Andraste

Last night my subconscious gifted me with:

A) A Les Miserables/Murderbot fusion AU where Javert was a SecUnit who didn't have a working governor module but nobody noticed because of course he still followed all the rules. (No word on whether he passed the time watching Sanctuary Moon. Probably not.)

B) The excellent but also extremely random crossover pairing of Sten from Dragon Age/Asterius from Hades. Also they were on a boat for some reason??? Theseus was of course sulking in the background; hopefully whatever situation that put Sten and Asterius on the same ship had also deposited Iron Bull there to console him?

So I am trying to work out which character to choose for A Ficathon Walks Into A Bar, and I have been struck by a random plot bunny of the breed that brought you the thought 'Ray Vecchio and Helena Bertinelli should totally hang out!"

Because you know which characters should walk into a bar together? Londo Mollari and Charles Emerson Winchester. They would start out by insulting each other, because Winchester [1] would be in a bad mood from finding himself in the future where all his his medical knowledge is a couple of centuries out of date. Insulting is really his default mode anyway, and Londo would be happy to respond in kind. However, after a drink or two they would get onto the subject of MUSIC and then Winchester would find out that he's arrived in a time where you can put all you favourite recordings on a device that fits in your pocket and then there would be Centauri opera, and Earth opera, and they would probably get thrown out of the bar for abusing the piano.

And after quite a few more drinks they might discover that they have problems as well as interests in common, as the only reason Winchester's noblesse oblige weighs on him less than Londo's is that he isn't going to be an emperor and his life-or-death decisions are thus strictly on the medical side of things. He would grok completely the story about Londo's first wife, for example. By the end of the night Vir and Radar would have to pick Winchester up of the floor, as he lacks the alcohol tolerance of the truly dedicated drinkers he bunks with, but I dare say a fine time would ultimately have been had by all.

(I think it is safe to assume Hawkeye would be off somewhere being repeatedly slapped in the face by Talia Winters/Lyta Alexander depending on what season this was ...)



[1] Whom I tend to refer to by his surname to avoid confusion with an entirely different bald aristocratic New Englander.