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Dear Creator: CharactOR Exchange 2022
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Types of art things I like: in addition to art depiction of any of my fic prompts below, I like tarot cards, illuminated manuscripts, in-universe art, characters interacting with art of themselves (eg character reacting to an official portrait), parody (or just tribute to) of famous works of art
Galadriel "El" Higgens, Liesel
General: Would love Scholomance worldbuilding!
El: I love her general spiky tsundere nature. More scenes of her attempting to extract useful spells from Scholomance "How to be very evil" spells would be great, please, that was my favorite part of the books. Scenes from her early days at school - focused on humor, not angst- would delight me.
Liesel: I love Liesel for being very pragmatic and practical and not starry-eyed. To some extent it felt like she picked up the cynical slack after El started becoming more idealistic, and I love that for her. So how does the Scholomance tend to her in its very special pedagogical way? Liesel being trapped in scenarios she hates and must get out of, occasionally even while being nice.
An Wenyi, Xu Boyuan|Blue River, Fang Rui, Ye Xiu
General: One thing I'd like for this canon that I'm not sure if there's an existing term for is, uh, game reality fusion? I mean the characters set in an AU where the world of Glory is an actual world they live in, and the feats they're performing are not mouse clicks. A light-hearted take on this, please - Glory is full of violence but people just resurrect at the nearest save point, however that is understood in-universe. I would particularly love doing this and then treating character alt accounts as secret identities/disguises. Can be combined with any of the prompts below if you feel like running with it, or take it in your own direction. (Sticking to canon is of course also great)
Xu Boyuan|Blue River - I loved his kind of helpless frenemyship with Ye Xiu/Happy in general so much. Scenes in which he ends up led around by the nose by Ye Xiu are great. I would LOVE to see more of him horrifiedly enjoying running the Happy guild (that plot thread ended up sort of dropped but I'd love an AU where he just gets entangled deeper and deeper in his double life).
An Wenyi- I love his meticulousness, rationality, and insecurity. The scene where he is training in game leading dungeons to their deaths was hilarious and I'd love more of that classic Happy in-game shamelessness from him (harvesting materials?). Or maybe some kind of 5+1 character study of how he found his niche as a non-standard healer/meat shield... (would love to see more tricks with his equipment). Or being dragged into the team's shamelessness?
Ye Xiu: I'd love outsider POV for Ye Xiu character studies because he's such a combination of obnoxious, sincerely dedicated to the game, out there giving tips to everyone friend or foe alike, a huge troll who often trolls by being completely honest and straightforward (but the rest of the time by being a shameless liar), and just generally the kind of person causing aggravation everywhere he goes. And I love him. More in-game shenanigans in particular would be appreciated, interactions with any of the cast of characters could be fun. Or in an entirely different direction, maybe a more meditative piece. We get so little of his internal narrative, just little glimpses like him deliberately leaving space for Su Muqiu to take the record (T___T), and his clearly somewhat complicated feelings about his family.
Fang Rui- Man, I love him. I'd love scenes of him and Su Mucheng running the team after Ye Xiu left (insert Fang Rui saying "I still hear his voice sometimes" and Ye Xiu standing right there saying his grudge about him leaving is overdone...). Any scenes of shamelessness are great.
General: This is a canon MADE for social media not-even-AUs. Both outsider POV of the events of canon (that scene where Juliet blasts Paul with her butt-beam and everyone has it recorded...), or something like Paul introducing Dantalian to the concept of memes... In general I'd like to see the interactions between the normal world of normal people and the insanity of what is happening to the siblings, or scenes from when Dantalian was still figuring out how to be inconspicuous as a human, can be missing scenes, AUs, what-ifs from after canon, etc. I'm so curious how the dust settles on all the highly publicized supernatural ongoings - Do Paul and Juliet end up running a variety show on demons that people don't believe is real? Does everyone just conveniently get amnesia while Juliet does increasingly insane things trying to prove the supernatural exists (but always fail to get amnesia if she does anything embarrassing)? Maybe Paul and Juliet become superheroes, Buttbeam Girl and Creepy Hands Muscle Dude?
