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Dear Yuletide Writer (2024)
Hello dear Yuletide creator! :D
Here you will find the likes & DNWs from my sign-up as well as additional likes, common DNW clarification, and fandom-specific prompts.
Day view of post
Yuletide mini-challenges opt-ins (as of 12.12.24)
Interactive Fiction
Wrapping Paper
Crossover/Fusion
OT3
Sign-up info
Gifts enabled, treats welcome!
For treats I also explicitly welcome: Art of all kinds (including fandom-blind!), drabbles, crossovers and fusions with other fandoms I've requested, setting change AUs.
General likes
- whump and hurt/comfort, especially written in an understated, "less is more" way
- Relationships forged in fire, bonding over trauma, codependency, friendships and romantic/sexual relationships hard to categorise in terms of whether they're a good thing or not. Relationships as questionable coping mechanisms. When characters can't quite say what they are to each other except "someone important"!
- slow, thoughtful, low-stakes moments AND dramatic, adrenaline-fuelled, high-stakes action
- plotty Gen fic, missionfic, casefic, pre-slash or pre-relationship, slow-burn vibes
- sex scenes: not quite explicit but all about the vulnerability/emotions
- UST-ridden scenes that are only metaphorically sexual (e.g. reaching inside someone's mechanical parts to repair them...!)
- The Eroticism of the Machine(TM), wireplay, robots, androids, cyborgs, etc...
- non-sexual intimacy
- intimacy that is sexual but not directly about sex (e.g. pillow talk, lazy mornings after)
- fluff + bittersweetness or grimness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets
- wild nature, birds, rats, creepy crawlies
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales
General DNWs
Graphic violence, noncon, crying in the context of physical whump, kidfic, noncanonical incest or underage, pregnancy of POV characters, focus on needles or surgery (especially cutting and IVs), focus on IRL modern era geopolitics, eye horror/trauma
NSFW DNWs
Omegaverse, scat, watersports, bloodplay, rimming, fisting, stuffing, noncon (dubcon A-okay!), most kinks that would fall under degradation or humiliation (I would not consider light submissive behaviour to be this)
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Additional likes & DNW clarifications
NSFW likes
I prefer levels of explicit detail typical for the M rating!
I am less interested in specific kinks and more interested in whatever makes for a scene that is sensual, emotional, and/or full of vulnerability for the given set of characters! I also really enjoy it when characters are conflicted about what they're doing or who they're doing it with! :) I also love delayed gratification, tension being drawn out, and things getting interrupted just as they're getting heavy! :) I love light BDSM dynamics, preferably not very formalised, or only formalised if it's in-character and fits the setting (I leave this to your judgement!). I enjoy characters having very incomplete or imperfect understandings of sex or their own preferences, and sex scenes that are in great part about exploration. I also like the "consensual but not safe or sane" trope.
DNW clarifications
- Kidfic: Flashbacks are fine, characters thinking about their time as kids is fine, characters thinking about being or having children is fine. What I don't want is the fairly specific fic type where adult characters are turned into kids (transformation or "what if all the blorbos were toddlers"-type AUs), or fics that are about acquiring a child and taking care of them. Baby goats are fine and absolutely encouraged within the bounds of plot-appropriateness. (/Battleship joke)
- Focus on surgery and needles: Needles or surgery appearing in the story are fine (and often hard to avoid given I sometimes request doctors, etc.!) Mentions of people getting shots or being dosed with something are fine. Someone being threatened with a needle or surgery is fine. I just don't want detailed descriptions of *shudder* needles sliding into skin, plungers depressing, skin being cut open, tattoos being applied, things like that. It may be helpful to think of this DNW as DNW Detailed Descriptions of Invasive Things Happening to Skin On-Page.
- Focus on IRL modern era geopolitics: Having it be in the backdrop or part of the setting is fine. What I don't want is having it be a driving force of the plot.
- Noncon: I don't currently want unrequested noncon for these requests, but you're welcome to throw in some dubcon. For dubcon, I especially like unequal power dynamics, when one or both parties are under the influence, manipulation, etc.
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Invisible Inc
- Please feel free to include characters beyond the ones in the request! The only reason I didn't request all is because I'm trying to be strategic and get matched to someone who doesn't already write for me all the time, you know who you are...
- Pre-canon recruitment stories
- Post-canon: reacting to Incognita's takeover, characters who were captured during the raid being set free and finding out most of the agency is dead, etc.
