--- Dave Menard <menard5078@rogers.com> wrote:

Brief authorial blather: There will be mild changes in canon
details in the
background of some of the characters in this fic. This was
necessary to make
a "shared world" possible. Therefore, be assured that where a
character's
back history
is different for that in their "canon", it is deliberate, and not a
failure
of knowledge.

Good idea, though perhaps the authors' notes should be at the bottom.

 The streets of London were shrouded in fog thick as clotted

cream,

a mist
that seemed to seep like
foul breath from the river Thames and into the alleys and
thoroughfares. It
was a chilling, terrible miasma
that kept goodly folk indoors that evening, and even in Piccadilly,
ensconced behind the doors of their
clubs and societies, the titled and powerful seemed to draw in on
themselves, shrinking from the clammy
greyness and huddling around their fires as though driven by
primeval
instinct.

Hmm...this is an alternate world where the government never passed
the antipollution regulations that made this kind of "fog" rare in
London?

 "TRAITORS?!" Victoria barked, rising to her feet and glaring

down

at him
with eyes red as blood.
"Dame Helsing was a *patriot*, and you bloody bastards had her
*hung*! All
that rubbish about a coup
attempt was bloody *nonsense*, and you and your MI-5 cronies damned
well
*know* it!"

And they've reinstituted the death penalty?

 Celas examined the lunatic curiously from her position at the

door. "If
he's a former secret agent
man, what happened to him?"

Booo.
 > daguerreotype, bearing names such as the Reverend Doctor Synn, Sir

Who, if his mask were removed, would bear a remarkable resemblance to
John Drake.



     I have to admit that Steed and Drake seem a tad too overlapping
in skill sets, if not personalities.
     Someone I'd put on the team is Eroica, of the manga _With Love
>From Eroica_; British nobleman, master thief, extremely bishounen,
and very openly gay.  But as his creator has never allowed an anime
version (she appears to be the Japanese equivalent of Bill Watterson)
he may be too obscure.


Best o luck,
SKJAM!
"I can express love only through violence!"--Emi Rashomon, _Bomber Girl_

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