Two Old Memes

[calliopes_pen]

A couple of older memes are making the rounds again. So because we all need a break from the week, I'm posting them. First:

1) Make a list of 10-15 characters first, and keep it to yourself for the moment.

2) Ask your f-list to post questions in the comments. For example: "One, nine, and fifteen are chosen by a prophecy to save the world from four. Do they succeed?", "Under what circumstances might five and fourteen fall in love?", "Which character on the list would you most want on your side in a zombie invasion?"

3) After your f-list has stopped asking questions, round them up and answer them using the fifteen characters you selected beforehand, then post them.

The other one is the time stamp meme:

Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll try to write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

Comments

[schneefink]

Oooh, that meme! (I wish it had a short&convenient name.)

- 2/7 fake marriage, with 5 officiating: how did this happen, and does it end happily for all involved?

- Which other two characters would 8 choose to try and take over the world, and would they succeed? What if 11 (or, if 8 chooses 11, 3) gets to choose two people to fight them?

- 9 and 1 accidentally soulbond. What happens next?

[mithen]

--3 saves 5 from 14. Why, and how does it go?

--4 plays matchmaker for 7 and 13. Does it work out?

[calliopes_pen]

1.Ichabod Crane
2. Alan McMichael (Crimson Peak)
3. Honeythorn Gump (from Legend)
4. Peter Vincent (Fright Night 1985)
5. Charley Brewster (Fright Night 1985)
6. Sherlock Holmes
7. The Doctor (Capaldi version)
8. Lucille Sharpe (Crimson Peak)
9. Victoria Winters (90’s version)
10. Edith Cushing (Crimson Peak)
11.Barnabas Collins (60’s version)
12. Schmendrick
13. Lili (Legend)
14. Doc Brown
15 Methos


Looking over the list, it's going to go a bit like this.

Sherlock Holmes and Edith Cushing are trapped in an unmanned rocket. Schmendrick needs to rescue them from Methos. This won’t end well for anyone, unless Schmendrick’s magic works correctly—so let us go with the post-story version, when it seems to be flowing better. However, this would be Methos’ grandest evil plan, and insanity or a Dark Quickening screwing him up completely (because he likes to be the ultimate survivor, and between the unmanned rocket and weather machine, this isn't the way to go about it!) for why this is even happening are the only explanations.

Sherlock Holmes (the story version, not the Cumberbatch version) and Edith Cushing. Well, at least the two are from around the same era. That doesn’t help matters when it’s a rocket. Between them, despite the technology confusion, they work out what needs to be cut to stop the launch before it hits 0. Between Schmendrick's magic and Holmes' sword skills, Methos is stopped, but not killed. Schmendrick tries to get everyone back to their correct time periods.

(Alan McMichael and Watson, meanwhile, have decided this is all just too odd for them, but they’ll wait and see if magic will save the world and their respective friends--Edith and Holmes. Watson hasn’t seen such sights before. Alan regales him with ghost stories, which Watson doesn’t fully believe.

It’s only fair, as Alan doesn’t believe him about the Speckled Band liking milk. He does wish to hear the tale of the Giant Rat of Sumatra, however, once things calm down. Because if this is happening, he insists, the world must be fully prepared for the tale. No, I don’t know why I felt the need for them to become friends as this is going on, but it happened.)