WIPs, WIPs, and more WIPs: charlie

charlie_bz

Oct 09, 2012 08:44

Stories in current state of languishment (except Batman):

Farscape:

D'Argo on Letterman. Started in March, meant to be a funny short story (D'Argo goes out drinking with Keith Richards), it is currently languishing at a measly 322 words.
Huge Crichton on Earth then gets back to the FS universe fic. AU after Unrealized Realities where John is stuck on Earth. Cut to a few years later where his family has accepted that he's kinda crazy. He lives with his 90 year old grandpa on a farm in Tennessee. Someone shows up at his door one day and he's off to find his friends somewhere in the universe. I like this story, just can't get past the first chapter. The goal was to explore where everyone ended up after losing Crichton. Crichton finds one Moya person and then they work together to find the next, etc., etc.

Aeryn lost the baby during the Scarran torture since there was no Crichton around. When she was rescued by D'Argo, she was pretty bitter and eager to fight Scarrans.
Rygel regained his throne but missed Moya
Chianna lived a vagabond existence. Without the anchor of her Moya family, she flounders a bit, falls in with the wrong people.
D'Argo returns to his planet. Something with the Scarrans happens, he fights. Aeryn joins in and it's a big, huge, yucky war.
Stark and Noranti live on Moya. I had more detailed stories about them but I've forgotten it.

Burn Notice

A how they met in Ireland story. I still have yet to read a Mike/Fiona origin story that I'm completely satisfied with. I want dark Fiona. I mean the woman was in the IRA for Pete's sake - there's got to be skeletons there and I wanna read about them! Fiona definitely needs a good redemption arc.

Batman

How Bruce and Selina end up in Florence. I think there's a definite journey to how they got to that seemingly happy moment.
Long plotty fic that takes place about 4 years after The Dark Knight Rises. Bruce and Selina return to Gotham. The story is mostly about Selina and her past. In my obsessive readings on Selina, it seems she has quite a past that changes often so I feel her origin is wide open. Also, Bruce definitely does not do Batman anymore, he wants to live up to his family's legacy. Use his brain and resources for the good of Gotham. How is his living on the straight and narrow going to gibe with Selina's less than savory past. Can their love survive??? :)

Last but not least: Firefly

Somewhere Down the Crazy River - chapters 7 through 10-11. Chapter 7 is probably 60% finished. I'm having trouble writing the:

Kaylee and River scene where they kidnap a guy from a bar and scare him into giving them info.
Simon and Inara spend the night in the swamp. The point of this scene was to give a little back story on Inara and get some insight in life in the Core and how Simon feels about living away from it.
Big huge fight between Mal and Zoe. She's harboring emotions regarding Wash dying. I think she has to blame Mal but can she forgive him. I wanted to explore the repercussions to doing the right thing. How do you live with a heroic action that results in a loved one's death?

The rest of SDCR is all plotted out, some scenes are written (the interesting ones) it's just the tying it all together is what's keeping me from being enthusiastic about writing. it
Post SDCR stories. People, you have no idea what I have outlined. Thinking about it is almost embarrassing in the amount of time spent thinking about Firefly.
Mal and Inara story where Inara runs a Companion House on a border planet. She and Mal are together and he visits when he can but they can't keep going as they are. That story is about 80% complete. I just need to tackle the 'break up' scene. They aren't angry, just sad since they realize they cannot be together and happy. It is not a HEA story.
Collaboration stories with browncoat_2x2. I really like the story that takes place before Inara goes to the Training House. It's a story about how Inara must pose as Mal's Companion at a weekend house party.