General: I love these two, but there's SO MUCH we don't know about them. I want to see so many scenes of them raising their family, or escaping their family to go on vacation, or creating ridiculous myths and legends that get distorted in the retelling. I'd love to see some more interaction with the Children of the Sun, since we only get little snatches in Book One and I feel like the way they're not entirely connected the way the Yendri are allows for some interesting perspectives.
This fandom is tiny, so if you want to taste it and can't get the books (although they're great, get them), I'm happy to get gifts based on the short story The Ruby Incomparable
Some general things I love
- strong, complex, deep friendships
- cozy small details of magic
- magic used for mundane/prosaic purposes
- redemption arcs
- friends to enemies, enemies to lovers, friends to enemies to friends, lovers to enemies to friends, friends to enemies to lovers, enemies to friends to enemies... Basically I just like a relationship with layers of antagonism and affection to unravel/reconcile.
- BAMF moments
- fic that reads completely differently on reread because of what you've discovered over the course of the story
- warm portrayals of kindness or supportive community
- animals! animals as pets! animals as part of setting a scene! I have a particular soft spot for dragons but also spiders, snakes, cats, dogs, birds, lizards, chinchillas, bees, praying mantises, bats...
- dramatic irony in a variety of shapes and forms (includes, non-comprehensive: identity shenanigans, underestimated underdog is actually badass, characters having a conversation without being aware who they're talking to about things they would definitely not knowingly discuss with each other, etc)
- I don't enjoy horror played straight, but I love comedic horror (I mean things like Junji Ito's Cat Diary or My Roommate is an Apparition or anything else that plays with a horror atmosphere but deliberately fails to actually be horror). (Please, however, still no gore).
Art likes
Things I like stylistically, very non-exhaustive list: I love color work that hasn't been perfectly rendered into smoothness. I also love flat colors or minimal colors. I love watercolor or watercolor-mimicking effects. I love visible strokes and textures. I love impressionism. I love what I guess I'll call collage-style art, where additional images have been included or where added brush strokes not part of rendering the form are added just for effect. I love very simple line work aimed at capturing a gesture. I love the use of cool blues and warm glows in the same painting. I love contrast between art style and content for humorous effect. I love interesting/dramatic lighting, I love landscapes with a sweeping sense of scale, and I love traditional art in other media like knitting or papercraft or cross-stitch or felting or beading...Types of art things I like: in addition to art depiction of any of my fic prompts below, I like tarot cards, illuminated manuscripts, in-universe art, characters interacting with art of themselves (eg character reacting to an official portrait), parody (or just tribute to) of famous works of art
DNWs
- sex more explicit than fade to black
- noncanon romantic/sexual pairings
- gore, body horror, abuse
- issue fic
- trans headcanons
- pregnancy
- tragedy (bittersweet but hopeful is fine)
Prompts by Canon
As always with my prompts, I am trying to convey a general sense of types of things I like or any ideas that come to mind from a quick brainstorming session, and I am happy to receive things off-prompt. (seriously, it's 3am, I'm sitting here typing as fast as I can to give you, my creator, something to work with if having that is something you like, but please write what makes you happy and don't overthink what my sleep-deprived mind is coming up with...)
Scholomance
Galadriel "El" Higgens, Liesel
General: Would love Scholomance worldbuilding!
El: I love her general spiky tsundere nature. More scenes of her attempting to extract useful spells from Scholomance "How to be very evil" spells would be great, please, that was my favorite part of the books. Scenes from her early days at school - focused on humor, not angst- would delight me.
Liesel: I love Liesel for being very pragmatic and practical and not starry-eyed. To some extent it felt like she picked up the cynical slack after El started becoming more idealistic, and I love that for her. So how does the Scholomance tend to her in its very special pedagogical way? Liesel being trapped in scenarios she hates and must get out of, occasionally even while being nice.
