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yuletide letter 2023
Dear Yuletide Writer,
Hello! Thank you so much for writing for me! I’m ellida on AO3 and pearlsthatwereeyes on tumblr. (Tumblr says that my account may contain sensitive media—as near as I can tell, it’s mad about something I posted forever ago, and I haven’t had the patience to sort out what that is.)
This year, I'm requesting 4 tiny canons. I'm hungry for more fic for all of them and would be delighted with a story in any of them. (Number/length of prompts is a reflection only of how many ideas I came up with, not the depth of my desire for fic.) I've provided some more info about general likes, canon-specific likes, and some prompt ideas for each of them in case that's helpful, but if something sparks you in a completely different direction, that's great too! I'm excited to read whatever you come up with.
Quick housekeeping notes: Treats are enabled. There are jump-cuts for this long letter on my journal page, but I haven't been able to figure out how to make them visible from the direct link, sorry!
General Likes:
-Social, political, and courtly intrigue
-Unequal power dynamics
-Strong but complicated family relationships
-Friends as found family
-Origin stories
-In-universe arts and culture
-Fantasy religion and mythology
-Literary and pop-cultural allusions, either to real-world things or to in-universe things
-Snark and banter
-Women pinning other women against walls
-Women having thorny, complicated, rich relationships with other women
-Women being awesome lady friends who have each other's backs
-Actually just women being awesome in general
-SWORDS
-People grappling with the aftermath of terrible decisions and betrayals and figuring out how to find a way forward together
-People grappling with thorny, there-are-no-good-options choices and/or with the aftermath of said terrible choices
-Unreliable narrators
-Worldbuilding
-In-universe texts and documents (consider this a resounding HECK YES to epistolary fic, journal entry fic, archive fic, in-universe-historical-thesis fic, and or any other experiments with form you want to do)
-Experimental writing styles (do you want to write me a story in 2nd person? cool! do you want to write me a story from the POV of a building? awesome! do you have a completely wild stylistic idea? go for it! etc. etc.)
General DNW's (starred DNWs = mentions of canonical events are fine): rape or non-con; incest; permanent major character death; alternate settings (canon-divergence AU's are fine); A/B/O; eye injuries; torture or abuse more graphic than canon levels; cancer; fic centered on dealing with real-world oppression*; plague/pandemic/disease*
The Silence of Bones - June Hur: Seol, Inspector Han
I love this book for the vividness and historical detail of the setting, the many fascinating and complicated lady characters, and especially for Seol and Inspector Han. I love Seol's curiosity, her tenacity, her compassion for everyone who crosses her path even though her role as a damo is an inherently adversarial one (and the way she chafes at that even as she's fascinated by the mysteries she's trying to solve!), her loneliness and the hesitant steps she takes towards friendship and connection, and her unswerving love for and loyalty to her brother and sister. I love Han's uncompromising pursuit of what he believes is right, and I find his conflict between his desire for vengeance and his love for his little sister both beautiful and deeply, tragically heartbreaking. Mostly, I just want to see more of their relationship and what it could have become or what it was back when things were good between them!
Prompt ideas:
I would love fix-it fic for that ending! I was devastated when Inspector Han died before he and Seol got a chance to reconcile, and I'd love for them to get a do-over. Let them restore their family's house together bit by bit (and their relationship along with it), work another case together and get to know each other that way, or visit their sister together. Let Han and Seol (but especially Han) take their memories of each other down off their pedestals and really dig into the hard, complicated work of rebuilding their relationship as the people they've become. Or write me a missing scene from their case in the novel where they actually do get to start doing that!
If pre-canon is more your style, show me some happy memories of Inho's and Jeong-yun's childhood! I'd prefer not to focus exclusively on Inho's desire for vengeance or the tragedy of what happened to their parents, though that can be present if you like. I'd love something about the bond that eventually leads Jeong-yun to give up everything she knows (and become Seol) to find him. Maybe they're goofing off at the seaside together or Inho is standing up for Jeong-yun against their parents/their sister/some other kids.
