beekeeperofeden | Fic Meme: Existing AUs

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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):

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?

When drider!dinin gets lost in the Festival of Lights, how did he find his way home to his crevasse?

Heaven is Overrated (index):

does Artemis have a weapon analogous to the jeweled dagger?
what does Artemis have to say about stealing the spaceship?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

beekeeperofeden

He'll have plenty of chances. (I don't know what it is about Crime In Space that's doing it, but the flirting went up a notch as soon as I tried to get them to steal that ship. It's interfering with all the crime I'm trying to write.)

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...)

Edited Date: 2018-02-15 02:40 am (UTC)

From:

scratchedagain

Hmm... so it took me a bit to think of something, and I ended up with two and I don't know which to post. One's in the Herding Cats AU and could potentially be a heavy (and long) conversation, and the other is an entirely new AU, which I'm not sure you really want! I'll go ahead and write them out, but definitely feel free to ignore them! :P

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.")

From:

beekeeperofeden

(I have thoughts about the Herding Cats one which are still trying to congeal into prose.)

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".

From:

scratchedagain

I really need to go back and read Silent Blade again, I have no memory of that scene. Or at least not of what he was doing, I remember the waiting. Regardless, I do so love the thought of a theater major with a math minor - not a combo you think of normally, but it fits him well!

(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!

From:

beekeeperofeden

(The prose managed to congeal, but didn't actually match the question you asked, so that prompt's still on the back-burner.)

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).