Inceptiversary Day Ten: What character from another piece of media would fit in well with this dreamshare team?
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I gave this one a lot of thought, and it was hard to come up with a decent answer. I’ve been in fandoms a looooooong time, and after a while, you realize that just about everything can be combined and crossed-over, if you’re good enough.
What I’d really love to do is mix Inception with X-Men. Oh man, dreamhusbands in the same universe as Cherik? My mind explodes at the possibilities!
But, narrowing the scope a tad, I figured that one character that might actually be really interesting in the dreamscape is Mystique. Like a No Powers AU where she’s technically a normal human, but in dreams, she’s the most skilled Forger in all of dreamshare. Her transformation skills are legendary, and she’s a huge inspiration to every other Forger in the business, Eames included. She wouldn’t necessarily be ‘on the team’ as it were, but she would be in the same universe?
Ooooh maybe that’s the ‘in’ for the epic crossover! Eames meeting his professional hero. And then he introduces her to his darling BF, and then she introduces him to her brother and HIS BF…
…check back with me later on this. I have some notes to take…
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Outsider POV on Somewhere Else Jonathan Sims must be just. so much.
Like imagine. You're part of a support group, and a new guy decides to join. You ask him his name and he says, "Jonathan," and then after a long pause, "Blackwood. Jonathan Blackwood. But call me Jon."
He doesn't like tape recorders. You only know this because the person who hosts the support group is into retro things, and tries to keep a couple around. She turned one on once when someone asked about it, and you noticed Jon clutching his nails into his hands so tight he's nearly breaking the skin. You lean over and whisper, "Do you want me to ask her to stop?" He says, "It's fine," and you nod, but you still try and change the subject whenever people bring up tape recorders from that point on.
He full-body flinches one day when someone says Hello, Jon. Nearly slams into a wall and everything. He tries to play it off, but after that people say Hi Jon, or Nice to see you, or things like that. Anything but Hello.
He says he used to work at a 'non-profit for studying the supernatural'. Someone asks where it was and he says London. You tell your wife about it, and two days later she emails you an article. Magnus Institute Burns Down In 1999. It was in Manchester. You tell her not to bring it up again.
The guy is snarky and blunt and downright rude at times, but when a woman comes in and tells them about being trapped in a empty warehouse for a week, he comforts her in a way none of the rest of them know how. "I believe you," he says, repeats it like a mantra, like a prayer. "I believe you." He says 'I'm sorry' less like he's sorry this happened to her, and more like he's taking the blame onto himself.
He talks about Martin, sometimes. His reason, he calls him. Normally you'd point out that while it's of course good to love your partner, you should have other reasons to live, but you stay quiet. This guy needs all the happiness he can get.
You leave a little late that day, and when you do you hear him on the phone talking to someone. "She'd been touched by the Lonely, Martin!" he says. "Which is bad, of course, but--" he seems to choke up, "Martin, I didn't feel any compulsion for a Statement. A-at all. I think it's really gone."
You just walk by.
You don't know what's going on with Jon, but it really isn't any of your business. You're an anxious queer lesbian and he's a traumatized ace guy, and you aren't going to make his life any harder than you have to.
Just. Jonathan Sims in a support group.
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oh i just realized. when dion got swept downriver between the games, the river had to have taken her much closer to the motherlobe, because i don't think she could have gotten to the gulch in time for the devil's firehose on her own on foot.
oooooo, what if trying to get to the nearest town was how dion got to the gulch? girl got so turned around that he stumbled on the fucking. place protected by psychic illusions instead of the town near the motherlobe.
YESSSSS YESSSSS. i had imagined dion shows up at the campsite, and the family has a little bit of reunion, but i like this so much more. theyre getting ready and they dont know if theyll be tall enough to get raz enough momentum and then dions there !!! holy shit !!! the whole family holds her close and raz cries and maybe, in that moment, the whirlwind of water dies down just a bit, as nona sees that her eldest grandchild is alive, hes okay. it kicks back up as the moment passes, dion is filled in, a nod of determination. its time
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[inspiration strikes]
me: I must post this immediately
[5 secs later]
me: I appear to have forgot
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