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Of which there seems to be relatively few and the only one I've written is a three sentence prompt bit of nothing.
Thing is - I like crossovers. But canons vary - some you can easily cross with nearly anything. Doctor Who, travelling through time and space and the occasionel alternate dimension springs to mind. But others, well. Others are less easy, even if the crossover might be interesting - and random magic portals feels like cheating, and fusions were never my thing. I like my crossovers to consistent with both canons as far as possible.
So. Challenge me? Name me a fandom and I will do my level best to think up a scenario (not a fic - well, probably not) for a crossover between it and Vikings.
Any takers?
Thing is - I like crossovers. But canons vary - some you can easily cross with nearly anything. Doctor Who, travelling through time and space and the occasionel alternate dimension springs to mind. But others, well. Others are less easy, even if the crossover might be interesting - and random magic portals feels like cheating, and fusions were never my thing. I like my crossovers to consistent with both canons as far as possible.
So. Challenge me? Name me a fandom and I will do my level best to think up a scenario (not a fic - well, probably not) for a crossover between it and Vikings.
Any takers?
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How about Highlander? How to tame your Dragon? The 13th Warrior? *g*
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Right, Highlander.
So, let's go au in the middle of episode 8 and say that Athelstan wasn't rejected, because being sacrificed to the Norse gods is certainly one of the more colourful first deaths out there. And then there's the waking up hanging upside down from a tree, surrounded by dead people and animals.
Ragnar decides the whole thing is a blessing from Odin and takes a very freaked out (he just got sacrificed, by a person he was beginning to think of as his friend) Athelstan home. Then the first headhunter shows up, a few months later, and Ragnar takes offence at a stranger trying to decapitate his thrall - and Ragnar's very good with an axe.
When the second headhunter shows up, they have the presence of mind to question him about the not-dead thing and the strange lightning before killing him. Well, I suspect Lagertha has the presence of mind.
And life goes on, except Athelstan pretty much ends up having to give up on getting to be a free man - since Ragnar isn't about to let his blessing wander off, and after Ragnar's death, the Lothbroksons keep him as an heirloom/good luck charm/favoured family retainer. Basically, he stays in the family and the family take good care of him.
And - I'll take a look at the other two tomorrow. It's late hereabouts *zzzzzzzzzzzz*
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Actually, speaking of Highlander, a different twist on the above story idea: Athelstan is sacrificed, returns to life and is brought home - and life goes on. Some years are hard, some years less so - and he doesn't age. Bjorn is beginning to look older than him, but nobody knows the other implications of the package Athelstan has been saddled with. And no headhunters have come, the story of the man who returned from being sacrificed perhaps dismissed as savages having misunderstood some Christian missionary. No headhunters, no wandering rog - nobody. And nine years pass and Ragnar decides to return to Uppsala - and finds it only appropriate to offer Odin the very same sacrifice as before, just in case...
As for your other vaguely Viking-related fandoms:
How to Train Your Dragon/Vikings: Ragnar and Rollo was actually born in Berk. In fact, Ragnar used to a very succesfull (albeit unorthodox *coughs*Lothbrok*coughs*) dragon slayer. Sadly, Berk was always rather lacking in anything except dragons - being men with dreams of more, they eventually ventured forth. Now Ragnar is Earl of Kattegat, he has wealth, a strong family - and then news reach him from Berk of certain developments. Intrigued, he sends for his young relative Hiccup to come visit, because just imagine the potential a few dragons might have, if turned loose outside some King's gates...
The 13th Warrior/Vikings:
Well, strictly speaking these are set a couple of centuries apart, but let's roll with it. Let's say that for some reason, Ragnar is travelling east this year (following a vision?), far east along the rivers (and he's brought his priest along for the hell of it this time). Visiting a settlement of Norse along the river, he's just in time to honour a great warrior at his funeral - and for his Christian priest to meet the Muslim companion of the late warrior. Whether they end up bonding over being civilized monotheists stuck amongst the unwashed pagans (okay, Ahmad probably wouldn't find an English monk that civilized, but still) or whether Ragnar's usually meek little priest turns out to have surprisingly strong opinions about what to him is basically a terribly heretical twisting of the true faith, well, that I do not know. Though I'll strongly suspect the whole meeting might lead to Ragnar making plans along the lines of going further south with several ships, because that Baghdad place sounds like it might have a lot of silver :-)
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I like your other scenarios quite a lot, too. What I'm most interested in reading would be the 13th Warrior one, though. I just love culture clashes, the more the better. :)
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Merlin
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*wanders off to wikipedia* *and tvtropes*
Right, Merlin/Vikings: The first few decades are hard - watching as friends die and he lives on, that's hard. The first couple of centuries are easier, surprisingly - until they aren't. And somewhere along the way, Merlin goes - a little crazy? Or maybe he just wants to forget? Or maybe, just maybe, some old enemy is still lurking and sees an opportunity for revenge - which is how Merlin finds himself with a new face (so that what few allies Merlin still has around won't recognize him), a new name and a couple of fake memories of a conveniently dead family from the time before he came to Lindisfarne. Perhaps he's really just taking a holiday, having put a timer on the spell to become himself after x number of years?
Athelstan thinks he's just a monk - he's good with languages, yes, but he certainly doesn't attribute that to magic. He's a good Christian and magic's witchcraft, the devil's work, nothing to do with him. And he doesn't understand why it feels so strangely familiar to be Ragnar's - never quite right, but familiar nonetheless - his warrior master who'll tease and shove and laugh by turn, tormenter and protecter in one. He doesn't know why that makes something inside him ache, doesn't know why it feels like something so very important is missing...
Alternatively: a poorly worded spell accidentally brings Ragnar to Camelot. Uther is not amused. Ragnar is. Of course, Ragnar always is (though he'd really like to get home, too - he's missing his wife and his priest). (A Kattegat Viking at King Arthur's Court?)
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Of course, the really interesting bit of that story would be the point when Merlin's real memories return. Does he keep playing at being Athelstan, clinging to this new "family" he has found? Or does Ragnar shove him once too many times and find himself face to face with a seriously pissed-off "I have had it with you" sorcerer?
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Yes, that would be very fascinating! Or would he slowly shift the power balance more in his favour? Or just… leave one day, maybe for good, maybe to return may years later.