Misc. Ideas Thread

bissek

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#26
A redo of the plot of the first Mission Impossible movie, only instead of turning Jim Phelps evil, the villain is Dan Briggs, the hero of the first season of the TV show who got Brother Chucked and replaced with Phelps because his actor refused to work at night or on weekends.

Think about it. Over the course of a single year, Briggs managed to:

Stop dictators from acquiring nuclear arms on two occasions.
Stop biowarfare attacks on the US on two occasions.
Decapitate a mafia family that was murdering government officials
Prevent an invasion of an allied country
Prevent members of the US government from deliberately kicking off WWIII
Prevent a dictatorship from rigging an election to stay in power
Rescue a major resistance leader from a maximum security East Bloc prison
Stop two attempts to establish a Fourth Reich

And several more things that I can't recall off the top of my head.

And what was his reward? The IMF took his team away and gave it to Phelps. Given that they didn't change the sets between the first and second seasons, they may have also taken his apartment and given it to Phelps. And not only do Rollin, Cinnamon, Barnie and Willy not keep in touch with him, they never so much as talk about him ever again. He has a legitimate reason to be angry with the IMF.

As such, rather than just betray his country for money, Briggs is out to eliminate or discredit Phelps and anyone who's ever worked with him. The money is just a bonus.
 

DhampyrX2

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#27
X:men First Class thought. What if Eric had enough control of his powers to stop Shaw's submarine on the nigh Charles and Moira led the raid? Even if it was just enough to bend the prop and ensure they couldn't get away? Shaw didn't have his helmet at that point and couldn't keep Charles out himself so how would that have changed the face of well... everything?
 

Emerald Oracle

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#28
Was Azazel there? I think he was... I expect that they'd still get away as Emma was certainly there and she could have run some form of mental interference while Azazel made sure they all got the hell out. The loss of the sub would have shifted Shaw's plans though.
 

DhampyrX2

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#29
Point taken Azazel, Emma, and Riptide were all there. It just bugs me when you have plot holes like Shaw being in a huge steel submarine and freaking Magneto of all people can't stop him from getting away. I mean, even with the whole thing where he was still relying on his rage to use his powers, Shaw tended to bring that out in him. He should have crushed that sub like a tin can.
 

Prince Charon

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#30
Even if Azazel teleported them away, one thing is that they wouldn't have that sub anymore. Those things are expensive, and they'd need to change the plan at least a little.
 

Emerald Oracle

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#31
Prince Charon said:
Even if Azazel teleported them away, one thing is that they wouldn't have that sub anymore. Those things are expensive, and they'd need to change the plan at least a little.
As I said.

Though really, in fairness, within that Setting/universe, it does actually make sense that Magneto couldn't actually crush the sub. It wasn't just the channeling anger that held him back, he'd also been working on a much smaller scale than is usually associated with Magneto. Levitating things and manipulating smaller amounts metal within a smaller area. The thing with the satellite dish was the first big scale thing he ever did I think. Though why he didn't just deform the prop on the sub I don't know, those things are very sensitive and if he'd mucked that up the sub would have been screwed if you'll pardon the pun.
 

DhampyrX2

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#32
Finally got around to watching the second GI Joe movie and it got me thinking that we saw Duke in the explosion but we never saw any kind of corpse for him. Given the established connection we have between movie!Cobra Commander/Rex, Baroness, and Duke I could see him ordering Duke recovered and kept alive. Honestly, I wouldn't put it past them to include for for the planned 3rd movie in 2016. But it got me thinking of how the idea of Duke's survival could play out? I mean Baroness would not be pleased he was hurt but Cobra Commander IS her brother. Would she sell her soul to the proverbial devil to be reunited with both of them?

Also, anyone know where in the Hell Scarlett and Ripcord were supposed to be in the second movie?
 

DhampyrX2

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#33
Okay, first off, we seriously need more movie ideas popping up than just mine in here. Second, I just had a half-formed idea of crossing Percy Jackson with the Little Mermaid. Mostly because King Triton is technically Poseidon's and Amphitrite's son, which makes Percy his half brother and thus Percy is technically an Uncle to Ariel and all of her sisters.

