...I was thinking about re-drawing the movie poster with Lea and Maggie and Justin and Bob, but then I realized I am now mentally casting Catherine Zeta-Jones as Lea and Renee Zellweger as Maggie, so there wouldn't be much re-drawing involved...
(So, set the scene: it's 1920s Chicago. Lea is moonlighting in the mortal world as a nightclub dancer (maybe one of her artistic inspiration deals?) when a mortal man winds up dead - one the faerie courts have no claim on - and so Mab is forced to turn her over to the White Council. Meanwhile, Maggie's fallen in with a bad crowd; she murders a minor sorcerer she'd been dallying with, but when the Council finds out, she manages to convince Lord Raith of the White Court - who she is slowly winding around her little finger - to claim him as a White Court victim, until the White Council lets slip his name and Raith realizes what must have really happened, and Maggie gets taken away by wardens for breaking the First Law.
Maggie winds up in the same White Council holding facility as Lea, surrounded by wards and running water, along with a motley group of hapless lawbreakers. Lea isn't happy to see Maggie show up and threaten her control of the facility, especially when it comes out that the Winter Court has a secret Way in, and Queen Mab has been dropping by with contraband charms and goods - the whole thing is a plot to get the Winter Court some secret foothold in the Council.
Lea's main target is Warden Justin DuMorne, who has agreed to help her with her case in front of the Council in return for some shady deal-making, but Lea soon finds Justin far more attracted to Maggie, with her connections both to Dark magic and the highest echelons of the Council. He orchestrates every tiniest detail of Maggie's first appearance before the full Council, and she soon has nearly everyone convinced that she was a poor, manipulated victim who had to defend herself against a Dark master. Lea, impressed despite herself, tries to convince Maggie to team up with her, but Maggie is riding high and turns her down, until another appearance by the necromancer Kemmler makes them both realize that most of the Council, Justin included, wouldn't care if they rotted away in the dark forever. Maggie, realizing she needs something else to make her special, declares that she's pregnant with Lord Raith's son.
Upon hearing this, Lord Raith sweeps in, determined to possess the mother of his child, but is somewhat nonplussed when, between Kemmler and a sudden push by the Black Court, nobody pays attention to him. Not even Maggie, who, after several private visits with the Council's Blackstaff (special treatment of which Lea is incredibly jealous) has a screaming fight with Justin and refuses to speak with him any more. However, after watching one of the young warlocks they're imprisoned with being summarily executed, Maggie goes back to Justin before her final trial, and he reassures her that as long as she follows his lead, she'll be fine - because he's passing on to her all of the glamours and secrets that Lea and Mab had planned to use for her trial.
With that help, Maggie sails through her trail and finds herself released back onto the streets of Chicago, but outcast from both the White Council-oriented wizards and half-Dark circles she'd been moving in. Justin isn't interested in her beyond calling in the multitude of favors she already owes him, and even Lord Raith, when he finds out the baby doesn't actually exist, drops her (for awhile.) When Lea, newly freed herself, renews the offer of a double act, Maggie takes her up on it, and thus history is made.
...meanwhile, the White Council decides that from now on, it's rapid trials and summary executions, because Maggie and Lea made way too much trouble while they were in custody.
I am now convinced that this actually happened.
I am just sorry the timing doesn't work out for it to be both set in the 1920s and have Bob in it, though if you moved it up to the late 1960s it could, although that gives you less time for Maggie and Lea to be BFFs...)
Screw it, I did the movie poster after all. I'll even de-anon so I can inline it:
(If anybody wants an image with just Maggie & Lea, here: http://melannen.katycat.net/leamaggie.png . ...I think they are now my OTP of OTPs for Dresden Files. Though I suppose if you want to cast it with Harry you can pretend the one on the left is Harry in drag. :D And you can click on the image to get a larger version at my dA account.)
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Re: ideas?
Date: 2011-02-13 10:54 pm (UTC)Billy is Justin. Amos is Lord Raith. Mary Sunshine is Bob. :D
Re: ideas?
Date: 2011-02-13 11:23 pm (UTC)Re: ideas?
Date: 2011-02-14 12:02 am (UTC)...I was thinking about re-drawing the movie poster with Lea and Maggie and Justin and Bob, but then I realized I am now mentally casting Catherine Zeta-Jones as Lea and Renee Zellweger as Maggie, so there wouldn't be much re-drawing involved...
