Fraser/Frannie bodyswap outline
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jackRay becomes increasingly frustrated with the sexual tension between his partner, who he likes very very much, and his sister, and when the three of them find themselves in a club where the stage show is a hypnotist he persuades them to volunteer.
The hypnotist tells them he's going to switch their bodies. He has them sit in two chairs facing each other and swings his watch-on-a-chain between them. "Watch the watch, watch the watch, look into each other's eyes, the eyes, the watch, the eyes, the watch."
Then a young man flies out from behind stage, snatches the watch, jumps down, flees through the audience and outside. Fraser is dased, but Frannie takes off straight after him.
Outside a chase scene ensues, with Frannie being athletic and polite to everyone she barges past, and confused but smiling when a man she barges into tries to help her up. Soon she closes, tears off a high-heeled shoe and flings it. It strikes the boy on the back of the head, and he keels sideways into an alley, but when she gets there he's gone.
Ray and Fraser arrive. Ray has an "Oh my God," look on his face. Fraser is marvelling, and keeps adjusting his uniform and touching his face and hair.
The alley has piles of garbage and they search through it all for the watch, but don't find anything. They go home to change.
Frannie says in polite canadian way she's not sure if it'd be appropriate for her to go home by herself. We're not quite sure if Ray's realised the obvious, that Frannie-as-Fraser doesn't want to see Frannie's private clothes, or just humours her, but says he has some things of hers at his, and they go.
Ray lets Frannie use the bathroom first, hears running water, and after a bit a loud crash. He knocks, no answer, goes in eyes averted, and sees Frannie sitting against the bath, obviously tripped trying to get into the shower (naked). Her eyes are still tightly closed. She says "I tripped, Ray," (in stereotypical Fraser phrasing)
She had been trying to change without looking at her naked body. Ray helps her up, and is suddenly aware of her perfect naked body, and personality no longer annoying, but that of the man he likes best... Still holding on, Frannie insists he help her shower: there's nothing wrong with that, he's her brother, and with Fraser's typical persuasiveness makes him agree.
He helps her in, and adjusts the shower for her, and guides her hand to the soap, etc, turning his back as often as possible. Whenever he brushes her hair, or her breast touches his arm, he becomes acutely aware.
[Comment: Editorial comments in square brackets. I explain some motivations as I see them. This shouldn't be described in the story, but may help me decide what people say and do.]
[Motivation: Frannie knows what Fraser would do. Imagining his hyperpoliteness to her body implies she is beautiful, and he would be attracted to her, which is what she wants. She also enjoys embarassing Ray. She senses the tension between him and Fraser that she would never normally encourage but since she likes them both she wants them to be happy, so can't prevent it coming out in this emotionally open state.]
[Motivation: Ray and Frannie despite annoying each other really love each other (non-sexually) and Ray's emotions are coloured by that now his attachment to Fraser's personality allows another outlet for it. He's determined not to see either of them that way.]
You could have a comedy/insest scene here, though it'd be hard without being cheesy. Frannie would refuses to touch her breasts, saying it wouldn't be right, and Ray senses she's going to ask him to, and he really doesn't want to be that intimate with her anyway, and REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY not when he thinks he might enjoy it and she might realise he starts to fondle her... Ray says Fraser *is* them, touching them isn't touching them any more than he is already. "Fraser" pleads ("It would be no more honorable to not maintain this body while I have the use of it than to abuse that use."), and threatens to tell Frannie about this later in an embarassing way, but Ray persuades him for a day or so water running down is enough and we really must have this fixed by then.
They go to pick up Fraser. Frannie is wearing a strapped lowish dress she wore for a date once, before stopping at Ray's afterward and falling asleep on his couch (and hence left there). She looks regementedly ahead, but periodically glances down and breaks the silence with a question like "Are these normal, Ray?" and "Why isn't she cold, Ray?", unable to believe anyone would choose to expose that much of themselves.
At Fraser's the door's unlocked and they go in. They see into the bedroom where Fraser is naked except for underwear (what does he normally wear?) standing tall in front of the mirror and trying various poses. Ray's about to call out when Frannie stops him (like Fraser always does) and they listen for a moment. Now Fraser adjusts his package, and Frannie says "Oh my,"
Ray calls out and Frasier hurried shuts the door and then comes out dressed. With some not looking at each other they agree they need to see the hypnotist again as soon as possible.
