Pinch Hits (updated March 16)
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worldbuilding_exchangeWe have 2 new pinch hits, along with 4 earlier pinch hits which we'll repost here. Like assignments, they are due Sunday 13 April 11pm EDT (not midnight!). Please reply with your AO3 name (comments are screened) and the PH number/name you'd like, or email worldbuildingex@gmail.com with the same information, if you would like to claim one!
[ETA: comments are now actually screened! Sorry!]
Request 1 by KibaSniper
Psychonauts (Video Games)
WB: Classes at Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp (Psychonauts), WB: Whispering Rock Campers as Psychonauts Agents (Psychonauts), WB: Whispering Rock Campers as Motherlobe Interns (Psychonauts), Chloe Barge (Psychonauts), Bobby Zilch (Psychonauts), Razputin "Raz" Aquato (Psychonauts), Lili Zanotto (Psychonauts), Melvin "Chops" Sweetwind (Psychonauts), Fanfiction
Do Not Wants: Sexually explicit material of any kind, especially underage material, incest, rape, dubcon/noncon, pedophilia, adult/minor relationships, script-styled pieces, songfics, chatfics, Aquato family being depicted as abusive to Raz.
Relationships: Chloe & Bobby, Chloe/Bobby (as agents only), Raz/Bobby (or platonic), Chloe/Lili (or platonic), Chops/Lili (or platonic), or any platonic interpretations of the listed characters.
Classes in Whispering Rock: i think this is really underutilized idea! we all only single classes with oleander, sasha, and milla, so i'd love for a piece featuring bobby, chloe, and other campers experiencing their regular classes or new ones.
Whispering Rock Campers as Motherlobe Interns: same general ideas as above! who would be their mentors? what would hollis teach them? what kind of missions would they go on?
Whispering Rock Campers as Psychonauts Agents: same premise as above, just now as actual agents! whether they're junior or regular agents as up to you. what departments would they work on? what kind of missions would they undergo?
Request 2 by KibaSniper
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry
WB: Satoko Houjou's Time Loops (Higurashi), WB: Rika and Satoko's Time at St. Lucia Academy (Higurashi), WB: Post-GouSotsu (Higurashi), Satoko Houjou (Higurashi), Rika Furude (Higurashi), Fanfiction
Do Not Wants: Sexually explicit material of any kind, especially underage material, incest, rape, dubcon/noncon, pedophilia, adult/minor relationships, character bashing, script-styled pieces, songfics, chatfics, the Meguri continuity, Rika and/or Satoko romantically paired with the other club members.
Relationships: Rika/Satoko
Post-GouSotsu: what are satoko and rika's lives like now? how is rika at st. lucia without satoko, and are her days as bland as satoko promised? how is satoko faring in a seemingly fine hinamizawa?
Satoko and Rika's time in St. Lucia: would love to see more their tension and the rift, such as satoko's time studying and being separated from rika, or rika turning a blind eye to satoko's issues as she has done.
Satoko Houjou's Time Loops: or i would love to see more of satoko looping! how does she come to the conclusions that she does in another loop? or are there any missing scenes that could be shown in loops shown in canon?
Request 3 by KibaSniper
Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry
WB: The Sea of Fragments (Umineko), WB: Life as a Voyager Witch (Umineko), WB: Life as a Piece in a Witch's Game (Umineko), WB: Abandoned Game Boards (Umineko), Bernkastel (Umineko no Naku Koro ni), Lambdadelta (Umineko no Naku Koro ni), Ushiromiya Ange (Umineko), Furudo Erika (Umineko), Fanfiction
Do Not Wants: Sexually explicit material (tho implied/referenced is fine for 18+ characters!), especially underage material, incest, rape, dubcon/noncon, pedophilia, adult/minor relationships, character bashing, script-styled pieces, songfics, chatfics, romantic Amakusa/Ange, any references or implicit works depicting Ange's love for Battler as romantic.
Relationships: Bernkastel/Lambdadelta, Erika/Ange, Bernkastel & Erika, Bernkastel & Ange, Lambdadelta & Ange
Abandoned Game Boards: what happens when bernkastel or lambdadelta leave the board? or what are their logic errors like if one player leaves them to suffer fixing it? maybe bern could abandon erika and toss her in to fix it on behalf of her master?
Life as a Piece in a Witch's Game: would love to see something ange-centered, how she's existing in a strange way as both a human and witch in different periods of time. her plane of existence is odd, after all! or what if ange accepted lambdadelta's proposal to swap sides and become her piece?
Life as a Voyager Witch/The Sea of Fragments: what do bernkastel and lambdadelta do as they search for new fragments? do they insert themselves at random? or do they promise pieces their aid to win the tide in a game they find interesting?
Request 4 by KibaSniper
Mortal Kombat (Video Games 1992-2020)
WB: Earthrealm and Edenian Relations (Mortal Kombat), WB: MK Armageddon Character Ending Continuations (Mortal Kombat), Sonya Blade, Kitana (Mortal Kombat), Mileena (Mortal Kombat), Jade (Mortal Kombat), Fanfiction
Do Not Wants: Sexually explicit material of any kind (tho implied/referenced is fine for 18+ characters!), especially underage material, incest, rape, dubcon/noncon, pedophilia, adult/minor relationships, character bashing, script-styled pieces, songfics, chatfics, Kitana/Mileena
Relationships: Mileena/Tanya, Kitana/Jade, Kitana/Sonya, Kitana & Jade & Sonya
Earthrealm and Edenian Relations: what are they are like!! i'd love a story where sonya is an ambassador from the special forces and enjoying edenian culture. i think there would be a lot she'd like, and a lot jade and kitana would show her as they're proud of the strides they've made since sindel retook the throne.
Armageddon Endings: take your pick! i was delighted to see mk1 pick up the old plot thread of tanya as a dragon caller, so it had been thinking about these endings. any elaboration on them would be great!
Request 1 by Schlumbergera
The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt
WB: Lambert's time on The Path (The Witcher 3), Lambert (The Witcher 3), Original Character(s) (The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Prompts:
A) Does his sharp tongue ever become particularly useful?
B) Any contracts that boosted his reputation?
Likes:
Lambert being creatively with comparisons and insults (if any).
DNW:
* Tooth rotting fluff
* Porn
* Shipping Lambert with any wolf witcher
Request 2 by Schlumbergera
Project Wingman (Video Game)
WB: The Oceanian War (Project Wingman), WB: The Deal (Project Wingman), Crimson One (Project Wingman), Klara "Frost Druid" Rask, Any or No Characters (Project Wingman (Video Game)), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
1. The deal: a list of things never made 100% clear.
https://projectwingman.wiki.gg/wiki/The_Deal
2. https://projectwingman.wiki.gg/wiki/Oceanian_War
The Oceanian War - something that canon dialogue keeps referring to while omitting details.
DNW:
* explicit porn
Request 3 by Schlumbergera
Warframe
WB: Albrecht's early days in the plague year of 1999 (Warframe), WB: Albrecht's time in Duviri (Warframe), Any or No Characters (Warframe), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
https://wiki.warframe.com/w/Fragments/Duviri (see:Scholar's Landing)
https://wiki.warframe.com/w/Fragments/Albrecht
DNW:
* explicit porn
Request 4 by Schlumbergera
Ace Combat (Video Games)
WB: Trigger’s kangaroo court martial (Ace Combat), Any or No Characters (Ace Combat (Video Games)), Original Character(s) (Ace Combat (Video Games)), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
In Ace Combat 7, Trigger is falsely accused of killing Harling, pronounced guilty, and sent to a penal colony less than a month later. Eventually, Trigger is proven innocent.
Looking for anything from media coverage, to how martial law works, to how Trigger approached it, to how/why the ones responsible arranged it.
In the event that he wasn't framed, it may have required both that the evidence (planes have recordings on them) got lost somehow (in which case how?) and Trigger pleaded guilty (but why?).
Request 1 by Seika
Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
WB: The Deserts of Athas (Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)), WB: Athasian Slave Tribes (Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)), WB: Athasian Elf Tribes (Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)), WB: Athasian Challenge Combat (Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)), WB: Athasian Bards (Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)), Original Character(s) (Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)), Any or No Characters (Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
As a rule, I'm not interested in the "revised" continuity of Dark Sun, which followed the novels into weird and wacky places about ancient halfling bioengineers doing an "oopsie" with the sun: I prefer the more stripped-down and mysterious history of the original box (which was at least loosely followed by the 4e version).
So:
The Deserts is pretty much a big catch-all category for exploring the majority of Athas. Consider: the history of the deserts (perhaps with regards to defilers, the sorcerer-kings, and the Dragon), navigation through them, living in them, the terror of being without water in them, and so forth.
The slave tribes and the elf tribes are fascinating inhabitants of the deserts. Consider for the slaves: the formation of these groups of escapees, their disparate members, any merging or splitting they might do, their internal politics and organisation, their conflicts. For elves: their protectiveness of their own members, their notoriety for treachery towards anyone else, their skill at navigating Athas' landscape.
Challenge combat (from Dragon Kings) has tonnes of potential for dramatic moments. Consider: great conflicts settled by challenge combat, particular traditions that champions or groups of people or city-states might have around challenge combat, high moments of treachery, times when challenge combat actually solved nothing.
Bards show the wealthier, but no less ruthless side of Athas, being (potential) assassins, infiltrators, and poisoners. Consider: their hiring as assassins and all that goes along with it, the idea of bards being "gifted" to other nobles, the social faux pas that is either being too obvious about sending bardic assassins or turning away bards just because they might be assassins and the consequences that result, the rare bard who does just want to play music, record history, and inspire people.
Request 2 by Seika
Exalted (Roleplaying Game)
WB: First Reports of Returning Solars (Exalted), WB: Chivalry of the Deathknights (Exalted), Original Character(s) (Exalted (Roleplaying Game)), Any or No Characters (Exalted (Roleplaying Game)), Unconquered Sun (Exalted), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Preferring (early) 1e continuity and concepts here, i.e. loosely 1e core/STG, Caste Books, Scav Sons. Not necessarily Games of Divinity and all it brings.