- Mission!fic and scenes where agents save each other's lives. Unlikely friendships and bonding.
- Captivity!fic of an agent held in a Detention Center
- Adrenaline-fuelled making out or hook-ups during the post-raid campaign or simply between tense missions
- MedGel (and situations that require MedGel) played for whump, drama, horror, horniness, or all of the above simultaneously
- Agents being at each other's throats in their off hours, only to work together like a well-oiled machine when the situation gets dire
- Bonding over augmentation and its effects - whether it's chronic pain, feeling like corporate property, the limitations or new abilities
- A new datalog for one of the agents?
- Classified documents belonging to either Invisible Inc., or Monst3r, or one of the corporations
- If you'd like to take it in a shippy direction: I'd love to see Decker/Internationale, Dr. Xu/Decker, Dr.Xu/Sharp, Sharp/Shalem 11, Shalem 11/Prism... or even a messy polycule that includes all of the above haha.
Citizen Sleeper
- If incorporating multiple characters, I would love something Gen and focused on platonic relationships, but I also won't say no to Sleeper/Peaker or Sleeper/Ethan, or to something that occupies a weird amperslashy middle line between Gen and shippy ;)
- An identity-centric story in which Sleeper gets an actual name
- I'm enamoured with the part of the game when you're actively fleeing your old corporate masters, represented by bounty hunters who are not entirely free themselves. The song and dance between the Sleeper and Ethan, the way Ethan drags the capture out, his own clear self-loathing and host of issues? It's great, can we have more of that?
- Canon Divergence: What if Ethan had actually successfully taken Sleeper off the Eye and was journeying back to Essen-Arp with the Sleeper in tow? Without Maywick, and just him and the Sleeper, and maybe struggling to stay dedicated to his plan with even more time spent around Sleeper and coming to see them unavoidably as a person. Or with Maywick, who is far more ruthless towards Sleeper and would be the one calling the shots. What I really want from this character combination is a scenario where Ethan's resolve cracks and he takes Sleeper's side, and he maybe even redeems himself a little (whether Sleeper can ever trust him or forgive him is a very different question).
- In the game, if you get Feng to disable your tracker while Ethan's storyline is still ongoing, you never see him again. What if you ran into him again? On the Eye or even much later?
- Ethan or Peake go looking for Sleeper but they have become part of the mushroom sentient loci!
- A magical fantasyland AU where Ethan is a bit less of a bastard and actually becomes Sleeper's bodyguard for realsies
- An AU where things end much differently, for better or worse. Maybe the Hunter gets the Sleeper, or Ankhita talks things out with Ashton after all, or Ethan gets exactly what he wants (and has the chance to regret it). Give me new and unseen good endings! Give me bad endings!
- Sleeper getting hacked or catching malware while exploring the netspace, and Peake helping them deal with it
- Sleeper getting hacked by Castor in canon was terrifying! Let's have more similar moments! :) More of Castor or a similar character using Sleeper's own vulnerabilities to threaten someone they care about!
- For Peake, I would love to see more stuff relating to the Flux event, and also something that tests their compassionate nature or has them making bad decisions. Put some spice and salt on this cinnamon roll!
Citizen Sleeper x The Red Strings Club
- I forgot to nominate The Red Strings Club, but I'd love a crossover/fusion if you're familiar with both! In particular, the whole setting of Red Strings Club could be pretty seamlessly transplanted into the world of CS with minor adjustments.
- Sleeper being on the run from Essen-Arp (in general, or specifically Ethan or Maywick) and taking refuge with Donovan & Co.
- Akara-184 encountering Sleeper and, maybe, attempting to hijack them?
- Donovan being in friendly competition or cooperation with the other bars on the Eye, such as Tala's bar, and being yet another person Sleeper runs errands for
- How would the Flux affect augments?
- "Characters from CS show up at Donovan's bar and get the Donovan treatment" could be a fantastic premise for a crossover. Maybe Sleeper is missing (kidnapped, mushroomified, whathaveyou...) and various characters that Sleeper knows in various capacities show up at Donovan's bar, and Donovan has to figure out who is searching for Sleeper for what purpose, and whether he should share what he knows or not
Betrayal at Krondor
- This fandom was Baby's First Hyperfixation. It had a formative experience on me and my life trajectory, was a big factor in getting me into fantasy, [insert the rest of my life story]. It's the reason I got an AO3 account. (Then I proceeded to post almost none of my drawerfic. Typical.) I'm very excited for whatever you can make for this!!!! (!!!) On to the actual prompts:
- 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.<br />
- "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, him having to fight his own kin to make it to the border, etc.
