Holly Poly Letter
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rugessnomeHi, creator!
Crossovers
Brontë crossovers category
I am sure there'd be some considerable religious angst over characters from these canons engaging in poly; if you'd like you can include some of that but I'd prefer that they figured some way that they didn't regard themselves as damned. Or just handwave it away.
Jane Eyre/Edward Rochester/Helen Graham/Gilbert Markham OR Jane Eyre/Bertha Mason/Edward Rochester/Helen Graham/Gilbert Markham
My thought on the most likely route here is that Rochester tries to pull the Blanche Ingram stunt except a) with Helen (who Does Not Approve of the stunt but... Rochester is probably a somewhat different quantity than Huntingdon) and b) he gets feelings for her TOO. And Gilbert is probably crushing on Helen but is brought up as a suitable marriage prospect for Jane. Jane and Helen actually become friends+crush; Jane, Helen and Gilbert probably investigate and discover Bertha; Edward and Gilbert initially suppose that they're rivals but then they ...don't actually resent each other? (Edward has probably quietly encountered homosexual behaviors in his travels; Gilbert is probably a little dumb over the fact that now he likes another inappropriately upper class (the first is Helen) ...MAN who apparently has feelings for his maybe fiancee?!)
Or whatever. If you do a modern AU I'd prefer to find some way to minimize the now creepy aspects of Jane/Edward. (maybe age her up bc e.g. her Aunt keep her at home and away from college for several years? maybe Adelaide is not her main/whole job but like... a) she's giving Adelaide extra tutelage b) somebody, whether Rochester or his ... housekeeper? assistant? was like yeah sure you can board here. Big house. Plenty of room. maybe Rochester is a little younger than in the original?)
You can choose to include Bertha in the polycule or not; regardless I'd prefer for things between her and Edward to be complex instead of very binary "he's in the wrong" and I'd love to see some "Yellow Wallpaper" style interrogation of contemporary mental health guidance. Or maybe she's agoraphobic besides other issues and that complicates things. ... it could even be interesting if she's a lesbian but not permitted by her society to live that out.
Jane Eyre/Catherine Linton/Edward Rochester
maybe Catherine ended up as a school friend of Jane or maybe she comes along after they're married? (this is referring to the younger Catherine just to be clear)
I just think it's interesting the way that whatever family dysfunction the Brontës experienced echoes in very different ways in Wuthering Heights than in much of Charlotte and Anne's works.
Helen Graham/Gilbert Markham/Agnes Grey/Edward Weston
This one would definitely come up against religious angst in canon... Anyway, I just think it'd be neat. Maybe there's some contrivance, whether Agnes gets hired on as a governess for some reason, or enters into the picture as a parson's wife ministering to parishioners (or idk maybe Weston takes an interest in Helen's paintings?)
Gilbert Blythe/Anne Shirley/Helen Graham
it's the wrong Gilbert! the wrong country and the wrong decade by like idk 5+ of them. oh well. I'm sure you could resolve this in creative ways.
Aziraphale/Crowley/Catherine Earnshaw/Heathcliff
The obvious pairings by canon have ... interesting dimensions? Catherine and Heathcliff have this intense pseudo-incestuous "He's more myself than I am" dynamic, while it takes Aziraphale and Crowley millennia to settle into a relationship that is ...quietly passionate. (aroace vibes there). Maybe Catherine falls for the angel or demon instead of Linton, or maybe Heathcliff gets entangled with them via some minor business thing? I think this would be ripe for interesting gender stuff on especially Catherine's part too, since Aziraphale comes off as gay (for a certain time's value of the description) and Crowley varies in gender presentation.
Other Good Omens crossovers!
Famine/Pestilence/Ramses (Prince of Egypt)
Idk this just... struck me as interesting. So many of the plagues could be classified as some variety of pestilence, and famine plays a pivotal role in the Joseph story of how the Israelites ended up in Egypt. What would it mean for the pharoah to embrace them? I recently heard that Jewish thought of the time had the heart as an organ of thought instead of emotion with regard to the hardening of pharoah's heart. What does it mean to pick up the pieces?
Hawkeye Pierce(MASH)/Pestilence/War/Death
basically take "Hawkeye gets fucked over by disease and war and the spectre of death" a little more literally than you'd typically mean it? I think this could be very self-destructive on Hawk's part.
Botanist from "When the War Came"/Famine/Pestilence/Pollution/Edward Teller (Doctor Atomic)/small god of Chernobyl
this is a very high concept sort of thing? And it's very much about the xkcd strip where Biology's representative says Physics has unleashed another horseman (the atom bomb/radiation) while Biology has slain one. When the War Came is a Decemberists song about the Siege of Leningrad where the Botanist (I've assumed) narrator has sworn not to betray the mission of the seed bank despite "pangs of starvation". Edward Teller's first lines in Doctor Atomic are about holding no hope of saving our souls after working on the bomb.
Anathema Device/Newton Pulsifer/Newton Geiszler/Herman Gottlieb
And then this one is kinda just for fun. People who helped to stop apocalypses...