Of course there is a catch that was originally supposed to be included in the Little Mermaid movie that got left on the cutting room floor. Ursula is supposed to be Triton's sister. Now how exactly could we start playing with little facts like that?
 

DhampyrX2

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#35
Had a very strange thought the other day that's been percolating. What if MCU Loki got it into his head to watch a few Disney movies? I know, I know, but hear me out. My first thought, even though you would need to move the Avengers a year later in the timeline, was that he ended up watching Frozen. I imagine some parts of the movie, particularly Elsa's plight and powers, would resonate with him in ways he would not prefer to admit. And if the song "Let it Go" took root in him, well I don't see it stopping the invasion but I could see it altering much of The Dark World. Now imagine if this first bit of resonance made Loki curious enough to look up other movies, maybe prompting Barton and Sevig to recommend some. Lion King would strike a chord with him, both in the form of Scar and with Simba's "I just can't wait to be king." Even Hercules might inspire him a bit.

Of course all of this would be little more than a crackish set of drabbles at best until Loki was returned to Asgard. Picture him there standing contemplatively as Odin lords over him demanding he explain himself as Loki has "Let it Go" running through his head. Instead of the posturing and vitriol he spat at Odin he decides to give that tactic a try instead and simply renounces his ties to Asgard and the Nine Realms. How would things change if Loki decided his adopted family was no longer worth bothering himself over? If he truly did let go of his hatred and desire to prove himself to Odin and actually lived for his own happiness? If he wouldn't raise a hand for Asgard's defense even in the face of Frigga's death?

Of course things would change to a point there's no telling that Frigga would die. Loki would not care enough about the Cursed to tell him what direction to go in during the prison riot. And he would pretty much ignore Thor's pleas and threats should Thor still need him (most likely to try to save Jane from Malekith assuming Frigga survives.)

So how would things change if something as simple as a few children's movies gave that nugget of wisdom that finally make Loki rise above Odin, Asgard, and all of their crap?
 

Ordo

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#36
DhampyrX2 said:
Okay, first off, we seriously need more movie ideas popping up than just mine in here.
Sorry man, waiting for more on Star Wars Episode 7 and Jupiter Ascendant...
 

nixofcyzerra

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#37
A couple of MCU ideas:

Idea 1: An AU where Maria Stark or Peggy Carter call Howard on his relationship with and treatment of Tony, causing Howard to abandon his attempts to find Steve Rogers. However, he still regales Tony with stories about him. Later on, after reminiscing about his parents, a now-adult Tony decides to try to find Captain America himself, to finish the project that his father had abandoned for him.

Idea 2: Bruce Banner's attempt to recreate the Super Soldier is successful, and he gains an Artificially Enhanced Physiology similar to Captain America's. Realising that his research is just too dangerous, and wouldn't be used solely for defence as General Ross had told him, he goes on the run anyway. Of course, as Erskine said, the serum amplifies everything that is inside, and although Banner's a good guy, he does have a lot of unresolved anger from his childhood.
 

DhampyrX2

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#38
nixofcyzerra said:
A couple of MCU ideas:

Idea 1: An AU where Maria Stark or Peggy Carter call Howard on his relationship with and treatment of Tony, causing Howard to abandon his attempts to find Steve Rogers. However, he still regales Tony with stories about him. Later on, after reminiscing about his parents, a now-adult Tony decides to try to find Captain America himself, to finish the project that his father had abandoned for him.

Idea 2: Bruce Banner's attempt to recreate the Super Soldier is successful, and he gains an Artificially Enhanced Physiology similar to Captain America's. Realising that his research is just too dangerous, and wouldn't be used solely for defence as General Ross had told him, he goes on the run anyway. Of course, as Erskine said, the serum amplifies everything that is inside, and although Banner's a good guy, he does have a lot of unresolved anger from his childhood.
The second idea would leave you with a less green version of Professor Hulk. You have to assume the serum truly enhances "everything" which would include intellect, and Banner was scary smart before any kind of boost. You'd theoretically up his brain power to match people like Richards and Doom, while putting him in Cap's body. That's kind of scary when you think about it.
 

nixofcyzerra

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#39
Even before he injected himself with his work, in the '08 Hulk film flashbacks, Norton! Hulk semmed like a decent guy. Of course, if MCU Banner had a childhood anything like his comics counterpart, then he could have a lot of unresolved issues that the Serum could bring to the surface.

