I thought that since Harry essentially became the Light's hope in the last few books, that the Chaos God of War would of suited him better. Tzeentch could of fit Hermione better...?

Ron could be Nurgle's avatar...?

And I do agree: most crossovers like that are pretty poor. If they did a proper transposition, however, it could work. But, alas, people do not seem to be that smart, and just want to stick Harry in Terminator armour.

@Anya: Immortal!Veronica? Wouldn't that fit well with the Highlander series, then?

 

Ah... Uh. Khorne is the God of Valor/Courage, not Hope.

That's Tzeentch.

... The God of Hope is evil. Meh. Just goes to show you how dark WH/40k is.

 

Either way, they could still fit.

Chaos!Hermione/Harry would be pretty awesome.

 

In that case, I think that Hermione should be the avatar of Slaneesh.

:awesome

 

Nah, that'd be Ginny, if anything. :awesome

Seriously though, Ginny bashing aside, Slaanesh is the god/goddess of decadence....that could be utilised in many ways, from greed/gluttony (see Ron) to the much overused sexuality angle, which could be applied to Fleur or another veela character because of a veela's allure.

Hermione, if anything, I see under Tzeentch's patronage.

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Harry's life was an unending conflict from cradle to Hogwarts. He even became an auror after Deathly Hallows. A plot point of the story could be both Khorne's and Tzeentch's conflict of interest over Harry; he has the strong traits that both of them are interested in, and thus try to sway him to their own point-of-view; encouraging him to use Gryffindor's sword over his wand, etc.

This, I can see, would fit Hermione to a letter 'T'; if there's one realistic way I can see Hermione falling and becoming Dark, it's because of forbidden knowledge.

This, I can see with Fleur or maybe Tonks. Perhaps Ginny, if spun right.

This I could see with Ron and his character; lazy, hungry, etc. However, Ron also shares some traits with Slaanesh, although not as many as Hermione could.

Draco, anyone? Turning against the Dark and Light, etc.

 

Just wondered if anyone has thought of taking slash stories, and rewriting them as non-slash? I mean it's not copyright or plagurism if there's slash in the original, right?

 

Wrong.

/filler

 

Copying everything in the story, plot, ideas, everything, except the pairing is pretty much plagiarism, unless the story is really, really focused on pairings. Probably even then, in fact, as your idea would mean nothing other than copying over elements from a slash to a non-slash, which translates to changing out Draco for Luna or some such, with minimal, if any other changes. Any story which would be that focused on pairing to let changes of that sort change the story wouldn't be worth the time, anyway, imo.

 

I dunno. If anything I'd see Harry as the Avatar of Nurgle; he's just so apathetic about life. Plus, it would be interesting to see how the wizarding world deals with Harry Potter, Daemon Prince of Nurgle.

 

Well, technically plagiarism is the unattributed use of verbatim, or only superficially changed sections of someone else's work without permission.

I'm not arguing against you, but I think it's important that Admonkeystrator understand that even if he or she were to lift a solitary paragraph without permission or attribution, he or she is plagiarizing.

 

Hell no. Draco doesn't even deserve to get killed by a worshipper of Malal.

 

No, him being twisted into a worshipper of Malal.

 

I think the point was that he doesn't deserve to even be killed by one, let alone become one himself.

And while I don't have much experience with that particular universe, if being a worshipper is anything important like the thread suggests, then I find myself in agreement.

 

That would imply choice.

If the Chaos Gods played/manipulated the characters mostly without 'em knowing (acting behind the scenes, them being unwitting pawns, etc), twisting them as both the story and time went on, it might work.

Especially since there's a lot of juicy plot devices for this sort of thing;

Khorne and Tzeentch fighting one another over Harry by their pawn's actions, giving him the strength/power he needs to take down Voldemort, who has been a blight on his life since he was a year old.
Hermione being subtly taunted/lured in by dark knowledge, going into a spiral of sin in doing so.
Ron's jealousy and greedy tendencies being gradually fed so that he eventually comes to demand/crave more food, power, influence, etc.

Tonks or Fleur (going with the cliche bit here) having little to no luck with men due to their natures (metamorphmagus, veela), being given strength/etc/control over men so they get what they want, etc.

Malfoy finding out that if pure-blooded supremacy won, things would go to shit fast, especially with the technological prowess the muggles now had. Discovery that Voldemort was a half-blood with a muggle father and a near squib mother thus making him feel betrayed by his family, since his father serves that hypocritical bastard, etc. I could easily see Draco going rogue, being against everybody with his mother trying to bring him back to his senses. (Since his Aunt Bellatrix is firmly in Voldemort's camp, and his father -whilst caring for him as seen in the last few chapters of the final book- is serving Voldemort near faithfully at that time).

Heck, even the great Albus Dumbledore could be tainted/subtly manipulated by one of the Chaos Gods, if only to further their own agendas with Harry and his companions.

Slowly, Harry and co' would become twisted, and the traditional 'mutations' seen on Chaos pawns wouldn't have to be used in the ways seen in the original Warhammer universe, but in more subtler ways that contrast to their usual characters, e.g., 'Plain Jane' Hermione becoming more beautiful, albeit in a more cold and terrifying sort of way (like Galadriel and her passing the One Ring test seen in Lord of the Rings).

 

I think that could only work with Cho as the substitute.
:awesome

 

Which slash stories would you want to see rewritten without slash?

 

The only "slash" story I've ever read to completion is the Shoebox Project, so I'm not sure I can comment, but from the little bits and pieces I've picked up otherwise I'm not entirely sure there are any other good non-marauder-era slash stories that don't have enormous, unexplained/undeveloped OOC deviations (which typically ruin a story for me). Other marauder-era stories that focus some on RL/SB don't do it as well as The Shoebox Project anyway.

 

1) See slash story.

2) Ctr+R Draco with girl of choice.

3) ???

4) Profit

 

Don't forget to Ctrl+R penis, anus, and all their different forms.

 

In a universe as massive as 40K, indeed, the Chaos Gods take whatever they can get. In the limited universe of one planet? They would go for quality, sir.

But to be serious, here is what Malal looks for: