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marsdragon) wrote2019-10-24 08:59 pm
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Yuletide 2019
I'm copy-pasting or linking former letters a lot here. Because well...what I want doesn't change much.
Anyway listen, you have full permission to ODAO the fuck out of this. I don't care. If you have an idea write it, it's cool. Also cool: leaving characters out, adding in unnominated characters. Whatever. As long as at least one requested character is in there do what you want.
Don't worry if some sections are different lengths. Sometimes I just had longer prompts or there are more characters, don't read too much into it. You can also look at my previous letters because what I want doesn't change much.
AO3 name: MarsDragon
General likes: Worldbuilding, gen, noncon, horror, comedy, everything being fucked up forever...look just pick an extreme and roll with it.
DNW: M/f noncon, scat/vomit/watersports, transformation that's not body horror, sex/gender headcanons, non-canon divergent AUs, second-person
Cool with: Character death, bad ends, whatever else people say is opt-in. I don't give a shit.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - any (Miriam, Johannes, Dominique, OD, Zangetsu)
Okay it says Ritual of the Night but I'll also accept Curse of the Moon. I don't think anyone will notice.
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned this is my new favourite Castlevania game, so go hog wild. Any sort of character interaction would be great, especially characters that didn't get a chance to bounce off each other in-game. Maybe tie CotM into RotN? Would be a good way to bring Zangetsu back (as they were blatantly planning). Like CV I love the monsters here, so characters hanging out with monsters would be great. OD would be great for this!
For Miriam, running around the castle, hanging out with her familiars (Buer is so incompetent it's moe), what she does post-game, what her childhood was like... How does she explain what happened to Dominique to Anna, lying or telling the truth? Does she ever learn more about alchemy? I'd love something about her, Gebel, and Johannes running around as kids, either sweet or sad.
For Johannes...well, more about alchemy, and what he does post-game when alchemists are not all that popular. Or just how he's getting around the castle for plot scenes when it's explicitly stated he can't fight... Something cute with him and Dominique or the villagers would be nice for fluffy.
For Dominique something exploring her background and character, dealing with the Church when they literally have to fight actual demons, or BAD END HELL COVERS THE EARTH. Feel free to get mean with the bad end! Her being creepy and menacing at Miriam would be great.
For OD, well, I have to admit I never thought of "demon librarian" being the perfect job for Alucard but thinking about it, yeah, that makes sense. For him I'm primarily interested in hanging out with monsters, dealing with the issues of running a demon library, or how the castle functions when Miriam's not tearing shit up. Or have him bounce off any of the human characters, especially ones he didn't get to meet. (Johannes or Zangetsu would be really funny here)
Zangetsu...any sort of backstory, bringing in CotM, or bouncing off other characters in silly or comedic ways are all good. I just love angry samurai Solid Snake.
How to experience: It's on like every platform. Go buy it. It's the best Metroidvania since the indie boom kicked off.
Fatal Fury - any (Terry, Rock, Geese, Billy)
I'm....just gonna copy-paste my previous year's prompts. You can also check out my nonconathon letter, which has the same four characters.
Fandom specific DNW: Don't hurt Lily or child Rock. Basically, leave the non-combatants alone. (do whatever the fuck you want to people that can fight back)
Note on timelines: Since I'm asking for Fatal Fury specifically, stick with that. But if you want to bring in KoF stuff, that's cool too. I'm down for stories of the My Two Dads Team at KoF. Band of Fighters and Days of Memories AUs are the only exception to the blanket "no non-canon divergent AUs" ban.
Prompts: Still down for anything in my Parallels letter.
This is a fandom where I'm down for damn near anything since it's so small. I'd love any of these characters interacting, either with each other or with anyone else from the cast. Just throw characters together! There are plenty of them and most have some sort of relationship! Down for pretty much any ship you can justify, with a special mention for my weird crackship of Billy/Duck. (They'd throw some incredible dance parties, okay...?!) Or play off all those weird facts that show up in character profiles, or pick up off anyone's endings...Real Bout and Real Bout 2 are especially good for this.
