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marbleglove) wrote2011-11-02 05:48 pm
marbleglove) wrote2011-11-02 05:48 pm
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Plot-bunny: Hikaru no Go / Stargate
So I've been enjoying the comment-fic community for a while now but recently posted a prompt that has since developed into practically a full plot-bunny.
So Hikaru no Go is a really awesome manga (and anime, too) about two kids playing a board game. No, really. It's professional level and highly competitive Go and there's a thousand-year-old ghost, Sai, who teaches the main character, Hikaru, how to play the game, but it's another kid, Akira, who teaches Hikaru to be devoted to the game. And together Hikaru and Akira are determined to reach "the Hand of God", ie the perfect hand (i.e. move) in the perfect game (of Go).
There's a scene relatively early in Hikaru's development where he imagines each stone he places on the board like placing a star in the sky.
But the goal in Go is to make connections and to block the other guy from making connections, and to take over territory, etc.
So with that bit of background on Hikaru no Go, I want a crossover with Stargate.
Okay, bear with me.
Say Hikaru and Akira achieve the Hand of God. It's perfection, especially given their shared obsession, and the achievement of focus and meditation and a type of all-encompassing understanding of infinite future possibilities, etc., and results in the two of them ascending a la Stargate's ascended beings.
But, well, I did mention that Hikaru and Akira are both obsessed with the game of Go, and each other, and each other's ability to play the game of Go... so while the rest of their friends and family may or may not know what happened, they are pretty much unconcerned with the fact that they just ascended and continue to play their next game. Except, of course, they don't have a regular board to play on anymore, so they move on to playing somehow with the Stargate connections. I'm not sure exactly how this would work.
But the plot, such as it is, is that Stargate Command now needs to deal with a pair of obsessive and bickering teenage (or maybe older at this point, but still obsessive and bickering) Go professionals who ascended and are now messing around with the Stargate system. They're not evil, but they're not helpful either. And it's possible that the rest of the ascended beings are trying to figure out if Hikaru and Akira are breaking the rules by interfering in mortal lives except that they're not really doing so and certainly not for the reasons why Jackson did.
Plus, ascension is supposed to be a personal and individual transformation, not a joint effort. But Akira and Hikaru are all, like, what do you mean, Go is a game for two, you need two people to reach the Hand of God, after all.
I'm not sure where it goes from there. Maybe Daniel or the other ascended beings finally convince Akira and Hikaru to float off somewhere else and teach more people on other planets to play Go. Or maybe Teal'c convinces them to go to the Jaffa rebellion and teach them, since it's such a great strategy game.
So Hikaru no Go is a really awesome manga (and anime, too) about two kids playing a board game. No, really. It's professional level and highly competitive Go and there's a thousand-year-old ghost, Sai, who teaches the main character, Hikaru, how to play the game, but it's another kid, Akira, who teaches Hikaru to be devoted to the game. And together Hikaru and Akira are determined to reach "the Hand of God", ie the perfect hand (i.e. move) in the perfect game (of Go).
There's a scene relatively early in Hikaru's development where he imagines each stone he places on the board like placing a star in the sky.
But the goal in Go is to make connections and to block the other guy from making connections, and to take over territory, etc.
So with that bit of background on Hikaru no Go, I want a crossover with Stargate.
Okay, bear with me.
Say Hikaru and Akira achieve the Hand of God. It's perfection, especially given their shared obsession, and the achievement of focus and meditation and a type of all-encompassing understanding of infinite future possibilities, etc., and results in the two of them ascending a la Stargate's ascended beings.
But, well, I did mention that Hikaru and Akira are both obsessed with the game of Go, and each other, and each other's ability to play the game of Go... so while the rest of their friends and family may or may not know what happened, they are pretty much unconcerned with the fact that they just ascended and continue to play their next game. Except, of course, they don't have a regular board to play on anymore, so they move on to playing somehow with the Stargate connections. I'm not sure exactly how this would work.
But the plot, such as it is, is that Stargate Command now needs to deal with a pair of obsessive and bickering teenage (or maybe older at this point, but still obsessive and bickering) Go professionals who ascended and are now messing around with the Stargate system. They're not evil, but they're not helpful either. And it's possible that the rest of the ascended beings are trying to figure out if Hikaru and Akira are breaking the rules by interfering in mortal lives except that they're not really doing so and certainly not for the reasons why Jackson did.
Plus, ascension is supposed to be a personal and individual transformation, not a joint effort. But Akira and Hikaru are all, like, what do you mean, Go is a game for two, you need two people to reach the Hand of God, after all.
I'm not sure where it goes from there. Maybe Daniel or the other ascended beings finally convince Akira and Hikaru to float off somewhere else and teach more people on other planets to play Go. Or maybe Teal'c convinces them to go to the Jaffa rebellion and teach them, since it's such a great strategy game.
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Hikaru if he became a Ghost would only rest once he found Sai to say hello, play a little more and while challenging Ancients to see if they can get some insights into defeating Akira...
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And ooh, maybe Miko Kusanagi of the Atlantis was once an insei. So everyone on Atlantis is freaking out about there being ascended beings there and how that always foretells some catastrophe, but really they're just there to challenge Miko to a game.
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Heh, that would be so cool, also the Atlantis crew would freak out about those ascended beings wanting to play games... since the last one the crew saw was an interplanetary war
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And maybe, upon hearing that the Atlantis crew are in battle with the Wraith, Hikaru challenges a Wraith Queen to a game. At which point, one of two things could happen:
a) he's very disappointed because the Wraith Queen is an awful player who doesn't understand anything about strategy and stone placement and connections, or...
b) the Wraith Queen does understand all of these and is a fabulous player who has just never had a proper challenge (or heard of a board game) before. She becomes an obsessive Go player, too, and decides that war with the humans isn't as interesting as competing with Hikaru and Akira. (Humans are just food, after all, and that's hardly comprable to the wonders of Go!)
But in the end various people are left scratching their heads and Hikaru and Akira continue to challenge each other to ever greater levels of achievement while (mostly) ignoring the rest of the universe (except to train students. Wraith students? Human students? Alien lizard students? whatever!)
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In fact the Wraith Queen can strike an nice rivalary with a replicator head honcho... and the other wraith are all we need you to decide this or that and she goes
"shhh... Hikaru sensei just made a move, hummm I wonder if Akira-sensei will respond with .... Ohhh I need to try that move on my next game...
and an intergalatic Go championship is founded with the supreme title being awardade being SAI
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And some of the other Wraith are saying things like "you're playing with your food!" and the Wraith Queen responds with how they're even more fun to play with than to eat and so her underlings aren't to eat any of the Tau'ri who play Go. And Go suddenly has a major resurgence in popularity among the Tau'ri.
Except that the Goa'uld are jealous creatures and egotistical to boot so they go out of their way to kill the competition, so there's much debate among the Stargate crew on whether to learn Go as protection from the Wraith or to refrain from learning it as protection from the Goa'uld.
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Though he doesn't take any of the tentacle mangas... no need to see if there are any beings who would fit those descriptions...
The Goa'ld aslo start playing for solar systems as wagers, since why risk yourself in an invasion if can just win it in a board game...
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O'Neill, on the other hand, does discover the tentacle manga and just can't put them down, getting ever more horrified at the possibilities. And Daniel has to calm him down and explain about cultural differences and sexual identities.
And Carter mostly ignores the whole thing except that she really wants Teal'c to win one of the solar systems for her since it has developed some interesting technology. And Hammond and O'Neill both have to talk her out of it because a Major of the US Air Force cannot own a solar system.