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posted by [personal profile] xenoglossy at 02:03am on 31/10/2012 under

Hello, whoever you are! Thank you for being interested in writing a fic in one of the fandoms I requested. You clearly have impeccable taste.

I feel like I've covered most of what I want to say in the optional-details section of the signup, but in the interest of people being able to see it in the... less than 24 hours before signups close, I'm reposting said details here (along with more information about where to find the canons in some cases).

Choice of Broadsides (Protagonist, Villeneuve)

I love the protagonist and Villeneuve's relationship--how much they care about and respect each other despite being on opposite sides. It's one of those things where a little part of me wants them to forget about the whole war thing and sail off into the sunset together and be happy, but neither of them would be who they are if honor and duty didn't come first.

So what I'm hoping for as far as Choice of Broadsides fic is something dealing with that relationship (which, I admit, I really like as a romance, but I'd be happy to read about it as a friendship too). Like, in the ending where the protagonist captures Villeneuve's ship and Villeneuve lives, what happens to Villeneuve after that, and do the two of them ever meet again? Or if the protagonist can't bring herself to fight Villeneuve and goes home in disgrace, then what? (Does Villeneuve ever find out about the whole thing? What does she think about it?) Or more vignettes from the one summer they spent together in Albion during the temporary truce, or whatever. Some high-seas adventure with the character exploration is definitely very welcome. I am down with explicit sex but would prefer it not to be a straight-up PWP.


Choice of Broadsides is a free choose-your-own-adventure game that can be played in your browser and is quite short. If you're interested, you can find it here.

Dessa (musician) (Alibi, Children's Work, Dixon's Girl, Seamstress)

I find Dessa's songs such intriguing miniature stories, and I've always wanted to know more about the characters in them. So, for example:

In "Alibi", what's the relationship like between the singer and the woman she's singing to (and how are they actually related--or are they "family" in a more figurative sense)? Does the shit hit the fan in the way the singer fears it will, and what happens then? In "Children's Work", what exactly happened to the singer's brother? In "Dixon's Girl", is the singer able to help the eponymous woman at all? Does she ever get out of that bad relationship? (You could go to a femslash place with this one, if you wanted, though you don't have to.) And for "Seamstress", we know almost nothing about the guy she's singing to besides that she patched him up and then he left--who was he? Were the seamstress's affections entirely one-sided? Why did he need stitching up in the first place? And so on, and so on.

Obviously you don't need to work all of these songs into one fic or anything--just write about whichever one's most interesting to you. I would definitely prefer fic involving original-ish characters based on the ones in the songs, rather than fics placing characters from other fandoms in the situations of the songs, if that makes sense.


These are all songs, and can be found on YouTube: Alibi, Children's Work, Dixon's Girl, Seamstress. The songs are all from the album A Badly Broken Code, which in the US you can buy from iTunes, Amazon, or Bandcamp.

On a side note, "Alibi" and "Dixon's Girl" do both have music videos, but if you choose to write about either song, you don't have to take them into account unless you want to. (They're, um, not very narrative anyway.)

Breakfast on Pluto (Charlie, Kitten Braden)

I really loved Kitten and Charlie's friendship and the whole found-family thing that the two of them (and Kitten's dad) have going by the end of the film. I'd like to know what happens to them after that. (Which is hopefully nothing too catastrophically awful, because they deserve a little happiness by that point, though the hypothetical story doesn't have to be unrelenting fluff.) So, do they stay together and raise Charlie's kid (in which case, it might be fun to read about their adventures in unconventional child-rearing)? Or do they go their separate ways at some point (and if so, what form does their relationship take after that)? What do they do with regard to jobs? Does Kitten ever pursue the writerly aspirations she seems to have? Does either of them ever find romantic love with someone who's not kind of a douchebag? (I admit I kind of ship Kitten/Charlie, but I'm probably alone there, and you definitely don't have to go there with it.)

If post-canon fic is not your thing and/or you'd like to do something more serious and less fluffy, I'd also be interested in reading something about what was happening with Charlie in the part of the movie where she and Kitten aren't really in touch.


This one's not easily available for free online, although it is on Netflix, I believe, if you're in the US and have a subscription. As a movie that's not part of a series, it is pretty short and easily watchable in an afternoon if that's a thing you want to do.

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga (Jenna Angel, Sera, Argilla, Jinana)

I find Angel a really fascinating character and probably one of my favorite RPG villains ever. I'd love to see some more exploration of her backstory and her descent from "generally well-meaning scientist trying to save people" to, well, "JRPG villain". Not that the game doesn't make it fairly clear what precipitated that, but it'd be interesting to see it more from her point of view. I'm also interested in her relationship with Sera and what that might have been like pre-game--or during the game, for that matter. Was there ever any real affection there, or was Sera just a tool? (And how does Sera feel about the whole thing herself?)

Alternatively, I'm also interested in the little glimpses we see of the friendship between Argilla and Jinana (and again, I ship it, but if you choose to write about them, it doesn't have to be romantic). So I'd be happy to see some interactions between them in the brief time that they know each other--discussions they might have had, things they learned from each other, or, you know, times that they made out if that's the route you want to go with it. Or if you want something less bittersweet/tragic, I would totally read an AU where Jinana lives and joins the party (even though that would kind of be defeating her purpose in Argilla's character arc) or something about them meeting again in a future incarnation or something, because I'm a sappy loser apparently.

This one's sort of the odd one out in that it's two hideously long and usually difficult-to-find/expensive video games. If you haven't played it, I totally recommend it, but maybe not as a thing you're trying to plow through before the Yuletide deadline. That seems like it would end in tears.

ETA: If you need to canon-review or anything, though, there is a pretty good Let's Play here!

As for general likes and dislikes: I like plot! I also like character introspection! I like complicated family relationships! I like doomed romances, but I also like fluffy fix-fic of doomed romances, as a palate cleanser. I... have a fairly obvious preference for f/f over m/f and m/m (no, really?), but I'm okay with all of them. I'm also okay with sex being part of the story, though in most cases would rather it not be the whole story.

I'm not particularly into noncon, dubcon, incest, or heavy kink of any kind. I would prefer not to have crossovers unless they're with fandoms you're pretty certain I'm familiar with and interested in. I don't mind fic that deals with serious issues, but would prefer that "look, here's a Serious Issue!" not be all there is to the story, if that makes sense.

I think that's about it. Thanks again! I look forward to seeing what you come up with.

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