Worldbuilding Exchange Letter
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somethingdarkerDNW: child harm of any sort; explicit underage sex; cancer; snuff; suicide; completely tragic/hopeless endings; embarrassment/humiliation; mutilation; infidelity; forcible physical transformation; incest; mentor/protege pairings; isms not native to the setting; bestiality (xeno with intelligent beings is fine); setting change AUs; mundane AUs; mpreg; A/B/O; soulbonds; RPF involving modern characters; PWP; fluff; disrespect for real world religions
I've written all of these fandoms except Utena and have come up with some world building ideas for them. I am absolutely not wedded to a specific interpretation of the characters or the backstory or any of that. Most of the time, when I start poking at this sort of stuff, I get half a dozen ideas that all go at angles from each other, so other angles are welcome.
That said, I have a transformative works policy and am open to anyone yanking bits of world building, non-canonical backstory, etc. from my existing stories and doing whatever the hell they want with it, including proving why it couldn't possibly work that way.
My tendency for worldbuilding is to find bits that ought to connect to something but that canon never elaborated on. That means that my prompts tend to go in that direction. My prompts are simply things I've thought about for these canons; they're not things I'd be unhappy not to get. I have ideas about possible answers (generally more than one answer) for some of them and no notion whatsoever about others.
IMO, the fact that different writers will take prompts in very different directions is a feature for any exchange and a major feature for this one. No such thing as One True Explanation. Not even if it's canon.
I generally enjoy well developed OCs and have no objection at all to less well developed OCs who act as a gateway for worldbuilding.
I like characters in shades of gray. That goes for the worldbuilding, too. Even the darkest options should have some good things and vice versa.
I'm not big on graphic violence or gore. Brief references/summaries of whatever happened, if torture and/or physical punishment makes sense for the story, will generally be okay.
In most cases (I'll specify when not), I'm okay with sex, including noncon or dubcon. I tend to define noncon very broadly and dubcon very narrowly, but since I'm good with both, I don't think that my particular line is important.
My general assumption in most canons is that, for fic writing purposes, almost all characters are bi or pansexual (not keen on changing the status of those who have stated that they're gay or asexual, however. Not that that's a thing in any of these canons, but...) unless I have a strong reason to decide otherwise for a specific story.
I'm okay with canon pairings and most types of non-canonical pairings, het, m/m, f/f, poly, whatever, including established relationships. Gen is completely good for me, too.
I don't deal well at all with certain types of abuse of authority-- I can't reread or rewatch Order of the Phoenix because Dolores Umbridge upsets me too much. She's too real world for me to want to spend time with her.
Also, I really don't mind seeing characters older-- even much older-- than in canon. Some of my requested characters are teens, but I'm well past being very interested in teenagers being teenagers just because they're supposed to have general appeal, if that makes sense. I'm interested in stories about them being people as opposed to them being teenagers.
Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny
Any or No Characters (Chronicles of Amber)
Dworkin Barimen (Chronicles of Amber)
Original Character(s) (Chronicles of Amber)
Finndo (Chronicles of Amber)
Oberon (Chronicles of Amber)
Osric (Chronicles of Amber)
WB: Origins and History of the Courts of Chaos (Chronicles of Amber)
WB: Rebman History (Chronicles of Amber)
WB: Royal Family of Amber (Chronicles of Amber)
WB: Social Structure of the Courts of Chaos (Chronicles of Amber)
WB: Tir-na Nog'th (Chronicles of Amber)
This is the one fandom in which I'm okay with incest. Both the Amber royal family and the upper levels of the Courts of Chaos feel to me more like mythological characters in that respect.
I nominated everything here, so it's all of interest to me. I nominated the four characters I did because they all have massive question marks about them in canon. For Osric and Finndo, I was mainly thinking of the WB: Royal Family of Amber tag, but there's little enough canon on them that they could also work with either of the tags about the Courts of Chaos, and Tir-na Nog'th and Rebma are so very close to Amber that I can't imagine that neither of them went there. Oberon and Dworkin can, of course, fit any of the tags at all.
I am generally more interested in the WB tags than in the character tags, so even if we matched on a specific character, feel free to not include that person.
I have not read the non-Zelazny prequels and don't consider them canon. If you have read them and want to steal details, I don't inherently object. I just won't know that's what you're doing unless you tell me.
