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This is a meme Izzy did on tumblr. But I hate doing meme things on tumblr and LJ/DW is still my one true social media love! Also I find coming up with completely ridiculous summaries for fics I will never write hilarious. SO:

Pick a trope from this list and provide a fandom/pairing and I’ll tell you something about the story I’d write for that combination (i.e. write a snippet from the story or write not!fic or tell you the title and summary for the story I would write)

1. genderswap
2. bodyswap
3. drunk!fic
4. huddling for warmth
5. pretending to be married
6. secretly a virgin
7. amnesia
8. cross-dressing
9. forced to share a bed
10. truth or dare
11. historical AU
12. accidental-baby-acquisition
13. apocalypse fic
14. telepathy
15. High School/College AU

(Fair warning, it's almost certainly gonna be title and summary, not fic-snippets, because I do not have time for actual writing things that aren't a.) novel or b.) due in the next month.)

Crossposts: http://bookelfe.livejournal.com/306481.html

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From:

fahye

OURAN HISTORICAL AU PLEASE

From:

shati

#5: Cha Song Joo and Lee Su Hyun

From:

elle_white

Nice/Jacuzzi and accidental-baby-acquisition. Because the idea suddenly entered my head, and now it won't leave.

Edited Date: 2012-09-16 04:07 am (UTC)

From:

ceitfianna

8-Sarah/Tristram *looks innocent* There needs to be fanfic of these two.

From:

nextian

Twelve Kingdoms pretending-to-be-married!!

From:

hebethen

THIS IS PRETTY MUCH ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT CAME TO MY MIND

/capslock

From:

hebethen

So... not really a ship pairing, but Riza + Winry drunk!fic? :D?

From:

gramarye1971

....I honestly can't decide whether gender-swapping or body-swapping would produce a more hilarious outcome for Isaac and Miria.

From:

skygiants

OH GOSH I need to know more about Japanese history OKAY. So in this AU the host club are members of a KABUKI THEATER TROUPE in the 1600s. Tamaki specializes in romantic heroes, of course; he is the hammiest ham the stage has ever seen and everybody swoons over him. Mori alternates between playing monks and villains, Honey plays women and young boys, the twins alternate between playing star-crossed lovers and playing villains, and Kyouya plays minor characters and acts as stage manager, publicity manager, budget manager, gaining-the-patronage-of-wealthy-persons manager, and essentially everything else that requires actual common sense.

Haruhi is cross-dressing for convenience of travel and ends up backstage at a performance; she trips and accidentally drops something on Tamaki and he has to sit out a performance, and she gets yanked in to replace him. (At this point it is more bother than it's worth to argue.) She is comically terrible, because Haruhi cannot act . . . which the audience finds completely hilarious and assumes the performance is a comedy! Also she is a super good-looking boy. CONGRATULATIONS, HARUHI, YOU ARE PART OF THE TROUPE. Haruhi needs the money so she is not going to argue, even though women are forbidden from acting in Kabuki theater! CUE COMEDY HIJINKS as the troupe attempts to disguise the fact that a.) Haruhi is a girl and b.) Haruhi cannot act or sing or dance for beans.

For added drama, Kyouya and Tamaki both have parents who perform SRS BSNS NOH THEATER and who are extremely disapproving that their sons have chosen to embrace this more vulgar commoner's art form. Kyouya's secret plan:

1. get his theater to be ten times as popular as his father's
2. get the shogun to fall passionately in love with one of his actors. Any one will do!
3. single-handedly elevate Kabuki theater to the cultural status of Noh theater
4. PROFIT

And then history goes wildly AU, because historically the shoguns all pretty much consistently gave kabuki theater the serious side-eye, but what is history when weighed against the persuasive scheming power of Ohtori Kyouya?

From:

fahye

get the shogun to fall passionately in love with one of his actors. Any one will do!

*WHEEZES*

COMEDY GOLD. I can only imagine his attempts to coerce Haruhi into this role, and meanwhile the twins are semi-accidentally seducing everything in sight because wealthy patronage = money for NEW COSTUMES (of course they design the costumes).

From:

skygiants

*______* I AM SO SAD THIS DID NOT HAPPEN IN ACTUAL CANON

okay so you know, given the way these things work in Capital Scandal, there is no actual particular reason for them to fake being married. It's just like an assassination in the next city over or something, sometime in between episodes 14 and 15 or so, and Lee Su Hyun is like "well, Cha Song Joo, I want you to crossdress and travel to this place to assassinate that person, Geun Duk will go as your backup and you can be his fake son."

