Five Figure Fanworks Exchange 2020 Letter
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What I want most is a story that you enjoyed writing. In many cases, I nominated and/or requested single characters. That's more aimed at not limiting you than at me not wanting those characters interacting with others. For / character interactions, I'll be happy with a G or a T rated interaction with a lot of plot.
Generally speaking, I like::
Canon divergence.
Time travel fix-its.
Time loops with humor.
Unreliable narrators.
Two or more characters simultaneously trying to manipulate each other.
Divided loyalties.
Characters having inexplicably survived their tragic, canonical deaths.
Crossovers.
Established relationships with trust and good boundaries.
Worldbuilding, generally.
Worldbuilding that explores scaffolding/logistics in the background of canon.
Explorations of the dark implications that canon ignores.
Bisexual characters.
Genderqueer characters.
Poly characters and relationships.
Open ended stories.
5 things and variants.
Note: What I write is not necessarily consistent with what I like to read. I read a lot less porn than I write and am not necessarily interested in any particular kink, even when I've written it more than once.
DNW: drowning or risk of drowning, sinking ships or boats, anything underwater, cancer, incest, non-canonical death of requested characters, gore, underage (under 18), A/B/O, mpreg, bleak/hopeless endings, vampires, were-creatures, unicorns, zombies, mundane AUs, women as victims of rape, harm to children, death of children, mentor/protege sex or romance, humiliation of requested characters, soulmates/soulbonds, reincarnation, bestiality, fusions
Requested Fandoms:
Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny
Worldbuilding
Oberon
Dara
Martin
Ghostwheel
Both Corwin and Merlin are unreliable narrators, and they're frequently repeating what other people have told them rather than things they observed personally. That leaves a lot of room for stories that offer different truths. I enjoy that narrative space and flexibility in combination with the possibilities offered by manipulating Shadow.
For this canon, I mostly don't mind incest. The main characters are more or less immortal and generally not bound to our moral and ethical standards. They're also prone to manipulating each other via any means and to extreme choices without considering the cost. I'm mostly not keen on anybody/Coral because she comes across as so very, very young. Keeping the canon about her and Merlin is okay, but I would prefer not to focus on that relationship or on the thing with her and the Jewel of Judgment.
I'm good with something that ignores the Merlin books entirely or with something that assumes that the powers and politics in the Merlin books are things Corwin didn't know about. If you want to do something weird with Corwin's Pattern or the Unicorn or the Abyss, have at it. If you want to focus on Dara and the Courts, again, have at it.
This canon is two series of five books each (and a handful of difficult to obtain short stories that can be ignored). So far as I know, the books are only available on paper due to Zelazny's estate never having authorized an ebook edition.
The books are all quite short by present day standards.
Dreaming of Sunshine
Sai
Hatake Kakashi
Worldbuilding
Maito Gai
Maboroshi Kisuke
Senju Tsunade
Nara Shikako
Nara Shikako & Uchiha Sasuke
Mitarashi Anko & Nara Shikako & Yamashiro Aoba
Hatake Kakashi & Nara Yoshino
I'm definitely open to Gardens AUs here and to crossovers with canon Naruto via whatever handwavy means suit. WCE time travel (or other time travel) could be fun. This fandom crosses over with others in potentially interesting ways; my preference is for characters traveling physically rather than via reincarnation.
I'd enjoy other characters in addition to those nominated. I like the way that DoS broadens and deepens the characters from Naruto. I'd enjoy something exploring the broader world. I'd enjoy a mission fic.
Part of what I like about DoS is the interactive recursive portions of the fandom and all of the creative tangents.
Canon Specific DNW: Explicit sex. Romance or sex involving Shikako.
Dreaming of Sunshine is long OC centric Naruto fanfic that can be found on FFnet. It has sprouted its own fandom that includes many fans who only know Naruto canon via this fic.
The Hollow (cartoon)
Adam & Kai & Mira & Reeve & Vanessa
Adam & Kai & Mira & Reeve & Skeet & Vanessa
Worldbuilding
Reeve & Skeet & Vanessa
Mira & Vanessa
Adam & Kai & Mira
Generally speaking, I like the sense of layered story elements without a really clear sense that any emergence into 'reality' was guaranteed to be true. I don't mind if the characters are right in all of their suppositions or if things are more complicated. Even the clearly a game elements are complex in ways that hint at the programmers having left the gaps deliberately.
