Meme: 15 Characters

[graycardinal]

Borrowed from liviapenn (her results here):

I've made a list of fifteen (15) characters from a variety of fandoms.  Your job is to ask questions about various combinations of these characters (examples: What secret past do #8 and #14 share?  What if #2, #6, and #9 went on a road trip?  If #5 and #10 were having dinner, who invited who?), which I'll do my best to answer.

Notes:
Obviously, one shouldn't peek indiscriminately at the comments thread before posing a question, as there will be spoilers for who's where on the list as the game progresses.

OTOH, if some numbered characters are consistently overlooked, questions concerning these yet-unknown characters are encouraged so as to give everyone on the list a chance at the limelight.

Given the diversity of the list, there's definite potential for generating highly weird and improbable pairings based on the direction of the questions.  Management will do its best to respond to all queries posed, but reserves the right to designate some results Just Too Bizarre To Contemplate.

Let the game begin!

Comments

Re: I like this game!

[graycardinal]

Bear with me; this one's going to be weird. And it's kind of a backward answer to the question, but given this particular trio, it kind of needed to work out that way....

#1 is Lionel Luthor (Smallville); #7 is Data (ST:TNG); #12 is Demona (Gargoyles).

Now, Lionel has an abiding fixation on possible ancient Kryptonian artifacts; Demona has an abiding fixation on ancient magical artifacts. Since Kryptonian science often serves to illustrate Clarke's Law, it's therefore not surprising that the two cross paths in the process of tracking down a particular ancient artifact. Nor is it surprising that an agent of multi-billionaire David Xanatos -- a natural arch-rival to both Lionel and Demona -- is on the scene when the artifact is ultimately located, and the three face off in a classic Underground Chamber Of Mighty Obstacles deep in the Alaskan wilderness. [We pause here to note that Demona is known to Lionel only via her alias as "Dominique Destine", the mysterious and wealthy owner of Nightstone Unlimited....]

Lionel gets to the ancient control panel first; Xanatos' man, the unflappable Owen Burnett, gets to the artifact first. "Dominique" is slightly behind both men, and casts a spell intended to immobilize them both.

This turns out to have been a Bad Idea of epic proportions; the artifact activates. Unfortunately, it's neither (precisely) the mind-amplifier Lionel thought it was nor (precisely) the mind-containment vessel Demona thought it was -- or at least, what it actually does isn't exactly either of those things. In fact, Owen goes all fuzzy and yellow-green for a moment, there is a black-hole-like POP/twist, and when the special effects subside, the person standing dazedly in the middle of the UCOMO holding the artifact is in fact Commander Data of the USS Enterprise.

(See, I told you this was going to get weird!)

This development startles everyone sufficiently that Lionel and "Dominique" declare a temporary truce. Both realize that Xanatos is going to be severely annoyed at losing his right-hand man, and this is late enough in Gargoyles continuity that Demona, who knows that Owen is rather more than he appears to be*, is also worried about certain other Powers' reaction to his disappearance. Data, of course, is also disconcerted at finding himself unexpectedly Elsewhere. The three of them put their heads together, but it's mostly Data who deduces that he and Owen are the victims of a classic multi-parallel space/time inversion**; the artifact has transposed Owen and Data between their native realities***.

In doing so, however, the black-hole-like quantum effect of the transposition has also created a serious cosmic imbalance...and a reality-bubble that has effectively trapped Our Heroes in the UCOMO. They must therefore work together to MacGyver Data's tricorder, what's left of the artifact and its control console, and "Dominique's" magickal abilities into a functional reverse-transposition device, before (a) the UCOMO collapses from the interdimensional strain, (b) Owen and Data are permanently trapped several hundred years removed from their own times, and/or (c) David Xanatos finds out what's happened and swears revenge on the lot of them.

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*Spoiler for late 2nd-season Gargoyles continuity: "Owen Burnett" is a mortal identity assumed by Puck (yup, the sprite from A Midsummer Night's Dream).



**See Ruth Berman's classic ST fanfics, "Visit to a Weird Planet" and "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited", wherein the stars of ST:TOS are unexpectedly exchanged with the actual top officers of the USS Enterprise during a transporter sequence.

***This is not quite as random an exchange as the uninitiated might think; as those familiar with Gargoyles already know, the voice of Puck (though not the voice of Owen) on that series was played by -- Brent Spiner. Clearly the Powers That Be have a perverse metafictional sense of humor....

Re: I like this game!

[ticketsonmyself.livejournal.com]

Although I've never seen any Star Trek (and I had to look up Gargoyles), I really enjoyed this slice of crossover madness. I love your brain! Thanks for the extra explanations, too.

Re: I like this game!

[twilight2000.livejournal.com]

ow ow ow ow ow - i LOVE it! I didn't know about the Puck/Spiner connection, having only really watched the 1st season and having misplaced it after that... (short seasons often confuse me ;>) - but that's BEAUTIFUL!