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resonant's annual December Daily meme, who gave permission to share their prompts - visit their posts if you want to see the evolving list and suggest prompts! -
Top five pairs of characters, cross-fandoms as needed, that need to sit down and have a conversation and share life experiences so that at least one of them can benefit from it. - Destina
5. I think Norrington from Pirates of the Caribbean would be a fantastically absurd person to pair with any character from Our Flag Means Death, but especially Izzy Hands. "I'm in love with a pirate king who loves someone else and is changing in ways I can't follow" is a niche problem but a real one!
4. I think Murderbot and the Terminator would have nothing to say to each other except stories about stupid humans are and all the ways they try to get themselves killed, and that would keep them going for literal years.
3. I think both Thomas Barrow from Downton Abbey and Velasin from A Strange and Stubborn Endurance would have useful things to say to each other the trauma of being outed in a world that is wildly unkind about their sexualities, but Thomas would have to be in like, his mid-40s before he could unclench enough and Velasin's end situation is so much kinder than Thomas's ending that they would probably just end up sitting in polite silence and seething.
2. This is a weird one, but I kind of want Admiral Thrawn from Star Wars and Captain William Laurence from the Temeraire series to compare notes about working for corrupt governments and how to deal with that. Thrawn's much more in the spying and long term gamesmanship set, while Laurence is more about making noble but strategically unsound decisions. In either case, Dealing With Emperors could be a fun subclass.
1. Eugenides from the Queen's Thief series and Maya from The Goblin Emperor would have some really interesting viewpoints to share with each other about rule and culture and how to be cleverer than the people who would want to harm you. I would 100% see this as a mentor relationship with Eugenides going, "Well, is anyone going to parent this abandoned child who going to have ultimate power in a few years?" and not waiting for an answer.
Edit: Wow, something went wonky with the editing when I first posted that. I think I fixed it!
resonant's annual December Daily meme, who gave permission to share their prompts - visit their posts if you want to see the evolving list and suggest prompts! - Top five pairs of characters, cross-fandoms as needed, that need to sit down and have a conversation and share life experiences so that at least one of them can benefit from it. - Destina
5. I think Norrington from Pirates of the Caribbean would be a fantastically absurd person to pair with any character from Our Flag Means Death, but especially Izzy Hands. "I'm in love with a pirate king who loves someone else and is changing in ways I can't follow" is a niche problem but a real one!
4. I think Murderbot and the Terminator would have nothing to say to each other except stories about stupid humans are and all the ways they try to get themselves killed, and that would keep them going for literal years.
3. I think both Thomas Barrow from Downton Abbey and Velasin from A Strange and Stubborn Endurance would have useful things to say to each other the trauma of being outed in a world that is wildly unkind about their sexualities, but Thomas would have to be in like, his mid-40s before he could unclench enough and Velasin's end situation is so much kinder than Thomas's ending that they would probably just end up sitting in polite silence and seething.
2. This is a weird one, but I kind of want Admiral Thrawn from Star Wars and Captain William Laurence from the Temeraire series to compare notes about working for corrupt governments and how to deal with that. Thrawn's much more in the spying and long term gamesmanship set, while Laurence is more about making noble but strategically unsound decisions. In either case, Dealing With Emperors could be a fun subclass.
1. Eugenides from the Queen's Thief series and Maya from The Goblin Emperor would have some really interesting viewpoints to share with each other about rule and culture and how to be cleverer than the people who would want to harm you. I would 100% see this as a mentor relationship with Eugenides going, "Well, is anyone going to parent this abandoned child who going to have ultimate power in a few years?" and not waiting for an answer.
Edit: Wow, something went wonky with the editing when I first posted that. I think I fixed it!
