Dear Generalist (Gen Freeform Exchange 2022)

Dear Author,

 

Thank you for writing for me! I'm also primeideal on Ao3, and I'm requesting fic for all fandoms.

I think some of these prompts speak for themselves, so I haven't elaborated on all of them. Please feel free to use as much or as little as is helpful, or mix and match prompts for different fandoms or characters than suggested.

General Likes:

-canon-divergence AUs

-five things

-worldbuilding

-dialogue

-wit and wordplay

-nonstandard formats (documentation, epistolary, etc.)

-interactive fiction--I prefer formats like Twine to open-ended parsers.

-happy endings

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

 

General DNWs:

-second person POV (in "normal" prose, happy with it in IF or the like)

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

-allegories of current events and/or contemporary politics

-character bashing

-cliffhanger endings

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

 

Animorphs:
Ax & Tobias

"Take Me Instead" Situation - shorms being idiots with a death wish!

Canonical Alternate Universe - one of the bad timelines from books 41 or Megamorphs 4?

Hurt/Comfort - Character A Doesn’t Know How To Help Hurt B Because Of Their Nonhuman Biology - this could go either way. Morphing fixes injuries but maybe there's an illness like yamphut, or they're just unable to morph for ~reasons.

Hurt/Comfort - Character A Lets Themself Get Tortured or Abused to Protect Character B - maybe more from the book 33 timeframe when Tobias has to morph Ax? But any other premise is good.

Long Lost/Secret Relatives - Tobias tells Ax about the events of book 23? They find Elfangor's hirac delest? Maybe a fix-it where Ax introduces Tobias to Noorlin and Forlay?

Mind Control - "I Know You're Still In There Somewhere" Fight - could be an AU infestation, or maybe post-canon with Tobias trying to rescue Ax from The One.

Post-Canon Fix-It - anything with a slightly happier ending for these two. Feel free to diverge as much or as little from canon as you want.

Harry Potter:

Albus Dumbledore and Minerva McGonagall

Cats - how did Minerva learn to be an Animagus? Does she ever use her new form for secret Order missions? Or just to make things more interesting at Hogwarts?

Character arranges own death for good of group; group isn't happy - I imagine McGonagall (and/or the rest of the staff) is fed up with Dumbledore's dramatic gestures in his last few years but is especially annoyed when they realize he just left them out of the loop about the fatal curse. Does she take out her frustrations on his portrait? Does he try to say his goodbyes without her realizing that's what's going on? Or does she figure it out and thwart him?

Dark Academia - doesn't need to be particularly dark, just "what's the day-to-day life of research and scholarship like at a magical school (with frequent interruptions by the Dark Arts)"? But anything with the neo-Gothic aesthetic would be fun.

Immature note passing during otherwise adult meetings - self-explanatory, feel free to bring any of the staff in!

Intelligent Characters Enthusing Over Learning New Things (Especially From Each Other) - ditto! Maybe something with "hey, there's a neat Muggle technology that parallels this magical one"? 
 

Regulus Black & Harry Potter

Becoming an Accidental Father Figure - this could be early in Harry's childhood or during the timeframe of the Hogwarts years if Regulus survives somehow/time-travels/is around as a portrait or some other magical weirdness. Given Harry's track record with honorary father figures this could be great or could also be terrible.

Character Finds Out One of Their Mentor's Secrets - somehow Harry and Regulus already know each other when Harry learns more about Regulus' past. Does he have a similar "...he was my age, age isn't an excuse" moment from the books? Does he confront Regulus about it? Does he jump to the wrong conclusions?

Man Who Hates World Accidentally Adopts A Small Child - Regulus lives and is somehow in the picture when the Lily and James are killed, maybe Sirius' godfather connection comes into play? But he's still the arrogant Pureblood who doesn't really care about anybody besides maybe his house-elf. Antics ensue.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead:

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

Alternate Universe - Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter... (Sandia Labs) Fusion - I feel like this crossover would be a hilarious mix of meaning and nonsense. Is this a message? Is it warning us about pirates or spooky ghosts? Who knows?

crack treated seriously - livestreamed murder/suicide/etc with ridiculous nonsensical weapons - any kind of "crack treated seriously" tag is great for R&G. Maybe the Players have something to do with this ("deaths for all occasions!") R&G are a little weirded out by the idea of the audience watching them...but maybe they're back the next day to do it all over again?

