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damkiannaSO. Let me be upfront from the start and acknowledge that this letter is definitely over 5k. I've tried to format it as neatly as possible, but you do NOT have to read the whole thing—in point of fact, you don't have to read a single word of it past this sentence. I don't have any triggers or hard DNWs you need to worry about, so anything you were already considering when you put together your offers or saw a particular genre tag is completely fine with me. Close this anytime, write whatever you want, and have a blast! :D This letter's only here to help you and/or give you some starting points and also so I can yammer about my interests for a zillion words, so if it's not going to be useful to you, just ignore it. YOU ARE GOOD TO GO.
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Past letters are in my Yuletide tag, my rarewomen/rarelywritten tag, and my fandom5k tag—if there's a prompt in any of those for one of these fandoms that strikes your fancy, feel free to roll with it even if I don't actually repeat that prompt this time around!
In General | Babylon 5 | Dark Matter (TV)
Marvel Cinematic Universe | Star Trek: Discovery
If you really don't want to read this whole thing but are still hoping there's something in it that might be useful, here's the takeaway: I meant the intro 100%. Whatever you're interested in telling stories about, and through whatever means—character studies or adventure shenanigans, high-fantasy AUs or soulbonding, trauma or angst or character death—I can promise you in advance you are FULLY AUTHORIZED to give it to me. :D For this particular exchange, I'm going to make suggestions based on the genre tags, because anything that lets me subdivide my tl;dr is probably a good idea. But as far as I'm concerned, the tags (and my prompts, for that matter) are only suggestions! Please don't feel like you can't include some horror or humor when I haven't requested those tags, or like 5k of pining isn't okay because it's not technically a Getting Together fic, or anything like that.
And broadly speaking, please rest assured that I enjoy and would be totally delighted to receive any/all/any combination of:
• shipfic! I absolutely multiship in most of my fandoms, and I'm interested in all kinds of pairings—I adore every one of the romantic combinations I've requested, and would be over the moon to get 5k about any of them. :D (And that includes having them hinted at, or in a single scene with a vague gesture toward some UST, or implied somewhere in the background! Any degree of shippy content will satisfy me, no worries.)
• gen! Anything you want to write about any of my requested characters individually or any requested platonic combinations is more than welcome—introspection! Pre-canon! Post-canon! Episode tags or missing scenes! Ensemble adventures with FRIENDSHIP. \o/
• free space! Which I intend to mean anything that all my nattering + my choice of genre tags may have left off your metaphorical bingo square. Your favorite trope (or your least-favorite, subverted!), the ridiculous iddy idea that didn't quite fit your last exchange recip's request, anything unusual or weird that you've always wanted to try—5k of second person, or future imperfect, or epistolary excerpts! Post-apocalyptic marriage-of-convenience zombie-fighting AU! ANYTHING.
Thoughtful fic, action-centric fic, five things that add up to 5k; pre-canon backstory, a chain of missing scenes, post-canon continuing adventures; OCs, worldbuilding, fix-its or Bad Endings or alternate perspectives! I am here for 5k of whatever it is you want most to write about any of these characters or pairings. ♥
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Basically anything you'd like to write about either or both of these characters will have my attention, believe you me! Any sort of adventure or canon-style shenanigans (serious and plotty, or just the little mundane day-to-day trials and tribulations of life on B5) would be fantastic, whether it's Delenn and internal Minbari politics, Susan trying to accommodate a particularly unusual species' needs, or five conversations the two of them had (plus one they didn't?).
Or tell me about any other possibilities that interest you! What if Delenn had been warrior-caste or worker-caste, instead of religious-caste? What if Susan had been just a little stronger in psi terms and had ended up in the Corps instead of the military? If you're at all inclined to write Delenn/Susan, feel free—but if you've only offered one of them, I'm here for get-together fics with either and any other character you ship them with, by all means. :D (There are never too many Susan/Talia fix-its; but I'd be just as thrilled to receive gen fix-it about the assassination of Santiago failing, or Dukhat recovering instead of dying! GO WILD.)