Stonger, faster, even smarter and even angrier? Might not be a good combo.
 

DhampyrX2

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#40
General horror movie thought. Take a "human evil" horror movie in the vein of Hostel, Wrong Turn, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, etc. and have them, for once, bite off way more than they can chew with the victims. Turns out one of the people they grabbed is actually something far more dangerous that chooses to restrain him or herself normally for personal reasons. Perhaps one of the victims you nab for your murder games is a werewolf backpacking through Europe to avoid making any lasting ties as he comes to terms with his condition. Or maybe one of those "yuppies" going on a vacation with his coworkers is actually a fairly powerful sorcerer. Those kids you drugged and captured to eat? One of them is a dhampir suppressing her bloodthirsty nature. (Or if you want to add to the cross somewhat and be really mean about it a Mideon.)

The crux of the idea is that for once horrific human evil finds out the hard way that there are things in the shadows way higher up on the food chain than they will ever be and pays the price for it. And the worst part is the "monster" just wanted to left alone until a group of twisted humans chose to be dicks and start something.

So thoughts? Suggestions?
 
#41
It's an interesting thought, but that setup is the sort of thing that leads to the rise of a greater monster than those mere human evil could ever be. I mean you see that sort of thing in a lot of backstories to make whoever the villain is sympathetic. The first one that comes to my mind is Pumpkin Dorhyu from Rave Master who basically had something just like that happen, when all he wanted was to create peace. He ended up one of the most powerful monsters on the planet as a result.
 

DhampyrX2

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#42
Well the monster in the classical sense of the term does not have to continue to devolve in the face of the scenario. Two of the three examples I presented had the monster living a human life with human friends before being forced to unleash the proverbial beast. There's no saying that person might not be prompted to protect his or friends and other innocents. It would be more of a contrast of no matter how depraved humans can be they are still human and inherently fragile in the face of a naturally greater force. Or it could continue in a kind of creeping conquest of personality that ends with the the darker monster because of human evil.
 

Prince Charon

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#43
So, the human monster kidnaps this busty blonde bird named Seras... :evil2:

That'd be kind of a short film, though.

You could also have the serial killer going after the human Morality Pet of some great evil. That didn't go well for those ungrateful villagers in Castlevania, but people will be morons.
 
#44
See, my first thought is instead of getting an actual supernatural horror, they just grab someone who is a vastly superior version of what they try to be, like Johann Liebert.
 

DhampyrX2

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#45
Prince Charon said:
So, the human monster kidnaps this busty blonde bird named Seras... :evil2:

That'd be kind of a short film, though.

You could also have the serial killer going after the human Morality Pet of some great evil. That didn't go well for those ungrateful villagers in Castlevania, but people will be morons.
I now have an image of that happening in Hostel and the snuff club being DEEPLY sorry for not screening victims more carefully. You are right that it would be short, though. That's why I tried to suggest more generic inhuman creatures like a werewolf or a random dhampir that would have the power to bust heads but the option to maintain their humanity. I mean let's face it, putting someone like Alucard in a movie like Wrong Turn or the Hills Have Eyes would be a remake of the episode in the hotel where he butchered the SWAT team. It would literally last as long as it took for him to get bored.

One example I have in my head is to picture one of those "evil redneck" horror movies where the want to rape the women to impregnate them and butcher and eat the men. Now picture someone in say Blade's power class that just wanted to be a normal human for once. Only you just killed his best friend and are planning to rape his girlfriend while you have him trapped in a cage after you drugged him.

The sorcerer idea is an interesting one to me too. Especially with some of the story lines where things have to work perfectly for the bad guys to keep getting away with things. How do you plan for someone that can basically warp reality at a whim?
 

