liryian

Hi! Hello! For my own convenience (sorry) I am not going to copy all of my signup details over here, at least not right now, just write the prompts that aren't in the signup itself. I'm Elsin on ao3 and my other details can be found on the Automagic app as well.


Fandom 1: The Years of Apocalypse - UraniumPhoenix

This is an ongoing webnovel and can be found here. I'm subscribed to the patreon and so have read 25 chapters ahead of the public releases.

Prompts are under details tags and some will contain spoilers. As of this writing, the most recent chapter is ch.200, so there will be no spoilers beyond that point.

Mirian Castrella - some spoilers, but not a walking spoiler of a character

The tags I've requested for Mirian are sort of angling at two related ideas--first, the way she's losing her connection to other people, to her own humanity, to the world around her; and second, what comes afterwards? What happens if and when she succeeds in her goal to stop the apocalypse?

Every step she takes down her path to hopefully save the world takes her farther from other humans--emotionally, magically, spiritually, all of it. That's on top of the inherently alienating nature of the time loop, how unmooring it is when the vast majority of your interactions with other people have no lasting consequences; you must try again, even if you don't want to try again. Canon already explores this to an extent, but I'd love a deeper exploration here, especially others' perspectives--we get a bit of that in the speedrun chapter, but more would be great.

As for what happens next--the time loop will, eventually, end. Say Mirian succeeds. Say that the moon stays aloft, that the spell engines slow, that the war is averted or is brief. Say she survives it. What does she do, the second/seventh/eighth prophet, in the aftermath? What does she make of herself? What becomes of her, the lonely archmage, in a world where her choices have consequences again?

As for the tags about places and spaces, I'm particularly interested in both the Elder architectures--the Labyrinth, the Mausoleum, the Gates--and the soul-scattered ruins Mirian's found herself in. Some of the recent visions she's had make me very curious about what, exactly, the technology level of this world looked like, once upon a time.

And for the biographical writing tag, I'd love to see records like we see glimpses of from the other Prophets--what do the writings about Mirian look like? Who writes them? How much of her do they really grasp?

Gabriel - spoilers starting in ch.195

For Gabriel, because we currently know so relatively little about him, I'm very curious about his experience earlier in the loops--what was he doing before all this began? We know he's ex-RID, but what was his deal? Was the "ex" part already there when the loops began, or did he just ditch all that when he got stuck in a time loop? He's told Mirian a bit about himself, but nothing too deep, so I'd be very curious about expansions on that.

I'd be also very into him exploring some of the weirder places in the world--the Labyrinth, other ancient ruins, that sort of thing--either with Mirian or not, before or after meeting her.

Mirian Castrella/Liuan Var, Mirian Castrella & Liuan Var - spoilers starting in ch.187

Mirian and Liuan's relationship is indelibly marked by a certain wariness with each other--they can understand each other, to a degree. They can help each other. They can hurt each other. Their relationship with each other is consequential, in a way that's not replicable except with other time travelers.

I'd love something with the magic and mysteries of the world, or them learning to trust again after being so thoroughly burned, or... that type of thing. I had Troytin in mind for "character haunting the narrative" but if you want to go for that tag and have a different character you're thinking of go for it.

See Mirian's solo prompt for more thoughts about these tags, most of them can be applied to time travelers generally as well as just Mirian. Feel free to blur the line between & and / here, don't feel you need to stick strictly to one or the other.

Mirian Castrella & Song Jei - no big patreon spoilers

Mirian has such a deep respect and affection for Jei, and it's always bittersweet to see them interacting by now--Jei respects her as well, and seems to enjoy her company, but she doesn't have the depth of experience, the history, that Mirian does.

Here I'd be very much interested in something that explores that relationship more deeply, whether that be by Mirian bringing Jei to strange 4-d architectures or just having her as the travel companion, maybe they go down to Zhighua together. Maybe they do this in a later loop, when the leylines are a bit more stable, and have a bit more time.

See my prompt about Mirian for more thoughts on her specifically and all the time travel stuff. Feel free to blur the line a little towards / on this one, especially if in Mirian's PoV, but please don't give them a full reciprocal / relationship.

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Fandom 2: Spellbound (2024)

This is an animated musical movie and can be found on Netflix.

I'm very interested in Ellian and, like, all of the mess that the movie and the events preceding and following it were for her. Who was she, before she had to become an acting monarch at the age of fourteen? What was all that like--how does she deal with it, practically? How does she deal with it, emotionally? The ministers are helping her by the time of the movie, but how did they figure out that temporary, fragile status quo? And, of course, there's how that experience changes her, and who she becomes afterwards.

I'm interested in Bolinar and Nazara as well; one of the interesting things about this movie is there aren't really any villains. Antagonists, sure, but everyone's trying to do their best to deal with and then resolve the situation in the way they think is best, and the adults of the film are genuinely trying to protect Ellian--who of course doesn't want to be protected, she wants to fix this, but that's still the main motive.

For Ellian and her parents, there's a lot of fraught tension there; they get the Big Feelings out in the climax of the movie, but there's still the fallout to deal with. How was that year of literal (and implicitly metaphorical) monsterhood? What does that do to the relationships the three of them have with each other; how does that impact them, moving forward and rebuilding both the palace and their lives?

Hello, yuletide writer!

Sorry about how long it's taken me to get this letter finished. If you're writing for one of the sections I hadn't finished, feel free to disregard this, but if you're looking for something to help you figure things out, I hope this is useful!

I'm Elsin on ao3 and I'm looking forward to whatever you write for me!!

Different fandom sections may differ in length, but I would like all of them equally! Most of the text is collapsed under details tags, click the headers to reveal it.

General Likes

• plotty fics


• Secret identity and disguise shenanigans, the more layers to them and more absurdity the better


• Casual gender nonconformity


• Time travel and time loops are always fun


• A focus on family and/or friendship, especially characters realizing they’re not nearly as alone as they think they are, and just generally characters who like each other and enjoy spending time together


• Found family; families of choice


• Character studies


• Worldbuilding


• Canon-divergence AUs and missing scenes; things set pre- or post- or mid-canon


• What a character would perceive as "corruption" into becoming their own best self

General DNW

• non-con/dub-con


• explicit sexual content


• incest (incl. adoptive/chosen family)


• a/b/o


• mpreg


• non-canonical permanent major character death


• complete downer endings


• hurt no comfort


• relentless despair, self-loathing, or self-doubt


• on-page deliberate self-harm (generalized self-destructive behavior is okay)


• on-page suicide


• gore


• graphic physical trauma


• characters who are not cartoonishly evil in canon acting cartoonishly evil for no apparent reason


• cringe comedy


• fic that’s all about real-world bigotries or real-world politics


• specific contemporary real-world events


• unrequested marginalized identities as the main focus of a fic


• unrequested romance as the main plot


• any bigotry-motivated violence


• full setting aus

Monstrous Regiment - Terry Pratchett

Characters requested: none
Tagset characters: Wazzer, Jackrum, Maladict, Polly

This is a standalone book in the Discworld series, about a rather unusual group of newly recruited in the small country of Borogravia.

fandom notes: I DNW cis woman!Jackrum--which is to say, I'm not particularly interested in a reading of him that's explicit about him being Definitely Only A Woman. Other readings--be they him identifying as he presents himself, or an uncertainty, or somewhere in between--are welcome.
I also adjusted the bigotry-motivated violence dnw for this fandom--there's a lot of implications of and allusions to horrible misogynistic violence in this book, but most of it is written between the lines and off the page and I would prefer it to stay there; no need to pretend that Wazzer, for example, hasn't had terrible things happen to her, but I'd like it if they stayed at the level that they are in the book.

