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Prompts are now closed, and we have a list of prompts for this year's challenge, starting with the ones that had gone unclaimed at last year's challenge:
1. The picture in this thread.
2. When the Doctor opened the Void at Canary Wharf, it affected those within range by bathing them in Void substance. Ianto was one of them, but the only survivor. When the constructive wave is sent, it throws the 456 ship into the Void. When the Void opens, Ianto revives. It seems it reset his system back to when he was first hit by it.
UNIT has taken control of the bodies in the gymnasium by now, and Ianto wakes up surrounded by UNIT soldiers. UNIT is desperately searching for Jack (reason is up to you) and now they have Ianto.
3. Everything seems to have gone on in Ianto's head, and he's in a psychiatric hospital with his Mum and Lisa telling him that Torchwood is all in his imagination. They want him to get better...is this what's killing the surviving coma patients?
4. Amy, Rory and the Doctor pick up Jack on deserted planet where he is mourning Ianto and Steven (and Tosh and Owen if you like). They need him on a suicide like mission and Jack just wants to take his chance on losing his unability to stay dead...
The doctor is against the idea, as he is sorry for the grief he caused Jack and for the fact he wasn't there when Ianto died..it wouldn't have happened if he had been there...
Jack persuades him in a very Jack way.(yes, he will use seduction in order to get what he wants...)
In averting the end of the universe Amy and Rory are lost but there is some kind of reboot.
And things start on day one of the season that never was.
Jack remembers a very bad dream he had and starts calling in the doctor from the beginning....And he succeeds.
Ianto lives/Janto lives/Steven lives/ the doctor saves the day and all is well with the universe. And if you can find a way of smuggling Tosh and Owen in here...all the better.
5. Picking any episode from S1 or S2, as long as it's after "Day One", but it's Gwen writing Mary Sue fanfiction. Extra points for someone on the team finding it. Super extra special points to having the team reading it together.
6. Gray and John Hart capture Jack during "Exit Wounds" and trap him in an alien virtual reality machine, where they feed images into his head of what they want. They go all the way up to CoE, and Jack thinks everything that happened was real until the team rescues him.
Bonus points if Gray and Hart don't know Ianto is immortal (or your long lived version) and this is how they find out. Of course, this means that Ianto wouldn't be that way in VR, which means they have to try harder to convince Jack that this is reality...
7. Instead of blundering into Thames House, Jack and Ianto figure out a way to use Jack's Vortex Manipulator and a power station (nuclear, electrical, whatever) to open the Void around the invaders' ship and suck them in. What they don't know, however, is Ianto's second exposure to the Void (remember Canary Wharf) and the Vortex signature that Jack has left in him create a feedback loop which kills Ianto -- only to have him wake up a few minutes later immortal like Jack.
Where it goes from there is up to the author, though I think it would be fun to have them go on the run since they are still traitors as far as the government is concerned. With Johnson still in charge of the manhunt.
8. Instead of Owen getting shot by Aaron Copeland at the Pharm, it was Ianto. Jack refuses to let Ianto go and gets the other glove, but instead of making him a zombie tea-boy, it's like the first glove and transfers the wearers life-force into the other person. Since Jack was the one wearing the glove, Ianto becomes immortal like Jack.
Up to the author on how that affects subsequent events....
9. Alien!Ianto - Ianto is an alien (unknown to him or not) and he is somehow immune to the 'alien fart'. He appears to die and Jack grieves but Ianto eventually wakes up. Or it could be that the gas doesn't effect him at all and the 456 are defeated by the team using whatever it is in Ianto's alien DNA....or some sort of variation.
10. A crossover with Stargate where Ianto doesn't die as quick as he did on Day Four but it's a bit slower and for some reason or another he is beamed up by either the SG1 or Atlantis team and they have a Tok'ra symbiote in need of a host. This will give Ianto an extended life of more than a thousand years at least.
11. The TARDIS and River has noticed a shift in the time lines from the moment Tosh dies but it is only when Ianto is killed do they figure out that someone has messed with the time lines. Since Ianto was meant to become immortal (or whatever long life Ianto you want) after defeating the 456, they set out to fix things and find out who is responsible.
12. Slightly non-canon since it's from one of the books -Trace Memory.
Ianto is exposed to tachyon radiation and "once you've been dosed, you're always dosed - not just in the future, but in your past" (pg120).
When Jack brings him to life after Lisa/Cyberman killed him, Ianto's past gets tied to Jack's past therefore when Jack became Immortal, Ianto did too but they only find out about Ianto being Immortal later - during the Cannibals maybe?
13. At the end of "Cyberwoman", Jack does follow through on his threat "execute her, or I'll execute you both", only to have Ianto come back to life the same way Jack does. Your choice whether this is due to Jack having brought Ianto back when Lisa killed him, or whether Ianto has been immortal already (and whether he knew about it or not).