Or pick up something from anyone's backstory...there are two decade-long timeskips that are fairly important for all these four characters. (AoF references rule) Or Geese, Jeff, and Cheng training and getting into trouble. Or Billy in the Garou-time, if he ever got over Geese or not. Or how weird it is to get raised by a guy who's always having nightmares about your other dad (and turning into a girl. Thanks, SNK Heroines!).
I love how any character's story can be "canon" in fighting games, so feel free to play off an ending where someone other than Terry or Rock won the tournament.
How to experience: I'll try to make this non-complicated but it's a long-running fighting game series and I'm a really obsessive nerd.
Shortest version: Watch Memories of Stray Wolves, read up in the SNK Wiki (not 100% reliable thanks to 90s SNK and normal fan wiki crap), maybe screw around in Real Bout Fatal Fury and Garou: Mark of the Wolves. You can get both those games on pretty much any modern platform or try out WinKwaks.
Real Bout playthrough (Terry)
Mark of the Wolves playthrough (Rock)
I have a retranslation project because SNK got...creative in the 90s.
Fist of the North Star - any (Ken, Raoh, Toki, Yuria)
Terminology note: I'm just romanizing here, but do whatever you want. Everything has like three different official translations anyway.
This is gonna be weird because what really kind of fascinates me about this series (besides all the rad fights) is that it's this post-apocalyptic hellscape, but it's far enough past the end that everyone's kind of used to it, and the main characters were all off hanging out in remote mountain temples beforetimes anyway. Like by the end of the series it's hard to tell if it's actually our world after the end or some weird fantasy kung fu world.
So what I'm getting at is: what were all these jokers doing before/during/just after the end? We know there was a war going on, and it was obviously a war where crazy martial arts stunts were useless. Then someone hits the button and oh shit, suddenly training to be the best at kung fu works out...but they're all still wandering the wasteland. I just want some sort of adjustment, I guess. Some sort of exploration of how there was a normal world there, and it just ended, and suddenly everyone's a martial arts hobo.
Or just everyone running around the martial arts temples. Yuria clearly knows Shin and from there she probably knows the rest of the Nanto Rokuseiken, and I kind of want to see her actually interacting with Rei/Yuda/Shuu/Souther, or how the Goshasei are supposed to work without everyone being scattered to the four winds. Basically I'd really love more detail about Yuria being the sixth Nanto general all along because lord knows canon didn't do it. I mean, how did the Hokuto brothers not know that about this woman they're all supposed to be hot for? How did this never come up?
Speaking of the Hokuto brothers, I'd love stuff with all four of them before everything went to shit. Did they always know Jagi was an asshole, or did the apocalypse just break him? Or just all four characters before the end, since that must've been awkward as fuuuuuuuuuck.
(I know a lot of unnominated characters show up here, sorry. FotNS has a huge cast and I love them all, but if you just want to focus on the nominated four do that)
How to experience: It's on Crunchyroll and I believe Netflix. What is this strange new world we live in, where classic anime is just available for anyone to watch?
Giant Robo - any (Alberto, Komei, Genya, Sunny)
I just love Giant Robo so much. It is straight-up my favorite anime of all time. So believe me when I say I'd love anything for this. Look through my old letters (here, or here) for some ideas about what I'd like. Otherwise, keep reading.
More about Alberto and Sunny would be great. We don't really get to see them interact, and I'd love to know what kind of dad Alberto is. What's it like growing up in Big Fire, and what's it like trying to juggle being a member of the Magnificent 10 and a small kid, especially since mom doesn't seem to be in the picture? Did Alberto get promoted after Sunny was born? Actually, anything about the inner organizational workings of Big Fire would be great, so Alberto working to get promoted, how the selection process happens, etc. Or more about magic, especially since Sunny seems to be something of a western magician but she's clearly apprenticed to Hanzui, an eastern one. That could make some interesting problems/comparisons/etc.
More about the inner workings of BF also applies to Komei and Genya. Genya's pretty obviously getting an easy road thanks to Komei's backing, which would be something to explore...especially since he is not even slightly aware of how much he's being played. Exploring more of Komei setting Genya up and how that relationship worked would be really interesting. (shipping's fine too, though I can't see Komei actually caring about Genya as more than a means to an end)
Or just more of Komei being a manipulative asshole before or after the series. I love that guy.
