Yuletide 2016
Yuletide/Ao3 name: tahanrien
Old letters: Yuletide 2015, Yuletide 2014, Yuletide 2013, Yuletide 2012, Yuletide 2011, Yuletide 2010
First of all, thank you for matching with me and wanting - I hope! - to write for me. I hope I can inspire you a bit with my letter. I'm looking forward to reading your story. :)
My fandoms this year are:
1. Black Sails: Miranda Barlow & Captain Flint - Miranda did not die in Charles Town and she is coming for Flint (Zombie!Miranda?)
2. Far Cry 4: Ajay Ghale - Outsider!POV on Ajay messing up Kyrati wildlife and natives
3. Dishonored (Video Game): Jessamine Kaldwin, Emily Kaldwin, Corvo Attano, The Heart - Reverse engineered Heart: Jessamine is back at the end of the game, or is she?
I love Outsider!POV, I love femslash and gen and canon pairings, and for Yuletide I even enjoy more creative things - strange AUs, scenes from a bigger story, interesting formatting, other media, super long plotty adventure romances... And if you wanted to make all characters female, you could even go for that!
Edit from later: These are just ideas to give you some insight into what I would find cool or interesting about the setting and characters - if you have a totally different idea for what to write, I'd love to be surprised just as much!
I'm not too much a fan of Do Not Wants for myself, because it all depends on the story/your idea for me and if you have the gory/edgy/kinky idea that you think would work for the characters, go for it. I'd draw the line at anything with excrements/watersports, but as long as you treat a matter well, anything can work in a story. See note for kinks at the end of the post.
Here is my original sign up summary:
1. Black Sails: Miranda Barlow, Captain Flint
Miranda opens her eyes to cannon fire and a buring Charles Town: Miranda did not die, but makes her way to a ship and finds Flint at the end of season two. How does she get there? Is she a zombie? Was it magic? Did Rhett's shot miss? Did she fake her death? Why is she after Flint? Could be sexy, or gory, or full of feelings.
2. Far Cry 4: Ajay Ghale
Son of Mohan, Hero of the Golden Path, that guy who keeps siccing rhinos on people: What do the common people of Kyrat actually think of Ajay and his antics? Does he ever have to clean up his mess? Does the Royal guard have nightmarish stories about him? Outsider!Pov would work well here. Or some alternative media? Once Pagan is gone, is there a footnote in a US newspaper about one of their citizens?
3. Dishonored (Video Game): Jessamine Kaldwin, Emily Kaldwin, Corvo Attano, The Heart
At the end of the game, for Piero and Sokolov, messing around with the Heart was just a side project while they worked on a cure for the Plague - right until they managed to reverse engineer the Heart back into Jessamine. But is it truly her? Does she look like herself or like a flesh-metal construct? Does she remember being dead? Or what Corvo has done in her name? How does she react to a traumatized Emily, would Emily even recognize her mother? Will Corvo confront the Outsider about his cruel idea of a joke?
You can find more details about the fandoms behind the cut:
1. Black Sails - Ugh, I love Captain Flint and I found his relationship with Miranda so fascinating and how Thomas' death damaged them both but Miranda's death destroyed Flint. I'd love Zombie!Miranda or maybe the dreams Flint has are a vision and he is calling her to him through those. Or maybe the shot did miss and Miranda awakens and this is her chance to leave it all behind, but then she comes back because she can't leave Flint like this. You could also have Miranda meet other characters on her way to Flint or include how everyone would react. I just really enjoyed Miranda and hers and Flint's relationship and how calm and sad and adult they were. I wouldn't say no to something not-calm either of course: If you want newly immortal Miranda charging into the Battle for Nassau to rescue Flint? Go for it. Or something sad, because maybe Miranda takes to long to wake up and by then, Flint is already dead.
Or maybe Flint just gets more delusional in some fictional season three and starts to actually prefer his dream with Miranda over reality? Or maybe he only thinks she is alive and goes searching for her? So many possibilities.
That said, I also wouldn't say no about Miranda setting out to find Flint and stumbling over, say, Eleanor to engage in some sexy antagonistic meeting.
