primeideal

Hello! Thank you for creating for me. I'm primeideal on Ao3, and I'm requesting fic for all fandoms, art for Divine Cities and Stormlight Archive. Treats are enabled on Ao3.

As always, if you already have an idea in mind for these characters/relationships, go for it! This is just a starting point. I have many previous creator request letters from which this is copy-pasted and endlessly rewritten, feel free to browse previous versions. I would be equally delighted with gifts for any of these!

General likes

-canon-divergence AUs

-five things

-worldbuilding

-dialogue

-wit and wordplay

-nonstandard formats (documentation, epistolary, etc.)

-time travel

-happy endings

-sad endings (when providing some measure of closure or melodrama; I'm fine with character death)

General art likes:

-black and white art

-bright/bold colors

-traditional or digital art

-objects that represent/are strongly associated with characters

-fantastic/speculative worldbuilding elements

-in-universe artifacts/sketches that the characters might have drawn

General art dislikes (please don't consider these binding DNWs: if your interests or preferences lie strongly along these lines then feel free.)

-pastel-heavy palettes

-deliberately wildly disproportionate/chibi-like characters

-completely non-representational art

DNWs:

-second person POV (unless canonical--see notes for "Debrief"--or in something like interactive fiction)

-eye trauma

-explicit sex (but fade-to-black or innuendo is fine), explicit depictions of genitalia in art

-underage sex

-rape/noncon

-moralizing/didactic stories (characters Learning An Important Lesson about the value of tolerance, etc.)

-allegories of current events and/or contemporary politics (**Marco flirts with the governor of California: fine; Marco flirts with the governor and this is a metaphor for the Newsom administration: no thanks.)

-character bashing

-cliffhanger endings (see notes for "Debrief")

Animorphs

Aftran/Cassie
Aftran & Illim
Ax & Elfangor
Ax & Tobias
Elfangor/Loren
Tobias & Loren

Aftran/Cassie, Aftran & Illim: The early days of the Peace Movement; how does Aftran decide to trust Illim (or anyone else) with the Animorphs' secret? Illim trying to stay above suspicion when Aftran is suspected/disappears? How would anything post-29 have been different if Aftran had stayed either in Cassie or elsewhere in the human world? One of the "canon AUs" (the 41 dystopia, time travel stuff) if Aftran had been there?

For the Ax-Elfangor-Tobias-Loren family stuff, feel free to mix and match, I like these characters in any combination!

Ax & Elfangor: growing up in Elfangor's shadow and resenting it? Coming to terms with Elfangor's legacy (and/or hirac delest?) post-canon? Not understanding weird human habits Elfangor picked up?

Ax & Tobias: Ax's misunderstandings about human culture? Tobias visits the Andalite homeworld with Ax post-canon? Some human developments encroach on the scoop and they have to move?

Elfangor/Loren: their time building a life on Earth. Elfangor's reaction to human tastes? How did they acquire DNA for him to morph? Are Tobias' aunt and uncle Loren's sibling(s)/that person's ex?/related to the fake husband that the Ellimist retcons in? Maybe they use the Time Matrix to go somewhere else--a new "pocket universe"? Elsewhere in the past or future of canon? Elfangor stays on Earth and they organize a human resistance as the Yeerk threat grows? Loren gets her memories back somehow (the hirac delest shows up? Something like the utzum ritual? Ellimist nonsense?)

Loren & Tobias: Loren experiences one of the canonical bad reactions to morphing (allergies, Z-Space nonsense, etc.) post-book 49 and Tobias has to help her through it? AU where she raises Tobias, maybe with memories intact, maybe not--what changes? They get back together post-canon and try to build a family?

Debrief

Robert Alderidge/George Russell

So on the one hand, RPGs can be kind of difficult to prompt for, in that everyone's playthroughs are different and will result in slightly different characterizations; on the other hand, I have so many feelings about these guys and would absolutely love any version. A retelling of your playthrough, what happened next, more backstory, fix-it, "fix-it" that makes it worse...

-I love the dramatic irony of seeing the same incidents from different POVs in the character sheets, and then trying to talk about it just makes it worse. (The Catholic Underground in Spain, Courtenay's investigation.) Anything expanding on those or another memory that they technically share but actually remember differently.