Alternately, if you also happen to have watched Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung, I'd love to see the two canons cross over. If you're going this route, feel free to leave out Inspector Han if he doesn't fit into your story.
Specific crossover prompts:
-AU where Seol is Hae-ryung's maid/companion instead of Seol-geum! (Maybe the Jeongs' family friend got Han a position in the civil service or Office of Records instead of in the police department, so Seol's sister finagled her a position with the Goo household to get her closer to Han that way. Or maybe Seol's and Han's parents died as part of the Seoraewon massacre rather than in a general anti-Catholic purge, and she ended up with Jae-kyung and Hae-ryung that way.) In any case, I'd love to see the way Seol's search for her brother intersects with Hae-ryung's quest to become a historian. How do they support each other? What kind of hijinks do they get up to?
-AU where one of Seol's and Inspector Han's investigations bring them into the palace and/or Office of Records, where Seol crosses paths with Hae-ryung. Does Hae-ryung help or hinder Seol's investigation? Does Hae-ryung discover Seol's quest to find her brother and shamelessly meddle until she resolves everything?
Canon-specific DNWs: Focus on Catholicism or the persecution of Catholics; any mention of Inspector Han's death. Please either write me an AU where he didn't die or set your story before his death becomes imminent.
Stay? - E. Jade Lomax: Any (Esteban, Jo, Myka, Worldbuilding)
Stay? is the game of my heart. I love the balance of darkness and lightness, the way the very real costs of failure (famine, war, death, apocalypse) are leavened with slice-of-life cosiness and simple joys (fresh baked scones, sunsets, silly notes from friends). I love the endless permutations and variations, the way your friends play different roles in your life each time but are always in your orbit, shuffling and reshuffling, and the way you have unlimited chances to get it right.
And oh, the characters. I love them all.
I love Esteban’s quiet stoicness and sarcasm, his love of painting, his creativity, the way playfulness and high standards coexist in his approach to painting, his loyalty. I love Myka’s irrepressibility, enthusiasm, intellectual curiosity, and all of herwild and wonderful theories. I love Jo’s mix of seriousness and humor, and the gap between Ancient Time-Looping Jo and Young Single-Loop Jo.
And finally, I am completely fascinated by the world of Stay? I love the magic system, the weight of history and the tantalizing glimpses we get of it. I love the glimpses we get of Fiore. I love that even the minor characters feel like whole people with their own lives. I would love the chance to hang out in this world a little longer, exploring pretty much any aspect.
Prompt ideas:
Esteban: I’d love an Esteban POV of the day you ask him to commit to a little graduation day civil disobedience and tell him out of the blue that he shouldn’t give up painting, a thing he has never shared with you (as far as he knows). I’d also love anything about Esteban’s art: his process of painting, a more detailed description (or future museum catalog?) of his work, his struggles with a particular piece, his decision to start painting again and the ways he fits it into his life, in any of the loops. Or his quest to capture the light at home on the side of the barn vs in Elaia vs in the southern lands.
Myka: I’ve always been fascinated by the way Myka yells, “That explains so much!” when you tell her you’re caught in a time loop. What are the things it explains? How and when does she start putting the pieces together? I’d also love to know more about her magical experiments—either a particular day’s testing or maybe a lab notebook style fic documenting her process. And finally, I love the glimpse of Myka’s grandmother we get—standing tall like a tree, saying Myka was her friend too—and would love a fic exploring their relationship. Did her grandmother raise her? What is their bond like? Is Myka’s grandmother responsible for her interest in science, or is she a baffled but proud supporter of her granddaughter’s completely different interests?
