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Id Pro Quo Letter 2025
Apr. 6th, 2025 11:36 pmHi! 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.
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?
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 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 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.
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?
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.
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?
