Crossovering 2018

[isabelquinn]

Hi! Thanks for writing for me -- I love all the fandoms and combinations I've requested, and crossovers/fusions are among my favourite things ever, so I'm looking forward to whatever you create. Keep in mind that my prompts are just suggestions; there's about a million possible fic ideas for my fandom combinations that I would never think to prompt, but would love to read. If you think of something completely different, go for it. Or if you start with one of my prompts but end up somewhere you didn’t expect, that’s cool too. Have fun writing!

(I'm isquinnabel at AO3)

This letter is split into three sections:
General Likes/DNWs
Fandom-Specific Likes/DNWs
Crossover-Specific Prompts.

General Info

General Likes

• I love hurt/comfort (both physical and emotional).
• I love a wide range of tones, including (but not limited to) angsty, sad & miserable, joyful & happy, terrifying, and whimsical.
• Terrible circumstances creating tight bonds between people.
• All kinds of friendships e.g. lifelong best friends, belligerent/reluctant friendships, and everything in between.
• Family dynamics, from chill and happy to dysfunctional and strained (and everything in between).
• For shippy stuff, I love hurt/comfort, kissing, UST, situational forced proximity (e.g. bed sharing, hiding in a closet, etc), established relationships, casual affection. For crossover ships, I love characters meeting for the first time, but I also love creating a backstory in which they already know each other somehow.
• Bizarre, cracky premises taken seriously.
• Worldbuilding.
• I prefer third person narration, even if the source material is in first person. Past and present tense are both fine.
• Crossover specific: I love both working out how the two worlds in a crossover combine, and I also love fic where it’s just taken for granted that the two canons belong in the same universe. Whichever one fits the story you’re trying to tell sounds great.
• Crossover specific: Building a backstory (or future) for a character using the other canon.

General DNWs

• Explicit sex. I'm fine with sex happening, but I’d prefer no porny scenes or anything you'd need to warn for (e.g. noncon). If in doubt, a fade to black is fine!
• Excessive gore. Canon-level violence is totally fine. (E.g. references to torture in a Hunger Games setting is fine, but I'd rather not be walked through the detail of the torture step-by-step.)
• Parody
• Character bashing

Fandom-specific info

Gilmore Girls
I love the whimsy of this show, and the intensity of the relationships. I love the dialogue of this show, the banter, the references. I love the settings; Stars Hollow, I love the townies, I love the festivals, I love the various stores and locations. I’m much more into the Gilmore family side of this show than the romance side – Lorelai & Rory, Lorelai & Emily, Rory & Richard, Rory & Emily, Lorelai & Richard. I would also really enjoy reading about basically any townie – Gil, Miss Patty, Gypsy, Babette, Morey, Sophie, anyone you like. Feel free to completely ignore the revival, but feel equally free to include it (unless you include Sophie in a fic, in which case I much prefer grumpy regular-series Sophie).
DNW: nothing I haven’t already listed in general DNWs.

Harry Potter
I love the big sprawling world and all the potential for worldbuilding in fic (eg inventing new spells or potions, wandmaking, what wizarding communities look like in other countries, magical creatures, magical plants, magical food, what the various jobs you hear about in canon actually involve e.g. law enforcement, cursebreaking, and so on). I love the Hogwarts ghosts. I love post-war fic or fic set during that final year at Hogwarts. I love muggleborns trying to balance the two worlds they belong to. I’m not particularly invested in any Harry Potter ships, I prefer the friendships, the teams, the found families – I love the close bonds people have in these books, especially after living through the war. Character-wise, I’m most interested in the generation that were Hogwarts students during the time the books were set, but anyone not in the DNWs is also welcome!
DNW: the term “no-maj”, anything that relies on knowledge of anything but the seven books (I haven’t read Cursed Child or seen Fantastic Beasts, I need to get my act together), teacher/student ships, the Marauders, fic focussing on the next generation, rigid house stereotypes.