Onto my thoughts! I love the double entendre of the title--their regiment is both literally monstrous (in that half of them aren't human) and metaphorically so (since they're gasp women!). I like the way the book plays with presentation and identity and believability--Polly's read as a barmaid when she wears a skirt, but they get called infiltrating soldiers (which, to be fair, they are) when they show up as washerwomen.

I'd love something going into Jackrum's life, before or after the events of the book (or spanning both), or something about how Wazzer is afterwards--what was her relationship with the Duchess like for her? How did that work?

There's also Maladict, who I'd be down for any gender reading on--what was the thought process behind leaving? Was it really just a dislike of the corsets, or something more? Where does Maladict go afterward?

And Polly! Something about her navigating the new world, and what she does with her own little lads, would be great here, but for all of them--I'd love to see what you want to explore for them.

Mother of Learning

Characters requested: Novelty, Fortov, Kirielle, Raynie
Works may feature any one or more of these characters.

This is a complete webnovel of about 800k words, and can be found on fictionpress here and on royal road here.

fandom dnw:

• physical parental abuse


• significant exaggeration of canonical family dysfunction


• Zach/Zorian


• explicit permanent erasure of time traveler characters in your work who weren’t erased in canon


• original!Kirielle dying at all, either from plot events or getting her body stolen by a looping counterpart

There's a lot of characters in the novel whose lives we see bits and pieces of, but who we don't get a full picture of; I've selected four of them here. My prompts mostly deal with them in isolation, but I'd be down for any combination you want to write. if you're stuck for ideas, I'm always down for a good alternate Controller/alternate tag-along AU!

Novelty:
I love Novelty, how cheerful and curious she is, how unfailingly interetested in Human Things. Anything you want to give me about here I'd love--I'm particularly interested in Novelty And Humans, but if you've got another idea go for it!

Fortov:
Of the Kazinski siblings, we see Fortov the least, and we know that Zorian doesn’t like him, but Zorian isn’t a reliable narrator when it comes to Fortov. So tell me about him! What’s it like to be Fortov Kazinski, generally charismatic middle child and sometimes-definitely-a-dick who isn’t a total overachiever in any field?

Raynie:
I like how Raynie is in some ways a foil to Zorian, and some ways very different; they're both teenagers somewhat embittered over family dynamics, but Raynie carries a context and history with her that Zorian lacks. Something dealing with the tension between Raynie, student mage of Eldemar, and Raynie, first-born child and daughter of a shifter tribe, might be interesting.
I also enjoy her friendship and dynamic with Kiana.
for pre-canon I’d love something with Raynie going to Cyoria and how she befriended Kiana in the first place (or, more likely, how Kiana befriended her; I doubt that Raynie age 13, recently semi-exiled from her tribe, was particularly in search of outsider friends).
For post-canon, anything dealing with the fallout of all the things that go down in the real world would be fantastic too. What happens when she goes home? How does the invasion shift her relationship with her family and tribe?

Kirielle:
If you want to focus on Kirielle’s relationship with someone else, for Zorian, I love their dynamic! And I’d enjoy seeing their relationship developing in real time. I think it would be great to see either of them defending the other to their parents—maybe Zorian ends up with custody of Kiri, definitely things to explore there. For Nochka, they’re adorable and I’d love a further development of their friendship, especially getting to see it grow and develop after the invasion. If you want to write about her and Zach, they seem to have a lot of fun teaming up against Zorian, I really enjoy their dynamic and how they play off each other. Or you could go with someone else entirely!
I’d also be here for any sort of solo story about/character study of Kiri, really, but I’m gonna prompt a few specific things anyway.
- She grows up a little, and becomes a student mage—what’s that like for her, especially having received Zorian’s tutelage?
- She grows up a little, and doesn’t seriously pursue magic—does she devote herself more seriously to art? Do something else? Get away from her parents, and get to just be a kid for a little longer than her siblings?
- looper!Kirielle, with extra complications because she's a kid.

mulberry down!! - Nicole Kornher-Stace

Characters requested: none
Tagset characters: You | The Exiled One, The Other, Worldbuilding

This is a novella about the consequences of a portal fantasy, and you can find it here.

I really like the tone of this novella, how dreamlike and unmoored it is; I like the dynamic between the narrator and the other, and the yearning and searching and not-knowing of it all.

The world is sketched in broad strokes; I would love to see how more of how time works, or magic, even if nothing is ever really explained.

Nimona

Characters requested: Ambrosius, Ballister, Gloreth, Nimona
Please include at least two of these characters, in any combination you'd like to go with. If you want to focus on a ship, Ambrosius/Ballister would be fine.

Found family! Love and loss and trust and betrayal and hope and... look, there's a lot in this movie to like, all right? I'd love to see more about the dynamics between any of these characters--Nimona and Ballister of course are friends already, but how does she interact with Ambrosius after coming back? What were Ambrosius and Ballister like pre-canon; how did they pick up the pieces, after the movie's main events?

And as for Gloreth, she's someone Nimona knew in person and someone the others only know as a legend--did she and Nimona only know each other as children, or did they meet again? What was it like for Ambrosius, growing up with her legacy on his shoulders; what about Ballister, who knew himself as a contradiction to her rules for so long? Or do they end up meeting via time travel shenanigans, or something like that?

Feel free to engage with the canonical violence motivated by fear, etc around Nimona and her nature and abilities, and that around Ballister and his introduction into a previously-exclusive social class.

Candy Hair Saga

Characters requested: none
Characters in tagset: GG-chan, MC-kun, MG-chan, RBR-kun, Villain-chan, worldbuilding

This is a story in a tumblr post, and can be found here. It's about kids in a world where everything runs on like, rule of cool shonen anime logic, and the phrase "clothing maketh man" is anything but a metaphor--putting on the right costume will literally give you the associated skills, as long as you're sufficiently Special.

I really like the tone of it, and all the characters; I also love the world logic and anything that gives me more of the kids and/or the wacky world they live in would be great!!

hello there, o yule-writer! I’m glad we share some taste in itty bitty fandoms :3
I like all these fandoms a lot and I hope you have fun writing for me!
(also i've been requesting Kirielle from MoL longer than anything or anyone else; pls don't take the disproportionate sizes of the prompts as indicative of anything lmao)

I'm Elsin on ao3, and my previous letters can be found here and here.

I have treats open and if you want to do something in some other medium feel free to make that!!

