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Biggles works in progress
I got tagged for this on Tumblr, but I figured I'd do it over here, in part because maybe talking about it in a place where I'm more likely to be able to find this post again will be more likely to make me finish things. Also, I wanted to post more on DW this month anyway.
• The One With The camera, or: a short fic in which the gang acquire an early Polaroid camera and some cute, flirty photographs are taken, involving Biggles realizing that he doesn't have a current picture of EvS and wants one, and Algy initially taking pictures of them just to annoy them but then having the horrifying realization that they're actually going to keep them. This one was almost entirely written, then I decided to look up how early Polaroids actually worked and found out that circa-1940s ones are wildly different than the 1970s/80s era ones I've actually used. So now it's on hold until I manage to rewrite the photography parts, which is like .... 90% of it.
• And then there's The One Where Erich Needs Algy's Help, or: a fic I started ages ago that's spun off one line in Mending by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
philomytha, in which Algy tells EvS that if he needs help, to ask him (Algy) instead of bothering Biggles with it. There was a completely different plot reason for it in the fic, but it spun up into about 4K of fic in which EvS actually does ask him for help, but it's currently extremely stalled out because the plot is extremely stuck. And speaking of stuck plots, there's also ...
• .... a Flies East AU in which Algy and Biggles have a sort of platonic soulbond in which it's extremely difficult for them to be apart for very long, because Algy died in France and Biggles accidentally brought him back and now they're sharing Biggles's life energy somehow. So when they're apart, they both start to develop symptoms of the crash injuries that killed Algy, and only being in the same place fixes them. So Biggles is having to do his spy thing while occasionally bleeding and collapsing for reasons he can't explain, and EvS has a whole different set of reasons to be suspicious and also occasionally has Biggles faint on him. (I started writing this one for someone in an exchange a while back, but at this point I've completely forgotten who it was and which exchange.)
• And because you can't have too many Flies East AUs, there's also one in which Biggles is discovered at the oasis when he shows up there with Mayer, everyone still thinks he's Brunow, and he gets taken along with El Shareef in the raid on the British lines and has to figure out how to warn them without giving himself away too much. Mostly this is just an excuse to write them in the desert with horses.
• There is also a hurt/comforty Buries a Hatchet AU in which EvS doesn't show up at the coal face on the day of the fire and escape attempt, so Biggles and Fritz have to switch plans on the fly in the middle of the blizzard, steal some horses and uniforms, and go look for him at the prison. (I have probably a dozen different ideas for Buries a Hatchet AUs in which things go wrong in various ways, but this is the one that's the closest to actually being written.)
• There's also one which is called "The hooker AU no one asked for" in the document header, and is basically the result of a conversation a while back about EvS making extra money on the side after Buries a Hatchet by escorting rich widows to the theater and that sort of thing, and Biggles finding out about this and getting both furiously protective on his behalf and also wildly jealous. (I mean, think about it, he'd be GREAT at being an escort for hire for wealthy society matrons. He's debonair, chameleonic, and extremely good at social etiquette ...)
• I also would really like to finish, or at least write more of, that AU I started a while back about Biggles meeting kid!Fritz when Erich (enemy era) has to bring his nephew somewhere for safekeeping, and Biggles is the first thing he thinks of and basically the only option he has.
Encouragement and votes for what I should try to finish first are cheerfully accepted!
(I also have non-Biggles WIPs, but let's face it, these are the ones on the front burner right now.)
• The One With The camera, or: a short fic in which the gang acquire an early Polaroid camera and some cute, flirty photographs are taken, involving Biggles realizing that he doesn't have a current picture of EvS and wants one, and Algy initially taking pictures of them just to annoy them but then having the horrifying realization that they're actually going to keep them. This one was almost entirely written, then I decided to look up how early Polaroids actually worked and found out that circa-1940s ones are wildly different than the 1970s/80s era ones I've actually used. So now it's on hold until I manage to rewrite the photography parts, which is like .... 90% of it.
• And then there's The One Where Erich Needs Algy's Help, or: a fic I started ages ago that's spun off one line in Mending by
philomytha, in which Algy tells EvS that if he needs help, to ask him (Algy) instead of bothering Biggles with it. There was a completely different plot reason for it in the fic, but it spun up into about 4K of fic in which EvS actually does ask him for help, but it's currently extremely stalled out because the plot is extremely stuck. And speaking of stuck plots, there's also ...• .... a Flies East AU in which Algy and Biggles have a sort of platonic soulbond in which it's extremely difficult for them to be apart for very long, because Algy died in France and Biggles accidentally brought him back and now they're sharing Biggles's life energy somehow. So when they're apart, they both start to develop symptoms of the crash injuries that killed Algy, and only being in the same place fixes them. So Biggles is having to do his spy thing while occasionally bleeding and collapsing for reasons he can't explain, and EvS has a whole different set of reasons to be suspicious and also occasionally has Biggles faint on him. (I started writing this one for someone in an exchange a while back, but at this point I've completely forgotten who it was and which exchange.)
• And because you can't have too many Flies East AUs, there's also one in which Biggles is discovered at the oasis when he shows up there with Mayer, everyone still thinks he's Brunow, and he gets taken along with El Shareef in the raid on the British lines and has to figure out how to warn them without giving himself away too much. Mostly this is just an excuse to write them in the desert with horses.
• There is also a hurt/comforty Buries a Hatchet AU in which EvS doesn't show up at the coal face on the day of the fire and escape attempt, so Biggles and Fritz have to switch plans on the fly in the middle of the blizzard, steal some horses and uniforms, and go look for him at the prison. (I have probably a dozen different ideas for Buries a Hatchet AUs in which things go wrong in various ways, but this is the one that's the closest to actually being written.)
• There's also one which is called "The hooker AU no one asked for" in the document header, and is basically the result of a conversation a while back about EvS making extra money on the side after Buries a Hatchet by escorting rich widows to the theater and that sort of thing, and Biggles finding out about this and getting both furiously protective on his behalf and also wildly jealous. (I mean, think about it, he'd be GREAT at being an escort for hire for wealthy society matrons. He's debonair, chameleonic, and extremely good at social etiquette ...)
• I also would really like to finish, or at least write more of, that AU I started a while back about Biggles meeting kid!Fritz when Erich (enemy era) has to bring his nephew somewhere for safekeeping, and Biggles is the first thing he thinks of and basically the only option he has.
Encouragement and votes for what I should try to finish first are cheerfully accepted!
(I also have non-Biggles WIPs, but let's face it, these are the ones on the front burner right now.)