Check-in #1: Iddytron ★☆

[iddybangmod]

Strap on your id skates - the first check-in is here!

Share where you're at in the writing process or a description of your current piece – and if you'd like, how close you are to finishing! Or just say hi, or have a bit of a gripe.

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[the_rck]

I have a complete first draft that's just shy of 15K words, but I'm about to rip out part of the second chapter because I can tell that it's wrong.

The story is a Sky High darkfic AU that's part of a series that involves branching AUs. I can't recall if this is branch 3 or branch 4.

[iddybangmod]

*Waves cheerleading banner enthusiastically* Woo, 15k is nothing to sneeze at! And this mod would like to hear more about the darkfic aspect...*chinhands*

Thanks for checking in! :D

[the_rck]

(I'm assuming that you know the canon. Much of this won't make sense if you don't.)

The first story in the branching AU, "Not Ready to Swallow Oblivion," diverged during Homecoming when the bad guys won due to Warren's mother (and, thus, Warren) being a secret villain. Warren ended up in control of Sky High and locked Ethan, Layla, Magenta, and Zach in the girls' locker room. In the first story, they escape.

The second branch diverges from the first when their escape fails and covers snapshots of the next several years as the four former sidekicks work for Warren, trying to protect the people they care about and not to become terrible people. The five of them end up in a poly relationship of dubious consensuality. Layla gradually gets scarier and scarier in terms of the things she's able to do with her powers but isn't quite ready to accept that.

Those two branches run 94K words and five stories. The second branch ends with Layla's father arriving on Sky High, six years after Homecoming, after being badly injured and then captured. He stays to help Layla find her balance.

This third branch starts from the what if of Layla's father not coming to Sky High. It starts about twelve years after Homecoming and with Layla deciding that she's ready, now to take over the world. Ethan, Magenta, and Zach have been waiting for years for her to say the word. Warren has known it was coming but not seen anything he was willing to do to stop it.

The IIBB part is several chapters of what they do to Warren. They're all really, really angry with him but also emotionally attached.

I already posted a single story that might cap this branch or might branch from it. That story makes sense on its own and doesn't match the tone and rating of the rest. I started out thinking it should be a chapter of the IIBB, but it isn't, can't be.

Of course, I consider the whole project generally iddy because my id works in weird ways.

[iddybangmod]

(This mod actually does not know the canon. D'oh, I was thinking of Mystery Men! The canon seems really interesting though...I'll have to give it a watch!)

[the_rck]

I recommend it highly! Sky High runs an hour and a half and is funny and fluffy. There's a lot of stuff that is very handwavy and requires ignoring huge holes in the world building.