I have played Amber diceless and still own both rule/source books. I also consider them not to be canon, but if you know the game books and want to draw on them for things like how certain powers (say shapeshifting? sorcery?) work, I'm good with that. I'm equally good with things being entirely different or part like and part different, so please don't feel that you need to acquire these if you don't have them or reference them at all if they don't fit what you want to do.
When I write for this canon, I mostly draw on things from the Merlin books. That's not because I prefer those; it's because I find more loose threads there in terms of contradictions and dropped plots than I do in the Corwin books. I'd be fine with ignoring a lot (all?) of the world building in the Merlin books if you'd prefer to focus on the Corwin books or with taking some bits from each and ignoring whatever doesn't fit. I don't think that the two series really fit together well in terms of underlying world building or timeline or...
I can go either way on the sentience/autonomy of various major powers. It's very definitely canon in the Merlin books, but it's one of the things I don't see fitting well with the Corwin books. Your call.
There are a lot of things that Corwin doesn't know and a lot of things the Merlin doesn't understand or pay attention to.
I divided these into two sets of WB tags that I thought made sense together. This was more because, taken together, they add up to ten tags than because I wouldn't be interested in an intersection between tags in the two sets. If something appeals, feel free.
Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Any or No Characters (Chronicles of Narnia)
Aravis Tarkheena (Chronicles of Narnia)
Jadis | The White Witch (Chronicles of Narnia)
King Lune (Chronicles of Narnia)
Lasaraleen Tarkheena (Chronicles of Narnia)
Non-Human Narnians (Chronicles of Narnia)
Original Character(s) (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Charn (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Charn Prior to Jadis (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: History of Other Places (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Narnian History (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Non-humans Outside of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Theology and Mythology (Chronicles of Narnia)
Any or No Characters (Chronicles of Narnia)
Aravis Tarkheena (Chronicles of Narnia)
Jadis | The White Witch (Chronicles of Narnia)
King Lune (Chronicles of Narnia)
Lasaraleen Tarkheena (Chronicles of Narnia)
Non-Human Narnians (Chronicles of Narnia)
Original Character(s) (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: The Hundred-Year Winter (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Mythology and Religion of Calormen (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Archenland During the White Witch's Reign (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Calormene Culture and History (Chronicles of Narnia)
I've written a couple of stories with Jadis as main character. I am absolutely not wedded to the interpretation of her that I write.
I'm fine with Aslan as wonderful or as horrible or as anywhere in between but generally prefer not to connect him to Christianity. I know that that's counter to Lewis's intentions, but I really don't want either a paean to Christianity or a tirade about the evils of the same.
Fandom specific DNW: disrespect for real world religions even via proxies.
I feel like both of these Narnia requests are me flinging my arms open and saying, "Give me what you've got!" There are so many lacunae in the history and geography and, well, everything. I'm pretty sure I'll be thrilled with anything that fills in a bit of that. I'm very much interested in all of the stuff that simply isn't there or that's mentioned in passing.
Labyrinth (1986)
Any or No Characters (Labyrinth (1986))
Jareth (Labyrinth (1986))
Original Character(s) (Labyrinth (1986))
Sarah Williams (Labyrinth (1986))
WB: Effects of humans on Labyrinth and the Goblin King (Labyrinth (1986))
WB: Goblin Society (Labyrinth (1986))
WB: Jareth's Castle (Labyrinth (1986))
WB: Lasting effects of the Labyrinth on humans (Labyrinth (1986))
WB: the Labyrinth (Labyrinth (1986))
Given how long the Labyrinth seems to have existed, I'm not willing to assume that Sarah is the only person ever to defeat Jareth to retrieve a child (or for some other purpose). I am good with winning making her special and/or meaning that she's got Jareth's attention, however, and do not want her bashed or trivialized.
Please only pair Sarah and Jareth romantically if she has the power and experience to balance his. If you want to pair them in a creepy, unhealthy sexual relationship, please just don't go with it until Sarah's over 18.
I'm a little uncertain as to the purpose of the Labyrinth. Is it just something that exists or did someone build it? Is the whole taking children thing meant as a way of getting power for either Jareth or the Goblin King? Or is it a test for people with potential for power, one that weeds out the unworthy or unlucky?
Are Jareth's castle and the goblins more generally an innate part of the Labyrinth? Or was there the Labyrinth first with everything else coming later? Did Jareth come from somewhere else or he a creation/projection of the place or someone who clawed his way up to be King?
