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Elejah Fics Masterlist
CW: some fics include smut, but from the ones I’ve read, those sections aren’t essential to the plot and when I’ve skipped them the story has still made sense to me:)
!!: faves
Read/TBR:
Taking the Long Way Around - Wazman:
The Mystic Falls Gang failed in their latest attempt to kill the Original Hybrid when Stefan inexplicably came to Klaus's aid and then helped him defeat Mikael. Elena's friends are now trying to make new plans. It doesn't help that Elena is having strange dreams. All she knows is that she needs to do something but little does she know the Spirits of Nature have plans of their own.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/31768675 !!
Three Deep Breaths - MissNMikaelson:
"I think I'd remember having a baby." Elena doesn't know what to think when the Original's find themselves in possession of her baby. A baby that has yet to be conceived. All she knows is that she loves this little one, but if she goes on to have her does that mean she is going to give up on the one vampire she actually considered a future with?
https://archiveofourown.org/series/1064714
Temporarily Changed - MissNMikaelson
"Doppelgangers should really come with an instruction manual," Elena grumbled. "Evidently they do, sweetheart," Klaus waved the leather grimoire. "Well..." she crossed her arms over her stomach, "... it should be clearer, and in English."
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17365649
We Remain - AnonymousObsessor
“I missed you,” he murmured.
She opened her mouth to return his sentiment, expression already shifting into that perfect Katherine attitude, but her throat closed around the words.
She couldn’t close the door fast enough.
(Canon Divergence from The Kiss 4x18)
https://archiveofourown.org/works/18540598 !!
Liason - Albion19
Prophetic dreams of destruction and hope overshadow Mystic Falls. It all starts with Elijah turning up on Elena's doorstep with an unpleasant request. Elejah. AU.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/416544 !!
Begin Again - ElijahsElena
Her life with the vampires was nothing more than a misfiring of brain cells while in a coma... Or was it? What if she had truly lived that life, then died, and was brought back? What if she had been given a chance to change things? Just how different would her life be?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/20153161
Past and Future Tense - UNCPanda
When Elena is sent back into the past, her true position in the Mikaelson family is made clear. There she finds Elijah, love, and a once happy family. The question then becomes, can she return that happiness to her family upon her return?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/24840214
Lost - MissNMikaelson
She has no words to describe the freedom of abandoned humanity. All she knows is she’s never going back to the way things used to be. No sir… never. Never, ever ever. Never!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/29632509
Who are You? - MissNMikaelson
She had always wanted to go through the proper motions of an introduction, but she had never thought he would be the one asking her that question.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/17525618
for @avengexminds
OC/Elijah: TBR/Read
https://archiveofourown.org/works/36952588
https://archiveofourown.org/works/23239144
https://archiveofourown.org/works/29643270
https://archiveofourown.org/works/4432616 !!
I would've made such a good cult leader ://
I think the worst part about my father’s reaction to me being queer is not the anger and lashing out and emotional manipulation, that I can handle just fine, it’s the ”now I’ll have to put my effort into making [my little sister] something” because I have so fucking clearly just been coached to be something, anything, important and successful instead of, you know, happy. Or fulfilled.
And now I absolutely relish in all my wasted potential.
For a long time now, I’ve been seeing posts about Izuku and One For All, asking if it would have been better if he remained quirkless instead. Well, I’ve finally got the energy to add my 2 cents. Mainly, I’m going to discuss OFA though, and not touch on quirkless Izuku as a hero, as that’s been discussed already.
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Pics from the premiere of the Musical Festival Chronicle with Anza!
why didn't they interact in the series
marvel not acknowledging all the chemistry and hardships steve rogers and natasha romanoff have been through, ignoring how much natasha meant to steve, continuously throw away and ignore their relationship:
Just seen a post which reminded me anew of some of my frustration with the Fantastic Beasts series and the train wreck it became.
Firstly and mainly: Why did they align Grindlewald with ‘preventing the holocaust’?!
There was literally no need for this plot point as Grindelwalds viewpoint and justifications had had little to no fleshing out in the original material (HP1-7). As a result any subsequent opposition to him no matter how well intentioned, well reasoned, or factually accurate necessitates someone arguing that either the holocaust isn’t likely to happen (and so Grindelwald is lying) or has to happen ‘for the good of the world’. You can state that you don’t believe he truly wants to save more lives, that his current methods are violent, that his future plans also look to cause pain and suffering, that his actions will cause division in the magical community….. and still the only take away is that you have to argue in defence of the holocaust.