First Reports of Returning Solars - not that Anathema are unknown to the world, obviously, but exploring the idea (perhaps especially among the movers and shakers of the world, and among other Exalted) that after the long centuries the Solars are finally Exalting in numbers again. The emotional and political repercussions. Speculation on why: I've always been taken by the book suggestions that it took this long for the reincarnating Solars to be cleansed of their misdeeds, or that the Unconquered Sun has finally turned his face back to Creation after so long in despair at the monstrosity of the Solars and nevertheless also at their destruction.
Chivalry of the Deathknights - quoth 1e core "Abyssal Exalted are the noble champions of Death. Full of grace, educated and even charming in their cold fashion, the deathknights are gentlefolk as well as peerless warriors." This is definitely my preferred version of the Abyssals, rather than Neph's meditations on grimdark, forcibly destructive Exalted on a tight Neverborn leash (they're dead and dreaming, not conscious plotters).
Consider: the very particular customs that make up Underworld/Abyssal courtesy, chivalry, and charm. What effect does . The feudality of being a deathknight: the loyalty owed both to the unliving Deathlords and the unliving "peasants" of the Underworld. The protectiveness and noblesse oblige shown by e.g. Shards of Basalt in CB: Dawn. The fact that Abyssals are, by some margin, the most likely other type of Exalted to team up with Solars in early material.
Request 3 by Seika
Planescape (Roleplaying Game)
WB: The Positive Energy Plane (Planescape (Roleplaying Game)), WB: The Negative Energy Plane (Planescape (Roleplaying Game)), WB: The Great Modron March (Planescape (Roleplaying Game)), WB: The Blood War (Planescape (Roleplaying Game)), WB: The Bleak Cabal's Charitable Works (Planescape (Roleplaying Game)), Original Character(s) (Planescape (Roleplaying Game)), Any or No Characters (Planescape (Roleplaying Game)), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
The energy planes: just, what "life" is like in these planes which are so hostile to life as we know it. Their visitors and the extremely careful protections they need to take to stay there. The bleak fortresses of the undead on the Negative. The xag-ya and the ravids and the xeg-yi. (See source: The Inner Planes)
The Blood War: the great battlefields of the Blood War. Fame won and long in its fighting. Spectacular victories or defeats that moved the needle, just a little, for a while, until the grinding and inevitable stalemate resumed. Other planar factions, entities, and powers intervening, for whatever goals they might have in mind. The machinations of the yugoloths, between demon and devil. (See source: Hellbound - the Blood War).
The Great Modron March: the sheer vastness of the enterprise. The reactions of everyone to this enormous intrusion. The opportunities presented by it or left in its wake. The reasoning behind the March. If it's an observation mission, then the things that the March is actually cataloguing, potentially from the modron and/or Primus point of view. The observer paradox and the degree to which anything the March finds is actually reflective of the truth, given its own impact.
The Bleak Cabal's charitable work: Because altruistic existentialism is cool and because gods know Sigil clearly needs charitable work. So: the places that the Cabal set up their hospitals and hospices and soup kitchens. People they encounter there. The specific types of Bleakers who engage in this work. Their actual day-to-day activities.
Request 4 by Seika
Warframe
WB: Tau under the Sentients, Lotus (Warframe), Hunhow (Warframe), Erra (Warframe), Original Character(s) (Warframe), Any or No Characters (Warframe), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
This could be:
a reflection on Tau as it was settled;
the turning of the Sentients against the Orokin, and potentially the decision to launch an attack against the Orokin in spite of the consequences for the Sentients who have to once again make the Void journey to the Origin system;
Lotus and/or Hunhow and/or Erra as they were on Tau;
what, potentially is happening on Tau "now", in the contemporary Warframe timeline;
ideas about what Tau might be like when or if the Tenno ever end up there.
Request 5 by Seika
Warframe
WB: The Lotus' Family, Tenno (Warframe), Lotus (Warframe), Operator (Warframe), Erra (Warframe), Hunhow (Warframe), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
I mean. Arguably family is the point of Warframe. I'd love more ideas about how the Lotus relates to family both chosen and born, how Hunhow or Erra see her and her relationship to the Tenno, how the Tenno see Hunhow and Erra (particularly post-New War).
Request 6 by Seika
Warframe
WB: The Time Between The Old War and Awakening (Warframe), WB: The Tenno Reawakening (Warframe), Tenno (Warframe), Lotus (Warframe), Operator (Warframe), Original Character(s) (Warframe), Any or No Characters (Warframe), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Between The Old War and Awakening - what were these long ages like for the inhabitants of the Origin System, as the Orokin fell, as the Grineer and Corpus rose (including for the Grineer or Corpus themselves, if you like?) What were they like for the Lotus? What was the Long Dream even like for the Tenno?
The Tenno Reawakening - what exactly was the trigger for Lotus reawakening us: what in the Origin system persuaded her that now was when we were needed? What were the reactions to the Tenno return for the Grineer, the Corpus, the general populace? What was it like for newly awakened Tenno, trying to get a hold of themselves and learn about the present Origin system and potentially meeting up with their fellows?
Request 7 by Seika
Warframe
WB: The New War (Warframe), WB: The Aftermath of the New War (Warframe), Operator (Warframe), Tenno (Warframe), Lotus (Warframe), Hunhow (Warframe), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
The New War - any more ideas on what this was like for the Origin system as a whole (Grineer/Corpus/unaligned), either during or after the conquest, outside the vignettes we got in the game? Maybe for Tenno who weren't the "Chosen Operator"? Or more examination of Lotus throughout? More thoughts on Hunhow (and his minions) at this time? The idea of calling his own son a Dax has so much weight to it ...
The aftermath of TNW - similarly, but especially the recovery for the system as a whole. You might also consider the remnant Sentients - not just Hunhow and Erra/Pazuul, but everyone else in the great Sentient fleet that now had to retreat back to the Veil. A closer and more intimate look at the Tenno recovery - the Chosen Operator and/or the body of the Tenno as a whole, especially alongside Lotus and her renewed self. Thoughts specifically on Lotus settling into her new persona (whichever it might be) and potentially Eternalism echoes that make her think of the other choices and paths she could have made.
Request 8 by Seika
Exalted (Roleplaying Game)
WB: The Bull Of The North's Conquests (Exalted), Yurgen Kaneko (Exalted), Original Character(s) (Exalted (Roleplaying Game)), Any or No Characters (Exalted (Roleplaying Game)), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
I know these are not necessarily popular opinions but, look, I think the Bull's cool. I think he's a neat character, and I think he's a great way to show just what you might be able to do to the setting. So let's have some fun. You could consider: how he starts getting the ball rolling on uniting the icewalkers, his first conquests of the cities thereafter, the slowly expanding ripples and reactions from farther and farther afield. The difficulties and consequences of his ongoing campaign as its reaches a greater and greater geographic extent, and the times when he has to stop and rest and resupply and rule.
Request 9 by Seika
Exalted (Roleplaying Game)
WB: The First Exaltation (Exalted), Unconquered Sun (Exalted), Gaia (Exalted), Autochthon (Exalted), Original Character(s) (Exalted (Roleplaying Game)), Any or No Characters (Exalted (Roleplaying Game)), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Long ago, HLS said:
Request 1 by acernor
阴阳师 | Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master (Movies - Guo Jingming)
WB: how do the shisheng work (Yin Yang Shi), WB: Qingming half kitsune heritage (Yin Yang Shi), Bo Ya (Yin Yang Shi), Qing Ming (Yin Yang Shi), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Yes treats are welcome! :)
General Likes: unreliable narrators, worldbuilding that deeply interrogates structures that are initially introduced as “just the way things are :),” sick fight scenes, comedy, cool monster designs, super specific knowledge from the author (aka you are a squid processing tech and write about ink sac removal or whatever) (tell me all about shoelace manufacturing, i’m ready)
Shippy/ sex likes: praise kink, the emotionally repressed one who’s really good at fighting and nobly pining for the other one without ever planning on saying anything getting to sub and/ or bottom, sex pollen, fuck or die, virginity kink, bed sharing, bondage, touch starved character finally getting touched >:)
DNWs: rape (dubcon ala sex pollen/ fuck or die where both parties enjoy it is fine), underage, major character death (canon typical/ nonpermanent is fine), sex work aus, military or cop aus, bad ending, vomit/feces/urine in sex, sex with animals
Request 2 by acernor
Tom Swift (TV 2022)
WB: Lino's powers (Tom Swift TV 2022), WB: Rowan's time traveling (Tom Swift TV 2022), Any or No Characters (Tom Swift (TV 2022)), Lino (Tom Swift TV 2022), Rowan (Tom Swift TV 2022), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Yes treats are welcome! :)
General Likes: unreliable narrators, worldbuilding that deeply interrogates structures that are initially introduced as “just the way things are :),” sick fight scenes, comedy, cool monster designs, super specific knowledge from the author (aka you are a squid processing tech and write about ink sac removal or whatever) (tell me all about shoelace manufacturing, i’m ready)
Shippy/ sex likes: praise kink, the emotionally repressed one who’s really good at fighting and nobly pining for the other one without ever planning on saying anything getting to sub and/ or bottom, sex pollen, fuck or die, virginity kink, bed sharing, bondage, touch starved character finally getting touched >:)
DNWs: rape (dubcon ala sex pollen/ fuck or die where both parties enjoy it is fine), underage, major character death (canon typical/ nonpermanent is fine), sex work aus, military or cop aus, bad ending, vomit/feces/urine in sex, sex with animals
Request 3 by acernor
大梦归离 | Fangs of Fortune (TV)
WB: forging the YunGuang sword/how it chooses a master (Fangs of Fortune), WB: role of dual cultivation in mediating resentful energy (FoF), WB: What caused ZYZ's hair to change (Fangs of Fortune), WB: what it looks like to cultivate back to human form (Fangs of Fortune), Li Lun (FoF), Zhao Yuanzhou | Zhu Yan, Zhuo Yichen, Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Yes treats are welcome! :)
General Likes: unreliable narrators, worldbuilding that deeply interrogates structures that are initially introduced as “just the way things are :),” sick fight scenes, comedy, cool monster designs, super specific knowledge from the author (aka you are a squid processing tech and write about ink sac removal or whatever) (tell me all about shoelace manufacturing, i’m ready)