Phineas and Ferb
Any or No Characters (Phineas and Ferb)
Original Character(s) (Phineas and Ferb)
WB: 2nd Dimension (Phineas and Ferb)
WB: History of Drusselstein (Phineas and Ferb)
WB: History of OWCA (Phineas and Ferb)
WB: Location of the Tri-State Area (Phineas and Ferb)
WB: Weird Science (Phineas and Ferb)
This is a canon where a lot of the world building decisions pretty certainly have been made based on the principle of 'that would be funny.' I just want to know something more that tries to find some sort of logic under it all. Maybe Danville is located in a space-time pocket? Maybe Doofenschmirtz is an extremely unlucky analog to Suzumiya Haruhi? Maybe Phineas and Ferb are some sort of changelings? Are the OWCA agents somehow enhanced or are all animals in this world that smart? If the latter, how can anyone not be vegetarian?
I don't know. Most of these WB tags could go anywhere at all.
For things involving the 2nd Dimension setting, I'm more interested in what happens after canon than in before but would still be very happy with something set before or even during. I wrote this setting once for Yuletide, but please don't assume that that's the only version of the characters or the immediate aftermath I'd like.
Please keep various interspecies relationships either platonic or consensual and very much non-explicit. I'm really not up for porn of that sort here.
Utena
Any or No Characters (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Dios (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Himemiya Anthy (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Kagee Shoujo | Shadow Play Girls (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Ohtori Akio (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Original Character(s) (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Tenjou Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
WB: Dueling Cycle (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
WB: History of Dios (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
WB: Magic in Ohtori (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
WB: Memory (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
WB: The outside world (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
I have seen the movie but have not read the manga. If pulling elements from the movie makes sense for what you want to do, go for it.
I like both the sense of ritual and cycles of repetition in canon and the breaking of those things. Ohtori seems to be full of liminal spaces, and I wonder if it's a place Akio and Anthy have moved into/connected with temporarily or if Ohtori has always been theirs with some veil of deniability. How do people end up there? How much do any of them remember after? Or are all of them stuck the way that Mikage seems to be? Is the world outside of Ohtori our world or something else entirely? Or is there more than one 'outside' world connected to the campus?
Canon gave us fragments of the past, but also indicated that all of it might be-- if not outright lies-- very skewed and/or limited. Was Anthy's prince always the Akio we see in the series? Were they humans who became whatever they currently are or were they some sort of old gods or--? I got the impression that Akio takes power from the duel cycle and from how it traps Anthy. She's cooperating, too, and there's certainly something very powerful there.
Fandom specific DNWs: Explicit sex. Ritual sex. Juri paired with a male character. Akio redeemed.
ETA: I'm okay with canon levels of explicit sex and with the canonical incest (just not in explicit detail and not as ritual) and incestuous feelings. I mainly don't want to see it as something romantic. My main objection to incest in fic is that the line can be very blurry between a portrayal that's okay with me and one that isn't. Canon being quite clear that these relationships are really not healthy for those involved makes me more comfortable with it here.
Akio/Anthy is pretty deeply messed up. I'm pretty sure it always has been. The shadows of that relationship-- Touga and Nanami, Miki and Kozue-- have the potential to be every bit as poisonous, but I'd rather not see them falling into that (I'm hoping that, as those characters weren't nominated, nobody's starting from that as the story they want to write). Something interesting could probably be done with the other sibling pairs as aspects of Anthy and Akio without going to explicit incest.
Akio/various underage characters (some of which might be taken as mentor/protege, too) is canon, too. I just don't want that centered as happy/good or described explicitly. I don't want sensual details attached to the deeply creepy manipulation. Akio thinking that someone might be vulnerable to temptation via sex or romance is fine. One (or more) of the underage characters thinking that Akio's sculpted abs are hot is also fine. I'm not so keen on Akio perving on specific physical features of even the older characters. Him perving on just having the power to pull the strings is fine and (for me) different.
Akio is an asshole. He can cheat on his fiancee, and I won't think it's meant to be romantic or meant to bash the relationship. Canon's pretty clear that Akio has no healthy relationships with anyone. Not even with himself.
Sky High (2005)
any or no characters (Sky High)
original character(s) (Sky High)
WB: Economics (Sky High)
WB: Government Interaction with Supers (Sky High)
WB: History of Supers (Sky High)
WB: Why Is This World So Similar to Ours (Sky High)
There are Doylist reasons for pretty much all of the things in this movie that don't make sense. I know that. I just have fun trying to come up with explanations.
