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hekaterasHello dear Worldbuilding writer or artist! Welcome to my letter. :3
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On to the prompts!
Invisible Inc: WB: OMNI (Invisible Inc. Video Game) WB: Resource Wars (Invisible Inc. Video Game) WB: Incognita's takeover (Invisible Inc) WB: Neural redaction (Invisible Inc) WB: Detention centers and capture (Invisible Inc) WB: Other anti-corporate groups and organisations (Invisible Inc. Video Game) WB: The founding of Invisible Inc. (Invisible Inc) WB: The Istanbul Run (Invisible Inc)Any or No Characters (Invisible Inc. (Video Game)) Original Character(s) (Invisible Inc. (Video Game))Fanart Fanfiction In-Universe Meta
Prompts
- Fandom Promo here!
- For this fandom, I really like outsider POV that goes into details of the world beyond what the Operator and the agents encounter, as well as the agents through a more normal lens. War Memorial and The day they almost caught Brian Decker are excellent examples of this - played for drama, played for humour. Care to try your own twist on this? :)
- Detention Centers and capture: What does high-tech interrogation look like in a world where neural scans are apparently a thing? What is "deprogramming"? Do we even want to know?
- If you want to go the route of in-universe meta, InvInc has a wonderful precedent for that: datalogs! Interview transcripts, witness reports, arrest records, records of characters being caught up in historic events... There is so much you could do there! Just pick whatever character or event interests you most and have a go at it and I'll enjoy reading it.
There Is No Antimemetics Division: WB: Discovering new antimemetic phenomena while away from the Foundation (Antimemetics Division) WB: The Star Signals containment breach from the POV of a field agent (Antimemetics Division) WB: Previous Antimemetics Wars (Antimemetics Division) WB: People naturally resistant to antimemetic effects (Antimemetics Division) WB: Non-Antimemetics agents getting a crash course in antimemetic SCPs (Antimemetics Division) WB: Work-life balance for Antimemetics agents (Antimemetics Division)Any or No Characters (There is No Antimemetics Division - qntm) Original Character(s) (There is No Antimemetics Division - qntm)Fanfiction In-Universe Meta
Prompts:
- It might be helpful to say that Immemorial, Introductory Antimemetics and Fresh Hell are among my favourite of the qntm Antimemetics stories. There's something deeply compelling about these fairly short, self-contained narratives of people having to come to terms with some horrifying antimemetic SCP and struggle to survive (with varying results). The third person limited POV, and the fact that the reader experiences the mindfuckery right alongside the characters, is also incredible. Care to write something in a similar vein?
- Another reason I love Immemorial and Introductory Antimemetics is that they're both about scientists and the legacy of knowledge - the desperate, hopeless nobility of doing your part to increase the sum of understanding for humankind. Even if you yourself are forgotten, even if your own contribution was underwhelming and not particularly exciting and only useful insofar as it contributed to the process of elimination. Kim survives his encounter with Alastair Grey chiefly because a string of unfortunates before him found out what didn't work, and wrote it down, solely so someone else in the future would be able to do better. In turn, Eli Moreno encounters a monument that is the sole remaining legacy of a once-mighty civilization. It is incredibly chilling and more than a little tragic and deeply humbling.
- Canon has a lot of unexplored material there that is only eerily alluded to - the sheer size the Foundation's division used to have, the other organisations around the world of whom no trace remains except that it can be inferred, indirectly, that they used to be there. Would you like to explore what some of them - these casualties of past Antimemetics Wars - might have looked like?.
The Red Strings Club: WB: Supernatural elements in canon (Red Strings Club) WB: Radhika's upbringing (Red Strings Club) WB: Proxyma's hacktivism (Red Strings Club) WB: Individuality (or lack thereof) among the Akaras (Red Strings Club) WB: Gost and the underground (Red Strings Club) WB: Implants and implant rejection disease (Red Strings Club)Any or No Characters (The Red Strings Club (Video Game))Fanart Fanfiction In-Universe Meta
Prompts:
- Canon gives us a very tantalising slice of several people's lives, intertwined, over a scant handful of days. I would be happy to see pretty much any kind of fleshing out of this with the WB tags as inspiration.
- The supernatural: Between Gost's whole thing, the soul nodes, the Numen, and Donovan's apparent inability to leave the Club (which is downright implied to be immortality of some kind - he can win a game of Russian Roulette and apparently looks quite a bit younger than he is), Red Strings Club leans more towards urban fantasy than most cyberpunk media, and that's so unique and fascinating. I would love to see something that delves into this a bit more and recreates that feeling of uneasy wonder in the midst of a high-tech world.
