sylphidine: Archivist of Fear, and bookish to boot. (Default)

Fandom: Crossover - Rise of the Guardians / Doctor Who / Torchwood

Rating: Gen

Pairings: None

Relationships: None

Characters: Captain Jack Harkness, Pitch Black, Sanderson Mansnoozie

Story Summary
: Two immortals observe a third.

Author's notes: An AU where Jack walked away from Victorian-era Torchwood and never got a hope spot..

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The ramshackle man coughed as he emerged from his nest of piled-up newspapers and scavenged cardboard under the rotting footbridge. He blinked in vexation at watery sunlight stabbing painfully into his rheumy eyes. He hitched one shoulder higher than the other as he straightened from a crouch to what passed for a standing position.

His sleeves felt looser today. His greatcoat was a necessary weight upon his bony shoulders and broken frame... with it, his movements were hampered; without it, there was not enough of *him* to keep body and soul together in a literal sense.

His mind was too raddled by alcohol to wend its way through metaphors. A few random thoughts did manage to emerge from the cerebral underbrush.

Maybe another blanket will fall from the sky.

Would a blanket come if he looked for it? Would it come when he wasn't looking?

Didn't other things fall from the sky? Wasn't there someONE who used to arrive out of the blue from the sky?

"Out of the blue", now that was a good one. He wanted to get into the blue, didn't he...

What?

He propelled himself away from the retaining wall onto the sidewalk, driven by a need for sustenance. His hands clutched at the air in front of him in spasmodic movements; in its transit, his left wrist passed briefly into his line of sight.

There was something on his wrist.

There was nothing on his wrist.
 

"Yes, that's right, you're going. You've been gone for ages. You're already gone. You're still here. You've just arrived. I haven't even met you yet. It all depends on who you are and how you look at it. Strange business, time. Think about me when you're living your life one day after another, all in a neat pattern. Think of the old traveller, with his days like crazy paving."

He scarcely noticed passersby on the pavement, since most shied away from him, gave him a wide berth or crossed the street to get clear of him entirely. His mind did fleetingly register that the air was very strange today; he would move between warm pockets of air and cold ones seemingly at random, and neither gave him a pleasant sensation.

Hunger was the enemy now, and to conquer it was now the only thing that moved his feet over the uneven rises and falls of concrete. The dumpster behind the restaurant called out to him... there would be something there for him.

And then back to his blanket, a thing that had come to him rather than something he had sought.

His endless days were unsought as well.

He wished he could remember seeking.

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After the fourth instance of each of them positioning themselves in front of the shambling drunkard and finding themselves walked through each time, the short golden figure raised small pawlike hands to the taller black-draped one in a silent gesture of defeat.

With a shake of the head the slender, lanky being murmured, "We don't register even as hallucinations. I could have sworn, with the number of aliens he's seen, that he'd see US."

They watched the doomed man shuffle away from them, the buttons on his greatcoat once as bright as the Sandman's eyes, the tarry stains at its hem as dark as the Boogeyman's robes.

The Captain's shadow was more handsome than he.

sylphidine: Fandom musings and meta. (criticizebycreating)
Transporting my Tumblr post from October 2018 to here so that I can import all the links, etc.  I'll be updating it more properly here and on Pillowfort.

Keeping myself accountable for completed and in-progress works on Tumblr and Archive Of Our Own, as well as works in draft on GoogleDocs. 

Status as of 9 October 2018...  

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RISE OF THE GUARDIANS / GUARDIANS OF CHILDHOOD


Information about RotG

 

 

Information about GoC


1] COMPLETE - “Realize”, a BenneFrost promptfic for @nose-nippin-fun. Aged-up Jamie Bennett as a older mortal in love with an immortal Jack Frost, and vice versa.

 

Read on Tumblr

 

Read on AO3

2] IN PROGRESS - “Missed It By THAT Much”, set in the same ‘verse/timeline as “Realize”, but a few decades earlier.  Jack has to deal with his feelings about his boyfriend spending time with someone else, even if that someone is involved with Jamie for purely professional reasons.

 

Part One on Tumblr

 

Chapter 1 on AO3


3] COMPLETE - “P.I.T.C.H. 2095″ - written for @rotg-goc-events for Fave Ship Week.  A dieselpunk AU about a thoughtful present from an elder sibling to cheer a younger sibling after a bad breakup.

 

Read on Tumblr

 

 

Read on AO3

4] COMPLETE - “All Hallows Eels” - written for the #blackicecostumeparty challenge at @blackiceweek. Summary: You wouldn’t think costumes with a theme would be Pitch Black’s thing… at least, not in public.

 

Read on Tumblr

 

Read it on AO3


5]IN PROGRESS- “A Citizen Of The Universe And A Gentleman To Boot” - inspired by “Learning To See” by @emeralddawn13. Summary: Jamie Bennett’s mother attempts to befriend Pitch Black.  

 

 


Read it on AO3

6] COMPLETE - “A Temptation Averted”, a Guardian!Pitch AU BlackIce gift fic for @miss-evening, based on the prompt  “ Person A is in bed reading a book. Person B enters and climbs into bed with them. Without looking up person A raises their arm so that person B can crawl under and snuggle up with them. Person B falls asleep. “

 

Read on Tumblr

 

Read on AO3

 

7] PLOTTED / NOT YET WRITTEN - “Fear-Water Tea” - a bit of fluph wherein Pitch brews a once-a-year special tea, an homage to OWL AT HOME by Arnold Lobel, inspired by and springboarding off a sketch request done for me by @guardian-of-da-gay..
 