This show! I have fond memories of rewatching this on VHS tapes back in the day (/so old), and my DVD box set is now a prized possession. :D ♥ I love the plottiness and philosophical depth and thoughtfulness—but also the humor and friendship and all the little character moments. So whatever element of B5 you like best and want to focus on (the danger! the badassery! the politics! the everyday work of keeping a station running—or the ANCIENT UNKNOWABLE DARKNESS at the edges of the universe!), I'm so there for it. *chinhands*
• Action/Adventure: This and Canon-Style Plot can mean almost the same thing, really, depending on which episodes you've got in mind, but:
+ For Delenn, I'd love any sort of adventure set at basically any point in her life! Backstory, any sort of challenge or trial she might have had to undergo as training (and some kind of spiritual experience definitely counts as adventure here, in my eyes), or (if you want to incorporate movie canon, that is) the lead-up to that attempted peace accord? Absolutely anything set during the show from her POV, from the Shadow War to the Minbari or Earth Alliance civil wars—or anything post-show about the ISA, for that matter!
+ For Susan, same goes! Backstory about her early days in the military or during the Earth-Minbari War, training exercises gone wrong or rescue/covert missions she participated in. Or anything during the show, ofc, defending the station or dealing with the Psi Corps sniffing around, Homeguard bullshit or X-wing patrols going after raiders—or post-canon, on the EAS Titan or as Ranger One! ANYTHING. :D
• AU - Canon Divergence: I absolutely love fork-in-the-road AUs, and I'm interested in anything you want to tell me about one. :D
+ For Delenn, there are all kinds of critical moments and pivotal decisions where things could diverge, and I'd be delighted to read about any of them. If she'd never become Dukhat's aide, or if she'd been warrior-caste during the war (and captured Sinclair? Or Sheridan? ... Or Ivanova? :D); if she had decided it was her duty to lead the Council, prophecy or no prophecy, and had done so instead of undergoing her transformation (could she have stopped the Minbari civil war? Or would it have happened, but differently?). If she hadn't realized who Mr. Morden was working for before speaking to him—TELL ME HOW AWFUL IT ALL COULD HAVE GOTTEN. (Or, of course, tell me about the world where she manages to have him removed from the station before he can even speak to Londo!)
+ For Susan, I mean, take your pick—if her mother had managed to evade the Psi Corps, had fled to Mars or something, would she still have ended up on B5 somehow or other? If she had been the sleeper agent instead of Talia, how might things have played out—could she have broken the control of the sleeper personality, with Talia's help? If she'd gone undercover with Nightwatch when the offer to join was made to her, or had ended up in command of B5 after Sinclair time-traveled, or Minbar had won the Earth-Minbari war, or or or ... tell me about it!
• Canon-Style Plot: This is a more general category, so I won't bother breaking out separate sets of prompts for each of them, and instead I'll just say: as I mentioned in my signup, I love the whole range of canon-style plots available for both of these characters, from unexpected rent charges and Green and Purple Drazi to Delenn stepping into the Wheel and Susan nearly dying for her chosen cause. So! Pretty much anything you're interested in writing about either or both of them and their lives on the station would be a wonderful gift. Diplomatic shenanigans with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds? Ivanova actually does have a secret admirer? Delenn has to kick somebody's ass with a White Star? Ivanova saves the day in a Star Fury? GO WILD.
• Fix-it Fic: And this is, too, because honestly most fix-its for either one of them are fix-its for both of them, at least where the state of the galaxy is concerned. :D If you're interested in writing a pairing-related fix-it (Delenn time-travels with Sinclair! What happens to Talia is fixable! Marcus doesn't die!), that is more than okay, but I promise I'd be equally delighted with gen versions of any of those, or any fix-it for the wider universe of B5 that involves either or both of these characters. What if Clark's plot against Santiago had been foiled—or Marie Crane had won the election instead in the first place? Or if Clark had just had a heart attack or something, dammit—could the other factors building toward an Earth Alliance conflict have been turned aside?
