Two for One 2022 (aka The Crossover Challenge)

[lielac]

Reposting regency's post from last year, with permission.

Two for One is an annual sub-challenge to help people who like crossovers and/or fusions find one another's requests.

To participate, simply copy-paste the following into a comment:
AO3 Name:
Letter Link:
Crossover Type: (ie. crossover, fusion, or either)
Potential Fandom Combinations: (list all combinations you're interested in, ex. James Bond/Ted Lasso, Succession/Squid Game)
Prompts!: (as many and as detailed as you like)

One of the fandoms in each pairing must be one you are requesting for Yuletide; however, the other doesn’t have to be. It doesn’t even have to be in the tagset at all!

Some clarification about crossover types:
• Crossovers tend to involve Fandom A's characters interacting with Fandom B's characters or worldbuilding, with everyone retaining their canon backgrounds. Ex. Harley Quinn and The X-Men team up to defeat a villain, or Enola Holmes falls into a portal that takes her to Westeros.

• Fusions tend to be AUs in which Fandom A's characters have always existed in Fandom B's setting instead of their own, often replacing Fandom B's characters. Ex. Bucky Barnes as a contestant in the Hunger Games, where Fury and Howard Stark are referees. (A fic like this in which Hunger Games characters also appear would be a hybrid between a fusion and crossover.)

Comments

[keerawa]

AO3 Name: keerawa
Letter Link: https://keerawa.dreamwidth.org/5806.html
Crossover Type: Mostly fusions, but crossovers as prompted could be fun, too!
Potential Fandom Combinations and Prompts:

The Expanse/The Wire:
Amos comes from Baltimore, and grew up Doing Crime there. I'd love to read a story where one or more of my favorite characters from The Wire (Omar Little, Stringer Bell, Bubbles, Kima Greggs) are part of Amos's backstory, growing up in Baltimore, OR are Belters. Amos/Omar sounds amazing.

The Expanse/Black Sails
The parallels between Nassau and Belter culture interest me, with that tension between a distant imperial corporate super-power and the people trying to live between the cracks and make a future for themselves and their people. I would be thrilled to see some of the Black Sails characters make their way in this future. You could even do something clever, crossing over or set in both time periods, if you felt inspired. I had a wonderful author write me a story with Max running a Belter brothel, and it made me hungry for more. Gen, Chrisjen/Max or Amos/Flint would be great. Flint would be such a terrible moral compass for Amos!

Rivers of London/Highlander
I've got 3 potential prompts in mind here.
1) Nightingale might recognize Duncan MacLeod, in modern-day London, from his time working during WWII living in London, as part of the Resistance, or working for the British secret service.
2) A murder scene with decapitation and evidence of lightning strikes being investigated as a possible Falcon case.
3) Methos has finally tracked down those records of Nazi magical experimentation that went missing during the war, and gets caught trying to sneak into the Folly to destroy them.

Rivers of London/221b Baker Towers
"Toss out what's impossible. Then take a good hard look at whatever's left, bruv, 'cause don't matter how mad, it's true." Sherlock believes the evidence of his senses, but is very, very suspicious of PC Grant and some posh DCI in his ends ‘taking an interest’. This is a gritty, fan-sourced, modern day adaptation of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes where Sherlock is a young black man growing up on a council estate in London, with almost no actual canon.

Rivers of London/Foyle's War
Thomas Nightingale, barely functioning after Ettersberg, is sent to work with Foyle and Sam in cleaning up a very disturbing library. Perhaps this is the beginning of The Arrangement?

Mercy Thompson/The Good Fight
Kalinda Sharma trained Warren and helped him get his documentation and PI license. How did they meet? Did they bond over their hidden sexualities? Is Kalinda a werewolf too? Enquiring minds want to know!

Mercy Thompson/Yellowstone
Warren worked as a hand on the Yellowstone at one point in the past and befriended Rip and Kayce Dutton. When he finds out they’re in trouble, he shouldn’t get involved – but he does. (If you ship Warren with either, I'm 100% in!)

Warrior/Hell on Wheels
1) What if Bohannon ended up taking a job with the San Francisco police in place of Richard Lee? I can imagine Ah Toy considering the dangers and opportunities such a dangerous man might bring.
2) Maybe Durrant was building his railroad West from the Pacific, using Chinese labor, when he hired Bohannon? I would love to read a fic where Wang Chao was one of the men who quietly organized the eight-day strike in 1867.