Jo: I’m especially interested in fic exploring the Ancient Time-Looping Jo of the player’s first loop. How did they evolve from that shy serious kid into that sarcastic asshole? Also, we know they had a closer relationship with the player in their own earlier loops—what did some of those look like? What made Jo choose the player as the person to entrust their loop to? Is there a way (maybe with Myka’s help) where the loops can ever cross and the player of the final loop can talk to the Jo of the first loop? Where the Jo of the player’s final loop can talk to the Jo of the first loop?
If you prefer the Jo we know from most of the game, I’d love to learn more about their academic research! Or about some of their rabble-rousing and organizing work in the southern lands.
Worldbuilding: I’d love to read an excerpt of one of the player’s many history theses. I’m particularly fascinated by the one about the influence of immigration on Elaia’s architecture, but I’d also be down to read about modern-era Elaia or prehistoric Elaia or any other period/topic of Elaian history that strikes your fancy.
Also, Fiore! I’d love to learn more about Veris, her life, and the war that drove her to try to protect her city, or what daily life in Fiore was like in her time. What kind of relationship did Fiore and Elaia have with each other before the destruction of Fiore?
The magic shop! I’d eat up anything about it, from Mr Pent and some of his apprentices taking inventory or trying to fulfill a special request to the founding of the shop or an exploration of some of the shop’s regular customers.
Finally, the paper scraps the player works on at the archives! I’d love an expansion of any of them, whether as epistolary fic or as a more traditional fic exploring who these people were and what they were to each other or giving me a snapshot of their lives.
Canon-specific DNW: Major character death in the player character's final loop. If you want to set your story in one of the darker loops (either the player character's or First Loop Jo's) where major characters die, that's okay as long as it isn't the last loop.
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi - Shannon Chakraborty: Amina al-Sirafi, Dalila
I mainlined this book in three days in September and completely fell in love with the Marawati and its crew! It hit all of my friends-as-chosen-family buttons and then some. I loved the fierce way Amina's crew takes care of each other. I loved hearing about their past youthful adventures and seeing them reconnect as adults who are all too aware of what they have to lose but are willing to fight for each other anyway.
I'm requesting Amina and Dalila because they're my particular favorites, but I love the entire cast and am happy for any of them to appear. Some of my prompts include other characters because the book feels like such an ensemble cast to me, but please don't feel pressured to include anyone you don't want to either!
I love Amina's struggle to reconcile her love for her family and her faith with her love of sailing and piracy, and her realization that maybe she doesn't have to cut off all of her past in order to be at peace with who she is. I love Dalila's ferocity, the way her utter ruthlessness is tempered by a deep well of love for her friends.
Prompt ideas:
I am especially fascinated with the place we find Amina and Dalila in with each other at the beginning of the novel: Amina, apprehensive about reconnecting and terrified that Dalila might want her dead; Dalila, annoyed and hurt that her best friend hasn't spoken to her in a decade. How did they come to such different conclusions about what's happening in their relationship? Has Dalila always cared about Amina and Amina never quite realized that Dalila saw her as more than a useful ally? Did Dalila do something that made Amina hold her at arm's length in the past? Did Amina use to consider Dalila a good friend but cut her off out of guilt over Asif/desire to protect Marjana/fear of what Dalila might be capable of?
I'm also interested in anything you can tell me about their past! How did Dalila come to join the Marawati's crew? Both Dalila and Amina seem to be a little easier with Majed than with each other--did he ever have to mediate between them? Was he the one who introduced them in the first place?
And finally, what do Amina and Dalila get up to in the future? What new adventures do they undertake on the Marawati? If Amina makes good on her idea to bring Marjana on board the Marawati (maybe even sooner than she's planning to at the end of the novel), how does Dalila take to being an auntie? Does she take Marjana under her wing? And how does Amina feel about her deadly sometimes-friend taking an interest in her daughter?
Canon-specific DNW: Heavy focus on Raksh or Raksh/Amina. Obviously, Amina's relationship with him affects her relationship with Dalila, so it's totally cool if he appears--I'd just prefer he not be the star of the show and the focus remain more on Amina and Dalila.