DhampyrX2

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#46
Saw the trailer for the new Disney made for TV movie Descendants and had a strange thought. What if live action Disney movies had MCU like continuity? Granted, you can's add Once Upon a Time to this as they've ripped apart their own continuity several times, never mind that of various movies they come from. But what if the Maleficent in Descendants was the one from the Angelina Jolie movie? How did she get re-branded a villain again? Why was she banished after giving her kingdom to Aurora? And how would a way too happy tween Disney movie play out with those themes?

If anyone has seen the trailer, you have a very awkward meeting between Phillip and Aurora's daughter and Maleficent's daughter where Sleeping Beauty mkII tells Mal that she does not hold it against her that Mal's mother tried to kill her parents. Now picture that conversation if Maleficent was in continuity and what was implied there (where how Maleficent came to be seen as a villain ala the original Sleeping Beauty was a lie) was the truth...




"I just wanted to tell you that I totally won't hold it against you that your Mom tried to kill my parents a bunch of times," the daughter of Sleeping Beauty awkwardly assured Mal, Daughter of Maleficent.

For a moment Mal was torn. Part of her wanted to ignore this twit that in some twisted way Mal should have thought of as a step-niece and part of her wanted to slap the idiot silly for daring to even say something like that to her. She almost blew it off with a derisive "Oh totes," and a turn of her head. But she couldn't quite bring herself to do it. She could not embrace the lie Aurora had allowed to be spread after banishing Mal's mother from the Moors to the Isle of the Lost. She could not quite reign in her disgust that Aurora seemed to take far too much after Stephan after all in her later years.

Stephan. Ah, there was something Mal could use. She smiled as innocently as she could muster as she nodded reassuringly to the girl and replied, "Don't worry about it. You put that out of your mind and I'll ignore all the horrific things your dear grandfather and mother did to betray my mother. You know like Stephan using his childhood friendship with Mom to cut off her wings so he could acquire his kingdom or his trying to murder her multiple times when she resisted his armed incursion into the Moors. And let's not forget your mother agreeing to banish mine to an island prison after my mother saved her from Mom's curse with her motherly love for her. I mean why would I be upset that little Aurora hardly waited for but a few years before taking after the monster that sired her and betrayed the woman that kept her alive for the first sixteen years of her life in spite of the incompetence of the three pixies Stephan had entrusted her to? I could never hold a grudge about the woman that should have been a big sister to me for going along with the lies that were spread about my mother because it was easier than correcting a few close-minded fools. So don't worry your pretty little head, niece. There's no hard feelings. I promise."

Mal's smirk had devolved into a snarl toward the end, although she was thoroughly amused at the confusion and horror mounting on the faces of the various royal heirs of the "good" people as she made her way toward the entrance to boarding school. It was about time somebody shook up their world. Even if showing her contempt for the girl that broke her mother's heart for a second time would make her mission to steal the Fairly Godmother's wand and free the prisoners from the Isle of the Lost that much harder. And if rumors of what she had said happened to get back to Aurora, then so much the better. Maleficent's rightful heir had a few things she's like to say to the "Queen of the Moors" in person. Never mind some of the things Diaval had asked to pass on to the treacherous little viper.
 

DhampyrX2

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#47
DhampyrX2 said:
Saw the trailer for the new Disney made for TV movie Descendants and had a strange thought. What if live action Disney movies had MCU like continuity? Granted, you can's add Once Upon a Time to this as they've ripped apart their own continuity several times, never mind that of various movies they come from. But what if the Maleficent in Descendants was the one from the Angelina Jolie movie? How did she get re-branded a villain again? Why was she banished after giving her kingdom to Aurora? And how would a way too happy tween Disney movie play out with those themes?

If anyone has seen the trailer, you have a very awkward meeting between Phillip and Aurora's daughter and Maleficent's daughter where Sleeping Beauty mkII tells Mal that she does not hold it against her that Mal's mother tried to kill her parents. Now picture that conversation if Maleficent was in continuity and what was implied there (where how Maleficent came to be seen as a villain ala the original Sleeping Beauty was a lie) was the truth...




"I just wanted to tell you that I totally won't hold it against you that your Mom tried to kill my parents a bunch of times," the daughter of Sleeping Beauty awkwardly assured Mal, Daughter of Maleficent.

