crossovers that actually work
All too often, crossovers are poorly executed and/or clunkily fitted together. But every once in a while, they work. They really work. This is a collection of those crossovers.
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"Doesn't it creep you out, seeing a person without a daemon like that?"
"No. I think it would be creepier if the victim did still have a daemon, seeing as they're dead."
AU of Bones set in the His Dark Materials universe, where everyone has their soul made physical in the shape of a talking animal companion -- their daemon. -
Dandelion Puffs by localbogwitch
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV), Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Apr 2020
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Just a few little oneshots surrounding crossover ideas between Stranger Things and Umbrella Academy. Mostly (so far) about El, Five, and/or Klaus in different situations/encounters with people from either world. If I find enough inspiration (and if enough people like the idea), I'll probably make a longer version of some of them.
Chapter 1: Rather than the Demogorgon, Eleven encounters Five in the Bath, and together they become a little less alone.
Chapter 2: Eleven can astral project to an extent that transcends her own dimension. Klaus just believes 'Ellie' is a ghost. They become best friends.
Chapter 3: Five finds himself in the Upside Down. He and Will, another unfortunate soul, learn to survive together.
Chapter 4: The Hargreeves stop the apocalypse the first time around, and the Byers-Hoppers decide two rounds with the Upside Down were two too many. Five meets El and Will at school. They've all got problems of their own, but they help each other through them.
Chapter 5: Max is new in town, and Diego just wants to escape from time to time. They end up meeting and (begrudgingly) becoming something like friends.Series
- Part 2 of What If?
- Part 1 of Tripping On Daydreams
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Help for Hauntings by Ninjathrowingstork
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV), The Umbrella Academy (Comics), Brooklyn Nine-Nine (TV)
22 Mar 2019
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When a junkie gets picked up by the 99th precinct, no one expected the wild, skinny man could actually see ghosts. Which, it turns out, is a useful skill to have around a police station.
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Andy and Peter by Wandering_Swain
Fandoms: Parks and Recreation, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), Guardians of the Galaxy - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
26 May 2015
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So Andy has this cousin.
Andy was six months older than Peter. People got them confused, but Peter was shorter and squirmier and Andy was rounder and, generally, happier. When they were six or whatever, this meant he got to do stuff like steal his Stretch Armstrong and it was no big deal.
UPDATE: Peter comes for a visit.
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None So Blind by prettybirdy979
Fandoms: Daredevil (TV), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
18 Mar 2016
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They say when you assume you make an ass of you and me.
Matt wishes that the Avenger's assumptions about his seeming inability to read the written word did something as benign as making an ass of him and them. Being called illiterate shouldn't hurt, not when he knows he's not, and it's not like he can tell them the truth.
Not that the truth would make much difference. He's just going to have to grin and bear it.
If he can.
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By the time he’d hit his 17th birthday, he’d sorted his life out.
It came down to this:
His name was Stiles Stilinski. He was the son of the Sheriff and his wife, deceased, and his best friend was Scott McCall, an ex-asthmatic werewolf with a nurse mother and an absent father. He was the cleverest in his class, after the strawberry blonde he had a crush on, and he had been diagnosed with ADHD at the age of seven. On full moons, he ran around and cooked for the local pack of werewolves. And he was a demon changeling.Stiles has managed to avoid Hell and its natives for near 16 years. He's almost managed to fool himself he's human. And best friend who smells of wet dog or not, he thinks he'd got a pretty good deal with this second chance at a life, and is planning to stick with it. But, unknown to Stiles, the new king of Hell has other ideas...
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- Part 1 of This Vicious Little World
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06 May 2018
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On page 5 was a drawing of hell, of horned devils and demons.
Age 10, Stiles saw it, and thought that’s what I am, as if he’d known it all along.
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Dandelion Puffs by localbogwitch
Fandoms: The Umbrella Academy (TV), Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Apr 2020
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Just a few little oneshots surrounding crossover ideas between Stranger Things and Umbrella Academy. Mostly (so far) about El, Five, and/or Klaus in different situations/encounters with people from either world. If I find enough inspiration (and if enough people like the idea), I'll probably make a longer version of some of them.
Chapter 1: Rather than the Demogorgon, Eleven encounters Five in the Bath, and together they become a little less alone.