• Getting Together: I just tossed this on the pile in case you happen to decide you want to write shipfic about Delenn or Susan—I realize this exchange does "OR" matching and I'm more than happy with gen. But! Any of your personal favorite shipfic tropes would also be totally welcome—sex pollen, accidental telepathic bonding, marriage of convenience, there is nothing too cliché for me. :D And this goes for any ship you happen to ship, Delenn/anybody (Sinclair! Sheridan! Lennier! Lyta!) or Susan/anybody (Talia! Marcus! Neroon! GARIBALDI) or Delenn/Susan. YOU HAVE OPTIONS, is where I'm going with this. :D
• Worldbuilding: Also a general one! I'll be happy with any degree of worldbuilding you want to do or include, from fake documentation or excerpts from in-universe "nonfiction" to just a little extra detail about a species joining the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, or filling in some blanks about Minbar in the course of writing backstory about Delenn. Anything! (And feel free to pull from the movies/novels/whatever other sources there may be, if you want to—if you're unfamiliar with them, no need! Either is fine with me. :D) I love the universe of B5 a lot and am interested in basically every part of it, so anything you want to explore further—or make up out of whole cloth, for that matter—would be fantastic!
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There's basically no way you can go wrong with this combination of characters, just for the record! A canon-style plot or any sort of adventure or AU with either or both of these pairings hinted at in the background would be wonderful—a planet-of-the-week job set somewhere in S1, or finding someone to sell that Shadow to in S2, or facing up against a black blob-alien again before the S3 finale.
But of course you should also feel free to write straight-up shipfic, and/or branch off from canon wherever you want to (what if the crew had come across Nyx and the Seers in S1, or Six had decided not to give them up to the GA?), or keep Nyx or Six (or both!) definitely alive as a fix-it and tell me what happens (might Nyx have had a vision about what was happening with Two in the S3 finale, and manage to get in touch with Six?). Any trope you enjoy would be fantastic as a get-together for either of these pairings (fuckbuddies who are both definitely not having feelings about each other! pretending to be married! huddling for warmth!), and 5k of worldbuilding about the ship, the political situation in the galaxy at any point, or the exact nature of the goo-aliens would be more than welcome!
I grew to adore this show over time, and now that it's canceled I'm going to miss it SO MUCH. /o\ BUT WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE FANDOM. Please rest assured that I love how complicated everything is and how bad it gets, how quickly things seem to fall apart on people—but also the found family elements, how the crew learns to care about each other and ends up trying to take care of the galaxy sort of despite themselves, and all the little humorous moments baked in there. So you won't be able to write me something so depressing I won't love it, AND you won't be able to write me something so silly I won't love it. :D Just so you know!
• Action/Adventure: Almost the same thing as Canon-Style Plot, in some ways—but I'm totally open to anything where you really want to focus on the action and adventure aspects. :D
+ For Nyx/Two, go wild! Nyx getting retaken by the Seers and Two kicking ass to rescue her, or Two getting retaken by Alex Rook and Nyx kicking ass to rescue her, would be fantastic. As would any other adventure-y trope you happen to be interested in—the show's already sort of had zombies and time loops and alternate universes, but as far as I'm concerned there are never too many of any of those. :D (And seriously, UST or ship-if-you-squint is more than okay; you don't need to come up with an adventure AND set up and resolve a shipfic arc if that's not where your inspiration takes you!)
+ For Three/Six, I mean, set this in any season you like—I'm as interested in Three and a Six who thinks he used to be Griffin Jones, and/or just found out about Kal Varrick and his GA connection as I am in S2 Six trying to earn back Three's trust, or an S3 Three who's struggling with goo-possession flashbacks! Trap them on a planet together, force them to rescue each other, get them arrested by the GA—ANYTHING. :D (And, as above, this doesn't have to end in resolved Three/Six by any means; a sprinkling of tension or a hint that somebody's feeling more than they're willing to say would be absolutely wonderful!)