The more I mentally poke at the world in the story, the more I wonder about how all of the bits and pieces could actually fit together. Do people with powers ever used them for something besides fighting each other? What percentage of the population has powers? Where did superpowers come from and when? Are teens with powers required to attend Sky High or some other similar school? Who sets the curriculum at Sky High? Do people who don't have superpowers have political power or something to counterbalance the abilities of the superpowered population? Do supers have a shadow government and, if so, how does it work?
The movie gives the impression that being a sidekick is potentially a worse life than not having powers at all. It also gives the impression that powers are a relatively recent thing in that Will being 'third generation' is a huge deal. Powers-- even specific powers-- seem to be mostly expected to be hereditary, but Ron Wilson gets powers from toxic waste as mentioned in the voiceover at the end of the movie. How does that work? Also, there's some implication that powers can just pop up kind of randomly in the population. Is that true?
How on earth can big name superheroes actually hold jobs? Being a realtor may be a sort of time flexible job, but it's not really last minute time flexible.
The story arc I wrote for this fandom doesn't really address most of this stuff because I was focused on the ethical and emotional tangle. I have vague ideas but nothing I'm passionate about. Please tell me what you think.
Weiss Kreuz
I divided these somewhat arbitrarily and would not object to characters and WB tags from one set crossing with characters and tags from the other.
Any or No Characters (Weiß Kreuz)
Brad Crawford (Weiß Kreuz)
Fujimiya "Aya" Ran (Weiß Kreuz)
Naoe Nagi (Weiß Kreuz)
Original Character(s) (Weiß Kreuz)
Tsukiyono Omi | Takatori Mamoru (Weiß Kreuz)
Schuldig (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Demon Summoning (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Explaining Masafumi's Weird Science (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Magic used by evil organisations (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Psychic Powers (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Rosenkreuz (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Witchcraft (Weiß Kreuz)
Any or No Characters (Weiß Kreuz)
Brad Crawford (Weiß Kreuz)
Fujimiya "Aya" Ran (Weiß Kreuz)
Naoe Nagi (Weiß Kreuz)
Original Character(s) (Weiß Kreuz)
Tsukiyono Omi | Takatori Mamoru (Weiß Kreuz)
Schuldig (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: History and Economics of Kritiker (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Eszett (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Eszett and world politics (Weiß Kreuz)
I've written a lot of stories in this fandom. Ignore them or steal from them or whatever as you will.
I am exceedingly agnostic about pairings in this fandom but very strongly prefer that Schwarz not get woobified. I came to the fandom before Gluhen, so I don't mind ignoring that part of things or incorporating it whichever fits your story better.
Please don't bash Ouka, Sakura, Aya-chan, or Tot. Apart from Tot, the other members of Schreient can go any direction you want. I'm fine with the Kritiker affiliated women being as morally gray as the organization itself but don't want to see them as the secret villains making all bad things happen. Well, I suppose it could be interesting if Momoe is actually an eldritch being or criminal mastermind or some such. It might explain a lot of the WTF? about canon.
I know very little about the drama CDs and even less about Side B. I don't mind spoilers, but I will need context for elements drawn from either. In text or in a footnote, parenthetical note, or author's note would be fine.
Are psychic powers fundamentally different from magic? What are demons, where do they come from, and what history do they have in our world? Is Masafumi's science actually some form of magic or are the physical laws just that different there? Why does nobody show much surprise at the humans-turning-to-monsters stuff related to Masafumi's 'science' when there's no sign of that sort of thing anywhere else? I've always kind of wondered if the Asuka | Neu thing related somehow to Masafumi's research. Maybe Asuka really was dead before she became Neu?
I'm really puzzled by Kritiker and how it came to be and is funded. I know that it's a Takatori thing in Gluhen, but I can't see why it would be a good investment or why Reiji wouldn't know (or be able to find out) a lot about it. Maybe it's some sort of weird charitable tradition for the family? Or a tax write-off? Maybe it isn't just a Takatori family thing? Or are the Takatori running it but for completely different (magical? religious? political? something else entirely?) reasons?
