Kudos were left. I liked it! :) (nm)

Pooled Wizardries [Young Wizards x Animorphs] - I started writing a fic! by Tomash on 2019-12-08 20:17:04 UTC Writing Plug Reply

Pooled Wizardries (rated G, no archive warnings apply) is the Young Wizards and Animorphs crossover fic I've had an idea for for years.

The overall idea is, to quote the summary, "A Yeerk is offered wizardry. A new human wizard is waiting for their Ordeal. These events might not be unconnected."

This is just the first chapter, and I have more planned that'll happen at my semi-glacial update pace, so feel free to give the fic a follow if you want to see more of it (though I might post followup announcements on the Board if people don't mind that).

Re: crossover by doctorlit on 2019-12-12 13:18:56 UTC Reply

Oh man, I really like the idea behind this! The forays you've made into ancient Yeerk legend are especially cool. I like the idea that the Lone Power "helped" them in some destructive way in the past, but due to the imperialist mindset of the modern Yeerk culture, they've come to venerate the time and the being. It's also an interesting idea that there used to be Yeerk wizards more commonly, but because of the turn the empire took, the benevolent mindset needed for wizardry became rare among Yeerks. I'm hyped for more of this story . . . and to actually read Young Wizards at some point. <_<

—doctorlit also really loves the coinage of "Visserarchy"

Thanks! by Tomash on 2019-12-12 23:41:08 UTC Reply

Unfortunately, the next chapter will probably feature a lot less Yeerk culture-building, since I've got a second protagonist to get to.

I'm glad you like my take on the Yeerks' Choice - the whole situation with Seerow fit rather well into a Young Wizards context.

o.o o.O 0.0 by Huinesoron on 2019-12-08 21:59:14 UTC Reply

Well that was a summary that grabbed me by the scruff and refused to let go until I'd read it.

I never got as far as the Animorphs books that got inside the Yeerks' heads, so I can't say how in-character this is, but as a depiction is holds together very nicely. I'm definitely interested in reading more.

A Yeerk wizard. Good grief...

hS

Thanks for the review! by Tomash on 2019-12-08 23:44:42 UTC Reply

I do admit, I haven't thoroughly re-read any Yeerk POV stuff, and I know we don't really have much of anything about Yeerk cosmology and such, so a lot of this is plausible extrapolation (and Nesh not complaining).

And I do wonder, is there any particular direction you're hoping/worrying this story might go (given your last line)?

Kudos were left. I liked it! :) (nm) by Iximaz on 2019-12-08 20:50:51 UTC Reply

Thank you! by Tomash on 2019-12-08 21:06:13 UTC Reply

I'll try to use this as motivation to write more :)