Dear NPT Author ('18)
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seikasoterDear NPT Author,
Bleed me, the third year of doing this. Writing 'fic regularly, albeit sparsely. Mad, mad world. In any case, welcome to my typical, stupidly long letter. I'm very glad to have matched with someone (especially as I, uh, forgot to do my nominations this time around and so am relying on other people's), and I'm looking forward tremendously to reading whatever you write.
Some general preferences
Yes, please – extra/missing scenes which fit the gaps of canon; unbreakable friendships; teamwork; standing battered but triumphant; character introspection; a touch of the bittersweet; any other characters you want to add that I haven’t already discussed or nominated.
No, thank you – In general, a lot of the common plug-and-play AUs which significantly alter the background of the setting (e.g. ABO, D/s, vampires/werewolves, Hogwarts/school, daemons, total de-powering rather than just backgrounding supernatural elements) – I like a lot of these series not just for their characters but also for their worlds and the effect those worlds then have on their characters. If you’re hit really hard by a generic modern AU, that’s something I can take though. Character bashing: a villainous story role is fine; it’s when the author is clearly frustrated with a character and taking it out on them that I tune out. What I understand specifically by 'futa' or 'G!P' is not my kink, though actual trans women are fine.
Rating – from General to Explicit, it's fine. Whatever feels right for your inspiration and story. Serious gore or fetishes are a turn off, but I can handle most of what you’re throwing at me. My prompts generally land on the more chaste side of things but, if you’re going unprompted or just feel like it fits your story, I have no objection to smut.
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Seika on AO3, and I have my works and some of my bookmarks public, often with notes on them, so you can glance through those if you're inclined to keep researching my bad taste.
Obviously, by the terms of the exchange, everything here is optional. I'm very happy for you to remember that, and to take advantage of it: please don't strain anything trying to fit your writing into my ideas. I'm trying to help spark off some thoughts if you aren't immediately seized by one, not to confine you. That's why my prompts often throw out a scattershot of questions and instances at you, even sometimes contradictory - you're free to pick up as many or as few threads as you'd like. If a single phrase inspires you, I'll be content.
League of Legends
Diana/Leona - I'm interested particularly in the way some of the new lore begins to bear on Diana and Leona's relationship, with them now not merely being blessed by Sun and Moon, but now actually harbouring Aspects of these great and terrible powers in themselves. What, perhaps, does it mean for them if they find that they don't agree with the quasi-gods within them? (Consider how Pantheon's former self has been totally taken over by his Aspect). Interestingly, we now seem to have a reverse of the old lore: before, Leona and Diana had previously seemed okay with each other but were set against each other because of their faiths. Now Leona and Diana have personal problems with each other over the Solari elders' deaths, but their gods are apparently best buds and they've both been told that.
And, without the League, how do these two meet again, given Leona's seeking Diana and Diana's running from the Rakkor? How do they react to each other if they meet? Do they debate, do they fight, do they do start on one and move to the other, do they do both continuously? What even is their relationship at all?
That said, an old lore approach to their conflict, which frankly had plenty of its own unanswered questions given the total lack of organisation, is perfectly acceptable too. Let's see the heretic and the paladin butting heads, Diana's fury fighting with her old admiration for Leona, Leona's simple faith in the sun shaken if she ever takes in what Diana says about the Lunari's history.
Lux/Jinx - Star Guardian time! The trailer set up the pure Magical Girl classic in about every way it could, and the special interactions hammer it home really hard. "Lux even makes boring beautiful!" So run with that and give me Jinx as that independence-seeking rival who says she can't stand the team's no-fun attitude, and that the leader is the softest and weakest of all, but who actually still wants precious friendship in the end and is totally into Lux (and her short skirt). Silly, cliché fun.
Mass Effect
Female Shepard/Samantha Traynor - I'm very into Sam & Shepard's supportive dynamic. They don't quite hold each other up as they stagger across a battlefield, like some of the others do: each of them (tries) to help out with some problem the other almost can't imagine having. The Reapers in many ways seem to be beyond Sam (and she certainly knows she's not directly fighting them), and she's often caught up in the difficulty adapting to frontline habits and disciplines away from her old desk post; Shepard is a long long way into her career as a marine (albeit surprisingly young in absolute terms), but has ended up as the tip of the spear against the Old Machines, and needs someone who'll help her bear up under that and see things other than the horrors of the war.