White Collar
I love Peter’s team. I love them as a group, and I love them as individuals – I love Peter, I love Neal, I love Diana, I love Jones. I love Elizabeth, I love Mozzie, I love Mozzie & Elizabeth, Mozzie & Peter, Mozzie & Neal. I love Sara. I love Alex. I really love the competence in this show. I love elaborate schemes and cons. I love unusual groups working together for a common goal (Burke’s Seven is one of my favourite episodes). I love when art stuff and/or forgery is woven in. I don’t necessarily need any references to technical things to be accurate. It’s not an area I know much about, so a halfway-convincing technobabble bluff is totally fine (but if it’s something you love researching, I’d also really enjoy having that woven in). Also, this is a show where I actually have ship preferences! I love Peter/Elizabeth and Neal/Sara, and would happily read anything ship-focussed about either.
DNW: Kate Moreau, Neal/Kate, Neal/Peter, Neal/Peter/El

Hunger Games
Both fandoms I’ve listed with Hunger Games I’ve signed up for fusions. I love Hunger Games fusions because of the world and the tropes that come with the Hunger Games universe. Putting characters from another canon into a Hunger Games setting is something that really draws me in – whether it’s in an arena, as Victors, as complacent Capitol citizens, as rebel Capitol citizens, as district citizens – any of it fascinates me. Seeing how this major change in setting effects characters from the other canon, in what ways their different experiences have moulded them into a different person, in what ways they’re still recognisably the same person, how their relationships with others are influenced by this new setting... a Hunger Games setting is like an instant pressure cooker, and I love to see the impact this has on who characters are. I also love the opportunity for worldbuilding this provides (e.g. setting a fic in a District that isn’t shown much, like Ten or Six or Nine, etc). Including characters from the Hunger Games canon is welcome, but not necessary. Also, if you’re writing a fic in the Hunger Games universe, major character death is fine.
DNW: nothing I haven’t already listed in general DNWs.

Chronicles of Narnia
I love all the Friends of Narnia – the Pevensies, Polly and Digory, Eustace and Jill. I love how they grow so much when they visit Narnia, and how their minds and bodies remember and strengthen upon return to Narnia. I love the bonds they have with each other due to experiencing another world, whether they were there together or not. I love the various locations, whether they’re ones explored in the books or ones only briefly touched upon – the Eastern Sea and its various islands, the Wood Between the Worlds, Bism, the mermaid societies at the far east of the ocean, sentient stars, the mountain ranges of the sun, etc. I love Uncle Andrew’s box of mysterious dust. I love travelling and exploring in Narnia, and moving between worlds.
DNW: movie canon, Caspian/Susan, I’m happy for Peter to be part of the story but I’m not interested in him as a main character

Lost
I love both the mythology and the relationships. This is a great show for groups and teams – I love the groovy 70s Dharmaville group (whether they’re settled in Dharmaville or stuck in the time flashes), I love the post-canon era group where Hurley is learning how to do his job. I also love the 50s Jughead setting for conflict and tension. I love love love Sawyer/Juliet – I love them as a ship, and I love them as individual characters. Also very happy to read about Desmond/Penny. I love Richard Alpert, Hurley, Claire, Sayid, Desmond, Daniel, Charlotte... Honestly, don’t feel too restricted regarding characters. It’s such a huge cast, I’ll just forget to list people who I’d love to read about.
DNW: Jack/Kate, I’m happy for Jack or Miles to be part of the story but I’m not interested in either as a main character

Malory Towers
The canons I’m crossing over with Malory Towers are either magic or dystopia (Harry Potter and Hunger Games). I have a lot of nostalgic love for these books, and I’ve loved stories where groups of girls do cool shit my entire life. But even as a kid, there were things that bothered me, and I’d love to read fic that use this setting and/or these characters that I love, and that have been in my life for so long, but use them to tell a different story. I’d love to read about students at Malory Towers who don’t always feel at home, don’t always feel like they belong, don’t always feel like it’s the greatest place ever. Or I’d love to read about the characters in a different setting, one where they have to make tough decisions and morality is more grey.
DNW: nothing I haven’t already listed in general DNWs.

Baby-Sitters Club
I love these books so much. I love all the characters – I’m happy to read about any baby-sitter you wish in any combination, and I also love the characters in the Thomas-Brewer and Pike families. I’m also happy to read about characters from the Little Sister series. I'm in this for the gen relationships (the friends, the families, etc) and not so much for romantic pairings. I love Stoneybrook as a setting, and all the various shops and parks and whatnot around town. I'm totally on board for canon era or older (high school age or college age or twentysomethings or thirtysomethings, all sound good). Regarding aged-up fic, I love reading about adult versions of these characters who are recognisably the same person, but maybe didn’t end up exactly where their childhood self expected. I love reading about adult versions of these characters whose worlds have expanded, who’ve drifted away from some old friends and kept in touch with others, made new friends and/or enemies along the way, and built their adult life in a way that suits them.
DNW: Mary Anne/Logan as adults, parodies (or any fic where the crossover scenario is a goofy joke), caricatured versions of their futures (e.g. Kristy as dictator of the universe-type scenarios), fic where the premise is based entirely around a club reunion, chapter-two-esque recounts of what everyone is doing with their life now, first person narration.

