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my hard-on for fourth wall fuckery, lemme show you it
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be_themoon prompted me thus: There's a store/coffeeshop/bookstore that's completely neutral territory for supernatural creatures. No powers work there. No weapons are allowed. Who runs it? Who uses it? Why is it becoming a refugee camp? And it also has a little bit of lysythe's prompt too, what with fairy tales in the city.
Opening/closing credits song:
Alice Nealon (Freema Agyeman)
She inherited the bar. She's listening to the lawyer read out the will, and she's going through a list of questions in her head. Does she know an Aunt Marie (whose last name you will later find out is Laveau)? Does she really want to leave her receptionist job in Bristol and run some bar in New York City? What will her family and friends think? The answers are, respectively: no, yes, and who cares? Bars, sure, she knows bars – she is a frequent patron of them, after all. And she's always wanted to go to New York, in that vague sort of way that people say they'd like to open a bookshop one day.
"Now," says the lawyer. "Have your powers manifested yet?"
"My what?"
Luke Buscaglio (Misha Collins)
Luke is an old family friend of the Nealons, not that Alice ever knew. She never got to know her dad's side of the side of the family, especially after he died, and she is beginning to understand why.
Also, Luke is a warlock.
"Shut up, you are not," Alice says, but for real, he is.
He's detail-oriented and responsible, and the one who asks Mays in as bouncer and general sentinel. Luke is polite but not friendly, and overall a difficult man to impress. He helps her run the bar, or maybe she's helping him. Either way, it runs, and runs well, and Alice, much to her delight, has finally found someone who can beat her at chess, which they play regularly and with ruthlessness and much booze.
Mays (Rudy Youngblood)
Mays jokes that his favorite part of the bar is its outside; he doesn't like being stripped of his magic. He'd rather not be here at all, but he does owe Luke a few favors, and they are sometimes friends. Besides, if the whispers are correct, then soon this bar will be the safest place to be.
Luke thinks Mays is a good judge of character even though his opinion of Mays's own character varies wildly depending on the day. Mays decides who gains admittance to the bar, and if he turns you away, then just leave, man. If you keep pushing, then sure, Mays might let you walk through the door, but it isn't going to be the bar on the other side. Then you just better hope you didn't piss him off too much.
Incidentally, the Navajo word for 'coyote' is Ma'ii.
Violet (Rashida Jones)
When Alice inherited the bar, she inherited its ghost.
"Luke, it's nice to see you again," Violet smiles, and Luke nods and says, "Likewise."
Alice has to clear her throat, and she and Mays exchange TEEHEEHEE expressions.
Violet's the kind of ghost who tidies up around the place, putting glasses in the sink, picking up fallen objects, putting flowers in the vases, etc. Also, ghosts make wonderful spies, and Luke makes it his business to know what's what in their bar, especially with the oncoming storm. She's a wistful spirit who just wants everyone to be happy, sometimes to her own detriment.
Hey, so what is a ghost doing in a place that cancels out the supernatural anyway?
Good question. But also the wrong question.
Taliesin (David Tennant)
A bard who hasn't composed a tale in centuries, and a regular at the bar. Perhaps too much of a regular. He paid for his first drink here not with money, but with a song about Alice's unsurpassable beauty. He constantly claims to soon compose the next great legend, but he is often drunk when he says this, as when he says most things, so they usually don't pay him much attention. Thing is, he may be on to something. The great myths of the world are unraveling, and old stories may soon be made new again. Taliesin intends to pounce on the opportunity when it comes.
Calliope (Angie Harmon)
Muse of epic poetry and another bar regular. Initially known among friends for her love of bawdy stories and ability to get Taliesin to STFU, she is later revealed to also be the former lover of Scheherazade. Calliope's just trying to move on and leave her old ways behind, but she should have known better than anyone that stories never really end.
Bai Suzhen (Jamie Chung) & Prometheus (Jason Momoa)
They show up at the bar seeking sanctuary. Bai Suzhen has escaped her pagoda, and Prometheus his rock and eagle, thus turning the stories upside down, rendering the legends void.
"You can't stay here," Mays says, but Alice intercedes. Yes, they can. Everything she's learned about this new world and all the whispers that she's heard about what's coming, all the magic that she's learning -- they're all falling into place. This is what her bar is for, exactly.
Scheherazade (Archie Panjabi)
She is the key. They have to find her before it's too late. Too bad no one's seen her in over a thousand years.
Baron Samedi (Mos Def)
"The stories are walking my roads. They bring with them the dead languages, the sleeping heroes. They negotiate with me. They are unafraid. They are growing stronger, child, and yes, soon they will change the world."
