The Canon Expies Meme

[espigeonage]

SAVE THE EARTH is a world tragically devoid of some of our most beloved works of fiction! (good thing too, otherwise reincarnates would be even more fucked up!) Or rather, they exist until someone apps from them, at which point they retroactively don't. But don't feel too bad for this Earth's inhabitants - just as no niche in nature is left open long before life fills it, other, similar fiction has taken the places of the canons we know!

Okay, so since we're all playing modern AUs most of them are familiar with pop culture, right? But since some are off-limits, we've got to get creative. Comment with a little about the expy - or expies, maybe there's more than one - of your character's canon. Or other canons. It can be more or less similar, by the same or different authors, have suspiciously similar titles or anything else! Be as straightforwards or detailed as you wish.

Comments

Re: LORD OF THE RINGS

[depolarized]

This. Riku is a fan-- books and the whole 3+3 movie shenanigans. *A* I love how Tolkien now gets to write a whole different obscure fancy alien language/script, racial genealogy, and appendix for SEVERAL different worlds. Not to mention describe millions of different singular trees in the worlds' landscapes. xD

[elfstoned]

YEP

and his son is still publishing bits of old manuscripts about the worlds' literary histories and being pretentious and snooty about things like Galaxy Quest