Halloweentown x Luck of the Irish DCOM Crossover Prompt??
Okay, hear me out. This idea popped into my head just today.
Dylan Piper, Marnie Piper's half-human warlock little brother, is 12 in Halloweentown (1998).
Kyle Johnson, half-leprechaun whose family luck allows him to pass for human, is 15 in Luck of the Irish (2001).
Meaning, they're technically the same age.
Meaning, if we stick to a more strict timeline than the movies did, they'd be going to college around the same time.
So let's say, in an alternate universe where Return to Halloweentown never happened, Dylan goes to a normal human college. (Or, if you want to be generous, maybe Dylan transfers after that first year at Witch U.)
And Kyle? He goes to the same college.
And somehow, some way, they meet and it comes out that they have something pretty massive in common:
They're both half-humans with an overprotective redhead mom who kept them totally in the dark about magic for their entire childhoods, and a free-spirited magical grandparent who wasn't thrilled their kid married a human.
Kyle gets to learn there's this whole other world of magical creatures beyond just leprechauns, Dylan gets to meet someone who had a similar experience to him outside of his family, the rest of his family gets to learn there are other magical creatures still hiding out in the human world, who can now visit Halloweentown more freely because Marnie opened the portal between worlds.
I just think it'd be a fun time.
EDIT: It occurs to me this is kind of a reflavoring of my A Mingling of Magics concept, where characters from different works with similar experiences get to meet and trade stories. Am I unoriginal? Eh. If Steven Moffat could create at least three different versions of the same type of female heroine in Doctor Who, I could come up with two similar fic ideas that are still worthwhile.
