Comment with a fanfic trope and, if you'd like, a character/pairing, and I will tell you: • how likely I am to write it • A few lines of theoretical fic
Oh, this is cruel. I'd love to write... Simon with Memento-style amnesia as part of a piece of sabotage or training, where he keeps forgetting *everything* in his short term memory but maintains everything else otherwise.
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He's been here before, even if he has no idea where he is. Simon knows this, because there's a map - crude, rudimentary - carved out on the back of his arm; that, and his own knife is bloodied in his right hand.
'This is going to be a hard one,' Claire says to him, leaning back in his chair and looking wrong all over. Luck knows he doesn't sprawl like that.
'Is it?' he grits out.
'You're going to have to learn how to look happy if you're wearing my body,' Claire grins. 'You're so dour.'
'I smile,' Luck says.
'Only when you're murdering people,' Claire retorts. 'Oh, wait. Maybe you will be all right, then: I've got a job coming up in two days.' He slaps his hands down on his thighs and Luck winces at the incongruity of how it all looks. 'Maybe you'll go out there and actually have some fun.'
'And I,' Luck says firmly, 'have rounds to do tomorrow in our territory. Try to shake some hands instead of breaking them.'
*cackles* Oh, I love it. This is such a wonderful recipe for potential mayhem.
Considering everything else that's happened in Baccano, I'm a little surprised that this trope never showed up in the light novels. Sounds like just the sort of Fun With Alchemy that ought to happen....
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Simon Illyan
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He's been here before, even if he has no idea where he is. Simon knows this, because there's a map - crude, rudimentary - carved out on the back of his arm; that, and his own knife is bloodied in his right hand.
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'This is going to be a hard one,' Claire says to him, leaning back in his chair and looking wrong all over. Luck knows he doesn't sprawl like that.
'Is it?' he grits out.
'You're going to have to learn how to look happy if you're wearing my body,' Claire grins. 'You're so dour.'
'I smile,' Luck says.
'Only when you're murdering people,' Claire retorts. 'Oh, wait. Maybe you will be all right, then: I've got a job coming up in two days.' He slaps his hands down on his thighs and Luck winces at the incongruity of how it all looks. 'Maybe you'll go out there and actually have some fun.'
'And I,' Luck says firmly, 'have rounds to do tomorrow in our territory. Try to shake some hands instead of breaking them.'
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Considering everything else that's happened in Baccano, I'm a little surprised that this trope never showed up in the light novels. Sounds like just the sort of Fun With Alchemy that ought to happen....
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Simon Illyan/Captain Negri
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Also:
Fish out of Water, Rufus