Sight

Character with constant low-level Sight. Nothing that can be blocked, stopped, or reduced, nothing flashy that other people would notice since it's just constant background noise and not sudden vision like Cordelia or Johnny Smith, and the character thinks and acts normally around it.

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Object History

History of an object, (before?) during and after passing through the hands of a character. Maybe a whole story through the eyes of the object, but not one of those ones where the object actually has a personality. Miscellaneous-use object oft-given as a gift?

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Jarod and Methos

Jarod as Methos's student. Not necessarily as an Immortal. Not necessarily in an overt way- Methos being intrigued by Jarod, and teaching Jarod without there being lessons per se, or even with Jarod actually knowing, although considering it's Jarod I'd imagine he'd realize it. Not necessarily deliberately- Jarod getting intrigued by Methos and hanging around him to learn what he can despite Methos not trying to teach anything, although I imagine Methos would notice Jarod hanging around. Or possibly the two of them pretending they have a friendly relationship, but both knowing the truth.

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Immortal Healing

Immortals heal faster according to type of injury/death. So, for instance, almost all of them heal really fast from stabbing, slicing, and blunt impact, but it takes most of them longer to heal from poisoning and starvation.

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Immortal John Doe

John Doe as an amnesiac Immortal. Immortals, especially old ones, tend to know a lot of languages and know a lot of things, and it's fanon at least that Immortals have photographic memories so that's a reason he'd remember it all even though it's random crap. I'd like to do Methos, but it would be so bad if he actually put himself on TV like John Doe did in canon; well, it would be for any Immortal, but especially for Methos. But an older Immortal, especially Methos, if he did start to recover memories they wouldn't make sense, and I get the sense that Methos is a lot more dedicated to playing characters who are completely different from each other and ignoring his own personal likes and dislikes so they're not ingrained in him- like that one I read about how he doesn't really have a personality anymore, but a series of long-running habits? And if it's Methos Cassandra can track him down, which would be fun, but if he's on TV/in the newspapers Mac will find him unless he's out of contact.

And then he consults on a case with a sword, and he picks it up and it feels so right and his posture changes automatically, and he either gets very confused and excited by the clue to his past (which is totally unhelpful) or he gets his memory back- in which case it might amuse him to stay John Doe for a while.

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Young Wizards Methos

Methos is one of the wizards from the Young Wizards series. Not as an AU, or rather as a backstory/background AU, so he's still the oldest Immortal. Given the idealism of YW's wizards in general, and Methos's mixed past and personality, it would be interesting to blend them. And since power is higher when wizards are younger, what does that mean for Methos? If he took the Oath before his first death, he might not know he's a wizard, but then again it doesn't seem likely he knew how to read before his first death so he might have the Manual like the whales do, unless it changes with him.

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Godhood

Someone who becomes a god. What does it mean to be a god? What does it do to their lives, especially if they're not power-seeking and don't want glory, and try to keep it a secret and live a normal life? Where is the line drawn between merely powerful and godhood?

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Purposes of Immortal Student Period

Give the Student information and abilities:

• Swordfighting
  
• Changing identities
  
• The Game
  

Give the Teacher a connection to the current time period

Help the Student through the break with his old life and newfound Immortality

Pass on personal views of the Game

Teach the norms of Immortal society

Coping skills needed to handle an Immortal life and killing

Protect the Student while he's unable to protect himself

Sword fighting is in many ways the least of the lessons taught to Immortal students, a mere excuse to keep the Student with the Teacher for long enough to pass on the other information, much of which is not taught explicitly. Immortal Teachers often teach by telling stories from their lives, and occasionally other Immortals'. Despite the relative randomness involved in taking on a Student, due to most Teachers taking on Students as soon as they learn they're Immortal, often with no further information – and the resistance of adults to letting others choose their opinions for them - Students often end up with a similar view of the Game as their Teachers. Headhunter Teachers often train headhunter students, if they don't take their Quickenings first, and Teachers with a distaste for the Game rarely have students who go on to become headhunters for long periods of time. Teachers who keep the same or similar names have students who are similarly careless about setting up their new identities. The Teacher serves as a model of what an Immortal "should" be, at least until the Student has lived for long enough to reevaluate based on their broader experience, and the Student often mimics the Teacher to a greater or lesser degree.

5 Revivals

A 5 (or whatever) things of revivals by an Immortal--not the deaths, just the revivals.

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Gods' War

Theological warfare, when the gods are real and gain power from their followers, and conversion is practically a weapon.

And something about being loved by the gods being more like a curse than a blessing, possibly unattached or with the war merely a backdrop.