Anne of Green Gables
These books are my happy place. I love Anne, the way she thinks, the way she speaks, the way she interacts with people, her intense attachments to people and places and things. I love how she sees magic everywhere. I love how she matures as she ages, but the mundane realities of real life and adulthood don’t rob her of the things that make her Anne. I also love Matthew and Marilla – I love the different ways they express kindness, I love them as individuals, I love them as family to each other, and I love them as family to Anne. I love how these books deal with the little things that make up such a big part of life.
DNW: nothing I haven’t already listed in general DNWs.

SCP Foundation
I love eerie, unsettling horror. I love being scared. I also love fun. The SCP Foundation combines horror and humour in a way that works for me so well, and I’d really enjoy a fic that focussed on horor or humour or a mix of both. I love the idea of characters from other canons encountering SCPs out in the world. Or, I love the thought of another canon universe adding more to our understanding of an SCP. I’ve suggested some specific SCPs in my prompts, but don’t feel restricted to those particular SCPs. If you think an SCP I haven’t listed would work well in a crossover, go for it!
DNW: already listed in general DNWs, but I don't like excessive gore. I like being scared, but I don't like being grossed out.

Stranger Things
I love the world that's been built for this show. I love all the intense horror of the Upside-Down and how it's enmeshed with the mundane Hawkins. I love that the show manages to build all that dread and unease while still having so many moments that make me grin. I love how the younger group use the language of a fictional world they understand to make sense of what's happening, and how in the midst of all this horror they're still so clearly kids. Character-wise, I love all the younger kids (Dustin and Eleven are my favourites but I love them all), Barb, Jonathan, and Hopper.
DNW: Billy. I'm happy for Steve to be included but I'd rather not have him as the main focus.

Prompts

Request 1 - Hunger Games/Gilmore Girls (fusion)
I love putting canons into a Hunger Games setting that have a very different tone. Putting Gilmore Girls characters into a world that’s so bleak is a big shift, and I love seeing how this changes/doesn’t change people. After having Rory, Lorelai was still young enough to be reaped – was she? Did she win? Win or lose, how does this effect Rory’s life? Is she raised by Richard and/or Emily if Lorelai doesn’t come home, or by a Star’s Hollow townie? Or if Lorelai’s a victor, is Rory raised in the Victor’s Village with her mother? If the latter, what sort of relationship does Lorelai have with Richard and Emily in this scenario? Or maybe the Gilmores are Capitol citizens and Lorelai is/was a Capitol runaway, looking for District Thirteen with a kid in tow? Or is Lorelai one of the unnamed victors who are part of the plan to save Katniss & Peeta and break the arena in Catching Fire? If so, what's her fate? Or maybe a fic where Rory gets reaped — how does she manage in the Games? How does Lorelai cope?

Request 2 - Hunger Games/Malory Towers (fusion)
Another request with Hunger Games creating a big tone shift! Maybe a straight-up arena setting would work well for this – how do the MT girls struggle in the arena? Who allies with who? Do any of them suit particular districts? Who makes it to the end? Are they proud or traumatized? Or, maybe an MT staff member is a victor, trying to keep her girls alive year after year. Or maybe some MT girls are victors in this same scenario, trying to keep their tributes alive. Or maybe they’re Capitol schoolgirls who couldn’t care less about the plight of the kids in the arena.