COMING SOON IN FUTURE EPISODES
- Alice's sister, Leah (Angel Coulby), has come for a surprise visit and wants to see the bar. Shenanigans ensue.
- BAI SUZHEN/PROMETHEUS FUCK YEAH
- What history does Violet have with Baron Samedi anyway?
- Shit is GETTING REAL, so Mays's cousin, Reynard (Sebastian Roche), comes over to lend a hand with security and exposition. This is followed by an explosion of Reynard/Mays and Reynard/Luke all over your flist.
IN FANDOM
- Fandom is utterly confused at this stray bit of fanon that Luke has an estranged twin brother named Jimmy Novak. Who the hell is Jimmy Novak? Canon says Luke is an only child, after all. Why did Lukefandom explode over the episode where he and Reynard go to Stonehenge? It really wasn't that great of an episode, and the druids were dicks. Lukefandom is so weird. And full of tentacles.
- Say what you want about RPS, but Misha Collins/David Tennant can't be tamed.
be_themoon prompted me thus: There's a store/coffeeshop/bookstore that's completely neutral territory for supernatural creatures. No powers work there. No weapons are allowed. Who runs it? Who uses it? Why is it becoming a refugee camp? And it also has a little bit of lysythe's prompt too, what with fairy tales in the city.Opening/closing credits song:
Alice Nealon (Freema Agyeman)
She inherited the bar. She's listening to the lawyer read out the will, and she's going through a list of questions in her head. Does she know an Aunt Marie (whose last name you will later find out is Laveau)? Does she really want to leave her receptionist job in Bristol and run some bar in New York City? What will her family and friends think? The answers are, respectively: no, yes, and who cares? Bars, sure, she knows bars – she is a frequent patron of them, after all. And she's always wanted to go to New York, in that vague sort of way that people say they'd like to open a bookshop one day.
"Now," says the lawyer. "Have your powers manifested yet?"
"My what?"
Luke Buscaglio (Misha Collins)
Luke is an old family friend of the Nealons, not that Alice ever knew. She never got to know her dad's side of the side of the family, especially after he died, and she is beginning to understand why.
Also, Luke is a warlock.
"Shut up, you are not," Alice says, but for real, he is.
He's detail-oriented and responsible, and the one who asks Mays in as bouncer and general sentinel. Luke is polite but not friendly, and overall a difficult man to impress. He helps her run the bar, or maybe she's helping him. Either way, it runs, and runs well, and Alice, much to her delight, has finally found someone who can beat her at chess, which they play regularly and with ruthlessness and much booze.
Mays (Rudy Youngblood)
Mays jokes that his favorite part of the bar is its outside; he doesn't like being stripped of his magic. He'd rather not be here at all, but he does owe Luke a few favors, and they are sometimes friends. Besides, if the whispers are correct, then soon this bar will be the safest place to be.
Luke thinks Mays is a good judge of character even though his opinion of Mays's own character varies wildly depending on the day. Mays decides who gains admittance to the bar, and if he turns you away, then just leave, man. If you keep pushing, then sure, Mays might let you walk through the door, but it isn't going to be the bar on the other side. Then you just better hope you didn't piss him off too much.
Incidentally, the Navajo word for 'coyote' is Ma'ii.
Violet (Rashida Jones)
When Alice inherited the bar, she inherited its ghost.
"Luke, it's nice to see you again," Violet smiles, and Luke nods and says, "Likewise."
Alice has to clear her throat, and she and Mays exchange TEEHEEHEE expressions.
Violet's the kind of ghost who tidies up around the place, putting glasses in the sink, picking up fallen objects, putting flowers in the vases, etc. Also, ghosts make wonderful spies, and Luke makes it his business to know what's what in their bar, especially with the oncoming storm. She's a wistful spirit who just wants everyone to be happy, sometimes to her own detriment.
Hey, so what is a ghost doing in a place that cancels out the supernatural anyway?
Good question. But also the wrong question.
Taliesin (David Tennant)
A bard who hasn't composed a tale in centuries, and a regular at the bar. Perhaps too much of a regular. He paid for his first drink here not with money, but with a song about Alice's unsurpassable beauty. He constantly claims to soon compose the next great legend, but he is often drunk when he says this, as when he says most things, so they usually don't pay him much attention. Thing is, he may be on to something. The great myths of the world are unraveling, and old stories may soon be made new again. Taliesin intends to pounce on the opportunity when it comes.
