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taotrooper) wrote2005-10-21 12:03 pm
taotrooper) wrote2005-10-21 12:03 pm
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Stuck, centuries ago
I'm getting attacked by gazillion plotbunnies of several fandoms and categories. It's driving me mad, because I have no idea which one I should write first. So it comes down to (no particular order):
- The usual Clow/Yuuko; featuring a wonderful MKR crossover bunny that MUST be written. I'd use it for my kisses, but I don't want it to be romance, so...
- Ling/Lan. I need to see more Ling/Lan. I signed up on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
52_flavours for them, because I'm insane. I'll limit to drabbles, though. No huge one-shots like the C/Y themes, thank you very much.
- TRC!Touyuki!! Where's my lost muse for this? I stopped seeing it after my last finals.
- Adult!Eriol. Not quite exactly like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
artyartie, but I'm afraid it will have Eriol/Kaho. Actually, that's the whole point.
- Hanatarou/Isane. Yeah. Fourth division fluff.
- Certain genfic in Spanish I started. Must tweak details.
- Now this one is crazy, and eating my brain. The Clow precanon that is SO precanon, he hasn't even been born! I shit you not, I want to write about Clow's parents. How did the Englishman get to China, how could he marry a Chinese sorceress, all the juicy details. Of course, this is almost like writing a Sue and a Stu, considering we don't know them. You forcibly have to make them up! It's like trying to write about Syaoran's or Tomoyo's father.
I have figured at least the premise, their background and their personalities. However, I just noticed the plot is more or less like Shogun, only in China, with no samurai and ninja, but lots of wizards and magic.
Basically, Mr. Reed (I think I'll call him John, as I want him to have an easy name with sounds Chinese can pronounce) was a weirdo even in his own country, and experimented on magical travels. He tried to go to Italy (haven't decided which "country" in Italy yet), but it all went wrong and ended up in China. Good magician, just needs concentration. He used all his power in that trip, so he fainted. And the local magical clan found him lying around sleeping and "kidnapped" him in order to see if he was a menace for them or not. The clan, of course, was the Li.
In the end, he convince them (yeah, they could communicate; I gave him a magical plot device that works like an extended babelfish [it would make sense Clow had based on it when creating the Mokonas]) he was there by accident, and he wasn't sure how to get back there as he didn't even know exactly where he was or if the travel spell wouldn't send him to a worse place and/or impending doom. So the head of the clan plans to leech on the foreign. He offers Reed to live in his lands as a payment; he'd have to teach the head of clan's only son how to cast Western magic. The son wasn't so keen, as he didn't entirely like Reed, but knowing those weird and powerful spells from faraway lands would rock so it's all settled.
Reed's apprentice has two older sisters (both married with children) and one younger sister. The elder don't care about Reed and think of him as a dog, while the younger child is the only one that's fascinated about Reed just because he's different and has seen world. She'd even teach him about the traditions and language in exchange for stories about England. The girl (who's in her teens; Reed is in his twenties) is some sort of a tomboy, and feels frustrated because she's more powerful than her brother but since she's a woman and the youngest, her family won't care about her and her abilities.
And then, I'd develop the friendship and, afterwards, love between the white foreigner and the youngest Li girl.
By the way, I was thinking about a conversation I want Clow's parents to have. They'd talk about myths from their countries, and she'd mention the weaver princess and the cowherd story (Qi Xi) being popular between women, but she prefers the Hua Mulan story better -that should tell a lot about my version of Clow's mom; she prefers adventures over romance, so having Mulan as her heroine would make sense. And it's so bizarre, because I went and read about Mulan's real tale for background and found this phrase:
The word "mulan" means "magnolia."
*headdesk* Nooooo! Magnolias! T.T They're haunting me! Even in my plotbunnies!
- The usual Clow/Yuuko; featuring a wonderful MKR crossover bunny that MUST be written. I'd use it for my kisses, but I don't want it to be romance, so...
- Ling/Lan. I need to see more Ling/Lan. I signed up on
52_flavours for them, because I'm insane. I'll limit to drabbles, though. No huge one-shots like the C/Y themes, thank you very much.- TRC!Touyuki!! Where's my lost muse for this? I stopped seeing it after my last finals.
- Adult!Eriol. Not quite exactly like
artyartie, but I'm afraid it will have Eriol/Kaho. Actually, that's the whole point.- Hanatarou/Isane. Yeah. Fourth division fluff.
- Certain genfic in Spanish I started. Must tweak details.
- Now this one is crazy, and eating my brain. The Clow precanon that is SO precanon, he hasn't even been born! I shit you not, I want to write about Clow's parents. How did the Englishman get to China, how could he marry a Chinese sorceress, all the juicy details. Of course, this is almost like writing a Sue and a Stu, considering we don't know them. You forcibly have to make them up! It's like trying to write about Syaoran's or Tomoyo's father.
I have figured at least the premise, their background and their personalities. However, I just noticed the plot is more or less like Shogun, only in China, with no samurai and ninja, but lots of wizards and magic.
Basically, Mr. Reed (I think I'll call him John, as I want him to have an easy name with sounds Chinese can pronounce) was a weirdo even in his own country, and experimented on magical travels. He tried to go to Italy (haven't decided which "country" in Italy yet), but it all went wrong and ended up in China. Good magician, just needs concentration. He used all his power in that trip, so he fainted. And the local magical clan found him lying around sleeping and "kidnapped" him in order to see if he was a menace for them or not. The clan, of course, was the Li.
In the end, he convince them (yeah, they could communicate; I gave him a magical plot device that works like an extended babelfish [it would make sense Clow had based on it when creating the Mokonas]) he was there by accident, and he wasn't sure how to get back there as he didn't even know exactly where he was or if the travel spell wouldn't send him to a worse place and/or impending doom. So the head of the clan plans to leech on the foreign. He offers Reed to live in his lands as a payment; he'd have to teach the head of clan's only son how to cast Western magic. The son wasn't so keen, as he didn't entirely like Reed, but knowing those weird and powerful spells from faraway lands would rock so it's all settled.
Reed's apprentice has two older sisters (both married with children) and one younger sister. The elder don't care about Reed and think of him as a dog, while the younger child is the only one that's fascinated about Reed just because he's different and has seen world. She'd even teach him about the traditions and language in exchange for stories about England. The girl (who's in her teens; Reed is in his twenties) is some sort of a tomboy, and feels frustrated because she's more powerful than her brother but since she's a woman and the youngest, her family won't care about her and her abilities.
And then, I'd develop the friendship and, afterwards, love between the white foreigner and the youngest Li girl.
By the way, I was thinking about a conversation I want Clow's parents to have. They'd talk about myths from their countries, and she'd mention the weaver princess and the cowherd story (Qi Xi) being popular between women, but she prefers the Hua Mulan story better -that should tell a lot about my version of Clow's mom; she prefers adventures over romance, so having Mulan as her heroine would make sense. And it's so bizarre, because I went and read about Mulan's real tale for background and found this phrase:
The word "mulan" means "magnolia."
*headdesk* Nooooo! Magnolias! T.T They're haunting me! Even in my plotbunnies!