Identity Porn - Characters Know Each Other 3 Different Ways and Should Have Figured This Out By Now - anything with identity shenanigans (and/or memory shenanigans) would be great.

Time Loop - Only one of them remembers the past iterations - would be funny to see some other, maybe more "conventional," time travel tropes in this context. Or maybe the person who remembers is different each time. Doesn't necessarily have to be Rosencrantz or Guildenstern, what about the rest of the "Hamlet" gang?

Star Wars Original Trilogy:

Luke Skywalker, Leia Organa, and/or Darth Vader

in-universe nonfiction text - what does the future get right (or wrong) about the Skywalkers' relationships? (Feel free to be compliant with the sequel trilogy or go AU.)

Let's Steal a Spaceship! - shenanigans in space. Maybe one or both of the twins is stuck with Vader and has to find a way out, maybe the Millennium Falcon is having its hyperdrive repaired or being repossessed by the Hutts.

Long Lost/Secret Relatives - a classic for this gang. What if Vader had found out about Leia earlier/instead of Luke? What if R2 blabbed? What does the rest of the Alliance suspect?

POV Outsider - again, any kind of alternate POV on what the family is up to, jumping to the wrong (or right) conclusions!

Figran D'an and the Modal Nodes

Canon-typical shenanigans - they seem pretty unfazed by the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is Mos Eisley, where else have their travels brought them?

Inspired By Author's Choice Power Metal Song - I don't know anything about metal music but if you do, please go nuts!

Inspired By Author's Choice Symphonic Metal Song - ditto

POV Outsider - in this case, I imagine maybe they're the outsiders inadvertently witnessing history when Luke and Obi-Wan meet Han and Chewbacca. Have they run across other galactic figures this way?

Space bureaucracy - what kind of hoops do musicians have to jump through to get their gigs approved?

Spaceport City Infrastructure - how do they travel? Avoid groupies? Deal with the Empire's political woes?

Worldbuilding - anything about music in the galaxy far far away!

Stranger Things:
Will Byers & Eleven

Adopted Sibling Relationship - what is their relationship like after S3 when El moves in with the Byers?

Friendship tested by weekly board game night - I'm imagining this somewhere in the first couple seasons, with the Party being hardcore into their tabletop and other games. But maybe it's something Will and El connect with when it feels like his other friends are "outgrowing" their old hobbies.

Getting pizza after a cooking disaster - El loves her junk food, enough said!

Outsider POV - Time Travel From the POV of a Non-Time-Traveling Character - some of the speculation I've seen about upcoming seasons involves Hopper being stuck in the past in Russia and trying to make his way back, maybe at the same time as some of the earlier seasons are happening. The kids' POV on that would be neat. But could also be any other combination of characters engaged in "Back to the Future" type shenanigans!

Wheel of Time (TV):

I have read and loved the book series so if you want to bring in elements of that, that's fine in my book, but show-only canon is also great! Feel free to speculate on where their adventures might lead them next.

Moiraine Damodred & Lan Mandragoran

Alternate Universe - Expert Judgment on Markers to Deter... (Sandia Labs) Fusion - instead of interpreting ancient prophecies, maybe they have to make sense of ancient inscriptions or legends to figure out what's the deal with the haunted lands.

Intensely Important Nonsexual Nonromantic Relationship - what are some of the little ways they've been there for each other over the years? What happens after S1 with Moiraine unable to channel?

platonic power couple - I love the whole Aes Sedai and Warder dynamics when it comes to "we have very different skill sets but we use our strengths to fight together and make each other stronger." More battles! Or more non-battle situations where they still have to use their skills to complement each other!

Platonic Soulmates - What's it like to have such an intimate connection to someone else? Recognizing each others' pain even when the other won't admit to it? Do they have some more silly/playful uses for the bond?

Egwene al'Vere

Character has to fake being evil for reasons - Egwene is so earnest and dedicated that she'd throw herself into this 110%. What happens if she gets in too deep? Humor? Disaster?

Dreams - Symbolic and weird and revealing the character's subconscious - What's going through Egwene's mind in Shadar Logoth? Or travelling with the Tuatha'an? Or after they escape from the Whitecloaks? Make it weird!

Platonic Eurydice/Orpheus Inspired- going to hell to save a friend/family member - Again, I feel like Egwene is the kind of person who doesn't take no for an answer. If one of her Two Rivers friends is in danger, she'll take risks with the One Power or other weird magical systems to make things right.

 

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Like I said, please don't feel limited to these, and feel free to mix and match across fandoms. Thank you!