I'm not sure to what degree it's possible to disentangle Eszett and/or Rosenkreuz from psychic powers and magic but I am curious about the politics and economics of each. How does Rosenkreuz recruit? What sorts of things do they teach? Does Eszett have goals beyond bwa-ha-ha we're evil? What sort of opposition are they facing? Why does Omi's grandfather think that opposing them is a waste of resources?
I've written all of these fandoms except Utena and have come up with some world building ideas for them. I am absolutely not wedded to a specific interpretation of the characters or the backstory or any of that. Most of the time, when I start poking at this sort of stuff, I get half a dozen ideas that all go at angles from each other, so other angles are welcome.
That said, I have a transformative works policy and am open to anyone yanking bits of world building, non-canonical backstory, etc. from my existing stories and doing whatever the hell they want with it, including proving why it couldn't possibly work that way.
My tendency for worldbuilding is to find bits that ought to connect to something but that canon never elaborated on. That means that my prompts tend to go in that direction. My prompts are simply things I've thought about for these canons; they're not things I'd be unhappy not to get. I have ideas about possible answers (generally more than one answer) for some of them and no notion whatsoever about others.
IMO, the fact that different writers will take prompts in very different directions is a feature for any exchange and a major feature for this one. No such thing as One True Explanation. Not even if it's canon.
I generally enjoy well developed OCs and have no objection at all to less well developed OCs who act as a gateway for worldbuilding.
I like characters in shades of gray. That goes for the worldbuilding, too. Even the darkest options should have some good things and vice versa.
I'm not big on graphic violence or gore. Brief references/summaries of whatever happened, if torture and/or physical punishment makes sense for the story, will generally be okay.
In most cases (I'll specify when not), I'm okay with sex, including noncon or dubcon. I tend to define noncon very broadly and dubcon very narrowly, but since I'm good with both, I don't think that my particular line is important.
My general assumption in most canons is that, for fic writing purposes, almost all characters are bi or pansexual (not keen on changing the status of those who have stated that they're gay or asexual, however. Not that that's a thing in any of these canons, but...) unless I have a strong reason to decide otherwise for a specific story.
I'm okay with canon pairings and most types of non-canonical pairings, het, m/m, f/f, poly, whatever, including established relationships. Gen is completely good for me, too.
I don't deal well at all with certain types of abuse of authority-- I can't reread or rewatch Order of the Phoenix because Dolores Umbridge upsets me too much. She's too real world for me to want to spend time with her.
Also, I really don't mind seeing characters older-- even much older-- than in canon. Some of my requested characters are teens, but I'm well past being very interested in teenagers being teenagers just because they're supposed to have general appeal, if that makes sense. I'm interested in stories about them being people as opposed to them being teenagers.
Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny
Any or No Characters (Chronicles of Amber)
Dworkin Barimen (Chronicles of Amber)
Original Character(s) (Chronicles of Amber)
Finndo (Chronicles of Amber)
Oberon (Chronicles of Amber)
Osric (Chronicles of Amber)
WB: Origins and History of the Courts of Chaos (Chronicles of Amber)
WB: Rebman History (Chronicles of Amber)
WB: Royal Family of Amber (Chronicles of Amber)
WB: Social Structure of the Courts of Chaos (Chronicles of Amber)
WB: Tir-na Nog'th (Chronicles of Amber)
This is the one fandom in which I'm okay with incest. Both the Amber royal family and the upper levels of the Courts of Chaos feel to me more like mythological characters in that respect.
I nominated everything here, so it's all of interest to me. I nominated the four characters I did because they all have massive question marks about them in canon. For Osric and Finndo, I was mainly thinking of the WB: Royal Family of Amber tag, but there's little enough canon on them that they could also work with either of the tags about the Courts of Chaos, and Tir-na Nog'th and Rebma are so very close to Amber that I can't imagine that neither of them went there. Oberon and Dworkin can, of course, fit any of the tags at all.
I am generally more interested in the WB tags than in the character tags, so even if we matched on a specific character, feel free to not include that person.
I have not read the non-Zelazny prequels and don't consider them canon. If you have read them and want to steal details, I don't inherently object. I just won't know that's what you're doing unless you tell me.
I have played Amber diceless and still own both rule/source books. I also consider them not to be canon, but if you know the game books and want to draw on them for things like how certain powers (say shapeshifting? sorcery?) work, I'm good with that. I'm equally good with things being entirely different or part like and part different, so please don't feel that you need to acquire these if you don't have them or reference them at all if they don't fit what you want to do.
