#deals with nuzo's death

[disappearinginq]

So, I have just recently gotten into the Magnum 2018 Fandom and am wondering if you write soulmate AU's? Or prephaps like a magic AU prompts?

I don't really know what this idea falls under. But this I have this idea that Rick, T.C., Nuzo, and Magnum are all connected. Like they can read each other's minds and/ or being near each other gives them instant relief from all sorts of pain.

I don't know what else could go with it though... I also don't know if you write for that Fandom anymore. Just thought I'd ask.

I hadn't until THIS VERY SECOND.

I think the closest I got to a non-reality based AU was an idea randomly floated in response to an ask/prompt on a song about how Rick makes a deal with Death to get them out of Afghanistan to become a reaper - and if he refuses, bad things happen to his friends.

Buuuuuut....I like this idea. I especially like the idea of them choosing whether or not they can accept that connection or not, and Thomas being difficult about it, always insisting that he's fine even though they know he's not, but he doesn't want them to feel what he feels....or if they want to keep secrets from one another.

It's also not that I don't write for the fandom, I just haven't really written anything lately (or at least, nothing complete enough to post in any context, which is how Snippets was posted).

Hmmmmmm.......imagine the chaos they can cause. How effective they would be as a team. Ouch. How much it would've hurt to have Nuzo die if they had a connection like that.

This is going in the Idea Folder - because I think I can do a one shot (any suggestions?) Instead of an epic length alternate timeline, which is how I keep getting bogged down in current works.

[disappearinginq]

Songbird + Magnum, PI?

Angel by the Wings by SIA - hmmm. Oooo...this could be a fantasy AU that I had no idea I wanted until this moment, highly influenced by the latest season of Vox Machina, and these specific lines:

Just take an angel by the wings Beg her now for anything Beg her now for one more day Take an angel by the wings Time to tell her everything Ask her for the strength to stay

Fantasy world where gods and angels walk amongst us - and while Thomas and the guys are prisoners, Rick makes a deal with goddess for them to live. The trade off is that she is the goddess of life and death, and that means balance. For the guys to stay alive, Rick has to agree to maintain the balance - by taking the lives of others that the goddess chooses. He fails the first time (or refuses, thinking he can get out of it, or some other variation of not doing it), which is how Nuzo winds up getting killed. Rick is now acting as a reaper, and instead of a scythe, has his sniper rifle, and is trying not to let the guys find out the high cost of their survival (and maybe he keeps making deals with the goddess, because Thomas does seem in a hurry to die sometimes).