Request 3 - Harry Potter/White Collar/SCP Foundation (crossover)
Harry Potter/SCP Foundation
Merging these two canons would be so cool. Is the SCP Foundation in regular contact with the Ministry of Magic? Do they work together? Which ministry departments would work with the SCP Foundation? The Unspeakables? The Aurors? The Improper Use of Magic Office? Would Arthur Weasley deal with them, working in Misuse of Muggle Artifacts? Or do the SCP Foundation and wizarding governments not get along — are there squabbles over jurisdiction? Are any SCPs taught as part of the Hogwarts curriculum? Do wizards refer to them as SCPs or do they have whole other names for them? Does the Hogwarts classroom setting inject some lighthearted silliness into an otherwise unnerving SCP, or is it still nightmare fuel?
SCP-specific:
* SCP-978: I love how this SCP functions similarly to the Mirror of Erised, but is fundamentally different. It shows the subject doing what they’d like to be doing at that specific moment, rather than their deepest desire. Something exploring the differences between the two could be really cool. Or I’d really enjoy a straight-up experiment log of Harry Potter characters, that would be fun!
* SCP-701: Maybe some dark wizard has snuck a copy into a muggle community (e.g. a school or a community library) and a performance is being organised. To what extent do the SCP Foundation and the Ministry work together to monitor the situation, and how do they react when the signs of an outbreak start manifesting?

Harry Potter/White Collar
A fusion in which the White Collar universe has Harry Potter magic would be really interesting. Does Peter’s team solve magical white collar crime? What sorts of crimes do they solve? Has someone forged a copy of a powerful magical item? How does this change in setting change Neal’s crime history? How do he and Mozzie operate as wizards? Or, do only some characters have magic? Is Elizabeth a witch, and does Peter’s resulting knowledge of this whole other side of New York change how he sees his cases? Is Mozzie all over conspiracy theories of witches and wizards hidden amongst us? Alternately, a crossover would be amazing too. Does anyone from the HP universe work in international law enforcement now, and consults on a case for the White Collar team? Or does Sara’s sister’s disappearance have anything to do with the HP universe?

White Collar/SCP Foundation
This show deals with so many objects and artefacts, stumbling across an SCP seems inevitable. What would happen if the White Collar team encountered an SCP? Would SCP Foundation personnel take over the investigation, and how would Peter feel about this? How much exposure do the White Collar characters have before this happens? What do they remember when it’s all over? Or, since SCPs are often so weird, maybe Mozzie is the only one who’s aware of their existence. Or maybe he knows a surprising amount about the SCP Foundation, but no-one takes him seriously. Or maybe a White Collar character crosses paths with one of the SCPs disguised as a super mundane item.
SCP-specific:
* SCP-978: What if this SCP was part of Mozzie’s arsenal of weird-ass weapons? Where did he get it from? How did he learn what it does? How does he use it for fun and profit?
* SCP-1074: What if the White Collar team were caught up in this SCP's discovery? Or what if someone like Keller got hold of it and used it as a weapon?

Request 4 - Harry Potter/Malory Towers (crossover)
I’d love to read about a squib at Malory Towers. There are plenty of girls (or staff!) with families we know little or nothing about (like Irene or Mary Lou or Belinda etc) or girls with just enough family info that it can be read as magic if you wear HP goggles (e.g. Alicia’s brother’s classmate who’s “a bit of an inventor in his way” and creates the sneezing pellets). How do they deal with keeping in touch with their family at home? Or their family at Hogwarts? How does their Hogwarts-based sibling manage? How do they explain their family to their friends at Malory Towers? Do they struggle with Malory Towers not being the life they envisaged for themselves? Do they feel distant from their family, or from muggle life at MT? Or both? Or neither? Maybe they’re the only squib, or maybe there’s another squib rattling around somewhere. If there’s another squib around, what's their relationship like? Are they friends? Enemies? Are they in different towers and forms and their paths don’t cross much? Or is there a mentor/mentee thing going, with one helping the other understand the muggle world and feel some sense of belonging? Are they both students, or is one a teacher? Does Tom Riddle opening the Chamber of Secrets coincide with canon era Malory Towers, and does this create a whole lot of worry?

Request 5 - Narnia/Lost (crossover)
What if the island was a pool in the Wood Between the Worlds? What if Polly and Digory went to the island instead of (or as well as) Charn? What if a Lost character found a way off the island that took them to the Wood, or to Narnia? Or portals in general – what other ways are there to get between Narnia and the island? What if one (or more?) of the adult Pevensies joined the Dharma Initiative and moved to the island? Or Eustace or Jill? What’s their official job? Why are they there? Charlotte might be a good character to link the two canons – what did her life involve between leaving the island as a child and returning as an adult? What sorts of places and things did she discover while searching for the island?

