#...ooooooh dinotopia crossover...

[sixth-light]

Now I'm imagining the canon Old Guard crew watching a Jurassic Park marathon and Andy starts complaining out of nowhere about how the naked dinosaurs are all wrong and...??? How does she know that? Did she spend the year before the movie on an aggressive paleontology research binge that no one knew about? Is she actually 65 million years old and had them as pets?

There are two possible* answers to this:

1) Andy, at some point, washed up on Dinotopia and hung out there for a few years (IDK why I just think she’d be into it. yes I know the original book doesn’t have feathered dinos. shhhhh just go with it) 

2) Andy, for some reason, was in attendance at the lecture where Thomas Huxley proposed that dinosaurs might have had feathers in 1876, noted it in between getting drunk/seducing someone/starting a righteous fight, and then failed to pay any attention whatsoever to the field of palaeontology for the next hundred and fifty years, only retaining this one vaguely interesting fact. She is extremely proud of knowing it. 

Neither Nicky or Booker have paid any attention to palaeontology either, so they take it as read that Andy is right about this. Quỳnh doesn’t even know what dinosaurs (in the modern understanding of the term, she knows about fossils) are. Nile is like “you’re right BUT I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW”. She is making frantic eye contact with Joe, the only other person who looks as confused as she does. Joe is refusing to make eye contact because this is the kind of petty thing Nicky will kick him out of bed for starting an argument over. (Joe had a palaeoart phase in the early ‘90s, when the bird-dinosaur thing was really getting going.) Andy, meanwhile, is watching Jeff Goldblum flirt badly with Laura Dern and enjoying herself immensely, totally unaware of (or at least unworried about) the chaos she has left in her wake. 

*by ‘possible’ I mean ‘answers that amuse me sufficiently to be worth describing in detail’

#the old guard #headcanon #andromache the scythian #...ooooooh dinotopia crossover... #Anonymous