- Proxyma's hacktivism: that group is so intriguing and we see so little of them. Brandeis seems to be on friendly terms with them, but not officially part of the group. I'd love to see anything involving them pre-canon, or even trying to come to terms with things post-canon. A post-canon exploration of Proxyma reacting to the climax of the game would be super interesting - feel free to make your own call on what choices were made by the player there.
Parahuman Series: WB: second trigger events (Parahumans) WB: other class-S threats rooted in the Passenger subsuming the host (Parahumans) WB: major events in canon from a vastly different POV (Parahumans) WB: Interaction between precog powers (Parahumans) WB: Endbringer fights during the two-year time skip (Parahumans) WB: dead shards and dead Passengers (Parahumans)Original Character(s) (Parahumans Series - Wildbow) Any or No Characters (Parahumans Series - Wildbow)Fanart Fanfiction In-Universe Meta
Prompts:
- I recently finished reading Worm and am still turning it over in my mind, honestly, I would be chuffed to read pretty much anything relating to these WB tags.
- The Passenger and the host is such an intriguing concept used throughout the series, and manifesting in so many different ways, like the way the Passenger influences the host's personality and even potentially subsumes it. How do Cauldron capes experience this? Could they ever experience second trigger events? Conversely, it might be interesting to explore a second trigger event from the perspective of the Passenger.
- We see at times (notably at the end) that the Passenger itself is also subject to some influence from the personality of the host. Does this also happen under less extreme conditions? What does it look like? Can Passengers become "domesticated" like that, for lack of a better word?.
The Riftwar Saga: WB: The Returning (Riftwar) WB: The fuzzy boundaries between Greater Path and Lesser Path magic (Riftwar) WB: Tensions between Elvandar and the Kingdom (Riftwar) WB: Gorath during the Uprising (Riftwar) WB: Fallout of the Second Uprising on moredhel-Kingdom relations (Riftwar)Owyn Beleforte Gorath (Riftwar Saga) Any or No Characters (The Riftwar Saga - Raymond E. Feist)Fanart Fanfiction
Prompts:
- This is an old beloved fandom small enough that I am decidedly not picky, BUT. There are a few things that fascinate me in particular, and that is the friendship between Gorath and Owyn (breaching differences in culture, age, and in a post-war time). I would love to see more of it explored with the Great Uprising and the Second Uprising as framing.
- On that note, we are told that the elves (unsurprisingly) perceive time differently. There's quite a bit of heartwrenching drama to be wrung out of the fact that The Great Uprising was ten years ago, aka "basically yesterday" for Gorath and the other elves. You might expect his emotional wounds from that to still be raw and fresh, still actively mourning the losses to his clan, but Owyn, James and Locklear were still children when it happened.
- Remember how in A Darkness at Sethanon, teenaged Jimmy prepares an explosion trap and collapses a fort on top of the pursuing moredhel army? The plot bunny of "What if Gorath and his clan were part of that force" has been haunting me for a solid decade or two.
- Gorath's Returning is such a can of worms. Given the magical nature of Elvandar, and the fact that canonical Returning (such as in Honored Enemy) reads a fair but like remote brainwashing, there's a lot of room for nuance here. Gorath has a remarkably clear sense of who he is and what he strives for, and it's a cause noble enough that it's honestly hard to see how ceasing to be one of the moredhel is an improvement or even desirable. His ex-wife refers to the Returned as "neutered bulls", if memory serves. Could there be something to it? Is a part of him lost, when he becomes one of the eledhel? Was it even truly his choice?
- I would love to see more of Owyn struggling with his grasp of magic during the events of Betrayal, or before them. There's something intriguing about him dropping out of Stardock Academy, throwing himself into cutthroat adventures and learning magic effectively on the run, fighting to survive, and eventually growing powerful enough to be roughly-sorta in Pug's and Makala's Great One tier, and receiving some of Pug's magical knowledge, to boot. Not that Feist cares about Owyn literally one iota, or about my humble opinion, but in my humble opinion it's Owyn who should have discovered the (lack of) true separation between Greater Path and Lesser Path magic, not Pug, years later. Owyn is exactly the kind of misfit in the academic system who would push existing boundaries simply for not knowing or not believing that they exist.
AO3 username: Hekateras
General likes
Slice-of-life, hurt/comfort, humour and banter, understated whump (physical and/or emotional), characters being in danger, dysfunctional found family dynamics, confusing polyamory.