Request 6 - Harry Potter/Gilmore Girls/SCP Foundation (crossover)
Harry Potter/Gilmore Girls
Both these canons have such a whimsical/absurd flair to them, crossing them over seems kind of natural. What if Harry-Potter-style magic existed in the Gilmore Girls universe? What if Stars Hollow was a wizarding town, or a partial wizarding town? Is Lorelai a muggleborn witch? Or are the Gilmores a prominent magical family? Does adding HP-style magic to Stars Hollow show some of the town idiosyncrasies in a different light? Alternately, there are so many “Character A meets Character B” scenarios that would be really interesting. Who, from the HP universe, might move to Stars Hollow? Would they fit in beautifully, or would they be treated with suspicion? How would this scenario play out if Stars Hollow was a regular non-magical town vs a magical town?

SCP Foundation/Gilmore Girls
Gilmore Girls already has plenty of whimsy, and some of the sillier SCPs would fit right in. I also really love adding some scariness into Gilmore Girls, so creepy SCPs are totally welcome. Or adding some Gilmore characters into the SCP world might be fun. What if Paris ended up working her way up the ranks of the SCP Foundation? I love the idea of this future for her — making decisions that contribute to our body of knowledge or keep the world safe, while also being super irritated by other people’s incompetence or impatient with the more docile SCPs, and utterly unafraid of horrifying SCPs that actively loathe her from within their containment.
SCP-specific:
* SCP-3540:What if a house in Stars Hollow (the Twickham House, maybe?) goes through an SCP-3540 event? This SCP in Stars Hollow could be kind of delightful. How do SCP-3540-1 and SCP-3540-2 feel about the town? Do any Star’s Hollow citizens realise that something weird is happening, or do they take it in stride?

SCP Foundation/Harry Potter
See Request 3.

Request 7 - Baby-Sitters Club/Stranger Things (crossover or fusion)
The shared eighties setting somehow makes this irresistible? I love the idea of a fusion where Stoneybrook has an upside down. I love Stoneybrook as a setting, and infusing some Stranger Things-esque scifi/horror would be amazing. Maybe someone in the BSC universe starts having some terrifying premonitions/dreams. The sitters are middle-schoolers like the group of younger characters; maybe their paths cross somehow. Camp Mohawk, maybe? Camp Mohawk could be a great location for this crossover. Or maybe someone from one canon is visiting family in the other. Maybe Barb is Mallory's cousin, and the Pike family are the connection point between the two canons -- Maybe some of the Pikes go to Hawkins for a month or something to help support the family, and some of the Pike kids get caught up in everything. Or maybe an out-of-left-field character would work well as a crossover point, like Alan Gray.

Request 8 - Anne of Green Gables/Harry Potter (crossover or fusion)
Anne of Green Gables plus magic... how does this work? Does Anne have magic? Did her uncontrolled childhood magic make her life before Green Gables even harder? How does her life change by going to Green Gables? Is she able to access magical education? If you want to worldbuild a magical education system for Canada, that sounds amazing. Or, what if Avonlea is a magical town? Is Anne the only one without magic? Is she okay with that, or does it bother her? Are the residents okay with a muggle outsider? How does this influence Anne’s later life? How does it influence the lives of her family? Or, what about the other way around? Who might an AOGG character be in the HP universe? Would Matthew take over Hagrid’s gamekeeping responsibilities while he’s away in OotP? Would Anne be a Hogwarts professor?

Request 9 - White Collar/Baby-Sitters Club (crossover)
I love unexpected futures for these girls, and I’d love to read about BSC characters fitting into the White Collar universe and what ties they might have to canon WC characters. E.g. maybe Claudia and Janine are an art forgery team, friends with Neal and/or Mozzie – Janine dealing with the chemical side of things, Claudia with the aesthetic side. Maybe Stacey is friends with Sara, or they work together in some way – they’re both so fabulous and so clever, I’d love to read about them as a team. Stacey’s math brain could be a great asset in Sara’s work. Or maybe Kristy or Stacey work with Elizabeth in event planning. Who might be a good fence, regularly working with Neal or Mozzie, or even Alex? Kristy or Mallory, maybe? Or perhaps Kristy or Mallory or Stacey are part of Peter’s team. (Side note: I’m not as interested in a crossover in the opposite direction, i.e. White Collar characters in Stoneybrook. This is because my limited imagination can only picture a fic like that being a parody, which is one of my general DNWs. If you can write this without it being a parody, go for it!)

Thank you!