I feel Shepard can run on raw bloody-mindedness forever by the point of ME3, but Sam tries to stop her just driving on without a care for herself, tries to relax her and stop her becoming a battered automaton. She's perhaps the love interest who looks beyond the Reapers the most, to a life after them.
I suppose therefore I'm looking for a tender moment or moments between them, maybe in the gaps of canon, where that kind of dynamic comes out in force, each helping the other bear up. Could be flavoured by hurt-comfort, raw fluff, or humour.
(I'm also not at all above some shower smut, or Sam trying a more intimate sort of relaxation - perhaps beginning with a massage ...)
Female Shepard/Tali - I felt this ship surprisingly hard when my first game of ME2 rolled around and was honestly surprised it didn't go all the way, given both how much of the male romance was left in their interactions and even what replaced the more overt romantic scenes. I'd like something probably more in that timeframe then.
Tali in ME2 has a lot to deal with when it comes to Shepard. Shepard in ME1 was a saviour, mentor, superior, leader, hero, friend, perhaps crush. In ME2, she adds to that powerful mix a dose of bizarre resurrection - but at the hands of Cerberus, and just as Tali's starting to stand on her own as a leader herself.
I'd like to see Tali trying to cope with this odd cocktail, perhaps working up her confidence over time, both as she continues to grow herself and as she starts getting to know Shepard more completely. Going from a a kind of distant, unattainable crush, to a closer and more genuine emotional connexion.
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Pevensies - I have a love for two particular scenarios when dealing with this family, and however much I read, it's never enough. Take your pick, or pick 'n mix.
First, when they've just been crowned and Aslan's left. What the hell do they do? They're kids, albeit now tested, who have just won a war and been handed a country for it. A country that's been buried in winter for decades, a country whose citizens were encouraged to inform on each other, a country recovering from tyranny and civil war that have divided its people.
How do they manage it, and how do they support each other through it? What particular challenges do they face, and how do they fight through them? How do Pete and Su and Ed and Lu become High King Peter the Magnificent and Queen Susan the Gentle and King Edmund the Just and Queen Lucy the Valiant? And how do they do it as a
Bleed me, the third year of doing this. Writing 'fic regularly, albeit sparsely. Mad, mad world. In any case, welcome to my typical, stupidly long letter. I'm very glad to have matched with someone (especially as I, uh, forgot to do my nominations this time around and so am relying on other people's), and I'm looking forward tremendously to reading whatever you write.
Some general preferences
Yes, please – extra/missing scenes which fit the gaps of canon; unbreakable friendships; teamwork; standing battered but triumphant; character introspection; a touch of the bittersweet; any other characters you want to add that I haven’t already discussed or nominated.
No, thank you – In general, a lot of the common plug-and-play AUs which significantly alter the background of the setting (e.g. ABO, D/s, vampires/werewolves, Hogwarts/school, daemons, total de-powering rather than just backgrounding supernatural elements) – I like a lot of these series not just for their characters but also for their worlds and the effect those worlds then have on their characters. If you’re hit really hard by a generic modern AU, that’s something I can take though. Character bashing: a villainous story role is fine; it’s when the author is clearly frustrated with a character and taking it out on them that I tune out. What I understand specifically by 'futa' or 'G!P' is not my kink, though actual trans women are fine.
Rating – from General to Explicit, it's fine. Whatever feels right for your inspiration and story. Serious gore or fetishes are a turn off, but I can handle most of what you’re throwing at me. My prompts generally land on the more chaste side of things but, if you’re going unprompted or just feel like it fits your story, I have no objection to smut.
I'm
Obviously, by the terms of the exchange, everything here is optional. I'm very happy for you to remember that, and to take advantage of it: please don't strain anything trying to fit your writing into my ideas. I'm trying to help spark off some thoughts if you aren't immediately seized by one, not to confine you. That's why my prompts often throw out a scattershot of questions and instances at you, even sometimes contradictory - you're free to pick up as many or as few threads as you'd like. If a single phrase inspires you, I'll be content.