(So, set the scene: it's 1920s Chicago. Lea is moonlighting in the mortal world as a nightclub dancer (maybe one of her artistic inspiration deals?) when a mortal man winds up dead - one the faerie courts have no claim on - and so Mab is forced to turn her over to the White Council. Meanwhile, Maggie's fallen in with a bad crowd; she murders a minor sorcerer she'd been dallying with, but when the Council finds out, she manages to convince Lord Raith of the White Court - who she is slowly winding around her little finger - to claim him as a White Court victim, until the White Council lets slip his name and Raith realizes what must have really happened, and Maggie gets taken away by wardens for breaking the First Law.
Maggie winds up in the same White Council holding facility as Lea, surrounded by wards and running water, along with a motley group of hapless lawbreakers. Lea isn't happy to see Maggie show up and threaten her control of the facility, especially when it comes out that the Winter Court has a secret Way in, and Queen Mab has been dropping by with contraband charms and goods - the whole thing is a plot to get the Winter Court some secret foothold in the Council.
Lea's main target is Warden Justin DuMorne, who has agreed to help her with her case in front of the Council in return for some shady deal-making, but Lea soon finds Justin far more attracted to Maggie, with her connections both to Dark magic and the highest echelons of the Council. He orchestrates every tiniest detail of Maggie's first appearance before the full Council, and she soon has nearly everyone convinced that she was a poor, manipulated victim who had to defend herself against a Dark master. Lea, impressed despite herself, tries to convince Maggie to team up with her, but Maggie is riding high and turns her down, until another appearance by the necromancer Kemmler makes them both realize that most of the Council, Justin included, wouldn't care if they rotted away in the dark forever. Maggie, realizing she needs something else to make her special, declares that she's pregnant with Lord Raith's son.
Upon hearing this, Lord Raith sweeps in, determined to possess the mother of his child, but is somewhat nonplussed when, between Kemmler and a sudden push by the Black Court, nobody pays attention to him. Not even Maggie, who, after several private visits with the Council's Blackstaff (special treatment of which Lea is incredibly jealous) has a screaming fight with Justin and refuses to speak with him any more. However, after watching one of the young warlocks they're imprisoned with being summarily executed, Maggie goes back to Justin before her final trial, and he reassures her that as long as she follows his lead, she'll be fine - because he's passing on to her all of the glamours and secrets that Lea and Mab had planned to use for her trial.
With that help, Maggie sails through her trail and finds herself released back onto the streets of Chicago, but outcast from both the White Council-oriented wizards and half-Dark circles she'd been moving in. Justin isn't interested in her beyond calling in the multitude of favors she already owes him, and even Lord Raith, when he finds out the baby doesn't actually exist, drops her (for awhile.) When Lea, newly freed herself, renews the offer of a double act, Maggie takes her up on it, and thus history is made.
...meanwhile, the White Council decides that from now on, it's rapid trials and summary executions, because Maggie and Lea made way too much trouble while they were in custody.
I am now convinced that this actually happened.
I am just sorry the timing doesn't work out for it to be both set in the 1920s and have Bob in it, though if you moved it up to the late 1960s it could, although that gives you less time for Maggie and Lea to be BFFs...)
Re: ideas?
Date: 2011-02-14 01:30 am (UTC)Re: ideas?
Date: 2011-02-15 01:33 am (UTC)Screw it, I did the movie poster after all. I'll even de-anon so I can inline it:
(If anybody wants an image with just Maggie & Lea, here: http://melannen.katycat.net/leamaggie.png . ...I think they are now my OTP of OTPs for Dresden Files. Though I suppose if you want to cast it with Harry you can pretend the one on the left is Harry in drag. :D And you can click on the image to get a larger version at my dA account.)
Re: ideas?
Date: 2011-02-15 01:41 am (UTC)THIS IS SO AWESOME
Re: ideas?
Date: 2011-02-15 02:45 am (UTC)Re: ideas?
Date: 2011-02-15 01:58 am (UTC)Re: ideas?
Date: 2011-02-15 02:46 am (UTC)Re: ideas?
Date: 2011-02-15 02:09 am (UTC)/falls down on his knees in awe.
The shipping address for the internets is...?
Re: ideas?
Date: 2011-02-15 02:47 am (UTC)Re: ideas?
Date: 2011-02-15 04:17 am (UTC)Re: ideas?
Date: 2011-02-15 04:20 am (UTC)OP here...
Date: 2011-02-16 03:21 am (UTC)