How to experience: The English language blu-ray should be out in November. Just saying. Otherwise...*coughcough* List of torrents. (you want the EG release)
Laserdisk linear notes, with lots of extra details about the characters and setting.
Extra info that's literally friend-of-a-friend, so take or leave it as you will. Might inspire some ideas, though.
Psychic Force - any (Burn, Carlo, Keith, Patty)
Okay so Giant Robo is my favourite anime, but Psychic Force has been engraved upon my soul. So again, believe me when I say that I'll take anything for this. I have multiple former letters to look at, if you want. (nonconathon too)
Okay so Burn/Keith is my first and highest OTP, so anything there would be perfect. Canon-typical tragedy to any sort of happy ending, it's all good. Pre-canon OVA fluff, killing each other, whatever. Hell, playing off the Wong story where Keith lives just long enough to meet Burn again would be really interesting (especially if Burn helps him survive).
I still like Keith and Carlo and how they seem similar at first glance but actually have very opinions on this whole revolution thing. (namely that Keith is willing to sacrifices the person he loves for his ideals and Carlo really, really isn't) Anything fooling around with their relationship and Carlo's hero worship to killing his idol would be great, or some backstory on how they met, or Carlo having to take over when Keith is not up to it after 2010...yeah. Carlo and Regina also have plenty of potential, especially for backstory (together in the labs? Separated young? Did they go on the run together?) or sussing out exactly how far either of them are willing to go in their relationship because it really feels like Regina is way more down for it than Carlo. Or Burn waking up after Carlo's ending, because holy shit what a mess that would be.
For Patty...again, backstory is always good. More about her and her mother, how she met Might and started travelling with him instead of it instantly turning into a fight, anything in there. Or future-Patty and whatever the hell went down in that future, because it was probably even worse than PF usually is. For happier stuff, she never does meet Wendy, and they might be able to have a conversation without trying to kill each other. That's rare and interesting!
How to experience: Links to scripts, playthroughs, etc.
Anyway listen, you have full permission to ODAO the fuck out of this. I don't care. If you have an idea write it, it's cool. Also cool: leaving characters out, adding in unnominated characters. Whatever. As long as at least one requested character is in there do what you want.
Don't worry if some sections are different lengths. Sometimes I just had longer prompts or there are more characters, don't read too much into it. You can also look at my previous letters because what I want doesn't change much.
AO3 name: MarsDragon
General likes: Worldbuilding, gen, noncon, horror, comedy, everything being fucked up forever...look just pick an extreme and roll with it.
DNW: M/f noncon, scat/vomit/watersports, transformation that's not body horror, sex/gender headcanons, non-canon divergent AUs, second-person
Cool with: Character death, bad ends, whatever else people say is opt-in. I don't give a shit.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night - any (Miriam, Johannes, Dominique, OD, Zangetsu)
Okay it says Ritual of the Night but I'll also accept Curse of the Moon. I don't think anyone will notice.
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned this is my new favourite Castlevania game, so go hog wild. Any sort of character interaction would be great, especially characters that didn't get a chance to bounce off each other in-game. Maybe tie CotM into RotN? Would be a good way to bring Zangetsu back (as they were blatantly planning). Like CV I love the monsters here, so characters hanging out with monsters would be great. OD would be great for this!
For Miriam, running around the castle, hanging out with her familiars (Buer is so incompetent it's moe), what she does post-game, what her childhood was like... How does she explain what happened to Dominique to Anna, lying or telling the truth? Does she ever learn more about alchemy? I'd love something about her, Gebel, and Johannes running around as kids, either sweet or sad.
For Johannes...well, more about alchemy, and what he does post-game when alchemists are not all that popular. Or just how he's getting around the castle for plot scenes when it's explicitly stated he can't fight... Something cute with him and Dominique or the villagers would be nice for fluffy.
