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Title: The Trials of Temerity Cox
Prompt: In an alternate future/history, a revolutionary inventor (or revolutionary-inventor) is holding his/her world hostage. [from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Setting: Future Sydney, Australia.
Opening Credits Song: The Whitlams, ‘Don’t Believe Anymore’ (I don’t know where to begin, don’t want to hear it again / I don’t believe any more)
Closing Credits Song: The Living End, ‘Riot on Broadway’ (We won’t run any more / But we’ll scream and shout).
Synopsis: Temerity Cox hasn’t left her house for thirteen years, knowing that the world outside is dangerous and the government oppressive. When she decides that what society needs is a revolution, and she should be the one to lead it, she discovers that she’s been lied to her whole life -- and that the real revolution will require friends, secrets, and a willingness to fight dirty.
Mae Whitman | TEMERITY COX
I’m a product of my education. Too bad it was full of fucking holes.
Temerity’s mother, the brilliant engineer Leonora Cox, died when Temerity was five, in an accident that left Temerity herself with a spinal injury. It’s not like she needs to travel any long distances -- her guardian has told her all about the dystopic world outside, and she’s quite happy to stay in the apartment with her books and her laboratory. That is, until she turns eighteen and reads one too many books about historical revolutions, and decides that her fate as Australia’s great revolutionary leader will require an escape. And a better wheelchair. And possibly, at some point, some followers.
When it turns out that society is democratic, speech free, and the government nothing more than mediocre, and that her guardian’s company is somehow mixed up in the mysterious research her mother was doing before she died, Temerity is shocked.
And then angry.
And then: ready to fight.
Benedict Cumberbatch | ERASMUS FULLER
If you’re not at least three steps ahead of your closest competitor, you don’t deserve to be in the game.
Erasmus is the secular equivalent of Temerity’s godfather, and when the girl’s mother died and no blood family was forthcoming, he stepped in. Why he decided to keep her shut away from the world, and ignorant of its realities -- who can say? Over the years, though, the company of Fuller-Daye has gone from strength to strength, leaving Erasmus one of the most powerful men in the city. As far as anyone knows he has no weaknesses, no failures, and no regrets.
Emmy Rossum | DESIREE FULLER
After all the years we’ve had together, why won’t you trust me now?
The beloved daughter of Erasmus and his now-estranged wife Genevieve, Desiree has been Temerity’s only friend since they were tiny. She’s very likable. She’s very smart. She’s probably the best-looking psychopath on the whole North Shore.
Georgie Henley | JONQUIL “JONNY” WINDSOR
All you need to change the world are a few good people who don’t know how to accept defeat.
Technically Jonny is doing her combined BSc/BA at the University of Sydney, with a focus on environmental science and developmental studies. In reality, she spends most of her time at rallies and meetings -- hey, she’s a sucker for a good cause. She seems to still be passing all of her courses, though.
Technically she’s also the heir to the now-defunct throne of the British Commonwealth, but she just gets embarrassed when you bring that up.
Patricia Hodge | BARONESS ANNABEL FROME
This isn’t really a charitable enterprise, but it’s not like my name means anything in this place, so it can’t exactly be besmirched, now, can it?
The Baroness is Jonny’s second cousin once removed (they usually go with ‘aunt’), and also the only person who was mad enough to play chaperone when the girl decided to up and move Down Under for university instead of going to Cambridge like her brothers. They’ve ended up running a small youth hostel, largely frequented by English backpackers in search of familiar food, but the Baroness is constantly bored and always on the lookout for new projects at which she can throw her money. Like infiltrating a major corporation and exposing some murder plots.
Jay Baruchel | KAI RICHARDS
Oh, yeah, my lectures. I think I went to a few of those. In the first week of semester.