At the club, he's still in a back room, a little shaken from being knocked over, and says he can't hypnotise them without the watch. Ray says this is bullshit, but he assures him it's true. They ask him about it, and he says it was expensive, his grandfather's, and possibly mystical or possibly just need a really good gold watch to hypnotise people, or it might be psychosomatic. Frannie and Fraser simultaneously ask (in different voices) about the boy, and the man says he's his assistant, just been fired for stealing.
Frannie goes home and Fraser and Ray go looking for the watch. Fraser tries to play the part of a mountie, but always seems to be acting. Ray finds looking at him disturbing, and realises that something's missing, and realises that when Fraser's himself he sort-of-nearly fancies him.
They trawl many second hand shops looking for the watch or a someone who knows the boy, but don't find anything. Ray takes the lead in the investigation, and Fraser tries to be Fraser, but always ends up chatting to the interviewees, and once almost -- accidently -- picks up one of the (male) shopkeepers.
Meanwhile Frannie is on her way home when she sees a watch very like it in the window of a junk shop she wouldn't have expected to deal in gold OR stolen goods. She wants to investigate, and resolves to buy the watch whatever, as it might be as good for the hypnosis.
[Motivation: Frannie would like more jewelry, but would never normally buy much. She knows Fraser would be generous, so that makes her want to buy it. Also, she could tell him he bought it and to keep it as a way of giving him a stylish gift, after they're returned.]
She goes in, and sees the boy there. The boy makes to take off, but she acts all kind [Fraser would not be above using her appearence to calm someone as long as it doesn't do anything unethical] and he desists. She questions him.
He says he's the hypnotist's nephew, and the watch should be his, as his mother was older and more interested in magic than the hypnotist, but that their father eventually reneged and gave it his son, feeling giving it to a woman was wrong.
She tells him what happens, and he laughs anmd laughs. He says they should be able to break it by an effort of will, they obviously like this condition on some level. She "hmms" and asks him to try the dehypnosis himself. She phones Ray and they meet at Fraser's.
Ray's ever so cross with the boy, but desperate to fix his friends, so agrees to try this, but insists the boy be tied up first. The boy offers to let Ray swing the watch, and he'll try to do the talking.
Fraser and Frannie sit down on two chairs facing each other, and they begin. Shortly they're gazing at each other's eyes, and Ray is terrfied at all this eye contact, but keeps going.
"Frannie" is looking into Frannie's eyes and thinking "Wow, they look lovely. Fraser must see them like that, maybe he does like me."
"Fraser" is looking into Fraser's eyes and thinking about how he'd never noticed how nice his eyes were before.
Fraser thinks "But I've been inside her already. Suggesting any intimacy with her now would be impolite."
Frannie thinks "He was a great investigator even in my body. I wonder if I could do that."
After the back and forth description of thoughts, now the narration suddenly cuts back and you realise the last thoughts were in their own bodies. They all look about dazed, and realise the boy is gone.
Ray asks them both anxiously what they remember. Fraser says "That was a strange experience. Those... [waves at his chest]... those." [Comment: That might be truly his thought, he may not remember Frannie-as-Frasier doing the same thing.] Frannie says "I kind of enjoyed it. Investigating is exciting, even when you're only along for the ride."
Ray and Fraser return the watch to the hypnotist, who denies the boy was his nephew at all, and they conjecture he made that up to get out of being arrested, but since he fixed them decide to let it go.
As they leave a club, Ray mentions the weird nephew thing, and Fraser makes some comment about the greatest trusts engendering the greatest potential pain, and they look at each other, in shared knowledge of what could, but will never, be between them, and stroll off to the car horseplaying and laughing.
The hypnotist tells them he's going to switch their bodies. He has them sit in two chairs facing each other and swings his watch-on-a-chain between them. "Watch the watch, watch the watch, look into each other's eyes, the eyes, the watch, the eyes, the watch."
Then a young man flies out from behind stage, snatches the watch, jumps down, flees through the audience and outside. Fraser is dased, but Frannie takes off straight after him.
Outside a chase scene ensues, with Frannie being athletic and polite to everyone she barges past, and confused but smiling when a man she barges into tries to help her up. Soon she closes, tears off a high-heeled shoe and flings it. It strikes the boy on the back of the head, and he keels sideways into an alley, but when she gets there he's gone.
