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rarelywritten 2015 - author letter and prompts
Dear Author,
It's my first year doing this sort of exchange, so I hope I'm providing you with the kind of details that you need. In general I love all the characters I picked, so anything at all involving them will pretty much make me happy. Don't feel the need to follow my prompts particularly closely. I don't have much in the way of squicks, triggers, or moral fiber, really, so feel free to go whatever way drives your fancy!
As for wants, I love stories that are basically missing scenes from canon. Things that feel true to the original universe, and the characters we've gotten to know. I'm delighted when I can read a story and think, yep, that's exactly what she'd do in this situation. At the same time, I love seeing a side to someone that we don't normally get: a villain showing a moment of softness, a meek background character finally standing up for herself.
I always enjoy watching my favorite characters be stone-cold badasses, exquisitely competent, and yes, maybe a little frightening. (Or a lot.) I like when they're able to set aside their emotion to do the necessary thing, or the selfless thing, or the surprising thing. I like loyalty a lot, and closeness, and deep, unspoken understanding.
I also really admire world-building. Show me what life is like in Kandra society, or how Yeerks interact in the pool. This is getting a little specific, so let's move on to prompts...
Avatar: Legend of Korra
Lin Beifong, Pema, Kuvira, Zhu Li Moon
First of all, I love this universe. Show me bending, show me air bison, show me the four different bending cultures jostling up alongside one another in the awkward melting pot of Republic City, and I'm good to go.
One thing I'm super intrigued by is the story between Lin, Pema, and Tenzin. As fanon has it (or maybe canon?) Lin and Tenzin were way-back-when lovers, until it became impressed upon Tenzin (perhaps upon his father's death?) that he was the last airbender, and that his duty to continue the line trumped any personal feelings. The show makes a good call not showing us all the tragic backstory, but I do want to know how it affects their relationships now. I want to see how the decades have changed things between Lin and Tenzin. I want to see Lin being kind to Pema, protective of her children. Most of all, I want to see her making peace with where her life and her choices have brought her.
1) Lin with sidekick Mako as some sort of Batman and Robin duo. This copper is patrolling rooftops at an age when most cartoon characters are drinking tea and rubbing their long white whiskers.
2) Pema and Lin do something domestic together. Does Pema have to show Lin how to haggle for cabbages or wash her clothes more efficiently? Is Lin living on spaghetti-o's in her bachelorette pad, or is she surprisingly good with a wok?
3) Kuvira is a terrifying leader, unifying the people through brute force and coercion. But she's also very much on the front lines of battle. I'd like to see her come lend a hand, lay down a track or two. At first her presence probably makes people nervous, but eventually they'll see that she's here to help.
4) Varrick and Zhu Li's first meeting okay I can't help you here please it must be cute. I'm sure she blew him away and he instantly assumed someone this awesome would have to come work for him, that's just how the universe turns.
Android: Netrunner
Rielle "Kit" Peddler, Reina Roja, Elizabeth Mills, Chaos Theory, Caprice Nisei
Thank you for even considering this fandom. One of the things that drew me to this game (besides how awesomely fun it is) is its rich yet tantalizingly understated lore. I would absolutely love to see the interaction between a runner and someone on the corp side, perhaps mid break-in. Or behind the scenes at Jinteki or Weyland corporation, say? Instead of giving prompts, let me try to sell you on my two favorite non-ID characters:
1) Caprice Nisei is the first of her generation of clones to make it out of the vats, and the only one with a name so far. She serves as a psychic for the NAPD, guarding high-risk servers by trying to predict the runner's next move. If she guesses right, the runner's sent packing. If she guesses wrong, the server is toast, and there's not much protecting her either. Though she shouldn't be preferential, she has a particular interest in guarding the next generation of Nisei clones: her sisters, or maybe nieces, you could call them. If she can guard them long enough, they may in time develop the power to save her as well...
