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Invisible, Inc. (Video Game)

General note: I've written a ton of fic for this fandom but please don't let that intimidate you or feel like you need to read it or match my headcanons or whatever! :) I'm desperate for some fresh takes over here !

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- 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
- 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

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Neverwinter Nights (Video Game)

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- Spirit/dream realm shenanigans. Explorations of trauma, memory & identity loss. History repeating itself.
- The game shows the way the Hunger affects the KC, but doesn't seem to go into whether the curse has any other effects on their personality/psyche. I mean, their soul is rotting in a wall somewhere! I'd love to see some version of the KC being subtly (or not-so-subtly) fucked up because of this and not knowing why until they learn the truth of the curse, and even then, will lifting the curse really free them from those feelings? How much of it is just trauma, at this point?
- Whump and h/c welcome. Darkfic welcome. "Bad ending"/monstrous Spirit Eater stuff welcome. Tragic romances that end badly are welcome too. Want to write a heartwrenching tale of the KC eating Okku, being slowly corrupted by One-Of-Many and then eventually devouring the souls of all of their friends? GO FOR IT!
- As point of fact, feel free to go heavy on the monstrous Spirit Eater stuff in general, bad ending or not. It's just good drama!!!!
- Random KC/Gann idea: I've always been tickled by the thought of the KC being attracted to Gann-the-Spirit-Shaman-constantly-hanging-out-with-spirits and not knowing if it's romantic/sexual in nature or the Spirit Eater being hungry
- I like the idea that the KC got badly burned by Bishop and is now a lot more cautious in any new relationship. They sought YOLO-esque comfort in crisis when they thought they wouldn't live to see the next year once before and they regretted it. (That said, I don't have a preference for the gender of the KC in the story or requested ships)
- Some of my favourite things about the story are the way the strings of fate tie it all together. The connection between you and Akachi, Akachi's companions and you. The way you end up retreading his footsteps, only partially by choice.
- For the Worldbuilding nom, what about something that explores the life (and death) of a previous Spirit Eater, before the KC came along? 8) Since the KC canonically still has some access to the memories of previous Spirit Eaters, you could still connect this to the main plot if you wanted, such as tapping into a previous Spirit Eater's memories to overcome a situation
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Firefly (TV show)

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Prompts:
- Something along the lines of the River Tam Sessions?
- Give me 5 or 10k of thoughtful Simon-centric nonsense and I'll be happy :)
- I would love something vaguely slow-burn-esque (as far as scope allows) for Simon/Mal
- I love the arc of the Tams and the relationship between them and Mal. Mal/Simon is my big Firefly OTP, but I don't have a preference for how shippy it should be - a lot of my own writing for them is basically tense pre-slash, and I'd looove to get something similar as a gift. But I also love slowburn getting together fic argh A;
- My big pitch for these two is that they are terrifyingly similar in their motivations and worldviews; Simon is a lot like a younger, more idealistic but already very angry version of Mal. I love that both of them are rabid about protecting the person/people they love and that is 95% of the reason they clash. I'm always down for more stories about that transition when they accept that the other person is an ally more than a threat, and the transition to found family or romance. I'm a sucker for stories where Simon risks his life to save Mal (or tries to, bless his lil noncombatant heart) or where Mal shows that Simon and River really are part of the crew. That's the good shit right there.
- Similarly good shit: The fun tension between Simon being a fish out of water and being really goddamn competent. I love fic where he gets to shine, and I love fic where he's understandably out of his depth. I love that he's a collected badass in Ariel when he's in his element and an awkward boob a lot of the rest of the time. (Speaking of which, if you want to throw some ND in there, be my guest!)
- Enthusiastic opt-in: explorations of setting-typical homophobia and internalised homophobia as long as it's not too heavy. I don't want heavy drama about bigotry and violence, but I'd love for these themes to be explored a bit. My own headcanon of Simon (and his interactions with Kaylee) is a heavily closeted gay man who on some level has probably known since early childhood that his romantic choices would be heavily scrutinised for being Respectable(TM) enough, just like everything else about him. He broke away from that when it was the only way to save River, but now he's free from those obligations and on the run, it would be interesting to see him process that change. At the same time, I think it's feasible to assume that the heavily rural and apparently quite conservative Christian culture of some of the Rim worlds (and by extension the culture of Mal, Zoe, Kaylee, etc.) isn't very progressivity, so it's not like the Firefly is some bastion of acceptance. (Mal's views on sex work certainly speak loudly there.) In short, I'd be down to see Simon and/or Mal struggling with the homophobia of the setting and the dangers of outing themselves as A) fugitive in precarious situation who's already highly dependent on the goodwill of people around him, B) backwater ship captain whose safety, not to mention that of his crew, demands on him commanding respect. However, the 'Verse is a big place of many cultures and views, so there's lots of room for characters' views to be challenged.
- Simon struggling between his loyalty to Mal and his loyalty to River will always be good, happy to read thousands of words of that anytime :3
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Citizen Sleeper (Video Game)

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- 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).
- Sleeper has no luck with Feng disabling the tracker, or Feng failed, or Ethan finds out about that subquest
- Ethan finally tracks down Sleeper but they have become part of the mushroom sentient loci!
- Magical AU where Ethan is a bit less of a bastard and actually becomes Sleeper's bodyguard
- 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)
- Sleeper getting hacked or catching malware while exploring the netspace, and another character helping them deal with it
- Though if the other character is Ethan, what if he's the one who tried to hack Sleeper to get them cooperative?
- 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!
- I would prefer this one to have the same overall hopeful tone as the game.
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The Red Strings Club (Video Game)

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Prompts:
- FIXIT-FIC!
- Something FLUFFY and CUTE and SWEET! Something to soothe the pain of the tragedy that is this story!
- Canon teases at Akara/Donovan but doesn't go further than establishing Akara's weird obsession with him. Feel free to take it further!
- 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. How did he start working with them, and was there a time when Donovan was on better terms with them?
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Betrayal at Krondor (Video Game)

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- 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.
- "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!

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There Is No Antimemetics Division (Short stories)

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- 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
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Crossover Fandom: Red Strings Club x Citizen Sleeper

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- A fusion or crossover of the two games' storylines would be extremely fun, I think! 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
- Donovan vs. Castor
- 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 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
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