We don't see enough of the non-cartoon world to be sure that it's objectively real. Is it really a game show? A psychology experiment? A prison? A stealthy way of altering the characters' real world opinions? It's established early on that playing with the characters' memories is part of the set up. Who knows what the longer term repercussions might be?
As far as season 2, the same layering options work for me. I'm up for following either version of the characters or both versions (or some mix of the two).
During season 1, we don't see how Reeve, Skeet, and Vanessa interacted with each other before they first encountered Adam, Kai, and Mira. Something exploring that could be fun.
How does the game show recruit participants? What sort of screening do they do? Is the company behind the technology friendly?
I've seen both seasons, but I'd be open to something diverging at the end of season 1 to follow those characters rather than the season 2 versions. I wondered a bit about the infrastructure and culture that would produce the game and send teenagers in to play. Even if they were technically safe, I could see the experience of believing they would die being traumatic.
I felt like the ending of season 2 was only a happily for now and that the characters were going to become frustrated by their situation pretty rapidly. I'm also not convinced, in spite of what he said. that only the host knows they're there. Keeping their VR going has to be somewhat resource intense and probably hard to hide.
If you want to do some sort of fix-it for Skeet's death in season 2, feel free.
Post season 2 exploration of wider VR world (taken completely at face value or not) would be welcome, too, especially if the characters start figuring out how to shape things around them rather than simply reacting to whatever comes at them.
Canon specific DNW: Explicit sex. Alteration of Adam's stated sexual orientation.
The Hollow is a Netflix original series with two seasons, each containing thirteen half hour episodes.
Phineas and Ferb
Vanessa Doofenshmirtz & 2nd Dimension Vanessa Doofenshmirtz
2nd Dimension Charlene Doofenshmirtz/2nd Dimension Heinz Doofenschmirtz
2nd Dimension Candace Flynn/2nd Dimension Jeremy Johnson
Worldbuilding
Firestorm Girls
As the character nominations suggest, I'm mostly interested in the 2nd Dimension. The Doofenshmirtz empire there is more functional than the one in the rollercoaster time travel episode. How did it happen? Why is 2nd Dimension Charlene evil? How did the Firestorm Girls become a team? What happens to them after the movie? Do Candace and Jeremy get pulled back into big adventures later on? What would canon timeline Vanessa think of the 2nd Dimension?
I'd be up for 2nd Dimension character in the main universe or canon characters in the 2nd Dimension or just 2nd Dimension characters. I'd prefer to keep something of the optimism of canon, and I'm totally good with deus ex machina coincidences in the style of canon. I don't need Danville and the Tri-State Area to make geographical sense.
I also don't mind if you go slightly more realistic on things like psychological repercussions of having lived through the Doofenshmirtz years or what it's like to live in a world that's trying to recover.
Feel free to bring in characters I didn't request, including characters from the Milo Murphy series (which also takes place in Danville and crosses over with Phineas and Ferb).
Fandom specific DNW: explicit sex
The Phineas and Ferb TV series and associated movies are currently available on Disney+. I believe that the 2nd Dimension movie can still be purchased on DVD, but I have no idea of the price.
The Pretender (TV)
Jarod
Miss Parker
Sydney
Brigitte
Broots
I'm agnostic on the subject of Jarod/Miss Parker and am perfectly happy if they're paired or if they're not. I'm also happy to have just one of them in the story or neither of them in the story.
I nominated Brigitte because she kind of appears out of nowhere and never gets backstory or explanation. I thought there might be some interesting possibilities there for making The Centre and the powers behind it come into sensible focus.
For the other characters, I'd enjoy backstory or a casefic. I'd like seeing one or more of them figure out how to escape the gravitation of The Centre. I like Broots' relationship with Debbie. I like explorations of Sydney's complicated relationship with ethics and his complicity in events past and present. I wonder about Miss Parker's work before Jarod escaped.
I like Miss Parker/Thomas but was always puzzled as to why she (or Jarod or Sydney) wasn't expecting Bad Things to happen to him.
I feel that the story arc kind of broke after Thomas was murdered, though. That's the point at which I started feeling like the characters were all just spinning their wheels rather than doing anything that would make sense.
I think that Jarod and Miss Parker are both dangerous in different ways. Jarod's very definitely into psychological sadism, and I suspect that him making sure that no one dies or is permanently (physically) injured is more about him finding it more fun that way than about him having qualms about bad things happening to people he puts on the other side of that good/bad boundary.
People should be very afraid of Jarod deciding to take the gloves off.
People should be very afraid of Miss Parker murdering people in ways that look like accidents.
