Yuletide 2022 Letter

[violetdawn]

Dear Yuletide Writer,

Thank you so much for writing for me! Rest assured that if you're writing any of these fandoms, I already think you're super awesome, and am looking forward to anything you write. I've provided some prompts, but if you're struck with inspiration for something else, feel free to ODAO! I'd be keen to read anything. Sorry if my prompts and likes are too broad, but I really do like to read a variety of things. If you enjoy writing it, I will enjoy reading it.

I can be found as VioletDawn on AO3.

Note: I am totally open to treats, including art treats (though I haven't specifically prompted for art).

General DNws

• focus on pregnancy/childbirth (unless specified)


• eye trauma (e.g. eyes getting injured, characters getting blinded, etc.)


• cannibalism


• infidelity

General Likes

• I love worldbuilding, character studies, plotty action fic, casefic, tropey shippy fic, comedy, etc. I like reading a variety of things, to be honest.


• Vibes: most of my requests are for things that are a fun mix of tragic/funny/creepy, and I definitely enjoy that vibe. But I also like lighthearted adventures, thoughtful character studies, cerebral worldbuilding, intense romance...


• I absolutely adore metafiction, fun/creative fic formats, multimedia, in-universe documents, epistolary, IF, fic in the form of social media/internet-inspired, so on. (I love Homestuck, if that tells you anything). Weird trippy fic is great! As are references to space, history, gaming, literature, whatever niche thing the author is into...I love seeing those things pop up in fic


• I really love darkfic too – psychological horror, paranoia, insanity, heavy angst, violence and betrayal, dysfunctional relationships, noncon/dubcon, demons, cults, dystopia, corruption arcs, etc. I’d be happy for something really terrible for most of my requests.


• Tropes: time travel, time loops, body swaps, sex pollen, forced proximity, fake dating, arranged marriage, trapped in wilderness together, soulbonds, sharing a body, jealousy/possessiveness, intense pining


• AUs: canon divergence (!!!), in space!, soulmate AUs, historical AUs, murder mystery AUs, killing game/Danganronpa AUs, Hogwarts AUs, court politics AUs, creative fantasy/scifi AUs, met on the Internet AUs, roleswaps, heist AUs, anything that plays around with canon setting in fun ways


• Kinks: anal, fingering, toys (dildos, buttplugs), xeno, tentacles, robot sex, complicated power dynamics, D/s, bondage, mirror sex, hatefucking, biting, knifeplay, size difference, blowjobs, jealous/possessive sex, noncon/dubcon, public sex, crossdressing, first times, nippleplay


• Relationship dynamics: I love people who hate each other, or who just fundamentally don’t understand each other, being forced to work together. I love terrible people clicking together, or having to endure each other and suffering. I love intense, codependent, us against the world. I love people who know each other so well they can almost read each other’s minds. I love dysfunctional relationships and how people make it work, or don’t. I like being bonded together due to your experiences whether you like it or not. I love rivals competing against each other. I love loyalty kink and devotion. I love god/mortal, demon/human, AI/human, and just vastly incompatible world views in general

Fortuna

Characters: Any

What is it: A tragicomic webcomic, where you play a game and quickly find yourself in over your head. Featuring AI who speak to you directly, a dying game universe, and an incredibly extensive wiki of species to play around with. Sadly still unfinished, but there's already quite a huge chunk of it, as well as some side projects like Speedtuna and NoTail Sim, and the aforementioned wiki. Found here.

Prompts

I absolutely blew through this webcomic, I love it so much. I adore the meta aspects and how creepily horrifying it is, while also being funny and weirdly cute. I’m so invested in all the AI gods and mythology and the sense of despair and all the mysteries about what happened. Not to mention, space! I’m up for reading about anything set in this world – it’s so massive and with so much lore. I ended up nominating some of my favorite characters, but I’d be interested in reading about anyone.

Worldbuilding: There's so many interesting things to explore here that it's hard to narrow down. Honestly, I'd be happy with any worldbuilding. Feel free to write something about anything that grabs you.

In general, I'm particularly interested in all the AI, the limbo gods, and the exisals. There's about a million characters I want backstories for, I'd be happy with any glimpse into their background, I also would love more exploration into Fortuna being a game, its game mechanics, its fandom, etc.

Particular prompts:

• What does travelling between universes look like? How do Mors, Hermes, Thanatos, etc. start off a new world?


• How do the gods handle their game mechanics?


• What does Fortuna fandom look like? We get some info from Player's friends, but I'd love to see forum threads, chat logs, bug reports, etc., discussing all the secrets Fortuna holds.


• What's it like being an exisal in a group, running for your life in the Underworld?


• I'm fascinated by how Kelda and Noverus and their family ends up. What's it like being an arma/drakon hybrid when your mom's a dragon and your dad's a being of flame? And also you live on a giant ship with a clockwork and you're an anti-pirate and a hybrid.


• OK, most people wouldn't come to 'worldbuilding' for xeno, but I am totally fine with xeno, just so you know.


