not exactly a crossover, but red vs blue seems like the kind of canon that could easily be imagined as someone's tabletop roleplaying campaign, both 'cause of its silliness and its roots. you know, like those tumblr posts in which people write what what would have been rolled and what the hypothetical players would've decided to do to create the events of the canon if they were d&ding it. like, it seems very much in the spirit of that kinda thing, you know...
it is indeed!!! :D:D:D though i am sad that it neglected to provide a d&d style scenario for how caboose and sheila killed church the very first time (one of the main things which i was specifically thinking about when talking about red vs blue as d&d shenanigans) - like did sheila roll a natural 20 on her attack killing church or what? and church coming back as a ghost! what i'm imagining is something like church's player in the scenario complaining about being knocked out early in the game or caboose's being upset he killed church, and vic being like, "... uh, you come back as a ghost, i guess...."
Nah, that's Critical Miss territory if I've ever seen it. He tried to shoot the Reds, rolled a Nat 1.
My friends are streaming Ladykiller in a Bind this would be fine but I can't unsee the protagonist and the twin brother she's supposed to be impersonating as Rose and Dave now
So I have this enormous weakness for reincarnation-type crossovers. Currently I am working on a "Stephanie Brown is reborn as Inner!Sakura" fic and a "Jason Todd is reborn as Harry Potter" fic. Both dramatically change canon. This is fun.
DETECTIVE CONAN/MAGIC KAITO/ADVENTURE ZONE CROSSOVER!! Angus is Conan. Taako is Kaito. Shenanigans happen. "Will you teach me magic, sir?" b/c he wants to understand what KID is doing. Taako, laughing internally: "Sure thing kiddo!" Angus being overly formal and polite b/c he can't for the life of him remember what he acted like as a kid, but people used to say he was "polite" and "a good kid", soooo Taako barely holding on to his secret identity b/c that man cannot keep a secret to save his life. Aoko-parallel absolutely knows what's up. Hakuba-parallel is SO FRUSTRATED ALL THE TIME. Is this Kravitz? Lup doesn't have a parallel but they absolutely switch places all the time, and she's most of the reason they haven't been caught yet. Barry knows. Lup didn't tell him. Taako didn't tell him, but... Taako teaching Angus magic tricks and he knows this is his greatest (nonlethal) adversary but he's just so cute-! Lup: You're getting attatched. Taako: Absolutely not. I never get attatched. Lup: mmhm. sure. The Hunger is the Black Org. The fic climaxes with Taako's group (IPRE) and Angus's group (BoB) teaming up to defeat the Hunger, which is just a mafia in this universe.
DC/MK/TAZ stuff. Probably some spoilers if you haven't watched/listened to all of those? Okay, so. I don't know what Angus's name as a teen is. He's just... Angus. He was good friends (without any of that romantic stuff) with Killian and Carey, a pair of ex-secret-service lesbians who are now a private detective (Killian) and a security consultant (Carey). After the shrinking, Angus goes and finds his old, enabling next door neighbor (Davenport???) for help, before sneaking back to his house to find his clothes from when he was a kid. Now, K&C are always pretty concerned about this teenager living mostly alone (they know him through his crime-solving) and periodically check up on him. Killian is mighty suspicious when she finds this kid who looks just like [Angus's old name], in his house, wearing a pair of glasses without lenses and trying to insist that he's a little cousin she's never heard of and his older cousin has mysteriously and suddenly left the country. Still, she takes him home, because no kid that age should be left alone like that. The thing is, Angus may be brilliant but Killian and Carey are pretty dang smart, and he's not really the best actor. He slips up within two days, and ends up telling them everything. He's much less hesitant about it than Shinichi, because unlike Ran and her father, his cool lesbian aunts are ex secret service and can look after themselves. So they set up fake paperwork for him and soon he's officially their ward. If we're going with Davenport for the professor, we'll say he's a retired astronaut and a scientist, but most of his experience is the sort of experiments you do in space, so maybe fewer gadgets. Carey can maybe make up for that. Meanwhile, Taako and Lup's aunt raised them, balancing her job as a cook with her semi-job-semi-hobby as a stage magician -- and her nighttime hobby as a phantom thief. After she was murdered, they were shipped around foster homes for a bit, but Taako was pretty amoral, which bothered people, and effeminate, which got him picked on, and Lup tends to beat up people who pick on her brother, and of course there's transphobic assholes, so Taako once (or possibly more than once) drove someone who said some pretty awful things about Lup nearly to a mental break down. All in all, they caused a lot of trouble and generally hated every guardian who wasn't their aunt on principle, even the genuinely nice ones. Basically, they