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December Meme: The Lost Prince
Dec. 16th, 2014 11:24 amBack from Chicago! I'll maybe post some photos once I've uploaded them off my camera. We went to Christkindlmart and ate the most amazing apricot-almond strudel (I'd never had strudel before! Can you believe it?) and watched Elf and White Christmas and went to ZooLights in Lincoln Park (which is freeeeeeeee) and had a delicious cinnamon roll for breakfast. OM NOM NOM.
And also I have a December meme question! December 16: the lost prince! headcanons, favorite aus, fic recs, best crossovers, anything :D (for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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I think my favorite Lost Prince headcanon is the one where Stefan Loristan manages to prevent World War I by virtue of his calming presence on the international stage. Because you know he could! He would be all, "Kaiser Wilhelm, how about you show me your battleships and then we can toss horseshoes in the park," and by the end of the horseshoes game Wilhelm would have completely forgotten about his dumb plan to offer Austria all the help they wanted in smashing the Serbians.
Although I'm also fond of any and all headcanons about Samavian customs -surexit has a fun story about Samavian aphrodisiac liquor - and about Marco's possible difficulties fitting into his homeland after his nomadic boyhood. Sure, his father taught him all about the country's history and presumably its customs, but there's a difference between learning about something and actually living it.
Plus, the Loristans haven't lived in Samavia for five hundred years. (Frankly I think this time gap is a little ridiculous, but The Lost Prince is a basically a fantasy about the divine right of kings, so you just have to go with it.) Some of their information about the culture has to be a little out of date. Imagine trying to understand modern day England solely through Shakespeare, right?
I haven't put a lot of thought into Lost Prince AUs, but I feel like there's some great potential for crossovers with all the World War I-era things ever. The Lost Prince meets Downton Abbey! Rupert Brooke visits Samavia and probably sleeps with everyone!
And, of course, there could be a charming crossover with Frances Hodgson Burnett's own The Secret Garden. The Loristans are related to the Lennoxes somehow (you know they've probably made all sorts of unsuitable matches during their years of exile) and when Marco takes ill, he is sent to Misselthwaite manor to convalesce with the Rat for his companion, and they become part of Mary's polyamorous harem and also learn about flowers.
And also I have a December meme question! December 16: the lost prince! headcanons, favorite aus, fic recs, best crossovers, anything :D (for
egelantier)I think my favorite Lost Prince headcanon is the one where Stefan Loristan manages to prevent World War I by virtue of his calming presence on the international stage. Because you know he could! He would be all, "Kaiser Wilhelm, how about you show me your battleships and then we can toss horseshoes in the park," and by the end of the horseshoes game Wilhelm would have completely forgotten about his dumb plan to offer Austria all the help they wanted in smashing the Serbians.
Although I'm also fond of any and all headcanons about Samavian customs -
surexit has a fun story about Samavian aphrodisiac liquor - and about Marco's possible difficulties fitting into his homeland after his nomadic boyhood. Sure, his father taught him all about the country's history and presumably its customs, but there's a difference between learning about something and actually living it.Plus, the Loristans haven't lived in Samavia for five hundred years. (Frankly I think this time gap is a little ridiculous, but The Lost Prince is a basically a fantasy about the divine right of kings, so you just have to go with it.) Some of their information about the culture has to be a little out of date. Imagine trying to understand modern day England solely through Shakespeare, right?
I haven't put a lot of thought into Lost Prince AUs, but I feel like there's some great potential for crossovers with all the World War I-era things ever. The Lost Prince meets Downton Abbey! Rupert Brooke visits Samavia and probably sleeps with everyone!
And, of course, there could be a charming crossover with Frances Hodgson Burnett's own The Secret Garden. The Loristans are related to the Lennoxes somehow (you know they've probably made all sorts of unsuitable matches during their years of exile) and when Marco takes ill, he is sent to Misselthwaite manor to convalesce with the Rat for his companion, and they become part of Mary's polyamorous harem and also learn about flowers.