I'm fine with Emily and Ethan existing or not existing. I don't have a strong opinion on Miss Parker's inherited psychic power (whatever it might really be). I'm very wobbly on whether or not to take the movies as canon; there are interesting things there, to be sure, but... I'm unconvinced by the prophecies and all of that because it comes across as a half-assed retcon. That said, feel free to draw from the movies.
Episodes from the first two seasons of The Pretender can be found on Amazon Prime Video. The DVDs are expensive, and I'm not sure the later seasons are available any other way than DVD.
The books are a reboot continuity and will not help.
Sky High (2005)
Worldbuilding
Layla Williams & Layla's Dad & Layla's Mom
Barron Battle/Ms. Peace
Sue Tenny
Josie Stronghold
I watched this movie a lot when my daughter was small, and I never actually got sick of it. I spent a lot of time wondering about things like how Sky High's cafeteria gets supplies and what the history of the larger world must look like to resemble our world so strongly while still having enough of a history of powers to have a place like Sky High.
I'm very interested in the older characters from canon. Part of that is me thinking that their stories might answer some of my worldbuilding questions; part of that is me not caring about the high school aspects of the story.
The divide between heroes and sidekicks hints at some pretty deep societal problems, and I'm not clear as to what sort of jobs these kids will be prepared for if they don't go into either crime or crime fighting.
If you explore the backstory for the older characters, I would be fine with a canon divergence, including one that made the movie not happen. I'd particularly be open to a divergence that gets rid of Stitches because I find his relationship with Gwen horrifically creepy in serious DNW ways. That said, please don't show the bit with Sue getting turned into a baby and carried off by Stitches. If it's not on screen, I can ignore it.
I'm curious about why on earth Josie ended up with Steve because he does not come across, in the movie, as having charm or brains. I'm also curious about how she interacts with the world as Jetstream and what's involved on the public relations, legal, and political side of things. What about friendships?
For Layla's family, I'm curious about how her parents came to be involved with each other and how they make it work (or don't. I'm not sure that canon established whether or not her parents were still married) with one having superpowers (Layla's mother with animal speech) and the other having no powers. Do they know that Layla got herself assigned as a sidekick? Would they care? Do they both think the system is broken or is that coming from just one of them?
For Barron Battle/Ms Peace, I'm curious about how they got involved with each other. Did they know or were they dating as civilians? Or did they have to team up against some outside threat? What sort of powers do/did they have and what sort of backgrounds? How is Ms Peace viewed in the hero community afterward? Does Barron ever break out and visit his son? What are Barron's villainous goals? Money? Power? Thrills?
I'm almost certain this movie is on Disney+. The last time I checked, the DVD was under $10 on Amazon. The movie runs 1.5 hours.
Weiss Kreuz
Schuldig
Neu | Murase Asuka
Kudou Yohji
Tsukiyono Omi | Takatori Mamoru
Naoe Nagi
Brad Crawford
Brad Crawford/Schuldig
Brad Crawford & Schuldig
Naoe Nagi & Tsukiyono Omi
This was the first fandom in which I posted fic, and I still go back to it. The inconsistencies and gaps are part of what I find attractive about it-- They can accommodate a lot of different sorts of weirdness. Anyone can be interpreted as a terrible person or as pulling strings or as having been duped or... Sorcerers, immortals, youkai, alien invasions, mad science, curses, time travel, political intrigue, ambition, casefic, whatever works.
For Asuka, I'm curious about her backstory and about how she became Neu and how she fit into Schreient. I'd prefer no explicit sex involving members of Schreient.
I'm no more than tepid on most of Gluhen and on the OAVs. I don't need them to be canon, but I also don't mind if they are (mostly. Please don't give me Yohji's canon arc for Gluhen). I don't know either of the manga series or much about the drama CDs and would prefer not to treat them as canon. I like the idea of Omi reclaiming his identity as Mamoru; I'm less thrilled about him becoming a loyal son/grandson (if it's your preference, though, go for it!).
I prefer Crawford and Schuldig as ruthless and amoral. I prefer Kritiker as ambiguously moral but am open to different interpretations of who's pulling the strings and what the organization is really trying to do. I prefer Omi as less naive and more manipulative than he lets on; he's been with Kritiker a long time when the anime starts.
I'm open to most m/m pairings in this canon as long as the characters are over 18.
The anime series have been released in the US more than once. The DVDs are listed on Amazon under the title 'Knight Hunters' but will also come up with a search for 'Weiss Kreuz.' I'm largely interested in the first 25 episodes. The OAV and the 13 episode sequel series are less important for my requests.
