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2025-05-04 09:04 pm

Prisoners Ex 2025 Letter

Thank you for looking at my letter :3

General likes


- whump and hurt/comfort. I prefer action-heavy whump and badass whumpees over whump that leans heavily into victimisation and helplessness
- 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"!
- Relationships turning on a dime: When strangers turn to allies, or the person you can barely stand becomes the only one you can trust, or when circumstances change dramatically and you see someone in a brand new context, in a brand new light, or something changes and you question whether you ever really knew this person at all.
- Dramatic, adrenaline-fuelled, high-stakes action. Characters in danger!
- 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)
- competency kink, identity kink, trust kink
- fluff with a touch of grimness or bittersweetness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets
- wild nature, birds, rats, creepy crawlies, Cool Plants
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales

Prisoner scenario likes
- "Less is more" is a very good motto with me when it comes to descriptions of pain, torture, suffering, etc.
- Psychological pressure, the depersonalisation of being completely in someone else's power. Show me the coping mechanisms in the prisoner, and show me those coping buckle and crack under the strain! :)
- On that note, I'm a sucker for various "white torture" methods, especially solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, disorientation. Methods that pit the prisoner's mind against them and wear down their sense of self
- On a more physically brutal note, beatings and waterboarding or water-dunking are great (don't quote me on this)
- Environments that are hostile in the sterile and impersonal way - being not just at the mercy of another person, but of the system, and the power that person represents
- I would prefer no actual noncon in the story, but it's fine if it's acknowledged and seen as a threat

General DNWs

Explicit rating, gore, noncon, heavy 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), bottoming angst as a major part of the story

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hekateras: (birdgreen)
2025-03-22 04:46 pm
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General Exchange Letter (2025)

General likes

- whump and hurt/comfort. I prefer action-heavy whump and badass whumpees over whump that leans heavily into victimisation and helplessness
- 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"!
- Relationships turning on a dime: When strangers turn to allies, or the person you can barely stand becomes the only one you can trust, or when circumstances change dramatically and you see someone in a brand new context, in a brand new light, or something changes and you question whether you ever really knew this person at all.
- Dramatic, adrenaline-fuelled, high-stakes action. Characters in danger!
- 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)
- competency kink, identity kink, trust kink
- fluff with a touch of grimness or bittersweetness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets
- wild nature, birds, rats, creepy crawlies, Cool Plants
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales

General DNWs

Gore, noncon, heavy 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), bottoming angst as a major part of the story

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2025-03-15 11:57 am
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Dear Spacer 2025 Letter

My requests.
These are my fandom-specific prompts!

Citizen Sleeper (Video Game)
- I like Sleeper interacting with difficult and/or terrible people who may or may not be trying to become better people, and also Bliss. Who has done nothing wrong but her quest also requires you to put quite a bit of trust into her at at time when you're potentially very vulnerable and struggling
- For all these requested relationships, I prefer if they aren't completely hostile and antagonistic. I.e. I like a Sleeper who (despite themselves) still wants to see the best in Ethan, Ankhita, etc., even after being betrayed and disappointed. Similarly, I enjoy it if Ethan is Not Actually Dead even if the Maywick encounter does happen.
- Didn't think to nom it but if you want to throw in some Sleeper/Ankhita or Sleeper/Ethan, go for it! I'm all for the dramatic irony and juice. Or some DLC content and Sleeper/Peake if you like. (Sleeper can have a wholesome relationship. As a treat.)
- I would be hyped for anything involving the ending where Sleeper leaves the Eye with Bliss and Ankhita on the refitted Ambergris, leaning heavily into the Ankhita & Sleeper reconciliation, and Sleeper struggling to forgive her (while Bliss is potentially taking to Ankhita much more warmly). Maybe the A-plot is that at the start, the Ambergris is just supposed to be a way off the Eye (away from the corporate bounty hunters, especially if this is set just after Maywick), but by the end of the journey to the next stop, Sleeper changes their mind about leaving. Or doesn't! Who knows! You tell me.
- Alternately, if you prefer to keep the Eye as a setting, I would love the above scenario but as the backstory, with them now returning to the Eye (and all the feelings that may entail, especially if the Flux event happened).
- An ensemble cast thing with Sleeper, Ankhita, Bliss and Ethan onboard the Ambergris would be fun too. I love me a ragtag band of misfits several of whom used to be on very fraught and/or violent terms! But now they get along! Mostly.
- The characters dealing with a new threat to the Sleeper and rallying behind them to protect them from it (whether it's Essen-Arp hunting for them again or something else) would be great
- Sleeper Chooses An Actual Name: A Story of Freedom and Identity