General likes

- plotty fics
- Secret identity and disguise shenanigans, the more layers to them and more absurdity the better
- Casual gender nonconformity
- Time travel and time loops are always fun
- A focus on family and/or friendship, especially characters realizing they’re not nearly as alone as they think they are, and just generally characters who like each other and enjoy spending time together
- Found family; families of choice
- Character studies
- Worldbuilding
- Canon-divergence AUs and missing scenes; things set pre- or post- or mid-canon
- What a character would perceive as "corruption" into becoming their own best self

General dnw

- non-con/dub-con
- explicit sexual content
- incest (incl. adoptive/chosen family)
- a/b/o
- mpreg
- non-canonical permanent major character death
- complete downer endings
- hurt no comfort
- relentless despair, self-loathing, or self-doubt
- on-page deliberate self-harm (generalized self-destructive behavior is okay)
- on-page suicide
- gore
- graphic physical trauma
- character bashing
- cringe comedy
- fic that’s all about real-world bigotries or real-world politics
- specific real-world events of 2020-2022
- marginalized identities as the main focus of a fic
- unrequested romance as the main plot
- any bigotry-motivated violence
- full setting aus

Mother of Learning - nobody103

This is a long webnovel, found in multiple locations: https://www.fictionpress.com/s/2961893/1/Mother-of-Learning, https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/21220/mother-of-learning, possibly other webfiction sites but I haven't checked them

I've requested four characters, but you only need to include one of them in your fic. You can totally put some (or all!) of them together if you want to, but I've prompted for them separately.

fandom dnw
- physical parental abuse
- significant exaggeration of canonical family dysfunction
- Zach/Zorian (as in the / relationship. the characters are fine lol)
- explicit permanent erasure of time traveler characters in your work who weren’t erased in canon
- original!Kirielle dying at all, either from plot events or getting her body stolen by her looping counterpart.

Kirielle Kazinski

hi hello i really love Kirielle Kazinski, if you couldn't tell. whatever you might give me about her, i will love you forever for it.

If you want to focus on Kirielle’s relationship with someone else, for Kirielle and Zorian, I love their dynamic! And I’d really enjoy seeing their relationship developing in real time, rather than a constantly looping world. I think it would be great to see either of them defending the other to their parents—and maybe Zorian ends up with custody of Kiri, there’s definitely things to explore there. For Kirielle and Nochka, they’re adorable and I’d love a further development of their friendship, especially getting to see it grow and develop over the months and years after the invasion. If you want to write about Kiri and Zach, these two seem to have a lot of fun teaming up against Zorian lol, I really enjoy their dynamic and how they play off each other. Or you could go with someone else entirely!

I’d also be here for any sort of solo story about/character study of Kiri, really, but I’m gonna prompt a few specific things anyway.
• She grows up a little, and becomes a student mage—what’s that like for her, especially having received Zorian’s tutelage?
• She grows up a little, and doesn’t seriously pursue magic—does she devote herself more seriously to art? Do something else? Get away from her parents, and get to just be a kid for a little longer than her siblings?
• By some mechanism, Kirielle gets pulled into the time loop, whether with Zorian, instead of him, or in some utterly unrelated incident. What’s it like to grow older and older in life experience while your body remains stubbornly nine? How does this change the story? If you go this route I’d rather looper!Kiri not be erased in the timeline of the fic—ending the fic before it becomes an issue or letting her escape back to the real world are what I’d rather see.
• For some reason—there’s actually a fair amount that’d have to change here, but shhh this is my ridiculous self-indulgent prompt—Kirielle is the Controller. How does she react to being in a looping world, with no one else looping she can possibly compare notes with? What does she do with her time? Why did the angels choose her? How does this impact canon—is Jornak even a problem, does the whole Sovereign Gate affair pass much as it was meant to rather than the debacle that became of it in canon?
• For more elaboration on my ideas about Kirielle-the-time-traveler, and prompts about deaf!Kirielle, please see my Id Pro Quo 2021 letter.

Fortov Kazinski

Of all the Kazinski siblings, we see Fortov the least, and we know that Zorian doesn’t like him much at all, but it’s also pretty clear that Zorian isn’t a totally reliable narrator when it comes to Fortov. So tell me about him! What’s it like to be Fortov Kazinski, generally charismatic middle child and sometimes-definitely-a-dick who isn’t a total overachiever in any field?
If you want specific prompts, consider elaborating on what exactly happened between him and Ibery that she always ended up in the purple creeper patch.

Neoluma-Manu Iljatir

Neolu very much seems to be someone who's got an interesting story going on that has nothing whatsoever to do with the main drama; I'd love to see something exploring that! She's initially presented as not a very serious person by Zorian's perspective, but when we actually see her there's more to her than that--tell me about her!
Or maybe a story about one of those loops when Zach told her he was a time traveler and they went exploring together?

Raynie

I like Raynie a lot; we don’t get a whole lot on her, but what we do get paints her as someone who’s having a very interesting life of her own, utterly divorced from the timeloop shenanigans (except re: the shifter children thing). I like her and Kiana’s friendship, too; I like how when we finally see more of them both we learn more about how they’re similar and different.

If you want to go pre-canon I’d really love something with Raynie initially going to Cyoria and how she befriended Kiana in the first place (or, perhaps more likely, how Kiana befriended her; I somehow doubt that Raynie age 13, recently semi-exiled from her tribe, was particularly in search of outsider friends).
For post-canon, really, anything dealing with the fallout of all the things that go down in the real world would be fantastic too.

The Fantasy Heroine Series - Jill Bearup

A series of youtube shorts, available here in a convenient playlist.

Requested Characters: Leo Collins, Rosamund Hawkhurst, Caroline

This whole series is unabashedly and committedly tropey; I'm really enjoying the simultaneous commitment to the tropes and tongue-in-cheek lampshading of them, and the back-and-forth between Caroline and Rosamund across the fourth wall.
I think here it would be fun to do something sort of mimicking the style of the shorts--though how exactly you'd pull that off I leave up to your discretion--or maybe something with Caroline as a sort of Lemony Snicket-style narrator? Where the narrator is not a physical presence in the story being related, but is still very much a character.
Or perhaps you have a better idea!

Friends at the Table: Fall of Magic

This is a three-episode minicampaign and can be found in the Friends at the Table podcast feed; it's somewhere between 7 and 9 hours in total, I think.

No specific character requested--characters in the tagset are Caspian, Fawn, Harp, and Piccolo, any of them can be the focus!

fandom dnw
significant setting aus

I love this playthrough of this game. I love how weird and ephemeral and overtly magical it is, how that magic manifests in different ways in different places but is still very much present even as it's dying. The sense of melancholy, of an old magical world and a changing new one, pervades the game and it's a tone I sort of fell in love with. I just would like more of this world, and the people who live in it through its changes.

A lot of these characters are ambiguous and old in a way a lot of elements of the story are, and I would love to see something that explores that. Fawn and Caspian have histories that stretch back long years; they both used to be very different people. Harp (and the Magus too) are old, too, but they don’t seem to have changed as much—but still they have Existed in the world as it has lived through this age of magic.
Piccolo, otoh, is young; and he’s the one who continues the most as he was, into the new world, with the magic still present but irrevocably changed… how does that go, for him?

