Character substitution meme

[daibhidc]

Memed from lost_spook and john_elliott.

Give me a story of mine and an alternate set of characters: protagonists, antagonists, or bit-players. I'll give you at least a hundred words of a scene that could have turned out differently.

TBH, I'm not sure I have enough actual characterisation in my stories (which are rarely more than 100 words anyway) for this to work. It has, however, encouraged me to spend the afternoon finally creating a Fic List like what everyone else who posts fic on LJ has.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Then Quest Object - in which the Dungeon Master meets Vimes instead of Death. :-)

(Hey, look, I managed the right post this time... *cough*)

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

I challenge you with "Happy Endings, Hasty Exits" rewritten so that The Companions want to stay with a different member of the Ranma One Half cast (must include a teenage version of Genma).

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

I pledge total ignorance of anime in all it's forms except Battle of the Planets, sorry.

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

wow, you dunno what you are missing there (actually what you are missing is a lot of fanwank, over-opinionated tossers each with their own one true character interp, and a lot of shipping, it's a lot like Dr Who fandom really). Okay, same story, but multi-trek franchise instead. :o)

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Now that I can do 8-)...

[rhiannon-s.livejournal.com]

With your permission, would you mind if I did a version of it substituting the Ranma cast?

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

Sure. I won't get it, but I'd be interested to see it.

[john_amend_all]

How about a version of 'The Meeting' where the newcomers to the PTA are Amelia's parents?

[daibhid-c.livejournal.com]

My first thought was "How is that even going to work, because..." My second, of course, was "Then that's the gag."