Firefly (TV)
Give me some 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 the very picture of 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 anytime

Original Works
[prompts added belatedly on March 15, sorry I forgot OTL)
- Deserted Space Station and Haunted Spaceship WB requests: I do love a good ghost story! I love the feeling of unease of exploring places that probably should be abandoned but you just can't be quite sure, the tension of piecing together something terrible that happened (or trying to). I also enjoy ambiguity over whether that something terrible had supernatural elements or not. Feel free to interpret 'haunted space ship' literally or metaphorically or even leave it ambiguous. I love the trope of highly rational characters struggling to find rational explanations for something unsettling or wrong they're seeing, and it getting to them just a little bit.
- I prefer 'less is more' and fear of the unknown over grisly detail. I love mood and atmosphere and vibes peppered with just the odd hint of unsettling specifics.
- Sunshine (2007) is a good example of a scifi haunted spaceship (sorta) story that I love and that just works
- I enjoy the 'apocalyptic log' trope and written records sometimes saying so little and yet so much. I think this could be really fun as a full log format fill, or a mix of log/discovered records and prose.
- On the art side: perhaps Found Footage of some kind? A snapshot, or snapshots, of something unsettling being captured on camera? I would also adore a minicomic but I realise that might be a bit too much in scope
- On the IF side: look IF is perfect for some spooky text-based haunted spaceship exploration. Making things interactive really can help it feel that much more visceral!
- For the space merc request, and celebrated mecha pilot/grumpy mecha mechanic: how about something action-adventurey? For these requests I'm all about the contrast of personalities between the focal character and others in the story. I also love the Jerk with a Heart of Gold trope. Maybe the space merc is a grumpy individualist who finds himself unable to refuse an offer for help. A space or exocolony twist on the classic "samurai/cowboy defends town from bandits" trope would be fun! With the pilot/mechanic I'm all about characters having no choice but to trust each other - the pilot trusting his support, the mechanic trusting the person who keeps the team safe. I enjoy characters who are used to flying solo (and have convinced themselves it's better this way) being forced to lean on others.
- HOWEVER, I would also be down for a more subversive twist on that ship. Maybe the relationship isn't good, actually, maybe one of them trusts the other and finds that trust betrayed. Maybe the drama of the story is about having to Leave The Mech, actually, and figure out who they are to each other outside of that pre-determined dynamic. Maybe the mechanic is up to no good and was sent to sabotage the pilot, or maybe the pilot ultimately fails to keep them safe. Feel free to toss in some MCD and tragedy if you feel like it.
- HOWEVER x2, mixing the requests could also be fun! A deserted space station or haunted spaceship feels like it would make for a very interesting and unconventional backdrop to a story centering the space merc or the pilot/mechanic ship! I find this very juicy and would absolutely love to see it. A setting like that could be particularly interesting if it places these characters in a situation that is uncomfortable and unfamiliar to them. For example, having to navigate the haunted/abandoned locale with a mecha that's really not made for this and not the right size/build/design, having to jury-rig things to make it work, everyone a little on edge from having to improvise so much. All good shit.
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2025-02-19 09:21 pm

Dear Worldbuilder (2025)

Thank you for reading my letter! :) This will have fandom-specific prompts for my 2025 Worldbuilding Exchange requests.

