Go go power of lazyweb!

I have run out of Avengers stories to read. This makes me sadface, especially as I have to load my iPad up with stuff to read for the next couple of days.

I begged for recs a few weeks ago and I think I've read all of them already. ;) So if anyone's got more to share, please feel free.

Also, I had a brilliant idea for a genius crossover involving The Avengers last night as I was drifting off to sleep, but now I can't remember what it was.

(Edited to remove excessive begging for recs after realising my second-last post was a near-identical request. Oops :))

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It is most frustrating when you read an awesome story in a fandom you're currently wallowing in, only to discover it's the only thing the author has written in the fandom. (This thought brought to you by devildoll's Semaphore.)

Oh! And I remembered the crossover idea I referenced in my last post. I've read a few crossovers lately (Avengers, naturally) riffing off the fact that one of the actors played X other role in Y other show or movie. And musesfool has been talking and writing about Push lately, a movie I enjoyed a surprising amount back at the time. Push stars Chris Evans as Nick Gant, a "Special" (someone with parapsychic gifts; in Nick's case he's a Mover, or telekinetic).

So, the premise was a bit sleep-fuddled but basically went:

The obvious temptation to cross over Push and the Marvel movieverse is just to make the Specials a batch of mutants that the government got their hands on early. But a) that's not interesting enough, b) it doesn't give you the fun Nick Gant/Steve Rogers doppelganger stuff, and c) it doesn't explain why Specials fall into a few pre-defined categories instead of displaying the wide range of mutations you see in the X-men. So let's rule it out.

What if, after Captain America disappeared, the government started experimenting with samples they'd taken from Steve during Erskine's treatment process? I'm sure they'd have taken blood and tissue samples from Steve, since he was all they had left of the serum. So they start using this to try and develop more serum - and they never quite manage to recreate Captain America, but they manage to create Specials. (One has to assume that it's mutagenic, i.e. changes your DNA, which is a) how Steve stays permanently beefed up, and b) how the kids of Specials are usually second-generation Specials.)

The researchers responsible go deeper and deeper underground as their practices get shadier and shadier, which is where Division comes from. Eventually, as medical technology improves, they create a clone from Steve's samples, and wind up with Nick Gant - his father did always tell him he was special. The "drug" they use to try and boost Specials is a bastardised and amped-up version of the serum that creates Specials in the first place, which is why so few of them survive it - imagine going through that process twice, the second time an order of magnitude worse than the first.

I think it all hangs together fairly well. The likelihood of me ever doing anything with it is fairly remote, though. ;)

(Edit: I still have no explanation for how Johnny Storm also looks like a clone of Captain America. *sigh*)