For a moment Mal was torn. Part of her wanted to ignore this twit that in some twisted way Mal should have thought of as a step-niece and part of her wanted to slap the idiot silly for daring to even say something like that to her. She almost blew it off with a derisive "Oh totes," and a turn of her head. But she couldn't quite bring herself to do it. She could not embrace the lie Aurora had allowed to be spread after banishing Mal's mother from the Moors to the Isle of the Lost. She could not quite reign in her disgust that Aurora seemed to take far too much after Stephan after all in her later years.

Stephan. Ah, there was something Mal could use. She smiled as innocently as she could muster as she nodded reassuringly to the girl and replied, "Don't worry about it. You put that out of your mind and I'll ignore all the horrific things your dear grandfather and mother did to betray my mother. You know like Stephan using his childhood friendship with Mom to cut off her wings so he could acquire his kingdom or his trying to murder her multiple times when she resisted his armed incursion into the Moors. And let's not forget your mother agreeing to banish mine to an island prison after my mother saved her from Mom's curse with her motherly love for her. I mean why would I be upset that little Aurora hardly waited for but a few years before taking after the monster that sired her and betrayed the woman that kept her alive for the first sixteen years of her life in spite of the incompetence of the three pixies Stephan had entrusted her to? I could never hold a grudge about the woman that should have been a big sister to me for going along with the lies that were spread about my mother because it was easier than correcting a few close-minded fools. So don't worry your pretty little head, niece. There's no hard feelings. I promise."

Mal's smirk had devolved into a snarl toward the end, although she was thoroughly amused at the confusion and horror mounting on the faces of the various royal heirs of the "good" people as she made her way toward the entrance to boarding school. It was about time somebody shook up their world. Even if showing her contempt for the girl that broke her mother's heart for a second time would make her mission to steal the Fairly Godmother's wand and free the prisoners from the Isle of the Lost that much harder. And if rumors of what she had said happened to get back to Aurora, then so much the better. Maleficent's rightful heir had a few things she's like to say to the "Queen of the Moors" in person. Never mind some of the things Diaval had asked to pass on to the treacherous little viper.
Okay saw some of the movie and thought it had more potential than they utilized. Particularly with Cinderella's FAIRY Godmother as the liaison taking care of the villain kids at the school. So I have more ammo to run with now.





Mal was still snarling to herself days after the encounter at Parent's Day. It was bad enough that annoying twit Audrey (she refused to refer the Aurora's daughter as "Princess" in the sanctity of her own mind when half her family's holdings belonged to Maleficent and the other Faerie people by right) but to encounter and be humiliated by that withered old crone that Stephan had sired Aurora with? That was too far. She had had enough. Enough of the taunting. Enough of the teasing. Enough of the hatred literally because of where she was born. Enough of watching her own mother become so obsessed with revenge against these fools that she was becoming more of a caricature of herself every day.

Did Aurora have any idea what she had done sending Maleficent to a place that bound her mother's magick? What kind of torture that would be for an all but immortal faerie sorceress? Things only got worse when Mal's father, Dival, had passed away stuck as he was in his human form. The rightful Queen of the Moors did not take things like loss and betrayal very well.

Her mental musings were cut short as she hear someone clear her throat and a voice stated, "I saw Jane. She's rather... upset," the Fairy Godmother commented neutrally.

Mal turned with a cynical scowl to face Jane's mother and Mal's faculty adviser at Auradon Prep. "If she had any concept of her own ability as a Fae she should be able to do her hair all on her own," Mal snorted disdainfully. In her first days at the school she had used her magick to improve the other fae girl's mousy paigeboy haircut and make her look glamorous as part of her attempts to get information and ingratiate herself to the other students at the school. But it had taken no time at all for Audrey to get Jane acting just like the rest of the so called "heroic" children there. Only Ben treated the kids from the Isle of the Lost like actual people.

The Fairy Godmother nodded evenly as she responded, "I know."

"Do you?" Mal snarled, her control frazzled almost beyond the breaking point. "Do you?! Do you know what it's like to see a fae girl my age walk around like a scolded puppy afraid of everything around her because she thinks she's too plain? That I needed to bother to do such a simple glamour to make her feel like she belonged here? But then she doesn't really belong here, does she?" Mal spat.