What I want most is a story that you enjoyed writing. In many cases, I nominated and/or requested single characters. That's more aimed at not limiting you than at me not wanting those characters interacting with others. For / character interactions, I'll be happy with a G or a T rated interaction with a lot of plot.
Generally speaking, I like::
Canon divergence.
Time travel fix-its.
Time loops with humor.
Unreliable narrators.
Two or more characters simultaneously trying to manipulate each other.
Divided loyalties.
Characters having inexplicably survived their tragic, canonical deaths.
Crossovers.
Established relationships with trust and good boundaries.
Worldbuilding, generally.
Worldbuilding that explores scaffolding/logistics in the background of canon.
Explorations of the dark implications that canon ignores.
Bisexual characters.
Genderqueer characters.
Poly characters and relationships.
Open ended stories.
5 things and variants.
Note: What I write is not necessarily consistent with what I like to read. I read a lot less porn than I write and am not necessarily interested in any particular kink, even when I've written it more than once.
DNW: drowning or risk of drowning, sinking ships or boats, anything underwater, cancer, incest, non-canonical death of requested characters, gore, underage (under 18), A/B/O, mpreg, bleak/hopeless endings, vampires, were-creatures, unicorns, zombies, mundane AUs, women as victims of rape, harm to children, death of children, mentor/protege sex or romance, humiliation of requested characters, soulmates/soulbonds, reincarnation, bestiality, fusions
Requested Fandoms:
Chronicles of Amber - Roger Zelazny
Worldbuilding
Oberon
Dara
Martin
Ghostwheel
Both Corwin and Merlin are unreliable narrators, and they're frequently repeating what other people have told them rather than things they observed personally. That leaves a lot of room for stories that offer different truths. I enjoy that narrative space and flexibility in combination with the possibilities offered by manipulating Shadow.
For this canon, I mostly don't mind incest. The main characters are more or less immortal and generally not bound to our moral and ethical standards. They're also prone to manipulating each other via any means and to extreme choices without considering the cost. I'm mostly not keen on anybody/Coral because she comes across as so very, very young. Keeping the canon about her and Merlin is okay, but I would prefer not to focus on that relationship or on the thing with her and the Jewel of Judgment.
I'm good with something that ignores the Merlin books entirely or with something that assumes that the powers and politics in the Merlin books are things Corwin didn't know about. If you want to do something weird with Corwin's Pattern or the Unicorn or the Abyss, have at it. If you want to focus on Dara and the Courts, again, have at it.
This canon is two series of five books each (and a handful of difficult to obtain short stories that can be ignored). So far as I know, the books are only available on paper due to Zelazny's estate never having authorized an ebook edition.
The books are all quite short by present day standards.
Dreaming of Sunshine
Sai
Hatake Kakashi
Worldbuilding
Maito Gai
Maboroshi Kisuke
Senju Tsunade
Nara Shikako
Nara Shikako & Uchiha Sasuke
Mitarashi Anko & Nara Shikako & Yamashiro Aoba
Hatake Kakashi & Nara Yoshino
I'm definitely open to Gardens AUs here and to crossovers with canon Naruto via whatever handwavy means suit. WCE time travel (or other time travel) could be fun. This fandom crosses over with others in potentially interesting ways; my preference is for characters traveling physically rather than via reincarnation.
I'd enjoy other characters in addition to those nominated. I like the way that DoS broadens and deepens the characters from Naruto. I'd enjoy something exploring the broader world. I'd enjoy a mission fic.
Part of what I like about DoS is the interactive recursive portions of the fandom and all of the creative tangents.
Canon Specific DNW: Explicit sex. Romance or sex involving Shikako.
Dreaming of Sunshine is long OC centric Naruto fanfic that can be found on FFnet. It has sprouted its own fandom that includes many fans who only know Naruto canon via this fic.
The Hollow (cartoon)
Adam & Kai & Mira & Reeve & Vanessa
Adam & Kai & Mira & Reeve & Skeet & Vanessa
Worldbuilding
Reeve & Skeet & Vanessa
Mira & Vanessa
Adam & Kai & Mira
Generally speaking, I like the sense of layered story elements without a really clear sense that any emergence into 'reality' was guaranteed to be true. I don't mind if the characters are right in all of their suppositions or if things are more complicated. Even the clearly a game elements are complex in ways that hint at the programmers having left the gaps deliberately.
We don't see enough of the non-cartoon world to be sure that it's objectively real. Is it really a game show? A psychology experiment? A prison? A stealthy way of altering the characters' real world opinions? It's established early on that playing with the characters' memories is part of the set up. Who knows what the longer term repercussions might be?