Ray and Fraser arrive. Ray has an "Oh my God," look on his face. Fraser is marvelling, and keeps adjusting his uniform and touching his face and hair.
The alley has piles of garbage and they search through it all for the watch, but don't find anything. They go home to change.
Frannie says in polite canadian way she's not sure if it'd be appropriate for her to go home by herself. We're not quite sure if Ray's realised the obvious, that Frannie-as-Fraser doesn't want to see Frannie's private clothes, or just humours her, but says he has some things of hers at his, and they go.
Ray lets Frannie use the bathroom first, hears running water, and after a bit a loud crash. He knocks, no answer, goes in eyes averted, and sees Frannie sitting against the bath, obviously tripped trying to get into the shower (naked). Her eyes are still tightly closed. She says "I tripped, Ray," (in stereotypical Fraser phrasing)
She had been trying to change without looking at her naked body. Ray helps her up, and is suddenly aware of her perfect naked body, and personality no longer annoying, but that of the man he likes best... Still holding on, Frannie insists he help her shower: there's nothing wrong with that, he's her brother, and with Fraser's typical persuasiveness makes him agree.
He helps her in, and adjusts the shower for her, and guides her hand to the soap, etc, turning his back as often as possible. Whenever he brushes her hair, or her breast touches his arm, he becomes acutely aware.
[Comment: Editorial comments in square brackets. I explain some motivations as I see them. This shouldn't be described in the story, but may help me decide what people say and do.]
[Motivation: Frannie knows what Fraser would do. Imagining his hyperpoliteness to her body implies she is beautiful, and he would be attracted to her, which is what she wants. She also enjoys embarassing Ray. She senses the tension between him and Fraser that she would never normally encourage but since she likes them both she wants them to be happy, so can't prevent it coming out in this emotionally open state.]
[Motivation: Ray and Frannie despite annoying each other really love each other (non-sexually) and Ray's emotions are coloured by that now his attachment to Fraser's personality allows another outlet for it. He's determined not to see either of them that way.]
You could have a comedy/insest scene here, though it'd be hard without being cheesy. Frannie would refuses to touch her breasts, saying it wouldn't be right, and Ray senses she's going to ask him to, and he really doesn't want to be that intimate with her anyway, and REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY not when he thinks he might enjoy it and she might realise he starts to fondle her... Ray says Fraser *is* them, touching them isn't touching them any more than he is already. "Fraser" pleads ("It would be no more honorable to not maintain this body while I have the use of it than to abuse that use."), and threatens to tell Frannie about this later in an embarassing way, but Ray persuades him for a day or so water running down is enough and we really must have this fixed by then.
They go to pick up Fraser. Frannie is wearing a strapped lowish dress she wore for a date once, before stopping at Ray's afterward and falling asleep on his couch (and hence left there). She looks regementedly ahead, but periodically glances down and breaks the silence with a question like "Are these normal, Ray?" and "Why isn't she cold, Ray?", unable to believe anyone would choose to expose that much of themselves.
At Fraser's the door's unlocked and they go in. They see into the bedroom where Fraser is naked except for underwear (what does he normally wear?) standing tall in front of the mirror and trying various poses. Ray's about to call out when Frannie stops him (like Fraser always does) and they listen for a moment. Now Fraser adjusts his package, and Frannie says "Oh my,"
Ray calls out and Frasier hurried shuts the door and then comes out dressed. With some not looking at each other they agree they need to see the hypnotist again as soon as possible.
At the club, he's still in a back room, a little shaken from being knocked over, and says he can't hypnotise them without the watch. Ray says this is bullshit, but he assures him it's true. They ask him about it, and he says it was expensive, his grandfather's, and possibly mystical or possibly just need a really good gold watch to hypnotise people, or it might be psychosomatic. Frannie and Fraser simultaneously ask (in different voices) about the boy, and the man says he's his assistant, just been fired for stealing.
Frannie goes home and Fraser and Ray go looking for the watch. Fraser tries to play the part of a mountie, but always seems to be acting. Ray finds looking at him disturbing, and realises that something's missing, and realises that when Fraser's himself he sort-of-nearly fancies him.