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Immortal Moody

Mad-Eye Moody as an established Immortal is hilarious in a meta way, to me. Because he's so paranoid, to the point of carrying around a flask to drink out of to avoid poisoning, and he's Immortal.

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Comforting

When he thought about it, Methos found it a comfort.

No matter how many times you died, there was always that lingering fear that next time it would be permanent, that there was some magic number of temporary deaths to be reached and then, poof! You were dead for good. So really, it was a comfort for him to know that there was somebody around who was so much older than he was, that had died so many more deaths than he had.

It was the same role he played for the younger Immortals: somebody who was always older than them, older than they could hope to survive even with the best of luck. Old enough to make them feel young, even when the mortals around them had the lifespans of mayflies.

Methos in Narnia

For one (or all) of the Narnia books, Methos is there, randomly, not fighting for Narnia or the Telmarines or anything, just...there. Although I don't think it would be possible in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe because of the witch killing off all the humans.

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Resisting Torture

SGA futurefic. Includes a scene/segment where Rodney's being tortured and not giving up any information. Remembering/flashbacks to Kolya. Possibly torturing others to make him give information. And then eventually he's rescued, and he's like "I don't even recognize who I am anymore". He's got gun calluses on his hands, he's actually used to hiking miles through the wilderness, and now he's resisted torture, and that's not who he was when he came to Atlantis.

Not sure where that could go. I could see him going back to Earth, trying to get back to normal as a reaction, and not being who anybody there expects him to be, and not satisfied with being merely an academic especially with how much knowledge the rest of the world can't know. He's got to heal both physically and mentally.

"They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm." -Dorothy Parker

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Immortal John Sheppard

As a result of the Wraith feeding reversal, John Sheppard becomes Immortal. Could be either Highlanderesque or traditional style immortality.

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Ian Edgerton's SGA past

Jeannieverse or ABM, which honestly are kind of the same verse without a set canon.

Set pre-return to Earth. John and Rodney are MIA and Jeannie winds up back on Earth with Dave Sheppard (and family, if he has one). They're totally baffled by Jeannie, but it doesn't matter much because they get kidnapped, with Jeannie as witness. So, since they're in LA and it's a high-profile kidnapping, the FBI takes the case and Jeannie ends up with the Numb3rs team. When she encounters Ian Edgerton, she glomps onto him and he acts friendly and clearly knows her already, acting somewhat contrary to the badass image. He used to be in Atlantis, and one of the people on the rotation of babysitters, not that he would volunteer that information. Somewhere in there, the Numb3rs team finds out about her intelligence, and Larry/Charlie/Amita recognize(s) the name Rodney McKay. The case is solved. Possibly Ian makes a few calls and becomes Jeannie's guardian. In the end, either she stays with Ian or John and Rodney show up, back from being MIA and worse for the wear but not permanently worse. I think I like the staying with Ian, but that would be AU for both of the verses.

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Muggleborns as slaves

All muggleborns are kept as slaves by purebloods, their children taken away because the children are purebloods- muggleborns never come in contact with muggles or squibs, so by necessity the fathers must be wizards. The muggle government doesn't know about the slavery- but they sure wouldn't be happy if they found out.

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Horcruxes can be destroyed by basilisk venom. Harry was bitten by a basilisk in second year, putting basilisk venom into his blood stream. Therefore, the horcrux in Harry was destroyed then, since the venom-ed blood passed through the scar. Wonderful take-off for giving Harry Voldemort's knowledge, or later making him be killed because the horcrux isn't there.

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Vampires and garlic

Normally in fiction the garlic and vampires thing is portrayed as either not true or just a minor annoyance. Do the opposite: garlic is a major issue for vampires, possibly worse than the rest, and it's been passed off as harmless lately because the vampires have been making a concerted effort to make people not go out and buy garlic as soon as they learn vampires are real.

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Misc. ABM + Harry Potter ideas

(Some of) the ABM kids go to Hogwarts during Harry's sixth year, with the focal characters being in sixth as well and them being the oldest of the ABM kids, because they go to Salem and for some reason it's closed. I'm thinking something the ABM kids did, but not something that would get them treated like criminals or something.

The Magical States of America have a government that's closer to America under the Articles of Confederation than current America, although there are some compromises. Laws vary fairly widely (and by fairly I mean insanely), especially considering the states are split up the same way and there are only a couple of people in some states. Regional differences are not the same as they are in muggle America, and historically never have been.

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ABM ideas

5 jobs held by ex-Lanteans in the ABM-verse. Because even when they hold normal jobs, they're changed enough by Atlantis and the kids for there to be weirdness, and a lot of them don't get normal jobs.