Worldbuilding likes
Backstory tidbits, worldbuilding that fleshes out specific places or people, outsider POV, NPCs, civilians and Average Joes brushing up against canon events and people. Villain POV or goon POV. Pre- and post-canon.
General DNWs
Explicit sex, noncon, kidfic, Omegaverse, scat, excessive medical details (especially focus on needles or surgery, but mentions are okay where plot-appropriate), pregnancy, genderbending, cold war AUs, whump that is highly focused on victimisation, POV characters experiencing gender dysphoria
On to the prompts!
Invisible Inc: WB: OMNI (Invisible Inc. Video Game) WB: Resource Wars (Invisible Inc. Video Game) WB: Incognita's takeover (Invisible Inc) WB: Neural redaction (Invisible Inc) WB: Detention centers and capture (Invisible Inc) WB: Other anti-corporate groups and organisations (Invisible Inc. Video Game) WB: The founding of Invisible Inc. (Invisible Inc) WB: The Istanbul Run (Invisible Inc)Any or No Characters (Invisible Inc. (Video Game)) Original Character(s) (Invisible Inc. (Video Game))Fanart Fanfiction In-Universe Meta
Prompts
- Fandom Promo here!
- For this fandom, I really like outsider POV that goes into details of the world beyond what the Operator and the agents encounter, as well as the agents through a more normal lens. War Memorial and The day they almost caught Brian Decker are excellent examples of this - played for drama, played for humour. Care to try your own twist on this? :)
- Detention Centers and capture: What does high-tech interrogation look like in a world where neural scans are apparently a thing? What is "deprogramming"? Do we even want to know?
- If you want to go the route of in-universe meta, InvInc has a wonderful precedent for that: datalogs! Interview transcripts, witness reports, arrest records, records of characters being caught up in historic events... There is so much you could do there! Just pick whatever character or event interests you most and have a go at it and I'll enjoy reading it.
There Is No Antimemetics Division: WB: Discovering new antimemetic phenomena while away from the Foundation (Antimemetics Division) WB: The Star Signals containment breach from the POV of a field agent (Antimemetics Division) WB: Previous Antimemetics Wars (Antimemetics Division) WB: People naturally resistant to antimemetic effects (Antimemetics Division) WB: Non-Antimemetics agents getting a crash course in antimemetic SCPs (Antimemetics Division) WB: Work-life balance for Antimemetics agents (Antimemetics Division)Any or No Characters (There is No Antimemetics Division - qntm) Original Character(s) (There is No Antimemetics Division - qntm)Fanfiction In-Universe Meta
Prompts:
- It might be helpful to say that Immemorial, Introductory Antimemetics and Fresh Hell are among my favourite of the qntm Antimemetics stories. There's something deeply compelling about these fairly short, self-contained narratives of people having to come to terms with some horrifying antimemetic SCP and struggle to survive (with varying results). The third person limited POV, and the fact that the reader experiences the mindfuckery right alongside the characters, is also incredible. Care to write something in a similar vein?
- Another reason I love Immemorial and Introductory Antimemetics is that they're both about scientists and the legacy of knowledge - the desperate, hopeless nobility of doing your part to increase the sum of understanding for humankind. Even if you yourself are forgotten, even if your own contribution was underwhelming and not particularly exciting and only useful insofar as it contributed to the process of elimination. Kim survives his encounter with Alastair Grey chiefly because a string of unfortunates before him found out what didn't work, and wrote it down, solely so someone else in the future would be able to do better. In turn, Eli Moreno encounters a monument that is the sole remaining legacy of a once-mighty civilization. It is incredibly chilling and more than a little tragic and deeply humbling.
- Canon has a lot of unexplored material there that is only eerily alluded to - the sheer size the Foundation's division used to have, the other organisations around the world of whom no trace remains except that it can be inferred, indirectly, that they used to be there. Would you like to explore what some of them - these casualties of past Antimemetics Wars - might have looked like?.
The Red Strings Club: WB: Supernatural elements in canon (Red Strings Club) WB: Radhika's upbringing (Red Strings Club) WB: Proxyma's hacktivism (Red Strings Club) WB: Individuality (or lack thereof) among the Akaras (Red Strings Club) WB: Gost and the underground (Red Strings Club) WB: Implants and implant rejection disease (Red Strings Club)Any or No Characters (The Red Strings Club (Video Game))Fanart Fanfiction In-Universe Meta
Prompts:
- Canon gives us a very tantalising slice of several people's lives, intertwined, over a scant handful of days. I would be happy to see pretty much any kind of fleshing out of this with the WB tags as inspiration.