 

8] PLOTTED / NOT YET WRITTEN -  “Not In Songs Of Earth” - a tale of North and Jack, operating independently of one another, set within the timeframe of a Victorian children’s book called THE BIRDS’ CHRISTMAS CAROL by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
 

9] STARTED/ STILL IN DRAFT MODE - Untitled - a sickfic request from @gretchensinister, to be a sequel to her OT6 story “The Very Daring Rescue”.

 

 

 

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ROTGOC CROSSOVERS



1] COMPLETE - “His Days Like Crazy Paving” - a RISE OF THE GUARDIANS / TORCHWOOD crossover featuring Captain Jack Harkness, Pitch Black, and Sanderson Mansnoozie.

Read on AO3

 

2] PLOTTED / NOT YET WRITTEN - A crossover with DOCTOR WHO, where Pitch Black and The Third Doctor bond over exile and loneliness, working title “And Fear As My Companion”, not sure if it’s going to be a one-shot or a series. 
 

NIGHTMARE DORK UNIVERSITY [a spinoff college AU of RotGoC, that has generated dozens of AUs of its own]


Nightmare Dork 101, Or What The Hey Is This NDU Stuph Anyway, written by @mira-eyeteeth


1] COMPLETE - “Dreamwalker” - Springboarded off a post on @textsfromrotg.  A Nightmare Dork University story featuring Jack Sickle and Proto Pitch having an unexpectedly civil exchange.

 

Read on Tumblr

 

Read on AO3

2] COMPLETE - “Somewhere Deep Inside Of These Bones” - written from an askmeme prompt from @bowlingforgerbils requesting some NDU StageFright.  Blurb:   Piki cluelessly does the right thing for Jack for ENTIRELY the wrong reasons.

 

Read on Tumblr

 

Read on AO3


3] COMPLETE - “Somnos Scherzo” [originally titled “The Somnos Gavotte”] - a Nightmare Dork University story dealing with Piki Black’s sleeping habits.

 

Read on Tumblr

 

 

Read on AO3

4] COMPLETE-ISH/SEMIPLOTTED - “Mullioned Pains” - a Nightmare Dork University story in four parts centering around Pitch Black and his migraines.  At least two of the parts may get expanded into their own tales.

 

Read on Tumblr

 

Read on AO3


5] COMPLETE: “To Fall Down At Your Door” -  a Nightmare Dork University story set in Pitch and Pitchiner’s final year, and the clock is ticking for both of them towards graduation.

 

Read on Tumblr

 

Read on AO3

6] COMPLETE - “Meat And Poison - a Nightmare Dork University gift fic for @lindzem wherein Jack Sickle takes up a new hobby which disturbs Piki greatly.

 

Read on Tumblr

 

Read on AO3


7] IN PROGRESS - “Forced Perspective” - started out as separate NDU Nightmare Galleon pieces from askmeme prompts, from great-minds-think-alike writers @ksclaw and @mira-eyeteeth.  Am trying to meld them together, with additional material.

 

Original fragments on Tumblr herehere, and here

 

Notes file material here

 

 

WIP on AO3

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WARDROBEVERSE  [the precursor / foundation from which NDU burst forth]


Where it all began...


1] IN PROGRESS - “This Sort Of Thing” - a gift fic for @ksclaw.  Blurb: Why should Pitch Black, retired Guardian of Caution, leave behind his creature comforts to save the world?  AGAIN??!!?? An 1870′s RotGoC AU crossover with NDU, with hat tips to THE WILD WILD WEST,  THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN, and GET SMART, AGAIN! thrown in.  Spoiler alert... there WILL be giant robot spiders and sentient laser beams.  Eventually.  [seriously, this story is the hardest thing I’ve ever tried to write]

 


Read on AO3

2] COMPLETE - “As The Silver Planets Run” - a gift fic for @piratekingpitchblack as a @rotgsecretsanta exchange.  The Nightmare King cannot and will not live without the Boogeyman, and channels some Solstice magick.

 

Read on Tumblr

 

Read on AO3 

 

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NDU CROSSOVERS

1] COMPLETE-ISH/SEMIPLOTTED - “Your First Memory Of All” - a  Nightmare Dork University crossover with DOCTOR WHO, where the museum curator from “Vincent And The Doctor” is given a kitten by The Eighth Doctor.  Dr, Black knows exactly who will give the kitten a good permanent home.... his fifteen-year-old godson, Pitch. I am thinking of writing a POV “flip” version from the POVs of The Eighth Doctor and of Annelle Deauville-Sands, Dr. Black’s wife.

 

Read on Tumblr

 

Read on AO3

 

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ASSORTED BITS THAT ARE NOT QUITE BREWED YET BUT WILL BE TASTY WHEN FINISHED

 

1] STARTED / STILL IN DRAFT MODE - “Third Man Factor”, “What Happens At Con Stays At Con”, and several more pieces for the 2017 #FaveShipWeek challenge at @rotg-goc-events 

2] STARTED / STILL IN DRAFT MODE - “Ten Little Wordsmiths”, an out-and-out horror piece originally intended for the 2017 #BlackAsPitch challenge at @rotg-goc-events 


3] STARTED/ STILL IN DRAFT MODE - Several stories in a Nightmare Dork University AU setting I call “Footlights and Frontispieces”. Far-future NDU stories for the WinterNight pairing, with Piki and Jack having their chosen careers influence the younger generation. Hoping this will become a collaborative effort with the folks who still create NDU fiction and art. There is a story-within-the-story that deals with the NsectDU milieu as an existing series of books called ARTHROPOD ABBEY.


4] STARTED / STILL IN DRAFT MODE - A verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry late BlackSand birthday fic for @emeraldembers based on the very first story she ever wrote.

5] STARTED / STILL IN DRAFT MODE - “Capable”, a nearish-future  Nightmare Dork University short story focusing on a conversation between Piki and Pitchiner, after Coz comes back from military service and reunites with Pitch, but before Jack returns to Piki.

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