people have been illegally dumping their old boats all around abandoned neighborhoods in detroit so this one newscaster on the local news station has been collecting them and finding out who the owners are by looking up the ID numbers on the boats and then she puts them on a flatbed truck and she brings them back to their owners wearing a fucking captain’s hat and she knocks on their doors and goes “hey we found your boat!”
A parallel universe co-existing with ours on another dimensional plane. Everything’s duplicated, almost. Another Enterprise. Spock with a beard.
So wouldn’t Megs be the hero and Wayne the villain in this Mirror Mirror ‘verse? Even if they still landed the same. Megamind, (and DS people?) the underdog hero fighting against Wayne Scott and his family’s monopoly over the city. AU America being like a YA dystopia, ruled by rich supers like the Scott family.
^^Oooooh, this is good!
Mirror / Mirror
It’s the Roxannes and the Waynes that get switched.
mirror!Wayne is still cheesy and affable and smiles all the time…he just also sometimes sets people on fire with his laser vision while he’s doing it. Everyone is terrified of him.
mirror!Roxanne works for the Scott family, presenting propaganda to the public. But actually she’s secretly working with Megamind to spy on the Scotts and undermine them from within. She and Megamind are already together romantically in this universe.
The first thing mirror!Megamind does when canon!Roxanne arrives in the Lair is kiss her, and she is…really startled and also A LOT MORE INTO IT THAN SHE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED OH GOD. When he breaks the kiss, she’s so off-balance that she just blurts out,
“You grew a beard?”
The first thing mirror!Roxanne does when she arrives in the Lair is kiss canon!Megamind, and he is SUPREMELY CAUGHT OFF GUARD OH GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING. When she breaks the kiss, she rubs her thumb down the line of his facial hair and murmurs,
“You shaved?”
canon!Wayne is deeply disturbed by the mirror-verse, and by everything he finds out about his mirror-verse self; he ends up working with mirror!Megamind and canon!Roxanne to find his weakness and set up a trap for his mirror counterpart, for them to use after they all switch back.
When everyone returns to their own universes, canon!Wayne is shocked to find that his mirror-verse counterpart wasn’t able to do as much damage to the city as he would have expected–because, of course, canon!Megamind has been preparing for the possibility of Wayne doing something like that for years.
As soon as mirror!Roxanne told him what the Wayne from her universe was like, Megamind rolled out every single one of his Distract-Metro-Man-From-Destroying-Metrocity plans at once, which kept him busy until the switch could be made.
In canon-verse, Wayne has a sobering talk with Megamind and decides to step down as the city’s defender. He just–he has too much power; how can he be sure that he’s using it the right way? There were just too many similarities between the things that his mirror-verse counterpart did and the things that he’s done as the city’s defender.
In mirror-verse, the trap works, and Megamind and Roxanne defeat Metro Man and save the city.
In canon-verse, Roxanne and Megamind are extremely awkward and dance around the whole holy-fuck-our-other-selves-are-dating…thing, without really talking about it, and finally Roxanne turns and starts to walk out of the Lair–
–only to say to hell with it and turn around to kiss him.
When they break the kiss, Megamind is breathless. Roxanne is too, but she has enough breath to tell him,
“I like the goatee better.”
And then she kisses him again.
@setepenre-set so uh, I wanted to wait to respond until after I had seen that episode of Star Trek. I have now and oh my god?? oh my GOD I can’t believe my art inspired fic! This is amazing!!
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AAAAHHHH THIS IS GREAT!!
I love the colors you’ve chosen; they look so harmonious together–the dark blue design on his costume contrasts in a lovely way with the deep wine red of her shirt, but since they’re both dark, the contrast is unobtrusive enough to allow us to focus on their expressions.
Their skin, too, contrasts very nicely, but because they’re about equal in brightness, it’s not at all distracting, but just very visually appealing.
Their body positions are so great, too! I love the way Megamind is holding her, gently, but with the confidence that demonstrates he’s done this before with his own Roxanne. He’s leaning in towards her, with his hand cupping her face softly. His eyes are closed and his facial features rather relaxed–he’s clearly enjoying the kiss, but it’s in no way a surprising or unusual occurrence for him.
Roxanne, on the other hand, has her back arched and her elbow pulled back, making it clear that she’s very surprised indeed by this happening. She’s not pushing him away or trying to pull away–she’s caught off-guard, but she’s not angry or disgusted. Her eyes are wide, looking at Megamind, and she’s blushing–a sign that, in spite of her shock, she’s enjoying the kiss more than she would have expected.
Seriously, they look so beautiful, here, and I’m so happy that you saw that Star Trek episode, and liked the ficlet I wrote for your original art piece! Getting another piece of art from you about the same universe is so very exciting! ❤ ❤ ❤
Can this be a full length fic please?
I make no promises, but I’ll save it in my prompts! ❤
And it’s not that he’s taking her SERIOUSLY, he just – doesn’t quite GET what she’s doing. Is she sick? Drunk?
He KNOWS it’s April Fools, his plot is centered around it. The fact Roxanne’s doing it to HIM just goes over his (giant blue) head.
And he’d STOP, except she just keeps usings these grandious descriptions of him… And between screams she’s SMILING… And if he could JUST figure out what’s going on…
(Wayne is the second last to figure it out, but fortunately does before he’s contacted. He’s hiding out with a box of popcorn watching in and chortling.)
I have, yes! I haven’t got any definite plot ideas right now, but established relationship stories are fun to write in a way that’s different from the pining romance stories that I usually write! ❤
Ah, thank you for the prompt! This could be a really interesting story–and it would definitely be a very different story depending on when they arrived. Having them arrive there while he’s still Evil Overlord would be very angsty, while a storyline in which they arrived after the events of the movie would be more light.
And since my headcanon for the M’ega includes kidnapping as a proposal, having them arrive actually *during* the Metro Man day kidnapping could potentially be hilarious.
I want October to be “Megamind Month”. Who’s with me?
We shall have fic and art in Megamind Month (October). This seems as good a time as any to start on prompts.
Let’s make this happen.
oooh I like this idea! @lygrim, you’re still running the @t-umblr-mind blog, right? maybe you’re interested in this!
I can definitely get behind this idea. Perhaps we could have a prompt calendar for the month.
Metronites, hit my inbox if you have any suggestions.
Ok, resaw this and suddenly got inspired. This is by NO means meant to replace anyone’s suggestions for prompts – throw out anything for better ideas!
I specifically included multiple “variations” (most just my brain leaping to connections) to create lots of ideas for each, and to encourage creativity in interpretation. Only three are tied to specifc days (in bold), the rest are numbered just to make sure I came up with 31.
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