Dear Yuletide Writer (Yuletide 2023)
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hekaterasFandom: Invisible Inc
Requested characters: Tony Xu, Brian Decker, Maria "Internationale" Valdes, Alex "Sharp" McTeague
Gift must feature one or more of selected characters (giver's choice)
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Dear Yuletide Writer Letter:
Here are some resources that may help, including places to look up canon content.
Q: What is "excessive" whump and why is subtle whump listed among my likes?
A: It means I'm annoyingly picky. I love to see characters getting hurt, physically and emotionally, love to see them traumatised and go through shit, but I don't like the style so much overt whump fic seems to be written in, with a strong focus on characters whimpering and being in pain. I'm more of a "less is more" person when it comes to whump.
Crossovers and fusion with other thematically-fitting content (whether more mission or heist-based or other cyberpunk media) are welcome!
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Fandom: Neverwinter Nights 2
Requested characters: Knight-Captain, Kaelyn the Dove, Safiya, Gannayev-of-Dreams
Gift must feature one or more of selected characters (giver's choice)
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Prompts: Spirit/dream realm shenanigans. Explorations of trauma, memory & identity loss. History repeating itself. Stolen moments. The Knight-Captain's previous history catching up with their current exploits in Rashemen. The companions learning more about the KC's past and the war against the King of Shadows. One idea I can't shake is some bard or group of actors coming to town to present the events of NWN2 in a performance with a LOT of creative liberties taken, especially if the KC's companions don't know about that backstory yet. a Conveniently Mulsantir has a theater...
Likes: Female Knight-Captain, especially if they're one of the less charismatic and popular races. Dysfunctional KC/Bishop as NWN2-era backstory. I used to be a KC/Gann shipper and still am but KC/Safiya or KC/Kaelyn would also be super interesting to see. Whump and h/c welcome. Darkfic welcome. "Bad ending"/monstrous Spirit-Eater stuff welcome. Tragic romances that end badly are welcome too.
DNWs: Explicit sex, kidfic, A/B/O, excessive medical details, pregnancy
Dear Yuletide Writer Letter:
Not much to add, other that I have no real nopes when it comes to other characters appearing. If the fic is just Gann and his mom, or Safiya and the Founder, or with a heavy focus on Akachi and the Founder with the KC tangential, that's all perfectly fine. I'll just be happy to revisit this story.
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Fandom: Betrayal at Krondor
Requested characters:
Gift must feature one or more of selected characters (giver's choice)
Likes: Odd friendships, characters reluctantly building trust, cultural differences, "light is not good" and "dark is not evil" tropes when applied to the moredhel and eledhel, fish out of water trope (whether it's Gorath in the middle of a bustling human city or Owyn struggling to stay alive in the Northlands), subtle/understated whump and angst.
DNWs: Noncon, darkfic, graphic torture, overt romantic relationships between the cast (one-sided or yearning is A-ok).
Treats welcome.
Dear Yuletide Writer Letter:
This is the first fandom I was ever obsessed with and it's so obscure by now that I have no idea how to request anything for it. But I'll try. You might be familiar with the game, or with the books the game is based on, or with the novelisation that is based on the game that is based on the books. If so, good luck.
Prompts:
Requested characters: Tony Xu, Brian Decker, Maria "Internationale" Valdes, Alex "Sharp" McTeague
Gift must feature one or more of selected characters (giver's choice)
Copy-paste of Optional Details
Prompts:
Moments set during campaign between missions. Pre-canon, exploring characters interacting with each other before they were all working for the same agency. (E.g. Decker still working as K&O Chief of Security and chasing Internationale, Sharp running into someone on a bounty hunting job, etc.) Post-canon, exploring the fallout of the main campaign. Any and all "how Central hired this character" stories. Canon divergence AUs. AUs that alter the setting in an interesting way (steampunk AU? Superpowers AU? Bring it on).
Likes: Slice-of-life, hurt/comfort, humour, subtle and understated whump (physical or emotional), cyberpunk dystopian horror, transhumanism themes, dysfunctional found family dynamics, confusing polyamory. Gen and shippy are both welcome.
Ships I would enjoy seeing: Dr. Xu/Decker (my OTP), Decker/Internationale, Dr. Xu/Sharp, Internationale/Shalem, Decker/Dr. Xu/Internationale ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
DNWs: Explicit sex, noncon, kidfic, A/B/O, excessive medical details, pregnancy, genderbending, excessive whump*. Cold war AUs.
Fics where the requested character makes an appearance but the focus is a different character (Olivia, Monst3r, Shopcat, you name it) are a-ok too
Treats welcome.
In the letter I've included resources that will help with characterisation, as this game likes to hide its lore behind RNG and unlockables.
Moments set during campaign between missions. Pre-canon, exploring characters interacting with each other before they were all working for the same agency. (E.g. Decker still working as K&O Chief of Security and chasing Internationale, Sharp running into someone on a bounty hunting job, etc.) Post-canon, exploring the fallout of the main campaign. Any and all "how Central hired this character" stories. Canon divergence AUs. AUs that alter the setting in an interesting way (steampunk AU? Superpowers AU? Bring it on).
Likes: Slice-of-life, hurt/comfort, humour, subtle and understated whump (physical or emotional), cyberpunk dystopian horror, transhumanism themes, dysfunctional found family dynamics, confusing polyamory. Gen and shippy are both welcome.
