Links to all fanfiction I've written in various fandoms. That I'm admitting to.

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( Crossovers )

itsnotmymind asked: Which Torchwood character is most like Buffy the Vampire Slayer? And which is most like Faith?

I don't think they map exactly, especially since both Buffy and Faith change throughout the show(s). (Plural since Angel the series has important Faith character development.), so it's also a question of "Buffy and Faith at which point?" You can, however map individual traits and situations.

( Spoilers for both Torwchood, BTVS and AtS follow )

The other days

ruuger wanted me to talk about anything Peter Capaldi related. Now, the first thing I've ever watched him in was the tv version of Neverwhere - he was playing the angel Islington, and with the appropriate creepiness, too - but I can't say this made me sit up and notice. And his bit part as Caecilius in The Fires of Pompeii wasn't, either. But then Torchwood: Children of Earth happened. And he was so fantastic in it, that I thought: wow. Wow. Who is this actor?

( Playing a civil servant - no, the other one )

The Other Days

Reveals at missy_fest, so I can link the story I wrote here. It's a Torchwood/Doctor Who crossover. The original vignette, which featured Jack centuries later meeting, courtesy of the Rift, Tosh, gave me the pre Exit Wounds time frame, and the first idea I had for this story was to confront a Jack Harkness to whom his torture by the Master was still very recent with The Doctor Falls era Missy. (Which of course meant confronting Missy, whose state of mind re: people not the Doctor the show left ambiguous, with one of her victims.) Hard on its heels came the second idea, which was that this wouldn't be in Jack's pov, not least because I'd already written Jack (albeit post Children of Earth Jack, which makes a big difference) versus the Master relatively recently. Nor would it be Missy's. Because if it's pre-Exit Wounds, then my original point of interest character in TW is still around, and dealing (or trying to) with being effectively a zombie, which makes for a given contrast to Missy's (and the Master's) ( spoilery doings ). Not to mention that the original vignette's theme of immortality and how it effects Jack in his interactions with others could be mirrored and contrasted in Missy and Owen (who doesn't know at this point whether he'll die next week or will stay in this condition for centuries). And, as a bonus, I got to explore the Owen and Jack relationship a bit more, which, to me, was the most interesting one within the team in the first two seasons. Lastly: jesuswasbatman and other readers of my previous tales featuring the Master, I swear, this time the Master does not end up in the wrong body. ;)


Further on up the road (9120 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Torchwood, Doctor Who
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jack Harkness & Owen Harper, Jack Harkness & The Master, Owen Harper & Missy, Jack Harkness & Missy, The Doctor/The Master (Doctor Who), Owen Harper & Toshiko Sato
Characters: Owen Harper, Missy (Doctor Who), Jack Harkness, Toshiko Sato, Ianto Jones
Additional Tags: Post-Episode: s10e12 The Doctor Falls, Remix
Summary:

When a Time Lord emerges from the Rift, it's the wrong one for Jack Harkness. But could Owen Harper be the right Doctor?

Day 27 - What would you cross over with Star Trek?

Somewhat late, because I was away from any internet yesterday until late at night, but here we go. Well, considering I've already written the crossovers in question, obviously I would cross over Star Trek with Torchwood and Doctor Who, just Doctor Who, Babylon 5, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars.

The advantage with Doctor Who especially is that between all the various Doctors and companions on the one hand, and all the various incarnations of Star Trek on the other, you have such a rich, infinite variety of combinations for encounters to choose from, so the two DW crossovers certainly won't be my last. It's also the crossover that's currently do-able on screen, technically (if the BBC and whoever owns Paramount now - Sony? - could ever come to licence terms), and I dimly seem to recall that there was a fannish rumor in the RTD era that a plan for such a crossover existed.

But an on screen encounter would probably not include the character interaction I'm interested in, so never mind that, and let's stay hypothetical and fanfiction minded entirely. Since time travel exists in the Star Trek universe, you can even cross it over with historical fandoms. (Fandoms with immortal characters can bring these into the ST future, of course.) So basically there's no fandom I wouldn't cross over with Star Trek. Infinite variety in infinite combinations, after all.

