Crossover plot bunny of DOOM

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So. I have a plot bunny gnawing at my brain, which almost certainly interests no one but me. Has anyone here ever read Dasha's series Imperfections? It's a Sentinel AU where Sentinels have been known to the Western world since the late 19th Century. (Sentinels are people with very enhanced senses, the evolutionary purpose of which was tribal protection. They need Guides to help them deal with the massive sensory input and cope with a world that is generally not designed for people with incredibly sensitive senses of smell, sight, hearing, taste, and touch.) It's massive, and at her livejournal (dashamte) there are crossovers between this AU and all kinds of other shows--Monk, due South, Stargate: Atlantis, CSI, X-Files, a couple of other TV shows I'd never heard of. (The Equalizer?)

Anyway. As I was going to sleep last night, it struck me. In this AU, Sentinels were discovered by Western science in the late 19th Century (before that, they'd mainly either struggled on their own or ended up in insane asylums). So Sentinels would have been a relatively new phenomenon in Jeeves and Wooster's day. For Bertie's class, that's one thing. If you need someone to help you get through life, you hire them. But what if Jeeves was a Sentinel? The British equivalent of OSHA wasn't around, and who knows if there would be training for a specialized job tailored to Sentinel abilities available to the son of servants; who knows if Jeeves would want such a job if it were available. (I have a hard time seeing him as, say, a police forensic person/detective. Though I suppose a chef or food critic would be right up his alley.) But what about his job as a valet? Jeeves is smart and disciplined enough that he could probably get by without a Guide if he controlled his environment; and as a valet to a single and impressionable young man, Jeeves controls the cleaning supplies, fabrics, foods, etc., that come into the house. Not to mention it explains just how Jeeves always knows everything that's going on--with a Sentinel's hearing, of course he would hear everything whether he wanted to or not.

Bertie's Hangover Adventures

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Over at my webcomic, I Put It In A Box (inaboxcomic), there is a three-part strip about Bertie's occasional drunken antics. Go and see!