14. After the Sycorax invasion, Torchwood One recovered the Doctor's severed hand (Jack later recovers it from the ruins of Canary Wharf). They conducted all sorts of experiments with it, among them genetic manipulations. Ianto ends up as one of the test subjects for an advanced gene therapy (either because he is critically injured in a work accident, or because of some other factor, for example a chronic illness or genetic condition). It is successful, but in addition to healing him, it turns him into a Human/Time Lord hybrid.
15. Sometime back in season 1 or 2, the Torchwood team encounters a "gift from the Rift" that is contaminated with an alien virus (either the gift is some sort of artifact, or an alien, dead or alive). Everybody but Ianto gets sick, but they all recover. They assume that Ianto escaped infection because he had no contact with the artifact/alien. Unbeknown to them (and Ianto himself), he did catch the virus, but something caused it to behave very differently with him, causing it to change his DNA and effectively make him immortal. The reason is up to you; could be previous exposure to a different alien virus or other alien substance, either accidentally or as part of something Torchwood One did, be it experiments or standard inoculations. Or maybe it has something to do with being exposed to the opening of the Void at the Battle of Canary Wharf.
16. While rescuing Lisa from the wreckage of Canary Wharf, Ianto is injured. Since the Cyberwoman needs him alive and healthy to be of use in rescuing her and helping her, she does what she can to heal him. Because she only has the one not fully functioning conversion unit that she herself needs for her survival, she cannot upgrade him. Instead, she installs some small components of cyber-technology in him that work similarly to nanogenes, making it possible for Ianto to heal from just about anything. Ianto himself doesn't know about this, and when Owen gives him a thorough check after the discovery and destruction of the Cyberwoman, the only things that show up on the scans are the metal screws from an old documented injury.
17. Ianto has kept one more secret from Jack: he used to be a Chosen One. When the fairies asked him to join them the first time, he declined. When they asked a second time after the incident with the cannibals, he was torn but ultimately decided that he owed it to the team to remain. That was when the fairies told him that even if he became one of them he didn't necessarily have to leave behind his human life...
18. Crossover with Highlander: Ianto is a potential immortal, and the death by alien fart triggers his immortality. (Your choice whether or not Jack knows about the immortals.) How will this change events in CoE? How will Jack deal with an immortal Ianto who will now have to fight for his life?
19. This is a bit of a variation of #6:
While Jack is buried underground for 2000 years he hallucinates, and everything we see at the end of season 2 on is that hallucination. How Ianto is/become immortal up to author
20. Another idea for a crossover with Highlander: Ianto has already been immortal for some time, and Torchwood One found out and "persuaded" him to work for them.
21. A variation of the fairy!Ianto idea: Ianto was a chosen one who declined the fairies' offer, but when he dies due to Torchwood, they decide to bring him back and give him a choice: either he joins them, or they let him die again.
22. A variation of the idea with the Doctor's hand: After the Sycorax invasion, TW1 recovered the doctor's severed hand and decided to try to clone a Time Lord from it, to be better able to study their number one enemy, and as potential bait. Due to various technical difficulties, they ended up mixing in other DNA (human and/or other species of alien). Ianto is the result of this experiment.
23. When the bomb inside Jack explodes in the hub, the Rift is ripped wide open and both Ianto and the baby TARDIS on Jack's desk are caught up in the resulting backlash. In desperation, the baby TARDIS decides to merge herself with Ianto in order for both of them to survive, creating an entirely new being, half human and half TARDIS.
24. Hetalia xover. Sometime after the events od CoE, Ianto wakes up. He is in fact in the country of Wales and thua cannot die until Wales is gone (or the people/spirit/etc. of Wales is gone). He would have woken up earlier, but the issue of the children caused people's faith in their countries to weaken and thus he was bad off. How he gets back to Jack or Jack back to him is up to the author!
There's no need to claim a prompt here, just pick one and go for it! And, when you're done, post it! We can't wait to see what you all come up with.
Also, we'll be leaving the prompt post, here, open in case anyone comes up with a new prompt. If you do, we'll add it here.
We're really looking forward to seeing what sorts of stories, manips, or artwork you all come up with! And if there are any questions. ask one of us at Here Be Mods.
Deadline is Friday, August 19th. Happy creating!
Prompts are now closed, and we have a list of prompts for this year's challenge, starting with the ones that had gone unclaimed at last year's challenge:
1. The picture in this thread.
2. When the Doctor opened the Void at Canary Wharf, it affected those within range by bathing them in Void substance. Ianto was one of them, but the only survivor. When the constructive wave is sent, it throws the 456 ship into the Void. When the Void opens, Ianto revives. It seems it reset his system back to when he was first hit by it.
