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I'm not quite *plotting* on the 'Four Vessels in a Car' fic, but more like in the pre-planning stages. I know that the story is post-Apocalypse, and at least one of the subplots is Sam and Dean trying to figure out just *what* happened, since they don't really remember much -- but another subplot is the two of them trying to figure out what the heck they do *after* the End of the World, because really, 'can kill monsters' and 'spent three months possessed by the Devil' are hardly entries you want on your CV unless you're actually trying to get hired by the Ghostbusters...
On the other hand, I've found an interesting site called Hurstwic which has some really nice photos of reconstructed Norse longhouses, both interiors and exteriors, so the subplot/prologue about how Gabriel came to be walking around in a 10th century hay-farmer is proceeding apace. It's got trolls, curses, a witch or two, and a very snarky protagonist -- oh, and a runaway archangel trying to be persuasive and not quite succeeding because he hasn't actually paid attention to humans that much before...
Since I started plotting this in the hiatus after episode 5.14 I do know that I'm going to have perceptible scars on Hrafn's heart from the meddling of a Cupid (because archangelic Vessels are *rare* and the bloodlines are cultivated). This is in part to show that John Winchester's reaction to his wife's death isn't the only possible one, or even the most understandable even given that he and Mary were in some way magically bound to each other.
I'm pretty sure Sam and Dean have to take Hrafn's sax away from him, because at least until he learns enough English, he reacts to everything as a threat -- and once he *does* learn enough English, his ideas of what is an insult worth killing over are a little hair-trigger for 21st century America. Especially if he's hanging around with Dean, who uses anti-gay putdowns kind of a lot; not a good idea around someone whose culture tells him that being called effeminate in anyway is justification for manslaughter, and that manslaughter is completely okay if you take credit for it and offer compensation to the family of the dead man. It's only *murder* if you don't admit you did it.
Of course, taking away his weapon would just convince him he's been enslaved by the elves that have kidnapped him... and he didn't even get an elf-wife out of the deal. What's up with that? :(
I'm wavering back and forth on whether I should write him as having gone a-viking as a young man. It'd make sense for the period and makes it likely that he speaks another language beside Old Norse, but it also would mean he was a *pirate* and a slaver. And I kind of want him to never have seen a city before, and be totally unfamiliar with things like deer and snakes and the mechanics of how to get along with more than twenty people at time. Not to mention skunks...
Also, I'm thinking that all the Vessels come out of this with some degree of psychic perception -- Sam, who started the series with precognitive dreams, would be the worst effected, and Dean would be in denial over whatever he did wind up with, with Jimmy and Hrafn somewhere inbetween the two with how accepting they are of the newly ripped open abilities and how well they manage them. Maybe a lot of people get 'inklings' in the post-Apocalypse, since divine/demonic power kind of splattered around randomly, and its not that big a thing? Or, not a big a thing as it could be, considering most humans weren't psychic before the End of World that Wasn't...
On the other hand, I've found an interesting site called Hurstwic which has some really nice photos of reconstructed Norse longhouses, both interiors and exteriors, so the subplot/prologue about how Gabriel came to be walking around in a 10th century hay-farmer is proceeding apace. It's got trolls, curses, a witch or two, and a very snarky protagonist -- oh, and a runaway archangel trying to be persuasive and not quite succeeding because he hasn't actually paid attention to humans that much before...
Since I started plotting this in the hiatus after episode 5.14 I do know that I'm going to have perceptible scars on Hrafn's heart from the meddling of a Cupid (because archangelic Vessels are *rare* and the bloodlines are cultivated). This is in part to show that John Winchester's reaction to his wife's death isn't the only possible one, or even the most understandable even given that he and Mary were in some way magically bound to each other.
I'm pretty sure Sam and Dean have to take Hrafn's sax away from him, because at least until he learns enough English, he reacts to everything as a threat -- and once he *does* learn enough English, his ideas of what is an insult worth killing over are a little hair-trigger for 21st century America. Especially if he's hanging around with Dean, who uses anti-gay putdowns kind of a lot; not a good idea around someone whose culture tells him that being called effeminate in anyway is justification for manslaughter, and that manslaughter is completely okay if you take credit for it and offer compensation to the family of the dead man. It's only *murder* if you don't admit you did it.
Of course, taking away his weapon would just convince him he's been enslaved by the elves that have kidnapped him... and he didn't even get an elf-wife out of the deal. What's up with that? :(
I'm wavering back and forth on whether I should write him as having gone a-viking as a young man. It'd make sense for the period and makes it likely that he speaks another language beside Old Norse, but it also would mean he was a *pirate* and a slaver. And I kind of want him to never have seen a city before, and be totally unfamiliar with things like deer and snakes and the mechanics of how to get along with more than twenty people at time. Not to mention skunks...
Also, I'm thinking that all the Vessels come out of this with some degree of psychic perception -- Sam, who started the series with precognitive dreams, would be the worst effected, and Dean would be in denial over whatever he did wind up with, with Jimmy and Hrafn somewhere inbetween the two with how accepting they are of the newly ripped open abilities and how well they manage them. Maybe a lot of people get 'inklings' in the post-Apocalypse, since divine/demonic power kind of splattered around randomly, and its not that big a thing? Or, not a big a thing as it could be, considering most humans weren't psychic before the End of World that Wasn't...
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Also, the clothing pages make me go 'squee'. Someone actually put effort into those -- the shoe reconstructions, and the skates!