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2. Far Cry 4 - One of my favourite games for all the freedoms and all the fun I had with Ajay. I also loved the setting and the way people reacted to Ajay, so I want more of that. Are the stunts Ajay is constantly pulling really that cool or is everyone shaking their head at the guy who is just flying a buzzer while using a grenate launcher to take down a honey badger? I would totally go for dark here as well - these Royal Guards/Army men probably do have families, don't they? Wives, kids? Who are scared for their dad facing that sniper who just took out a whole Outpost in under three minutes. What do they think of Ajay after Pagan is gone?
Or, if you don't like Outsider!POV, you could do something with Ajay interacting with the natives, that would work just as well for me - maybe he actually wants to make amends to the people whose families were torn apart by him. Or maybe he has to do some more cutesy missions, capturing baby Yaks for Kyrati orphans.
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3. Dishonored - I just love the setting and how unfair and sad it all was, and yet Corvo just did what he had to do. So now here comes my request and I could totally see him suffering some more. It's just so tragic, with the Heart and all and I imagine him and Jessamine to have had this whole big love story, not so much with butterflies, but a solid kind of love. I'm totally open to what you want to do with my optional details idea. I just found the idea of Jessamine coming back really cool and even strangely fitting to the theme of the game. How would that disrupt the status quo that Corvo and Emily had built up? Would Emily be happy about her? Would they have some nice bonding time before Jessamine dies again? You could even do some gory flesh-metal Jessamine/Corvo sex here, if you want to.
I haven't had time to get into Dishonored 2 spoilers and won't be able to play it until December so I might not manage to get through it until Yuletide story reveals, but if you want to include any aspects from it, feel free to do so.
Same thing I wrote about Black Sails applies here: This doesn't have to be Jessamine/Corvo and if you like femslash, feel free to go that way. Maybe not with Emily, but who knows, maybe Jessamine needs to fuck it out after being dead with some random female NPC...
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I noticed my requests are pretty dark this year, so if you want to make it sexual, I also would not mind reading something with some more serious kinks as long as they are dealt with true to the characters, think Game of Thrones level of detail. If you want to make Miranda or Jessamine human flesh-eating-and-fucking zombies, for example, I wouldn't mind them dealing with it, searching for corpses, Jessamine going after her daughter and stopping the last second, etc. But I would likely not care about 1000 words of hyper-explicit necrophilia underage porn description. Somewhere in the middle. I hope that makes sense.
Old letters: Yuletide 2015, Yuletide 2014, Yuletide 2013, Yuletide 2012, Yuletide 2011, Yuletide 2010
First of all, thank you for matching with me and wanting - I hope! - to write for me. I hope I can inspire you a bit with my letter. I'm looking forward to reading your story. :)
My fandoms this year are:
1. Black Sails: Miranda Barlow & Captain Flint - Miranda did not die in Charles Town and she is coming for Flint (Zombie!Miranda?)
2. Far Cry 4: Ajay Ghale - Outsider!POV on Ajay messing up Kyrati wildlife and natives
3. Dishonored (Video Game): Jessamine Kaldwin, Emily Kaldwin, Corvo Attano, The Heart - Reverse engineered Heart: Jessamine is back at the end of the game, or is she?
I love Outsider!POV, I love femslash and gen and canon pairings, and for Yuletide I even enjoy more creative things - strange AUs, scenes from a bigger story, interesting formatting, other media, super long plotty adventure romances... And if you wanted to make all characters female, you could even go for that!
Edit from later: These are just ideas to give you some insight into what I would find cool or interesting about the setting and characters - if you have a totally different idea for what to write, I'd love to be surprised just as much!
I'm not too much a fan of Do Not Wants for myself, because it all depends on the story/your idea for me and if you have the gory/edgy/kinky idea that you think would work for the characters, go for it. I'd draw the line at anything with excrements/watersports, but as long as you treat a matter well, anything can work in a story. See note for kinks at the end of the post.
Here is my original sign up summary:
1. Black Sails: Miranda Barlow, Captain Flint
Miranda opens her eyes to cannon fire and a buring Charles Town: Miranda did not die, but makes her way to a ship and finds Flint at the end of season two. How does she get there? Is she a zombie? Was it magic? Did Rhett's shot miss? Did she fake her death? Why is she after Flint? Could be sexy, or gory, or full of feelings.
2. Far Cry 4: Ajay Ghale
Son of Mohan, Hero of the Golden Path, that guy who keeps siccing rhinos on people: What do the common people of Kyrat actually think of Ajay and his antics? Does he ever have to clean up his mess? Does the Royal guard have nightmarish stories about him? Outsider!Pov would work well here. Or some alternative media? Once Pagan is gone, is there a footnote in a US newspaper about one of their citizens?