UNIT has taken control of the bodies in the gymnasium by now, and Ianto wakes up surrounded by UNIT soldiers. UNIT is desperately searching for Jack (reason is up to you) and now they have Ianto.
3. Everything seems to have gone on in Ianto's head, and he's in a psychiatric hospital with his Mum and Lisa telling him that Torchwood is all in his imagination. They want him to get better...is this what's killing the surviving coma patients?
4. Amy, Rory and the Doctor pick up Jack on deserted planet where he is mourning Ianto and Steven (and Tosh and Owen if you like). They need him on a suicide like mission and Jack just wants to take his chance on losing his unability to stay dead...
The doctor is against the idea, as he is sorry for the grief he caused Jack and for the fact he wasn't there when Ianto died..it wouldn't have happened if he had been there...
Jack persuades him in a very Jack way.(yes, he will use seduction in order to get what he wants...)
In averting the end of the universe Amy and Rory are lost but there is some kind of reboot.
And things start on day one of the season that never was.
Jack remembers a very bad dream he had and starts calling in the doctor from the beginning....And he succeeds.
Ianto lives/Janto lives/Steven lives/ the doctor saves the day and all is well with the universe. And if you can find a way of smuggling Tosh and Owen in here...all the better.
5. Picking any episode from S1 or S2, as long as it's after "Day One", but it's Gwen writing Mary Sue fanfiction. Extra points for someone on the team finding it. Super extra special points to having the team reading it together.
6. Gray and John Hart capture Jack during "Exit Wounds" and trap him in an alien virtual reality machine, where they feed images into his head of what they want. They go all the way up to CoE, and Jack thinks everything that happened was real until the team rescues him.
Bonus points if Gray and Hart don't know Ianto is immortal (or your long lived version) and this is how they find out. Of course, this means that Ianto wouldn't be that way in VR, which means they have to try harder to convince Jack that this is reality...
7. Instead of blundering into Thames House, Jack and Ianto figure out a way to use Jack's Vortex Manipulator and a power station (nuclear, electrical, whatever) to open the Void around the invaders' ship and suck them in. What they don't know, however, is Ianto's second exposure to the Void (remember Canary Wharf) and the Vortex signature that Jack has left in him create a feedback loop which kills Ianto -- only to have him wake up a few minutes later immortal like Jack.
Where it goes from there is up to the author, though I think it would be fun to have them go on the run since they are still traitors as far as the government is concerned. With Johnson still in charge of the manhunt.
8. Instead of Owen getting shot by Aaron Copeland at the Pharm, it was Ianto. Jack refuses to let Ianto go and gets the other glove, but instead of making him a zombie tea-boy, it's like the first glove and transfers the wearers life-force into the other person. Since Jack was the one wearing the glove, Ianto becomes immortal like Jack.
Up to the author on how that affects subsequent events....
9. Alien!Ianto - Ianto is an alien (unknown to him or not) and he is somehow immune to the 'alien fart'. He appears to die and Jack grieves but Ianto eventually wakes up. Or it could be that the gas doesn't effect him at all and the 456 are defeated by the team using whatever it is in Ianto's alien DNA....or some sort of variation.
10. A crossover with Stargate where Ianto doesn't die as quick as he did on Day Four but it's a bit slower and for some reason or another he is beamed up by either the SG1 or Atlantis team and they have a Tok'ra symbiote in need of a host. This will give Ianto an extended life of more than a thousand years at least.
11. The TARDIS and River has noticed a shift in the time lines from the moment Tosh dies but it is only when Ianto is killed do they figure out that someone has messed with the time lines. Since Ianto was meant to become immortal (or whatever long life Ianto you want) after defeating the 456, they set out to fix things and find out who is responsible.
12. Slightly non-canon since it's from one of the books -Trace Memory.
Ianto is exposed to tachyon radiation and "once you've been dosed, you're always dosed - not just in the future, but in your past" (pg120).
When Jack brings him to life after Lisa/Cyberman killed him, Ianto's past gets tied to Jack's past therefore when Jack became Immortal, Ianto did too but they only find out about Ianto being Immortal later - during the Cannibals maybe?
13. At the end of "Cyberwoman", Jack does follow through on his threat "execute her, or I'll execute you both", only to have Ianto come back to life the same way Jack does. Your choice whether this is due to Jack having brought Ianto back when Lisa killed him, or whether Ianto has been immortal already (and whether he knew about it or not).
14. After the Sycorax invasion, Torchwood One recovered the Doctor's severed hand (Jack later recovers it from the ruins of Canary Wharf). They conducted all sorts of experiments with it, among them genetic manipulations. Ianto ends up as one of the test subjects for an advanced gene therapy (either because he is critically injured in a work accident, or because of some other factor, for example a chronic illness or genetic condition). It is successful, but in addition to healing him, it turns him into a Human/Time Lord hybrid.