-From Alderidge's sheet: "Bykov has the distinction of being the only human on Earth, apart from George Russell, who has ever known you in any meaningful sense." What's going on with these two? How much does Bykov know about the OUC? Is there hatesex?

-Does any of this ever get declassified? How much do Dora or Jean, or the kids, ever figure out, correctly or incorrectly?

-Worldbuilding! What kind of research is the OUC (or the Soviets) doing into ghost technology? What are spirit mediums doing in other parts of the world? At rates of ~one in ten thousand, it's unlikely you'd ever run across another unless there was some effort--but there are also more people who acknowledge ghosts and auras even if they can't directly witness them.

For me, the disruptor was an important focal point of the playthrough--my version of Russell is increasingly horrified at the thought of using it on Alderidge, meanwhile, Alderidge is insisting that it's this great tool of mercy and it's not clear whether he's talking about himself. Then once my Russell admits to himself that getting Alderidge to cross over and get closure is more important to him than anything else, he gets his act together in kind of a ruthless Pascal's Wager-y way. The sense they both have of "okay well here's when I draw the line, it's different when it's you at risk" is part of what I love about this dynamic, so anything touching on that (or the disruptor in general) would be great, but obviously everyone's characterization will be different!

Feel free to lean into the shippy aspects, or not, as you prefer; I don't really want anything too anachronistic or setting-changey, but Alderidge's level of candor (or Russell's level of having-a-clue) can be anywhere on the scale, it's all good.

Note: some of the DNWs I've listed for other exchanges do not apply to this request. For instance, I think the use of second-person POV works very well in the character sheets, so I enthusiastically opt in to second-person POV fic here! (As well as first or third.) Also, go as dark as you want in terms of "possible outcomes include ghosts being destroyed forever with the disruptor, or haunting the world until they decay and lose all coherence."

Divine Cities

Ahanas/Voortya

Anything expanding on their relationship as portrayed in "City of Blades"! What does it look like to them, to their fellow Divinities, to contemporary worshipers? In-universe scholarship from people like Efrem and Shara trying to puzzle it out centuries later? Religious art combining symbols associated with both of them?

Farscape

Crais & Talyn

Aeryn & Zhaan

John & D’Argo Sun-Crichton

John/Aeryn

Moya & Pilot

Pilot & Aeryn

Crais & Talyn: Anything that leans into the tragic melodrama of canon would be great, but also, fix-it is good too. I'd especially like something that depicts Talyn as a character in his own right rather than just anxious beeping noises mediated through Crais--it doesn't necessarily have to be from his POV, but something that shows he has a POV, if that makes sense. How does Stark's temporary link with Talyn contrast with Crais' long-term bond? Does Crais explain his role in creating the hybrid program, and how does Talyn react? What does a relatively peaceful, happy day look like for them? Talyn's POV on their last couple episodes?

Aeryn & Zhaan: I love the contrasts between their backgrounds and the ways they approach problems. Anything contrasting these approaches, or where they have to earn from each other's strengths, would be cute. To what extent does Aeryn's relationship with Pilot factor into Zhaan's decision to sacrifice herself for Aeryn? How would the later seasons have been different if Zhaan had survived?

John/Aeryn, John & D'Argo Jr.: Post-canon adventures! Does D'Argo have the wormhole-making power? What does a "normal" day look like for John and Aeryn when they're not running for their lives? Do they ever return to some of the planet-of-the-week locations from canon? Contrasting POVs on canon events in the early days of their relationship?

Moya & Pilot, Pilot & Aeryn: There's no way that "our" Pilot can just be named "Pilot"--what was his identity before he bonded with Moya? What are their sensory experiences like, communicating with each other and with the crew? What's his POV on donating his DNA to save Aeryn; how does that change her? Did he vote for her to be captain in 4.6? We hear very little from Moya directly--I'd love to see something from her POV about the weird tiny aliens living inside her and the trouble they cause.