Dial M for Murder - Knott (Old Globe 2022)

This is a particular staging of the play; the listing on the theater's site can be found here

Requested characters: Maxine Hadley, Margot Wendice

fandom dnw
Focus on Tony (he can be present, but like... pls don't make him the focus character lol) | romantic or sexual Margot/Tony (references to their courtship or marriage or similar are okay, but not as like... an active relationship within the fic itself pls)
Also, an addendum to one of my standard dnws: since the play does involve, yknow, attempted murder of a woman in love with another woman, I changed the "bigotry-motivated violence" dnw to "non-canonical bigotry motivated violence" so no one has to worry over the exact balance of Tony's motivations

okay, so, this request is v much a longshot, since I'm requesting a specific run of a play that, as far as I know, is so far the only run of that particular iteration, but what's yuletide for if not obscure longshot requests? I'd love anything with Margot and Maxine--pre-canon, post-canon, mid-canon where Maxine's trying to figure out what happened and Margot's also trying to make sense of things... if you want to write something during the time they're apart (either when Max is in America or Margot's in prison) then both characters don't need to be physically present, but they should both be important to the story nonetheless.

Hi!! Sorry it’s taken me so long to put this together, but at last it is here. Hopefully if nothing else it’s at least more readable than the wall of text that is my signup. If you’ve already started then great; if not, here’s some more things I have to say!

(also if you want to treat I will happily accept treats in any medium lmao)

general likes:

I really like plotty fics

Secret identity and disguise shenanigans, the more layers to them and more absurdity the better

Time travel and time loops are always fun

A focus on family and/or friendship, especially characters realizing they’re not nearly as alone as they think they are, and just generally characters who like each other and enjoy spending time together

Found family; families of choice

Character studies

Worldbuilding

Canon-divergence AUs and missing scenes; things set pre- or post-canon; wriggling into canon and poking at it to see what it spits back at you, if that description makes any sense at all

What a character would perceive as "corruption" into becoming a morally better and also better-adjusted and happier person

general DNW:

non-con/dub-con

explicit sexual content

incest (incl. adoptive/chosen family)

a/b/o

mpreg

non-canonical permanent major character death

complete downer endings

hurt no comfort

relentless despair, self-loathing, or self-doubt

on-page deliberate self-harm*

on-page suicide

gore

graphic physical trauma

character bashing

cringe comedy

fic-as-writer-soapbox

fic that’s all about real-world bigotries or real-world politics

specific real-world events of 2020-2021

unrequested full-setting AUs

marginalized identities as the main focus of a fic

unrequested romance as the main plot

*I don’t include things like, say, punching a wall in a fit of emotion under this. However, something like cutting would not be appreciated.

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Mother of Learning

Zorian Kazinski/Quatach-Ichl (MoL)

Fic - Character

Bonding - characters grow closer despite themselves

Bonding Over Esoteric Technical Magical Nonsense

Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape

Character Study

Cordial Enemies to Complicated Lovers Still On Opposite Sides of a War

Enemies to Lovers - Character misses enemy/antagonist when they stop targeting them

Everyone thinks B is the terrifying one but it's actually A

Exploring Ancient Ruins (and maybe they are haunted)

Friends Discussing Treason Over Tea

Intelligent Characters Enthusing Over Learning New Things (Especially From Each Other)

Lost/trapped together in a strange/spooky/dangerous place

Thing character has built a large chunk of their life around comes to an end; finding a new path

fandom-specific dnw:

physical parental abuse within the Kazinski family

permadeath of a canonical temporary looper major-to-the-work-character within the work

significant exaggeration of canonical emotional neglect/abuse/general family dysfunction

explicit permanent erasure of time traveler characters in your work who weren’t erased in canon (this would include Zach, Zorian, and any non-canonical time travelers and non-canonical iterations of canonical time travelers. it would also technically include Silverlake and Jornak, but I don't actually care much about either of their well-being, so consider them an exception if you want lol.)

So. Like I said, this ship waltzed into my brain one day and wouldn’t leave, and I have some Thoughts.

I really like the dynamic these two have, especially towards the end, and especially especially after Zorian leaves the loop; Quatach-Ichl was the best teacher Zorian ever had, and Zorian himself is no slouch at magic—Quatach-Ichl himself commissions divination compasses from him on at least one occasion.

Obviously, if you set this post-canon, he’ll be quite unhappy with Zorian getting him roasted and losing him his crown, but we can work past that! I’d love to see something set post-loop, with Zorian finding his way in the world, and figuring out where exactly he and QI stand with each other, or maybe something set late in the loop, with him and QI interacting with each other differently than usual, perhaps? Or even something years down the line, when we’ve settled into a new-ish status quo, but of course there’s that conflict bubbling up… Zorian isn’t very committed to Eldemar, as a concept, but he does care about its people in many ways, especially those he knows—and he knows many of them—and he doesn’t approve of Quatach-Ichl’s methods or moral system, which could be a fun source of tension!

I’d also enjoy tossing them into a situation where they have no choice but to interact at least civilly in order to get out, or have them both end up for whatever reason exploring the same location.

I’m okay with pretty much any intensity of shippiness here, from barely-there to pre-ship to them being thoroughly attached to each other, as much as they’d let themselves be. I really just want more of their canon dynamics with the added complexity of feelings lmao.

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Original Work

fandom-specific dnw:

lengthy focus on transphobia or gender dysphoria (implied/referenced/mentioned okay; briefly present okay)

any bigotry-motivated violence

nounself pronouns

switching pronouns at random within a single character's PoV

(softly chanting) frenemies frenemies frenemies

I mostly just really like all these tags, and most of them are effectively prompts in and of themselves, but I’ve split them into rough categories and have left comments where I felt they were warranted. (also just because I didn’t elaborate doesn’t mean I want a tag less, it just means I had less to say there specifically lmao, I’m trying to avoid leaving commentary when that commentary would just be me repeating keywords from the tags excitedly)

Also, if you want to blend elements between the ofic requests, you can definitely do that—they’re fairly similar requests lol and if you think you can fit more than one of them in there feel free to go for it.

Jaded Teen Superhero-in-Training & Idealistic Teen Supervillain (OW)
Idealistic Teen Superhero-in-Training & Jaded Teen Supervillain (OW)

In general I really like these two tags (which I nommed lmao) and how they have sort of flipped dynamics—you’d expect idealism out of the superhero kid, sure, and jadedness out of the villain kid, but they’d certainly clash over that to some extent, or at the very least contrast, and that’s great! But the idealist villain and jaded hero—how did they get there, if you go with that? Are the tags, in fact, referring to the same characters at different points in their character arcs?

Fic - Character

"normally we're on opposite sides and i don't/shouldn't like you but hey are you okay?"

