My hc_bingo card

hc_bingo has opened again! I have already acquired a card! It is more than six months before it ends, so perhaps I can fulfill my neurotic daydream of filling in every single square on this card!

( My hc_bingo card )

Although probably not, because I’ve enjoyed writing The Lost Prince serial so much that mostly my brain is handing me ideas longer stories. Right now, I am eyeing the middle column: hostile climate, first transformation, substance addiction, and wings. Because that is the perfect column for a whole series of Black Swan fics about Nina the severely depressed wereswan who doesn’t know wereswans exist!

And Lily is also a wereswan! And she is like, “Oh fuck, you mean I have to explain to Nina about the whole wereswan thing? Fuuuuuuuuuuck.” But she steps up to the plate, because Lily is awesome like that!

Would need to rewatch Black Swan.

In other ideas! I have been thinking about writing a Frontier Wolf fic about Cunorix finding out about Connla’s death, and being torn between grief, rage, and “WTF, Connla!” Also a sneaking and hateful relief, because this really simplifies the question of “Do we join the uprising against the Romans?” Cunorix feels lots of feelings!

OTHER THOUGHTS. I have a couple more ideas in my Eponine/Cosette AU (where Marius dies instead of Eponine) that may one day actually get to the Eponine/Cosette, but after they have worked through their thousand and one issues. They have a lot of issues, you guys.

First idea! Eponine, who has been staying with Cosette and Valjean, tries to sneak out because she feels so guilty about causing Marius’s death. (This would be for the grief square, clearly.) Valjean catches her! They have a chat about guilt and repentance.

And second, which doesn’t seem to fit in any square, but nonetheless seems like a good idea to me: naive Cosette has never questioned her father’s past. But streetwise Eponine knows there’s something off about him...so she convinces Cosette to sneak into his room to poke around. (I need to figure out if Javert died in this AU.)

Basically, I think any idea that involves Eponine being a Bad Influence is gold. Possibly this will end with them going to an opium den to fill the “drugged” square. YES. (Did France even have opium dens in the 1830s? Also, are opium dens inherently orientalizing?)

You may have noticed that none of these ideas are actually lining up neatly in bingo lines. Thus the fact that I find the blackout an attractive option. Even if it means I need to come up with a story for “food poisoning.”

And...those are my thoughts for now! What do you all think? Any brilliant ideas I am missing?