• AU - Canon Divergence: I'm equally interested in AUs that are canon divergence start to finish, and characters taking trips to AUniverses and discovering what the differences are, for the record. :D
+ For Nyx/Two—what might have happened if the crew had come across the Seers in S1, and met Nyx then? Or if Nyx had never gotten away from them, and Rebecca had never gotten away from Dwarf Star—and then Rook had secured the Seers' services, and they'd met that way? Or give me something angsty where Nyx agreed to be Ryo's empress at the end of S2 (because she still loved him? Or just thought she did? Or for tactical reasons, and she's keeping in touch with Two?)—and then he still invites the crew to Zairon in S3! HOW MUCH DID TWO MISS HER? HOW MUCH DID THEY PINE? *chinhands*
+ For Three/Six—if either one of them had accidentally gotten re-imprinted during S1, or both of them (Varrick aware that he's GA and undercover! Boone unaware? Suspicious?), what might have happened, during or after (assuming it gets reversed)? If Six had been the one implanted with the goo alien in S2, or if he hadn't left the ship for that chunk of S3 (or had, but Three had stayed with him as grudging backup)? Or go way further: if Kal Varrick had taken a leave of absence instead of going undercover on the Raza in the first place—what other circumstances might lead to him encountering the crew anyway? Or if Marcus Boone had never left Tanner's gang to join up with Portia? :D
• Canon-Style Plot: This is a general one—basically I'd just love anything with any of these characters or any subgroup, set in any season, that captures some element of the show's drama/tropiness/affection for its characters and setting. :D Something a little more planet-of-the-week-y, set in S1, with Six and Three fighting about ethics; or a con job or search for more information about Dwarf Star/Reynaud/whatever else, set between episodes of S2, with Nyx and Two in charge (or in danger, or both!); or gesturing toward the increasing plottiness of S3, in the runup to the coup on Zairon or the aftermath, the GA or the goo-aliens. Or, of course, futurefic—if you're at all inclined to write a 5k chunk of what you imagined might happen in the S4 pilot we'll never get, by all means lay it on me! (Any kind of nod toward Two/Nyx or Six/Three is fine, even if you decide Six is a goner. ;D)
• Fix-it Fic: When it comes to fix-it for this fandom, I'm predictable—EVERYONE LIVES, PLEASE. /o\ Misaki doesn't manage to take Nyx down, for any reason you like (Nyx says yes to Four first, and then tells him trying to steal the blink drive at Eos-7 won't work, so he doesn't do it! Misaki doesn't land a blow that breaks Nyx's skin with the poisoned blade before the android arrives on the bridge! ANYTHING), and she's able to help with the retrieval of Two and Six, and/or around to affect the events of S3? YES PLEASE. The S3 finale didn't necessarily kill Six, but it could have—so tell me all about the future where he's just stuck in the goo-alien dimension, but Three starts seeing him (actual him, not an alien using his face) in goo-visions and realizes it, and the crew rescues him! A++ WOULD READ. And of course less drastic fix-its are totally welcome, too—Six not betraying the crew to the GA at the end of S1 qualifies, I would say, or Nyx being able to help secure the blink drive before going after Milo, so this time they succeed and the Seers can't catch them. Anything you want!
• Getting Together: There's no shipfic trope so cliché that I won't read it, just fyi—trapped in a confined space, accidental telepathy, meeting married selves from an alternate universe, just, seriously, go for it. :D But if you want a few more pairing-specific prompts:
+ For Nyx/Two—does Nyx ever see a split-second possibility of Two touching her, or kissing her? Let it happen, or let it pass (except then it happens again, and again)? Feel free to use Two's nanites to handwave that telepathy! Or let Two use them to heal Nyx before she's been dead too long, and let a connection linger? MAYBE THEY HAVE TO KEEP TOUCHING FOR A WHILE AFTERWARD OR IT WON'T WORK. :D (And it's a-okay with me to bring up Four/Nyx, by the way—I'd love something where Nyx opens up a little and deals with Four turning into Ryo by talking about it with Two, frex.)