- Post-canon, focusing on Gorath during 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? I've always thought there was something deeply sinister about The Returning and the way it's written in the books (REF did not agree with me pfft </3.) It feels a bit like brainwashing doesn't it? A forcible change of allegiance, and for what? If it flips a magical switch from "evil" elf to "good" elf - putting the baggage with that entire concept aside, which we shouldn't TBH - then Gorath kind of seems like a shitty recipient for that sort of thing. He's already doing an unimaginably selfless thing by going the path of the greatest resistance to try and prevent another war; in what way does "Oh you've magically turned into an Eledhel and can never go home to the Northlands because they will try to kill you on sight even more intensely, enjoy being Good now and living in our magical forest where territorial disputes with humans are not a problem, because of magic (✿◕‿◕)" help anyone involved? Would you like to explore this idea a bit more and finish my drawerfic- er, I mean explore the idea of Gorath on Timirianya being a little off after what he goes through in Elvandar, or a completely canon-divergent take on what happens when he goes to Elvandar? )
- 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".
- Gorath & Owyn vs. Gorath/Owyn... I can't say whether I ship it or not without writing a whole damn essay, and nobody wants that. Suffice to say I would enjoy a & story but I also welcome a fic that sells me on this ship.
- I no longer recall if this is part of the (messy, novelisation-included) canon or something I decided was just plausible in canon, but consider: Pre-canon, teenaged Jimmy the Hand directly caused the deaths of many of Clan Ardanien, specifically. (The evidence for this goes as follows, IIRC: During the Kingdom troops retreat in A Darkness at Sethanon, he rigs the cellars of Highcastle to explode on the moredhel troops after the Kingdom troops have cleared, and elsewhere - in the game? in the novelisation? who knows at this point - Gorath recollects that he managed to keep his clan from the worst of the damage of the meatgrinder that was Sethanon, but they suffered heavy losses after that, which feasibly could mean the Highcastle incident... anyway, whether I totally hallucinated the canonical basis for this or not, it would be fun if, during canon, they found out how close they came to meeting that day! :')
- Last prompt but not least, ending fixit! :') While the tragedy of the ending is incredibly impactful, one cannot escape the feeling that Status Quo Is God (and more to the point, fitting the game's plot into the timeline of existing books) was a major factor in it. But from the perspective of Kingdom vs. Northlands politics, it would have been incredibly interesting if Gorath had, you know, made it, right?
- So, Gorath!lives AU: Gorath & Cullich meeting again, Gorath, Liallan (who seems to assume leadership in the Northlands now) and probably Pug, Arutha, maybe Jimmy & Locky, certainly Owyn, being involved in the kind of tense peace talks that would not have been possible prior to all this
Live a Live
- Canon-typical platonic (in a very obsessed way) Sundown & Mad Dog or shippy Sundown & Mad Dog would both be a delight!
- Character study: Why is Mad Dog so driven, and where did he come from? Why does the Sundown Kid keep sparing him? Etc.
- Post-canon (the "Mad Dog lives" ending), tenuous friendship (and more?)
- Missing scene as they work together to protect the town
- Pre-canon: First meeting, first duel
- Sundown was probably missing for a good long while during the finale of the game. Mad Dog reacting to his absence, searching for him, the reunion?
- Scene where one of them comes terrifyingly close to dying and the other has Realisations(TM)
- Modern post-apoc AU! Or a steampunk AU! What would that look like?
- Wilder experimental stuff like time loops, something that incorporates the space and time travel nature of the rest of the LaL story, etc.
Tactical Breach Wizards
- Zan's conversation with Liv, what a whammer! Zan's decision paralysis is such an interesting and tragically understandable consequence of his Craft. I'd love to see more exploring Zan's craft and how it impacts his interactions with others
- That moment when Zan comes back to the hideout at the end of Act III to find seemingly all of the team dead... ;_;
I'd love to see more about this.