2) Elizabeth Mills is on the art of Scorched Earth, and of course the flavor text on her own card: "It's not personal. Urban renewal is a necessity of the modern world. It's always someone's home, yours is no different." She's an executive at Weyland Corporation who can always put a spin on bad PR and spends an awful lot of time blowing up hackers and their favorite haunts.
Mistborn
Vin, Steris, MeLaan, Allrianne Cett, Tindwyl
1) Tindwyl or Steris, being rigid and pragmatic and stiff... and lovable. How do you woo a woman like this? With footnotes and cross-references, that's how. With meticulous research. With loopholes so fine only she could have detected them.
2) MeLaan's generation doesn't seem to take any contracts, just sit around devising what kind of bones to wear next (wood? stone?). Tell me about a time that MeLaan ventures out of the caves, into human society. Her mantra: what would TenSoon do?
3) Allrianne and Breeze have manipulated people their whole lives, sometimes for their own good. When Breeze is reluctant to enter a relationship with her, it's up to Allrianne to manipulate a master manipulator. For his own good, of course.
Hunter X Hunter
Senritsu, Alluka Zoldyck, Canary, Leroute, Neferpitou, Menchi, Palm Siberia
1) We all know how Leroute's story ends: as a sociopathic psychologist, she drove her patients to madness and suicide, until she was caught and imprisoned in Trick Tower. I'd love to see her with a patient, or what happens when she comes to prison for the first time. (I also kind of want to see a world where she manipulates Leorio long enough to earn her freedom, and then meets up with him to say thanks. In her own way.)
2) A story from Alluka's perspective would be absolutely fascinating. Everyone sees her as a horrible wrongness, or a wish machine to be learned and exploited. Killua is the only one who treats Alluka like a person, but even he treats Nanika as something wrong and evil (and maybe it is). But to Alluka, Nanika is a friend - her only friend who doesn't die, or lock her up, or run off to take some hunter exam. Nanika is just here to make Alluka's wishes come true.
3) Palm takes a day on the town and just terrifies everyone. By the end of it, her stress waves have gone away, and she is calm again.
4) I don't know why but I love the idea of a Hunter... for food. Can we see Menchi on the quest for a delicious and dangerous ingredient? Please have her get to cook and enjoy the scrumptiousness at the end. Thanks.
Animorphs
Cassie, Aftran 942, Eva, Toby Hamee, Taylor, Sub-Visser Fifty-one
It's hard to overstate my love for this crazy gang of teenagers and the absolutely insane war they fought in secret (all while educating us about animals better than any Zoobooks). I've always wanted to learn more about what happened after the end of the war. How did humanity receive these young heroes? How did they build a relationship with the Andalite tourists, the nature-preserve Hork-Bajir, the nothlit Yeerks? How did they handle giving more humans access to the morphing power?
1) Of all of them, Cassie is the most talented at morphing, has the most knowledge of Earth animals, and was probably the least messed up by the war. It would be cool to see her as some sort of morphing consultant, either for Andalite tourists, for human soldiers, or maybe in hospitals, to magically cure injuries.
2) When Aftran chose to become a nothlit, she didn't know that after the end of the war, she would be joined by many more. That was a lonely time.
3) I'm also curious about Toby, the Hork-Bajir seer. In our lore, seers are mysterious beings that know things beyond our understanding. But a Hork-Bajir seer is just someone at what humans consider a normal level of intelligence. All Toby has to do to find millions of minds like her own is leave the Hork-Bajir preserves. Does she ever venture out? Is there a place she can go in human society?
4) Taylor and Sub-visser 51 are so well suited to each other that you really can't tell which one is crazier: the homecoming queen who gave up control of her body just to make it beautiful again, or the Yeerk who wound up wanting that life too. I kind of have this picture of the two of them somehow making it through the war, and trying to pretend to be a normal human afterwards: young, beautiful, and totally sane. Living off a portable Kandrona generator in the bathtub, purposely not thinking more than a single day ahead.
