sholio: Ward from Iron Fist showing his middle finger (Defenders-Ward flip off)
Sholio ([personal profile] sholio) wrote2020-02-14 11:20 pm

Creative brain in overdrive

Earlier today [personal profile] sheron plotbunnied me with the idea of an Iron Fist season 1 AU in which Ward creates a masked vigilante persona as a way of getting some time away from his dad without being watched all the time, and he meets Danny and Colleen and possibly saves their lives and/or becomes friends with them as this other persona. As Sheron pointed out, Ward is really fixated on Following The Rules, so it actually makes a lot of sense for him to create this alternate persona who isn't weighed down with all the same baggage as Ward normally is - Harold has one set of rules, but his alternate identity has other rules and it's sort of like, as Sheron said, Ward's version of "This is who I could have been if i had been a good person." Cue identity porn and mutual lifesaving and Danny and Colleen having no idea that their helpful new friend is actually ALSO Harold's #1 henchman who has tried to kill Danny multiple times! And Ward is being torn in two, because ... RULES! (Plus, jealousy and conflicted feelings about Danny. Etc.) But also, Danny and Colleen are his friends! AAAAAA!

.... I may have already written 2K of this. >__>

Meanwhile, with [community profile] hurtcomfortex happening again, it's time for my favorite freeform tag game, as described last year, in which the juxtaposition of tags/arrows on the HurtComfortEx tagset suggests that one tag leads to a second tag as a logical consequence. Sometimes these suggest a plausible story that I might like to write!

Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape → Character insists on completing mission despite injuries

Some aren't so much my thing, but at least could be a plausible story.

Comforter Has Dubious Motivations → Delirious character asking for the one they're pining for

And sometimes ... UM.

Rollerskating injury → Subdrop

The tag juxtapositions keep changing as new ones are added, so there are new delightful combinations every time the tagset is updated.

The tagset game is also what led to [personal profile] telophase's hurt/comfort generator last year.
kore: (Jane Eyre - Jane writing)

[personal profile] kore 2020-02-15 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Comforter Has Dubious Motivations → Delirious character asking for the one they're pining for

Ooh, ouch. Nice

Delirious character asking where a dead character is → Forgetting to eat

ANGSTY (this brings up Stucky plotbunnies without even thinking about it....)

Gentle Sex Because One Partner Is Injured/Ill → I'm sorry your love life sucks so hard let's get you a drink

LOL! I wonder how this would go?

Unresolved childhood trauma catches up to adult character → The Worst Person Is Also Comfortee's Only Hope

OMG that could be super fucking angsty. Love it.
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[personal profile] kore 2020-02-15 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I also love it when THE WORST PEOPLE wind up helping the hero but for their own selfish reasons -- mirror!Georgiou on Star Trek Discovery was like this with Michael Burnham and I just ate it up. Enemies forced to work together and grudgingly admiring each others' competence and insisting "but we're not really friends now, no!" is another big one.
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[personal profile] sheron 2020-02-15 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL

Add a huge identity crisis about the rules of being Harold's son and the rules Ward sets up for "heroes" and how he can't even do that oh noes, now he can't be a masked vigilante, and then at the last moment friendship saves the day! XD
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[personal profile] yhlee 2020-02-16 04:44 am (UTC)(link)
I want to read this alternate S1 so bad. Just sayin'. ;)
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[personal profile] schneefink 2020-02-16 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
All superhero stories can clearly be improved by adding more secret identities xD
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[personal profile] booksarelife 2020-10-24 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
If you ever actually posted any of this fic, I’d love to read it!!