Shippy/ sex likes: praise kink, the emotionally repressed one who’s really good at fighting and nobly pining for the other one without ever planning on saying anything getting to sub and/ or bottom, sex pollen, fuck or die, virginity kink, bed sharing, bondage, touch starved character finally getting touched >:)
DNWs: rape (dubcon ala sex pollen/ fuck or die where both parties enjoy it is fine), underage, major character death (canon typical/ nonpermanent is fine), sex work aus, military or cop aus, bad ending, vomit/feces/urine in sex, sex with animals
Request 4 by acernor
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi - Shannon Chakraborty
WB: what Raksh is (The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi), Raksh (The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Yes treats are welcome! :)
General Likes: unreliable narrators, worldbuilding that deeply interrogates structures that are initially introduced as “just the way things are :),” sick fight scenes, comedy, cool monster designs, super specific knowledge from the author (aka you are a squid processing tech and write about ink sac removal or whatever) (tell me all about shoelace manufacturing, i’m ready)
Shippy/ sex likes: praise kink, the emotionally repressed one who’s really good at fighting and nobly pining for the other one without ever planning on saying anything getting to sub and/ or bottom, sex pollen, fuck or die, virginity kink, bed sharing, bondage, touch starved character finally getting touched >:)
DNWs: rape (dubcon ala sex pollen/ fuck or die where both parties enjoy it is fine), underage, major character death (canon typical/ nonpermanent is fine), sex work aus, military or cop aus, bad ending, vomit/feces/urine in sex, sex with animals
Request 1 by alhthm
Original Work - Hentai
WB: Normalized Sex Slavery (OW Hentai), WB: Caste-Based System For Porn Purposes (OW Hentai), WB: How Magic Is Taught When Most Magic Students Just Want To Fuck Demons (OW Hentai), Any or No Characters (Original Work - Hentai), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Request 2 by alhthm
原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
WB: Travel & Cross-National Exchange (Genshin Impact), WB: Folklore & Mythology in Teyvat (Genshin Impact), WB: Vision Loss (Genshin Impact), Any or No Characters (原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Request 3 by alhthm
Harry Potter (Books 1-7)
WB: Pureblood culture/traditions (HP 1-7), WB: New classes at Hogwarts (HP 1-7), WB: Life after Hogwarts (HP 1-7), Draco Malfoy (HP 1-7), Harry Potter (HP 1-7), Fanart, Fanfiction
Request 1 by Hekateras
Invisible Inc. (Video Game)
WB: The neural uplink interface (Invisible Inc), WB: Technological advances in espionage (Invisible Inc), WB: OPSEC at Invisible Inc. (Invisible Inc), WB: Mission control (Invisible Inc), WB: Agent recruitment (Invisible Inc), WB: Detention centers and capture (Invisible Inc), WB: Incognita's takeover (Invisible Inc), Any or No Characters (Invisible Inc. (Video Game)), Brian Decker, Maria "Internationale" Valdés, Raymond "Shalem 11" Malik, Incognita (Invisible Inc. Video Game), Operator (Invisible Inc. Video Game), Original Character(s) (Invisible Inc. (Video Game)), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Invisible Inc request #1: Agency-centric
See my other Invinc request for additional tags, please feel free to mix and match
Treats welcome!
- understated whump and hurt/comfort. ("Understated" = use your best judgement.)
- Men Coughing Up Blood(TM), Women Coughing Up Blood, Nonbinary People Coughing Up Blood, etc.
- competence porn and characters leaning into very different strengths. Scenes that showcase the contrast between characters
- Relationships forged in fire, bonding over trauma, codependency, friendships and romantic/sexual relationships that are hard to categorise in terms of whether they're a good thing/helpful or not. Relationships as questionable coping mechanisms. When characters can't quite say what they are to each other except "someone important"
- low-stakes moments, high-stakes action. Characters going through extremely harrowing experiences but somehow getting through it more or less okay (or are they)
- plotty Gen fic, missionfic, casefic, pre-slash or pre-relationship, slow-burn vibes
- UST!!! I am happy if the requested ship kisses but I also adore it if the story is just them losing their minds over one (1) second of platonic hand contact.
- canon-divergent AUs that answer "what if" questions, or "for want of a nail" AUs
- non-explicit but sensual and emotional non-graphic sex scenes
- UST-ridden scenes that are not sex but very sensual or metaphorically sexal (e.g. reaching inside someone's mechanical parts to repair them...!)
- The Eroticism of the Machine(TM), wireplay, robots, androids, cyborgs, etc...
- non-sexual intimacy
- intimacy that is sexual but not directly about sex (e.g. pillow talk, lazy mornings after)
- fluff with a touch of bittersweetness or grimness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets, Identity Porn
- wild nature, animals of all kind including spiders, bugs and creepy-crawlies, rats
- things that are ugly or in disrepair but at the same time beautiful in their own way
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales
Graphic gore, noncon, kidfic, noncanonical incest or underage, pregnancy of POV characters, focus on needles or surgery (especially cutting and IVs), focus on IRL modern era geopolitics (~last century but especially last 50 years), eye horror/trauma
Prompts
- Please feel free to go wild with any of these freeforms. I'm interested in both agents (whether they're in the request/tagset or not TBH) and any OCs you can cook up: former Invisible Inc agents (KIAs?), corporate characters, people in the II world just trying to get by. In particular, I'd enjoy seeing other criminal groups that might have contact or even work with Invisible, how their MO might differ, and seeing Invisible through their perspective (e.g. Cyro's group in the groundbreaking classic Toothless by Linenpixel)
- It's common to interpret the ending as Incognita being in full control over everything, but is it actually that simple? Given her strikes on corp HQs, the corps are weakened but hardly gone. What does the aftermath of her takeover look like? What are her plans (if any) for the remnants of Invisible? Her relationship with Central post-takeover?
- I'd love to see pre-campaign (or post-canon for that matter! either is good) standard InvInc operations fleshed out a bit more. What do they do in the event of an agent being compromised? What protocols are there for rescued agents who've gone through brutal interrogation and/or deprogramming -- both on the side of physical/medical rehabilitation and psychological recovery, but also dealing with information leaks and shaken loyalties?
- As the most wanted anti-corporate terrorist on the planet, Central puts a great amount of trust into the people who become her agents. How is that trust earned? How does she find the right people? Also, how big are Invisible operations, anyway? How many people work for the agency (not necessarily all of them near HQ) and how much do they know? It takes a lot of people to keep an agency like this running, including basic admin, repairs and maintenance, custodian and janitor work, etc. How does Central manage such potential leaks of information?
- More nitty-gritty details of InvInc operations plz, particularly infiltration planning, prep, intel gathering, how they pick their targets, etc. Are they full mercenary, only taking contracts for the money and their own gradual intel-gathering advantage, or do they also work together with other anti-corporate groups even when they have little to gain from it in the short term?
- Opt-in: Fic in IF format
- Opt-in: As much accurate (or seemingly accurate) dry technical/scientific detail as your nerdy little heart desires to cram in
Letter: https://hekateras.dreamwidth.org/6030.html
Request 2 by Hekateras
Invisible Inc. (Video Game)
WB: AI development (Invisible Inc. Video Game), WB: The Istanbul Run (Invisible Inc), WB: Neural redaction (Invisible Inc), WB: Resource Wars (Invisible Inc. Video Game), WB: Cybernetics (Invisible Inc. Video Game), WB: Incognita's takeover (Invisible Inc), Operator (Invisible Inc. Video Game), Original Character(s) (Invisible Inc. (Video Game)), Any or No Characters (Invisible Inc. (Video Game)), Olivia "Central" Gladstone, Collette "Rush" Phan, Matei "Draco" Cernat, Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Invisible Inc request #2: Broader and historical scope
See my Invinc request #1 for additional tags as well as likes and DNWs! I'm using this box for the rest of my prompts :)
Prompts, continued:
- Another prompt for Incognita's takeover: what do the first hours (days, weeks) after the OMNI mainframe mission look like on the agency side? The corps have bigger problems to worry about now, but their HQ is still gone, most of their agents are still MIA (and maybe the team even took casualties during the OMNI mission itself!), and now they've lost their AI. I'd love to see in detail what it would look like for Invisible to establish a foothold in the immediate aftermath and scramble to bring some of their operations back -- perhaps with Monst3r's help?
- The missions we see are stealthy blitz strikes -- when the intruders teleport in and out, most missions probably take a handful of minutes. One, I'd love to see corporate anti-teleportation countermeasures as a source of drama/mission complication! Two, I'd love to see what other kinds of missions the agency does, if any. Do they do more classic intelligence work with long-term infiltration, double agents, sleeper agents, that kind of thing?
- How do the cyberpunk setting and the technology available affect all of the above? Does the existence of Neural Redaction have any implications for interrogation and detainment, or for post-trauma psychological care? On the flip side, a Severance (TV show)-style implant seems within scope, and would be a dramatic avenue for sleeper agents. So many possibilities...
- Teleportation, neural uplinks, and cloaking tech are all important aspects of Invisible's operations. I'd love to see more about when this kind of tech was first introduced and adopted for spywork, as well as what anti-corporate measures look like. The Invisible modding scene introduces things such as custom guards in the Advanced Guard Protocol mod who can do things like see cloaked agents with UV Spectrometers. It would be cool to see this explored more in fic, such as agents encountering anti-cloaking tech/guard implants/etc. for the first time.
- The Istanbul Run. We don't know much about it, and the things we know mainly come from corporate sources. Feel free to expand on how it went wrong, what was truth and what is fiction, whether Draco and Rush were actually executed or if the corps lied about that just like they lied about Central's execution. If you'd like to explore it post-factum through the eyes of someone like Prism trying to find out what happened, that would be great too!
- AI development: Incognita seems special. Is she? Are there more AIs like her? Has Invisible ever encountered one? (If you'd like to borrow ideas from the Programs Extended mod's Hostile AI feature... feel free hehe.)
- The Invisible Inc. setting is somewhat unconventional when it comes to cyberpunk settings in that the transition to corporate-ruled dystopia was fairly sudden, violent, and in recent history. Even the younger agents were born before the Resource Wars and before the megacorporations attained full global control! I'd love to see this explored a bit more in terms of how it might affect some typical genre staples. For example, is there more unrest and dissent as a result? Many people still remember the way it was before, after all!