+ And for Three/Six—their conflict in S2 was wonderful for me, I love love love everything about the idea of Three being pointy and prickly and holding a grudge BECAUSE HE WAS JUST SO HURT UNDERNEATH, and Six being, like, patient but not a doormat, knowing he needs to prove himself and ready to do it. ♥ So, yeah, if you want to just write me 5k where that trapped-in-the-shuttle episode ends a little more pornily, that would be amazing. :D But! I also love Three's propensity to get himself beaten up, and would love to see Six come to the rescue (or, of course, the other way around); or goo-alien-related hurt/comfort; or just the two of them arguing about morality and being reluctantly attracted to each other. ANYTHING.
• Worldbuilding: Another genre tag that's a little more general! ANYTHING you'd like to tell me about what it was/is like to be a Seer (what it was like on the ship, drugged to the gills, and what it's like now that that isn't happening anymore) through Nyx's POV, or what it's like to be constructed through Two's (did the nanite upgrade change things—can she feel them now, or even link to them like she linked to the ship's computer?) would be awesome. Or, naturally, the goo-aliens and additional visitations they make or insights into how they work, with Three! Or the political situation in the galaxy with the colonies and Pyr and Zairon, with Six and his attempts to sort things out. Do as much or as little worldbuilding as you want, seriously—but if you want to do a lot, I'M HERE FOR THAT. :D
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Normally I'm basically too scared of the MCU to request it, but I enjoyed both Ragnarok and Black Panther so much and they're so close to being standalones that I figured I might as well go for it! And, seriously, I enjoyed Ragnarok and Black Panther SO MUCH, so basically anything you'd like to write about Valkyrie, Nakia, or Okoye, together or separately, would be fantastic. :D Backstory adventures during Valkyrie's training, or trying to secure Hela? Nakia getting in trouble and saving people? Okoye and the Dora Milaje protecting T'Challa or T'Chaka from a plot to topple Wakanda?
Or! Tell me all about the AU where Valkyrie decides to break the Hulk out on her own because he's unhappy, or Nakia does take the herb and become the Black Panther when it looks like T'Challa's gone, or Okoye gives her a different answer and the Dora Milaje refuse to serve Killmonger from the start. I multiship and am totally opening to pairing fic with any of these women and a) each other or b) pretty much anybody else, and 5k of worldbuilding about Wakanda, Asgard, or anything else you're interested in would be fantastic!
I enjoy the MCU a lot and have seen basically all of the movies, so no need to worry about spoilers or references to events outside of Ragnarok or Black Panther—if you want to bring in the larger MCU, by all means feel free, and if you'd rather stick to just the parts that have to do with these particular characters, that's fine also. :D I'm flexible!
• Action/Adventure: Please tell me anything you like about any of these women on adventures! THERE ARE A LOT TO CHOOSE FROM, and I'm excited about any and all of them. :D
+ For Valkyrie, obviously there's plenty of potential for action and adventure in her backstory! With the Valkyries, both before and after Odin's change of heart and Hela's imprisonment, all the way through to her arrival on Sakaar (how did she get there? Did she acquire her ship before or after, and from whom?), and how she rose up through the ranks there until she had the Grandmaster's favor. Or! 5k of her POV on anything we did or didn't see in the movie would be great—as would 5k of post-canon about whatever trouble the Asgardians might get into on their way through the galaxy.
