oh my god, will the crack Narnia crossovers never end.

[bedlamsbard]

So, I was watching Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Lara Croft vids, and then for some reason I was thinking about Susan, and one can clearly not cross Narnia over with Lara Croft because there's, like, a fifty-sixty year gap. And then I thought, oh, The Mummy (second favorite movie of all time), but that doesn't work, that's set in the thirties. (This could, of course, change after The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor comes out. I'm easy.) And then I thought, oh, Indiana Jones -- no, wait, that's the thirties too. EXCEPT.

Dude. Mutt/Susan. I can't figure out if it's a brilliant idea, or a horrible one. Except, come on, it could be kick-ass Susan. She'd be, what, mid-late twenties? And an English professor in America, maybe at Indy's university or the school Mutt ends up going to. Sudden attack! The commies want some top secret artifact! Susan's class is in the way! Susan may not have a bow, and she may not be entirely certain how to use a gun, but she's Queen Susan of Narnia, dudes, and she can kick ass.

And then someone asks, wide-eyed, "But Professor Pevensie...where did you learn that?" "That's a long story."

Brilliant or horrible?

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[mentalhygiene.livejournal.com]

Glorious, simply glorious. :D

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Isn't it, though? *is rather enchanted by the notion* The only way I can bear The Last Battle is if I come up with really awesome stuff for Susan to do afterwards.

Of course, I'd have to see Crystal Skull again.

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

She should have throwing knives. And throw books/pens/whatever with vicious accuracy. She threw an arrow in PC and, ignoring the fact that it's completely fucking stupid, that bespeaks certain skillz.

You know me well enough to know how I feel about crazy AU/crossover notions by now. *G* Also, I just finished reading PC and I am so aggravated by Susan. I need to write something kick-ass to salve that, and since I have no time someone else must write something so I can read it. I NOMINATE YOU!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

She could snatch up an antique dagger and put it through the throat of one of the bad guys! And afterwards, while the wimps regular archaeologists are telling her off for misusing precious artifacts, Indy can look at her and go, "Well, that is what it was supposed to be used for."

Canon probably does not support her knowing kung-fu. *is sad* But she probably knows hand to hand self-defense!

Dude, I don't know what is a crazier crossover notion: Susan in Indy's world or Peter/Christopher Chant, which is my other crazy crossover notion. (Peter and Aragorn getting into a knife fight, however, is perfectly sane.)

Susan in the story I'm writing just fought off an assassin, got an axe in her skull, got healed, and put four arrows in a running centaur from, like, five hundred yards off. Does that count?

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

Of course, I also fully support the idea of Susan, in America, learning to shoot. Like Peter trying to learn to fence. It isn't the same, but it will do for now. Some measure of hand-to-hand is essential, I think. Peter wouldn't let her go into battle without knowing she could at least hold out long enough for one of the boys to come rescue her, should it get cose quarters amongst the archers. And there were LOTS of screaming arguments about "wouldn't let", oh yes. *G*

(Peter and Aragorn getting into a knife fight, however, is perfectly sane.)
Yes. Unless they're getting in a knife fight in Brooklyn, in which case it's total crack. *G*

Also: YES THAT COUNTS OMG GIMME! Whee!

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Yes! I can totally see Susan not learning to shoot until after The Last Battle, where of course she moves to America to get away from England. (Now, if I really wanted to get cracky, the plot could be about some bad types trying to use her to get into Narnia, where they can exploit it for their own purposes, but that kind of leaves aside the mystical aspect.)

See, I don't think Peter ever had much of a problem with letting his sisters into battle; there were female fighters in the Narnian army. I do think he trained her -- or had her trained -- to within an inch of her life, so that she can use anything as a weapoon. I mean, she's not good with a sword or a polearm -- but she knows how to use it.

...dude, I wouldn't even have any idea how to arrange that. *tries to think of other crack crossovers* Man, the timing's so awkward, at least in Earth time -- now, if we go back to Narnia, I could probably figure out away to cross over The Lies of Locke Lamora.

*grin* This is the story that I'm writing five times from five different POVs; next up is Susan. After crazy, crazy, drunk Peter, Susan should be a piece of cake. (I AM NOT EVEN KIDDING ABOUT THE CRAZY. He almost decapitated Caspian.)

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

Holy fucking awesome, Batman. Mostly regarding crossing over with Locke because WHEEEE! but also crazy drunk Peter almost decapitating Caspian. AWESOMECAKES WITH AWESOMESAUCE.

I actually sort of like the idea of evil types trying to get at Narnia. They can have the wardrobe. "How did you get that?!" If the Indy franchise can arse about with Christian mysticality and fucking psychic aliens, I don't see why the multiverse can't get involved.

...now I want to cross it over with Planetary somehow. Jakita and Susan talking smack and getting drunk! But that's totally not workable, time-wise.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Let me just tell you, Caspian was Not Amused. (Of course, this is after Peter already killed four people, so I suppose Caspian got off lucky.)

And THEN we can bring in Chrestomanci! ...I mean. Um. At this point, I suppose the debate would be to write it off movieverse canon or bookverse -- which is to say, Who's Left Alive?

I have never heard of that. What is it?

[cupiscent.livejournal.com]

Planetary is a comic book series by Warren Ellis. I am not a comicbook sort of girl, but I adore it excessively. It's sort of a dark alterni-reality of traditional comicbook culture. The Planetary organisation are "archaeologists of the unknown". They investigate weird shit, frequently weird shit otherwise only confined to fiction. Jakita Wagner is one of the team, super-strong, -fast, -tough and -kickass, and omg I didn't remember until right now that she was born in the '30s. *wide-eyed all of a sudden...*

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Ooooh.

[afteriwake.livejournal.com]

I might actually read that...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I might actually write that.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

BRILLIANT.

I DOUBLE DARE YOU.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

It's so random it's awesome! Except I don't really want to write anything outside of the action scene.