For Dominique something exploring her background and character, dealing with the Church when they literally have to fight actual demons, or BAD END HELL COVERS THE EARTH. Feel free to get mean with the bad end! Her being creepy and menacing at Miriam would be great.
For OD, well, I have to admit I never thought of "demon librarian" being the perfect job for Alucard but thinking about it, yeah, that makes sense. For him I'm primarily interested in hanging out with monsters, dealing with the issues of running a demon library, or how the castle functions when Miriam's not tearing shit up. Or have him bounce off any of the human characters, especially ones he didn't get to meet. (Johannes or Zangetsu would be really funny here)
Zangetsu...any sort of backstory, bringing in CotM, or bouncing off other characters in silly or comedic ways are all good. I just love angry samurai Solid Snake.
How to experience: It's on like every platform. Go buy it. It's the best Metroidvania since the indie boom kicked off.
Fatal Fury - any (Terry, Rock, Geese, Billy)
I'm....just gonna copy-paste my previous year's prompts. You can also check out my nonconathon letter, which has the same four characters.
Fandom specific DNW: Don't hurt Lily or child Rock. Basically, leave the non-combatants alone. (do whatever the fuck you want to people that can fight back)
Note on timelines: Since I'm asking for Fatal Fury specifically, stick with that. But if you want to bring in KoF stuff, that's cool too. I'm down for stories of the My Two Dads Team at KoF. Band of Fighters and Days of Memories AUs are the only exception to the blanket "no non-canon divergent AUs" ban.
Prompts: Still down for anything in my Parallels letter.
This is a fandom where I'm down for damn near anything since it's so small. I'd love any of these characters interacting, either with each other or with anyone else from the cast. Just throw characters together! There are plenty of them and most have some sort of relationship! Down for pretty much any ship you can justify, with a special mention for my weird crackship of Billy/Duck. (They'd throw some incredible dance parties, okay...?!) Or play off all those weird facts that show up in character profiles, or pick up off anyone's endings...Real Bout and Real Bout 2 are especially good for this.
Or pick up something from anyone's backstory...there are two decade-long timeskips that are fairly important for all these four characters. (AoF references rule) Or Geese, Jeff, and Cheng training and getting into trouble. Or Billy in the Garou-time, if he ever got over Geese or not. Or how weird it is to get raised by a guy who's always having nightmares about your other dad (and turning into a girl. Thanks, SNK Heroines!).
I love how any character's story can be "canon" in fighting games, so feel free to play off an ending where someone other than Terry or Rock won the tournament.
How to experience: I'll try to make this non-complicated but it's a long-running fighting game series and I'm a really obsessive nerd.
Shortest version: Watch Memories of Stray Wolves, read up in the SNK Wiki (not 100% reliable thanks to 90s SNK and normal fan wiki crap), maybe screw around in Real Bout Fatal Fury and Garou: Mark of the Wolves. You can get both those games on pretty much any modern platform or try out WinKwaks.
Real Bout playthrough (Terry)
Mark of the Wolves playthrough (Rock)
I have a retranslation project because SNK got...creative in the 90s.
Fist of the North Star - any (Ken, Raoh, Toki, Yuria)
Terminology note: I'm just romanizing here, but do whatever you want. Everything has like three different official translations anyway.
This is gonna be weird because what really kind of fascinates me about this series (besides all the rad fights) is that it's this post-apocalyptic hellscape, but it's far enough past the end that everyone's kind of used to it, and the main characters were all off hanging out in remote mountain temples beforetimes anyway. Like by the end of the series it's hard to tell if it's actually our world after the end or some weird fantasy kung fu world.
So what I'm getting at is: what were all these jokers doing before/during/just after the end? We know there was a war going on, and it was obviously a war where crazy martial arts stunts were useless. Then someone hits the button and oh shit, suddenly training to be the best at kung fu works out...but they're all still wandering the wasteland. I just want some sort of adjustment, I guess. Some sort of exploration of how there was a normal world there, and it just ended, and suddenly everyone's a martial arts hobo.