"And what does that mean, young lady?" The Fairy Godmother asked, although the sadness in her eyes betrayed that she exactly what Mal meant.

"You have the nerve to ask me that as you stand here like some powerless human in a human kingdom, while your own wand, the focus of your powers, is locked in some museum instead of being in your hand where it belongs?" Mal demanded.

"I didn't need it with the peace the uniting the the kingdoms into Auradon created," the Fairy Godmother replied with a sideways glace.

"It's not about needing it. It's about the fact that it's yours," Mal hissed. "But I guess they won't even trust the Fae on their side to have enough power to defend themselves. Nice to see Aurora following so closely in her father and grandfather's footsteps."

"She is the the Queen still," the Fairy Godmother replied neutrally. "Your own mother declared her Queen of the Moors in her stead long before you were born."

"And in return she banished my mother based on lies and gave away a kingdom and people she had no right to sign away, betraying us ALL twice over!" Mal raged. "She broke my mother's heart, like her father before her, just to join and appease these sycophants that look at me and my friends like we're diseased because of where we were born after THEY put us there in the first place."

"Her Majes... that is, Maleficent did not look that bad during your video call with her on parent's day. Well, besides her making comments over my weight," the Fairy Godmother noted wryly.

"You haven't seen her decline. Especially after Daddy..." Mal noted with a look of pained sorrow.

"I must admit that has been a matter of speculation around the faculty, and the Faire Folk residing here. Who was he?" the Fair Godmother inquired softly, knowing this was a painful subject for her charge.

"Diaval. My father was Diaval," Mal replied hoarsely.

"Her familiar?" the FG asked in shock.

"He was in human form when he was banished and could never return to his natural form as a raven because of the anti-magick barrier around the island. And well, familiars are not so resilient as fae. Especially in a form not truly their own. He's been gone for a while now..." Mal admitted.

"I'm sorry," the FG replied as she moved to place a comforting hand on the girl's shoulder only to be shaken off violently.

"You should be," Mal snapped. "Conforming to the whims of these humans to make you act like them. Letting your daughter feel like she's something lesser among them. I was raised with my magick bound around me and I at least know what it is to be proud of my bloodline. Jane has no idea of the power in her veins. While you are one of the most powerful of the Faire folk in this wretched place."

"And if I tried to act like it where would I be?" the FG asked sadly.

Mal thought for a moment before deflating as she replied, "Your powers stripped and shipped off to Isle just like Mother."

"We must do what we can to protect our own, Mal. Do you think Jane could survive here without me? Or survive on the Isle of the Lost if she was banished along side me for my insolence?" the FG replied evenly.

"It might have done her some good. She would have developed some spine there. And we DO take care of our own," Mal sneered.

"Yes, because Evie looked so much like she could take care of herself letting that jerk Chad Charming manipulate her into doing his homework," the FG noted the recent plight of the Evil Queen's daughter with sarcasm as she raised her left eyebrow in challenge. She honestly didn't know where her little Cinderella's boy got his manipulative streak but there were days she wanted to turn him into a toad or a rat for an afternoon to try to break him of his habits.

Mal grunted and looked away as she conceded, "In her own ways Evie has always been starved for attention. It doesn't help that the few of us grew up almost as siblings all being the same ages. She couldn't exactly look to Jay or Carlos to reinforce her mother's puerile need to be 'pretty' once she started growing into a woman," Mal noted.

The Fairy Godmother's expression softened as she noted, "At least Ben takes more after his parents. He really does like you, you know."

Mal looked away in what she hoped would pass for embarrassment. The last thing she needed was for the meddling excuse for a Faerie to realize Mal had given Ben a potion to make him take an interest in her as part of her mother plot to obtain the wand of the woman before her. What they were building together wasn't real. No matter how much she wanted it to be. But thoughts of taking after parents made her think of the cow Audrey and raised her ire all over again.

"Some people here take too much after their parents, if you ask me," Mal muttered darkly.

"Despite your little introduction your first day, Princess Audrey never knew the whole story between her mother and yours," the FG pointed out, knowing full well the source of the purple-haired girl's sour mood.

