Fic I'm not writing
May. 25th, 2021 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primeidealThere's a mermaid flash exchange and one of the possibilities is "any fandom," so stuff like Female Human/Female Mermaid (Creator's Choice of Fandom). And...I can't help but want an actually coherent AU of Animorphs 36 where the Nartec are involved for more than "Atlantis exists and wants to mummify you, lol, let's never speak of this again." Whether that's character/relationship based or just worldbuilding. Maybe something like Andersen's Little Mermaid setting where elderly grandmother merpeople have Strong Opinions about atheism! (...I wrote a long-ish AU of Andersen's Little Mermaid because the religious worldbuilding is the most interesting part, but that's another story.)
Or what if they're actually not related to humans, maybe they're aliens that just migrated underwater thousands of years ago? They could be off-shoots of the Mercora (Mercora, get it?) Except...the Mercora "extinction" was sixty-five million years ago with the dinosaurs. Which on an evolutionary time scale, compared to humans, is kind of staggering.
The intro itself is kind of interesting, I assume it was ghostwritten, but the motive to get involved is to defeat the Yeerks' new ocean-going ship. Which is bad because the Yeerks were genetically experimenting on Hork-Bajir to try and produce amphibious hosts. We get a glimpse of Hork-Bajir theology! ("It's time for Hahn to go Beyond"--Toby to Jara.) And then Jake is like "no, we need to remember why we're fighting, we're doing this for people like Hahn, not just some abstract desire for revenge." But that kind of setup delays the actual "btw merpeople" stuff significantly.
Anyway, I just really want more Animorphs fic that is less episodic and more minor characters who get to return, and also isn't eat-your-vegetables, sigh.
Or what if they're actually not related to humans, maybe they're aliens that just migrated underwater thousands of years ago? They could be off-shoots of the Mercora (Mercora, get it?) Except...the Mercora "extinction" was sixty-five million years ago with the dinosaurs. Which on an evolutionary time scale, compared to humans, is kind of staggering.
The intro itself is kind of interesting, I assume it was ghostwritten, but the motive to get involved is to defeat the Yeerks' new ocean-going ship. Which is bad because the Yeerks were genetically experimenting on Hork-Bajir to try and produce amphibious hosts. We get a glimpse of Hork-Bajir theology! ("It's time for Hahn to go Beyond"--Toby to Jara.) And then Jake is like "no, we need to remember why we're fighting, we're doing this for people like Hahn, not just some abstract desire for revenge." But that kind of setup delays the actual "btw merpeople" stuff significantly.
Anyway, I just really want more Animorphs fic that is less episodic and more minor characters who get to return, and also isn't eat-your-vegetables, sigh.
