This is the excellent foppery of the world

... Somehow my frustration at being able to find the second and third Larklight books and the D: at the Temeraire fic on fanficrants have combined into a desire to write a Temeraire/Larklight crossover.

I'm not sure how this would even work, considering they're set in two very different alternate histories - Larklight nearly fifty years later - and neither has shown a propensity for negative space wedgies. But I'm sure we can squeeze one into Larklight somewhere...

Though it really would be nice to find the other two Larklight books.

Okay, this is one of those ensemble-cast magic-warrior-whatsis stories, yes?

Got four people, called "Agents" - they're recruited by a mysterious organization to fight another mysterious organization (read: the actual plot is still a work in progress). Each one is given elemental powers and codenamed after one of the Greek titans that more or less corresponds to those powers - Cronos for air, Rhea for earth, Helios for fire, and Tethys for water. Two guys and two girls. Pretty standard so far, right?

Here's the weird part. Each character fills a role in the team that more or less corresponds to their personality. But the people giving them their powers screwed up a little.

First, the genders are swapped - Agent Cronos and Agent Helios are female, Agent Rhea and Agent Tethys are male.

Second, while the roles fit their personalities, the elements are sort of twisted - they fit if you squint, but not very well.

Agent Cronos is the smart one and the healer - if the personalities actually corresponded to the elements, she would've been water.

Agent Rhea is the hot-blooded leader and basically the artillery and ranged attacker. He should've been fire.

Agent Helios is the nurturing type - the team mom, basically - and the heavy muscle. She ought to have fit into earth.

Agent Tethys, as you've probably guessed, should've been air - the flighty, whimsical speedster.

... Yes, this would be a humor piece, why do you ask?