possibly awesome crossovers I'm trying not to write

[laurajv]

I'm pretty sure Catherine and Vincent Go To Anthrocon would be funnier, but I can't shake the feeling that I ought to write The One Where Vincent Is The Son Of King Jareth or The One Where Richard Mayhew and The Marquis Hunt The Beast of New York.

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[ratcreature]

Hee. Yeah, there are multiple rationalizations people would use. I think the key is that realistically in a big city where ignoring strangers is the default, as long as he acted "normal" everyone would assume him to be normal to avoid trouble, even if they did notice and thought him odd. That would only be broached in the potential small talk situations, like if you waited behind him in line, or sat next to him on public transport, some might be bold enough to ask, and for that he'd need some vaguely plausible, non-threatening explanation.

But once someone starts to act like he doesn't belong, that seems much more worrisome. I mean, if you saw a huge, odd-looking lion-person just walking down the street, even if you go "WTF is that and how does he look like this?" in your head, what are you going to do? Call the police saying that you saw a lion-person doing nothing suspicious? Whereas if you saw something huge, potentially not human-like hiding in the bushes or skulking in some shadow, and you can't get a good look, the rationalized explanations you'd come up with are all alarming, like either thinking there is some escaped large cat or some creep wearing a lion mask who's up to no good, and then Vincent would end up having to deal with animal control or police.