Saint Death's Daughter - C.S.E. Cooney: Any (Lanie Stones, Tanaliín, Duantri, Worldbuilding)
I love so many things about Saint Death's Daughter: the wildly careening plot that I could never quite predict, the way all of the characters are so intensely themselves, fight so hard for what they want, and are so deeply wounded but grope so insistently towards healing. Basically, I just love all of these queer weirdos and their strange world that is somehow hilarious and heartbreaking all at once, and I would love to hang out with them or in their world further.
I am racing against the sign-up deadline here, so apologies for the sketched out prompts--please believe that I will be thrilled with anything you write for me in this canon!
Prompt ideas:
-We see Lanie's first meeting with Tan, Duantri, and the rest of their community, and we see the tight-knit friendship they've developed by the day of the Festival, but how did they get there? I would love missing scenes from the development of their friendship, whether that's focused around the School or around hanging out in the pub together or doing something else entirely! Feel free to include Havoc, Datu, Mak, or anyone else if you like (or not if you don't)!
-AU in which Lanie takes Mak's advice and calls on Tan and Duantri for help after Grandpa Rad's attack/Goody's loss to the Scratches.
-Origin story for Tan and Duantri's romance! Origin story for Tan and Duantri's romance! I love these two together and would love to see their initial bonding fleshed out.
-As Lanie eventually learns, Tan is incredibly perceptive. When and how does she figure out the Stones family secrets?
-How did Duantri decide she wanted to become a gyrgardu? Was it due to meeting Tan or was she already on that path when they met?
-Quadoni religion! Tell me more about the gods! Tell me more about the many different forms of sothaín!
-Quadoni school! Tell me more about the traditional caravan school--how would someone who was not Nita experience it? Or tell me more about Waystation 13--what's a typical day there like?
Canon-specific DNW: Breaking up Tan/Duantri (polyamory is fine as long as Tan/Duantri is still a thing); any kind of Lanie/Mak romance or sexual relationship.
Hello! Thank you so much for writing for me! I’m ellida on AO3 and pearlsthatwereeyes on tumblr. (Tumblr says that my account may contain sensitive media—as near as I can tell, it’s mad about something I posted forever ago, and I haven’t had the patience to sort out what that is.)
This year, I'm requesting 4 tiny canons. I'm hungry for more fic for all of them and would be delighted with a story in any of them. (Number/length of prompts is a reflection only of how many ideas I came up with, not the depth of my desire for fic.) I've provided some more info about general likes, canon-specific likes, and some prompt ideas for each of them in case that's helpful, but if something sparks you in a completely different direction, that's great too! I'm excited to read whatever you come up with.
Quick housekeeping notes: Treats are enabled. There are jump-cuts for this long letter on my journal page, but I haven't been able to figure out how to make them visible from the direct link, sorry!
General Likes:
-Social, political, and courtly intrigue
-Unequal power dynamics
-Strong but complicated family relationships
-Friends as found family
-Origin stories
-In-universe arts and culture
-Fantasy religion and mythology
-Literary and pop-cultural allusions, either to real-world things or to in-universe things
-Snark and banter
-Women pinning other women against walls
-Women having thorny, complicated, rich relationships with other women
-Women being awesome lady friends who have each other's backs
-Actually just women being awesome in general
-SWORDS
-People grappling with the aftermath of terrible decisions and betrayals and figuring out how to find a way forward together
-People grappling with thorny, there-are-no-good-options choices and/or with the aftermath of said terrible choices
-Unreliable narrators
-Worldbuilding
-In-universe texts and documents (consider this a resounding HECK YES to epistolary fic, journal entry fic, archive fic, in-universe-historical-thesis fic, and or any other experiments with form you want to do)
-Experimental writing styles (do you want to write me a story in 2nd person? cool! do you want to write me a story from the POV of a building? awesome! do you have a completely wild stylistic idea? go for it! etc. etc.)