- The supernatural: Between Gost's whole thing, the soul nodes, the Numen, and Donovan's apparent inability to leave the Club (which is downright implied to be immortality of some kind - he can win a game of Russian Roulette and apparently looks quite a bit younger than he is), Red Strings Club leans more towards urban fantasy than most cyberpunk media, and that's so unique and fascinating. I would love to see something that delves into this a bit more and recreates that feeling of uneasy wonder in the midst of a high-tech world.
- Proxyma's hacktivism: that group is so intriguing and we see so little of them. Brandeis seems to be on friendly terms with them, but not officially part of the group. I'd love to see anything involving them pre-canon, or even trying to come to terms with things post-canon. A post-canon exploration of Proxyma reacting to the climax of the game would be super interesting - feel free to make your own call on what choices were made by the player there.
Parahuman Series: WB: second trigger events (Parahumans) WB: other class-S threats rooted in the Passenger subsuming the host (Parahumans) WB: major events in canon from a vastly different POV (Parahumans) WB: Interaction between precog powers (Parahumans) WB: Endbringer fights during the two-year time skip (Parahumans) WB: dead shards and dead Passengers (Parahumans)Original Character(s) (Parahumans Series - Wildbow) Any or No Characters (Parahumans Series - Wildbow)Fanart Fanfiction In-Universe Meta
Prompts:
- I recently finished reading Worm and am still turning it over in my mind, honestly, I would be chuffed to read pretty much anything relating to these WB tags.
- The Passenger and the host is such an intriguing concept used throughout the series, and manifesting in so many different ways, like the way the Passenger influences the host's personality and even potentially subsumes it. How do Cauldron capes experience this? Could they ever experience second trigger events? Conversely, it might be interesting to explore a second trigger event from the perspective of the Passenger.
- We see at times (notably at the end) that the Passenger itself is also subject to some influence from the personality of the host. Does this also happen under less extreme conditions? What does it look like? Can Passengers become "domesticated" like that, for lack of a better word?.
The Riftwar Saga: WB: The Returning (Riftwar) WB: The fuzzy boundaries between Greater Path and Lesser Path magic (Riftwar) WB: Tensions between Elvandar and the Kingdom (Riftwar) WB: Gorath during the Uprising (Riftwar) WB: Fallout of the Second Uprising on moredhel-Kingdom relations (Riftwar)Owyn Beleforte Gorath (Riftwar Saga) Any or No Characters (The Riftwar Saga - Raymond E. Feist)Fanart Fanfiction
Prompts:
- This is an old beloved fandom small enough that I am decidedly not picky, BUT. There are a few things that fascinate me in particular, and that is the friendship between Gorath and Owyn (breaching differences in culture, age, and in a post-war time). I would love to see more of it explored with the Great Uprising and the Second Uprising as framing.
- On that note, we are told that the elves (unsurprisingly) perceive time differently. There's quite a bit of heartwrenching drama to be wrung out of the fact that The Great Uprising was ten years ago, aka "basically yesterday" for Gorath and the other elves. You might expect his emotional wounds from that to still be raw and fresh, still actively mourning the losses to his clan, but Owyn, James and Locklear were still children when it happened.
- Remember how in A Darkness at Sethanon, teenaged Jimmy prepares an explosion trap and collapses a fort on top of the pursuing moredhel army? The plot bunny of "What if Gorath and his clan were part of that force" has been haunting me for a solid decade or two.
- Gorath's Returning is such a can of worms. Given the magical nature of Elvandar, and the fact that canonical Returning (such as in Honored Enemy) reads a fair but like remote brainwashing, there's a lot of room for nuance here. Gorath has a remarkably clear sense of who he is and what he strives for, and it's a cause noble enough that it's honestly hard to see how ceasing to be one of the moredhel is an improvement or even desirable. His ex-wife refers to the Returned as "neutered bulls", if memory serves. Could there be something to it? Is a part of him lost, when he becomes one of the eledhel? Was it even truly his choice?
- I would love to see more of Owyn struggling with his grasp of magic during the events of Betrayal, or before them. There's something intriguing about him dropping out of Stardock Academy, throwing himself into cutthroat adventures and learning magic effectively on the run, fighting to survive, and eventually growing powerful enough to be roughly-sorta in Pug's and Makala's Great One tier, and receiving some of Pug's magical knowledge, to boot. Not that Feist cares about Owyn literally one iota, or about my humble opinion, but in my humble opinion it's Owyn who should have discovered the (lack of) true separation between Greater Path and Lesser Path magic, not Pug, years later. Owyn is exactly the kind of misfit in the academic system who would push existing boundaries simply for not knowing or not believing that they exist.