( The other days )

Not a combination I would have thought of, courtesy of ffutures, but one that's interesting to compare and contrast. Disclaimer here: I stopped watching Heroes mid season 3, and the first half of season 3 was such a decline that I've blotted most of it out of my mind. So my Noah Bennet canon derives from what I recall about the first two seasons.

( Also spoilers for all of Torchwood under the cut )

Aaaand it's time for the remix reveal. I wrote:


Five Times Jesse Pinkman Met A Companion (The Breaking Who Remix) (11021 words) by Selena
Chapters: 5/5
Fandom: Breaking Bad, Doctor Who & Related Fandoms, Torchwood, Doctor Who, Sarah Jane Adventures
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Jesse Pinkman & Walter White, Third Doctor & Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Tenth Doctor & Sarah Jane Smith, Lance Bennett & Donna Noble, Jesse Pinkman & Martha Jones, Jesse Pinkman & Donna Noble, Jesse Pinkman & Jack Harkness, Jesse Pinkman & Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Jesse Pinkman & Sarah Jane Smith, Luke Smith & Sarah Jane Smith, Rani Chandra & Sarah Jane Smith
Characters: Jesse Pinkman, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Jack Harkness, Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Sarah Jane Smith, Walter White, Gwen Cooper, Rex Matheson, Esther Drummond, Third Doctor, Tenth Doctor, Luke Smith, Rani Chandra, Gita Chandra, Jilly Kitzinger, Skyler White
Additional Tags: Crossover
Summary:

Jesse Pinkman keeps running into past and future time travellers. Or they keep running into him. Sometimes they even bring the Doctor along.

Which brought together two of my favourite fictional universes in a mad love declaration for both.

And I also wrote a tiny little thing for Remix Madness:

First Woman of Rome (The Claudian Remix) (506 words) by Selena
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Rome, Historical RPF, I Claudius, Ancient History RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Livia Drusilla & Atia of the Julii
Characters: Atia of the Julii, Livia Drusilla
Summary:

There is more than one way to win. Livia doesn't need to attack Atia in order to destroy her.

The characters on my list were:

1. Alex Millar (Being Human UK)
2. Hank Schrader (Breaking Bad)
3. Jamie Moriarty (Elementary)
4. Cora Mills (Once upon a Time)
5. Felix Dawkins (Orphan Black)
6. Lix Storm (The Hour)
9. Guinevere "Gwen" (Merlin)
7. Bruce Banner (MCU)
8. Ichabod Crane (Sleepy Hollow)
10. Lucas Buck (American Gothic)
11. Jo Grant (Doctor Who)
12. Ray Carling (Ashes to Ashes, Life on Mars)
13. Andrew Wells (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
14. Cameron (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)
15. Jack Harkness (Torchwood, Doctor Who)

( Now for whacky adventures caused by questions under the cut! With spoilers for the shows/films these characters are from )

The other day, kindkit asked about bleak Christmas episodes in tv shows, and by sheer coincidence, since the international BBC iPlayer put on the first season of Torchwood (which I don't have on dvd - I have s2 and my beloved Children of Earth), I had the chance to rewatch an episode I hadn't seen for years, which was as good as I remembered. Now s1 is a very mixed affair in quality - hence my not owning it - but there are two episodes which I thought then and still think are sublime, both written by Catherine Treganna (and I still regret she never wrote for the parent show, because her s2 Torchwood scripts are also excellent): Captain Jack Harkness and Out of Time. It is the later which is indeed a Christmas episode - i.e. set just before Christmas, the character mention Christmas a lot, and though I may remember wrongly, it was even broadcast in December. I'm not sure I would call it "bleak" overall, because that's not the emotion you're left with (well, not me), but some very dark stuff happens, and not in a typical Torchwood way. As is lampshaded by a remark from Jack to Ianto, there are no aliens involved here, no monsters, either, no catastrophe to be prevented. "Just three people lost in time." (Which makes it very personal for Jack indeed.)