They trawl many second hand shops looking for the watch or a someone who knows the boy, but don't find anything. Ray takes the lead in the investigation, and Fraser tries to be Fraser, but always ends up chatting to the interviewees, and once almost -- accidently -- picks up one of the (male) shopkeepers.
Meanwhile Frannie is on her way home when she sees a watch very like it in the window of a junk shop she wouldn't have expected to deal in gold OR stolen goods. She wants to investigate, and resolves to buy the watch whatever, as it might be as good for the hypnosis.
[Motivation: Frannie would like more jewelry, but would never normally buy much. She knows Fraser would be generous, so that makes her want to buy it. Also, she could tell him he bought it and to keep it as a way of giving him a stylish gift, after they're returned.]
She goes in, and sees the boy there. The boy makes to take off, but she acts all kind [Fraser would not be above using her appearence to calm someone as long as it doesn't do anything unethical] and he desists. She questions him.
He says he's the hypnotist's nephew, and the watch should be his, as his mother was older and more interested in magic than the hypnotist, but that their father eventually reneged and gave it his son, feeling giving it to a woman was wrong.
She tells him what happens, and he laughs anmd laughs. He says they should be able to break it by an effort of will, they obviously like this condition on some level. She "hmms" and asks him to try the dehypnosis himself. She phones Ray and they meet at Fraser's.
Ray's ever so cross with the boy, but desperate to fix his friends, so agrees to try this, but insists the boy be tied up first. The boy offers to let Ray swing the watch, and he'll try to do the talking.
Fraser and Frannie sit down on two chairs facing each other, and they begin. Shortly they're gazing at each other's eyes, and Ray is terrfied at all this eye contact, but keeps going.
"Frannie" is looking into Frannie's eyes and thinking "Wow, they look lovely. Fraser must see them like that, maybe he does like me."
"Fraser" is looking into Fraser's eyes and thinking about how he'd never noticed how nice his eyes were before.
Fraser thinks "But I've been inside her already. Suggesting any intimacy with her now would be impolite."
Frannie thinks "He was a great investigator even in my body. I wonder if I could do that."
After the back and forth description of thoughts, now the narration suddenly cuts back and you realise the last thoughts were in their own bodies. They all look about dazed, and realise the boy is gone.
Ray asks them both anxiously what they remember. Fraser says "That was a strange experience. Those... [waves at his chest]... those." [Comment: That might be truly his thought, he may not remember Frannie-as-Frasier doing the same thing.] Frannie says "I kind of enjoyed it. Investigating is exciting, even when you're only along for the ride."
Ray and Fraser return the watch to the hypnotist, who denies the boy was his nephew at all, and they conjecture he made that up to get out of being arrested, but since he fixed them decide to let it go.
As they leave a club, Ray mentions the weird nephew thing, and Fraser makes some comment about the greatest trusts engendering the greatest potential pain, and they look at each other, in shared knowledge of what could, but will never, be between them, and stroll off to the car horseplaying and laughing.
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Date: 2006-04-24 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-25 01:52 am (UTC)Huh. OMG, that's incredibly complex.
I know. It sort of ran away with me. It's simple for a short story, it's just complicated for a PWP :) I was at first going to have more *plot*, ie. more about the boy and the "uncle", but decided it didn't add anything.
I feel a bit bad, I diverged quite a bit from yoru ideas, but this is the way it made sense to me. Of course, in return, consider this a gift to you: you are free to use this as you like, particularly to change the plot in any way you like before using it.
I can't help but reply explaining some of my plot, but I don't mind if you continue to see things your way.
The hypnotism thing is a GREAT idea
Aw, thank you, really! I thought it was necessary because Due South has ghosts and zombies and things, but they only go slightly beyond what visions, aspects of a characters psyche, revived memories, folies à deux, and luck could explain. There's always that question of is the supernatural really real which hypnotism fitted really well, but shamanism would need my getting my head round first :)
It does in some ways reverse your subconcious/concious urges of the displaced characters, but I thought that worked at least as well in providing slashy opportunities and embarassment-at-being in a woman's body and awkward sexual tension :)
canonically, Fraser is able to hypnotise both others and himself (!), and therefore probably wouldn't let someone else hypnotise him,
Oh yes. I didn't see that ep (I haven't seen very many), but read an introduction to it which is what gave me this idea. But I don't see why this is a problem unless Fraser has a problem with it you didn't tell me; if Ray tells him going on stage would be fun, and perhaps challenges him in some way, and he's no reason to suppose anything bad will happen (they don't mention the switch before they're sitting down, and then they assume it'd only be for 2 minutes while the hypnotist keeps doing it) why wouldn't he?
b) because although Frannie is canonically all over Fraser, Fraser has only ever reacted with polite and rather terrified disinterest.