• Take an achievement, any achievement. How does a crew get to it?

Hermes: What an adorable psychopomp! I really like how cute and excitable Hermes appears at first, only to have this horrifying uncaring edge. (The red murder faces he makes are the best!) Not to mention how viscerally terrified he was when he realized he was dying. He ended up as one of my absolute favorites, so I’d love anything about him

• Clockwork Hermes? I hold out hope that he's fine and is a stable strain of clockworks.


• Hermes' relationships with the various players he'd seen. He goes from optimistic to callous. What happens?


• Hermes and the other Underworld gods have an interesting relationship. I’d love to see him hang out, you know, watch TV, talk about shipping, go on a murder spree.


• Hermes and Roman Apollo have such an interesting relationship too! I ship it a lot so I’d love to see their interactions, even if Roman Apollo doesn’t remember them


• Actually, it’s fascinating to think how Hermes gets brought along through the universe reset. What’s it like for him?


• Hermes would be great for psychological horror, just saying

Roman Apollo: He’s the biggest jerk who you feel the most amount of pity for. He’s such a tragic, funny character, and I honestly could just listen to him insult me for ages.

• The tutorial is clearly torturous, but I'd love to see how long it takes Apollo to crack in there. A great psychological horror


• We don't get to see too much of his relationships with the other AI, except Artemis - I'd love to see what it would look like!


• I’m so interested in his identity issues with Greek Apollo. What’s his relationship with him like? What was he like before the torture that broke him?
  
• What would Apollo be like as the player’s patron?


• I’d love to see something written in his style – a Cosmosdex entry, a journal, anything

Nikki: I spent half the comic battling an intense love for him. He's such a cute little megalomaniac. Him being the horrifying Limbo God that he is just the cherry on top!

• Reunion with the first crew! I wish we'd gotten Cobalt getting to chat with Nikki


• I'm so invested in his interactions with Macciu aka himself. Macciu wanted to groom him! Nikki refers to him as Mr. Ratty, who cuddles him! They’re weirdly adorable. Weird time-displaced selfcest would be great


• If you just want to write Nikki's adventures backwards in time banging all the robots, I would not be opposed.


• Nikki is Nikki. It’s hard to write prompts for Nikki because he is Nikki. Just know that I love him and would be happy to see Nikki do anything.

Hashihime of the Old Book Town

Characters: Minakami, Kawase

What is it: A psychedelic murder mystery BL VN set in Taisho era Japan. Featuring a very strange, engrossing story with incredible characters and interesting dynamics. Also time travel! Can be found on Steam, Switch, etc. Heed the content warnings!

Prompts

I love this weird, lovely, intense game. I especially love the unreliable narrator of it all, and the strange friendship dynamics within it. I requested the both Minakami and Kawase because I think they have such a fascinating relationship. I wish the game had gotten to explore it more! I would love a story exploring the two of them together. They were childhood friends, but with a very complicated past and varyingly resentful of each other, not to mention the Tamamori of it all. I just want an entire novel of their interactions.

I also totally ship them, so I’d be 100% on board with a shippy fic. I also didn’t request Tamamori, but I’d be totally fine with an OT3 with him, or him just being an important part of the story.

• I'd love an exploration post-Kawase route. Kawase has Tamamori's memories about Minakami! That’s fascinating!


• Honestly, post-Kawase route Minakami/Tamamori/Kawase would be great.


• Kawase ends up with time travel powers and ends up needing to save Minakami, whether he likes it or not


• Just them going on an adventure together, whether through time or space or just to awkwardly visit their hometown


• In any route, in the timeline that's left behind after Tamamori jumps. Bonding together.


• Them as kids! Cute friendship? Terrible rivalry?


• Them as kids, only Kawase keep trying to kill Tamamori and Minakami is looping through time to stop it


• Post-professor route, they bond over both being WTF is happening with Tamamori and the Professor.


• In the Shopkeeper’s timeline, a much older Minakami and Kawase bump into each other

Paradise Killer

Characters: Any

What is it: A murder mystery game set on an island outside reality where immortals who want to resurrect dead alien gods live. Bright neon setting combined with Lovecraftian horror, fun characters and mystery. Available on Steam and consoles.

Prompts

Potential spoilers ahead!

This game quickly became one of my favorites. I absolutely love the vibe of it – intense and colorful and poetic, but full of eldritch horrors and with a murder cult at the center of it. I love all these immortals and their petty dramas and how utterly horrifying their dream world is. I could honestly revel in it forever. I’m honestly down for anything here – dark and funny casefic, character/relationship exploration, dry documents about the Syndicate, dark eldritch horror sex, etc.

The three non-worldbuilding characters I nominated are my particular faves, so I’d love to read about them in particular, but honestly I’d be happy to read about any member of the cast except Doctor Doom Jazz (I’m happy for him to be a minor character, but would rather he not be the focus).

Worldbuilding: This world is so intense and interesting, I'm in love with it. It's one of the only times I've finished a game and gone "wait, there has to be more", because I was just so invested in it.