Kai and Jonny met in a sociology tutorial, and Jonny quickly realised that Kai would turn up to any protest and sign any petition if he stood a fair chance of getting beer out of it. Kai, somewhat to his horror, discovered that Jonny’s fervour for social justice is infectious. He didn’t expect they’d end up befriending a sheltered geek obsessed with overthrowing dictators, but hey, whatever. He’s sure he can think up some mean slogans for their placards.
Jessica Mauboy | ELIZA MALARKEY
Doesn’t every little girl want to grow up to be a spy? All I need now is an invisible car and a few hot girls with names that sound like sexual positions.
Eliza is in the last year of her marketing degree and is thrilled that she’s been accepted for the much-coveted internship at Fuller-Daye. She’s slightly less thrilled when she catches some teenagers trying to smuggle documents out of the place, and definitely upset when they turn out to have some compelling arguments for doing so. But then she gets drunk with Temerity and Jonny and wakes up the next morning having sworn sisterhood to them forever and also agreed to be their person on the inside, so it all works out all right.
Rufus Sewell | XAVIER BLACKMAN
I don’t want you to think of me as a traitor, Merity. Your mother and her work meant the world to me.
Xavier was working under Temerity’s mother at the time of her death. Now he’s got his own research lab at the university, is doing very well financially, and is unwilling to talk about a) what happened to the work he was doing with Leonora, and b) exactly what he owes Erasmus Fuller.
Missy Higgins | OLIVE BLACKMAN
If you want to go up against Fuller-Daye, you’re going to need nerves of steel and the game plan from hell. And you’ll probably want to be a little bit nuts, too.
Xavier’s sister Olive is a lawyer who cheerfully sells her soul at one of the huge Sydney firms by day, and fancies herself a budding musician by night. She helps Temerity partly because a guilty Xavier prods her into it, partly because she’s feeling unstimulated and in need of new material, and partly because she’s kind of hoping to get into Eliza’s well-tailored pants.
Lee Seon Gyun | MERLIN SEOK
You know, I bet we can make this thing go faster.
Merlin is a PhD student in Xavier’s lab, and he signs up to the Cause almost at once because Temerity tells him that their particular revolution will probably involve explosions. He and Temerity will barely let a day go by without one or the other of them thinking up some improvement on the basic design of her wheelchair, up to and including miniature rocket launchers.
Tim Minchin | LORENZO
I could tell you things. Things that’d throw this city into darkness.
Lorenzo used to work for Fuller-Daye. Maybe. Nobody’s quite sure; nor are they sure where he lives, what he does all day when he’s not painting insulting slogans on the side of skyscrapers, or how he knows so much about the Fullers. He has a habit of turning up at either the most convenient or the most inconvenient time imaginable and giving advice that is only valuable about half of the time.
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Fandom:
The central canon pairing of Temerity/Merlin is fairly popular because of the sheer concentration of geekiness and because the actors flirt incessantly over Twitter -- leading to a raging RPF community -- but there’s a strong movement of people writing dark and overwhelmingly porny Temerity/Desiree fic.
The kinkmeme is filling up with age-kink and AU versions of Olive/Eliza almost before either of them appears on the show, and it it only gets more intense when it becomes clear that the pairing is actually going to go somewhere on the show.
Erasmus/Xavier gets the bulk of slash fandom, the big bangs and the historical AUs and the hatesex and the seminal backstory epic by rageprufrock and the trendy mini-universe of British actor RPF that springs up around Rufus/Benedict and usually features Georgie in a supporting role.
Kai is the fanon LBD: he’s shipped with anyone and everyone, but most notably Merlin, Xavier and Jonny. It doesn’t take long for some minor wank to spring up over the fact that a lot of people think Jonny is potrayed as asexual, and shipping her with anyone at all is disrespecting that, and the other faction argues that there’s no evidence Erasmus is anything but straight but that doesn’t stop anyone from slashing him. The kerfuffle makes it to fandom_wank exactly once and dies down with minimal fuss.
