Critian Caceorte
Currently Suffering from Space-Time Narcolepsy
- Location
- Washington State
Essentially this is just a crazy idea I had the other day while reviewing my childhood collection of short chapter books. As a kid, I loved the Magic Tree House series, both for the history it provided as well as the different settings in time. However, it was while rereading some of those short stories that I noticed something interesting, namely the identity of one of the people that Jack and Annie have met in their early travels through time: Qin Shi Huang. Yes, really.
From there, I pulled up the Wikipedia page for the book series to double check what other historical figures that the two protagonists might have met. I was astonished at the full list considering quite a few notable FGO characters were among them, such as Florence Nightingale, Shakespeare, Da Vinci and others. With this realization as a foundation, my mind began to stir up an idea for a crossover, and the result (or, really, the basic outline) is as follows:
1. In 2004, Marisbilly Animusphere summons a Caster Class servant as part of the Holy Grail War, about a week to a month before its due to start.
2. In order to help make his idea of Chaldea a reality, Animusphere asks his servant (who has perfect Clairvoyance) on who would be the best candidates for the project, and is stunned to hear that there's actually someone experienced in time travel besides the Lord Second or the Blue. Obviously, he wants to meet this person as soon as humanly possible because theoretically speaking they should possess a 100% Rayshift affinity.
3. He goes to an American University, where Jack Osbourne is studying for his Bachelor's in History (I'm giving his age as 20 in 2004 based on the fact that the first book was published in 1992, and states that Jack is 8 and a half years of age.)
4. In order to get Jack on his side, Marisbilly offers to finance Jack's academic career in it's entirety, from now until he dies, so long as he joins Chaldea as the first Crypter (remember, Jack has boatloads of experience, and Kirshtaria can serve as a 2nd-in-command anyways).
5. Jack accepts, and from there on events change with his influence, especially beginning at the start of canon.
So, with all of this, I wanted to invite some discussion by asking the following questions:
1. Where's Annie in all of this? Was she also recruited? Is she somewhere else, or even (the more morbid option) dead?
2. What happened to the Magic Tree House? Is it gone forever, destroyed, or simply waiting in Camelot? Were parts of it utilized to develop the Rayshift system?
3. How much magecraft did Morgan and Merlin teach the kids? They received at minimum a bare minimum magical education from them based on the book canon, so how in-depth were their lessons?
4. Did all of this time travelling have a supernatural effect on Jack and Annie?
5. What other locations have they been to in the timeline that haven't been covered in the books? Keep in mind, the kids' very first outing was to the Cretaceous Period, and they've gone as far into the future as the 2030s. There are essentially no rules at play here.
With all of that said, I turn the time over to you guys. What do you think of the idea, and what are your thoughts? I'm not sure if I'll get around to making this into an actual fic, but the more discussion the higher chance there is of that happening.
From there, I pulled up the Wikipedia page for the book series to double check what other historical figures that the two protagonists might have met. I was astonished at the full list considering quite a few notable FGO characters were among them, such as Florence Nightingale, Shakespeare, Da Vinci and others. With this realization as a foundation, my mind began to stir up an idea for a crossover, and the result (or, really, the basic outline) is as follows:
1. In 2004, Marisbilly Animusphere summons a Caster Class servant as part of the Holy Grail War, about a week to a month before its due to start.
2. In order to help make his idea of Chaldea a reality, Animusphere asks his servant (who has perfect Clairvoyance) on who would be the best candidates for the project, and is stunned to hear that there's actually someone experienced in time travel besides the Lord Second or the Blue. Obviously, he wants to meet this person as soon as humanly possible because theoretically speaking they should possess a 100% Rayshift affinity.
3. He goes to an American University, where Jack Osbourne is studying for his Bachelor's in History (I'm giving his age as 20 in 2004 based on the fact that the first book was published in 1992, and states that Jack is 8 and a half years of age.)
4. In order to get Jack on his side, Marisbilly offers to finance Jack's academic career in it's entirety, from now until he dies, so long as he joins Chaldea as the first Crypter (remember, Jack has boatloads of experience, and Kirshtaria can serve as a 2nd-in-command anyways).
5. Jack accepts, and from there on events change with his influence, especially beginning at the start of canon.
So, with all of this, I wanted to invite some discussion by asking the following questions:
1. Where's Annie in all of this? Was she also recruited? Is she somewhere else, or even (the more morbid option) dead?
2. What happened to the Magic Tree House? Is it gone forever, destroyed, or simply waiting in Camelot? Were parts of it utilized to develop the Rayshift system?
3. How much magecraft did Morgan and Merlin teach the kids? They received at minimum a bare minimum magical education from them based on the book canon, so how in-depth were their lessons?
4. Did all of this time travelling have a supernatural effect on Jack and Annie?
5. What other locations have they been to in the timeline that haven't been covered in the books? Keep in mind, the kids' very first outing was to the Cretaceous Period, and they've gone as far into the future as the 2030s. There are essentially no rules at play here.
With all of that said, I turn the time over to you guys. What do you think of the idea, and what are your thoughts? I'm not sure if I'll get around to making this into an actual fic, but the more discussion the higher chance there is of that happening.
