goddamn superheroes

[fuyu]

... razzum frazzum, I just tried to make a start on the other superhero AU, and I was doing okay before I realized I was writing to Phoenix's canon motivations, which I had changed fairly significantly for the AU.

DAMMIT

I guess I could roll with it, but it's thematically jarring if Phoenix becomes a lawyer for Edgeworth, then becomes a superhero for Edgeworth and the lawyer thing just kind of falls to the back of the prose.

I wonder if I even need to keep this bit, actually. It does serve to establish Phoenix's motivations, and his power, but his motivation for being a lawyer isn't as important in this AU as it is in canon, and it would be easy enough to establish his empathy some other way. I was thinking of it as the first moment that made him actually think he could become a hero, and it does establish how much things change right off the bat by giving Phoenix that power. But there's not any real reason I can't just flash back to it, either.

And the really important thing about Phoenix becoming a hero isn't that the courthouse thing was the first time he thought it was possible, it's that seeing Edgeworth as a villain makes him realize he has to do it. So I should probably lead off with AU1-2, anyway, instead of "lol so this one time when Phoenix was in college..."

Blah. Stupid AUs. XD

Comments

[unicorn]

I agree, but if she wants to make it more AU than canon, it's her perogative! I was thinking the superhero thing would just be an addition to their normal lawyerly lives, but from what Lyssie's been saying, it is more of a replacement in her mind, themeatically. Since this is thus more AU than I was anticipating it being, I'm...intrigued.

[raisedbymoogles.livejournal.com]

*veers OT* Is that Dinobot freaking out with the burr on his neck in your icon?

[unicorn]

Well called, recognizer of Beast Wars icons. Well called. godilovedthatscene :D

[raisedbymoogles.livejournal.com]

*pumps fist in the air* I am the ubergeek! XD

[unicorn]

I CHALLENGE YOUR GRUMPY ROBOT LOVE ICON WITH MY OWN!!1 Also, if you want the first season or to make someone else watch it, check my journal. The megaupload links should still be working. ;D

[raisedbymoogles.livejournal.com]

THEY SHALL BATTLE FOR LEADERSHIP OF THE MAXIMALS. I actually have it all on DVD, but I may download anyway. Icon fodder ahoy!

[unicorn]

If I was gonna ship something out of Beast Wars it would be Primal/Dinobot, to be honest. Respect!ping.

*wants the DVD set ;_;* I keep trying to make non-fans into converts by linking them as well as facilitating the fans themselves, but it is an UPHILL BATTLE.

[raisedbymoogles.livejournal.com]

Frankly, it's easier for me to think of all Cybertronians as basically poly. That way Dinobot can shag both Primal AND Rattrap! :D

We Warsians are a small, embattled company on a hostile alien world. With giant skull-jellyfish making life difficult every so often. ^_^;;;

[unicorn]

(HEY LYSSIE HEY LYSSIE WHILE WE'RE TALKING ON YOUR JOURNAL ABOUT THIS YOU SHOULD ALSO WATCH BEAST WARS.)

Whatever works!

And giant floating Megatron heads. Fortunately, we will always have the power of ROCK ATTATCHED TO STICK!!!1 to save us.

[raisedbymoogles.livejournal.com]

(I AGREE WITH THIS.)

Thank goodness for the power of Rock Attached To Stick. We humans would still be lion food if it wasn't for that.

[fuyu]

(I HAVE WATCHED BEAST WARS, AT LEAST A FEW EPISODES OF IT XD I LIKED IT)

[unicorn]

(YOU SHOULD WATCH MORE)