Character A Was Possessed And Character B Was The Only One To Notice

Character loses everything and can only turn to enemy for help

Didn't Know Who Else I Could Trust

Hurt/Comfort - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go"

I can't/don't/shouldn't trust you but there's no one else I can trust

A shows up on B's doorstep after fight or separation: "I didn't know where else to go"

Arm Around Other Character's Shoulders in a Public Place

Holding Hands While Walking

Holding Hands While Sleeping

Bonding - characters grow closer despite themselves

character is reluctant to accept help/comfort but eventually does

Enemies Forced to Work Together; Caustic Banter Ensues

Hurt Character Offered Comfort They Think They Don't Deserve

Intoxicated character confesses that actually everything is NOT fine

A realizes B avoids touching anyone but them

A rescues B from trouble B knowingly walked into

Prickly character startled by surprise hug after being presumed lost or dead

Reading to hurt/injured character

Redemption is hard

Undercover - Character is undercover and their enemy unexpectedly plays along

Villain undercover as a good guy; grows to care about good guys leading to heel-face turn

Villain Undergoes Redemption Arc

You Made a Serious Mistake When You Casually Abused My Emotional Support Villain

Case Fic - Character Investigating the Case Winds Up Hurt/In Peril as a Result

Character Gets Understandably (But Unjustly) Blamed for Bad Things Before Being Proven Innocent

A framed for a crime they didn't commit; B determined to prove their innocence

on the run together

Solving Mysteries and Helping People

Character Everyone Thought Would Do A Betrayal Instead Does A Loyalty

Character's Loyalty/Trustworthiness Up In The Air Until The Chips Are Down And They Prove Themself

Identity Porn - Pretending to be Someone Else's Secret Identity

Identity Reveal

Secret Reveal - Gradually putting the pieces together

Secret Reveal - To the Whole World
Look, I’m a sucker for secret identity drama in all its forms. How could I not ask for such delicious tags? Whose secrets are they—both of theirs? Only one? Someone else’s, but they’re still having to deal with the fallout? What kind of secrets? Who’s pulling that impersonation, and why?

Late-Night Discussions Outside in the Gently Falling Rain

That Time of Night So Late It's Early Again (And the Liminal Conversations Had At This Hour)

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Child Supervillain & Their Concerned Superhero Nemesis (OW)
Child Superhero & Their Concerned Supervillain Nemesis (OW)

(please interpret “child” here as, like, somewhere in the range of 8-15 or so)
Hi hello I love fics featuring concerned adults and the children who oppose them!! Honestly just give me that dynamic and any of the tags even loosely and I will adore you for it.

Fic - Character

A & B have an honest and completely frank discussion about difficult subject

accidental teenager acquisition

the grief of someone younger than you getting to do things you were stopped from doing

A is a badass; B is protective of them anyway

Outsider POV: Peers React to Teenager's Casual Familiarity with Potentially Dangerous Adult
I particularly love the idea, for this last one, that it could go either way—either the kid is way too familiar with this dangerous villain?? For some reason?? Or maybe the kid has friends on the wrong side of the law, why are they cozying up with a hero of all people? What are they thinking?

A and B don't usually get along; rainsoaked and upset A warmed up/fussed over by dry B

Character A Was Possessed And Character B Was The Only One To Notice

Character Expecting Hurt but Receiving Comfort

character is reluctant to accept help/comfort but eventually does

Character loses everything and can only turn to enemy for help

Competence - highly effective teamwork

Didn't Know Who Else I Could Trust

Enemies Must Work Together/Trust Each Other To Solve Problem And/Or Prevent (Fate Worse Than?) Death

A framed for a crime they didn't commit; B determined to prove their innocence

Hurt Character Offered Comfort They Think They Don't Deserve

Hurt/Comfort - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go"

A realizes B avoids touching anyone but them

A shows up on B's doorstep after fight or separation: "I didn't know where else to go"

Found Family

I can't/don't/shouldn't trust you but there's no one else I can trust

Prickly character startled by surprise hug after being presumed lost or dead

Protectiveness - Character being protected isn't used to being cared about

Reading to hurt/injured character

Scary And Dangerous Character A Is Only Soft For Character B

Touch-Starved Character gets their hair stroked & gets other kind gentle touches & cuddles

Undercover - Character is undercover and their enemy unexpectedly plays along

Villain Undergoes Redemption Arc

Case Fic - Character Investigating the Case Winds Up Hurt/In Peril as a Result

Solving Mysteries and Helping People

Character has to reveal a secret and it goes better than they would have guessed

Identity Reveal

Secret Reveal - Gradually putting the pieces together

Character picking another character's clothes/hair

Finding Someone Sleeping and Putting a Blanket or Coat Over Them

Hurt/Comfort - Lending clothes to sick/hurt character

Character trying to hold it together is clearly fraying at the edges

Character's Loyalty/Trustworthiness Up In The Air Until The Chips Are Down And They Prove Themself

Late-Night Discussions Outside in the Gently Falling Rain

That Time of Night So Late It's Early Again (And the Liminal Conversations Had At This Hour)

Hi FIAB Creator—
Thanks for creating for me! And sorry this letter’s a bit late—it’s still the 26th somewhere in the world, isn’t it?
Anyway I hope you’re as excited about this as I am, because I am Ready for this exchange :D

(my apologies for the mess that is the mediums comments; I wrote them last, and you can tell.)

I'm Elsin on ao3, and my previous letters can be found here.

General Likes

– I really like plotty fics

– Secret identity and disguise shenanigans, the more layers to them and more absurdity the better.

– Casual genderfuckery - guys in skirts and girls in suits, and nobody cares. Not necessarily any deep rumination on gender, just comfort in playing with it.

– Time travel and time loops are always fun (I say, with my three Mother of Learning requests)

– A focus on family and/or friendship, especially characters realizing they’re not nearly as alone as they think they are, and just generally characters who like each other and enjoy spending time together

– Found family; families of choice

– Character studies

– Worldbuilding

– Canon-divergence AUs and missing scenes; things set pre- or post-canon; wriggling into canon and poking at it to see what it spits back at you, if that description makes any sense at all.

- What a character would perceive as "corruption" into becoming a morally better and also better-adjusted and happier person

- Fairy tale AUs and fusions (consider this point an override of the "unrequested setting au" dnw, if you want)

General DNW

- non-con/dub-con

- explicit sexual content

- incest (incl. adoptive/chosen family)

- a/b/o

- mpreg

- non-canonical permanent major character death

- complete downer endings

- hurt no comfort

- relentless despair, self-loathing, or self-doubt

- on-page deliberate self-harm*

- on-page suicide

- gore

- graphic physical trauma

- character bashing

- cringe comedy

- fic-as-writer-soapbox

- fic that’s all about real-world bigotries or real-world politics

- specific real-world events of 2020-2021

- unrequested full-setting AUs

- marginalized identities as focus of fic

- unrequested romance as the main plot

*I don’t include things like, say, punching a wall in a fit of emotion under this. However, something like cutting would not be appreciated.

art dnw: color combinations you'd give a severe eyestrain warning for

audio dnw: an abundance of extraneous mouth noises; wild volume fluctuations, especially in quick succession (i usually listen on headphones)

Media Comments

In-Universe Media

I’ve implicitly opted in to a lot of different mediums with these ones—I really do mean any! Even if the medium isn’t labeled as in-universe, if you’ve got an idea for it and you think it would work as an in-universe piece, you should absolutely run with it. Have fun!