League of Legends
Diana/Leona - I'm interested particularly in the way some of the new lore begins to bear on Diana and Leona's relationship, with them now not merely being blessed by Sun and Moon, but now actually harbouring Aspects of these great and terrible powers in themselves. What, perhaps, does it mean for them if they find that they don't agree with the quasi-gods within them? (Consider how Pantheon's former self has been totally taken over by his Aspect). Interestingly, we now seem to have a reverse of the old lore: before, Leona and Diana had previously seemed okay with each other but were set against each other because of their faiths. Now Leona and Diana have personal problems with each other over the Solari elders' deaths, but their gods are apparently best buds and they've both been told that.
And, without the League, how do these two meet again, given Leona's seeking Diana and Diana's running from the Rakkor? How do they react to each other if they meet? Do they debate, do they fight, do they do start on one and move to the other, do they do both continuously? What even is their relationship at all?
That said, an old lore approach to their conflict, which frankly had plenty of its own unanswered questions given the total lack of organisation, is perfectly acceptable too. Let's see the heretic and the paladin butting heads, Diana's fury fighting with her old admiration for Leona, Leona's simple faith in the sun shaken if she ever takes in what Diana says about the Lunari's history.
Lux/Jinx - Star Guardian time! The trailer set up the pure Magical Girl classic in about every way it could, and the special interactions hammer it home really hard. "Lux even makes boring beautiful!" So run with that and give me Jinx as that independence-seeking rival who says she can't stand the team's no-fun attitude, and that the leader is the softest and weakest of all, but who actually still wants precious friendship in the end and is totally into Lux (and her short skirt). Silly, cliché fun.
Mass Effect
Female Shepard/Samantha Traynor - I'm very into Sam & Shepard's supportive dynamic. They don't quite hold each other up as they stagger across a battlefield, like some of the others do: each of them (tries) to help out with some problem the other almost can't imagine having. The Reapers in many ways seem to be beyond Sam (and she certainly knows she's not directly fighting them), and she's often caught up in the difficulty adapting to frontline habits and disciplines away from her old desk post; Shepard is a long long way into her career as a marine (albeit surprisingly young in absolute terms), but has ended up as the tip of the spear against the Old Machines, and needs someone who'll help her bear up under that and see things other than the horrors of the war.
I feel Shepard can run on raw bloody-mindedness forever by the point of ME3, but Sam tries to stop her just driving on without a care for herself, tries to relax her and stop her becoming a battered automaton. She's perhaps the love interest who looks beyond the Reapers the most, to a life after them.
I suppose therefore I'm looking for a tender moment or moments between them, maybe in the gaps of canon, where that kind of dynamic comes out in force, each helping the other bear up. Could be flavoured by hurt-comfort, raw fluff, or humour.
(I'm also not at all above some shower smut, or Sam trying a more intimate sort of relaxation - perhaps beginning with a massage ...)
Female Shepard/Tali - I felt this ship surprisingly hard when my first game of ME2 rolled around and was honestly surprised it didn't go all the way, given both how much of the male romance was left in their interactions and even what replaced the more overt romantic scenes. I'd like something probably more in that timeframe then.
Tali in ME2 has a lot to deal with when it comes to Shepard. Shepard in ME1 was a saviour, mentor, superior, leader, hero, friend, perhaps crush. In ME2, she adds to that powerful mix a dose of bizarre resurrection - but at the hands of Cerberus, and just as Tali's starting to stand on her own as a leader herself.
I'd like to see Tali trying to cope with this odd cocktail, perhaps working up her confidence over time, both as she continues to grow herself and as she starts getting to know Shepard more completely. Going from a a kind of distant, unattainable crush, to a closer and more genuine emotional connexion.
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Pevensies - I have a love for two particular scenarios when dealing with this family, and however much I read, it's never enough. Take your pick, or pick 'n mix.
First, when they've just been crowned and Aslan's left. What the hell do they do? They're kids, albeit now tested, who have just won a war and been handed a country for it. A country that's been buried in winter for decades, a country whose citizens were encouraged to inform on each other, a country recovering from tyranny and civil war that have divided its people.
How do they manage it, and how do they support each other through it? What particular challenges do they face, and how do they fight through them? How do Pete and Su and Ed and Lu become High King Peter the Magnificent and Queen Susan the Gentle and King Edmund the Just and Queen Lucy the Valiant? And how do they do it as a