- In-universe meta prompt: I would looove a custom datalog! A journal article, a scrap of an agent's past in some old paperwork or records or long-lost correspondence...
- Art prompt: it might be a tall order but I'd adore something like one of the loading screen posters in the game that contain messages: densely-packed with information, some projected elements from retinal HUDs and stuff!
Letter: https://hekateras.dreamwidth.org/6030.html
Request 3 by Hekateras
Original Work - Cyberpunk
WB: Black Markets (OW Cyberpunk), WB: Social Stratification (OW Cyberpunk), WB: Corporatocracy (OW Cyberpunk), WB: Pirate Radio Stations (OW Cyberpunk), WB: Fashion Trends (OW Cyberpunk), Original Character(s) (Original Work - Cyberpunk), Any or No Characters (Original Work - Cyberpunk), Original Female Character(s) (OW Cyberpunk), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
- understated whump and hurt/comfort. ("Understated" = use your best judgement.)
- Men Coughing Up Blood(TM), Women Coughing Up Blood, Nonbinary People Coughing Up Blood, etc.
- competence porn and characters leaning into very different strengths. Scenes that showcase the contrast between characters
- Relationships forged in fire, bonding over trauma, codependency, friendships and romantic/sexual relationships that are hard to categorise in terms of whether they're a good thing/helpful or not. Relationships as questionable coping mechanisms. When characters can't quite say what they are to each other except "someone important"
- low-stakes moments, high-stakes action. Characters going through extremely harrowing experiences but somehow getting through it more or less okay (or are they)
- plotty Gen fic, missionfic, casefic, pre-slash or pre-relationship, slow-burn vibes
- UST!!! I am happy if the requested ship kisses but I also adore it if the story is just them losing their minds over one (1) second of platonic hand contact.
- canon-divergent AUs that answer "what if" questions, or "for want of a nail" AUs
- non-explicit but sensual and emotional non-graphic sex scenes
- UST-ridden scenes that are not sex but very sensual or metaphorically sexal (e.g. reaching inside someone's mechanical parts to repair them...!)
- The Eroticism of the Machine(TM), wireplay, robots, androids, cyborgs, etc...
- non-sexual intimacy
- intimacy that is sexual but not directly about sex (e.g. pillow talk, lazy mornings after)
- fluff with a touch of bittersweetness or grimness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets, Identity Porn
- wild nature, animals of all kind including spiders, bugs and creepy-crawlies, rats
- things that are ugly or in disrepair but at the same time beautiful in their own way
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales
Graphic gore, noncon, kidfic, noncanonical incest or underage, pregnancy of POV characters, focus on needles or surgery (especially cutting and IVs), focus on IRL modern era geopolitics (~last century but especially last 50 years), eye horror/trauma
Prompts
- Cyberpunk fashion: Wondering about the kinds of material conditions and history that could give rise to some of the visual staples of the genre. E.g.: maybe neon and similarly hi-vis motifs started out as a way for rebels and insurgents to interfere with CCTV and facial recognition software. Bbright neon signs can cause blow-out problems in photography, bright patches of neon and dark colours could break up the human silhouette both to conventional vision and in the eyes of auto-targeting drones, smart CCTV, etc. Maybe this kind of trend starts out as something practical but gets co-opted by the public, much like punk and hippie aesthetics has spread beyond the rebellious countercultures they originated in. Is there still room for rebellion as expressed through fashion? What does that look like?
- Cyberpunk fashion: What kind of clothing constitutes a status symbol and why? What kind of materials and motifs might be in use? Also, if it's not too heavy, I'm fascinated by the idea of widespread masking originating as preventative disease control praxis but having a secondary benefit in avoiding facial recognition in the age of corporate surveillance. I absolutely love the vibes of this music video of Hans Zimmer's Inception track Time that was filmed and released during the pandemic.
- Corporatocracy, social stratification, black markets and pirate radio stations... I enjoy the drama and tensions of the inherent contradictions that society in the corporate late-stage capitalism setting of cyberpunk tumultuously exists with and rests upon. The tension between self-preservation and rebellion. What form does organised dissent take in this society? Many classic cyberpunk stories are about the rugged individual, a lone wolf or amoral mercenary with not much of a cause: a single person vs. the system. I'd love to see you deconstruct this or take it a bit further. What does it look like for people to try to change this kind of world for the better?
- Art prompt: Fashion through time and use of technology in fashion, bodycam footage, CCTV POV (warped perspectives, obscured details, timestamps and algorithm outputs)
- In-universe meta prompt: Articles, editorials, in-universe debates and chat logs
- Feel free to borrow any of the conceptual prompts from my Invisible Inc request above since that is also a cyberpunk canon! I'm interested in those ideas whether or not they're attached to those specific blorbos and that specific universe.
- Opt-in: Fic in IF format
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Request 4 by Hekateras
Tactical Breach Wizards (Video Game)
WB: Unlocking the Craft (TBW), WB: Time travel (TBW), WB: The Druid Mafia (Tactical Breach Wizards), WB: Death's Door (TBW), Dessa Banks, Jen Kellen, Zan Vesker, Rion (Tactical Breach Wizards), Dall Sabin, Original Character(s) (Tactical Breach Wizards (Video Game)), Any or No Characters (Tactical Breach Wizards (Video Game)), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
- understated whump and hurt/comfort. ("Understated" = use your best judgement.)
- Men Coughing Up Blood(TM), Women Coughing Up Blood, Nonbinary People Coughing Up Blood, etc.
- competence porn and characters leaning into very different strengths. Scenes that showcase the contrast between characters
- Relationships forged in fire, bonding over trauma, codependency, friendships and romantic/sexual relationships that are hard to categorise in terms of whether they're a good thing/helpful or not. Relationships as questionable coping mechanisms. When characters can't quite say what they are to each other except "someone important"
- low-stakes moments, high-stakes action. Characters going through extremely harrowing experiences but somehow getting through it more or less okay (or are they)
- plotty Gen fic, missionfic, casefic, pre-slash or pre-relationship, slow-burn vibes
- UST!!! I am happy if the requested ship kisses but I also adore it if the story is just them losing their minds over one (1) second of platonic hand contact.
- canon-divergent AUs that answer "what if" questions, or "for want of a nail" AUs
- non-explicit but sensual and emotional non-graphic sex scenes
- UST-ridden scenes that are not sex but very sensual or metaphorically sexal (e.g. reaching inside someone's mechanical parts to repair them...!)
- The Eroticism of the Machine(TM), wireplay, robots, androids, cyborgs, etc...
- non-sexual intimacy
- intimacy that is sexual but not directly about sex (e.g. pillow talk, lazy mornings after)
- fluff with a touch of bittersweetness or grimness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets, Identity Porn
- wild nature, animals of all kind including spiders, bugs and creepy-crawlies, rats
- things that are ugly or in disrepair but at the same time beautiful in their own way
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales
Graphic gore, noncon, kidfic, noncanonical incest or underage, pregnancy of POV characters, focus on needles or surgery (especially cutting and IVs), focus on IRL modern era geopolitics (~last century but especially last 50 years), eye horror/trauma
Prompts
- Death's Door (and semi-relatedly) Time Travel: I'd love to see more of this, holy hell. What that dimension even is, what it means. Did Dessa really meet her younger self, and is there really going to be a timeline where Dessa meets Jen with foreknowledge and a warning from a weird dream? Feel free to explore some of those alternate timelines in as much depth as you want! I also have an AU5K request you might find inspiring for this! :)
- The existence of multiple timelines seems all but explicit given the way foresight works, which also makes it a little grim... in a way, did all those alternate bad timelines (or the better ones for that matter) still really happen? That seems like the kind of thing that would drive a Seer to a breakdown, alright...
- We don't see that much of the Druid Mafia but I would love to see more of them: what their methods and above all their goals are. Is their connection with nature only a means to an end, or is it also part of their ideology (if they have one)? I'd also love to see you delve into Rion's history with them a bit more, or Dessa, for that matter, who seems to have worked with all sorts.
- The "anxiety dream" thing that's textually a side effect of Zan's Craft is a neat and convenient excuse for some "character vs. own demons" storytelling, but I"d love to see it explored more beyond the one-scene wonders we get in the game. I would love to see this taken further with any of the requested characters. Do they lose this "ability" when they part ways with Zan, and do they miss it? For Jen: since she has a low-power version of Zan's Craft due to the vessel he gifted her, I'd love to see her deal with precognition as a source of drama (or shenanigans, or whatever you're in the mood for).
- Unlocking the Craft: We get the main cast's Unlocking stories but I would both love to see some more of this for other characters (e.g. Liv's team), or for any OCs you can think of interesting powers for. Canon divergent AUs (perhaps in the format of seer visions) of various alternate ways the cast could have Unlocked (or not Unlocked!) their power would also be great!
- I enjoy and welcome Interactive Fiction (e.g. AO3 format or on Twine, etc.) and it feels like another Anxiety Dream would work very well in IF format, just saying :3
- Art prompt: MORE CONFIDENCE OUTFITS. Need I say more? Also, additional power unlocks and what they look like!
- In-universe meta prompt: Article excerpts or newspaper clippings would be so fun!
- Opt-in: Interacitve Fiction
- Opt-in: Anything you worry might be "too nerdy"
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PH #5 - fic - Psychonauts (Video Games), Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry, Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry, Mortal Kombat (Video Games 1992-2020)
Request 1 by KibaSniper
Psychonauts (Video Games)
WB: Classes at Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp (Psychonauts), WB: Whispering Rock Campers as Psychonauts Agents (Psychonauts), WB: Whispering Rock Campers as Motherlobe Interns (Psychonauts), Chloe Barge (Psychonauts), Bobby Zilch (Psychonauts), Razputin "Raz" Aquato (Psychonauts), Lili Zanotto (Psychonauts), Melvin "Chops" Sweetwind (Psychonauts), Fanfiction
Do Not Wants: Sexually explicit material of any kind, especially underage material, incest, rape, dubcon/noncon, pedophilia, adult/minor relationships, script-styled pieces, songfics, chatfics, Aquato family being depicted as abusive to Raz.
Relationships: Chloe & Bobby, Chloe/Bobby (as agents only), Raz/Bobby (or platonic), Chloe/Lili (or platonic), Chops/Lili (or platonic), or any platonic interpretations of the listed characters.