"Yes because a pretty lie is easier to deal with than the truth. My mother ad father BOTH would be soaring he skies above our heads right now if it wasn't," Mal challenged back.

"Perhaps," the Fairy Godmother conceded. "But is there anything you can do about it now without putting yourself and your friends at risk?"

"Does tearing out every hair on my would be niece's head out count as doing something?" Mal asked.

"I think that might still get you in trouble," the FG noted as she tried to hold in a smile.

Mal deflated at bat as she responded, "Then no. There isn't anything I can do. That doesn't make what Aurora did right, though."

"No, it doesn't. But unless you mother somehow gets free and challenges her fr the right to the throne of the Moors there is not much we could do," the FG replied resignedly.

Mal winced a bit as she noted, "That would be... ugly. Like I said before, Mother has not weathered captivity well."

"At least she had you there with her," the FG replied with a wince of her own. Just the thought of the true Faerie Queen's likely wrath should she ever get free was terrifying to imagine.

Mal saw no reason to discuss how distant and wrathful her mother had become over the years, especially since Diaval's passing, as she weakly replied, "Yeah, right."

"Mal, I know it's been hard adjusting here for all of you. But Ben wants this to work. And not just because you have the poor boy smitten. He wants all four of your to truly feel you belong here. To have a home in Auradon. Is that so bad?" the FG asked.

"No," Mal conceded. "Ben is the best thing about being here by far. And he will make a great king someday."

"Then trust in him. Don't let your anger and jealousy get the better of you. No matter how justified it may be," the FG advised with a shrewd look.

Mal's expression was pure innocence as she asked, "Why whatever do you mean Fairy Godmother?"

"You do realize that I was born in the age when crossing the Faire Folk was still considered a death wish, don't you, child?" the FG asked with a knowing look. "Just because I tried to be better than that doesn't mean I've lost all sense of what it is to be Fae."

Mal remained silent, unwilling to voice her opinion on how little the woman before her seemed to still BE Fae to her again.

"I know you much choose you own path. All I ask is that you consider the consequences. Not just for you or your mother, but for your friends. And that includes Ben. Please think it over," the Fairy Godmother advised before turning and taking her leave.

For her part, Mal could only watch on silently, her head a whirl of new thoughts to ponder. Did she really want to follow her mother's path? Was there redemption at the end of the tunnel for her and her friends. Would Ben think twice about her without the potion in the cookie she gave him?

So many questions. So little time before the coronation, and the wand being free for the taking, to answer them.
 

DhampyrX2

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#48
Princess Audrey stopped short as she heard voices in what should have been an empty classroom. Mostly because one of those voices was that of that... interloper Mal. Oh how Audrey despised her. With her inhumanly exotic looks and her ability to catch Ben's eye. That was supposed to Audery's place at his side, not the daughter of the woman that tried to kill both her parents! She could not help but eavesdrop as she heard the conversation between Jane's mother and Maleficent's daughter.

Needless to say she was more than a little shocked to hear the conversation between them. Her grandmother had assured her that everything Mal had said to her on her first day had been nothing more than horrible lies when she had asked her during her visit to the school on Parent's Day. Why would Mal maintain it when she was unlikely to be overheard? And why would Cinderalla's Fairy Godmother act like it was the truth?

The revelation that Mal's father was dead was an unpleasant discovery as well. Audrey had never taken the time to consider the other parents of the four children from the Isle of the Lost before. Did they all share similar fates? Goodness knew the way Carlos had bonded with that dog of his spoke of a desperate need for affection. Especially considering his mother, Cruella's, view on what to use animals for.

She nearly squawked and revealed herself when the Faerie girl had mentioned a desire to rip out her hair but held her place to try to get more information. Instead she learned that Mal apparently was legitimately fond of Ben, the son of Queen Belle and Kind Adam (the Beast). But it was when the Fairy Godmother reminisced about the dangers of angering the Fae in her day that the Princess decided to take her leave. She needed to contact her mother for advice. Besides, she was certain her Mother would at least want to know the name of Mal's father. It was one of the juiciest pieces of gossip being speculated about in school, after all.