Invisible Inc
  • Please feel free to go wild with any of these freeforms. I'm interested in both agents (whether they're in the request/tagset or not TBH) and any OCs you can cook up: former Invisible Inc agents (KIAs?), corporate characters, people in the II world just trying to get by. In particular, I'd enjoy seeing other criminal groups that might have contact or even work with Invisible, how their MO might differ, and seeing Invisible through their perspective (e.g. Cyro's group in the groundbreaking classic Toothless by Linenpixel)
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  • It's common to interpret the ending as Incognita being in full control over everything, but is it actually that simple? Given her strikes on corp HQs, the corps are weakened but hardly gone. What does the aftermath of her takeover look like? What are her plans (if any) for the remnants of Invisible? Her relationship with Central post-takeover?
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  • I'd love to see pre-campaign (or post-canon for that matter! either is good) standard InvInc operations fleshed out a bit more. What do they do in the event of an agent being compromised? What protocols are there for rescued agents who've gone through brutal interrogation and/or deprogramming -- both on the side of physical/medical rehabilitation and psychological recovery, but also dealing with information leaks and shaken loyalties?
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  • As the most wanted anti-corporate terrorist on the planet, Central puts a great amount of trust into the people who become her agents. How is that trust earned? How does she find the right people? Also, how big are Invisible operations, anyway? How many people work for the agency (not necessarily all of them near HQ) and how much do they know? It takes a lot of people to keep an agency like this running, including basic admin, repairs and maintenance, custodian and janitor work, etc. How does Central manage such potential leaks of information?
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  • More nitty-gritty details of InvInc operations plz, particularly infiltration planning, prep, intel gathering, how they pick their targets, etc. Are they full mercenary, only taking contracts for the money and their own gradual intel-gathering advantage, or do they also work together with other anti-corporate groups even when they have little to gain from it in the short term?
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  • Another prompt for Incognita's takeover: what do the first hours (days, weeks) after the OMNI mainframe mission look like on the agency side? The corps have bigger problems to worry about now, but their HQ is still gone, most of their agents are still MIA (and maybe the team even took casualties during the OMNI mission itself!), and now they've lost their AI. I'd love to see in detail what it would look like for Invisible to establish a foothold in the immediate aftermath and scramble to bring some of their operations back -- perhaps with Monst3r's help?
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  • The missions we see are stealthy blitz strikes -- when the intruders teleport in and out, most missions probably take a handful of minutes. One, I'd love to see corporate anti-teleportation countermeasures as a source of drama/mission complication! Two, I'd love to see what other kinds of missions the agency does, if any. Do they do more classic intelligence work with long-term infiltration, double agents, sleeper agents, that kind of thing?
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  • How do the cyberpunk setting and the technology available affect all of the above? Does the existence of Neural Redaction have any implications for interrogation and detainment, or for post-trauma psychological care? On the flip side, a Severance (TV show)-style implant seems within scope, and would be a dramatic avenue for sleeper agents. So many possibilities...
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  • Teleportation, neural uplinks, and cloaking tech are all important aspects of Invisible's operations. I'd love to see more about when this kind of tech was first introduced and adopted for spywork, as well as what anti-corporate measures look like. The Invisible modding scene introduces things such as custom guards in the Advanced Guard Protocol mod who can do things like see cloaked agents with UV Spectrometers. It would be cool to see this explored more in fic, such as agents encountering anti-cloaking tech/guard implants/etc. for the first time.
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  • The Istanbul Run. We don't know much about it, and the things we know mainly come from corporate sources. Feel free to expand on how it went wrong, what was truth and what is fiction, whether Draco and Rush were actually executed or if the corps lied about that just like they lied about Central's execution. If you'd like to explore it post-factum through the eyes of someone like Prism trying to find out what happened, that would be great too!
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  • AI development: Incognita seems special. Is she? Are there more AIs like her? Has Invisible ever encountered one? (If you'd like to borrow ideas from the Programs Extended mod's Hostile AI feature... feel free hehe.)
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  • The Invisible Inc. setting is somewhat unconventional when it comes to cyberpunk settings in that the transition to corporate-ruled dystopia was fairly sudden, violent, and in recent history. Even the younger agents were born before the Resource Wars and before the megacorporations attained full global control! I'd love to see this explored a bit more in terms of how it might affect some typical genre staples. For example, is there more unrest and dissent as a result? Many people still remember the way it was before, after all!
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  • In-universe meta prompt: I would looove a custom datalog! A journal article, a scrap of an agent's past in some old paperwork or records or long-lost correspondence...
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  • Art prompt: it might be a tall order but I'd adore something like one of the loading screen posters in the game that contain messages: densely-packed with information, some projected elements from retinal HUDs and stuff!
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Original Work - Cyberpunk