As far as season 2, the same layering options work for me. I'm up for following either version of the characters or both versions (or some mix of the two).
During season 1, we don't see how Reeve, Skeet, and Vanessa interacted with each other before they first encountered Adam, Kai, and Mira. Something exploring that could be fun.
How does the game show recruit participants? What sort of screening do they do? Is the company behind the technology friendly?
I've seen both seasons, but I'd be open to something diverging at the end of season 1 to follow those characters rather than the season 2 versions. I wondered a bit about the infrastructure and culture that would produce the game and send teenagers in to play. Even if they were technically safe, I could see the experience of believing they would die being traumatic.
I felt like the ending of season 2 was only a happily for now and that the characters were going to become frustrated by their situation pretty rapidly. I'm also not convinced, in spite of what he said. that only the host knows they're there. Keeping their VR going has to be somewhat resource intense and probably hard to hide.
If you want to do some sort of fix-it for Skeet's death in season 2, feel free.
Post season 2 exploration of wider VR world (taken completely at face value or not) would be welcome, too, especially if the characters start figuring out how to shape things around them rather than simply reacting to whatever comes at them.
Canon specific DNW: Explicit sex. Alteration of Adam's stated sexual orientation.
The Hollow is a Netflix original series with two seasons, each containing thirteen half hour episodes.
Phineas and Ferb
Vanessa Doofenshmirtz & 2nd Dimension Vanessa Doofenshmirtz
2nd Dimension Charlene Doofenshmirtz/2nd Dimension Heinz Doofenschmirtz
2nd Dimension Candace Flynn/2nd Dimension Jeremy Johnson
Worldbuilding
Firestorm Girls
As the character nominations suggest, I'm mostly interested in the 2nd Dimension. The Doofenshmirtz empire there is more functional than the one in the rollercoaster time travel episode. How did it happen? Why is 2nd Dimension Charlene evil? How did the Firestorm Girls become a team? What happens to them after the movie? Do Candace and Jeremy get pulled back into big adventures later on? What would canon timeline Vanessa think of the 2nd Dimension?
I'd be up for 2nd Dimension character in the main universe or canon characters in the 2nd Dimension or just 2nd Dimension characters. I'd prefer to keep something of the optimism of canon, and I'm totally good with deus ex machina coincidences in the style of canon. I don't need Danville and the Tri-State Area to make geographical sense.
I also don't mind if you go slightly more realistic on things like psychological repercussions of having lived through the Doofenshmirtz years or what it's like to live in a world that's trying to recover.
Feel free to bring in characters I didn't request, including characters from the Milo Murphy series (which also takes place in Danville and crosses over with Phineas and Ferb).
Fandom specific DNW: explicit sex
The Phineas and Ferb TV series and associated movies are currently available on Disney+. I believe that the 2nd Dimension movie can still be purchased on DVD, but I have no idea of the price.
The Pretender (TV)
Jarod
Miss Parker
Sydney
Brigitte
Broots
I'm agnostic on the subject of Jarod/Miss Parker and am perfectly happy if they're paired or if they're not. I'm also happy to have just one of them in the story or neither of them in the story.
I nominated Brigitte because she kind of appears out of nowhere and never gets backstory or explanation. I thought there might be some interesting possibilities there for making The Centre and the powers behind it come into sensible focus.
For the other characters, I'd enjoy backstory or a casefic. I'd like seeing one or more of them figure out how to escape the gravitation of The Centre. I like Broots' relationship with Debbie. I like explorations of Sydney's complicated relationship with ethics and his complicity in events past and present. I wonder about Miss Parker's work before Jarod escaped.
I like Miss Parker/Thomas but was always puzzled as to why she (or Jarod or Sydney) wasn't expecting Bad Things to happen to him.
I feel that the story arc kind of broke after Thomas was murdered, though. That's the point at which I started feeling like the characters were all just spinning their wheels rather than doing anything that would make sense.
I think that Jarod and Miss Parker are both dangerous in different ways. Jarod's very definitely into psychological sadism, and I suspect that him making sure that no one dies or is permanently (physically) injured is more about him finding it more fun that way than about him having qualms about bad things happening to people he puts on the other side of that good/bad boundary.
People should be very afraid of Jarod deciding to take the gloves off.
People should be very afraid of Miss Parker murdering people in ways that look like accidents.
