Anyway where are my Fullmetal
Alchemist/Pacific Rim AUs.
It works in either direction, with some tweaking.
Yancy and Raleigh Becket try to perform human transmutation and
Yancy ends up fused to a massive fuckoff suit of armor and Raleigh loses his
left arm (the one with the circuit burns) and his right leg (the one Lady
Danger loses at the end of the movie) and Pentecost is Mustang, obviously, and
he’s not dating his second in command, she’s his brilliant daughter Mako who is
very taken aback by the Fullmetal Alchemist who is polite and soft-spoken and
smiles easily but sadly. Herc is Hughes and instead of killing him they
kill his son, an arrogant but undeniably competent alchemist.
Alternatively, Herc is Mustang and Pentecost is a much grimmer Hughes.
Edward and Alphonse Elric become Jaeger pilots because the world
is coming to a fucking end and then a disaster happens and Ed is alone, and
then Mustang shows up to recruit him to save the world and tries to pair him
with everyone under the sun and finally throws one of their mechanics at him
and said mechanic (Winry) is OUTRAGED that they’re drift compatible because SHE
HAS REAL WORK TO DO that’s not hotrodding around in a GIANT FUCKOFF ROBOT but
also no she is absolutely not turning down a chance to pilot that giant fuckoff
robot, get in, Elric. Obviously in this AU their Jaeger’s AI (IDK,
Fullmetal Alchemy or something, they call her pilots the Fullmetal Boys) is
high key possessed by Al’s memory imprint. And Riza is LOCCENT at the
last Shatterdome. She and Mustang used to be pilots together but they
aren’t anymore for reasons that they won’t tell anyone.
Everyone else can be fitted in as necessary. Go forth and
find me these AUs.
character being all “you expect me to do X?” Gilligan Cut to character doing X
the squad gets captured and interrogated separately, and they’re all telling equally terrible, completely contradictory lies
people completely missing the completely unsubtle, very visible dangerous thing in the room with them
alternatively, people absolutely seeing the completely unsubtle, very visible dangerous thing in the room with them and just not giving a shit
bonus points if it’s a beleaguered minimum wage employee who just goes about their business like “yep same shit as always”
someone pretending they don’t know another character is eavesdropping, only to casually reveal at the end of the scene that they know (*leaving* “tell tom that he can come out now” *tom drops from the ceiling in spy gear, irritated*)
choosing to deal with the villain by just leaving them alone in a room with another character
the “hands go down” trope
example: “any questions?” *everyone’s hands go up* “…that AREN’T sarcastic?” *everyone’s hands go down*
In case you’re curious about how my life is going, today I almost did a murder at church. Specifically, I almost did a murder because if there’s one thing that I absolutely will not tolerate at any time for any reason under any circumstances, it’s NAZI APOLOGIST BULLSHIT.
Listen, I have done copious reading and know a great deal about World War II, and I can talk at length about how, for all intents and purposes, the first country the Nazi regime invaded was their own. That being said, um. Making the statement “Well, no one really knows how they’ll react when there’s a gun at their head, so we really can’t hold the Nazis at fault because the higher ups forced them into it” is…not accurate. Yes, a number of people were complicit because of the implicit threat to their lives and their families, etc, etc. A lot of people were also true believers, but more to the point: a number of people had that same gun held to their head and responded by standing up for the rights of the people around them.
Mitigating circumstances do not an innocent person make.
Concept: a D&D campaign where every party member has been co-opted or replaced by some sort of hostile intelligence; e.g., the fighter has been possessed by a ghost, the wizard is being mind-controlled by her sapient magic ring, the rogue is actually a shapeshifting blob-monster who devoured the original and stole her form and memories, and so forth. Each of them is totally unaware of the others, and believes itself to be the only monster in a group of unwitting human adventurers.
The warlock has been infested by a demonic fungus; her ridiculous hat conceals the giant mushroom growing from the top of her head.
The barbarian is a lizardman who fell victim to a botched reincarnation spell and regenerated as a human.
The druid was actually killed weeks before the party met, and is being expertly impersonated by three dire raccoons in a trenchcoat.
No one knows that the bard’s deal is; she seems perfectly normal to every physical and supernatural test, but pings to detect aberration.
