memery!

[vaznetti]

As seen on yahtzee63's lj --

The Hypothetical AU Meme: Take any one of the fandoms you know I write AND give me another time period (Ancient Rome, Regency England, etc.). I will then explain what story from that fandom I would AU in that era.

It looks like fun, and I am here all afternoon -- meme me!

Comments

[bardsmaid.livejournal.com]

The X-Files (including Krycek, of course) in Stalin's Russia.

[vaznetti]

It's like... extra paranoia and danger!

You wouldn't really need to change very much, would you? The outline of the conspiracy plot and the mytharc would remain more or less in place. I think, in this version, Mulder would be a detective in Moscow, Scully a pathologist -- they are both Party members, of course, Scully more of a believer than Mulder. It's set in the 30s. Krycek is the NKVD mole in Mulder's department. I suspect that a lot of plots revolve around Mulder chasing elements of the conspiracy and finding real atrocities -- work camps, confiscations, famines.

The main difference would be one of tone -- the danger being that much closer. And of course, as one gets closer to the end of the decade, the looming threat of Hitler and war: by 1941, Mulder might know enough to do some damage to the regime, but should he?

This would be pretty cool.

[bardsmaid.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this! Any idea how Marita might fit into this scenario?