It's my first year doing this sort of exchange, so I hope I'm providing you with the kind of details that you need. In general I love all the characters I picked, so anything at all involving them will pretty much make me happy. Don't feel the need to follow my prompts particularly closely. I don't have much in the way of squicks, triggers, or moral fiber, really, so feel free to go whatever way drives your fancy!
As for wants, I love stories that are basically missing scenes from canon. Things that feel true to the original universe, and the characters we've gotten to know. I'm delighted when I can read a story and think, yep, that's exactly what she'd do in this situation. At the same time, I love seeing a side to someone that we don't normally get: a villain showing a moment of softness, a meek background character finally standing up for herself.
I always enjoy watching my favorite characters be stone-cold badasses, exquisitely competent, and yes, maybe a little frightening. (Or a lot.) I like when they're able to set aside their emotion to do the necessary thing, or the selfless thing, or the surprising thing. I like loyalty a lot, and closeness, and deep, unspoken understanding.
I also really admire world-building. Show me what life is like in Kandra society, or how Yeerks interact in the pool. This is getting a little specific, so let's move on to prompts...
Avatar: Legend of Korra
Lin Beifong, Pema, Kuvira, Zhu Li Moon
First of all, I love this universe. Show me bending, show me air bison, show me the four different bending cultures jostling up alongside one another in the awkward melting pot of Republic City, and I'm good to go.
One thing I'm super intrigued by is the story between Lin, Pema, and Tenzin. As fanon has it (or maybe canon?) Lin and Tenzin were way-back-when lovers, until it became impressed upon Tenzin (perhaps upon his father's death?) that he was the last airbender, and that his duty to continue the line trumped any personal feelings. The show makes a good call not showing us all the tragic backstory, but I do want to know how it affects their relationships now. I want to see how the decades have changed things between Lin and Tenzin. I want to see Lin being kind to Pema, protective of her children. Most of all, I want to see her making peace with where her life and her choices have brought her.
1) Lin with sidekick Mako as some sort of Batman and Robin duo. This copper is patrolling rooftops at an age when most cartoon characters are drinking tea and rubbing their long white whiskers.
2) Pema and Lin do something domestic together. Does Pema have to show Lin how to haggle for cabbages or wash her clothes more efficiently? Is Lin living on spaghetti-o's in her bachelorette pad, or is she surprisingly good with a wok?
3) Kuvira is a terrifying leader, unifying the people through brute force and coercion. But she's also very much on the front lines of battle. I'd like to see her come lend a hand, lay down a track or two. At first her presence probably makes people nervous, but eventually they'll see that she's here to help.
4) Varrick and Zhu Li's first meeting okay I can't help you here please it must be cute. I'm sure she blew him away and he instantly assumed someone this awesome would have to come work for him, that's just how the universe turns.
Android: Netrunner
Rielle "Kit" Peddler, Reina Roja, Elizabeth Mills, Chaos Theory, Caprice Nisei
Thank you for even considering this fandom. One of the things that drew me to this game (besides how awesomely fun it is) is its rich yet tantalizingly understated lore. I would absolutely love to see the interaction between a runner and someone on the corp side, perhaps mid break-in. Or behind the scenes at Jinteki or Weyland corporation, say? Instead of giving prompts, let me try to sell you on my two favorite non-ID characters:
1) Caprice Nisei is the first of her generation of clones to make it out of the vats, and the only one with a name so far. She serves as a psychic for the NAPD, guarding high-risk servers by trying to predict the runner's next move. If she guesses right, the runner's sent packing. If she guesses wrong, the server is toast, and there's not much protecting her either. Though she shouldn't be preferential, she has a particular interest in guarding the next generation of Nisei clones: her sisters, or maybe nieces, you could call them. If she can guard them long enough, they may in time develop the power to save her as well...
