FYS: Random Thought Table, YA Dystopia Edition

[jeriendhal]

My brain is stuck on a very random scene in the unwritten, no plot determined YA novel based on the FYS verse. I keep seeing our group of heroic teenagers not so randomly washing up on an island in the middle of a large sea on the Ring, to find themselves in the company of Anna Quisling and the Great and Powerful Khan. Which starts with them getting escorted to Khan's throne room, where Anna introduces him to the group with a full blown Bollywood musical number and just gets sillier from there. It doesn't help that I keep seeing Anna being played by Kelly Hu.

(teens stare gobsmacked after the musical number ends)

Anna: Aw, come on! It's not like I get to do that very often!

Then later:

Anna: Sell out humanity to our Robot Overlords once and they never let you forget it!

Somehow it turns into a Secret Test of Character where Khan is seeing just how far the teens are willing to free the human race from the Groupmind, which ends with Khan deliberately scaring the crap out of them to make the teens rush off to the next plot point.

Anna: (watching the kids run of in the distance) Khan sweetie, that was mean.

Khan: Well I am a villain, dear.

Comments

[rix_scaedu]

The Groupmind has laid on an adventure for them to keep them busy and out of _real_ trouble!

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

That's... actually a pretty plausible explanation. Makes note.

[rix_scaedu]

Which leads to a network of morphs with secret lairs, etc, whose real function is to give restless, curious teens and tweens something to do...

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Someone suggested something similar when I posted various alternate FYS lenses. That sounds like a rather good plotline actually.

[rix_scaedu]

Go forth then, and slay the plot bunnies!

[lilfluff.livejournal.com]

After a while it's simply the expected thing that as tweens and teens you have wild and wacky adventures. And occasionally a just plain odd adventure when the Groupmind's attemps at creativity go awry...

And now picturing the office full of adults coming up with Hollywood style plots for the adventures. In one corner of the writing lair elderly scriptwriters debate whether the Groupmind's attempts at plot changes and other intrusions are worse or better than that of the old studio heads.