Dear Marathoner (Five Figure Fic Exchange 2021)

Thank you very much for writing for me! I'm also primeideal on Ao3, and I'm requesting fic for all fandoms--either one 10,000 word story or two of 5,000 words.

Please feel free to use as much or as little as is helpful; I've tried to brainstorm lots of possibilities that might lend themselves well to long fic, but anything involving these characters/relationships would be wonderful!

General Likes

-canon-divergence AUs

-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 DNWs

-explicit sex

-underage characters having sex

-rape/noncon

-second person POV (in "normal" prose)

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

-allegories of current events and/or contemporary politics
-neopronouns

-character or religion bashing

-cliffhanger endings

-themes of cynicism or futility, or that the (canon's) main plotlines "are for nothing"

Among Us
Impostor
Crewmate/Impostor

I love social deduction type games (even if I am very bad at hand-eye coordination), and I love the space setting!

-Who are the impostors? What's their goal? Any kind of worldbuilding about the various maps would be great.
-A narrative centering around the deduction/puzzle-solving aspect of the game. How do the impostors get away with their murders? How do the crewmates narrow things down and reach the correct conclusions, or the wrong ones?
-Alternatively, something cracky that makes fun of the video game aspects would be amusing. Why are those cards so hard to swipe? Why do the crewmates keep launching into space without doing any background checks on their comrades? What's the deal with the vents?
-Melodrama with an impostor and crewmate in love but plotting against each other. Does love blind the crewmate to the truth, or are they suspicious for the wrong reasons? Does the impostor hesitate to kill or frame their partner, or does their duty to the cause come first? I love humor but I also love heartbreak!
-Even if they do get to be together in the end, how do they explain it to everyone else? "Yeah, we met trying to fix the nuclear reactor I had just sabotaged?"

Animorphs:
Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul/Loren
Visser Three | Esplin 9466 & Loren

The Andalite Chronicles is one of my favorite parts of the series--I love the weird time-travel nonsense, I love Loren's pragmatic bravery, and I love Elfangor's stoic optimism--being able to resist the Taxxon instincts, and realizing that he can't trust the Andalite military with the Time Matrix. So feel free to break my heart, but I'd like at least some of the hopeful themes to come through!

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?
-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?)

Visser Three & Loren:
-Esplin infests Loren instead of Chapman on the Taxxon homeworld. Is she the one who sold Earth out, disillusioned by what she's seen of the Andalites? Is he using her as a way to get to Elfangor and/or Alloran? How do the Andalites react?
-Visser Three follows up on Loren after he comes to Earth. The Empire's disdain of disabled hosts runs up against his fear about how much, if anything, she remembers.
-After Loren gets the morphing power in book 49 she gets drawn into the war and encounters Visser Three.
-Somehow they interact after the war (during Visser Three's imprisonment) as two of the only people who knew Elfangor in some capacity.

Harry Potter:

Luna Lovegood

Regulus Black

Viktor Krum

Worldbuilding

Luna:
-the events of some of the earlier books from her perspective. (Ginny's disappearance? Cedric's death? The founding of the DA?)
-What if Luna, as an isolated and bullied first-year, had been the one to find Riddle's diary? Feel free to go tragic, though I'd prefer Luna not be a villain, and no Luna/Riddle.
-Luna leading the DA with Neville and Ginny during the events of book 7. What is her relationship with the other Ravenclaws like?
-More Luna Quidditch commentary.
-Post-books, Luna exploring the world of magical creatures. How has her relationship with her father and/or her belief in all his creatures changed, if at all?
-I enjoy Harry/Luna if you want to go shippy--maybe they bond after the events of Book 5, or at Slughorn's party in book 6?
-Luna/Rolf and her kids in the post-canon is great too!

Regulus:
-Regulus' time at Hogwarts--sibling rivalry with Sirius? Playing Quidditch for Slytherin?
-The rise of the Death Eaters.
-His change of heart--how did he puzzle out the Horcrux? Was there anything beyond Kreacher's torture that contributed to his doubts?
-Regulus survives the cave somehow and goes elsewhere. Time travel into the past or the future? Staying undercover or joining the Order? Does he find out about the other Horcruxes?

Viktor:
-Viktor's perspective on the Triwizard Tournament. What's it like being a foreign student at Hogwarts? Does he take classes while he's there?
-Quidditch! What's his relationship like with the other national team members--especially after that weird ending? What about his professional career? I love sports so feel free to go nerdy on the sports worldbuilding if you want.
-Fleur and Viktor stay friends, to the point where she invites him to her wedding. What's their friendship like? What's his perspective on the events of the war/what does the war look like from outside England?
-Future-fic? (Feel free to use the Pottermore version of future Quidditch, or ignore it.)
-Does he keep in touch with Hermione after Book 4? What do they write about? (I'd prefer to stay canon-compliant as far as endgame Ron/Hermione goes, but more Viktor/Hermione during the Book 4 timeframe would be great!)

