Yuletide Letter
Oct. 20th, 2021 08:34 pmhello there! 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 longer than anything 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 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
Fairy tale AUs and fusions (consider this point an override of the "unrequested setting au" dnw, if you want)
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.
Kirielle Kazinski
physical parental abuse within the Kazinski family
significant exaggeration of canonical emotional neglect/abuse/general family dysfunction
Zach/Zorian
permanent erasure of a canonical temporary looper who is a major character to the fic within the fic
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 you can consider them an exception to this lol)
original!Kirielle dying at all, whether that be from plot events or getting her body stolen by her looping counterpart.
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.
prompts!
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.
Any
The video!
this video is so very mysterious and alluring... I don't really have specific prompts here, per se, but I want to know your take on this world/these characters/what's going on!
(also, in case you're like me and the sight of an "any" request makes you want to cry and/or ignore it entirely because you can't remember which things were in the tagset to begin with: the characters in the tagset are Worldbuilding, the Wolf, and the Red-Cloaked Woman.)
I still don’t have specific prompts as I write this letter, but I do have some questions, if you want to play off them!
what sort of world is this? Is it like our world, only stylized? Is it more magical realism? It gives me big magical realism vibes lmao.
what’s with the wolf, and the encounter? Is the wolf just a wolf, or is it special somehow? Are they two halves of a whole?
does the cloak grow redder as the woman rejects her society further? Is it special at all? Or merely symbolic?
Yun, Mia Everstied, Elias Everstied
the document I made compiling all the material I know of for this fandom, pls use it for reference as you desire
if you just want the animatics themselves:
The Other Side Animatic
Waiting in the Wings Animatic
fandom-specific notes: if you want to write shipfic, I'd be fine with that here, though I would prefer romance to not be the only important thing in the fic. I'd be fine with Elias/Yun (or maybe the tiny-fandom-still-a-rarepair of Mia/Yun? could be interesting!)
other than that, I really like the world and conflicts depicted and implied in these animatics; I don't have many specific prompts coming to mind right now, but I'd really like anything further exploring the setting/characters!
how did Mia get herself arrested? since Waiting in the Wings is presumably before that, and the house seems deserted then.
what happens after the end of The Other Side?
what, exactly, was Yun doing with those guns?
what does Mia think of Yun's offer? What’s her involvement here?
what are Elias's reservations about the whole thing?
I like all these fandoms a lot and I hope you have fun writing for me!
(also i've been requesting Kirielle longer than anything 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.
general likes
general DNW
*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.
Mother of Learning - nobody103
Kirielle Kazinski
fandom-specific dnw:
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.
prompts!
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.
Natural - Imagine Dragons (Lyric Video)
Any
The video!
this video is so very mysterious and alluring... I don't really have specific prompts here, per se, but I want to know your take on this world/these characters/what's going on!
(also, in case you're like me and the sight of an "any" request makes you want to cry and/or ignore it entirely because you can't remember which things were in the tagset to begin with: the characters in the tagset are Worldbuilding, the Wolf, and the Red-Cloaked Woman.)
I still don’t have specific prompts as I write this letter, but I do have some questions, if you want to play off them!
The Other Side & Waiting in the Wings - emilyamiao (Animatics)
Yun, Mia Everstied, Elias Everstied
the document I made compiling all the material I know of for this fandom, pls use it for reference as you desire
if you just want the animatics themselves:
The Other Side Animatic
Waiting in the Wings Animatic
fandom-specific notes: if you want to write shipfic, I'd be fine with that here, though I would prefer romance to not be the only important thing in the fic. I'd be fine with Elias/Yun (or maybe the tiny-fandom-still-a-rarepair of Mia/Yun? could be interesting!)
other than that, I really like the world and conflicts depicted and implied in these animatics; I don't have many specific prompts coming to mind right now, but I'd really like anything further exploring the setting/characters!