+ For Nakia, backstory's also kind of the first place my head goes—War Dog training! Other missions she's undertaken! Even childhood adventures growing up in Wakanda in the River Tribe would be fantastic. :D Or, of course, tell me more about the mission she was on when the movie started, before T'Challa interceded—or about that journey into the mountains looking for the Jabari Tribe, or her perspective through the movie's endgame. Or post-canon (plus or minus anything you want to imagine about Infinity War), because even if she has to cut back a bit on the spying as queen, I bet there's still plenty for her to do.
+ For Okoye, I mean, I'm sort of repeating myself, but I would love any story you want to give me about the Dora Milaje! Joining them, leading them, any trials Okoye had to undertake or challenges she had to surpass, plots against T'Chaka they had to foil or problems she had to deal with during CA:CW with T'Chaka dead and T'Challa off Black Panthering. Or the situation in the palace after Killmonger took the throne, any challenges from her own people that she had to deal with, and the conflict between agreeing with them and being sworn to serve the throne. Post-canon adventures sparked by Wakanda's increasingly-open borders! Anything!
• AU - Canon Divergence: *claps hands* I love canon-divergence AUs, and I'm sure there are plenty I haven't thought of, so by all means take these as just a starting point:
+ For Valkyrie, take this anywhere you want! If Thor and Bruce had been recaptured, would she have helped them try again or would she just sink back into apathy? If neither of them had ended up on Sakaar, would she still have left eventually and gone back to Asgard—only to find Hela on the throne? (I would love love love to see the AU where Heimdall saves her from Hela's soldiers and she ends up grudgingly helping the Asgardian resistance! JUST SO YOU KNOW.)
+ For Nakia, this takes a little wrangling, but if she'd ended up stranded outside Wakanda—she did sort of agree with some of Killmonger's stances in the abstract, so might a more isolated and more bitter Nakia have teamed up with him? (And then fallen for T'Challa anyway? :D) Or if she'd been a bit further afield on a War Dog mission and had stumbled across Erik then (before T'Chaka died, even), what would she have done? If she'd thought T'Challa really was dead, and/or he'd needed a lot more time to recover, might she have reached an arrangement with M'Baku and gone for the throne herself, having to fight for this thing she previously never wanted?
+ For Okoye—this is pretty angsty, oops, but what if she hadn't changed her mind during the final battle? If the Dora Milaje hadn't turned on Killmonger, could he have won, and if he had, what would his Wakanda look like? Where would Okoye end up drawing the line? Or tell me about the version of events where she gives Nakia a different answer from the start—or even challenges Killmonger herself once he's tossed T'Challa over the waterfall (maybe that's the one time a Dora Milaje might be allowed to do so?). :D
• Getting Together: I realize I'm not actually requesting any pairings as such, but I adore first-time/get-together fic a lot, and anything you want to tell me about these women falling in love is a thing I want to hear. :D So! If you have any interest in writing shipfic about any of them, individually or together, please rest assured I'd be delighted to read it. Valkyrie/Thor, Valkyrie/Bruce, Valkyrie/Heimdall, Valkyrie/Sif, Valkyrie/Her Unnamed Valkyrie Girlfriend Who Died—go wild! How Okoye and W'Kabi got together in the first place, or Okoye/Ramonda, Okoye/Killmonger, Okoye/M'Baku ... Okoye/Ross! Any headcanon you have about how Nakia/T'Challa first got together (or broke up—I LOVE ANGST AND PINING TOO) would be fantastic, but I'm also totally here for Nakia/Killmonger, Nakia/M'Baku, Nakia/Shuri, and of course Nakia/Okoye. And if you're at all interested in manipulating circumstances such that Valkyrie/Nakia, Valkyrie/Okoye, or Valkyrie/Nakia/Okoye is a possibility, YOU HAVE MY BLESSING 1000%. *______*
• Worldbuilding: Just two bullets here, since that's sort of how the worldbuilding possibilities divide themselves!