Classes in Whispering Rock: i think this is really underutilized idea! we all only single classes with oleander, sasha, and milla, so i'd love for a piece featuring bobby, chloe, and other campers experiencing their regular classes or new ones.
Whispering Rock Campers as Motherlobe Interns: same general ideas as above! who would be their mentors? what would hollis teach them? what kind of missions would they go on?
Whispering Rock Campers as Psychonauts Agents: same premise as above, just now as actual agents! whether they're junior or regular agents as up to you. what departments would they work on? what kind of missions would they undergo?
Request 2 by KibaSniper
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni | Higurashi When They Cry
WB: Satoko Houjou's Time Loops (Higurashi), WB: Rika and Satoko's Time at St. Lucia Academy (Higurashi), WB: Post-GouSotsu (Higurashi), Satoko Houjou (Higurashi), Rika Furude (Higurashi), Fanfiction
Do Not Wants: Sexually explicit material of any kind, especially underage material, incest, rape, dubcon/noncon, pedophilia, adult/minor relationships, character bashing, script-styled pieces, songfics, chatfics, the Meguri continuity, Rika and/or Satoko romantically paired with the other club members.
Relationships: Rika/Satoko
Post-GouSotsu: what are satoko and rika's lives like now? how is rika at st. lucia without satoko, and are her days as bland as satoko promised? how is satoko faring in a seemingly fine hinamizawa?
Satoko and Rika's time in St. Lucia: would love to see more their tension and the rift, such as satoko's time studying and being separated from rika, or rika turning a blind eye to satoko's issues as she has done.
Satoko Houjou's Time Loops: or i would love to see more of satoko looping! how does she come to the conclusions that she does in another loop? or are there any missing scenes that could be shown in loops shown in canon?
Request 3 by KibaSniper
Umineko no Naku Koro ni | When the Seagulls Cry
WB: The Sea of Fragments (Umineko), WB: Life as a Voyager Witch (Umineko), WB: Life as a Piece in a Witch's Game (Umineko), WB: Abandoned Game Boards (Umineko), Bernkastel (Umineko no Naku Koro ni), Lambdadelta (Umineko no Naku Koro ni), Ushiromiya Ange (Umineko), Furudo Erika (Umineko), Fanfiction
Do Not Wants: Sexually explicit material (tho implied/referenced is fine for 18+ characters!), especially underage material, incest, rape, dubcon/noncon, pedophilia, adult/minor relationships, character bashing, script-styled pieces, songfics, chatfics, romantic Amakusa/Ange, any references or implicit works depicting Ange's love for Battler as romantic.
Relationships: Bernkastel/Lambdadelta, Erika/Ange, Bernkastel & Erika, Bernkastel & Ange, Lambdadelta & Ange
Abandoned Game Boards: what happens when bernkastel or lambdadelta leave the board? or what are their logic errors like if one player leaves them to suffer fixing it? maybe bern could abandon erika and toss her in to fix it on behalf of her master?
Life as a Piece in a Witch's Game: would love to see something ange-centered, how she's existing in a strange way as both a human and witch in different periods of time. her plane of existence is odd, after all! or what if ange accepted lambdadelta's proposal to swap sides and become her piece?
Life as a Voyager Witch/The Sea of Fragments: what do bernkastel and lambdadelta do as they search for new fragments? do they insert themselves at random? or do they promise pieces their aid to win the tide in a game they find interesting?
Request 4 by KibaSniper
Mortal Kombat (Video Games 1992-2020)
WB: Earthrealm and Edenian Relations (Mortal Kombat), WB: MK Armageddon Character Ending Continuations (Mortal Kombat), Sonya Blade, Kitana (Mortal Kombat), Mileena (Mortal Kombat), Jade (Mortal Kombat), Fanfiction
Do Not Wants: Sexually explicit material of any kind (tho implied/referenced is fine for 18+ characters!), especially underage material, incest, rape, dubcon/noncon, pedophilia, adult/minor relationships, character bashing, script-styled pieces, songfics, chatfics, Kitana/Mileena
Relationships: Mileena/Tanya, Kitana/Jade, Kitana/Sonya, Kitana & Jade & Sonya
Earthrealm and Edenian Relations: what are they are like!! i'd love a story where sonya is an ambassador from the special forces and enjoying edenian culture. i think there would be a lot she'd like, and a lot jade and kitana would show her as they're proud of the strides they've made since sindel retook the throne.
Armageddon Endings: take your pick! i was delighted to see mk1 pick up the old plot thread of tanya as a dragon caller, so it had been thinking about these endings. any elaboration on them would be great!
CLAIMED - PH #8 - fic, meta - The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, Project Wingman (Video Game), Warframe, Ace Combat (Video Games)
The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt
WB: Lambert's time on The Path (The Witcher 3), Lambert (The Witcher 3), Original Character(s) (The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Prompts:
A) Does his sharp tongue ever become particularly useful?
B) Any contracts that boosted his reputation?
Likes:
Lambert being creatively with comparisons and insults (if any).
DNW:
* Tooth rotting fluff
* Porn
* Shipping Lambert with any wolf witcher
Request 2 by Schlumbergera
Project Wingman (Video Game)
WB: The Oceanian War (Project Wingman), WB: The Deal (Project Wingman), Crimson One (Project Wingman), Klara "Frost Druid" Rask, Any or No Characters (Project Wingman (Video Game)), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
1. The deal: a list of things never made 100% clear.
https://projectwingman.wiki.gg/wiki/The_Deal
2. https://projectwingman.wiki.gg/wiki/Oceanian_War
The Oceanian War - something that canon dialogue keeps referring to while omitting details.
DNW:
* explicit porn
Request 3 by Schlumbergera
Warframe
WB: Albrecht's early days in the plague year of 1999 (Warframe), WB: Albrecht's time in Duviri (Warframe), Any or No Characters (Warframe), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
https://wiki.warframe.com/w/Fragments/Duviri (see:Scholar's Landing)
https://wiki.warframe.com/w/Fragments/Albrecht
DNW:
* explicit porn
Request 4 by Schlumbergera
Ace Combat (Video Games)
WB: Trigger’s kangaroo court martial (Ace Combat), Any or No Characters (Ace Combat (Video Games)), Original Character(s) (Ace Combat (Video Games)), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
In Ace Combat 7, Trigger is falsely accused of killing Harling, pronounced guilty, and sent to a penal colony less than a month later. Eventually, Trigger is proven innocent.
Looking for anything from media coverage, to how martial law works, to how Trigger approached it, to how/why the ones responsible arranged it.
In the event that he wasn't framed, it may have required both that the evidence (planes have recordings on them) got lost somehow (in which case how?) and Trigger pleaded guilty (but why?).
CLAIMED - PH #9 - fic, meta - Exalted (Roleplaying Game) x3, Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Planescape (Roleplaying Game), Warframe x4
Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)
WB: The Deserts of Athas (Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)), WB: Athasian Slave Tribes (Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)), WB: Athasian Elf Tribes (Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)), WB: Athasian Challenge Combat (Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)), WB: Athasian Bards (Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)), Original Character(s) (Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)), Any or No Characters (Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game)), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
As a rule, I'm not interested in the "revised" continuity of Dark Sun, which followed the novels into weird and wacky places about ancient halfling bioengineers doing an "oopsie" with the sun: I prefer the more stripped-down and mysterious history of the original box (which was at least loosely followed by the 4e version).
So:
The Deserts is pretty much a big catch-all category for exploring the majority of Athas. Consider: the history of the deserts (perhaps with regards to defilers, the sorcerer-kings, and the Dragon), navigation through them, living in them, the terror of being without water in them, and so forth.
The slave tribes and the elf tribes are fascinating inhabitants of the deserts. Consider for the slaves: the formation of these groups of escapees, their disparate members, any merging or splitting they might do, their internal politics and organisation, their conflicts. For elves: their protectiveness of their own members, their notoriety for treachery towards anyone else, their skill at navigating Athas' landscape.
Challenge combat (from Dragon Kings) has tonnes of potential for dramatic moments. Consider: great conflicts settled by challenge combat, particular traditions that champions or groups of people or city-states might have around challenge combat, high moments of treachery, times when challenge combat actually solved nothing.
Bards show the wealthier, but no less ruthless side of Athas, being (potential) assassins, infiltrators, and poisoners. Consider: their hiring as assassins and all that goes along with it, the idea of bards being "gifted" to other nobles, the social faux pas that is either being too obvious about sending bardic assassins or turning away bards just because they might be assassins and the consequences that result, the rare bard who does just want to play music, record history, and inspire people.
Request 2 by Seika
Exalted (Roleplaying Game)
WB: First Reports of Returning Solars (Exalted), WB: Chivalry of the Deathknights (Exalted), Original Character(s) (Exalted (Roleplaying Game)), Any or No Characters (Exalted (Roleplaying Game)), Unconquered Sun (Exalted), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Preferring (early) 1e continuity and concepts here, i.e. loosely 1e core/STG, Caste Books, Scav Sons. Not necessarily Games of Divinity and all it brings.
First Reports of Returning Solars - not that Anathema are unknown to the world, obviously, but exploring the idea (perhaps especially among the movers and shakers of the world, and among other Exalted) that after the long centuries the Solars are finally Exalting in numbers again. The emotional and political repercussions. Speculation on why: I've always been taken by the book suggestions that it took this long for the reincarnating Solars to be cleansed of their misdeeds, or that the Unconquered Sun has finally turned his face back to Creation after so long in despair at the monstrosity of the Solars and nevertheless also at their destruction.
Chivalry of the Deathknights - quoth 1e core "Abyssal Exalted are the noble champions of Death. Full of grace, educated and even charming in their cold fashion, the deathknights are gentlefolk as well as peerless warriors." This is definitely my preferred version of the Abyssals, rather than Neph's meditations on grimdark, forcibly destructive Exalted on a tight Neverborn leash (they're dead and dreaming, not conscious plotters).
Consider: the very particular customs that make up Underworld/Abyssal courtesy, chivalry, and charm. What effect does . The feudality of being a deathknight: the loyalty owed both to the unliving Deathlords and the unliving "peasants" of the Underworld. The protectiveness and noblesse oblige shown by e.g. Shards of Basalt in CB: Dawn. The fact that Abyssals are, by some margin, the most likely other type of Exalted to team up with Solars in early material.