Ex-Lanteans visiting their families for the first time since they left Atlantis...and taking along the kids they couldn't tell about before, and the kids' other parents who they're not dating except in a few cases.

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people owned by country

A culture where it's conceptualized as them belonging to the country, as in it owns them, and that's seen as a good thing. Emigres are seen as very, very bad. Slavery but not, because they're not enslaved to a person, and they're happy about it, or as much as Americans are about freedom anyway?

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Second Verse: Bank robbery

Lantean non-soldier on Earth, in a bank when a bank robbery happens. They're somewhat used to it, and they're mentally comparing the robbers to the Pegasus bad guys and they don't stack up, and it turns into a hostage situation when things start going badly for the bank robbers- the cops show up, they can't get the safe open, etc. The Lantean is bored out of their mind, everybody else is terrified. All the better if they get used as a human shield and they're not acting like they have a gun pointed to their head.

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Halloween skills, Sunnydale syndrome

A background or original character keeps the skills from their Halloween costume, but at the same time they have Sunnydale syndrome and explain it away.

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HP culture shock: bowing

Have wizards been shown bowing in Harry Potter canon? If not, possible culture shock to muggleborns who expect men to bow, but wizards curtsy because their robes have skirts too.

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Reverse HP alternate reality

Boy-who-lived Neville, defeater of Voldemort, hardened and saddened by war and loss, comes to the canon!verse to live a peaceful life.

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Underground magical sporting events

Sporting event of the nastier side of the magical underground- they kidnap people off the street, and the mages playing the sport have to control their team to play the game. Difficulty mounts with the number of people controlled by the competitors, and the tasks their teams have to perform while in opposition to the others' teams. Often ends up with most of the kidnappees dead. Survivors' memories are wiped and they're dumped on the street, or sometimes framed for the others' deaths.

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Second Verse, Same as the First

An SGA earthside series, not necessarily permanently earthside but possibly, and possibly with minor characters/OCs starring in most or all.

All those things that happen in the Pegasus galaxy, especially offworld? Like getting thrown into jail and kidnapped and held hostage and being forced to fix things and scientists in firefights. The Lanteans return to Earth, expecting the usual Earth experiences, only somehow they find themselves in the kinds of situations they did in Pegasus.

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To Live For

He'd long since discarded the idea of ever being normal; he was fairly certain that threshold had been reached well before his first death, and the time travel hadn't helped it any. He wasn't even sure if he could act normal; too many things had passed from habit into reflex for him to change his behavior anything other than slowly.

Somehow, he'd held out this hope that once humans were around everything would be all right, that he'd be able to fit in and live a normal life or ten. But that wasn't how it happened. He'd spent so much time pinning his hopes on the first humans he saw that the reality fell far short of his expectations. They were better than the demons, but the world was a rougher place than it had been in his first lifetime, even if the conflicts were smaller in scale.

Even after all this time, he wasn't sure if he even wanted to live to the time of his first life. What did he have there? Friends who were scattered across the globe and still managed to wish him gone, who he'd worked through all his emotions toward until they were as minimal as his emotions toward strangers. What did he have in this time? Not enough to live for, and that was unlikely to change any time soon.

Sometimes, the only thing keeping him sane was his students. Teaching them to the best of his ability was something to live for, and they were young enough to still be enthusiastic about the world, in whatever way they were enthusiastic.

He had a lot of students over the years; he travelled around enough to run into a lot of pre-Immortals and new Immortals, and he taught all of them who were the slightest bit receptive. Some of them were cheerful. Some of them were angry. Some of them were determined. But they were all enthusiastic about something, and that was something he could live for, seeing and fanning the fire in their eyes.

In a Funk

Some days, it was hard to get out of bed, much less muster any enthusiasm about doing the same monotonous thing for centuries if he was lucky, hours if he wasn't…although there were days when he thought the luck of those options was the opposite. Days when there was nothing new, nobody to live for. Nobody to put on a cheerful face for.

It was always worse when he died. No matter how much the others swore they felt normal when they woke up, he was always chilled, a bone-deep chill from his body temperature dropping as he spent time as a corpse and made him want to just stay dead when he came back to life. It never went away quickly, either, always lingering and making him lethargic and disinterested in anything, even trying to act normally as he did under any other circumstances.

He was surprised, every time he broke out of his post-revival funk, that he hadn't been killed for good. It was what every Immortal wanted, an unresisting Immortal at their mercy, right? But then, chaos had always dogged his steps, so maybe he shouldn't be so surprised when the unlikeliest things happened around him.