were a pair of little asshole trolls, as much to survive as anything else. So eventually they ran away. They survive from that point on by pick pocketing and grifting and doing magic tricks on the street. Eventually they befriend Barry and Magnus (adoptive brothers, I guess? Merle is their dad), who slowly persuade them to stay over night, just this once, it's going to be in the negatives (F) tonight, we just want to make sure you're safe, so on and so on until they actually say yes when Merle offers to adopt them. They're in their early teens at this point? They have to work pretty hard to catch up and get into high school, but both twins are smarter than anyone ever thinks they are. They become KID because... um. Okay, I'm ageing up Hurley and Sloane a bit. Sloane was a friend of their aunt's, but was unable to take the twins in due to financial stuff/criminal history barring her from fostering or adoption/actually being in jail at the time. (She feels guilty about not being able to take them in, so ended up distancing herself from them a little bit -- she's still their cool aunt though.) Hurley is the head of the KID task force. She knows that Sloane used to be a thief, but has no idea that KID was a close friend of hers. So, Sloane finds out that the Taaco aunt (I'll have to come up with a name for her) was murdered rather than killed in a stage accident like everyone thought. She reacts by trying to draw the murderers out. She doesn't manage that so much as she manages to draw out the twins, who have just found the KID lair -- Sloane moved into their aunt's house when she died to keep someone else from finding it, and the twins have an open invitation, now that she can keep track of them again (it was pretty easy for them to completely disappear in a city as big as the one they live in, much to Sloane's dismay when she went to visit them and found that they'd run away). Anyway, that bit goes down much like in Magic Kaito. Cue training montage as Sloane teaches them what she knows and the three of them work together as KID, since Sloane isn't nearly as old as Jii. Barry finds out what they're doing pretty fast. Merle very determinedly does not notice anything. Magnus is oblivious. Enter Kravitz! First name Mac because of the twitter person, middle name Alli because I saw it in a fic. Prefers to be called Kravitz. Okay. He's actually British in this because he's taking Hakuba's place, so no terrible fake accent (sadly). Unlike Hakuba, he's terrible with time. Still a major dork. Identifies the twins as being KID pretty much immediately -- he may not be Angus-level smart but he's a pretty dang good detective in his own right. However, he has no proof, and the longer he spends with them -- especially Taako -- the more convinced he is that they're doing this for a reason, and he doesn't want to arrest them without finding out what it is (he has the sneaking suspicion that he won't want to arrest them at all once he does find out). He takes theft cases mostly unlike Angus because he grew up in and around his mother Raven's funeral home, which exposed him to more death than he's really interested in having to deal with ever again. In any case, despite popular belief, his plan for the future is not to join the police force or become a private eye, but to become an orchestra conductor. He's just really good at solving mysteries, and got exasperated with the police after stumbling on several botched investigations in a row. His step-mother, Istus, was very encouraging of this hobby; she's a ...judge?? Something like that. Determining fate. Um. Julia and Magnus meet in their high school woodshop class and hit it off immediately. Avi is... a friend of Angus's? And dating Johann, who is music buddies with Kravitz, which is one way the two groups are connected. Another way is that Merle and Davenport (first name Drew?? everyone just calls him captain) are old friends and engaged in some sort of brain-breaking old man flirtation. Lucretia sort of takes Akako's place, in that she's Actual Magic, but their personalities are pretty much nothing alike. Aaaand that's basically all I have at the moment.
@Jean I know next to nothing about TAZ but as a (lapsed) DC/MK fan I approve of your crossover. It sounds like lots of fun, especially having multiple people as KID at the same time!
I read Disney fic immediately after rereading The Eye of Argon and now I have a desperate need for Frollo taking a full page to fall over in lovingly described detail after Esmeralda kicks him in the balls.
So, I know it's a somewhat more niche fandom, but I've recently remembered Arsene Lupin, the famous french thief and master of disguise. Probably best known as the grandfather of Lupin III, though my first exposure to him was in Night Hood. Either way, I'm kind of amazed that no one has written about his other obvious descendant, Remus Lupin. No need to change his personality too much, but I'd love to read that take on third year--him teaching Harry methods of disguise both magical and mundane. He even gathered a group of ne'er-do-wells in school, the Marauders, despite being largely more subdued (likely due to lycanthropy associated concerns).