- Banks & Rion interactions are extremely entertaining. They're both pretty aloof individuals who on some level crave more trust and closeness than what they have
- Banks's dream in the Death Door Dimension has her suggesting to her other self to mess with the timelines and do things differently when she first meets Jen (including "Kill her and see how that feels... if it's too much of a bummer, you can always rez her again later.") I would loooove a little fic of this scene
- More Banks & Jen or Banks/Jen, period. More Spicy!Jen, as Banks puts it
- Do dog!Rion and Darrell the Cat ever interact? They ought to!
- I have a swooning weak spot for everything about Banks. I love characters who put on a pragmatic, aloof front but in reality care a little more than they're comfortable admitting... as dream!Banks puts it, Banks is also a bleeding heart in her own way. Would love to see the conflict between her cold pragmatism and compassion explored more.
- I'm weak for the kind of ragtag band of clowns in silly hats becoming friends that TBW's story represents. Would love some dramatic moments or canon divergence.
- Something involving the Confidence outfits and characters reacting to some of the more... daring... outfit choices on their teammates! :D
- More Liv being scary and antagonism between her and the team
- I finished the game a few hours after YT sign-ups closed! :D Let's have more prompts
- I would absolutely LOVE a casefic of Jen and Dessa running their new PI agency back in Liboli, with a developing relationship and feelings realisations. Banks seems to have figured out she wants Jen by her side, but who takes the next step?
- Post-canon, a year later, where everyone meets again and catches up on how they've been doing (and Banks is still alive SHUSH).
- Would not be averse to a more dramatic fic of Banks discovering/pursuing a cure (possibly in the form of someone else with healing Craft)
- Zan visiting Liv again post-canon while she is in custody. How would that go? Would he even want to go, or does there have to be some pragmatic, external reason for him to do it?
- All of the possible endings are delightful fic fodder tbh. I'd love to see Rion assassinate either the CEO or the Chapel leader, or just more worldbuilding with various characters popping in and out.
There Is No Antimemetics Division
- 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?
- A lot of antimemetic SCPs have an effect on memory, but some aspects of SCP-3125 have an effect on free will
- We see some of the aftermath of characters recovering from hypnosis in canon, after SCP-3125 is defeated. Care to do more with this and explore it further? :) Whether it's a more detailed look than what we see in the Epilogue/Champions of Nothing, or a different incident prior to the emergence of SCP-3125
- I would also love a more experimental format: in-universe document or interactive fiction, for example!
Here you will find the likes & DNWs from my sign-up as well as additional likes, common DNW clarification, and fandom-specific prompts.
Day view of post
Yuletide mini-challenges opt-ins (as of 12.12.24)
Interactive Fiction
Wrapping Paper
Crossover/Fusion
OT3
Sign-up info
Gifts enabled, treats welcome!
For treats I also explicitly welcome: Art of all kinds (including fandom-blind!), drabbles, crossovers and fusions with other fandoms I've requested, setting change AUs.
General likes
- whump and hurt/comfort, especially written in an understated, "less is more" way
- Relationships forged in fire, bonding over trauma, codependency, friendships and romantic/sexual relationships hard to categorise in terms of whether they're a good thing or not. Relationships as questionable coping mechanisms. When characters can't quite say what they are to each other except "someone important"!
- slow, thoughtful, low-stakes moments AND dramatic, adrenaline-fuelled, high-stakes action
- plotty Gen fic, missionfic, casefic, pre-slash or pre-relationship, slow-burn vibes
- sex scenes: not quite explicit but all about the vulnerability/emotions
- UST-ridden scenes that are only metaphorically sexual (e.g. reaching inside someone's mechanical parts to repair them...!)
- The Eroticism of the Machine(TM), wireplay, robots, androids, cyborgs, etc...
- non-sexual intimacy
- intimacy that is sexual but not directly about sex (e.g. pillow talk, lazy mornings after)
- fluff + bittersweetness or grimness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets
- wild nature, birds, rats, creepy crawlies
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales
General DNWs
Graphic violence, noncon, crying in the context of physical whump, kidfic, noncanonical incest or underage, pregnancy of POV characters, focus on needles or surgery (especially cutting and IVs), focus on IRL modern era geopolitics, eye horror/trauma
NSFW DNWs
Omegaverse, scat, watersports, bloodplay, rimming, fisting, stuffing, noncon (dubcon A-okay!), most kinks that would fall under degradation or humiliation (I would not consider light submissive behaviour to be this)
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Additional likes & DNW clarifications
NSFW likes
I prefer levels of explicit detail typical for the M rating!