Out of Time takes a seemingly simple mcguffin - an air plane from 1953 falls through the Rift and ends up in present day Cardiff (just before Christmas) - and makes it into a poignant tale by letting the three interact intensely with three of our regulars. The most optimistic of the three plot threads is the one concerning the youngest inadvertent time traveller, Emma, who bonds with Gwen and is the only one of the three to adapt to and decide for the present day. (Cue lots of neat period details - Emma's delight at bananas and lots of chocolate makes sense coming from somone who lived in food rationing times through the last decade - and slapstick gags, aka naked Rhys, who doesn't know Gwen brought a guest.) Even Emma's plot thread isn't all bliss, though; she's painfully aware she won't ever see her mother again, and the fact Gwen lies about her identity to Rhys serves to highlight Gwen's constant s1 problem of lying to her boyfriend about an increasing number of things (especially since this lie gets found out; indeed, Gwen hitting her own rock bottom, aka the no.1 incident brought up by Gwen haters, ignoring everything she does afterwards, confessing and retconning Rhys is just an episode away). Still, Emma gets to fulfill her dream of a job in London in this new world, and mostly sees its good sides.

The plot thread which looks bittersweet though you could also take the angle of considering it dark, given results and likely results, concerns the air plane's pilot, Diane Holmes, who learned to fly during the war and had no intention of giving it up afterwards. Owen, up to this point usually the most cynical of the regulars (including in his affair with Gwen, which effectively ends in this episode), falls deeply in love with her, and the episode has a neat time reversing conventional gender roles there, as Diane is the adventurer coming and going who while also falling for Owen has no intention of prioritizing this over her desire to fly as she used to (which she can't do in the present and has no patience to wait for). Diane is such a charismatic, devil-may-care character that watching, I never doubt that she makes it through the Rift and is still flying and having adventures somewhere, but you can also be pessimistic; as Owen points out, it's more likely than not that she'll die by flying back into the Rift. The relationship with Diane will affect Owen for the remainder of the first season and trigger his attempt to committ suicide-by-Weevil in the next episode, so for all that their actual scenes in the episode are banter and romance, the dark undercurrent is definitely there.

It's out full front with the third guest character, John, a middle aged businessman, and with Jack Harkness who, having been stranded in time himself, is the one who bonds with him. John is by no means a cuddly like-at-sight character (and has the least sympathetic scene of the three guests when he chews out Emma for partying), but in the end his story is the one I found most affecting. As opposed to everyone else, he still has a surviving family member in the present... his son, who was a child when the time accident happened, and who now is an old man (much older than John himself) with Alzheimer's. The scene where John talks to his son and desperately tries to reach him, reach any fragment of him that still remembers, is gut wrenching and demonstrates the loss by temporal disruption most brutally. After this experience, John decides to committ suicide. Jack finds out in time to stop him, but John points out he'll do it again as Jack can't supervise him all the time, and asks to be allowed to go the way he wants and with dignity. Whereupon something happens that really couldn't have happened on the parent show, and is adult in a way, say, the alien-who-kills-by-shagging shenanigans of ep 1.02 were not: Jack agrees and they sit in the car together while breathing in the lethal fumes, holding hands. Jack, of course, can't permanently die anymore, but the impression you get when watching his resurrection afterwards is that at this point, he wants to. It's the most depressed we see Jack pre- ending of Children of Earth, and the scene I can't help but flashing back to when watching the Doctor Who episode Utopia, when during their long overdue conversation in the radiation chamber the Doctor asks Jack whether Jack wants to die (permanently). If you know Jack Harkness solely from DW, this is not a serious question; if you've watched the first season of Torchwood, which was broadcast before s3 of Doctor Who, it very much is, and so is Jack's reply (that he thought he wanted to, but not anymore). What strikes me about the suicide scene is both how tender it is - Jack is holding John's hand while John dies - and how completely bleak (earlier, when still trying to persuade John to live, Jack said there was nothing after dying, just darkness, which he knew from his first death; Jack when reviving is silently crying, and while John Barrowman is hardly a subtle actor most of the time, he really sells it here). It's not gratious nihilsm: after watching John desperately looking for his son and finding him in his irrevocably unapproachable Alzeheimer state, seeing what age and illness did to his child, you can believe John making this choice, and you can believe Jack choosing not to let him do it alone.