+ For Valkyrie, I mean, as much or as little as you want to tell me about the Valkyries as a group and how they functioned, your headcanon about how Asgard worked back then and what Odin was like, all the way through to day-to-day living on Sakaar and all the various species of aliens who pass through there—whatever part of that you might be interested in worldbuilding for, I'M THERE. :D
+ And for Nakia and Okoye, I will more than happily accept 5k about the War Dogs or Dora Milaje, how you join them and what they do, other members of each; or Wakanda itself, its political structures and divisions, its economy and technology and everything you can use vibranium for! One of my favorite things about Black Panther was the attention it paid to internal politics—and, I mean, compared to my deepest worldbuilding dreams it was lip service, but I LOVED that there was any mention at all of Killmonger needing the support of each of the represented tribes, and the balance they appear to have achieved (but with the potential upset of the Jabari always there, too). So 5k of, like, your thoughts on that dressed up in a fic suit would be AMAZING. Just FYI. :D
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New Star Trek! :D YAY. I actually only recently managed to catch myself up on the end of the season, but now I finally have and I can guarantee you that I'll be delighted with pretty much anything you'd like to write for me about it. :D Any new adventures or canon-style plot (like, planet-of-the-week rather than KLINGON WAR ARC, no worries) would be lovely. 5k of any sort of canon-divergence AU (Georgiou doesn't die? Tilly's the one who's a mutineer, or who crossed over from the mirrorverse instead of Lorca?) would be awesome, too, if you're so inclined!
Or tell me about these relationships, and take it any direction you'd like—angst or grief for Burnham over Georgiou, or backstory fic about their first meeting; friendship fic about Burnham and Tilly set during the show (♥) or AU or post-canon get-together; or anything from Mirror Georgiou being creepy and manipulative to 5k of the universe where she doesn't screw Michael over but doesn't know why (IT'S BECAUSE YOU LIKE HER, EMPEROR). Or tell me about more of any part of the Discovery universe that interests you—the tardigrade and its care and feeding, differences between the way Georgiou ran the Shenzhou and the way Lorca runs Discovery, the politics of the mirror universe. Whatever you want!
This show! I honestly had no idea what to expect from DIS, but I was excited for it anyway because STAR TREK :D \o/ and in the end I enjoyed it a lot. SO, anything you want to write about it for me is something I want to read!
• Action/Adventure: I mean, there's probably going to be some of this in any Canon-Style Plot fic for this show, too. But, for the record, I'd be delighted by any adventure, plus or minus some action, that you want to write about these characters!
+ For Michael & Georgiou, I'd love anything involving the adventures that must lie in their backstory together—previous missions they went on, when Michael was still adjusting to being around anybody who wasn't a Vulcan, and how their mentor/mentee relationship started to really bloom (presumably in adversity :D). Or, of course, anything you'd like to write that's centered around their relationship and digs into the events of the first couple episodes of the show (the last adventure they have together! ;-;).
+ For Michael & Tilly and/or Michael/Tilly, something set basically anywhere during the development of their friendship would be wonderful! Missing scenes or something set between episodes early in S1 when they're still getting used to each other (trapped on a planet together? A shipboard accident where they're isolated or injured and have to work together and take care of each other?), or later on and a little more entangled with the arc plot (mirror universe shenanigans we didn't see! An attack by the Klingons after the time jump!)—either way, I'm happy. :D
+ And for Michael/Mirror Georgiou, I would be delighted with any adventure that forces them to work together or rely on each other, in between or during or after the events of the show, in either universe. Before the swap back to the "regular" universe, is there some plot against the emperor that Michael realizes she needs to foil? Or if Mirror Georgiou had managed to escape from the Discovery after the switch, would Michael have insisted on going after her personally? :D (This doesn't have to end in resolved or established Michael/Mirror Georgiou, by the way—hinting at it or a little unexpected UST is more than enough for me!)
• AU - Canon Divergence: I enjoy canon-divergence AUs enormously, so no matter where it is you want to branch off of the show, I'M THERE.