I am less interested in specific kinks and more interested in whatever makes for a scene that is sensual, emotional, and/or full of vulnerability for the given set of characters! I also really enjoy it when characters are conflicted about what they're doing or who they're doing it with! :) I also love delayed gratification, tension being drawn out, and things getting interrupted just as they're getting heavy! :) I love light BDSM dynamics, preferably not very formalised, or only formalised if it's in-character and fits the setting (I leave this to your judgement!). I enjoy characters having very incomplete or imperfect understandings of sex or their own preferences, and sex scenes that are in great part about exploration. I also like the "consensual but not safe or sane" trope.
DNW clarifications
- Kidfic: Flashbacks are fine, characters thinking about their time as kids is fine, characters thinking about being or having children is fine. What I don't want is the fairly specific fic type where adult characters are turned into kids (transformation or "what if all the blorbos were toddlers"-type AUs), or fics that are about acquiring a child and taking care of them. Baby goats are fine and absolutely encouraged within the bounds of plot-appropriateness. (/Battleship joke)
- Focus on surgery and needles: Needles or surgery appearing in the story are fine (and often hard to avoid given I sometimes request doctors, etc.!) Mentions of people getting shots or being dosed with something are fine. Someone being threatened with a needle or surgery is fine. I just don't want detailed descriptions of *shudder* needles sliding into skin, plungers depressing, skin being cut open, tattoos being applied, things like that. It may be helpful to think of this DNW as DNW Detailed Descriptions of Invasive Things Happening to Skin On-Page.
- Focus on IRL modern era geopolitics: Having it be in the backdrop or part of the setting is fine. What I don't want is having it be a driving force of the plot.
- Noncon: I don't currently want unrequested noncon for these requests, but you're welcome to throw in some dubcon. For dubcon, I especially like unequal power dynamics, when one or both parties are under the influence, manipulation, etc.
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Invisible Inc
- Please feel free to include characters beyond the ones in the request! The only reason I didn't request all is because I'm trying to be strategic and get matched to someone who doesn't already write for me all the time, you know who you are...
- Pre-canon recruitment stories
- Post-canon: reacting to Incognita's takeover, characters who were captured during the raid being set free and finding out most of the agency is dead, etc.
- Mission!fic and scenes where agents save each other's lives. Unlikely friendships and bonding.
- Captivity!fic of an agent held in a Detention Center
- Adrenaline-fuelled making out or hook-ups during the post-raid campaign or simply between tense missions
- MedGel (and situations that require MedGel) played for whump, drama, horror, horniness, or all of the above simultaneously
- Agents being at each other's throats in their off hours, only to work together like a well-oiled machine when the situation gets dire
- Bonding over augmentation and its effects - whether it's chronic pain, feeling like corporate property, the limitations or new abilities
- A new datalog for one of the agents?
- Classified documents belonging to either Invisible Inc., or Monst3r, or one of the corporations
- If you'd like to take it in a shippy direction: I'd love to see Decker/Internationale, Dr. Xu/Decker, Dr.Xu/Sharp, Sharp/Shalem 11, Shalem 11/Prism... or even a messy polycule that includes all of the above haha.
Citizen Sleeper
- If incorporating multiple characters, I would love something Gen and focused on platonic relationships, but I also won't say no to Sleeper/Peaker or Sleeper/Ethan, or to something that occupies a weird amperslashy middle line between Gen and shippy ;)
- An identity-centric story in which Sleeper gets an actual name
- I'm enamoured with the part of the game when you're actively fleeing your old corporate masters, represented by bounty hunters who are not entirely free themselves. The song and dance between the Sleeper and Ethan, the way Ethan drags the capture out, his own clear self-loathing and host of issues? It's great, can we have more of that?
- Canon Divergence: What if Ethan had actually successfully taken Sleeper off the Eye and was journeying back to Essen-Arp with the Sleeper in tow? Without Maywick, and just him and the Sleeper, and maybe struggling to stay dedicated to his plan with even more time spent around Sleeper and coming to see them unavoidably as a person. Or with Maywick, who is far more ruthless towards Sleeper and would be the one calling the shots. What I really want from this character combination is a scenario where Ethan's resolve cracks and he takes Sleeper's side, and he maybe even redeems himself a little (whether Sleeper can ever trust him or forgive him is a very different question).
- In the game, if you get Feng to disable your tracker while Ethan's storyline is still ongoing, you never see him again. What if you ran into him again? On the Eye or even much later?
