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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2013-09-09 03:16 am
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THIS IS NOT A THING I AM DOING IT IS TO GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD.

As [personal profile] cleverthylacine knows Cassie from Old Fandom Days, and I've read and enjoyed the Mortal Instruments books, we sort of had to go see the movie. We had fun!

(My Infamous Cousin read the first Mortal Instruments book, and the first Twilight book, and found them of comparable genre and quality. He did revise the estimate somewhat upon exposure to the rest of the Twilight series. I found that Twilight is best enjoyed with friends and popcorn and quoting aloud of some of the purplest phrases.)

I conclude, from the movie: My Mortal Instruments OTP is now unshakably Izzy/Flamethrower. Accept no substitutes. Best & hottest chemistry by far.

About halfway through the movie, there's a shot of the New York skyline. Now, my exposure to TV is limited, and thus my main exposure to (real or fictional) New York City skyline is in fact How I Met Your Mother. And I found myself looking for and not seeing the GNB tower.

(Head, meet desk.)

Naturally, over coffee and on our way home, I commenced figuring out where exactly the various HIMYM characters would fit into a Mortal Instruments\HIMYM fusion.



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KIDS, I'm going to tell you an incredible story. The story of how I met your mother. You know the short version, the thing with your mom's yellow stele, but there's a bigger story...

(In which Lily, Marshall, and Robin are all Shadowhunters, Barney has Shadowhunter blood but has had his memories locked down after his mother felt his Shadowhunter dad was being a bad influence on him, and Ted is a regular human.)

One night while stumbling into the alley behind MacLaren's Pub on a personal errand -- it was Barney, so it's best not to ask what *kind* of personal errand -- your Uncle Barney encountered a truly disturbing sight.

Barney watches in horror as what he thinks looks like a very kinky, very hot, intimate moment between Marshall, Lily, and some other dude turns very violent very quickly as Marshall starts stabbing the shit out of the guy and Lily pulls this glowing whip from somewhere and wields it with consummate ease. ROBIN emerges from the shadows and finishes him off; he blows up in the typical DEMON CLOUD OF SMOKE.

(Your Uncle Barney freaked out, of course.)

Barney begins babbling about how he knows a guy, he can get them fake passports and have them on their way to a country with a non-extradition treaty within two hours, three tops. Lily and Marshall tag-team explain that the guy was a demon, and that this chick is Robin, and all three of them are Shadowhunters.

And MacLaren's is the upstairs for the massive Institute complex downstairs.

Marshall has skills with blades. Lily has whips *and* is good with runes, which is just not fair. Robin? All over the ranged weapons. The Mother? Well, she's got a GREAT BIG AXE.

Ted has hurt himself several times with one of Uncle Marshall's swords, and with Lily's flail.

Barney, meeting the Silent Brothers. It does not go well.

Ted, trying to Nice Guy his way through Shadowhunter ladies (and various Downworlders). It does not go well.

Barney, trying to Barney his way through Shadowhunter and Downworlder ladies. He still has a lot more sex than Ted does, but it gets to the death threat part a lot earlier. The playbook is a lot less helpful when it comes to ladies who know who you are, can possibly read your mind, and can definitely kill you.

Marshall's gazillion brothers are still all taller than him, and haven't gotten any less generally obnoxious to him with the translation between universes. Their pranks generally involve more runes, though.



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(oh god, oh god, oh god, WHAT EVEN IS THIS.)
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[personal profile] stormwynd 2013-09-22 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL, this is awesome!

I've been a HIMYM fan for a long time, and I recently saw the Mortal Instruments movie. Even though I sorta knew Cassie from Ye Olde Harry Potter Fandom Dayze, I never read the Mortal Instruments books, so I'm working my way through City of Bones right now.