Dream crossover!

[melannen]

What crossover or crossover pairing do you really really want to exist that does not have a single work on AO3?



For awhile now I have really wanted Machineries of Empire/Gideon the Ninth fic with Harrowheart Nonagesimus/Cheris Ajewen, with sword kink, and Jedao and Gideon providing unwanted subvocal commentary the whole time. At least as far as the first Ninth book, there's no *particular* reason their system couldn't be a Machineries backwater with a particularly morbid calendar - and if it was, Cheris would certainly wash up there for necromancy research at some point - so really it's basically canon that this happened.

I also still really want Good Omens crossed with The Bible According to Mark Twain, because his cosmology fits GO's well enough that I'm pretty sure Pratchett, at least, read it before writing GO. And Twain's Adam and Eve are darlings. You'd have to finesse the snake bit some, but Eve would totally have edited her diary if Crowley asked her nicely, so that can be worked out.

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[alexseanchai]

If I search for everything in English that's tagged both "Miraculous Ladybug" and "Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling", then filter out everything that's tagged with any other fandom (Cursed Child can stay, I suppose—or rather it could: the only work tagged both ML and Cursed Child almost has more tagged pairings than the work has words!), most of which are collections of unrelated one-shots comprising a single AO3 work anyway, and also everything that's tagged "Alternate Universe - Hogwarts" or "Alternate Universe - Harry Potter Setting" and thus probably shouldn't have the HP fandom tag anyway, that leaves me 23 works.

I am not looking to see what other tags are on the one AO3 Savior is hiding bc tagged Vore. Of the remainder, if I don't count the one where a freeform tag tells me Harry Potter is Adrien Agreste, only eight tag characters from both canons. The impression I get from seven of those summaries is that the protagonists of both series are, in these fics, the same age; the author's note on the eighth places Harry at twenty years old, and the ML characters seem to be approximately their canonical age, which is to say, early-mid teens.

Now, both canons' internal chronological evidence contradict themselves six ways to Sunday. But if Marinette is a Snake and the temple that was destroyed 172 years ago was destroyed in 1844, then she was born in 2001. And if the 500th anniversary of Sir Nicholas's 1492 death is Halloween of Harry's second year, then Harry was born in 1980.

I haven't read Cursed Child and I am spoiled enough to be pretty sure I don't want to, but Marinette and Adrien are Harry's kids' age, and Harry and them probably have opinions on child soldiers. (Also, Molly Weasley has opinions on children with neglectful birth families.)

Where, AO3, is my proper ML/HP crossover?

[melannen]

Oh, yes!

In general the world needs more Harry Potter crossovers that aren't just "these characters go to Hogwarts at either the same time as canon or a vague undefined time".

[alexseanchai]

…I think I just figured out why I haven't gotten anywhere on writing either that Harry Potter/Miraculous Ladybug or my Miraculous Ladybug/Beauty and the Beast (1991). In both of these, the leads of the first canon listed have expertise that, if directed at the central magical problem of the second canon, ought to solve the problem much more quickly†. This removes agency and idk narrative centrality from the leads of the second canon. But I like those leads and I want them to shine at least as fiercely as they canonically do!


† Or at any rate to identify the solution, since Belle needed to fall in love with Beast and say as much in order to transform him back, and both "telling her what they need her to do and why would make it much more difficult if not impossible for her to do it" and "the curse ensures no one who isn't under it can be told how to undo it" are plausible.