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Prompt Post - Part Three [CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS]

Mar 16, 2011 23:31

THIS PART IS NOW CLOSED. YOU CAN CONTINUE POSTING FILLS, BUT PLEASE PROMPT ALL NEW THINGS HERE.

Part one here!

Part two here!

Feel free to reprompt posts from parts one and in part three once. If you do so, I'd reccommend leaving a link to your fill on the original prompt, in case somebody is tracking the first thread.
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Switch! anonymous March 19 2011, 01:06:36 UTC

Everyone's basic backstories switch!

As in, Conner is a former villain (per Artemis) or Wally is a Martian (per Megan). Reinterpret! Keep their characters the same, but with a different explanation. Like, if Conner is a former villain, he was inspired to reform by Superman and now wants to be a hero just like him.

It's up to you if they end up with switched powers. Like whether Conner is now an archer or if he is still a clone (there's really no two ways about that one).

The switch pairs are up to you. Robin as an Atlantean? Or would Wally be a better fish man with secret daddy issues? And who should be the secret Cadmus experiment newly freed?

Go wild!

Re: Switch! anonymous March 19 2011, 01:30:32 UTC

Robin as a mini Batman-clone!! *_* That was the first thing that I thought of when reading the prompt. (and now thoroughly addicted to the idea)

Excellent prompt!! Hope someone fills this!!!!!

Re: Switch! anonymous March 19 2011, 01:37:29 UTC

THAT WAS MY FIRST THOUGHT TOO!! *__*

Yes, I now definitely want this filled too!!

Re: Switch! anonymous March 19 2011, 01:48:31 UTC

OP here

I dunno :/ I don't think you can get around Conner being Superman's clone. You just... can't. Not without really making things complicated.

Basically, the canon backstories go like this:
Conner - evil science project
Robin - adopted
Artemis - reformed former villain (as far as we can guess)
Megan - ??? (I would say ordinary alien who wanted to travel, but there's the White Martian issue)
Kaldur - dedicated soldier
Wally - relative with good family

Or something~? I dunno. I love this idea, but it's hard to make work in a way that still keeps everyone close enough to in-character

Re: Switch! anonymous March 19 2011, 01:55:13 UTC

I dunno, I think it could work. Conner could be like KF, where he was once a normal kid (maybe a relative of Lois Lane?) and have a 'scientific accident' where he gained all of Superman's powers. That's pretty much KF's entire backstory. :)

Re: Switch! anonymous March 19 2011, 01:58:52 UTC

I agree! And someone has to be cloned (I'm assuming since the prompt mentions them switching histories), and next to Superboy, I think Robin is the one who most worships his mentor, so that would transfer over nicely. :)

Re: Switch! anonymous March 19 2011, 02:19:16 UTC

But Superman didn't get his powers through an accident...? I mean, the Flash got super speed through lightning and chemicals, which Wally replicated. So Wally's origin is essentially emulation (???)

It just... I dunno. Rather than the cloning part of SB's backstory, I find the "I was made by Cadmus but chose FREEDOM" to be more important...??? Besides, you need to keep the awesome Superman is a jerk dynamic.........

.... Or something. I don't even- Yeah, I have no idea how this would go.

Re: Switch! anonymous March 19 2011, 02:33:06 UTC

yeah...I guess. Though ignoring how KidFlash got his powers, I've always thought that Wally hero-worshiped the Flash so much, that he wanted to be like him, and that fits so well with Superboy because he wants so much to be like Superman (regardless of how he came to be). I dunno, it works in my mind ^^;;

(I'll admit, I just love the idea of someone else using the I-am-a-clone backstory really really interesting, which is why I love this prompt >_>;; )

Re: Switch! anonymous March 19 2011, 02:39:53 UTC

I think I've seen the cloning backstory too many times to find it interesting. Honestly, Tales of the Abyss put me off Cloning Blues forever. So... much... "I'm a COPY" angst...

I guess I'm too emotionally detached to appreciate the delicate feelings of both sides. I generally subscribe to the theory that Superman has some prior experience that makes him react so badly.

I kinda see Wally's lack of angsty backstory as his most important point. (Which... doesn't bode well for his love interest Artemis, but anyway.) He has a caring family and a mentor, even a grand-mentor! The most like him would seem Megan, who has 12 sisters and an uncle. But she's got the weird "hiding her true self" thing.

When I think about switching everyone, I kinda always worry about how that would influence their characters. I want them to be recognizable, so they can't be entirely different... Sigh. This is why I can't write this myself.

Dick should be Bruce's nephew. Or maybe "nephew". Serves them right. (Now, which backstory would that give him, hm?)

Re: Switch! anonymous March 25 2011, 06:53:52 UTC

you could still switch it, though. I mean, you've got Kara (in a totally different series, I know, but still), right? So you could theoretically have Superboy be related to Superman some other way, only he.... Idk, was in suspended animation or something and only reached Earth at the start of the story. So, good (if non present) family, related to mentor, and you can still have Jerkface!Superman in the mix.
Or, you know, suspended animation + this: http://community.livejournal.com/yj_anon_meme/1801.html?thread=3378185#t3378185

Fill: Hero Worship (1/?) anonymous May 31 2011, 02:09:09 UTC

At five, Wallace “Wally” Rudolph West moves with his family (family meaning mother and father) from Central City to Star City ( ... )

Re: Fill: Hero Worship (2/?) anonymous May 31 2011, 02:12:11 UTC

The robbers try to shot Green Arrow. Green Arrow dodges. He fires his arrows. The guns fly out of robbers’ hand ( ... )

Re: Fill: Hero Worship (3/3) anonymous May 31 2011, 02:16:22 UTC

He was so not ready. Wally got slammed into a wall. The Green Arrow is quickly firing arrows at Brick. Wally had (stupidly) intercepted Brick on an illegal drug run ( ... )

Re: Fill: Hero Worship: Bonus (1/1): Chinese Food anonymous May 31 2011, 02:19:31 UTC

If Wally West liked anything, it would be food ( ... )

Author Anon! Here anonymous May 31 2011, 02:26:09 UTC

Oh my god, I just realized that said Brick has superspeed. He doesn't. He has superstrength. I also put personalities instead of personality. I am sorry.

Re: Author Anon! Here anonymous May 31 2011, 21:13:26 UTC

Not OP doesn't care, this is fantastic! And I'm intensely curious if Wally knows about Barry because how funny would that be :3

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