When I write for this canon, I mostly draw on things from the Merlin books. That's not because I prefer those; it's because I find more loose threads there in terms of contradictions and dropped plots than I do in the Corwin books. I'd be fine with ignoring a lot (all?) of the world building in the Merlin books if you'd prefer to focus on the Corwin books or with taking some bits from each and ignoring whatever doesn't fit. I don't think that the two series really fit together well in terms of underlying world building or timeline or...
I can go either way on the sentience/autonomy of various major powers. It's very definitely canon in the Merlin books, but it's one of the things I don't see fitting well with the Corwin books. Your call.
There are a lot of things that Corwin doesn't know and a lot of things the Merlin doesn't understand or pay attention to.
I divided these into two sets of WB tags that I thought made sense together. This was more because, taken together, they add up to ten tags than because I wouldn't be interested in an intersection between tags in the two sets. If something appeals, feel free.
Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
Any or No Characters (Chronicles of Narnia)
Aravis Tarkheena (Chronicles of Narnia)
Jadis | The White Witch (Chronicles of Narnia)
King Lune (Chronicles of Narnia)
Lasaraleen Tarkheena (Chronicles of Narnia)
Non-Human Narnians (Chronicles of Narnia)
Original Character(s) (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Charn (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Charn Prior to Jadis (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: History of Other Places (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Narnian History (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Non-humans Outside of Narnia (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Theology and Mythology (Chronicles of Narnia)
Any or No Characters (Chronicles of Narnia)
Aravis Tarkheena (Chronicles of Narnia)
Jadis | The White Witch (Chronicles of Narnia)
King Lune (Chronicles of Narnia)
Lasaraleen Tarkheena (Chronicles of Narnia)
Non-Human Narnians (Chronicles of Narnia)
Original Character(s) (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: The Hundred-Year Winter (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Mythology and Religion of Calormen (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Archenland During the White Witch's Reign (Chronicles of Narnia)
WB: Calormene Culture and History (Chronicles of Narnia)
I've written a couple of stories with Jadis as main character. I am absolutely not wedded to the interpretation of her that I write.
I'm fine with Aslan as wonderful or as horrible or as anywhere in between but generally prefer not to connect him to Christianity. I know that that's counter to Lewis's intentions, but I really don't want either a paean to Christianity or a tirade about the evils of the same.
Fandom specific DNW: disrespect for real world religions even via proxies.
I feel like both of these Narnia requests are me flinging my arms open and saying, "Give me what you've got!" There are so many lacunae in the history and geography and, well, everything. I'm pretty sure I'll be thrilled with anything that fills in a bit of that. I'm very much interested in all of the stuff that simply isn't there or that's mentioned in passing.
Labyrinth (1986)
Any or No Characters (Labyrinth (1986))
Jareth (Labyrinth (1986))
Original Character(s) (Labyrinth (1986))
Sarah Williams (Labyrinth (1986))
WB: Effects of humans on Labyrinth and the Goblin King (Labyrinth (1986))
WB: Goblin Society (Labyrinth (1986))
WB: Jareth's Castle (Labyrinth (1986))
WB: Lasting effects of the Labyrinth on humans (Labyrinth (1986))
WB: the Labyrinth (Labyrinth (1986))
Given how long the Labyrinth seems to have existed, I'm not willing to assume that Sarah is the only person ever to defeat Jareth to retrieve a child (or for some other purpose). I am good with winning making her special and/or meaning that she's got Jareth's attention, however, and do not want her bashed or trivialized.
Please only pair Sarah and Jareth romantically if she has the power and experience to balance his. If you want to pair them in a creepy, unhealthy sexual relationship, please just don't go with it until Sarah's over 18.
I'm a little uncertain as to the purpose of the Labyrinth. Is it just something that exists or did someone build it? Is the whole taking children thing meant as a way of getting power for either Jareth or the Goblin King? Or is it a test for people with potential for power, one that weeds out the unworthy or unlucky?
Are Jareth's castle and the goblins more generally an innate part of the Labyrinth? Or was there the Labyrinth first with everything else coming later? Did Jareth come from somewhere else or he a creation/projection of the place or someone who clawed his way up to be King?