LOL. OK, I didn't really know. But it doesn't really make a difference. Fraser would still do all the dancing in front of the mirror because (a) normally he never cares about out, but now he's forced into realising how HAWT he is and (b) he doesn't know how to deal with Frannie liking him, so is exagarating what she'd do -- this doesn't really have anything to do with whether he likes her or not.
The whole breast thing is *frannie's* idea.
And the thoughts at the end -- ok, they can easily be dropped out.
RayK's actual sister,
WHAT? We're talking about season 3/4 here? I thought we were talking about season 1 or 2. I've only seen two of the later. Kowalski is gayish, ok, but Fraser fancies him? My, I assumed he fancied Vechio! OK, I would need to rethink a lot.
Are you *sure*? :)
OTOH, it's not *too* bad. Tune down the incest-freak factor from 7/10 to 1/10 and the shower scene is much the same :)
whole Fraser-not-wanting-to-exploit-her-body thing. And the idea of Fraser trying to shower without looking at Frannie's body is fantastic.
*hug* Thank you. That was the FRASERiest moment, reminscent of the being blind episode, and how he being polite and correct to a fault makes his, Rays and Frannie's lives much harder :)
you're rather all over the het, whereas with me, it's going to be slash all the way, I'm afraid *g*.
I didn't mean to be. Fraser naked is definitely the interesting thing. The rest just got written more easily :)
If you want to write your version, I won't use your ideas, but there's a couple of things you've come up with I'd love to use, if you don't mind
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Date: 2006-04-25 01:53 am (UTC)If you want to write your version, I won't use your ideas, but there's a couple of things you've come up with I'd love to use, if you don't mind
As I say above. I won't write it any time soon, and need to rethink some things, so please use whichever bits you would like! It's always awkward when someone uses your ideas, but that's what I wrote them for so you're entirely welcome, and I would very much enjoy reading whatever you write!
(I assume you wouldn't mind if I wrote something myself as well, but I'd be much more likely to write something entirely different even if I did write Due South slash.)
Or maybe we should collaberate; take a character each and see where it goes. Pippa and I have had great fun like that, though it's a very different sort of writing to normal. Of course, I hope you revise first.
Vecchio/Kowalski poll
Date: 2006-04-25 01:58 am (UTC)Re: Vecchio/Kowalski poll
Date: 2006-04-26 01:32 pm (UTC)Okay - right, first, yes, sorry I didn't clarify, this is all about RAY KOWALSKI. I haven't actaully watched seasons 1 and 2 yet, but it's definately all about the RayK!love. DEFINATELY. They're just... they love each other. It's practically canon. They go off together on a quest at the end.
Right. Some things you said make more sense, and some things I still disagree with you on, but thanks so much for doing this, and, yeah, I don't think I can write this this term, but I'll definately have a go at it, and if I can use some of your ideas - the hypnotism (although I'm still not sold on the stage thing*, and I think it would be funnier if Fraser accidentally did the bodyswap-hypnotism thing himself) and the Fraser-in-the-shower scene, mostly - but don't let that stop you from writing a fic with the same stuff, if you feel like it! As you say, we'd probably come out with very different things, so it doesn't matter, and fanfic's all about sharing, anyway. I don't really feel comfortable with the idea of collaborating, I'm very much a lone gunwoman where actual writing is concerned, but if I have any more ideas, I might bat them over to you, if that's okay!
*I've actually realized, on thinking about it, that I had more of a problem with the fact that it didn't seem the kind of thing that Ray would do. Realizing the Ray confusion, I can see why, now. RayV seems like a much more extroverted kind of guy than RayK.
Re: Vecchio/Kowalski poll
Date: 2006-05-01 11:56 pm (UTC)If you want to write a fic[1], I think you'd best go through this and pull out the scenes that work piecemeal[2], it it would be fun. Though I don't know if that counts for the purposes of me answering your challenge :)
[1] But not now, revise! :)
[2] Ray K and Frannie did attract at some point, didn't they?