Request 3 by Seika
Planescape (Roleplaying Game)
WB: The Positive Energy Plane (Planescape (Roleplaying Game)), WB: The Negative Energy Plane (Planescape (Roleplaying Game)), WB: The Great Modron March (Planescape (Roleplaying Game)), WB: The Blood War (Planescape (Roleplaying Game)), WB: The Bleak Cabal's Charitable Works (Planescape (Roleplaying Game)), Original Character(s) (Planescape (Roleplaying Game)), Any or No Characters (Planescape (Roleplaying Game)), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
The energy planes: just, what "life" is like in these planes which are so hostile to life as we know it. Their visitors and the extremely careful protections they need to take to stay there. The bleak fortresses of the undead on the Negative. The xag-ya and the ravids and the xeg-yi. (See source: The Inner Planes)
The Blood War: the great battlefields of the Blood War. Fame won and long in its fighting. Spectacular victories or defeats that moved the needle, just a little, for a while, until the grinding and inevitable stalemate resumed. Other planar factions, entities, and powers intervening, for whatever goals they might have in mind. The machinations of the yugoloths, between demon and devil. (See source: Hellbound - the Blood War).
The Great Modron March: the sheer vastness of the enterprise. The reactions of everyone to this enormous intrusion. The opportunities presented by it or left in its wake. The reasoning behind the March. If it's an observation mission, then the things that the March is actually cataloguing, potentially from the modron and/or Primus point of view. The observer paradox and the degree to which anything the March finds is actually reflective of the truth, given its own impact.
The Bleak Cabal's charitable work: Because altruistic existentialism is cool and because gods know Sigil clearly needs charitable work. So: the places that the Cabal set up their hospitals and hospices and soup kitchens. People they encounter there. The specific types of Bleakers who engage in this work. Their actual day-to-day activities.
Request 4 by Seika
Warframe
WB: Tau under the Sentients, Lotus (Warframe), Hunhow (Warframe), Erra (Warframe), Original Character(s) (Warframe), Any or No Characters (Warframe), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
This could be:
a reflection on Tau as it was settled;
the turning of the Sentients against the Orokin, and potentially the decision to launch an attack against the Orokin in spite of the consequences for the Sentients who have to once again make the Void journey to the Origin system;
Lotus and/or Hunhow and/or Erra as they were on Tau;
what, potentially is happening on Tau "now", in the contemporary Warframe timeline;
ideas about what Tau might be like when or if the Tenno ever end up there.
Request 5 by Seika
Warframe
WB: The Lotus' Family, Tenno (Warframe), Lotus (Warframe), Operator (Warframe), Erra (Warframe), Hunhow (Warframe), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
I mean. Arguably family is the point of Warframe. I'd love more ideas about how the Lotus relates to family both chosen and born, how Hunhow or Erra see her and her relationship to the Tenno, how the Tenno see Hunhow and Erra (particularly post-New War).
Request 6 by Seika
Warframe
WB: The Time Between The Old War and Awakening (Warframe), WB: The Tenno Reawakening (Warframe), Tenno (Warframe), Lotus (Warframe), Operator (Warframe), Original Character(s) (Warframe), Any or No Characters (Warframe), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Between The Old War and Awakening - what were these long ages like for the inhabitants of the Origin System, as the Orokin fell, as the Grineer and Corpus rose (including for the Grineer or Corpus themselves, if you like?) What were they like for the Lotus? What was the Long Dream even like for the Tenno?
The Tenno Reawakening - what exactly was the trigger for Lotus reawakening us: what in the Origin system persuaded her that now was when we were needed? What were the reactions to the Tenno return for the Grineer, the Corpus, the general populace? What was it like for newly awakened Tenno, trying to get a hold of themselves and learn about the present Origin system and potentially meeting up with their fellows?
Request 7 by Seika
Warframe
WB: The New War (Warframe), WB: The Aftermath of the New War (Warframe), Operator (Warframe), Tenno (Warframe), Lotus (Warframe), Hunhow (Warframe), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
The New War - any more ideas on what this was like for the Origin system as a whole (Grineer/Corpus/unaligned), either during or after the conquest, outside the vignettes we got in the game? Maybe for Tenno who weren't the "Chosen Operator"? Or more examination of Lotus throughout? More thoughts on Hunhow (and his minions) at this time? The idea of calling his own son a Dax has so much weight to it ...
The aftermath of TNW - similarly, but especially the recovery for the system as a whole. You might also consider the remnant Sentients - not just Hunhow and Erra/Pazuul, but everyone else in the great Sentient fleet that now had to retreat back to the Veil. A closer and more intimate look at the Tenno recovery - the Chosen Operator and/or the body of the Tenno as a whole, especially alongside Lotus and her renewed self. Thoughts specifically on Lotus settling into her new persona (whichever it might be) and potentially Eternalism echoes that make her think of the other choices and paths she could have made.
Request 8 by Seika
Exalted (Roleplaying Game)
WB: The Bull Of The North's Conquests (Exalted), Yurgen Kaneko (Exalted), Original Character(s) (Exalted (Roleplaying Game)), Any or No Characters (Exalted (Roleplaying Game)), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
I know these are not necessarily popular opinions but, look, I think the Bull's cool. I think he's a neat character, and I think he's a great way to show just what you might be able to do to the setting. So let's have some fun. You could consider: how he starts getting the ball rolling on uniting the icewalkers, his first conquests of the cities thereafter, the slowly expanding ripples and reactions from farther and farther afield. The difficulties and consequences of his ongoing campaign as its reaches a greater and greater geographic extent, and the times when he has to stop and rest and resupply and rule.
Request 9 by Seika
Exalted (Roleplaying Game)
WB: The First Exaltation (Exalted), Unconquered Sun (Exalted), Gaia (Exalted), Autochthon (Exalted), Original Character(s) (Exalted (Roleplaying Game)), Any or No Characters (Exalted (Roleplaying Game)), Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Long ago, HLS said:
And it doesn't have to be this specific vision of the First Exaltation, but I'd still love to see some ideas around that. Was it at the same time as Luna and the Maidens and Gaia/the Dragons so that the whole Host rose together, or did one go first? Did each partner in the Divine Rebellion choose one champion to begin with, or were there many? What did it feel like for the new Exalted? What did the gods (and Autochthon and Gaia) think when they beheld their new creations?
(UCS) "These Exaltations won't catalyze. What am I doing wrong?"
(Autochthon) "Let me see that. Hm. Are you putting everything you have into this?"
(UCS) "Of course not. Nothing can withstand that."
(Autochthon) "These Exaltations are insufficiently awesome. You must push yourself to your limits."
(UCS) "But I have none."
(Autochthon) "Nevertheless."
(UCS) "Very well—but I warned you."
And on that day the sun flared so that it encompassed the entire sky, and Creation was taken with terror and wonder. Luna rose ahead of schedule to shield the world from that unbearable light, and beneath the apocalyptic vision of this eclipse, the first [Solar] Exalted began to take the Second Breath... "
CLAIMED - PH #14 - fic, art, meta - 阴阳师 | Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master (Movies - Guo Jingming), Tom Swift (TV 2022), 大梦归离 | Fangs of Fortune (TV), The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi - Shannon Chakraborty
Request 1 by acernor
阴阳师 | Yīn Yáng Shī | The Yin-yang Master (Movies - Guo Jingming)
WB: how do the shisheng work (Yin Yang Shi), WB: Qingming half kitsune heritage (Yin Yang Shi), Bo Ya (Yin Yang Shi), Qing Ming (Yin Yang Shi), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Yes treats are welcome! :)
General Likes: unreliable narrators, worldbuilding that deeply interrogates structures that are initially introduced as “just the way things are :),” sick fight scenes, comedy, cool monster designs, super specific knowledge from the author (aka you are a squid processing tech and write about ink sac removal or whatever) (tell me all about shoelace manufacturing, i’m ready)
Shippy/ sex likes: praise kink, the emotionally repressed one who’s really good at fighting and nobly pining for the other one without ever planning on saying anything getting to sub and/ or bottom, sex pollen, fuck or die, virginity kink, bed sharing, bondage, touch starved character finally getting touched >:)
DNWs: rape (dubcon ala sex pollen/ fuck or die where both parties enjoy it is fine), underage, major character death (canon typical/ nonpermanent is fine), sex work aus, military or cop aus, bad ending, vomit/feces/urine in sex, sex with animals
Request 2 by acernor
Tom Swift (TV 2022)
WB: Lino's powers (Tom Swift TV 2022), WB: Rowan's time traveling (Tom Swift TV 2022), Any or No Characters (Tom Swift (TV 2022)), Lino (Tom Swift TV 2022), Rowan (Tom Swift TV 2022), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Yes treats are welcome! :)
General Likes: unreliable narrators, worldbuilding that deeply interrogates structures that are initially introduced as “just the way things are :),” sick fight scenes, comedy, cool monster designs, super specific knowledge from the author (aka you are a squid processing tech and write about ink sac removal or whatever) (tell me all about shoelace manufacturing, i’m ready)
Shippy/ sex likes: praise kink, the emotionally repressed one who’s really good at fighting and nobly pining for the other one without ever planning on saying anything getting to sub and/ or bottom, sex pollen, fuck or die, virginity kink, bed sharing, bondage, touch starved character finally getting touched >:)
DNWs: rape (dubcon ala sex pollen/ fuck or die where both parties enjoy it is fine), underage, major character death (canon typical/ nonpermanent is fine), sex work aus, military or cop aus, bad ending, vomit/feces/urine in sex, sex with animals
Request 3 by acernor
大梦归离 | Fangs of Fortune (TV)
WB: forging the YunGuang sword/how it chooses a master (Fangs of Fortune), WB: role of dual cultivation in mediating resentful energy (FoF), WB: What caused ZYZ's hair to change (Fangs of Fortune), WB: what it looks like to cultivate back to human form (Fangs of Fortune), Li Lun (FoF), Zhao Yuanzhou | Zhu Yan, Zhuo Yichen, Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Yes treats are welcome! :)
General Likes: unreliable narrators, worldbuilding that deeply interrogates structures that are initially introduced as “just the way things are :),” sick fight scenes, comedy, cool monster designs, super specific knowledge from the author (aka you are a squid processing tech and write about ink sac removal or whatever) (tell me all about shoelace manufacturing, i’m ready)