2) Elizabeth Mills is on the art of Scorched Earth, and of course the flavor text on her own card: "It's not personal. Urban renewal is a necessity of the modern world. It's always someone's home, yours is no different." She's an executive at Weyland Corporation who can always put a spin on bad PR and spends an awful lot of time blowing up hackers and their favorite haunts.
Mistborn
Vin, Steris, MeLaan, Allrianne Cett, Tindwyl
1) Tindwyl or Steris, being rigid and pragmatic and stiff... and lovable. How do you woo a woman like this? With footnotes and cross-references, that's how. With meticulous research. With loopholes so fine only she could have detected them.
2) MeLaan's generation doesn't seem to take any contracts, just sit around devising what kind of bones to wear next (wood? stone?). Tell me about a time that MeLaan ventures out of the caves, into human society. Her mantra: what would TenSoon do?
3) Allrianne and Breeze have manipulated people their whole lives, sometimes for their own good. When Breeze is reluctant to enter a relationship with her, it's up to Allrianne to manipulate a master manipulator. For his own good, of course.
Hunter X Hunter
Senritsu, Alluka Zoldyck, Canary, Leroute, Neferpitou, Menchi, Palm Siberia
1) We all know how Leroute's story ends: as a sociopathic psychologist, she drove her patients to madness and suicide, until she was caught and imprisoned in Trick Tower. I'd love to see her with a patient, or what happens when she comes to prison for the first time. (I also kind of want to see a world where she manipulates Leorio long enough to earn her freedom, and then meets up with him to say thanks. In her own way.)
2) A story from Alluka's perspective would be absolutely fascinating. Everyone sees her as a horrible wrongness, or a wish machine to be learned and exploited. Killua is the only one who treats Alluka like a person, but even he treats Nanika as something wrong and evil (and maybe it is). But to Alluka, Nanika is a friend - her only friend who doesn't die, or lock her up, or run off to take some hunter exam. Nanika is just here to make Alluka's wishes come true.
3) Palm takes a day on the town and just terrifies everyone. By the end of it, her stress waves have gone away, and she is calm again.
4) I don't know why but I love the idea of a Hunter... for food. Can we see Menchi on the quest for a delicious and dangerous ingredient? Please have her get to cook and enjoy the scrumptiousness at the end. Thanks.
Animorphs
Cassie, Aftran 942, Eva, Toby Hamee, Taylor, Sub-Visser Fifty-one
It's hard to overstate my love for this crazy gang of teenagers and the absolutely insane war they fought in secret (all while educating us about animals better than any Zoobooks). I've always wanted to learn more about what happened after the end of the war. How did humanity receive these young heroes? How did they build a relationship with the Andalite tourists, the nature-preserve Hork-Bajir, the nothlit Yeerks? How did they handle giving more humans access to the morphing power?
1) Of all of them, Cassie is the most talented at morphing, has the most knowledge of Earth animals, and was probably the least messed up by the war. It would be cool to see her as some sort of morphing consultant, either for Andalite tourists, for human soldiers, or maybe in hospitals, to magically cure injuries.
2) When Aftran chose to become a nothlit, she didn't know that after the end of the war, she would be joined by many more. That was a lonely time.
3) I'm also curious about Toby, the Hork-Bajir seer. In our lore, seers are mysterious beings that know things beyond our understanding. But a Hork-Bajir seer is just someone at what humans consider a normal level of intelligence. All Toby has to do to find millions of minds like her own is leave the Hork-Bajir preserves. Does she ever venture out? Is there a place she can go in human society?
4) Taylor and Sub-visser 51 are so well suited to each other that you really can't tell which one is crazier: the homecoming queen who gave up control of her body just to make it beautiful again, or the Yeerk who wound up wanting that life too. I kind of have this picture of the two of them somehow making it through the war, and trying to pretend to be a normal human afterwards: young, beautiful, and totally sane. Living off a portable Kandrona generator in the bathtub, purposely not thinking more than a single day ahead.