Ships I would enjoy seeing: Dr. Xu/Decker (my OTP), Decker/Internationale, Dr. Xu/Sharp, Internationale/Shalem, Decker/Dr. Xu/Internationale ( ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
DNWs: Explicit sex, noncon, kidfic, A/B/O, excessive medical details, pregnancy, genderbending, excessive whump*. Cold war AUs.
Fics where the requested character makes an appearance but the focus is a different character (Olivia, Monst3r, Shopcat, you name it) are a-ok too
Treats welcome.
In the letter I've included resources that will help with characterisation, as this game likes to hide its lore behind RNG and unlockables.
Dear Yuletide Writer Letter:
Here are some resources that may help, including places to look up canon content.
- Promo Post: yuletide.dreamwidth.org/303660.html This also contains a lengthy ramble about what I love about the setting.
- Invisible Inc. Lore Wiki: iiwiki.werp.site/lore:index
- Character banters: iiwiki.werp.site/lore:banters
- Agent overview: iiwiki.werp.site/agents:index Individual agent pages also have the banters, as well as mission start lines and final words.
- Datalogs: iiwiki.werp.site/lore:datalogs
- Timeline: iiwiki.werp.site/lore:timeline
- Fanart archive blog: invisibleincfanart.tumblr.com/ (nav page has tags to navigate by ship)
- A Let's Play of the game as reference for cutscenes and story dialogue: www.youtube.com/playlist
- And finally, my own fic: archiveofourown.org/users/Hekateras/pseuds/Hekateras/works
Q: What is "excessive" whump and why is subtle whump listed among my likes?
A: It means I'm annoyingly picky. I love to see characters getting hurt, physically and emotionally, love to see them traumatised and go through shit, but I don't like the style so much overt whump fic seems to be written in, with a strong focus on characters whimpering and being in pain. I'm more of a "less is more" person when it comes to whump.
Crossovers and fusion with other thematically-fitting content (whether more mission or heist-based or other cyberpunk media) are welcome!
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Fandom: Neverwinter Nights 2
Requested characters: Knight-Captain, Kaelyn the Dove, Safiya, Gannayev-of-Dreams
Gift must feature one or more of selected characters (giver's choice)
Copy-paste of Optional Details
Prompts: Spirit/dream realm shenanigans. Explorations of trauma, memory & identity loss. History repeating itself. Stolen moments. The Knight-Captain's previous history catching up with their current exploits in Rashemen. The companions learning more about the KC's past and the war against the King of Shadows. One idea I can't shake is some bard or group of actors coming to town to present the events of NWN2 in a performance with a LOT of creative liberties taken, especially if the KC's companions don't know about that backstory yet. a Conveniently Mulsantir has a theater...
Likes: Female Knight-Captain, especially if they're one of the less charismatic and popular races. Dysfunctional KC/Bishop as NWN2-era backstory. I used to be a KC/Gann shipper and still am but KC/Safiya or KC/Kaelyn would also be super interesting to see. Whump and h/c welcome. Darkfic welcome. "Bad ending"/monstrous Spirit-Eater stuff welcome. Tragic romances that end badly are welcome too.
DNWs: Explicit sex, kidfic, A/B/O, excessive medical details, pregnancy
Dear Yuletide Writer Letter:
Not much to add, other that I have no real nopes when it comes to other characters appearing. If the fic is just Gann and his mom, or Safiya and the Founder, or with a heavy focus on Akachi and the Founder with the KC tangential, that's all perfectly fine. I'll just be happy to revisit this story.
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Fandom: Betrayal at Krondor
Requested characters:
Gift must feature one or more of selected characters (giver's choice)
Copy-paste of Optional Details
Likes: Odd friendships, characters reluctantly building trust, cultural differences, "light is not good" and "dark is not evil" tropes when applied to the moredhel and eledhel, fish out of water trope (whether it's Gorath in the middle of a bustling human city or Owyn struggling to stay alive in the Northlands), subtle/understated whump and angst.
DNWs: Noncon, darkfic, graphic torture, overt romantic relationships between the cast (one-sided or yearning is A-ok).
Treats welcome.
Dear Yuletide Writer Letter:
This is the first fandom I was ever obsessed with and it's so obscure by now that I have no idea how to request anything for it. But I'll try. You might be familiar with the game, or with the books the game is based on, or with the novelisation that is based on the game that is based on the books. If so, good luck.
Prompts:
"Missing scene" style things set during various points of the story. Pre-canon, such as what Gorath went through before he decided that warning the Kingdom was the only way to stop this war. Post-canon, focusing on the fallout of the events under Sethanon. In the universe lore, dark elves and light elves are essentially cut from the same cloth, what would this look like explored in depth with regards to Gorath? The Great Uprising was only ten years ago, in recent memory - James and Locky were barely teenagers at the time, while Gorath witnessed an engineered massacre of his people and his clan, thrown into the grinder to power the false prophet Murmandamus. The story never quite unpacks all this baggage between them, and barely addresses the aggression of the moredhel in the context of them being a displaced people driven to the Northlands by the Kingdom's expansion, but what if it did? Owyn is one of the more dangerous people in the Kingdom by the time the game is over and none of the others quite know what to do with him. As per the lead game writer, [the sequel that never got made] would have "continued the storyline about Owyn's eventual rise as the magical advisor to the Kingdom of the Isles (to be told over two games) serving in a capacity as both magician and spymaster". Last prompt but not least, ending fixit!