Calliope (Angie Harmon)
Muse of epic poetry and another bar regular. Initially known among friends for her love of bawdy stories and ability to get Taliesin to STFU, she is later revealed to also be the former lover of Scheherazade. Calliope's just trying to move on and leave her old ways behind, but she should have known better than anyone that stories never really end.
Bai Suzhen (Jamie Chung) & Prometheus (Jason Momoa)
They show up at the bar seeking sanctuary. Bai Suzhen has escaped her pagoda, and Prometheus his rock and eagle, thus turning the stories upside down, rendering the legends void.
"You can't stay here," Mays says, but Alice intercedes. Yes, they can. Everything she's learned about this new world and all the whispers that she's heard about what's coming, all the magic that she's learning -- they're all falling into place. This is what her bar is for, exactly.
Scheherazade (Archie Panjabi)
She is the key. They have to find her before it's too late. Too bad no one's seen her in over a thousand years.
Baron Samedi (Mos Def)
"The stories are walking my roads. They bring with them the dead languages, the sleeping heroes. They negotiate with me. They are unafraid. They are growing stronger, child, and yes, soon they will change the world."
COMING SOON IN FUTURE EPISODES
- Alice's sister, Leah (Angel Coulby), has come for a surprise visit and wants to see the bar. Shenanigans ensue.
- BAI SUZHEN/PROMETHEUS FUCK YEAH
- What history does Violet have with Baron Samedi anyway?
- Shit is GETTING REAL, so Mays's cousin, Reynard (Sebastian Roche), comes over to lend a hand with security and exposition. This is followed by an explosion of Reynard/Mays and Reynard/Luke all over your flist.
IN FANDOM
- Fandom is utterly confused at this stray bit of fanon that Luke has an estranged twin brother named Jimmy Novak. Who the hell is Jimmy Novak? Canon says Luke is an only child, after all. Why did Lukefandom explode over the episode where he and Reynard go to Stonehenge? It really wasn't that great of an episode, and the druids were dicks. Lukefandom is so weird. And full of tentacles.
- Say what you want about RPS, but Misha Collins/David Tennant can't be tamed.
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MAZE.
ING.
PLEASE for this to be a real thing ASAP!
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In the meantime, perhaps just drabbles. XD
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DO JIMMY AND JACOB COME TO THIS BAR TO TAKE REFUGE FROM THE VARIOUS ANGELS AND DEMONS THAT PLAGUE THEM
CAS WAITS OUTSIDE AND POUTS AUDIBLY
Also, I love this meme for all the new hot people it introduces me to.
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CALLED "THE CASE OF THE MULTIPLYING MISHAS"
AND WHEN I DO ZEIT'S PROMPT
WHICH WILL ALSO INCLUDE A MISHA
BECAUSE ACTUALLY SHE SAID SO
IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE
AND BY WORSE I MEAN BETTER
misha
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BECAUSE WHO COULD SAY NO
TO MORE OF THIS MAN
MISHACEST FOREVER
YES
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FOR REAL CANNOT HANDLE HIS FACE
AND YET I MUST HAVE MORE OF IT
FUCK
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I know
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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If you choose to write anything for this I would support it 100%
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I'm open to the idea and will take suggestions. What scenarios would you be interested in seeing written out?
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"Now," says the lawyer. "Have your powers manifested yet?"
"My what?"
Or Violet interacting (or not) with the bar patrons, or Calliope's "ability to get Taliesin to STFU" in action, or something from the time Leah comes to visit (how do she and Alice get on? does Leah know about the whole supernatural thing or what?), or a snippet of Bai Suzhen/Prometheus and how that happens, or anything with Alice, Luke, and Mays discussing customers who should/should not be ejected, or anything more about how this conversation went down:
"You can't stay here," Mays says, but Alice intercedes. Yes, they can.
Basically I want ALL THE STORIES, THAT ISN'T TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR IS IT?? /o\
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Fandom is utterly confused at this stray bit of fanon that Luke has an estranged twin brother named Jimmy Novak. Who the hell is Jimmy Novak? Canon says Luke is an only child, after all. Why did Lukefandom explode over the episode where he and Reynard go to Stonehenge? It really wasn't that great of an episode, and the druids were dicks. Lukefandom is so weird. And full of tentacles.
I think that was me that started that. *looks guilty* LOL
Say what you want about RPS, but Misha Collins/David Tennant can't be tamed.
I ship it!
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I think that was me that started that. *looks guilty* LOL
Ah, well thank you!
LOL I SHIP IT TOO FOR REAL NOW OH GOD they would be amazing together XD
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YAY! WITH FREEMA JOINING IN ON OCCASION! *fans self* The screen would explode with all that hotness in one place!