TBC...
Crossovers
Brontë crossovers category
I am sure there'd be some considerable religious angst over characters from these canons engaging in poly; if you'd like you can include some of that but I'd prefer that they figured some way that they didn't regard themselves as damned. Or just handwave it away.
Jane Eyre/Edward Rochester/Helen Graham/Gilbert Markham OR Jane Eyre/Bertha Mason/Edward Rochester/Helen Graham/Gilbert Markham
My thought on the most likely route here is that Rochester tries to pull the Blanche Ingram stunt except a) with Helen (who Does Not Approve of the stunt but... Rochester is probably a somewhat different quantity than Huntingdon) and b) he gets feelings for her TOO. And Gilbert is probably crushing on Helen but is brought up as a suitable marriage prospect for Jane. Jane and Helen actually become friends+crush; Jane, Helen and Gilbert probably investigate and discover Bertha; Edward and Gilbert initially suppose that they're rivals but then they ...don't actually resent each other? (Edward has probably quietly encountered homosexual behaviors in his travels; Gilbert is probably a little dumb over the fact that now he likes another inappropriately upper class (the first is Helen) ...MAN who apparently has feelings for his maybe fiancee?!)
Or whatever. If you do a modern AU I'd prefer to find some way to minimize the now creepy aspects of Jane/Edward. (maybe age her up bc e.g. her Aunt keep her at home and away from college for several years? maybe Adelaide is not her main/whole job but like... a) she's giving Adelaide extra tutelage b) somebody, whether Rochester or his ... housekeeper? assistant? was like yeah sure you can board here. Big house. Plenty of room. maybe Rochester is a little younger than in the original?)
You can choose to include Bertha in the polycule or not; regardless I'd prefer for things between her and Edward to be complex instead of very binary "he's in the wrong" and I'd love to see some "Yellow Wallpaper" style interrogation of contemporary mental health guidance. Or maybe she's agoraphobic besides other issues and that complicates things. ... it could even be interesting if she's a lesbian but not permitted by her society to live that out.
Jane Eyre/Catherine Linton/Edward Rochester
maybe Catherine ended up as a school friend of Jane or maybe she comes along after they're married? (this is referring to the younger Catherine just to be clear)
I just think it's interesting the way that whatever family dysfunction the Brontës experienced echoes in very different ways in Wuthering Heights than in much of Charlotte and Anne's works.
Helen Graham/Gilbert Markham/Agnes Grey/Edward Weston
This one would definitely come up against religious angst in canon... Anyway, I just think it'd be neat. Maybe there's some contrivance, whether Agnes gets hired on as a governess for some reason, or enters into the picture as a parson's wife ministering to parishioners (or idk maybe Weston takes an interest in Helen's paintings?)
Gilbert Blythe/Anne Shirley/Helen Graham
it's the wrong Gilbert! the wrong country and the wrong decade by like idk 5+ of them. oh well. I'm sure you could resolve this in creative ways.
Aziraphale/Crowley/Catherine Earnshaw/Heathcliff
The obvious pairings by canon have ... interesting dimensions? Catherine and Heathcliff have this intense pseudo-incestuous "He's more myself than I am" dynamic, while it takes Aziraphale and Crowley millennia to settle into a relationship that is ...quietly passionate. (aroace vibes there). Maybe Catherine falls for the angel or demon instead of Linton, or maybe Heathcliff gets entangled with them via some minor business thing? I think this would be ripe for interesting gender stuff on especially Catherine's part too, since Aziraphale comes off as gay (for a certain time's value of the description) and Crowley varies in gender presentation.
Other Good Omens crossovers!
Famine/Pestilence/Ramses (Prince of Egypt)
Idk this just... struck me as interesting. So many of the plagues could be classified as some variety of pestilence, and famine plays a pivotal role in the Joseph story of how the Israelites ended up in Egypt. What would it mean for the pharoah to embrace them? I recently heard that Jewish thought of the time had the heart as an organ of thought instead of emotion with regard to the hardening of pharoah's heart. What does it mean to pick up the pieces?
Hawkeye Pierce(MASH)/Pestilence/War/Death
basically take "Hawkeye gets fucked over by disease and war and the spectre of death" a little more literally than you'd typically mean it? I think this could be very self-destructive on Hawk's part.
Botanist from "When the War Came"/Famine/Pestilence/Pollution/Edward Teller (Doctor Atomic)/small god of Chernobyl
this is a very high concept sort of thing? And it's very much about the xkcd strip where Biology's representative says Physics has unleashed another horseman (the atom bomb/radiation) while Biology has slain one. When the War Came is a Decemberists song about the Siege of Leningrad where the Botanist (I've assumed) narrator has sworn not to betray the mission of the seed bank despite "pangs of starvation". Edward Teller's first lines in Doctor Atomic are about holding no hope of saving our souls after working on the bomb.
Anathema Device/Newton Pulsifer/Newton Geiszler/Herman Gottlieb
And then this one is kinda just for fun. People who helped to stop apocalypses...
TBC...
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