Fannish 5: New Year's Resolutions

Come up with new years resolutions for 5 different characters.

1.) Merlin from Merlin : Agrivaine's admiring words have been getting to him, so his resolution is not to lie to Arthur anymore. Well, no more than strictly necessary. Well, no more than once a day definitely!  

2.) Amberverse Lincoln from Fringe: new glasses for the frame Peter has so thoughtfully given him are due, but more importantly, given that his old spectacles were quite satisfactory, he has to decide whether Peter was actually trying to make a pass and/or suggest a threesome. His new year's resolution is to have the courage to ask Olivia on her opinion about this.

3.) Lucrezia Borgia after s1 of The Borgias: use her father's currently grateful and sentimental mood to ask for more diplomatic missions instead of being married off again. Although she suspects he'll tell her the one could go hand in hand with the other. Still, it's worth a try, isn't it? 

4.) Grace Florrick from The Good Wife: it doesn't seem fair that Zack got a car out of the parental situation while one little screw up, for which she's heartily sorry, got her grounded. However, she has found the perfect solution. Her resolution is to ask her parents to allow her to become Kalinda's detective assistant in her spare time.  That way, she'll be supervised by someone her parents appreciate and trust, she'll get to see plenty of exciting things, and maybe she can copy Kalinda's wardrobe while she's at it, with the additional pocket money she'll earn as a detective assistant paid by Lockhart & Gardner. 

5.) Gwen Cooper from Torchwood: new ear muffins for Anwenn once she gets back to her and finding out why the hell she ended up with an annoying sexist bloke who makes Owen at his worst look enlightened as her new boss, and in bloody London, no less.  She also wishes she'd have asked Tosh more about her time travel experience, because not only is she in London but she's in the shitty late 80s. She doesn't wonder whether she's mad or in a coma because it's obious she's travelled in time. The only two questions are why, and when she'll locate Jack's friend the Doctor so he'll get her back where she's supposed to be. If that takes too long, there's always the Rift in Cardiff, granted, with the downside she could arrive wherever completely mad, but then again she won't have the murder of one Gene Hunt on her conscience, which looks more and more imminent the longer she stays here. So, her immediate resolution is not to kill her boss (despite old habits), and getting away as fast as she can.



....in other news, happy new year, everyone! May we have a good 2012.

Yuletide Reveal: Collaborators (DS9, Odo, Quark, Dukat)

Like last year, the fandom I shared with my recipient was one of my two beloved space stations, DS9. Her prompt was either Garak & Bashir or Odo & Quark, slash or gen at my convenience. Now I had already said all I wanted to say on the Garak/Bashir relationship in Five Things Which Never Happened Between Garak And Bashir, and much as I love the characters, I didn't think I had anything new in me, or an aspect to explore regarding the two of them.

On the other hand, it occured to me that though Quark is my favourite character and of course the relationship with Odo is very important, I had never written a story focused on said relationship. (Quark's Day and The one who got away deal with aspects of it, but it's not the central focus.) I had also never written an Odo pov - a short canon AU drabble aside - let alone explored Odo from his own perspective. (In the stories he turns up in, he's described from someone else's pov.) Moreover, despite being fascinated by the Terok Nor flasbhacks I had never written a Terok Nor story, two sections of Five things which never happened between Kira and Dukat aside.

You can see where this was going.

As I rewatched the second season episode Necessary Evil, aka the one with the flashbacks to Dukat hiring Odo to solve a murder mystery in the past and Odo dealing with the same issue in the present, it occured to me we have a convenient (for me) plot hole in canon, to wit: considering that Odo in the past isn't able to solve the murder (he doesn't figure out who actually killed Vatrick until the present day action of the show), it's a bit bemusing why Dukat still gave him the job. And voilà, I had a plot in addition to my planned Quark and Odo: How They Became Frenemies character exploration. Throw in my speculation as to why Odo did work for the Cardassians (something canon or Kira skirts around occasionally) and his Dr. Mora/ I Was A Teenage Science Project issues to boot, and I had a story, which I now present under my own name for your convenience:


Collaborators