Art

Adaptation Concept Art | Book Cover | Costume Design | Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient’s Fic | Fancomic of Recipient’s Fic
All the adaptation-adjacent art! Definitely feel free to get experimental or weird with this one, I’d love to see whatever you come up with!

Coat of Arms/Heraldic Crest | Conspiracy Board | Excerpts from a Character’s Sketchbook | Floorplan/Architectural Style Drawing | In-Universe Newspaper Front Page | In-Universe Social Media | Propaganda Poster | Weapon Schematics
This is all, if not in-universe, at least with the potential to be in-universe-adjacent—you can learn a lot about a character and their world from this kind of stuff! What will you show with it?

Comics | Fanart | Stained Glass | Tapestry | Tarot Card
uh. art pretty? sorry. no thoughts head empty art pretty.

Audio

In-Universe Interview
I think this would be really interesting to play with, especially as part of a multimedia work—tho by itself would be good too!
(If you do go with this one, and if it’s reasonable to make one, I would definitely appreciate an accompanying transcript—I like audio stuff! But I also like being able to double check my auditory comprehension lmao.)

Original Fan Music
Music good. I like a lot of things—some genres I prefer over others, but I’ll listen to most anything at least once. That being said, I definitely had, like, scores in mind when I asked for this one—if you want to do something else tho go right ahead!

Podfic | Podfic of any of my fics that match this requests fandom/relationships
I like podfics! Idk, I don’t know what else to say here—just keep in mind the audio levels thing (wild fluctuations in volume hurt) and I’m sure it’ll be great!

Illustrated Text

Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook

In-Universe Academic Publication

In-Universe Magazine Article

In-Universe Magazine Spread

In-Universe Newspaper Article

In-Universe Newspaper Front Page

In-Universe Social Media

In-Universe Tabloid Article

Mission Report

All of these are, more or less, a request for epistolary works in the broad sense—I like epistolary things! Get creative with them! Do the public documents clash with things we know from canon, or from other things in the work? How absurdly wrong are the tabloids about our characters?

Poetry

Alliterative Long Line | Alliterisen | Ballad | Cascade Poem | Elegy | Ghazal | Golden Shovel | Narrative Poem | Ode | Pantoum | Rondeau | Sapphic Verse | Sestina | Sonnet | Tanka Series | Villanelle
(Tbh I have no thoughts on any of these specifically, I’ve just collected them here for your convenience.)

Song Lyrics – Filk/Parody | Song Lyrics – Original | Theatre Script – Musical | Theatre Script – Shakespearean-style
Gotta love them songs! And theater scripts too. I’m sorry, it’s late.

Any Poetry Style of In-Universe RPF | In-Universe Poetry | In-Universe Prayer
The only thing better than poetry: in-universe poetry. Go wild here!

Writing (& Instrusctions)

Instructions – Spell or Ritual Instructions
I just requested this for Mother of Learning—magic is always described loosely there, and I would love to see it talked about in more detail!

Any In-Universe Documents | Epistolary | Excerpts from a Character’s Journal/Notebook | In-Universe Tabloid Article | List of things (character) is not allowed to do | Mission Report
Give me all the little pieces of narrative to put together What Actually Happened! I crave them :D

Non-Linear Narrative
What can I say except that I like them? Tbh I wouldn’t normally consider this a different enough medium to be necessarily opt-in, but it is here, so here u go.

Recursive Fic of Any of the Recip’s Works In This Fandom
Really, you can’t possibly go wrong here; if you write me recursive fic of my fic I will love you forever lmao.

Meta | Worldbuilding Headcanon
Tell me all your thoughts! They needn’t be in fic format here :D

Reddit: Highly Upvoted/Gilded Reddit Comment And The Comment’s Context | In-Universe r/AmITheAsshole Post (Post + Replies) | In-Universe r/Legaladvice Post (Post + Replies) | In-Universe r/Relationships Post (Post + Replies) | In-Universe Reddit Post On Any Subreddit (Post + Replies)
I would absolutely love seeing drama played out in a Reddit thread! Especially if you drag screennames into the mix, and therefore (possibly accidental) secret identities? :eyes:

Mother of Learning: Overall Notes

Fandom-specific DNW:

physical parental abuse within the Kazinski family

Zach/Zorian

permadeath of a canonical temporary looper major-to-the-work-character within the work

significant exaggeration of canonical emotional neglect/abuse/general family dysfunction

explicit permanent erasure of time traveler characters in your work who weren’t erased in canon (this would include Zach, Zorian, and any non-canonical time travelers and non-canonical iterations of canonical time travelers. it would also technically include Silverlake and Jornak, but I don't actually care much about either of their well-being, so.)

Please consider me opted in to any AU from the MoL section of my 2020 AUEx letter for purposes of this exchange, as long as you don’t write it as fully mundane.

Modern Character Set: Silverlake, Alanic, Fortov, Taiven, Xvim, Zorian, Kiana, Raynie, Kirielle, Neolu, Zach, Kael

Requested Media

• Medium Opt In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
• Medium Opt In: Any - Creator's Choice: 3+ Diff In-Universe Mediums/Work That Fit The Canon Setting
• Medium Opt In: Art - Adaptation Concept Art
• Medium Opt In: Art - Book Cover
• Medium Opt In: Art - Comics
• Medium Opt In: Art - Excerpts from a Character's Sketchbook
• Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart
• Medium Opt In: Art - Propaganda Poster
• Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass
• Medium Opt In: Art - Tapestry
• Medium Opt In: Art - Tarot Card
• Medium Opt In: Audio - Original Fan Music
• Medium Opt In: Audio - Podfic
• Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook
• Medium Opt In: Instructions - Spell or Ritual Instructions
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Alliterative Long Line
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Alliterisen
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Any Poetry Style of In-Universe RPF
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Ballad
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Cascade Poem
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Elegy
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Golden Shovel
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - In-Universe Poetry
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - In-Universe Prayer
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Narrative Poem
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Ode
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Pantoum
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Rondeau
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Sapphic Verse
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Sestina
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Song Lyrics - Filk/Parody
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Song Lyrics - Original
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Sonnet
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Tanka Series
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Theatre Script - Musical
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Theatre Script - Shakespearean-style
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Villanelle
• Medium Opt In: Writing - List of things (character) is not allowed to do
• Medium Opt In: Writing - Non-Linear Narrative
• Medium Opt In: Writing - Worldbuilding Headcanon

Silverlake & Alanic Zosk
For these two, I’d be very interested in something to do with Alanic’s backstory; Silverlake knew him as a young necromancer, so… what happened there? How did they know each other? Why was Alanic set on becoming a necromancer; clearly he got far enough to have soul sight himself—how’d he get that? Why did he leave the necromancer’s path to become a priest?