And one on my main frustrations coming off of this is there was so much you could have done with the character and they didn’t use *any* of it. All we know from the primary material is: grindlewald was a dark lord around the time of the 2nd world war; he went to durmstrang, he was expelled when he was 16 and spent the summer with relatives in the UK where he met and charmed/radicalised a young Albus Dumbledore; he was essentially a supremacist who thought that wizards were inherently better than muggles and therefore deserved to rule over them; when confronted about these views by Aberforth he fights him, during this fight Ariane is killed (and no one is sure who actually killed her); he eventually steals a wand which is the Elder Wand; he is defeated in a duel by Albus Dumbledore and imprisoned in his own jail; he dies regretful of his actions at the hand of Voldemort.
There is literally SO MUCH room to add things in there, and none of it called for explaining his actions as ‘he predicted the holocaust would happen and is acting to prevent it’.
And I just wish they had fleshed out those viewpoints more or have given any creative thought to that.
Grindelwalds supremacy system (to make it distinct from Voldemort’s) could have viewed magical ability as more important than breeding. It’s implied in the books that some people are better at or stronger at some types of magic (Gilderoy Lockhart is very talented at memory charms, Ginny’s bat bogey hex is particularly strong) so his system of oppression could be based upon magical strength. You could have assessment checks or test within his ranks that ensure only the magically strong progress; a magically strong muggleborn is more respected than a magically weak pure blood (think Hermione vs OG Nevil). This would also support his slogan Magic is Might, and the view that wizards are inherently better - it is clearly only magical talent that should be rewarded with promotion and responsibility.
And this system therefore has its own fundamental flaws - just as a system based upon class and breeding will encourage nepotism, stifle innovation, and reward mediocrity, a system based upon rewarding brute strength with access and approval will result in corruption, a strong gang mentality, and violence. Introduce characters that show this, just like the Malfoy’s did for blood supremacy.
And he should have been written as a supremacist: an eloquent, articulate, charming one but one with a flawed and corrupted world view. Someone who is able to win over people to his side, a charismatic leader figure. I wish they had modelled him more like a cult leader; someone who with the sheer force of their personality recruited wizards and witches to fight against the stature of secrecy (under which they and their families have lived their entire lives) and advocate for ruling over muggles. There’s something compelling about him, and once people are swayed by his view they find it hard to leave.
I wish they had orchestrated several confrontations with Dumbledore and Grindelwald where they fought head to head but circumstances always got in the way of them fighting to the death: one side was evacuating a position so one of them had to flee with the fighters to protect them, one was only on a recon mission and so fled to fight another day, one was injured in a previous fight and so was trying to escape the whole time, etc etc. There could have been a run up of fights (like Harry Potter and Voldemort had every year in the books - it’s formulaic but it works) leading up to the final flight between them at the end of the (supposed) 5th movie. The confrontation a long time coming and the audience dying to see them finally loose all against one another. And them not meeting before or outside of these fights? Harry/Dumbledore and Voldemort didn’t meet outside of specific fights, there are magical ways to hide and cloak yourself to prevent attack. Grindelwald stays in a secret location, unplottable and with few people around him: so the only times to attack him are when he moves into the open. There you go, lack of confrontations solved.
You could even have had him not graduate to violence right away, or have the violence be small and not able to be traced to him. Mirror the rise of the N*zi party and H*tler in that initially people don’t take Grindelwald seriously, then they won’t think the small time attacks are linked to him in anyway, then people start to agree with some of his points, and he is suddenly a leader of a ‘revolution’ and it’s too hard to oppose him now. The first few confrontations with Dumbledore or the audience stand in ‘good guy’ could even be before it’s known that he is behind any attacks and it’s literally a meeting of minds, a discussion of view points, the good guy thinks Grindlewalds behind these recent attacks but no one is going to believe him as Grindelwald is an upstanding public figure.
Don’t have him just waltz into a house and kill a baby for no f*cking reason just to remind the audience ‘oh yeah this is the bad guy, don’t like him’. Have him be charming and nice and persuasive to someone and then have a comment or a cut scene or something where he describes a future workforce of muggles to make magical products like someone describing a sweatshop, have him talk about managing the needs of muggles or ‘culling their breeding’ like a farmer would a herd of cows, have him mention the killing or maiming of a muggle like they are an animal or a pet. There are so many chilling ways to show lack of humanity or care, to show how beneath him he feels muggles are, and the absolute worst and most sloppy would be… to kill a baby in its crib for literally no reason.
And the magic system!!
I wished so much for something different for the USA but the system they got in this is just appalling.
And when you think about it, it could have been so much richer!
Like The Mayflower was 1620 and the Salem witch trials were in the 1690’s… so almost from the get go of the colonisation of America, the magical and non magically communities would have been separated. So for the majority of the colonisations cum settlement of the USA witches and wizards would have been in hiding.