General DNW's (starred DNWs = mentions of canonical events are fine): rape or non-con; incest; permanent major character death; alternate settings (canon-divergence AU's are fine); A/B/O; eye injuries; torture or abuse more graphic than canon levels; cancer; fic centered on dealing with real-world oppression*; plague/pandemic/disease*
The Silence of Bones - June Hur: Seol, Inspector Han
I love this book for the vividness and historical detail of the setting, the many fascinating and complicated lady characters, and especially for Seol and Inspector Han. I love Seol's curiosity, her tenacity, her compassion for everyone who crosses her path even though her role as a damo is an inherently adversarial one (and the way she chafes at that even as she's fascinated by the mysteries she's trying to solve!), her loneliness and the hesitant steps she takes towards friendship and connection, and her unswerving love for and loyalty to her brother and sister. I love Han's uncompromising pursuit of what he believes is right, and I find his conflict between his desire for vengeance and his love for his little sister both beautiful and deeply, tragically heartbreaking. Mostly, I just want to see more of their relationship and what it could have become or what it was back when things were good between them!
Prompt ideas:
I would love fix-it fic for that ending! I was devastated when Inspector Han died before he and Seol got a chance to reconcile, and I'd love for them to get a do-over. Let them restore their family's house together bit by bit (and their relationship along with it), work another case together and get to know each other that way, or visit their sister together. Let Han and Seol (but especially Han) take their memories of each other down off their pedestals and really dig into the hard, complicated work of rebuilding their relationship as the people they've become. Or write me a missing scene from their case in the novel where they actually do get to start doing that!
If pre-canon is more your style, show me some happy memories of Inho's and Jeong-yun's childhood! I'd prefer not to focus exclusively on Inho's desire for vengeance or the tragedy of what happened to their parents, though that can be present if you like. I'd love something about the bond that eventually leads Jeong-yun to give up everything she knows (and become Seol) to find him. Maybe they're goofing off at the seaside together or Inho is standing up for Jeong-yun against their parents/their sister/some other kids.
Alternately, if you also happen to have watched Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung, I'd love to see the two canons cross over. If you're going this route, feel free to leave out Inspector Han if he doesn't fit into your story.
Specific crossover prompts:
-AU where Seol is Hae-ryung's maid/companion instead of Seol-geum! (Maybe the Jeongs' family friend got Han a position in the civil service or Office of Records instead of in the police department, so Seol's sister finagled her a position with the Goo household to get her closer to Han that way. Or maybe Seol's and Han's parents died as part of the Seoraewon massacre rather than in a general anti-Catholic purge, and she ended up with Jae-kyung and Hae-ryung that way.) In any case, I'd love to see the way Seol's search for her brother intersects with Hae-ryung's quest to become a historian. How do they support each other? What kind of hijinks do they get up to?
-AU where one of Seol's and Inspector Han's investigations bring them into the palace and/or Office of Records, where Seol crosses paths with Hae-ryung. Does Hae-ryung help or hinder Seol's investigation? Does Hae-ryung discover Seol's quest to find her brother and shamelessly meddle until she resolves everything?
Canon-specific DNWs: Focus on Catholicism or the persecution of Catholics; any mention of Inspector Han's death. Please either write me an AU where he didn't die or set your story before his death becomes imminent.
Stay? - E. Jade Lomax: Any (Esteban, Jo, Myka, Worldbuilding)
Stay? is the game of my heart. I love the balance of darkness and lightness, the way the very real costs of failure (famine, war, death, apocalypse) are leavened with slice-of-life cosiness and simple joys (fresh baked scones, sunsets, silly notes from friends). I love the endless permutations and variations, the way your friends play different roles in your life each time but are always in your orbit, shuffling and reshuffling, and the way you have unlimited chances to get it right.
And oh, the characters. I love them all.