Prompt: In an alternate future/history, a revolutionary inventor (or revolutionary-inventor) is holding his/her world hostage. [from
electrumqueen]Setting: Future Sydney, Australia.
Opening Credits Song: The Whitlams, ‘Don’t Believe Anymore’ (I don’t know where to begin, don’t want to hear it again / I don’t believe any more)
Closing Credits Song: The Living End, ‘Riot on Broadway’ (We won’t run any more / But we’ll scream and shout).
Synopsis: Temerity Cox hasn’t left her house for thirteen years, knowing that the world outside is dangerous and the government oppressive. When she decides that what society needs is a revolution, and she should be the one to lead it, she discovers that she’s been lied to her whole life -- and that the real revolution will require friends, secrets, and a willingness to fight dirty.
Mae Whitman | TEMERITY COX
I’m a product of my education. Too bad it was full of fucking holes.
Temerity’s mother, the brilliant engineer Leonora Cox, died when Temerity was five, in an accident that left Temerity herself with a spinal injury. It’s not like she needs to travel any long distances -- her guardian has told her all about the dystopic world outside, and she’s quite happy to stay in the apartment with her books and her laboratory. That is, until she turns eighteen and reads one too many books about historical revolutions, and decides that her fate as Australia’s great revolutionary leader will require an escape. And a better wheelchair. And possibly, at some point, some followers.
When it turns out that society is democratic, speech free, and the government nothing more than mediocre, and that her guardian’s company is somehow mixed up in the mysterious research her mother was doing before she died, Temerity is shocked.
And then angry.
And then: ready to fight.
Benedict Cumberbatch | ERASMUS FULLER
If you’re not at least three steps ahead of your closest competitor, you don’t deserve to be in the game.
Erasmus is the secular equivalent of Temerity’s godfather, and when the girl’s mother died and no blood family was forthcoming, he stepped in. Why he decided to keep her shut away from the world, and ignorant of its realities -- who can say? Over the years, though, the company of Fuller-Daye has gone from strength to strength, leaving Erasmus one of the most powerful men in the city. As far as anyone knows he has no weaknesses, no failures, and no regrets.
Emmy Rossum | DESIREE FULLER
After all the years we’ve had together, why won’t you trust me now?
The beloved daughter of Erasmus and his now-estranged wife Genevieve, Desiree has been Temerity’s only friend since they were tiny. She’s very likable. She’s very smart. She’s probably the best-looking psychopath on the whole North Shore.
Georgie Henley | JONQUIL “JONNY” WINDSOR
All you need to change the world are a few good people who don’t know how to accept defeat.
Technically Jonny is doing her combined BSc/BA at the University of Sydney, with a focus on environmental science and developmental studies. In reality, she spends most of her time at rallies and meetings -- hey, she’s a sucker for a good cause. She seems to still be passing all of her courses, though.
Technically she’s also the heir to the now-defunct throne of the British Commonwealth, but she just gets embarrassed when you bring that up.
Patricia Hodge | BARONESS ANNABEL FROME
This isn’t really a charitable enterprise, but it’s not like my name means anything in this place, so it can’t exactly be besmirched, now, can it?
The Baroness is Jonny’s second cousin once removed (they usually go with ‘aunt’), and also the only person who was mad enough to play chaperone when the girl decided to up and move Down Under for university instead of going to Cambridge like her brothers. They’ve ended up running a small youth hostel, largely frequented by English backpackers in search of familiar food, but the Baroness is constantly bored and always on the lookout for new projects at which she can throw her money. Like infiltrating a major corporation and exposing some murder plots.
Jay Baruchel | KAI RICHARDS
Oh, yeah, my lectures. I think I went to a few of those. In the first week of semester.
Kai and Jonny met in a sociology tutorial, and Jonny quickly realised that Kai would turn up to any protest and sign any petition if he stood a fair chance of getting beer out of it. Kai, somewhat to his horror, discovered that Jonny’s fervour for social justice is infectious. He didn’t expect they’d end up befriending a sheltered geek obsessed with overthrowing dictators, but hey, whatever. He’s sure he can think up some mean slogans for their placards.