Worldbuilding:
Any kind of weird magical worldbuilding in the Harry Potter setting would be great, so don't feel limited by this, but a few ideas. (Feel free to bring in canon characters or original. In general I prefer focus on the "good guys" or minor characters than Death Eater centric-stuff, but if you want to write about for instance the history of the Unforgivable Curses, then sure, villains are fun too!)
-How do the Hogwarts classes we don't know as much about work from a magical perspective? What are the magical applications of Astronomy or Ancient Runes? Is Divination actually good for anything?
-What are the other rooms at the Department of Mysteries for?
-Relationships between humans and other magical Beings--goblins, ghosts, centaurs? What about in places besides the UK?
-What happens at Platform 9 3/4 when it isn't the start or end of term?
-What parts of Muggle science or history are really magic hiding? ("Fantastic Beasts" talks about the diricawl being the real identity of the "extinct" dodo, and there are references to Merlin being a historical wizard. More like this!)


Redwall:
Original Character(s)

So there aren't any particular canon characters I'm requesting, but feel free to include them in the background or even in the foreground! I'm just more interested in "new adventures in the Redwall world" than any specific character. Feel free to go against type--if you want to have a heroic searat or an evil hare, that's fine with me. (I'd rather it be something that just happens and not have the narrative dwell on it, though.)

-I like the Salamandastron culture of honorable warriors, and especially characters like Russano the badger who see themselves as more peacetime leaders. How do those tensions play out? What happens to badgers or hares who aren't committed to a particular battle?
-The Guosim and their union struggles are amusing--I'd be interested to see more "political" type organizations transferred to the fantasy setting, as long as it's not too didactic.
-Quests and riddles and puzzles! Maybe with all the secrets that have been hidden over the years, someone stumbles on something they weren't supposed to, or come up with an interpretation that makes sense but isn't what the cluegiver had in mind?
-Villains with their own schemes. Maybe inside of trying to conquer Redwall for its own sake, they want to dam the rivers or construct their own fortress? Does battle ensue anyway? Or are creatures with long-term goals and planning ultimately not villainous enough to go to war?
-If you're interested in the religious aspects of "what makes this an abbey," anyway, with fathers and mothers and rituals, I'd be interested in that kind of worldbuilding. (What does faith look like in a universe where ghosts show up in people's dreams with practical advice?) But if this isn't your thing, no need to go down that path!

Crossovers:

Padme Amidala & Luke Skywalker
Padme Amidala & Leia Organa

For any of these Padme prompts, I'd be happy with one or both of the twins, feel free to mix and match!

-Padme lives and raises one or both of the twins in secret. Do Obi-Wan and Bail help her fake her death? What does her family know? What does she tell them about their father? About the Force?
-The Republic and the Jedi Order don't fall, but by tradition, Force-sensitive children are expected to be raised by the Temple, away from their birth families. Padme isn't down with this. Where do Anakin's loyalties land him?
-Through Force shenanigans, Leia and/or Luke have visions of Padme even when they don't understand them. How do they put the pieces together? (I'm a fan of the theory that Luke's gifts in the Force are more aural, and Leia's are more visual, so the brief "memories" she has of Padme are from having her eyes wide open at birth and la la la Force shenanigans, but feel free to ignore this.)
-Time travel! Padme winds up in the OT era or early New Republic and is glad to see that democracy is on the way back? Luke and/or Leia touch the wrong Jedi ruin and wind up in the PT era? (I'm not super interested in the sequel trilogy for this exchange.)

Belle (Beauty and the Beast 1991)/Mulan (Mulan 1998)
 

I like both of these heroines because they take agency--Mulan disguises herself and runs away to join the army! Belle loves books and tries to rescue her father, even in the limitations of her small village! Something giving them both a chance to be awesome in their own way would be great. I listed a couple ideas for "how to get them in the same setting," but feel free to go crazy.

-Both Belle and Mulan are driven by protecting their fathers. I'd be interested in seeing Maurice and Fa Zhou's reactions to their daughters' new relationship.
-Belle in Mulan's setting--horrified by the war? Parallels between the angry mob of provincial townspeople and the Hun army? Does she meet with approval for being more "feminine" than Mulan, or still have a goofy/head-stuck-in-a-book reputation?
-Mulan in Belle's setting--is she driven to kill the ferocious Beast? What do the enchanted creatures think of her? Does she need to go undercover for some other reason?
-Super crossover--these two are stuck in a mishmash universe and have to figure out how to get back, or if they really want to. (Feel free to bring in other Disney characters--"Emperor's New Groove" and "Snow White" are among my favorites, but anything works!)

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Again, feel free to depart from this if you have other ideas. Thank you so much for writing for me!