  • Cyberpunk fashion: One thing I'm super interested in is the kinds of material conditions and history that would give rise to some of the visual staples of the genre. For example: maybe neon and similarly hi-vis motifs started out as a way for rebels and insurgents to interfere with CCTV and facial recognition software. For example, bright neon signs can cause blow-out problems with photography, and bright patches of neon and dark colours could break up the human silhouette both to conventional vision and in the eyes of auto-targeting drones, smart CCTV, etc. Maybe this kind of trend starts out as something with a practical root but gets co-opted by the public, similarly to the way the punk and hippie aesthetics has spread beyond the rebellious countercultures they originated in. Is there still room for rebellion as expressed through fashion? What does that look like?
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  • Cyberpunk fashion: What kind of clothing constitutes a status symbol and why? What kind of materials and motifs might be in use? Also, if it's not too heavy a subject, I'm fascinated by the idea of widespread masking originating as preventative disease control praxis but having a secondary benefit in avoiding facial recognition in an age of corporate surveillance. I absolutely love the vibes of this music video of Hans Zimmer's Inception track Time that was filmed and released during the pandemic.
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  • Corporatocracy, social stratification, black markets and pirate radio stations... I enjoy the drama and tensions of the inherent contradictions that society in the cyberpunk genre (which is to say, all the contradictions of hyperindustrialist corporate late-stage capitalism) tumultuously exists with and rests upon. The tension between self-preservation and rebellion. In that vein, what form does organised dissent take in this society? A lot of classic cyberpunk stories are about the rugged individual, a lone wolf or amoral mercenary with not much of a cause: a single person vs. the system. I'd love to see you deconstruct this or take it a bit further. What does it look like for people to try to change this kind of world for the better?
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  • Feel free to borrow any of the conceptual prompts from my Invisible Inc request above since that is also a cyberpunk canon! I'm interested in those ideas whether or not they're attached to those specific blorbos and that specific universe.
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  • Art prompt: Fashion through time and use of technology in fashion, bodycam footage, CCTV POV (warped perspectives, obscured details, timestamps and algorithm outputs)
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  • In-universe meta prompt: Articles, editorials, in-universe debates and chat logs
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Tactical Breach Wizards
  • Death's Door (and semi-relatedly) Time Travel: I'd love to see more of this, holy hell. What that dimension even is, what it means. Did Dessa really meet her younger self, and is there really going to be a timeline where Dessa meets Jen with foreknowledge and a warning from a weird dream? Feel free to explore some of those alternate timelines in as much depth as you want! I also have an AU5K request you might find inspiring for this! :)
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  • The existence of multiple timelines seems all but explicit given the way foresight works, which also makes it a little grim... in a way, did all those alternate bad timelines (or the better ones for that matter) still really happen? That seems like the kind of thing that would drive a Seer to a breakdown, alright...
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  • We don't see that much of the Druid Mafia but I would love to see more of them: what their methods and above all their goals are. Is their connection with nature only a means to an end, or is it also part of their ideology (if they have one)? I'd also love to see you delve into Rion's history with them a bit more, or Dessa, for that matter, who seems to have worked with all sorts.
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  • The "anxiety dream" thing that's textually a side effect of Zan's Craft is a neat and convenient excuse for some "character vs. own demons" storytelling, but I"d love to see it explored more beyond the one-scene wonders we get in the game. I would love to see this taken further with any of the requested characters. Do they lose this "ability" when they part ways with Zan, and do they miss it? For Jen: since she has a low-power version of Zan's Craft due to the vessel he gifted her, I'd love to see her deal with precognition as a source of drama (or shenanigans, or whatever you're in the mood for).
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  • Unlocking the Craft: We get the main cast's Unlocking stories but I would both love to see some more of this for other characters (e.g. Liv's team), or for any OCs you can think of interesting powers for. Canon divergent AUs (perhaps in the format of seer visions) of various alternate ways the cast could have Unlocked (or not Unlocked!) their power would also be great!
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  • I enjoy and welcome Interactive Fiction (e.g. AO3 format or on Twine, etc.) and it feels like another Anxiety Dream would work very well in IF format, just saying :3
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  • Art prompt: MORE CONFIDENCE OUTFITS. Need I say more? Also, additional power unlocks and what they look like!
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  • In-universe meta prompt: Article excerpts or newspaper clippings would be so fun!

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2024-10-17 02:39 pm

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.

