Racebend the characters, then add a kink? (Obviously racebending isn't a kink. But I like kink and I like racebending so both in one story is awesome.)
Please don't fill this unless you think you can write it without Fail. But if you can... how would Marcone and his crime syndicate -- and therefore his relationships -- be different if he were black or Cambodian or Mexican? How would Murphy relate to Harry if he were Ojibwa? Etc?
YES I LIKE SERIOUS SOCIAL COMMENTARY WITH MY HOT PORN SO SUE ME.
My inner cynic has difficulty believing that Chicago PD would have let black/latino Marcone live long enough to run a syndicate.
That said, I would love to see a black Marcone with a prominent Chicago pastor in his back pocket (or one who's devoted to exposing church hypocrisy), or a latino Marcone who funds ESL programs and bankrolls scholarships to prep schools and colleges.
Or Vietnamese Harry "I swear on my power that if one more person tells me they didn't know Asians got this tall, I will burn this fucking building to the ground."
Oh my goodness; imagine the implications for beauty standards if House Raith were all African.
And I have so many different ideas for Murphy, I can't even begin to state them all.
Not necessarily, plenty of people have mixed backgrounds and look completely different from their grandparents, especially if they live in multicultural societies.
Actually isn't there a crack theory floating around that Martha Liberty could've been Harry's grandmother? It's not outside the realm of possibility that he already is mixed-race. (Which doesn't mean he's necessarily a POC, since he's never identified that way, but it might be interesting to see him deal with finding out that he is.)
According to Word of God, Harry's grandmother (on his mother's side, anyway) is long-dead, and no-one important. He refuses to say anything about Malcom's parents though, so...
Oh, damn, I am now visualizing Marcone as the pastor of a Black church, which he rules with an avuncular demeanor but an iron fist, with a finger in every pie, charisma in spades, and detailed knowledge of everything that is happening in all of his parishioners' lives and neighborhoods, like most of the urban black pastors I know...
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Date: 2011-02-17 04:34 am (UTC)Please don't fill this unless you think you can write it without Fail. But if you can... how would Marcone and his crime syndicate -- and therefore his relationships -- be different if he were black or Cambodian or Mexican? How would Murphy relate to Harry if he were Ojibwa? Etc?
YES I LIKE SERIOUS SOCIAL COMMENTARY WITH MY HOT PORN SO SUE ME.
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Date: 2011-02-17 04:48 am (UTC)Luck, which is part of the Racebending Revenge, challenge: http://archiveofourown.org/works/97484
and implicit racebending in this book/tv/Bridge of Birds fusion, set in ancient China that never was: http://archiveofourown.org/works/87838
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Date: 2011-02-19 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-17 05:37 am (UTC)That said, I would love to see a black Marcone with a prominent Chicago pastor in his back pocket (or one who's devoted to exposing church hypocrisy), or a latino Marcone who funds ESL programs and bankrolls scholarships to prep schools and colleges.
Or Vietnamese Harry "I swear on my power that if one more person tells me they didn't know Asians got this tall, I will burn this fucking building to the ground."
Oh my goodness; imagine the implications for beauty standards if House Raith were all African.
And I have so many different ideas for Murphy, I can't even begin to state them all.
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Date: 2011-02-19 08:24 pm (UTC)Also, I wonder how he then would have reacted to Ebenezar's damn "Injun Joe" shtick with Listens-to-Wind.
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