri (especially early-series Entreri) is arrogant enough to be sure he can do it and ambitious enough to try.
(But he's got a minor in mathematics because of that scene in Silent Blade where he spends literal hours making up games with dice. Admittedly, it's when he's waiting to ambush someone and doesn't have many options, but like. Books are thing. Cards are a thing. This nerd chooses to analyze probability.)
Unshockingly, he gets along fantastically with Jarlaxle, who is at least an honorary theater major.
Jarlaxle has been at this college for six years and changed his major seven times. The first two years were on mommy's money, the rest have been paid for by quietly taking over the local drug cartel, which he now runs out of his suspiciously nice off-campus apartment.
Jarlaxle's majors so far: pre-law, political science, philosophy, theater, business and marketing, fashion design, history, and global studies. He's about three semesters of focused coursework away from a general Communications Studies degree, but no one expects that to happen.
Drizzt is doing Environmental Studies and Zoology. He and Entreri meet in a gen-ed philosophy class where they are instantly, loudly, and eternally at loggerheads. Jarlaxle is also in this class and appreciates the show so much he starts to bring Artemis coffee because he "accidentally got two".Re: what does Artemis have to say about stealing the spaceship?
(I just realized - he also immediately notes the high degree of cheating happening within seconds of entering the Copper Ante. He really is a math nerd! That's adorable!)
Jarlaxle's college experience sounds a lot like my early years (changed majors 4 times in three years) except I bet he's still a straight-A student.
I feel like Artemis would really dislike a philosophy class and I can't decide if that makes it better or worse for everyone else in the room? Good thing Jarlaxle's amused, at least!
Re: what does Artemis have to say about stealing the spaceship?
It's in chapter 9: He took out some dice and began throwing them on the small night table beside the chair, making up games and passing the hours.
I also did a weird combo (English/Comp. Sci), so I like to imagine he figures out fifty thousand ways to shut down "wow, that's such an ~unusual~ combination, what do you plan to do with it?" conversations before they start.
I hadn't realized that about the Copper Ante! Good point.
Better, probably. It's a freshman-level gen-ed course, most of the students aren't taking it seriously. Drizzt is, and Artemis is poking him full of holes for it (and using every single thing he's learned in his theater classes to provoke him in the process).