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Yuletide mini-challenges opt-ins (as of 12.12.24)

Interactive Fiction
Wrapping Paper
Crossover/Fusion
OT3

Sign-up info

Likes & DNWs in sign-up )

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Additional likes & DNW clarifications


NSFW likes and common DNW clarifications )

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Invisible Inc

Invisible Inc prompts )


Citizen Sleeper

Citizen Sleeper prompts )


Betrayal at Krondor

Betrayal at Krondor prompts )

Live a Live

Live a Live prompts )

Tactical Breach Wizards

Tactical Breach Wizards prompts )

There Is No Antimemetics Division

TINAD prompts )

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2024-09-05 06:48 pm
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Dear Fic in a Box 2024 Creator

Dear FIAB creator,

Thank you for creating for me! These are my prompts!

Note: I have some redundancies in my medium opt-ins, such as opting into "Any" alongside specific mediums in that category. What this means is that the specific mediums are those I can think of that would be particularly cool for this fandom, but  you don't need to limit yourself if you have an idea for a different one.
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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 !

Medium Opt-Ins:
  • Medium Opt-In: Any - Any Nominated In-Universe Medium That Fit the Canon Setting
  • Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In
  • Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Mission Report
  • Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Mission Report
  • Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Technical Code or Design Specifications
  • Medium Opt-In: Art - Any Technical Drawing
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Visual Novel
  • Medium Opt-In: Video - Fanvid
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - In-Universe Spreadsheet - Expense Report
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - In-Universe Infographic
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Map: Any
  • Medium Opt-In: Art - Any Nominated Art Medium
  • Medium Opt-In: Audio - Any Nominated Audio Medium
  • Medium Opt-In: Writing - In Universe Classified Documents
  • Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Online Dress-up Game
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Printable Sticker Page Layout
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Emojis
  • Medium Opt-In: Art - Remix - Art Remix of my Art
  • Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Psychological Evaluation Report
  • Medium Opt-In: Writing - Chatroom
  • Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Excerpts from a Character's Journal/Notebook
  • Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Fan letters
  • Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Gifset & Writing) - Any Nominated Illustrated Text Medium
  • Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Any Nominated Illustrated Text Medium

Prompts:

- 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)

Medium Opt-Ins:
  • Length Opt-In: Any Nominated Opt-In
  • Medium Opt-In: Any - Any Nominated In-Universe Medium That Fit the Canon Setting
  • Medium Opt-In: Audio - Fanmix
  • Medium Opt-In: Audio - Original Fan Music
  • Medium Opt-In: Audio - FST (Fan Soundtrack)
  • Medium Opt-In: Video - Fanvid
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Online Dress-up Game
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Visual Novel
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Card Game Reskin
  • Medium Opt-In: Art - Storyboard of Canon Scene(s)
  • Medium Opt-In: Art - Any Nominated Art Medium
  • Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Art with Small Animated Elements - Any Nominated Art Tag
  • Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Gifset & Writing) - Any Nominated Illustrated Text Medium
  • Medium Opt-In: Any - Any Nominated Medium

Prompts:

- 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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- 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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- 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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Dear FFFX Creator (2024) [Completed 26. August '24]

FFFX 2024 letter
(Completed 26. August '24)

Dear creator, thank you for checking out my letter! The first part is just copypasted from the sign-up to have it all in one place, then below it I have extra stuff specific to the letter, including prompts.

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2024-02-28 12:40 am

Dear Builder of Worlds (Worldbuilding Exchange 2024)

Hello dear Worldbuilding writer or artist! Welcome to my letter. :3

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

Treats are welcome! In addition, art treats are always welcome even when not specified for that prompt/fandom.

On to the prompts!

Request #1: Invisible Inc. )

Request #2: There is No Antimemetics Division )

Request #3: The Red Strings Club )

Request #4: Parahuman Series )

Request #5: The Riftwar Saga )


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Dear Writer (Candyhearts Exchange 2024)

Hello dear Candyhearts writer or artist! Welcome to my letter. :3

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.

General DNWs
Explicit sex, noncon, kidfic, Omegaverse, scat, excessive medical details, pregnancy, genderbending, cold war AUs, whump that is too focused on victimisation, trans or nonbinary headcanons that include medical details (specifically mentions of needles or surgery), deliberately cracky headcanons

Treats are welcome. Assignments fulfilled as art are also welcome where specified in the signup. I have no specific art prompts but the above likes and DNWs apply to them as well, you can't really go wrong then.

On to the requests!

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2023-10-17 11:43 pm

Dear Yuletide Writer (Yuletide 2023)

Fandom: 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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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.

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)

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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!