I have just remembered the Megamind dream I had last night!!
He and Roxanne were at a zoo/museum kinda place, and he was disguised so no one would know it was him. They were in the butterfly house and the disguise watch malfunctioned and he really slowly turned back into Megamind while everyone around him started freaking out. It was really sad, actually, because he wasn’t doing anything wrong or villainous – he was just having a nice day out.
As his skin was turning back to blue, the butterflies started to land on him because they were attracted to the bright colour…when he was back to looking like himself, he was covered in butterflies and was watching them, totally enraptured. It was really sweet: butterflies don’t care if you’re a villain, but they love you if youre brightly coloured.
(Oh, and Roxanne took it upon herself to loudly admonish everyone who was yelling at him, telling them that he had as much right to be there as them and also could they kindly fuck off)
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! ❤ ❤ ❤
Roxanne, securely restrained, watches as Megamind places each of the objects he intends to use in a neat line on the metal table. He looks up at her with a wicked smirk and her breathing picks up. He must notice her reaction, because his smile widens.
“Why don’t you tell me the location of the Rebel base now, Commander Ritchi?” he asks, voice smooth and persuasive. “You know you will, sooner or later.”
Evil Lair would be so much fun to play in! Especially with the brainbots to join in the game, and a slightly-exasperated-but-indulgent Minion to play along, too!
Roxanne looked in the mirror. She looked sort of okay today.
If someone else had been there, they would have told her she looked gorgeous, and dangerous. Not sort of okay.
But someone else was not there.
She was going to be kidnapped today, and this kidnapping was going to have The Question. And so she wore clothes to match. A short red off-the-shoulder dress- she is her own person. Not Metro Man’s, and not Megamind’s. Not white, not blue. Hers. Red. It has hints of black though- matching the theme of evil, right?
This is an absolute delight! I love Megamind trying to kinda distance the situation by describing it in gender-bending, not-necessarily-you/us terms. I also really liked Roxanne’s perception of the relationship, and her concerns about what Evil Queen might mean.
Megamind being hopefully but nervous and non-pressuring in that last scene was excellent. I am curious about what the plot was– it sounds interesting– and I really appreciate Megamind mentioning the downside as well as the up side.
This is an excellent, wonderful, fascinating story, and I am greatly enjoying it. Hopefully, something will happen soon to help her decision along. 😉 Thank You so much for writing this!
SQUEEE THANK YOU!
Also, it will never be said in-fic, but the plot was that a platform with genetically modified (non-deadly) giant scorpions would slowly raise to Roxanne’s level. It depended on the time because Megs had just fed them, so they would just wander, however now it had been a while, and adding in the slow raise they would be hungry and therefore pissed, and while they aren’t dangerous giant pissed scorpions are never fun.
I really like Megamind being gender-inclusive with his Evil Co-ruler explanation, and his honest and straightforward answer for what being his Evil Co-ruler would involve–and he presents options with it!
Also, I like your note about what the evil plot actually was, and that the reason he cancels it after the discussion is because he doesn’t want the giant scorpions too be angry enough to make the plot actually unpleasant for Roxanne!
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