Faith

Methos had no memory of his first life, beyond vague impressions which were more feelings then memories, but he remembered the Gods, and he remembered that while he had never been the firmest believer in them, neither had he been the most skeptical.

So he sang to the Gods at sunup and sundown, trying to hold on to the few memories of his first lifetime that he remembered. Despite his teacher's assurances that he'd never forget anything again, he couldn't shake the feeling that if he'd lost his memory once it could happen again, if he didn't hold them tight. By his teacher's body language he knew he wasn't a believer, but he never said anything aloud.

"A lot of the Gods were or are Immortals," he told Methos around the fire one night five winters after he'd taken him in as a student. "You combine somebody with powers like ours, or magic, or anything outside of the realm of easy understanding, with people who don't have them, and you get one of two reactions most of the time: fear or awe. And either of those can turn into worship or a mob trying to kill you. We're only human. A lot of us were perfectly willing to be worshipped."

"Lyara? Soldash?" Methos asked. He wasn't sure he wanted to know, but he couldn't keep himself from asking. He clung to his faith as one of the few things remaining from his first life, not because he was convinced of the existence of the Gods, but because it was one of the few familiar things in a world that already seemed unrecognizable from time and travel.

"I don't know every Immortal, or every God," his teacher replied. "Anyway, I figure it's better to believe in Gods that don't exist than to not believe in Gods that do exist. You never know when a God's passing themself off as an Immortal."

"Inar?" slipped past Methos's lips before he could stop it. He felt the strongest connection to Inar of all the Gods. If his teacher picked that one to discredit… Methos held his breath.

"Inar?" his teacher said, a strange expression on his face. "I haven't gone by that in centuries. People are worshipping me?" He sounded disturbed. "I'm not a God."

Methos looked at him and thought. Inar was the God of hunting and knowledge and the kind of luck that kept you alive when you should have died. His teacher wasn't anything like how he'd imagined Inar to be.

He never said a word about it, but from that moment onward he had faith like he'd never felt before.

Harry Potter is John McClane

Harry Potter is beat up and badass after the War, so he glamours himself up and makes a life for himself as John McClane. Later, he ends up in an AR where the war is ongoing (HP dead, Lily and James alive) and settles in teaching at Hogwarts or something else where he's close to the action/the people he used to know and love. And then Matt Farrell ends up in the AR too.

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To Uncover What Is Hidden

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ABM Return

In the ABM-verse, when the Return would have happened the Ancients couldn't kick them out because the fact that Atlantis gave them children meant that they had as much right to be there as the Ancients. So instead they joined the Expedition, and there were fun integration issues between the groups and who was in charge, but they worked something out, and then the replicators came along and there were some deaths but no complete wipe-outage, and the Expedition and Ancients never split up again.

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A person starts doing things to facilitate a stranger's life after briefly meeting at stranger's minimum-wage job and the Samaritan sees something they like- maybe the stranger's trying to make enough money for college (in my dream he was earning money for college and the security guard accused him of stealing even though he didn't)? Never anything big, never outright giving him anything, but just little things to help the stranger along- getting him an interview for a better job, etc. Maybe becoming a mentor?
As an ending, the Samaritan dies and leaves all of their money to the stranger, and s/he has a lot more than you'd expect. But that's the only time s/he's outright given the stranger anything; the rest of the time s/he's only provided opportunities that the stranger had to work for.

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Richie Ryan as Amanda's student rather than Duncan's.

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Reluctant Watcher

Xander's in some out-of-the-way place when he sees two guys fighting with swords. And then some other guy pulls him down and starts explaining about Immortals and recruiting him as a Watcher, and Xander can't turn him down because the only way to refuse is to say what he's really doing there. And with his preexisting knowledge of dead languages he gets tossed in Research despite his lack of college and runs into Adam Pierson. Possibly he's pre-Immortal.

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Immortal Leverage

Some or all of the Leverage crew are Highlander-type Immortals. Possibly all of them except for Nate? Or all of them except for Nate, and then Nate dies his first death?

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Saucy Halloween

On Halloween, Xander has to improvise a costume so he goes as an older version of himself which just happens to be Saucy!Xander. The lingering mental effects are greater because it's impossible to distinguish himself from himself in his mind. It's been more than fifty years of personally working to improve the whole snarled mess of demons and witches and slayers, building Saucy up to something great, and then suddenly all of his work is erased and he's back to square one with no real resources.

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Pretender/Leverage crossover. Jarod and Leverage go after the same target and get in the way of each other's plans.

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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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