*****

Two hours and a very enlightening conversation with her daughter later Aurora hung up the phone. She had done what she could to reassure her little girl without lying to her, which meant telling her very little really. But what else could she do? How could she tell Audrey that what Phillip and the other had taught her was all a lie. That for all her reputation to the contrary, the Maleficent had truly been Aurora's own fairy godmother?

And now, to learn what she had about the once Faerie Queen's daughter she felt even more conflicted. Part of her was happy the woman that had protected her from the shadows had found some kind of happiness with Diaval. Another part of her felt a deep sorrow to hear of his passing. And part of her, deep down inside, felt... jealous of Mal connection to the two of them.

But mostly, she felt a sense of loss at never getting to know the girl that should have seen her as a big sister. A girl that was apparently feuding with Audrey quite fiercely over the affections of Belle's son.

She was also horrified to hear the girl apparently equated Aurora with her father. Granted, you did not speak ill of the dead, and Stephan was remembered fondly in Auradon today, but her father had honestly been an unfeeling monster when she met him. Her birth mother was nice enough, if somewhat vapid, but Stephan... no. She would not go down that road. She would not let herself dwell too hard on the past. At least, not now.

Besides, Ben's coronation was only in a few days and Phillip and Aurora would both be in attendance. With any luck she could meet with Mal there and get her own measure of the girl. Yes, that was what she would do. After all, they were practically family. It was time them met face to face. What could go wrong with that?
 

Prince Charon

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#49
DhampyrX2 said:
Besides, Ben's coronation was only in a few days and Phillip and Aurora would both be in attendance. With any luck she could meet with Mal there and get her own measure of the girl. Yes, that was what she would do. After all, they were practically family. It was time them met face to face. What could go wrong with that?
:snigger: The mind boggles. :evil2:
 

DhampyrX2

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#50
Yeah, I can never leave well enough alone. Especially when I can put Loki into something he doesn't fit in and try to make it work. My first thought was Descendants with him filling in for one of the two major missing fathers, probably Evie's. Then I got to thinking. Loki is known mostly for illusions, shape shifting, and general WTF levels of magic, including conjuring fire. He's also known for actually being a Jotunn. Two different Disney women immediately come to mind that could fit those molds: Maleficent and Elsa.

Basic premise is the Loki has bee escaping to the Realm where Auradon is located off and on for years. He's fathered two different kids there over the years in two different periods. The first was Maleficent, whose mother was a tree fairy similar to a dryad. As dryads have no real concept of monogamy or long term relationships she had no problem with Loki having to return to Asgard, lest the Allfather discover his new daughter. Maleficent's mother dies and things progress as we've seen in the Maleficent movie with her raising herself in the Moors.

Next comes Elsa's father, who was a son of Loki that knew who his father was but, being raised a Christian noble, was terrified of his own abilities and never used them. That's where he got his "conceal don't feel" mantra from that he forced on Elsa. He had been living it and hiding from himself his whole life. That means Anna and Elsa both are Loki's granddaughters and thus Maleficent's nieces.

Now take it into the one realm where they can all mix successfully (barring Once Upon a Time and its very strange continuity) and place them in the Realm of Auradon from Descendants. Put the timeframe sometime after The Dark World with Odin waking up from the Odinsleep with Loki handing him Gungnir and telling him "I tried to give it to Thor and he refused so I kept the Nine Realms running for you until you woke up for Frigga's sake. We're even and I'm out of here." You have Loki leaving Asgard for what is now present day Auradon to check in on his remaining free family members. He spends time with Anna and Elsa in Arrendale (which was not part of the United States of Auradon according to the map and thus still it's own country) and learns what happened with Maleficent that gets her turned in to a bearded dragon lizard. Cue Loki changing what should have been a short visit to check in on his kids and grandkids into trying to figure out what was going on with his daughter.

And things really pick up when Thor and Sif arrive to bring Loki back "home" because Odin can never leave well enough alone. Just because Loki did the right thing does not mean the Allfather has the sense to let him live his own life.

So, thoughts? Comments? You got my Cheeze Whiz boy?
 
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