Fortov Kazinski
Of all the Kazinski siblings, we see Fortov the least, and we know that Zorian doesn’t like him much at all, but it’s also pretty clear that Zorian isn’t a totally reliable narrator when it comes to Fortov. So tell me about him! What’s it like to be Fortov Kazinski, generally charismatic middle child who isn’t a total overachiever in any field, unlike the rest of his siblings? Even Kirielle has her art.

Also, I’d be very down for a time looper!Fortov au.

Taiven, Zorian Kazinski & Taiven
Taiven! I don’t have any old prompts to cannibalize here, and I don’t have anything super specific, but! I like her a lot, I like her attitude and accidental abrasiveness and her dynamic with Zorian. I like how we see different sides of her emerge in response to Zorian’s variable behavior, and how even after Zorian surpasses her in combat ability she’s still very clearly far from helpless.

Xvim Chao & Alanic Zosk, Xvim Chao
For Alanic and Xvim, I dunno, this seemed fun? They’re both part of the “annoying but ultimately helpful teacher” club to Zorian, and they get along well with each other. They’re both a lot of fun and they play off each other well; just go wild here. I’m down for it if you are. [insert “I just think they’re neat” meme here, please.]

For Xvim, I really like him; he’s very obnoxious, through Zorian’s (and most of his students’) initial eyes, but he’s also very good, and he’s a fun kind of obnoxious, lmao.

Kiana & Raynie
Me? Latching onto a minor character in a big sprawling canon? It’s more likely than you think!

Anyway I like Raynie a lot; we don’t get a whole lot on her, but what we do get paints her as someone who’s having a very interesting life of her own, utterly divorced from the timeloop shenanigans (except re: the shifter children thing).

I like her and Kiana’s friendship, too; I like how when we finally see more of them both we learn more about how they’re similar and different.

For specific prompts, if you want to go pre-canon I’d really love something with her initial going to Cyoria and how she befriended Kiana in the first place (or, perhaps more likely, how Kiana befriended her; I somehow doubt that Raynie age 13, recently semi-exiled from her tribe, was particularly in search of outsider friends).

For post-canon, really, anything dealing with the fallout of all the things that go down in the real world would be fantastic too.

Kirielle Kazinski, Kirielle Kazinski & Zorian Kazinski
For Kirielle and Zorian, I love their dynamic! And I’d really enjoy seeing their relationship developing in real time, rather than a constantly looping world. I think it would be great to see either of them defending the other to their parents—and maybe Zorian ends up with custody of Kiri, there’s definitely things to explore there.

If you want to focus on Kirielle’s relationship with someone who isn’t Zorian, for Kirielle and Nochka, they’re adorable and I’d love a further development of their friendship, especially getting to see it grow and develop over the months and years after the invasion. If you want to write about Kiri and Zach, these two seem to have a lot of fun teaming up against Zorian lol, I really enjoy their dynamic and how they play off each other. Or you could go with someone else entirely!

I’d be here for any sort of solo story about/character study of Kiri, really, but I’m gonna prompt a few specific things anyway.

She grows up a little, and becomes a student mage—what’s that like for her, especially having received Zorian’s tutelage?

She grows up a little, and doesn’t seriously pursue magic—does she devote herself more seriously to art? Do something else? Get away from her parents, and get to just be a kid for a little longer than her siblings?

By some mechanism, Kirielle gets pulled into the time loop, whether with Zorian, instead of him, or in some utterly unrelated incident. What’s it like to grow older and older in life experience while your body remains stubbornly nine? How does this change the story? If you go this route I’d rather looper!Kiri not be erased in the timeline of the fic—ending the fic before it becomes an issue or letting her escape back to the real world are what I’d rather see.

For some reason—there’s actually a fair amount that’d have to change here, but shhh this is my ridiculous self-indulgent prompt—Kirielle is the Controller. How does she react to being in a looping world, with no one else looping she can possibly compare notes with? What does she do with her time? Why did the angels choose her? How does this impact canon—is Jornak even a problem, does the whole Sovereign Gate affair pass much as it was meant to rather than the debacle that became of it in canon?

For more elaboration on my ideas about Kirielle-the-time-traveler, and prompts about deaf!Kirielle, please see my Id Pro Quo 2021 letter.

Neoluma-Manu Iljatir & Zach Noveda, Zach Noveda
Assuming you don’t go for a setting AU, I’d generally prefer something set at least in part after the time loop begins, but beyond that I don’t have a strong preference for where in the timeline this might be set. Maybe something from before Zorian got looped in—maybe one of the iterations where Zach and Neolu just went off across the country having fun the whole month? Zach doing whatever, possibly very early on, or maybe him freaking out a little because what the hell, time travel is supposed to be impossible, and yet—what did he do in the start?

Or for post-canon, I’d really like an exploration of Zach, who’s got the lived-time of a middle-aged man and the body of a teenager—how does he relate to his classmates/other people in the real world, where everyone’s growing again? Maybe something about his lawsuit against his caretaker, or just a little thing with him, Zorian, and How Do You Live Normally, Again? This Is Hard, or some such thing.

Kael Tverinov
Kael is pretty great, honestly. A little junior necromancer, who wants to look after his daughter and be a great healer… idk, I just. I like him. Go wild. Pre-canon character study? Post-canon adventures in becoming a better healer? Spending six normal months in the Sovereign Gate and doubling it with Black Rooms and the Imperial Orb, and what that was like?

If you want AU prompts, I’m always down for alternate time traveler stories.

The Old Ones: Silverlake, Alanic, Quatach-Ichl, The Ghost Serpent

Requested Media

• Medium Opt In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
• Medium Opt In: Any - Creator's Choice: 3+ Diff In-Universe Mediums/Work That Fit The Canon Setting
• Medium Opt In: Art - Adaptation Concept Art
• Medium Opt In: Art - Comics
• Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart
• Medium Opt In: Art - Propaganda Poster
• Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass
• Medium Opt In: Art - Tapestry
• Medium Opt In: Art - Tarot Card
• Medium Opt In: Audio - Original Fan Music
• Medium Opt In: Audio - Podfic
• Medium Opt In: Instructions - Spell or Ritual Instructions
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Alliterative Long Line
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Alliterisen
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Any Poetry Style of In-Universe RPF
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Ballad
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Cascade Poem
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Elegy
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Ghazal
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Golden Shovel
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - In-Universe Poetry
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - In-Universe Prayer
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Narrative Poem
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Ode
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Pantoum
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Rondeau
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Sapphic Verse
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Sestina
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Song Lyrics - Filk/Parody
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Song Lyrics - Original
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Sonnet
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Tanka Series
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Theatre Script - Shakespearean-style
• Medium Opt In: Poetry - Villanelle
• Medium Opt In: Writing - Meta
• Medium Opt In: Writing - Non-Linear Narrative
• Medium Opt In: Writing - Worldbuilding Headcanon

Silverlake & Alanic Zosk
Silverlake (probably) isn’t as old as Quatach-Ichl, and she certainly isn’t as old as the Ghost Serpent, but she’s plenty old herself; what’s it like, having seen the world change so much around you? How did Alanic factor into her life—did he impact her at all?