Jessica Mauboy | ELIZA MALARKEY
Doesn’t every little girl want to grow up to be a spy? All I need now is an invisible car and a few hot girls with names that sound like sexual positions.
Eliza is in the last year of her marketing degree and is thrilled that she’s been accepted for the much-coveted internship at Fuller-Daye. She’s slightly less thrilled when she catches some teenagers trying to smuggle documents out of the place, and definitely upset when they turn out to have some compelling arguments for doing so. But then she gets drunk with Temerity and Jonny and wakes up the next morning having sworn sisterhood to them forever and also agreed to be their person on the inside, so it all works out all right.
Rufus Sewell | XAVIER BLACKMAN
I don’t want you to think of me as a traitor, Merity. Your mother and her work meant the world to me.
Xavier was working under Temerity’s mother at the time of her death. Now he’s got his own research lab at the university, is doing very well financially, and is unwilling to talk about a) what happened to the work he was doing with Leonora, and b) exactly what he owes Erasmus Fuller.
Missy Higgins | OLIVE BLACKMAN
If you want to go up against Fuller-Daye, you’re going to need nerves of steel and the game plan from hell. And you’ll probably want to be a little bit nuts, too.
Xavier’s sister Olive is a lawyer who cheerfully sells her soul at one of the huge Sydney firms by day, and fancies herself a budding musician by night. She helps Temerity partly because a guilty Xavier prods her into it, partly because she’s feeling unstimulated and in need of new material, and partly because she’s kind of hoping to get into Eliza’s well-tailored pants.
Lee Seon Gyun | MERLIN SEOK
You know, I bet we can make this thing go faster.
Merlin is a PhD student in Xavier’s lab, and he signs up to the Cause almost at once because Temerity tells him that their particular revolution will probably involve explosions. He and Temerity will barely let a day go by without one or the other of them thinking up some improvement on the basic design of her wheelchair, up to and including miniature rocket launchers.
Tim Minchin | LORENZO
I could tell you things. Things that’d throw this city into darkness.
Lorenzo used to work for Fuller-Daye. Maybe. Nobody’s quite sure; nor are they sure where he lives, what he does all day when he’s not painting insulting slogans on the side of skyscrapers, or how he knows so much about the Fullers. He has a habit of turning up at either the most convenient or the most inconvenient time imaginable and giving advice that is only valuable about half of the time.
~
Fandom:
The central canon pairing of Temerity/Merlin is fairly popular because of the sheer concentration of geekiness and because the actors flirt incessantly over Twitter -- leading to a raging RPF community -- but there’s a strong movement of people writing dark and overwhelmingly porny Temerity/Desiree fic.
The kinkmeme is filling up with age-kink and AU versions of Olive/Eliza almost before either of them appears on the show, and it it only gets more intense when it becomes clear that the pairing is actually going to go somewhere on the show.
Erasmus/Xavier gets the bulk of slash fandom, the big bangs and the historical AUs and the hatesex and the seminal backstory epic by rageprufrock and the trendy mini-universe of British actor RPF that springs up around Rufus/Benedict and usually features Georgie in a supporting role.
Kai is the fanon LBD: he’s shipped with anyone and everyone, but most notably Merlin, Xavier and Jonny. It doesn’t take long for some minor wank to spring up over the fact that a lot of people think Jonny is potrayed as asexual, and shipping her with anyone at all is disrespecting that, and the other faction argues that there’s no evidence Erasmus is anything but straight but that doesn’t stop anyone from slashing him. The kerfuffle makes it to fandom_wank exactly once and dies down with minimal fuss.
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Also, I would watch the hell out of this show - Jay Baruchel and Rufus Sewell? Yes, please. REVOLUTIONS? YES, PLEASE.
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