- Ethan or Peake go looking for Sleeper but they have become part of the mushroom sentient loci!
- A magical fantasyland AU where Ethan is a bit less of a bastard and actually becomes Sleeper's bodyguard for realsies
- An AU where things end much differently, for better or worse. Maybe the Hunter gets the Sleeper, or Ankhita talks things out with Ashton after all, or Ethan gets exactly what he wants (and has the chance to regret it). Give me new and unseen good endings! Give me bad endings!
- Sleeper getting hacked or catching malware while exploring the netspace, and Peake helping them deal with it
- Sleeper getting hacked by Castor in canon was terrifying! Let's have more similar moments! :) More of Castor or a similar character using Sleeper's own vulnerabilities to threaten someone they care about!
- For Peake, I would love to see more stuff relating to the Flux event, and also something that tests their compassionate nature or has them making bad decisions. Put some spice and salt on this cinnamon roll!
Citizen Sleeper x The Red Strings Club
- I forgot to nominate The Red Strings Club, but I'd love a crossover/fusion if you're familiar with both! In particular, the whole setting of Red Strings Club could be pretty seamlessly transplanted into the world of CS with minor adjustments.
- Sleeper being on the run from Essen-Arp (in general, or specifically Ethan or Maywick) and taking refuge with Donovan & Co.
- Akara-184 encountering Sleeper and, maybe, attempting to hijack them?
- Donovan being in friendly competition or cooperation with the other bars on the Eye, such as Tala's bar, and being yet another person Sleeper runs errands for
- How would the Flux affect augments?
- "Characters from CS show up at Donovan's bar and get the Donovan treatment" could be a fantastic premise for a crossover. Maybe Sleeper is missing (kidnapped, mushroomified, whathaveyou...) and various characters that Sleeper knows in various capacities show up at Donovan's bar, and Donovan has to figure out who is searching for Sleeper for what purpose, and whether he should share what he knows or not
Betrayal at Krondor
- This fandom was Baby's First Hyperfixation. It had a formative experience on me and my life trajectory, was a big factor in getting me into fantasy, [insert the rest of my life story]. It's the reason I got an AO3 account. (Then I proceeded to post almost none of my drawerfic. Typical.) I'm very excited for whatever you can make for this!!!! (!!!) On to the actual prompts:
- 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.<br />
- "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, him having to fight his own kin to make it to the border, etc.
- Post-canon, focusing on Gorath during 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? I've always thought there was something deeply sinister about The Returning and the way it's written in the books (REF did not agree with me pfft </3.) It feels a bit like brainwashing doesn't it? A forcible change of allegiance, and for what? If it flips a magical switch from "evil" elf to "good" elf - putting the baggage with that entire concept aside, which we shouldn't TBH - then Gorath kind of seems like a shitty recipient for that sort of thing. He's already doing an unimaginably selfless thing by going the path of the greatest resistance to try and prevent another war; in what way does "Oh you've magically turned into an Eledhel and can never go home to the Northlands because they will try to kill you on sight even more intensely, enjoy being Good now and living in our magical forest where territorial disputes with humans are not a problem, because of magic (✿◕‿◕)" help anyone involved? Would you like to explore this idea a bit more and finish my drawerfic- er, I mean explore the idea of Gorath on Timirianya being a little off after what he goes through in Elvandar, or a completely canon-divergent take on what happens when he goes to Elvandar? )
- 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".
- Gorath & Owyn vs. Gorath/Owyn... I can't say whether I ship it or not without writing a whole damn essay, and nobody wants that. Suffice to say I would enjoy a & story but I also welcome a fic that sells me on this ship.
- I no longer recall if this is part of the (messy, novelisation-included) canon or something I decided was just plausible in canon, but consider: Pre-canon, teenaged Jimmy the Hand directly caused the deaths of many of Clan Ardanien, specifically. (The evidence for this goes as follows, IIRC: During the Kingdom troops retreat in A Darkness at Sethanon, he rigs the cellars of Highcastle to explode on the moredhel troops after the Kingdom troops have cleared, and elsewhere - in the game? in the novelisation? who knows at this point - Gorath recollects that he managed to keep his clan from the worst of the damage of the meatgrinder that was Sethanon, but they suffered heavy losses after that, which feasibly could mean the Highcastle incident... anyway, whether I totally hallucinated the canonical basis for this or not, it would be fun if, during canon, they found out how close they came to meeting that day! :')
- Last prompt but not least, ending fixit! :') While the tragedy of the ending is incredibly impactful, one cannot escape the feeling that Status Quo Is God (and more to the point, fitting the game's plot into the timeline of existing books) was a major factor in it. But from the perspective of Kingdom vs. Northlands politics, it would have been incredibly interesting if Gorath had, you know, made it, right?