Phineas and Ferb
Any or No Characters (Phineas and Ferb)
Original Character(s) (Phineas and Ferb)
WB: 2nd Dimension (Phineas and Ferb)
WB: History of Drusselstein (Phineas and Ferb)
WB: History of OWCA (Phineas and Ferb)
WB: Location of the Tri-State Area (Phineas and Ferb)
WB: Weird Science (Phineas and Ferb)
This is a canon where a lot of the world building decisions pretty certainly have been made based on the principle of 'that would be funny.' I just want to know something more that tries to find some sort of logic under it all. Maybe Danville is located in a space-time pocket? Maybe Doofenschmirtz is an extremely unlucky analog to Suzumiya Haruhi? Maybe Phineas and Ferb are some sort of changelings? Are the OWCA agents somehow enhanced or are all animals in this world that smart? If the latter, how can anyone not be vegetarian?
I don't know. Most of these WB tags could go anywhere at all.
For things involving the 2nd Dimension setting, I'm more interested in what happens after canon than in before but would still be very happy with something set before or even during. I wrote this setting once for Yuletide, but please don't assume that that's the only version of the characters or the immediate aftermath I'd like.
Please keep various interspecies relationships either platonic or consensual and very much non-explicit. I'm really not up for porn of that sort here.
Utena
Any or No Characters (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Dios (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Himemiya Anthy (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Kagee Shoujo | Shadow Play Girls (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Ohtori Akio (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Original Character(s) (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
Tenjou Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
WB: Dueling Cycle (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
WB: History of Dios (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
WB: Magic in Ohtori (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
WB: Memory (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
WB: The outside world (Revolutionary Girl Utena)
I have seen the movie but have not read the manga. If pulling elements from the movie makes sense for what you want to do, go for it.
I like both the sense of ritual and cycles of repetition in canon and the breaking of those things. Ohtori seems to be full of liminal spaces, and I wonder if it's a place Akio and Anthy have moved into/connected with temporarily or if Ohtori has always been theirs with some veil of deniability. How do people end up there? How much do any of them remember after? Or are all of them stuck the way that Mikage seems to be? Is the world outside of Ohtori our world or something else entirely? Or is there more than one 'outside' world connected to the campus?
Canon gave us fragments of the past, but also indicated that all of it might be-- if not outright lies-- very skewed and/or limited. Was Anthy's prince always the Akio we see in the series? Were they humans who became whatever they currently are or were they some sort of old gods or--? I got the impression that Akio takes power from the duel cycle and from how it traps Anthy. She's cooperating, too, and there's certainly something very powerful there.
Fandom specific DNWs: Explicit sex. Ritual sex. Juri paired with a male character. Akio redeemed.
ETA: I'm okay with canon levels of explicit sex and with the canonical incest (just not in explicit detail and not as ritual) and incestuous feelings. I mainly don't want to see it as something romantic. My main objection to incest in fic is that the line can be very blurry between a portrayal that's okay with me and one that isn't. Canon being quite clear that these relationships are really not healthy for those involved makes me more comfortable with it here.
Akio/Anthy is pretty deeply messed up. I'm pretty sure it always has been. The shadows of that relationship-- Touga and Nanami, Miki and Kozue-- have the potential to be every bit as poisonous, but I'd rather not see them falling into that (I'm hoping that, as those characters weren't nominated, nobody's starting from that as the story they want to write). Something interesting could probably be done with the other sibling pairs as aspects of Anthy and Akio without going to explicit incest.
Akio/various underage characters (some of which might be taken as mentor/protege, too) is canon, too. I just don't want that centered as happy/good or described explicitly. I don't want sensual details attached to the deeply creepy manipulation. Akio thinking that someone might be vulnerable to temptation via sex or romance is fine. One (or more) of the underage characters thinking that Akio's sculpted abs are hot is also fine. I'm not so keen on Akio perving on specific physical features of even the older characters. Him perving on just having the power to pull the strings is fine and (for me) different.
Akio is an asshole. He can cheat on his fiancee, and I won't think it's meant to be romantic or meant to bash the relationship. Canon's pretty clear that Akio has no healthy relationships with anyone. Not even with himself.
Sky High (2005)
any or no characters (Sky High)
original character(s) (Sky High)
WB: Economics (Sky High)
WB: Government Interaction with Supers (Sky High)
WB: History of Supers (Sky High)
WB: Why Is This World So Similar to Ours (Sky High)
There are Doylist reasons for pretty much all of the things in this movie that don't make sense. I know that. I just have fun trying to come up with explanations.