Shippy/ sex likes: praise kink, the emotionally repressed one who’s really good at fighting and nobly pining for the other one without ever planning on saying anything getting to sub and/ or bottom, sex pollen, fuck or die, virginity kink, bed sharing, bondage, touch starved character finally getting touched >:)
DNWs: rape (dubcon ala sex pollen/ fuck or die where both parties enjoy it is fine), underage, major character death (canon typical/ nonpermanent is fine), sex work aus, military or cop aus, bad ending, vomit/feces/urine in sex, sex with animals
Request 4 by acernor
The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi - Shannon Chakraborty
WB: what Raksh is (The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi), Raksh (The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Yes treats are welcome! :)
General Likes: unreliable narrators, worldbuilding that deeply interrogates structures that are initially introduced as “just the way things are :),” sick fight scenes, comedy, cool monster designs, super specific knowledge from the author (aka you are a squid processing tech and write about ink sac removal or whatever) (tell me all about shoelace manufacturing, i’m ready)
Shippy/ sex likes: praise kink, the emotionally repressed one who’s really good at fighting and nobly pining for the other one without ever planning on saying anything getting to sub and/ or bottom, sex pollen, fuck or die, virginity kink, bed sharing, bondage, touch starved character finally getting touched >:)
DNWs: rape (dubcon ala sex pollen/ fuck or die where both parties enjoy it is fine), underage, major character death (canon typical/ nonpermanent is fine), sex work aus, military or cop aus, bad ending, vomit/feces/urine in sex, sex with animals
CLAIMED - PH #15 - fic, art, meta (varies with request) - Original Work - Hentai, 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), Harry Potter (Books 1-7)
Original Work - Hentai
WB: Normalized Sex Slavery (OW Hentai), WB: Caste-Based System For Porn Purposes (OW Hentai), WB: How Magic Is Taught When Most Magic Students Just Want To Fuck Demons (OW Hentai), Any or No Characters (Original Work - Hentai), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Request 2 by alhthm
原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
WB: Travel & Cross-National Exchange (Genshin Impact), WB: Folklore & Mythology in Teyvat (Genshin Impact), WB: Vision Loss (Genshin Impact), Any or No Characters (原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Request 3 by alhthm
Harry Potter (Books 1-7)
WB: Pureblood culture/traditions (HP 1-7), WB: New classes at Hogwarts (HP 1-7), WB: Life after Hogwarts (HP 1-7), Draco Malfoy (HP 1-7), Harry Potter (HP 1-7), Fanart, Fanfiction
CLAIMED - PH #16 - fic, art, meta - Invisible Inc. (Video Game) x2, Original Work - Cyberpunk, Tactical Breach Wizards (Video Game)
Invisible Inc. (Video Game)
WB: The neural uplink interface (Invisible Inc), WB: Technological advances in espionage (Invisible Inc), WB: OPSEC at Invisible Inc. (Invisible Inc), WB: Mission control (Invisible Inc), WB: Agent recruitment (Invisible Inc), WB: Detention centers and capture (Invisible Inc), WB: Incognita's takeover (Invisible Inc), Any or No Characters (Invisible Inc. (Video Game)), Brian Decker, Maria "Internationale" Valdés, Raymond "Shalem 11" Malik, Incognita (Invisible Inc. Video Game), Operator (Invisible Inc. Video Game), Original Character(s) (Invisible Inc. (Video Game)), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Invisible Inc request #1: Agency-centric
See my other Invinc request for additional tags, please feel free to mix and match
Treats welcome!
General likes
- understated whump and hurt/comfort. ("Understated" = use your best judgement.)
- Men Coughing Up Blood(TM), Women Coughing Up Blood, Nonbinary People Coughing Up Blood, etc.
- competence porn and characters leaning into very different strengths. Scenes that showcase the contrast between characters
- Relationships forged in fire, bonding over trauma, codependency, friendships and romantic/sexual relationships that are hard to categorise in terms of whether they're a good thing/helpful or not. Relationships as questionable coping mechanisms. When characters can't quite say what they are to each other except "someone important"
- low-stakes moments, high-stakes action. Characters going through extremely harrowing experiences but somehow getting through it more or less okay (or are they)
- plotty Gen fic, missionfic, casefic, pre-slash or pre-relationship, slow-burn vibes
- UST!!! I am happy if the requested ship kisses but I also adore it if the story is just them losing their minds over one (1) second of platonic hand contact.
- canon-divergent AUs that answer "what if" questions, or "for want of a nail" AUs
- non-explicit but sensual and emotional non-graphic sex scenes
- UST-ridden scenes that are not sex but very sensual or metaphorically sexal (e.g. reaching inside someone's mechanical parts to repair them...!)
- The Eroticism of the Machine(TM), wireplay, robots, androids, cyborgs, etc...
- non-sexual intimacy
- intimacy that is sexual but not directly about sex (e.g. pillow talk, lazy mornings after)
- fluff with a touch of bittersweetness or grimness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets, Identity Porn
- wild nature, animals of all kind including spiders, bugs and creepy-crawlies, rats
- things that are ugly or in disrepair but at the same time beautiful in their own way
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales
General DNWs
Graphic gore, noncon, kidfic, noncanonical incest or underage, pregnancy of POV characters, focus on needles or surgery (especially cutting and IVs), focus on IRL modern era geopolitics (~last century but especially last 50 years), eye horror/trauma
- Please feel free to go wild with any of these freeforms. I'm interested in both agents (whether they're in the request/tagset or not TBH) and any OCs you can cook up: former Invisible Inc agents (KIAs?), corporate characters, people in the II world just trying to get by. In particular, I'd enjoy seeing other criminal groups that might have contact or even work with Invisible, how their MO might differ, and seeing Invisible through their perspective (e.g. Cyro's group in the groundbreaking classic Toothless by Linenpixel)
- It's common to interpret the ending as Incognita being in full control over everything, but is it actually that simple? Given her strikes on corp HQs, the corps are weakened but hardly gone. What does the aftermath of her takeover look like? What are her plans (if any) for the remnants of Invisible? Her relationship with Central post-takeover?
- I'd love to see pre-campaign (or post-canon for that matter! either is good) standard InvInc operations fleshed out a bit more. What do they do in the event of an agent being compromised? What protocols are there for rescued agents who've gone through brutal interrogation and/or deprogramming -- both on the side of physical/medical rehabilitation and psychological recovery, but also dealing with information leaks and shaken loyalties?
- As the most wanted anti-corporate terrorist on the planet, Central puts a great amount of trust into the people who become her agents. How is that trust earned? How does she find the right people? Also, how big are Invisible operations, anyway? How many people work for the agency (not necessarily all of them near HQ) and how much do they know? It takes a lot of people to keep an agency like this running, including basic admin, repairs and maintenance, custodian and janitor work, etc. How does Central manage such potential leaks of information?
- More nitty-gritty details of InvInc operations plz, particularly infiltration planning, prep, intel gathering, how they pick their targets, etc. Are they full mercenary, only taking contracts for the money and their own gradual intel-gathering advantage, or do they also work together with other anti-corporate groups even when they have little to gain from it in the short term?
- Opt-in: Fic in IF format
- Opt-in: As much accurate (or seemingly accurate) dry technical/scientific detail as your nerdy little heart desires to cram in
Letter: https://hekateras.dreamwidth.org/6030.html
Request 2 by Hekateras
Invisible Inc. (Video Game)
WB: AI development (Invisible Inc. Video Game), WB: The Istanbul Run (Invisible Inc), WB: Neural redaction (Invisible Inc), WB: Resource Wars (Invisible Inc. Video Game), WB: Cybernetics (Invisible Inc. Video Game), WB: Incognita's takeover (Invisible Inc), Operator (Invisible Inc. Video Game), Original Character(s) (Invisible Inc. (Video Game)), Any or No Characters (Invisible Inc. (Video Game)), Olivia "Central" Gladstone, Collette "Rush" Phan, Matei "Draco" Cernat, Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Invisible Inc request #2: Broader and historical scope
See my Invinc request #1 for additional tags as well as likes and DNWs! I'm using this box for the rest of my prompts :)
Prompts, continued:
- Another prompt for Incognita's takeover: what do the first hours (days, weeks) after the OMNI mainframe mission look like on the agency side? The corps have bigger problems to worry about now, but their HQ is still gone, most of their agents are still MIA (and maybe the team even took casualties during the OMNI mission itself!), and now they've lost their AI. I'd love to see in detail what it would look like for Invisible to establish a foothold in the immediate aftermath and scramble to bring some of their operations back -- perhaps with Monst3r's help?
- The missions we see are stealthy blitz strikes -- when the intruders teleport in and out, most missions probably take a handful of minutes. One, I'd love to see corporate anti-teleportation countermeasures as a source of drama/mission complication! Two, I'd love to see what other kinds of missions the agency does, if any. Do they do more classic intelligence work with long-term infiltration, double agents, sleeper agents, that kind of thing?
- How do the cyberpunk setting and the technology available affect all of the above? Does the existence of Neural Redaction have any implications for interrogation and detainment, or for post-trauma psychological care? On the flip side, a Severance (TV show)-style implant seems within scope, and would be a dramatic avenue for sleeper agents. So many possibilities...
- Teleportation, neural uplinks, and cloaking tech are all important aspects of Invisible's operations. I'd love to see more about when this kind of tech was first introduced and adopted for spywork, as well as what anti-corporate measures look like. The Invisible modding scene introduces things such as custom guards in the Advanced Guard Protocol mod who can do things like see cloaked agents with UV Spectrometers. It would be cool to see this explored more in fic, such as agents encountering anti-cloaking tech/guard implants/etc. for the first time.
- The Istanbul Run. We don't know much about it, and the things we know mainly come from corporate sources. Feel free to expand on how it went wrong, what was truth and what is fiction, whether Draco and Rush were actually executed or if the corps lied about that just like they lied about Central's execution. If you'd like to explore it post-factum through the eyes of someone like Prism trying to find out what happened, that would be great too!
