Or Maybe Midgets - 1/10

[ffutures]

I've had a silly crossover idea in the back of my mind for ages, which can best be summed up by quoting from "Once More With Feeling"

"Bunnies! Bunnies! It must be bunnies!.. or maybe midgets..."
Anya - Once More With Feeling

So why midgets.... Well, I could really only think of one fantasy that revolved around them... Time Bandits.

Because I'm an idiot I've decided to write this as a series of ten Drabbles. Here's the first. I've written most of the rest, but I'm still fine-tuning some of them a little. Hopefully I'll post one or two a day.



1 - Sherwood Forest, The Middle Ages

"Morning. You're all, ah, all robbers, then, are you?"

"The best, Mr. Hood."

Anyanka looks up. Two weeks, and Maid Marian hasn't wished Hood to oblivion. Now some midgets and a boy are distracting him. Maybe it's time to twist the knife. "He's more interested in those little men than you."

"They've treasure," says Marian, "I wish..."

"Yes?"

"..that he wouldn't give it away."

"Wish granted."

Hood shouts "Mine!," snatches the gold, and runs off with the midgets and Merry Men in pursuit. Anyanka leaves, happy that history will remember Robin Hood as nothing more than a common thief.





Comments please before I post to archives

Comments

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Heh. Should be Maid Marian?

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Of course it should - thanks! Added a small picture...

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Nice, looking forward to the whole series.

Re the spelling of Maid Marian/Marion;

You've got her as 'Maid Marian' in one place and as 'Marion' in another. Both spellings are legitimate, and 'Marion' was the spelling in the oldest tales, but 'Marian' is the more commonly accepted spelling these days by about 2:1. She's 'Marian' in 'Maid Marian and her Merry Men'; on the other hand she is 'Marion' in 'Robin of Sherwood' and I regard that as the definitive telling of the myth.

The only 'Marion' in 'Time Bandits' itself is a bloke.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Umm... in the Robin Hood scene? Damn, I'm obviously remembering it wrong. Okay, now I really need to find the tape.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thinking about this, it really doesn't work if Marian is a bloke. Let's just say that it's somewhat AU...

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

No reason why there shouldn't be a Merry Man called Marion and a Maid Marian.

[speakr2customrs.livejournal.com]

Yep, in the Robin Hood scene. Marion, played by Neil McCarthy.

[uninvitedcat.livejournal.com]

This is just ... awesome!

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

This is a pretty interesting thing to twist. I look forward to more.

[basilio-the-cat.livejournal.com]

Well done :)