Stormlight Archive

Any Radiant & Their Spren
Dalinar/Navani
Navani/Raboniel
Renarin/Rlain
Shallan/Adolin

Any Radiant Spren: Really just...anything about the spren and their outsider POVs on humans! Syl discovering what it means to grow and change? Pattern comparing everything to math? The irony in Ivory's name and the importance of free will? Glys' relationship to Sja-anat and the free will issues there? Pattern and Testament gossiping about Shallan's love life? All the spren!

Dalinar/Navani: Outsider POV on the scandal of their relationship? Cute moments taking care of little Gav? The Stormfather and Sibling bickering about how humans are the worst, and now they're inlaws? Accidental "time travel" to another era (via the Spiritual Realm flashbacks) and having to make senses of things there? AU where Navani chooses Dalinar instead of Gavilar back in the day? Does she meet the same fate as Evi?

Navani/Raboniel: Bonding over science and figuring things out together! Is the Sibling exasperated, or trying to set them up? Parallels between their grief for their kids? What if Raboniel had been more honest about what the Anti-Voidlight was for, and Navani realizes she doesn't really want Raboniel dead? For this prompt, I'd prefer no infidelity--so an AU where Navani/Dalinar aren't a thing, or Raboniel lives and reconnects with Navani after Dalinar's death?

Renarin/Rlain: When did Rlain first have feelings for Renarin? Early moments in Bridge Four, the biggest outsiders even among outsiders? What's next after "Wind and Truth"? Culture shock? Trying to make things work in the new listener society?

Shallan/Adolin: More adventures in the Cognitive Realm? Trying to keep in touch via the communication spren post-canon? Pattern, Testament, or Maya's POV on their relationship? I'm not super interested in Shallan's alternate identities, so I'd prefer if they weren't a heavy focus.

Crossover Fandom

Sazed (Mistborn) and Taravangian (Stormlight Archive)
Rowan (Steerswoman) and Shallan Davar (Stormlight Archive)
Mikhail Rodinovich Bykov (Debrief) and Alexander Molokov (Chess)
Cordelia Naismith (Vorkosigan Saga) and Rowan (Steerswoman)

Sazed and Taravangian: They both control two Shards now--Sazed's seem like inherent opposites, Taravangian's don't. What happens when they meet? Taravangian tries to talk Sazed into letting Taravangian combine more shards for the greater good? Sazed turns Taravangian's logic against him? Could they meet in some kind of pocket universe/Cognitive Realm nonsense/AU setting where their immense powers don't really come into play and it's just the two guys bickering at each other?

Rowan and Shallan: Both of them have conversations in their respective fourth books that hinge on a misunderstanding of "power," and it's just like...two nickels! Shallan stumbles through a weird portal in the Cognitive Realm and winds up in Rowan's realm? One of them happens across the other one's logbooks? AU where Jasnah is a Steerswoman and Shallan is her apprentice? (I imagine that the Steerswomen's prohibition against lying would be a disaster waiting to happen with Shallan's...everything.)

Bykov and Molokov: It might require a little timeline fudging, but I imagine Bykov being a mentor to Molokov and both completely hating their jobs. Molokov: "this is so dumb, they're making me go to a chess championship and pretend I care about chess, the indignity." Bykov: "stop complaining, when I was your age I was a handler for a double agent dealing with ghost shit." "There's no way that's real, that's just a legend to haze new recruits." "You probably don't have clearance to hear about the ghost shit, forget I said anything."

Cordelia and Rowan: Credit to pendrecarc on dreamwidth for coming up with this galaxy-brained prompt: what if Rowan's world was the long-lost Alpha Colony, and the Betan Astronomical Survey team rediscovered it instead of the events of "Shards of Honor"? Maybe Cordelia finally explains to Rowan what's up with the wizards, or maybe she accidentally winds up under the ban and gets very exasperated with "Alpha colonists!" How much do the "Christers" know about their homeworld, and what does Cordelia make of them? I'm fine with a / aspect to this relationship too. (I have not read beyond "The Vor Game;" I'm fine with spoilers if you want to bring in Vorkosigan characters/events from beyond that point, but some of it may be lost on me.)

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As usual, all of this is optional, anything about these fandoms/relationships will be great. Thanks for creating for me!