Quánzhí Gāoshǒu - Húdié Lán (The King's Avatar)
An Wenyi, Xu Boyuan|Blue River, Fang Rui, Ye Xiu
General: One thing I'd like for this canon that I'm not sure if there's an existing term for is, uh, game reality fusion? I mean the characters set in an AU where the world of Glory is an actual world they live in, and the feats they're performing are not mouse clicks. A light-hearted take on this, please - Glory is full of violence but people just resurrect at the nearest save point, however that is understood in-universe. I would particularly love doing this and then treating character alt accounts as secret identities/disguises. Can be combined with any of the prompts below if you feel like running with it, or take it in your own direction. (Sticking to canon is of course also great)
Xu Boyuan|Blue River - I loved his kind of helpless frenemyship with Ye Xiu/Happy in general so much. Scenes in which he ends up led around by the nose by Ye Xiu are great. I would LOVE to see more of him horrifiedly enjoying running the Happy guild (that plot thread ended up sort of dropped but I'd love an AU where he just gets entangled deeper and deeper in his double life).
An Wenyi- I love his meticulousness, rationality, and insecurity. The scene where he is training in game leading dungeons to their deaths was hilarious and I'd love more of that classic Happy in-game shamelessness from him (harvesting materials?). Or maybe some kind of 5+1 character study of how he found his niche as a non-standard healer/meat shield... (would love to see more tricks with his equipment). Or being dragged into the team's shamelessness?
Ye Xiu: I'd love outsider POV for Ye Xiu character studies because he's such a combination of obnoxious, sincerely dedicated to the game, out there giving tips to everyone friend or foe alike, a huge troll who often trolls by being completely honest and straightforward (but the rest of the time by being a shameless liar), and just generally the kind of person causing aggravation everywhere he goes. And I love him. More in-game shenanigans in particular would be appreciated, interactions with any of the cast of characters could be fun. Or in an entirely different direction, maybe a more meditative piece. We get so little of his internal narrative, just little glimpses like him deliberately leaving space for Su Muqiu to take the record (T___T), and his clearly somewhat complicated feelings about his family.
Fang Rui- Man, I love him. I'd love scenes of him and Su Mucheng running the team after Ye Xiu left (insert Fang Rui saying "I still hear his voice sometimes" and Ye Xiu standing right there saying his grudge about him leaving is overdone...). Any scenes of shamelessness are great.
Love Advice from the Great Duke of Hell
Paul, Juliet, DantalianGeneral: This is a canon MADE for social media not-even-AUs. Both outsider POV of the events of canon (that scene where Juliet blasts Paul with her butt-beam and everyone has it recorded...), or something like Paul introducing Dantalian to the concept of memes... In general I'd like to see the interactions between the normal world of normal people and the insanity of what is happening to the siblings, or scenes from when Dantalian was still figuring out how to be inconspicuous as a human, can be missing scenes, AUs, what-ifs from after canon, etc. I'm so curious how the dust settles on all the highly publicized supernatural ongoings - Do Paul and Juliet end up running a variety show on demons that people don't believe is real? Does everyone just conveniently get amnesia while Juliet does increasingly insane things trying to prove the supernatural exists (but always fail to get amnesia if she does anything embarrassing)? Maybe Paul and Juliet become superheroes, Buttbeam Girl and Creepy Hands Muscle Dude?
Lord Ermenwyr Series- Kage Baker
Gard|The Master of the Mountain, The Green SaintGeneral: I love these two, but there's SO MUCH we don't know about them. I want to see so many scenes of them raising their family, or escaping their family to go on vacation, or creating ridiculous myths and legends that get distorted in the retelling. I'd love to see some more interaction with the Children of the Sun, since we only get little snatches in Book One and I feel like the way they're not entirely connected the way the Yendri are allows for some interesting perspectives.
This fandom is tiny, so if you want to taste it and can't get the books (although they're great, get them), I'm happy to get gifts based on the short story The Ruby Incomparable