- AI development: Incognita seems special. Is she? Are there more AIs like her? Has Invisible ever encountered one? (If you'd like to borrow ideas from the Programs Extended mod's Hostile AI feature... feel free hehe.)
- The Invisible Inc. setting is somewhat unconventional when it comes to cyberpunk settings in that the transition to corporate-ruled dystopia was fairly sudden, violent, and in recent history. Even the younger agents were born before the Resource Wars and before the megacorporations attained full global control! I'd love to see this explored a bit more in terms of how it might affect some typical genre staples. For example, is there more unrest and dissent as a result? Many people still remember the way it was before, after all!
- In-universe meta prompt: I would looove a custom datalog! A journal article, a scrap of an agent's past in some old paperwork or records or long-lost correspondence...
- Art prompt: it might be a tall order but I'd adore something like one of the loading screen posters in the game that contain messages: densely-packed with information, some projected elements from retinal HUDs and stuff!
Letter: https://hekateras.dreamwidth.org/6030.html
Request 3 by Hekateras
Original Work - Cyberpunk
WB: Black Markets (OW Cyberpunk), WB: Social Stratification (OW Cyberpunk), WB: Corporatocracy (OW Cyberpunk), WB: Pirate Radio Stations (OW Cyberpunk), WB: Fashion Trends (OW Cyberpunk), Original Character(s) (Original Work - Cyberpunk), Any or No Characters (Original Work - Cyberpunk), Original Female Character(s) (OW Cyberpunk), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
General likes
- understated whump and hurt/comfort. ("Understated" = use your best judgement.)
- Men Coughing Up Blood(TM), Women Coughing Up Blood, Nonbinary People Coughing Up Blood, etc.
- competence porn and characters leaning into very different strengths. Scenes that showcase the contrast between characters
- Relationships forged in fire, bonding over trauma, codependency, friendships and romantic/sexual relationships that are hard to categorise in terms of whether they're a good thing/helpful or not. Relationships as questionable coping mechanisms. When characters can't quite say what they are to each other except "someone important"
- low-stakes moments, high-stakes action. Characters going through extremely harrowing experiences but somehow getting through it more or less okay (or are they)
- plotty Gen fic, missionfic, casefic, pre-slash or pre-relationship, slow-burn vibes
- UST!!! I am happy if the requested ship kisses but I also adore it if the story is just them losing their minds over one (1) second of platonic hand contact.
- canon-divergent AUs that answer "what if" questions, or "for want of a nail" AUs
- non-explicit but sensual and emotional non-graphic sex scenes
- UST-ridden scenes that are not sex but very sensual or metaphorically sexal (e.g. reaching inside someone's mechanical parts to repair them...!)
- The Eroticism of the Machine(TM), wireplay, robots, androids, cyborgs, etc...
- non-sexual intimacy
- intimacy that is sexual but not directly about sex (e.g. pillow talk, lazy mornings after)
- fluff with a touch of bittersweetness or grimness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets, Identity Porn
- wild nature, animals of all kind including spiders, bugs and creepy-crawlies, rats
- things that are ugly or in disrepair but at the same time beautiful in their own way
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales
General DNWs
Graphic gore, noncon, kidfic, noncanonical incest or underage, pregnancy of POV characters, focus on needles or surgery (especially cutting and IVs), focus on IRL modern era geopolitics (~last century but especially last 50 years), eye horror/trauma
- Cyberpunk fashion: Wondering about the kinds of material conditions and history that could give rise to some of the visual staples of the genre. E.g.: maybe neon and similarly hi-vis motifs started out as a way for rebels and insurgents to interfere with CCTV and facial recognition software. Bbright neon signs can cause blow-out problems in photography, bright patches of neon and dark colours could break up the human silhouette both to conventional vision and in the eyes of auto-targeting drones, smart CCTV, etc. Maybe this kind of trend starts out as something practical but gets co-opted by the public, much like punk and hippie aesthetics has spread beyond the rebellious countercultures they originated in. Is there still room for rebellion as expressed through fashion? What does that look like?
- Cyberpunk fashion: What kind of clothing constitutes a status symbol and why? What kind of materials and motifs might be in use? Also, if it's not too heavy, I'm fascinated by the idea of widespread masking originating as preventative disease control praxis but having a secondary benefit in avoiding facial recognition in the age of corporate surveillance. I absolutely love the vibes of this music video of Hans Zimmer's Inception track Time that was filmed and released during the pandemic.
- Corporatocracy, social stratification, black markets and pirate radio stations... I enjoy the drama and tensions of the inherent contradictions that society in the corporate late-stage capitalism setting of cyberpunk tumultuously exists with and rests upon. The tension between self-preservation and rebellion. What form does organised dissent take in this society? Many classic cyberpunk stories are about the rugged individual, a lone wolf or amoral mercenary with not much of a cause: a single person vs. the system. I'd love to see you deconstruct this or take it a bit further. What does it look like for people to try to change this kind of world for the better?
- Art prompt: Fashion through time and use of technology in fashion, bodycam footage, CCTV POV (warped perspectives, obscured details, timestamps and algorithm outputs)
- In-universe meta prompt: Articles, editorials, in-universe debates and chat logs
- Feel free to borrow any of the conceptual prompts from my Invisible Inc request above since that is also a cyberpunk canon! I'm interested in those ideas whether or not they're attached to those specific blorbos and that specific universe.
- Opt-in: Fic in IF format
Letter: https://hekateras.dreamwidth.org/6030.html
Request 4 by Hekateras
Tactical Breach Wizards (Video Game)
WB: Unlocking the Craft (TBW), WB: Time travel (TBW), WB: The Druid Mafia (Tactical Breach Wizards), WB: Death's Door (TBW), Dessa Banks, Jen Kellen, Zan Vesker, Rion (Tactical Breach Wizards), Dall Sabin, Original Character(s) (Tactical Breach Wizards (Video Game)), Any or No Characters (Tactical Breach Wizards (Video Game)), Fanart, Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
General likes
- understated whump and hurt/comfort. ("Understated" = use your best judgement.)
- Men Coughing Up Blood(TM), Women Coughing Up Blood, Nonbinary People Coughing Up Blood, etc.
- competence porn and characters leaning into very different strengths. Scenes that showcase the contrast between characters
- Relationships forged in fire, bonding over trauma, codependency, friendships and romantic/sexual relationships that are hard to categorise in terms of whether they're a good thing/helpful or not. Relationships as questionable coping mechanisms. When characters can't quite say what they are to each other except "someone important"
- low-stakes moments, high-stakes action. Characters going through extremely harrowing experiences but somehow getting through it more or less okay (or are they)
- plotty Gen fic, missionfic, casefic, pre-slash or pre-relationship, slow-burn vibes
- UST!!! I am happy if the requested ship kisses but I also adore it if the story is just them losing their minds over one (1) second of platonic hand contact.
- canon-divergent AUs that answer "what if" questions, or "for want of a nail" AUs
- non-explicit but sensual and emotional non-graphic sex scenes
- UST-ridden scenes that are not sex but very sensual or metaphorically sexal (e.g. reaching inside someone's mechanical parts to repair them...!)
- The Eroticism of the Machine(TM), wireplay, robots, androids, cyborgs, etc...
- non-sexual intimacy
- intimacy that is sexual but not directly about sex (e.g. pillow talk, lazy mornings after)
- fluff with a touch of bittersweetness or grimness
- cloak-and-dagger, cat-and-mouse, spies, secrets, Identity Porn
- wild nature, animals of all kind including spiders, bugs and creepy-crawlies, rats
- things that are ugly or in disrepair but at the same time beautiful in their own way
- the aesthetic of ruin and tangled industrial locales
General DNWs
Graphic gore, noncon, kidfic, noncanonical incest or underage, pregnancy of POV characters, focus on needles or surgery (especially cutting and IVs), focus on IRL modern era geopolitics (~last century but especially last 50 years), eye horror/trauma
- Death's Door (and semi-relatedly) Time Travel: I'd love to see more of this, holy hell. What that dimension even is, what it means. Did Dessa really meet her younger self, and is there really going to be a timeline where Dessa meets Jen with foreknowledge and a warning from a weird dream? Feel free to explore some of those alternate timelines in as much depth as you want! I also have an AU5K request you might find inspiring for this! :)
- The existence of multiple timelines seems all but explicit given the way foresight works, which also makes it a little grim... in a way, did all those alternate bad timelines (or the better ones for that matter) still really happen? That seems like the kind of thing that would drive a Seer to a breakdown, alright...
- We don't see that much of the Druid Mafia but I would love to see more of them: what their methods and above all their goals are. Is their connection with nature only a means to an end, or is it also part of their ideology (if they have one)? I'd also love to see you delve into Rion's history with them a bit more, or Dessa, for that matter, who seems to have worked with all sorts.
- The "anxiety dream" thing that's textually a side effect of Zan's Craft is a neat and convenient excuse for some "character vs. own demons" storytelling, but I"d love to see it explored more beyond the one-scene wonders we get in the game. I would love to see this taken further with any of the requested characters. Do they lose this "ability" when they part ways with Zan, and do they miss it? For Jen: since she has a low-power version of Zan's Craft due to the vessel he gifted her, I'd love to see her deal with precognition as a source of drama (or shenanigans, or whatever you're in the mood for).
- Unlocking the Craft: We get the main cast's Unlocking stories but I would both love to see some more of this for other characters (e.g. Liv's team), or for any OCs you can think of interesting powers for. Canon divergent AUs (perhaps in the format of seer visions) of various alternate ways the cast could have Unlocked (or not Unlocked!) their power would also be great!
- I enjoy and welcome Interactive Fiction (e.g. AO3 format or on Twine, etc.) and it feels like another Anxiety Dream would work very well in IF format, just saying :3
- Art prompt: MORE CONFIDENCE OUTFITS. Need I say more? Also, additional power unlocks and what they look like!
- In-universe meta prompt: Article excerpts or newspaper clippings would be so fun!
- Opt-in: Interacitve Fiction
- Opt-in: Anything you worry might be "too nerdy"
From the rules
Participants are expected to create one of:
- Fanfiction - a complete fic of at least 1000 words
- Fanart - a finished piece of art, not on lined paper
- In-Universe Meta - a complete piece of in-universe meta of at least 1000 words