15. Sometime back in season 1 or 2, the Torchwood team encounters a "gift from the Rift" that is contaminated with an alien virus (either the gift is some sort of artifact, or an alien, dead or alive). Everybody but Ianto gets sick, but they all recover. They assume that Ianto escaped infection because he had no contact with the artifact/alien. Unbeknown to them (and Ianto himself), he did catch the virus, but something caused it to behave very differently with him, causing it to change his DNA and effectively make him immortal. The reason is up to you; could be previous exposure to a different alien virus or other alien substance, either accidentally or as part of something Torchwood One did, be it experiments or standard inoculations. Or maybe it has something to do with being exposed to the opening of the Void at the Battle of Canary Wharf.
16. While rescuing Lisa from the wreckage of Canary Wharf, Ianto is injured. Since the Cyberwoman needs him alive and healthy to be of use in rescuing her and helping her, she does what she can to heal him. Because she only has the one not fully functioning conversion unit that she herself needs for her survival, she cannot upgrade him. Instead, she installs some small components of cyber-technology in him that work similarly to nanogenes, making it possible for Ianto to heal from just about anything. Ianto himself doesn't know about this, and when Owen gives him a thorough check after the discovery and destruction of the Cyberwoman, the only things that show up on the scans are the metal screws from an old documented injury.
17. Ianto has kept one more secret from Jack: he used to be a Chosen One. When the fairies asked him to join them the first time, he declined. When they asked a second time after the incident with the cannibals, he was torn but ultimately decided that he owed it to the team to remain. That was when the fairies told him that even if he became one of them he didn't necessarily have to leave behind his human life...
18. Crossover with Highlander: Ianto is a potential immortal, and the death by alien fart triggers his immortality. (Your choice whether or not Jack knows about the immortals.) How will this change events in CoE? How will Jack deal with an immortal Ianto who will now have to fight for his life?
19. This is a bit of a variation of #6:
While Jack is buried underground for 2000 years he hallucinates, and everything we see at the end of season 2 on is that hallucination. How Ianto is/become immortal up to author
20. Another idea for a crossover with Highlander: Ianto has already been immortal for some time, and Torchwood One found out and "persuaded" him to work for them.
21. A variation of the fairy!Ianto idea: Ianto was a chosen one who declined the fairies' offer, but when he dies due to Torchwood, they decide to bring him back and give him a choice: either he joins them, or they let him die again.
22. A variation of the idea with the Doctor's hand: After the Sycorax invasion, TW1 recovered the doctor's severed hand and decided to try to clone a Time Lord from it, to be better able to study their number one enemy, and as potential bait. Due to various technical difficulties, they ended up mixing in other DNA (human and/or other species of alien). Ianto is the result of this experiment.
23. When the bomb inside Jack explodes in the hub, the Rift is ripped wide open and both Ianto and the baby TARDIS on Jack's desk are caught up in the resulting backlash. In desperation, the baby TARDIS decides to merge herself with Ianto in order for both of them to survive, creating an entirely new being, half human and half TARDIS.
24. Hetalia xover. Sometime after the events od CoE, Ianto wakes up. He is in fact in the country of Wales and thua cannot die until Wales is gone (or the people/spirit/etc. of Wales is gone). He would have woken up earlier, but the issue of the children caused people's faith in their countries to weaken and thus he was bad off. How he gets back to Jack or Jack back to him is up to the author!
There's no need to claim a prompt here, just pick one and go for it! And, when you're done, post it! We can't wait to see what you all come up with.
Also, we'll be leaving the prompt post, here, open in case anyone comes up with a new prompt. If you do, we'll add it here.
We're really looking forward to seeing what sorts of stories, manips, or artwork you all come up with! And if there are any questions. ask one of us at Here Be Mods.
Deadline is Friday, August 19th. Happy creating!
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Date: 2011-07-19 12:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-21 08:07 pm (UTC)I don't know what it says about me that this was the first thing that came to my mind when thinking of possible prompts for the challenge.
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Date: 2011-07-21 08:23 pm (UTC)To be honest, I have thought about this prompt...but have already chosen a different one.
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Date: 2011-07-22 06:26 pm (UTC)Not to mention that Jack is (most likely) the reason why Ianto is now immortal, something he will probably see as yet another way in which Jack is separating him from Lisa.
Alternatively, you could go with the idea that Ianto doesn't know about Jack's immortality (after all, according to canon only Gwen knows about it at that point, though I never believed that the others wouldn't at least have had their suspicions). This would mean Ianto has no idea why he is suddenly immortal, Tosh and Owen are likely also clueless, and Jack is faced with the dilemma of having to decide if and when to tell them, and how they will react to it (especially since Gwen, the newbie, knows and might "out" him if he doesn't tell them himself).
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