In the UK we see magical enclaves hidden away in muggle surroundings (fake doors and walls, additional buildings squeezed between others) but these places and cities have been around since long before the Statute of Secrecy. London was the Roman city Londinium. So when the statue came into effect they had to seal away their magical districts and houses, but they still existed in the same space as previously integrated but now solely muggle architecture.
Not so the case in America. Chicago for example wasnt ‘founded’ as a city until the 1780’s. You could argue that as the magical community had been separate for almost 100 years at this point they might have walled off a whole section of the city for themselves to live in. Or even founded their own cities, which you needed magic to access. As colonisers/settlers moved West you could imagine a group of solely magical people creating their own enclaves. Society and muggle/wizard culture would have evolved completely differently than what it had been and became in the UK due to this concurrent growth and settlement.
Americans think about their national identity in a way unique to them, due to how recently their country was ‘created’. Wouldn’t this translate to the magical community? Would magical family’s talk about coming over on the ‘first Portkey’ the same way people claim they can ‘trace their family back to the Mayflower’? Would they measure their standing in the magical community not on wether they were pure blood, or from a Noble House… but instead on if their ancestor helped found a city, or settle a state?
Immigration/emigration/refugees, what makes someone American, the fight for American citizenship… does this translate to the magical community? Do they view European Wizards or Asia-pacific wizards as ‘not American’ if they’ve only recently moved, or working on a temp visa? Do they worry about other wizards and witches overstaying their visas or their welcome, and disrupting the American system of government? Is their a feeling of the ‘old world’ magical communities being slow and behind, stuck in the antiquated past?
In the UK setting of the HP books grounding the racial struggle in the class system worked perfectly as anyone living within that system understands it and accepts it intrinsically - the arguments and fights over blood purity are just British classism given a different name. But what’s the American version? Is it how recently you settled (is something like ‘first Generation witch’ similar to mud-blood, but it implies your parents only recently came to the USA and so you’re not a real citizen yet?) or if your family has been here from the start (Mayflower Mast families is slang for those who came over with the first port-key, the Mast of the first ship) or where you settled (just as some cities in the USA are seen as historical or ‘established’, is there a similar viewpoint to living in an all magical city vs living in a muggle city and hiding).
And due to the long lives of magical people you could have introduced characters in America who were the Malfoy’s or the Black’s - not due to pedigree or age or being titled, but because their grandparents founded/built/created the American St Mungos, the USA’s diagon Alley. Heck even have someone at MACUSA is called Ilvermorney because their grandmother founded the school. They have a younger sibling still there but they are working their way up the Autor ranks, likely going to aim to run MACUSA at some point, their aunt did in the 1870’s…. Basically make them the Kennedys of magical America.
The list just goes on and I get so angry when I think about what could have been! There were so many cool things they could have done when expanding the world of HP to another country, or when fleeing out the main villains methods and plot. And to see that waste on what they did do, which is now cancelled anyway… it’s just so soul destroying.
Like, FR. I feel like if they took a different way of writing the “rivalry” with Julie, it might’ve be something actually worth while. I feel like what they should’ve done was after sabotaging her didn’t work, they could’ve made him realise that if he wants that spot so much than he should work for it. Like, have some scenes of him like honing his goalie skills or something. Maybe he only really wanted top goalie because he’s never done anything else and doesn’t know what he should do. It would be an interesting way to develop his character further. Man, if they won’t give us that, I might just write my own fic about it lol. It’s getting frustrating 😭😭
Stop it with the Goldie hate 😭😭
IM SORRY 🙁🙁, I don’t like what they did with his character. they kinda just waisted any potential he had to be good 😕. I’ll stop publicly sending him threats if it makes you feel better 😣😣
Legitttt. Like, Goldie, I mean this lovingly, but you SUCK.
Stop it with the Goldie hate 😭😭
IM SORRY 🙁🙁, I don’t like what they did with his character. they kinda just waisted any potential he had to be good 😕. I’ll stop publicly sending him threats if it makes you feel better 😣😣
Made this into a little doodle lol
Stop it with the Goldie hate 😭😭
IM SORRY 🙁🙁, I don’t like what they did with his character. they kinda just waisted any potential he had to be good 😕. I’ll stop publicly sending him threats if it makes you feel better 😣😣
THE FBOI
i just realized something very important.
so you know FBI stands for Federal Board of Investigation. well if you capitalized the “of” you would have to call them. the fboi. the FBOI. THE FBOI! just imagine.
“oh yeah the fboi was tracking her down”
“some fboi people knocked on our door last night i swear to god if they keep doing that”
like. excuse me?
missed opportunity smh