- So, Gorath!lives AU: Gorath & Cullich meeting again, Gorath, Liallan (who seems to assume leadership in the Northlands now) and probably Pug, Arutha, maybe Jimmy & Locky, certainly Owyn, being involved in the kind of tense peace talks that would not have been possible prior to all this
Live a Live
- Canon-typical platonic (in a very obsessed way) Sundown & Mad Dog or shippy Sundown & Mad Dog would both be a delight!
- Character study: Why is Mad Dog so driven, and where did he come from? Why does the Sundown Kid keep sparing him? Etc.
- Post-canon (the "Mad Dog lives" ending), tenuous friendship (and more?)
- Missing scene as they work together to protect the town
- Pre-canon: First meeting, first duel
- Sundown was probably missing for a good long while during the finale of the game. Mad Dog reacting to his absence, searching for him, the reunion?
- Scene where one of them comes terrifyingly close to dying and the other has Realisations(TM)
- Modern post-apoc AU! Or a steampunk AU! What would that look like?
- Wilder experimental stuff like time loops, something that incorporates the space and time travel nature of the rest of the LaL story, etc.
Tactical Breach Wizards
- Zan's conversation with Liv, what a whammer! Zan's decision paralysis is such an interesting and tragically understandable consequence of his Craft. I'd love to see more exploring Zan's craft and how it impacts his interactions with others
- That moment when Zan comes back to the hideout at the end of Act III to find seemingly all of the team dead... ;_;
I'd love to see more about this.
- Banks & Rion interactions are extremely entertaining. They're both pretty aloof individuals who on some level crave more trust and closeness than what they have
- Banks's dream in the Death Door Dimension has her suggesting to her other self to mess with the timelines and do things differently when she first meets Jen (including "Kill her and see how that feels... if it's too much of a bummer, you can always rez her again later.") I would loooove a little fic of this scene
- More Banks & Jen or Banks/Jen, period. More Spicy!Jen, as Banks puts it
- Do dog!Rion and Darrell the Cat ever interact? They ought to!
- I have a swooning weak spot for everything about Banks. I love characters who put on a pragmatic, aloof front but in reality care a little more than they're comfortable admitting... as dream!Banks puts it, Banks is also a bleeding heart in her own way. Would love to see the conflict between her cold pragmatism and compassion explored more.
- I'm weak for the kind of ragtag band of clowns in silly hats becoming friends that TBW's story represents. Would love some dramatic moments or canon divergence.
- Something involving the Confidence outfits and characters reacting to some of the more... daring... outfit choices on their teammates! :D
- More Liv being scary and antagonism between her and the team
- I finished the game a few hours after YT sign-ups closed! :D Let's have more prompts
- I would absolutely LOVE a casefic of Jen and Dessa running their new PI agency back in Liboli, with a developing relationship and feelings realisations. Banks seems to have figured out she wants Jen by her side, but who takes the next step?
- Post-canon, a year later, where everyone meets again and catches up on how they've been doing (and Banks is still alive SHUSH).
- Would not be averse to a more dramatic fic of Banks discovering/pursuing a cure (possibly in the form of someone else with healing Craft)
- Zan visiting Liv again post-canon while she is in custody. How would that go? Would he even want to go, or does there have to be some pragmatic, external reason for him to do it?
- All of the possible endings are delightful fic fodder tbh. I'd love to see Rion assassinate either the CEO or the Chapel leader, or just more worldbuilding with various characters popping in and out.
There Is No Antimemetics Division
- 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?
- A lot of antimemetic SCPs have an effect on memory, but some aspects of SCP-3125 have an effect on free will
- We see some of the aftermath of characters recovering from hypnosis in canon, after SCP-3125 is defeated. Care to do more with this and explore it further? :) Whether it's a more detailed look than what we see in the Epilogue/Champions of Nothing, or a different incident prior to the emergence of SCP-3125
- I would also love a more experimental format: in-universe document or interactive fiction, for example!