I'm fine with Emily and Ethan existing or not existing. I don't have a strong opinion on Miss Parker's inherited psychic power (whatever it might really be). I'm very wobbly on whether or not to take the movies as canon; there are interesting things there, to be sure, but... I'm unconvinced by the prophecies and all of that because it comes across as a half-assed retcon. That said, feel free to draw from the movies.
Episodes from the first two seasons of The Pretender can be found on Amazon Prime Video. The DVDs are expensive, and I'm not sure the later seasons are available any other way than DVD.
The books are a reboot continuity and will not help.
Sky High (2005)
Worldbuilding
Layla Williams & Layla's Dad & Layla's Mom
Barron Battle/Ms. Peace
Sue Tenny
Josie Stronghold
I watched this movie a lot when my daughter was small, and I never actually got sick of it. I spent a lot of time wondering about things like how Sky High's cafeteria gets supplies and what the history of the larger world must look like to resemble our world so strongly while still having enough of a history of powers to have a place like Sky High.
I'm very interested in the older characters from canon. Part of that is me thinking that their stories might answer some of my worldbuilding questions; part of that is me not caring about the high school aspects of the story.
The divide between heroes and sidekicks hints at some pretty deep societal problems, and I'm not clear as to what sort of jobs these kids will be prepared for if they don't go into either crime or crime fighting.
If you explore the backstory for the older characters, I would be fine with a canon divergence, including one that made the movie not happen. I'd particularly be open to a divergence that gets rid of Stitches because I find his relationship with Gwen horrifically creepy in serious DNW ways. That said, please don't show the bit with Sue getting turned into a baby and carried off by Stitches. If it's not on screen, I can ignore it.
I'm curious about why on earth Josie ended up with Steve because he does not come across, in the movie, as having charm or brains. I'm also curious about how she interacts with the world as Jetstream and what's involved on the public relations, legal, and political side of things. What about friendships?
For Layla's family, I'm curious about how her parents came to be involved with each other and how they make it work (or don't. I'm not sure that canon established whether or not her parents were still married) with one having superpowers (Layla's mother with animal speech) and the other having no powers. Do they know that Layla got herself assigned as a sidekick? Would they care? Do they both think the system is broken or is that coming from just one of them?
For Barron Battle/Ms Peace, I'm curious about how they got involved with each other. Did they know or were they dating as civilians? Or did they have to team up against some outside threat? What sort of powers do/did they have and what sort of backgrounds? How is Ms Peace viewed in the hero community afterward? Does Barron ever break out and visit his son? What are Barron's villainous goals? Money? Power? Thrills?
I'm almost certain this movie is on Disney+. The last time I checked, the DVD was under $10 on Amazon. The movie runs 1.5 hours.
Weiss Kreuz
Schuldig
Neu | Murase Asuka
Kudou Yohji
Tsukiyono Omi | Takatori Mamoru
Naoe Nagi
Brad Crawford
Brad Crawford/Schuldig
Brad Crawford & Schuldig
Naoe Nagi & Tsukiyono Omi
This was the first fandom in which I posted fic, and I still go back to it. The inconsistencies and gaps are part of what I find attractive about it-- They can accommodate a lot of different sorts of weirdness. Anyone can be interpreted as a terrible person or as pulling strings or as having been duped or... Sorcerers, immortals, youkai, alien invasions, mad science, curses, time travel, political intrigue, ambition, casefic, whatever works.
For Asuka, I'm curious about her backstory and about how she became Neu and how she fit into Schreient. I'd prefer no explicit sex involving members of Schreient.
I'm no more than tepid on most of Gluhen and on the OAVs. I don't need them to be canon, but I also don't mind if they are (mostly. Please don't give me Yohji's canon arc for Gluhen). I don't know either of the manga series or much about the drama CDs and would prefer not to treat them as canon. I like the idea of Omi reclaiming his identity as Mamoru; I'm less thrilled about him becoming a loyal son/grandson (if it's your preference, though, go for it!).
I prefer Crawford and Schuldig as ruthless and amoral. I prefer Kritiker as ambiguously moral but am open to different interpretations of who's pulling the strings and what the organization is really trying to do. I prefer Omi as less naive and more manipulative than he lets on; he's been with Kritiker a long time when the anime starts.
I'm open to most m/m pairings in this canon as long as the characters are over 18.
The anime series have been released in the US more than once. The DVDs are listed on Amazon under the title 'Knight Hunters' but will also come up with a search for 'Weiss Kreuz.' I'm largely interested in the first 25 episodes. The OAV and the 13 episode sequel series are less important for my requests.