3. Dishonored (Video Game): Jessamine Kaldwin, Emily Kaldwin, Corvo Attano, The Heart
At the end of the game, for Piero and Sokolov, messing around with the Heart was just a side project while they worked on a cure for the Plague - right until they managed to reverse engineer the Heart back into Jessamine. But is it truly her? Does she look like herself or like a flesh-metal construct? Does she remember being dead? Or what Corvo has done in her name? How does she react to a traumatized Emily, would Emily even recognize her mother? Will Corvo confront the Outsider about his cruel idea of a joke?
You can find more details about the fandoms behind the cut:
1. Black Sails - Ugh, I love Captain Flint and I found his relationship with Miranda so fascinating and how Thomas' death damaged them both but Miranda's death destroyed Flint. I'd love Zombie!Miranda or maybe the dreams Flint has are a vision and he is calling her to him through those. Or maybe the shot did miss and Miranda awakens and this is her chance to leave it all behind, but then she comes back because she can't leave Flint like this. You could also have Miranda meet other characters on her way to Flint or include how everyone would react. I just really enjoyed Miranda and hers and Flint's relationship and how calm and sad and adult they were. I wouldn't say no to something not-calm either of course: If you want newly immortal Miranda charging into the Battle for Nassau to rescue Flint? Go for it. Or something sad, because maybe Miranda takes to long to wake up and by then, Flint is already dead.
Or maybe Flint just gets more delusional in some fictional season three and starts to actually prefer his dream with Miranda over reality? Or maybe he only thinks she is alive and goes searching for her? So many possibilities.
That said, I also wouldn't say no about Miranda setting out to find Flint and stumbling over, say, Eleanor to engage in some sexy antagonistic meeting.
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2. Far Cry 4 - One of my favourite games for all the freedoms and all the fun I had with Ajay. I also loved the setting and the way people reacted to Ajay, so I want more of that. Are the stunts Ajay is constantly pulling really that cool or is everyone shaking their head at the guy who is just flying a buzzer while using a grenate launcher to take down a honey badger? I would totally go for dark here as well - these Royal Guards/Army men probably do have families, don't they? Wives, kids? Who are scared for their dad facing that sniper who just took out a whole Outpost in under three minutes. What do they think of Ajay after Pagan is gone?
Or, if you don't like Outsider!POV, you could do something with Ajay interacting with the natives, that would work just as well for me - maybe he actually wants to make amends to the people whose families were torn apart by him. Or maybe he has to do some more cutesy missions, capturing baby Yaks for Kyrati orphans.
__
3. Dishonored - I just love the setting and how unfair and sad it all was, and yet Corvo just did what he had to do. So now here comes my request and I could totally see him suffering some more. It's just so tragic, with the Heart and all and I imagine him and Jessamine to have had this whole big love story, not so much with butterflies, but a solid kind of love. I'm totally open to what you want to do with my optional details idea. I just found the idea of Jessamine coming back really cool and even strangely fitting to the theme of the game. How would that disrupt the status quo that Corvo and Emily had built up? Would Emily be happy about her? Would they have some nice bonding time before Jessamine dies again? You could even do some gory flesh-metal Jessamine/Corvo sex here, if you want to.
I haven't had time to get into Dishonored 2 spoilers and won't be able to play it until December so I might not manage to get through it until Yuletide story reveals, but if you want to include any aspects from it, feel free to do so.
Same thing I wrote about Black Sails applies here: This doesn't have to be Jessamine/Corvo and if you like femslash, feel free to go that way. Maybe not with Emily, but who knows, maybe Jessamine needs to fuck it out after being dead with some random female NPC...
__
I noticed my requests are pretty dark this year, so if you want to make it sexual, I also would not mind reading something with some more serious kinks as long as they are dealt with true to the characters, think Game of Thrones level of detail. If you want to make Miranda or Jessamine human flesh-eating-and-fucking zombies, for example, I wouldn't mind them dealing with it, searching for corpses, Jessamine going after her daughter and stopping the last second, etc. But I would likely not care about 1000 words of hyper-explicit necrophilia underage porn description. Somewhere in the middle. I hope that makes sense.