I love Esteban’s quiet stoicness and sarcasm, his love of painting, his creativity, the way playfulness and high standards coexist in his approach to painting, his loyalty. I love Myka’s irrepressibility, enthusiasm, intellectual curiosity, and all of herwild and wonderful theories. I love Jo’s mix of seriousness and humor, and the gap between Ancient Time-Looping Jo and Young Single-Loop Jo.
And finally, I am completely fascinated by the world of Stay? I love the magic system, the weight of history and the tantalizing glimpses we get of it. I love the glimpses we get of Fiore. I love that even the minor characters feel like whole people with their own lives. I would love the chance to hang out in this world a little longer, exploring pretty much any aspect.
Prompt ideas:
Esteban: I’d love an Esteban POV of the day you ask him to commit to a little graduation day civil disobedience and tell him out of the blue that he shouldn’t give up painting, a thing he has never shared with you (as far as he knows). I’d also love anything about Esteban’s art: his process of painting, a more detailed description (or future museum catalog?) of his work, his struggles with a particular piece, his decision to start painting again and the ways he fits it into his life, in any of the loops. Or his quest to capture the light at home on the side of the barn vs in Elaia vs in the southern lands.
Myka: I’ve always been fascinated by the way Myka yells, “That explains so much!” when you tell her you’re caught in a time loop. What are the things it explains? How and when does she start putting the pieces together? I’d also love to know more about her magical experiments—either a particular day’s testing or maybe a lab notebook style fic documenting her process. And finally, I love the glimpse of Myka’s grandmother we get—standing tall like a tree, saying Myka was her friend too—and would love a fic exploring their relationship. Did her grandmother raise her? What is their bond like? Is Myka’s grandmother responsible for her interest in science, or is she a baffled but proud supporter of her granddaughter’s completely different interests?
Jo: I’m especially interested in fic exploring the Ancient Time-Looping Jo of the player’s first loop. How did they evolve from that shy serious kid into that sarcastic asshole? Also, we know they had a closer relationship with the player in their own earlier loops—what did some of those look like? What made Jo choose the player as the person to entrust their loop to? Is there a way (maybe with Myka’s help) where the loops can ever cross and the player of the final loop can talk to the Jo of the first loop? Where the Jo of the player’s final loop can talk to the Jo of the first loop?
If you prefer the Jo we know from most of the game, I’d love to learn more about their academic research! Or about some of their rabble-rousing and organizing work in the southern lands.
Worldbuilding: I’d love to read an excerpt of one of the player’s many history theses. I’m particularly fascinated by the one about the influence of immigration on Elaia’s architecture, but I’d also be down to read about modern-era Elaia or prehistoric Elaia or any other period/topic of Elaian history that strikes your fancy.
Also, Fiore! I’d love to learn more about Veris, her life, and the war that drove her to try to protect her city, or what daily life in Fiore was like in her time. What kind of relationship did Fiore and Elaia have with each other before the destruction of Fiore?
The magic shop! I’d eat up anything about it, from Mr Pent and some of his apprentices taking inventory or trying to fulfill a special request to the founding of the shop or an exploration of some of the shop’s regular customers.
Finally, the paper scraps the player works on at the archives! I’d love an expansion of any of them, whether as epistolary fic or as a more traditional fic exploring who these people were and what they were to each other or giving me a snapshot of their lives.
Canon-specific DNW: Major character death in the player character's final loop. If you want to set your story in one of the darker loops (either the player character's or First Loop Jo's) where major characters die, that's okay as long as it isn't the last loop.
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi - Shannon Chakraborty: Amina al-Sirafi, Dalila
I mainlined this book in three days in September and completely fell in love with the Marawati and its crew! It hit all of my friends-as-chosen-family buttons and then some. I loved the fierce way Amina's crew takes care of each other. I loved hearing about their past youthful adventures and seeing them reconnect as adults who are all too aware of what they have to lose but are willing to fight for each other anyway.