• I’m so fascinated by the backstories before the Islands. What were the god wars like?


• There are people born on Earth and those born on the islands - is there any difference on how they see things?


• Take any Island Sequence, and I want to learn more about it.


• The gods! Anything that explores the gods or how people get seduced by them would be great.


• Fraught petty political drama between immortals who are sick of each other


• What’s the daily life of a citizen like?
  

Carmelina Silence: I love her style and her intense plan! I wasn’t very fond of her early on, but by the end, she became one of my favorites. Her ambition is so intense and she’s ruthless about it.

• I’d love to see how her architecture works – what does it feel like, how does she do it?


• Her relationship with her parents, especially her father, is so interesting to me – what was it like? What was it like for her growing up?


• How did she first come up with the murder plan?


• What was her relationship like with Eyes Kiwami? With the rest of the Council? With Dainonigate? (Note, the childbirth/pregnancy DNW does not apply due to canon events, feel free to go into detail)


• What would her relationship with Lady Love Dies be like if they hadn’t met at such a fraught time? (Note, I ship it)


• What if she gets away with it? How does her life look like on Perfect 25? Does she end up ruling it? What if she and Witness both end up leading?
  

Yuri Night: Every time he talks, I want to punch him on the face, but he’s glorious. I ended up loving him and how desperate he is in his ambition, and also just how kind of generally shitty he is.

• I’d totally be down for a redemption arc for him where he ends up not being as shitty!


• I’m fascinated by his seduction by a god – what was it like? How did he fall? I’m totally down for a smut version of this, btw


• What was his relationship with Carmelina like? How did he end up agreeing to the murder plan?


• What was his childhood and relationship with his parents like?


• Honestly I’d love an exploration of his relationship with any other character, they’re all fun


• How did he manipulate Henry Division? I’d love to see that. (If you want to go a smut route here, that’s more than fine too!)

Henry Division: JUSTICE FOR HENRY. I liked how righteously angry he is and willing to call out the bubble the Syndicate members have gone to, and honestly, I love him so much in general

• What’s it like living with a demon? Can he talk to it? I’m a sucker for demon/human ships so I’d be so interested in their relationship


• How did summoning the demon go?


• FIX-IT FIC. He ends up surviving the end of the Island! He goes to the next Island to rebel! Or goes to Earth and learns to navigate the system! Anything, just let him be happy pleases


• More exploration on how he feels about being the son of a Syndicate member, given how anti-Syndicate he is


• His relationship with Dainonigate! What if they had a chance to bond?


• AU where it was known he was Eyes Kiwami’s son – how does he interact with the other Syndicate members? What does his life look like?

Crewniverse

Characters: Speedy, SideArms4Reason

What is it: They're a pair of YouTubers/Twitch streamers who've been making content together for years! They're good friends and excel at making each other laugh at dumb jokes. Play a lot of Among Us, but also Minecraft, Call of Duty, and, well, everything, they play together a lot. Speedy can be found here and SideArms can be found here. (Note that you don't have to watch every video of theirs, I certainly haven't - just enough to get their vibe)

Prompts

Fandom-specific DNWs:

• non-con


• self-harm


• major illness


• character death unless in a total setting AU


• non-famous family/friends being part of fic

Note: I would prefer for them to be referred to as Speedy and Side/SideArms, so I will do so in this letter. If you would like to use real names, that’s fine too.

So I ended up watching a bunch of Among Us videos and fell for their dynamic hard. They’re such cute friends – they end up making dumb jokes to make each other laugh, they work together all the time, they speak quietly to each other in meetings while everyone else is yelling, “babe – I mean bro”, the list goes on. I love just how giggly they are together and how good their friendship is, to the point where everyone else calls them out, and how Side follows Speedy around and Speedy calls him cute all the time (but still gets dick joked constantly). I ship them a lot! I even ended up their other stuff, like some of the SMPs they’re in – I’m still making my way through them (there’s a lot!) but I do know I’d love to read fic about them.

This is fandom I would really love AUs for! I think their dynamic would be great when put anywhere. Space AUs, game AUs for their specific game, fantasy AUs, anything. You might notice I put some fandom-specific DNWs. My rule of thumb would be that if you’re writing the real world setting, I’d rather the fic be on the lighter/fluffier side, but I’m more comfortable with darker content in AUs.

Prompts:

• Among Us AU! I’d love to see them in space, not sure if they can trust each other but having to work together, and getting closer to each other


• Getting lovers in Among Us makes them re-evaluate their feelings


• Side often wants to work with Speedy, and Speedy sometimes gets (fake) jealous when Side spends time with other people. I love jealousy, so anything exploring that


• Minecraft AUs! I like watching them build together (or, well, Speedy building/designing and Side following his orders)


• Phone sex over Discord


• Anything where they end up being protective of each other


• Soulmate AU!


• Outsider POV on their friendship! I'd love to see anyone they play with be included here, whether it's the Among Us lobbies or the Crew or anyone else


• Isekai! They fall into a game world and have to work together to survive