[018] Plot bunnies, free for adoption to a good home (no, seriously, please, I'll even collaborate)

[helenorvana]

• Way to cross Supernatural with Inception: The original formula for somnacin included an extract from some dream-walking creature (and/or African dream-root?)

• Fic idea the first: The judges had to use the save on Adam or Kris

• Fic idea the second: Dean/Kris I NEITHER KNOW NOR CARE HOW BUT I WANT THIS LIKE BURNING. Preferably with an emphasis on tiny-and-possibly-helpless!Kris, possibly-dub-con, probably with ghosts/succubi involved, as well as manupulative-but-not-evil!Dean

• Fic idea the third: Please don't take this to mean that I don't like Sam - I really do (even more so now that he has his soul back, yay!). But in The Song Remains the Same, when Dean and Sam were telling Mary to leave and she told them it was too late because she was pregnant - what if she had left then? She was pregnant with Dean, not Sam, which meant that Lucifer still wouldn't have had a vessel.
  
  So in this AU, the angels don't interfere for whatever reason, or maybe instead of Mary leaving she gets her tubes tied or a hysterectomy after having Dean, so she can't have any children anymore. Somehow or other, Mary dies because of the YED, John ends up raising Dean to hunt just like in the show except sans Sam (I really don't know how this would at all work out - I'll leave that up to the author (-:). And Dean still goes to hell, Castiel still saves him, Lilith is still killed somehow, and the angels are still wanting the Lucifer/Michael showdown to bring about Paradise.
  
  Which is when Zachariah tells Dean about Adam, the half-brother he never knew he had but is destined to become Lucifer's vessel. Go from there.

• Fic idea the fourth: I've had this idea in my head for a while of a universe/reality where the mark of a great/epic actor was an "Identifying Character." An IC would be their iconic, defining character from one of their movies (which wouldn't necessarily be their most popular, or highest-grossing, but would always be their greatest) that actually developed into a fully-realized alter ego/split personality. The IC is self-aware, both of himself and his identity as defined/described by his backstory/movie, but is also aware of the fact that he is a character, an alter-ego, and interacts with both his actor and the real world.
  
  The IC spends time both awake and asleep - awake being aware and piggy-backing the actor, watching through his eyes (and usually making peanut gallery commentary), asleep being unaware of the outside world and actually living in/interacting with the world from which they were created - living in their own movie. In the very beginning, when they're first becoming self-aware, they tend to spend equal time awake/asleep: awake because it's as terrifying for them as it is for the actor (for them, the actor is the alter ego, the anomaly, the unwanted thing living in their head) and they want to know what the hell is going on; asleep because they fully believe that the movie-verse is reality, and they're trying to live their own lives.
  
  There's almost always a period where the IC, in their movie-verse, goes to counseling or develops a coping mechanism of their own, and thus spends a significant period of time asleep. At the same time, the actor is being taught how to hold on to them, how to go find them and force them awake. (In this universe, people want the actors to have the alter egos, for whatever reason) Actors will oftentimes get to this point with several characters throughout their acting careers before they manage to advance to the final stages. There's only been a small handful of actors whose very first developing characters became their ICs.
  
  Eventually, the actor gets good enough to keep the IC awake and tell them about what's going on. As the IC becomes more and more self-aware, he spends more and more time awake voluntarily, until he's back to equal time awake/asleep again. The point in the actor's career at which they develop their IC determines how much time throughout the actor's life the IC stays awake vs asleep. The earlier in their career, the more time the IC stays asleep so he doesn't interfere with the other characters the actor portrays, but the later an IC develops, the more experience the actor has had climbing in and out of a character's head, and is able to manage both without a terrible amount of difficulty, and so the IC stays awake.
  
  Almost always, towards the end of the actor's life (whether or not he's still acting) the IC stays awake almost constantly, just spending time with the actor. By that point, the IC has probably spent 60% of his time awake, but has still been able to lead a full life in his own movie-verse as well. It is suspected/believed that the IC and actor are both "awake" and together at the time of death, though in the case of [insert famous actor and iconic character here], the actor had said that his IC hadn't been awake for years, and he wasn't able to reach him.
  
  It is very rare for an IC to be killed in his movie-verse before the actor actually dies (the exception to this rule being those ICs who, by the end of the actual movie, are killed - this happens more frequently than some would suspect. In those cases, the IC develops very quickly (and usually delays shooting while the actor learns to compensate), and is fully self-aware by the time shooting of the movie is done, at which point they spend their entire "lives" awake, because they are entirely unable to go back to their movie-verses), though there have been many more cases where the IC nearly dies, and either the IC or the actor is able to force the IC awake in time.
  
  There have only been three cases of this, [insert three actors and iconic characters). In all three cases, the IC had spent more time asleep than awake, and while the actor is/was able to observe them, they weren't able to interact with the movie-verse like the IC is able to interact with the real world (this is usually one of the biggest convincing factors for a developing IC that the actor is telling the truth - the IC can interact with people in the real world, even control the actor's body at points (if the actor is willing), but the actor is only ever an observer in the IC's world), and so could only watch while something happened that resulted in the IC's death. The IC, for whatever reason, was unable to bring himself awake before dying, and neither was the actor able to force them awake.
  
  Here are a few other facts:
  
  1) Actors only ever develop one IC throughout the course of their lives.
  2) As long as ICs have been developing, they've only been movie characters (possibly requires method acting?)
  3) There's never been a case before of two ICs developing from the same movie, or even from the same canon (for example, Viggo Mortensen's IC is Aragorn, who originally started developing in Fellowship, but no other LotR character ever has/will develop into an IC, from any movie, be it the original trilogy or the Hobbit, or any other movie set in Middle-Earth that might be made)
  
  Cue the actual story idea, which is Dean and Sam developing as ICs for Jensen and Jared. I've had this scene in my mind for a while of the (Winchester) boys on a hunt somewhere, and Dean all of a sudden seeing a boom-mike, or a cameraman, or something/someone involved with the set. Dean develops first, and his interactions with Jensen are what makes Sam start to develop and discover Jared. The J's are taken completely by surprise, because there's never been an IC from a TV series before - as Jensen said, you can't method-act the same character for that long! - and there's never been two ICs from the same canon before.
  
  They hide it for as long as they can (though they confide in each other, and both seek a counselor to help them with the developing process), but eventually word is leaked. Their story sparks a huge amount of speculation, because, TV characters! But also, and most disturbing to most, Jensen's Dean doesn't interact with the Sam in Jensen's head while he's asleep, he interacts with the the Sam in Jared's head. Which is why Jared's Sam started developing into an IC in the first place. Cue rampant speculation about telepathy, psychic powers, a huge hoax for publicity, and possibly researchers wanting to turn the two actors and their ICs into their pet projects.

These are my random thoughts for the day. Enjoy.