The Dragon's Lair

Stolen / respectfully borrowed from rionaleonhart, a Tumblr meme now removed from its native ecosystem and repotted on DW [ETA: now tweaked a bit]:

Give me any two (or more) characters from a canon I’m familiar with, and I’ll tell you how they would cope in an ‘oh no, there’s only one bed’ scenario!

What you get might be anything from brief headcanons/thoughts to a small fic, depending on how much I have to say about those particular characters.

(Currently traveling, staying overnight on the road, would enjoy some fun distraction.)

Update: Based on how the comments are going, I edited the instructions slightly to hopefully bend the requests a little more towards characters from the same canon. (If you want two characters from different canons, feel free to ask for it - there are no wrong answers, it's very open-ended - but I'm really only going to be able to do headcanons for those, as I can't easily write crossovers, and I'm hoping for some of the other kind of prompts too!)

1. Biggles - Biggles/EvS flirting/pre-ship + a long-suffering Algy

Prompt: EvS flirts with a mark to distract him, and Biggles has Feelings about it?

Originally posted here

( 500 words of flirting and Algy making faces about it )


2. Biggles - Erich + Biggles enemy-era h/c

Prompt: Biggles is giving his standard "You're too good for this, reconsider your nefarious ways" speech to EvS but wholly unexpectedly/uncharacteristically EvS just starts crying in response (feverish delirium? drugged? exhausted? drunk?) and now a flummoxed Biggles has to contend with a sobbing nemesis and (horror) Emotions

Originally posted here

( 1000 words of awkward crying )


3. Babylon 5 - Susan & Delenn post-series

Prompt: Susan / Delenn after the show ends. You might have to wait to finish the whole thing for full context. Anything. They just deserve to be happy.

(The resulting fic is basically gen, but could be pre-ship.)

Originally posted here

( 500 words of gentle post-canon bonding )

Curious what the original B5 plan was before all the cast changes/brushes with cancellation, I went hunting for it and I found an absolutely fascinating rundown of the original 10 (not 5)-year synopsis from a message board, summarized from JMS's script books.

Because this is on a message board from 2008, I'm going to copy it below the cut to avoid having it vanish due to link decay. I found it here:

https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/synopsis-of-jmss-synopsis-of-the-original-arc-for-b5-spoilers.53739/

( Original 10-year synopsis and my comments )

Thoughts?

The Bodyguard Protocol, my post-canon Babylon 5 fixit (for one particular story thread), is now complete at 17K. (There may be a sequel in the works with further aftercare/comfort for everything I put them through.) This is not only the longest thing I've written for these characters, but apparently the longest thing I've written since 2022.

As per my AO3 stats, I've already posted almost as many words in 2025 as I did in all of 2024.

And I'm doing exchanges again! unsent_letters_exchange revealed yesterday, and I received this lovely MASH fic (a follow-up to Sons & Bowlers) that I really enjoyed. Somewhere in the exchange collection, of course, is a very surprising, not at all predictable story written by me.