I started out thinking about a Dresden Files/Indiana Jones crossover. I mean, think about it -- their respective skills sets mesh well, they both deadpan snarkers, and Indy's already clued into the Secret History of his own canonical world. Only problem is, you'd have to era-hop one of them.
Then it hit me: Harry Dresden and Lara Croft. Same skills match-up, but even better interpersonal conflict, as Lara realizes how easily she can troll poor straightlaced, repressed Harry....
"Oh, come on, Harry, you've seen me naked before."
"That was when we were picking giant leeches off each other in the Yucatan, not in a 5-star hotel. And you weren't clean, and smelling good, and wearing... almost-wearing... I'm going for a walk."
And you just know that Lara and Bob will hit it off, at least over toying with Harry.
And Maggie'll turn into DJ Croft, if Harry's not careful, once she meets her new sorta-stepmom (this, of course, assumes Murphy is out of the picture -- I can't see fitting her and Lara into the same story).
Then it hit me: Harry Dresden and Lara Croft. Same skills match-up, but even better interpersonal conflict, as Lara realizes how easily she can troll poor straightlaced, repressed Harry....
"Oh, come on, Harry, you've seen me naked before."
"That was when we were picking giant leeches off each other in the Yucatan, not in a 5-star hotel. And you weren't clean, and smelling good, and wearing... almost-wearing... I'm going for a walk."
And you just know that Lara and Bob will hit it off, at least over toying with Harry.
And Maggie'll turn into DJ Croft, if Harry's not careful, once she meets her new sorta-stepmom (this, of course, assumes Murphy is out of the picture -- I can't see fitting her and Lara into the same story).