And Cha Song Joo is like "I'm sorry, but Geun Duk cannot possibly be spared for a long trip away from the courtesan house at the same time that I'm gone, he needs to be my alibi that I was there the whole time. So either I am going to go alone with no backup, or you are going to have to come with me. And do you know what happens to assassins who go to the next town over without backup? THEY GET STABBED."

And Lee Su Hyun is like "Well, all right, I suppose I will book two rooms at an inn."

And Cha Song Joo shakes her head sadly, all, "didn't Geun Duk tell you? THE REVOLUTION does not have the funds for two rooms. If we don't share a hotel room I am sorry to tell you we will be instantly bankrupted and have no money for ammunition. I am afraid we are just going to have to pretend to be married, there is no way around it. Unfortunate but what can you do! ^___^"

And then Cha Song Joo gets an enormous kick out of calling him 'dear' and 'darling' all the way up, and they get up to their room, and at some point in the game of ironic-distancing-romantic-chicken Lee Su Hyun accidentally-on-purpose ends up proposing for real?

And Cha Song Joo turns him down because her role as a courtesan is too useful for them and unexpected sads on a cracky adventure, but then they have sex anyway, AS WAS CHA SONG JOO'S PLAN ALL ALONG. And also kill that guy they were planning to kill. It's a very productive trip!

When they get back Geun Duk takes one look at them and is really really glad he didn't go.

From:

genarti

STEERSWOMAN HIGH SCHOOL AU

...or baby acquisition, actually. YOUR CHOICE.

From:

shati

I CAN PICTURE THIS ALL SO CLEARLY and it is perfection

;_; *pretends they are married*

*forever*

From:

skygiants

ACCIDENTAL BABY OH LORD

The thing is, it wouldn't just be Nice and Jacuzzi and an accidental baby, it would be Nice and Jacuzzi AND Nick and Donny and Chane and accidental-baby-acquisition, and Claire as that creepy uncle you really . . . don't want . . . to hold the baby . . . because his hands still have blood all over them . . .

Jacuzzi freaks out about this. Jacuzzi freaks out about A LOT of things.

They actually found the baby in the middle of a booze delivery that they were supposed to be selling. And Jacuzzi alternates between WE HAVE TO GET HER BACK TO HER PARENTS and WHAT KIND OF PARENTS ACCIDENTALLY PUT THEIR BABY IN A WINE CRATE.

But actually Jacuzzi turns out to be better with the actual baby than Nice is! Nice is super awkward with the baby at first; Jacuzzi gets surprisingly authoritative when he's holding the baby, and is able to tell everyone to shhh because the baby is sleeping with no problems. It's only when the baby's in the crib and fast asleep and they are actually trying to plan for what to do about her that Jacuzzi starts freaking out.

Nick and Donny adore the baby and really, really want to keep her. Nice is the big proponent of Finding The Parents, until they actually meet the parents. Then she's like, "Okay, we are DEFINITELY keeping the baby." Then when they're out with the baby Nice and Jacuzzi get so used to people assuming they're married that they kind of forget they never actually did get married.

(Isaac and Miria are sorrowful and disappointed when they hear about all this. "You should have TOLD us you wanted a baby!" they say, reproachfully. "We saw an absolutely beautiful matched set just yesterday, just sitting there!")

From:

lacewood

FMA genderswap AU! :D :D :D

From:

skygiants

Oh man, I need to reread The Talisman Ring! I'M GONNA RAIN CHECK YOU ON THIS ONE and come back next week when I have, because I was going to anyway. >:D

From:

elle_white

I can see all of this happening! Jacuzzi would be an awesome dad!

Miria and Isaac and accidental baby would also make a fantastic. Though they would be so clueless about how to actually care for the baby that it might turn into disaster if someone doesn't help them out!

Edited Date: 2012-09-16 07:05 am (UTC)

From:

skygiants

I mean every so often -- say, every fifteen or twenty years or so -- Yoko and Rakushun take an undercover tour around Kei, to check in with concerns in the kingdom and make sure that all of the local officials are on the level and there isn't a repeat of the situation that happened when Yoko first took the throne.

So it only makes sense to pretend to be married! Especially since Yoko is so distinctive-looking, and hiding her hair helps, but pretending to be married to a totally ordinary-looking person like Rakushun helps a lot more.

And usually Rakushun is person-shaped when they're doing this, because people know about Yoko's rat minister, but there's that one time when they've been hearing unpleasant rumors about anti-hanjuu prejudice, and then Rakushun is her rat husband for the rest of the trip and if anyone gives them crap Yoko unleashes a world of righteous anger.

. . . . this is all backstory for the real meat of the fic, though, which is that one time that Yoko and Rakushun are way too busy to go, and so they send Keiki and Suzu on the MOST AWKWARD FAKE MARRIED TRIP EVER instead. Hijinks ensue! Keiki hates his life.