*long pause* Okay. Viggo Mortensen played a Navy SEAL instructor in G.I.Jane in 1997. Christina Skye's universe almost always includes a SEAL named Izzy Teague, who is made of awesome, and whose age is never established. Mortensen is a Method actor, and almost certainly would have talked with, if not trained with, SEALs as part of his preparation. I decided that was close enough for government work, and delared Mortensen & Teague friends. Good Omens was published in 1990, and clearly takes place in the present. Therefore, its events would have occured in 1988/1989 (assuming delay for Gaiman & Pratchett to collect and collate material and publish); Adam et al. are ten/eleven at that date. In 2001, during the filming of Lord of the Rings, the Them would, therefore, be in their early twenties, almost exactly the same age as Orlando Bloom, who was born in 1977. Pepper, who's my favorite character, has been sent to read public-policy-type-things at UCL, and meets Bloom during his course of study at Guildhall. Et voila. Now I have reasonable backstory, and sex will surely ensue. Also much examination of the meaning of war and the meaning of peace. Because I am Pretentious.
See, it's totally logical.
I'd actually prefer to keep the SGA idea to myself for a bit longer, at least untilI shake out the kinks a bit and know how I'm going to approach it. But I will end up writing it, because it is awesome.
no subject
*long pause* Okay. Viggo Mortensen played a Navy SEAL instructor in G.I.Jane in 1997. Christina Skye's universe almost always includes a SEAL named Izzy Teague, who is made of awesome, and whose age is never established. Mortensen is a Method actor, and almost certainly would have talked with, if not trained with, SEALs as part of his preparation. I decided that was close enough for government work, and delared Mortensen & Teague friends. Good Omens was published in 1990, and clearly takes place in the present. Therefore, its events would have occured in 1988/1989 (assuming delay for Gaiman & Pratchett to collect and collate material and publish); Adam et al. are ten/eleven at that date. In 2001, during the filming of Lord of the Rings, the Them would, therefore, be in their early twenties, almost exactly the same age as Orlando Bloom, who was born in 1977. Pepper, who's my favorite character, has been sent to read public-policy-type-things at UCL, and meets Bloom during his course of study at Guildhall. Et voila. Now I have reasonable backstory, and sex will surely ensue. Also much examination of the meaning of war and the meaning of peace. Because I am Pretentious.
See, it's totally logical.
I'd actually prefer to keep the SGA idea to myself for a bit longer, at least untilI shake out the kinks a bit and know how I'm going to approach it. But I will end up writing it, because it is awesome.