The more I mentally poke at the world in the story, the more I wonder about how all of the bits and pieces could actually fit together. Do people with powers ever used them for something besides fighting each other? What percentage of the population has powers? Where did superpowers come from and when? Are teens with powers required to attend Sky High or some other similar school? Who sets the curriculum at Sky High? Do people who don't have superpowers have political power or something to counterbalance the abilities of the superpowered population? Do supers have a shadow government and, if so, how does it work?
The movie gives the impression that being a sidekick is potentially a worse life than not having powers at all. It also gives the impression that powers are a relatively recent thing in that Will being 'third generation' is a huge deal. Powers-- even specific powers-- seem to be mostly expected to be hereditary, but Ron Wilson gets powers from toxic waste as mentioned in the voiceover at the end of the movie. How does that work? Also, there's some implication that powers can just pop up kind of randomly in the population. Is that true?
How on earth can big name superheroes actually hold jobs? Being a realtor may be a sort of time flexible job, but it's not really last minute time flexible.
The story arc I wrote for this fandom doesn't really address most of this stuff because I was focused on the ethical and emotional tangle. I have vague ideas but nothing I'm passionate about. Please tell me what you think.
Weiss Kreuz
I divided these somewhat arbitrarily and would not object to characters and WB tags from one set crossing with characters and tags from the other.
Any or No Characters (Weiß Kreuz)
Brad Crawford (Weiß Kreuz)
Fujimiya "Aya" Ran (Weiß Kreuz)
Naoe Nagi (Weiß Kreuz)
Original Character(s) (Weiß Kreuz)
Tsukiyono Omi | Takatori Mamoru (Weiß Kreuz)
Schuldig (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Demon Summoning (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Explaining Masafumi's Weird Science (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Magic used by evil organisations (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Psychic Powers (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Rosenkreuz (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Witchcraft (Weiß Kreuz)
Any or No Characters (Weiß Kreuz)
Brad Crawford (Weiß Kreuz)
Fujimiya "Aya" Ran (Weiß Kreuz)
Naoe Nagi (Weiß Kreuz)
Original Character(s) (Weiß Kreuz)
Tsukiyono Omi | Takatori Mamoru (Weiß Kreuz)
Schuldig (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: History and Economics of Kritiker (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Eszett (Weiß Kreuz)
WB: Eszett and world politics (Weiß Kreuz)
I've written a lot of stories in this fandom. Ignore them or steal from them or whatever as you will.
I am exceedingly agnostic about pairings in this fandom but very strongly prefer that Schwarz not get woobified. I came to the fandom before Gluhen, so I don't mind ignoring that part of things or incorporating it whichever fits your story better.
Please don't bash Ouka, Sakura, Aya-chan, or Tot. Apart from Tot, the other members of Schreient can go any direction you want. I'm fine with the Kritiker affiliated women being as morally gray as the organization itself but don't want to see them as the secret villains making all bad things happen. Well, I suppose it could be interesting if Momoe is actually an eldritch being or criminal mastermind or some such. It might explain a lot of the WTF? about canon.
I know very little about the drama CDs and even less about Side B. I don't mind spoilers, but I will need context for elements drawn from either. In text or in a footnote, parenthetical note, or author's note would be fine.
Are psychic powers fundamentally different from magic? What are demons, where do they come from, and what history do they have in our world? Is Masafumi's science actually some form of magic or are the physical laws just that different there? Why does nobody show much surprise at the humans-turning-to-monsters stuff related to Masafumi's 'science' when there's no sign of that sort of thing anywhere else? I've always kind of wondered if the Asuka | Neu thing related somehow to Masafumi's research. Maybe Asuka really was dead before she became Neu?
I'm really puzzled by Kritiker and how it came to be and is funded. I know that it's a Takatori thing in Gluhen, but I can't see why it would be a good investment or why Reiji wouldn't know (or be able to find out) a lot about it. Maybe it's some sort of weird charitable tradition for the family? Or a tax write-off? Maybe it isn't just a Takatori family thing? Or are the Takatori running it but for completely different (magical? religious? political? something else entirely?) reasons?
I'm not sure to what degree it's possible to disentangle Eszett and/or Rosenkreuz from psychic powers and magic but I am curious about the politics and economics of each. How does Rosenkreuz recruit? What sorts of things do they teach? Does Eszett have goals beyond bwa-ha-ha we're evil? What sort of opposition are they facing? Why does Omi's grandfather think that opposing them is a waste of resources?