I'm requesting Amina and Dalila because they're my particular favorites, but I love the entire cast and am happy for any of them to appear. Some of my prompts include other characters because the book feels like such an ensemble cast to me, but please don't feel pressured to include anyone you don't want to either!
I love Amina's struggle to reconcile her love for her family and her faith with her love of sailing and piracy, and her realization that maybe she doesn't have to cut off all of her past in order to be at peace with who she is. I love Dalila's ferocity, the way her utter ruthlessness is tempered by a deep well of love for her friends.
Prompt ideas:
I am especially fascinated with the place we find Amina and Dalila in with each other at the beginning of the novel: Amina, apprehensive about reconnecting and terrified that Dalila might want her dead; Dalila, annoyed and hurt that her best friend hasn't spoken to her in a decade. How did they come to such different conclusions about what's happening in their relationship? Has Dalila always cared about Amina and Amina never quite realized that Dalila saw her as more than a useful ally? Did Dalila do something that made Amina hold her at arm's length in the past? Did Amina use to consider Dalila a good friend but cut her off out of guilt over Asif/desire to protect Marjana/fear of what Dalila might be capable of?
I'm also interested in anything you can tell me about their past! How did Dalila come to join the Marawati's crew? Both Dalila and Amina seem to be a little easier with Majed than with each other--did he ever have to mediate between them? Was he the one who introduced them in the first place?
And finally, what do Amina and Dalila get up to in the future? What new adventures do they undertake on the Marawati? If Amina makes good on her idea to bring Marjana on board the Marawati (maybe even sooner than she's planning to at the end of the novel), how does Dalila take to being an auntie? Does she take Marjana under her wing? And how does Amina feel about her deadly sometimes-friend taking an interest in her daughter?
Canon-specific DNW: Heavy focus on Raksh or Raksh/Amina. Obviously, Amina's relationship with him affects her relationship with Dalila, so it's totally cool if he appears--I'd just prefer he not be the star of the show and the focus remain more on Amina and Dalila.
Saint Death's Daughter - C.S.E. Cooney: Any (Lanie Stones, Tanaliín, Duantri, Worldbuilding)
I love so many things about Saint Death's Daughter: the wildly careening plot that I could never quite predict, the way all of the characters are so intensely themselves, fight so hard for what they want, and are so deeply wounded but grope so insistently towards healing. Basically, I just love all of these queer weirdos and their strange world that is somehow hilarious and heartbreaking all at once, and I would love to hang out with them or in their world further.
I am racing against the sign-up deadline here, so apologies for the sketched out prompts--please believe that I will be thrilled with anything you write for me in this canon!
Prompt ideas:
-We see Lanie's first meeting with Tan, Duantri, and the rest of their community, and we see the tight-knit friendship they've developed by the day of the Festival, but how did they get there? I would love missing scenes from the development of their friendship, whether that's focused around the School or around hanging out in the pub together or doing something else entirely! Feel free to include Havoc, Datu, Mak, or anyone else if you like (or not if you don't)!
-AU in which Lanie takes Mak's advice and calls on Tan and Duantri for help after Grandpa Rad's attack/Goody's loss to the Scratches.
-Origin story for Tan and Duantri's romance! Origin story for Tan and Duantri's romance! I love these two together and would love to see their initial bonding fleshed out.
-As Lanie eventually learns, Tan is incredibly perceptive. When and how does she figure out the Stones family secrets?
-How did Duantri decide she wanted to become a gyrgardu? Was it due to meeting Tan or was she already on that path when they met?
-Quadoni religion! Tell me more about the gods! Tell me more about the many different forms of sothaín!
-Quadoni school! Tell me more about the traditional caravan school--how would someone who was not Nita experience it? Or tell me more about Waystation 13--what's a typical day there like?
Canon-specific DNW: Breaking up Tan/Duantri (polyamory is fine as long as Tan/Duantri is still a thing); any kind of Lanie/Mak romance or sexual relationship.