Quatach-Ichl, the Ghost Serpent
So, these two are just… they’re old. They’re very old; QI, the younger, is still a thousand years old, and they’ve just seen so much?? I’d love some sort of exploration of the world’s history through either of their eyes.

For the Ghost Serpent, I’d be very interested in what it saw the other Branded Ones do that put it off of them so badly.

For QI, I’m interested both in the world history around him and also how he became what he is—why/how did he become a lich in the first place? Who was he before? Why did he get a divine blessing? What did he think of the gods falling silent? What was the Necromancer’s War like?

Worldbuilding

Requested Media

• Medium Opt In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
• Medium Opt In: Any - Creator's Choice: 3+ Diff In-Universe Mediums/Work That Fit The Canon Setting
• Medium Opt In: Art - Floorplan/Architectural Style Drawing
• Medium Opt In: Art - In-Universe Newspaper Front Page
• Medium Opt In: Art - Location Interior Design
• Medium Opt In: Art - Propaganda Poster
• Medium Opt In: Art - Stained Glass
• Medium Opt In: Art - Tapestry
• Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook
• Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Academic Publication
• Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Magazine Article
• Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Magazine Spread
• Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Newspaper Article
• Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Newspaper Front Page
• Medium Opt In: Instructions - Spell or Ritual Instructions
• Medium Opt In: Writing - Non-Linear Narrative
• Medium Opt In: Writing - Worldbuilding Headcanon

Development of Shaping Exercises
So we know that back in the day shaping exercises were less sophisticated, and now they’re quite intense; anything you want to give me about how we got from one place to another would be great!!

Pre-Train Transportation in Altazia
This is, you know, probably incredibly niche. But! My impression of their society is that it’s sort of mid-19th-century tech levels, so trains are still seeing major developments, and idk man I just want to know more about what people did for long-distance travel—especially those who can’t teleport—before trains were a thing/so common a thing. I would also be interested in the adjacent topic of intra-city transport; surely some people have other options than walking for a city that takes a good couple hours at least to cross on foot, like Cyoria?

Original Work: Overall Notes

fandom-specific dnw:

age gaps in ships of more than 3 or so years when one character is underage (would prefer them to be in at least vaguely similar stages of life regardless of age)

predatory manipulation between characters in the relationship in service of the relationship

lengthy focus on transphobia or gender dysphoria (implied/referenced/mentioned okay; briefly present okay)

any bigotry-motivated violence

nounself pronouns

switching pronouns at random within a single character's PoV

I don’t really have super detailed prompts here, but I do love all the dynamics and ideas that I’ve asked for—toss em in a blender with something roughly shaped like my general likes and I’m sure I’ll love it!

Superhero Prompts

Requested Media

• Medium Opt In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents
• Medium Opt In: Any - Creator's Choice of 3+ Different In-Universe Mediums Per Work
• Medium Opt In: Art - Adaptation Concept Art
• Medium Opt In: Art - Book Cover
• Medium Opt In: Art - Comics
• Medium Opt In: Art - Conspiracy Board
• Medium Opt In: Art - Costume Design
• Medium Opt In: Art - Excerpts from a Character's Sketchbook
• Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart
• Medium Opt In: Art - Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic
• Medium Opt In: Art - Fancomic of Recipient's Fic
• Medium Opt In: Art - Floorplan/Architectural Style Drawing
• Medium Opt In: Art - In-Universe Newspaper Front Page
• Medium Opt In: Art - In-Universe Social Media
• Medium Opt In: Art - Tarot Card
• Medium Opt In: Art - Weapon Schematics
• Medium Opt In: Audio - In-Universe Interview
• Medium Opt In: Audio - Podfic
• Medium Opt In: Audio - Podfic of any of my fics that match this request's fandom/relationships
• Medium Opt In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook
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Adolescent Supervillain & Concerned Older Superhero, Child Supervillain & Their Concerned Superhero Nemesis
So, what’s the dynamic going on here? How come the kid ended up on the wrong side of things—how does the superhero balance their concern for their young opponent and their responsibility to protect everyone else? Is the kid ruthless and hardcore, or more of a Catwoman level villain?

Child Superhero & Their Concerned Supervillain Nemesis
Look, I clearly can’t get enough of this dynamic, based on my already having written and received this pair. I do not care. Please, give me more of it. I am so incredibly weak to the person who’s typically, you know, a Criminal™ going “wait you are a child. Are you okay.”

Disillusioned Young Supervillain & Idealistic Young Superhero-in-Training
Give me all the worldview clashes! Do they think very differently, or do they have similar perspectives on the world and have just decided to respond in very different ways? How do they feel about each other—are they friendly, in spite of it all? Or do they dislike each other, or something in between?

Kid Superhero & Kid Vigilante & Kid Supervillain
A trio, this time—one on the side of the law, one trying to do good outside its purview, and one actively breaking it. How do they go together?

Teen Boy Superhero with a Magical Girl Transformation & Stealthy Teen Vigilante
Such different aesthetics! How do they go together? How do they clash?

Trans Boy Raised Into Supervillainy & Teen Superhero Desperate to Prove Themself
Did our villain kid transition young, or did he have a public villain persona before transition? Why is the hero kid so determined to prove themself, and in what way/aspect do they mean to do it?

Young Supervillain Sent to Infiltrate Hero School as a Student & Friendly Hero Student(s)
All I want here is, like, step one of infiltration: do not form emotional bonds with the people you’re infiltrating.
You have failed step one.

Often Injured Sidekick/Supervillain Who Keeps Saving Them
This just seems. Neat. Idk, I’m tired, I’m sorry. No thoughts head empty.

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Last Member of an Ancient Order & Young Chosen One
What was this character chosen for? Who/what chose them? Are they being made a part of the ancient order, or is this just two people who know each other?

Necromancer & Raised Skeletons Whose Bone Puns Make Her Regret Her Career Choices, Spellsword Mercenary & Mathemagician
Look, I just. I just think these would make for some great puns, and also maybe fun adventure(?) stories.

Oath of the Ancients Paladin & Fey Wanderer Ranger
I’m mostly looking for the Vibes here, no need to ground it strictly in a DnD adjacent world—but I’d love to see your take on these two otherworldly characters! Are they friends? Frenemies? Enemies? How does the world look at them?

Older sister naturally talented for magic & Her younger brother who can’t do any magic
I love this sort of magical/nonmagical dynamic, so this pair was catnip for me, lmao. Tell me about these siblings and their dynamic and their stories!

Prophesied Hero & Prophesied Dark Lord, Prophesied Hero/Prophesied Dark Lord
My take on these two tags is a gender neutral one; I just love the dynamic of these two people who are supposed to be enemies, and are… something. Maybe they’re enemies, maybe they’re not, maybe it’s somewhere in the middle… tell me more!

Girl Living in Disquietingly Magical Small Town
What’s the magic like in this town? Is it small and subtle and making things just not-quite-right? Is it big and bright and everywhere, and the girl just isn’t used to it? Is she new to town, or has she lived there a long time?

Person Without a Destiny in a World Where Everyone’s Fate Is Known
What’s the world like to navigate, when you expected a path to be laid out before you, and yet there’s none to be found?