Or just everyone running around the martial arts temples. Yuria clearly knows Shin and from there she probably knows the rest of the Nanto Rokuseiken, and I kind of want to see her actually interacting with Rei/Yuda/Shuu/Souther, or how the Goshasei are supposed to work without everyone being scattered to the four winds. Basically I'd really love more detail about Yuria being the sixth Nanto general all along because lord knows canon didn't do it. I mean, how did the Hokuto brothers not know that about this woman they're all supposed to be hot for? How did this never come up?
Speaking of the Hokuto brothers, I'd love stuff with all four of them before everything went to shit. Did they always know Jagi was an asshole, or did the apocalypse just break him? Or just all four characters before the end, since that must've been awkward as fuuuuuuuuuck.
(I know a lot of unnominated characters show up here, sorry. FotNS has a huge cast and I love them all, but if you just want to focus on the nominated four do that)
How to experience: It's on Crunchyroll and I believe Netflix. What is this strange new world we live in, where classic anime is just available for anyone to watch?
Giant Robo - any (Alberto, Komei, Genya, Sunny)
I just love Giant Robo so much. It is straight-up my favorite anime of all time. So believe me when I say I'd love anything for this. Look through my old letters (here, or here) for some ideas about what I'd like. Otherwise, keep reading.
More about Alberto and Sunny would be great. We don't really get to see them interact, and I'd love to know what kind of dad Alberto is. What's it like growing up in Big Fire, and what's it like trying to juggle being a member of the Magnificent 10 and a small kid, especially since mom doesn't seem to be in the picture? Did Alberto get promoted after Sunny was born? Actually, anything about the inner organizational workings of Big Fire would be great, so Alberto working to get promoted, how the selection process happens, etc. Or more about magic, especially since Sunny seems to be something of a western magician but she's clearly apprenticed to Hanzui, an eastern one. That could make some interesting problems/comparisons/etc.
More about the inner workings of BF also applies to Komei and Genya. Genya's pretty obviously getting an easy road thanks to Komei's backing, which would be something to explore...especially since he is not even slightly aware of how much he's being played. Exploring more of Komei setting Genya up and how that relationship worked would be really interesting. (shipping's fine too, though I can't see Komei actually caring about Genya as more than a means to an end)
Or just more of Komei being a manipulative asshole before or after the series. I love that guy.
How to experience: The English language blu-ray should be out in November. Just saying. Otherwise...*coughcough* List of torrents. (you want the EG release)
Laserdisk linear notes, with lots of extra details about the characters and setting.
Extra info that's literally friend-of-a-friend, so take or leave it as you will. Might inspire some ideas, though.
Psychic Force - any (Burn, Carlo, Keith, Patty)
Okay so Giant Robo is my favourite anime, but Psychic Force has been engraved upon my soul. So again, believe me when I say that I'll take anything for this. I have multiple former letters to look at, if you want. (nonconathon too)
Okay so Burn/Keith is my first and highest OTP, so anything there would be perfect. Canon-typical tragedy to any sort of happy ending, it's all good. Pre-canon OVA fluff, killing each other, whatever. Hell, playing off the Wong story where Keith lives just long enough to meet Burn again would be really interesting (especially if Burn helps him survive).
I still like Keith and Carlo and how they seem similar at first glance but actually have very opinions on this whole revolution thing. (namely that Keith is willing to sacrifices the person he loves for his ideals and Carlo really, really isn't) Anything fooling around with their relationship and Carlo's hero worship to killing his idol would be great, or some backstory on how they met, or Carlo having to take over when Keith is not up to it after 2010...yeah. Carlo and Regina also have plenty of potential, especially for backstory (together in the labs? Separated young? Did they go on the run together?) or sussing out exactly how far either of them are willing to go in their relationship because it really feels like Regina is way more down for it than Carlo. Or Burn waking up after Carlo's ending, because holy shit what a mess that would be.
For Patty...again, backstory is always good. More about her and her mother, how she met Might and started travelling with him instead of it instantly turning into a fight, anything in there. Or future-Patty and whatever the hell went down in that future, because it was probably even worse than PF usually is. For happier stuff, she never does meet Wendy, and they might be able to have a conversation without trying to kill each other. That's rare and interesting!
How to experience: Links to scripts, playthroughs, etc.