Chapter 2: Eleven can astral project to an extent that transcends her own dimension. Klaus just believes 'Ellie' is a ghost. They become best friends.
Chapter 3: Five finds himself in the Upside Down. He and Will, another unfortunate soul, learn to survive together.
Chapter 4: The Hargreeves stop the apocalypse the first time around, and the Byers-Hoppers decide two rounds with the Upside Down were two too many. Five meets El and Will at school. They've all got problems of their own, but they help each other through them.
Chapter 5: Max is new in town, and Diego just wants to escape from time to time. They end up meeting and (begrudgingly) becoming something like friends.Series
- Part 2 of What If?
- Part 1 of Tripping On Daydreams
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- English
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- 45,273
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- 5/?
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04 Jul 2022
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"I'm glad you're back." He didn't mean to say it, but the words were out there and there was no erasing it. Max, having a sixth sense for all things that could possibly be used to embarrass him, had obviously heard it judging by how she froze and turned to look at him.
"What? Did you miss me?" She teased, already sounding too smug for her own good.
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khavah by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Avengers (2012), Thor (2011), His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
31 Aug 2012
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She is born from fire. Strange, isn’t it, that a creature of ice needs a fiery soul, but the creation of familiars has always been a right of passage and trial by fire for the jotunn. Loki has always been a little unsure of the process, because he is no more jotnar than he is aesir, and the frost giants hide their secrets well.
Or, Loki meets his daemon. She is not what he expects.
Companion to elioenai.
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- Part 2 of elioenai
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- English
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21 Sep 2018
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“So what does that mean, unmaking?” Loki wonders. He paces, suddenly full of a restless, desperate energy.
She watches him through hooded eyes. “Tell me, dear one,” she says. “Does Loki the Prince still exist?”
He looks down at himself. His fine clothes are dusty and torn, and he has lost what little weight he had. He is too pale to be Aesir and the markings of a giant mar his skin. He can feel the shadows under his eyes, and the wildness gleaming there. He has a familiar, a daemon.
“No,” he says slowly. “I rather think that he has died.”
“Does Loki the trickster still exist?”
No, because he has not played a harmless joke on a soul in half a millennia.
“Does Loki the coward still draw breath?”
No, because he does not look behind him now (he has no need, his soul walks beside him) and he does not shy away from violence.
“Does Odin’s son? Does Laufey’s son? Does Thor’s brother?”
Loki considers all these bonds, known and unknown. “No,” he says. “I have broken them all.”
His daemon bares her sharp, dripping fangs at him. “And what is Loki now?”
He thinks on that, for a moment. “The rightful King of Asgard,” he snarls. “The liberator. Yours.”
She laughs again, drapping around his shoulders. “You see,” she says. “Ragnarok. The weaker self has passed away, and from the ashes, something transcendent has arisen. The story has begun anew.”
He likes that word. Transcendent. His familiar takes the shape of a bird, a Midgardian legend, red and gold-feathered with fire trailing her flight. She circles him once, twice, a light in the crushing darkness, and drops back to his shoulder in feathered serpent form again.
“We are more than what we were,” she hisses. They are not whole, not yet—most likely not ever, because those bonds, once cut, do not easily repair—but she is his and he is hers. They belong to each other.
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who else can take all your blood and your curses? by janie_tangerine for outboxed (fallencrest)
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV), Wild Cards - George R. R. Martin
12 Aug 2014
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where the entirety of Westeros turns into mutants and it’s not good news for most of them.
Also, where Theon’s mission to Pyke is entirely changed by his own mutation and it means both bad and good consequences.
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- Part 1 of mutants in westeros
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01 Jun 2015
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Well, they say he said, looks like out of all the wild cards you could draw, you got off lightly.
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If the humans had their souls outside their bodies as dæmons, how would they react to news of Pandora and the dæmonless Na'vi? Ensemble, dæmon AU.
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05 May 2023
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“The animal rights lot are gonna have a field-day with this,” Sol said mournfully, her ears drooping as Miles laughed. “And the UN. God, can you imagine trying to negotiate with people in another solar system?”
“If they are people,” Miles muttered, watching the media conference on the TV. “I mean, if they are people, then...where the hell are their souls?”