+ For Michael & Georgiou, and saving the obvious request for the Fix-it Fic section—if Michael had ended up at the Vulcan Science Academy, could they still have met someday? Or if they'd met earlier, if the ship on which Georgiou had been a lieutenant had been the one to happen across Michael after that Klingon attack, how might Michael's life have been different?
+ For Michael & Tilly or Michael/Tilly, I'd love absolutely anything that changes their circumstances and still lets them be friends/girlfriends in the end. :D If Michael had gotten on the Discovery *waves hands* because science, I don't know, and Tilly had been the court-martialed one; or if their paths had crossed one way or another when Michael was younger, Sarek taking her on a diplomatic mission or something—feel free to handwave, I just love the idea of tiny serious Michael interacting with tiny bubbly-nervous Tilly! (And maybe that way when they met again on the Discovery, Tilly would be more willing to give Michael the benefit of the doubt? Or maybe they hated each other as kids, and Tilly's even more unhappy about rooming with Michael? :DAND THEN THE UST JUST MAKES IT ALL WORSE)
+ For Michael/Mirror Georgiou, I would absolutely love the story of what might happen if the swap back to the "regular" universe didn't work—or it did, but Michael got left behind with the emperor, and had to figure out how to secure her position and get home on her own. (Could she convince Mirror Georgiou to help her? Or would she have to keep her efforts a secret—or try, but Mirror Georgiou would find out anyway? Would she escape and make contact with whatever she can find of the rebellion instead?) Or, of course, the reverse: if Mirror Georgiou ended up staying on the Discovery longer, and/or not running off with the bomb for whatever reason—could she find a place there, and if she struggled to, would Michael be willing or able to help her?
• Canon-Style Plot: This is general enough that it's probably not helpful to split it up—just know that I'm here for any episode-like plot that revolves around Michael & Georgiou (I'm imagining this would most likely be pre-canon), Michael & Tilly or Michael/Tilly (set anywhere in S1, or post-canon with acting-captain Saru on the way to Vulcan?), or Michael/Mirror Georgiou (any way you want it, in the mirror universe or after—if Discovery runs across her again, and Michael's tracking her across some ice planet, and they don't trust each other at all but still have to huddle for warmth ... :D) And 5k of missing scenes from any episode are more than welcome, too, or episode tags, or anything along those lines!
• Fix-it Fic: The big obvious request here is KEEP GEORGIOU ALIVE, and if you're interested in exploring how that changes the course of the conflict with the Klingons and whether (mirror) Lorca still tries to track down Michael to take back with him ... or you just want to focus on how it happens and how it affects Michael personally, EITHER WAY, I'm there. :D You also should feel free to fix things for other characters (Culber lives! Tyler realizes what's going on with himself and manages to tell someone a little earlier!), with, say, some Michael & Tilly friendship moments or building Michael/Tilly in the background—or, of course, fix it from Mirror Georgiou's perspective, and let her succeed in killing Lorca and capturing Michael and just generally stabilizing her glorious empire. Whatever you like!
• Getting Together: So, two things here: a) I'm totally open to unrequested pairings being included if you'd like to (frex, a Michael & Tilly story with some Michael/Tyler going on in the background—or a Michael & Georgiou with some Michael/Saru UST happening, or whatever else you're interested in!). And then b) I'm open to pretty much any flavor of Michael/Tilly or Michael/Mirror Georgiou that you're interested in giving me! Any sort of tropey get-together for Michael and Tilly would be absolutely fantastic, whether you want to play around with their early antagonism/friction or set things a bit later with more of a friends-to-lovers feel—slow burn and pining or sex pollen and intensity, transporter accident bodyswap or Tilly doing her sincere best to help Michael work through her feelings about Tyler's departure (and realizing partway through that she's having some feelings of her own! OOPS) ... You really can't go wrong.
AND THEN. I'm here for Mirror Georgiou being menacing and weird and emotionally manipulative, OR 5k of Mirror Georgiou starting to inch closer to actual sincere affection for Michael (which baffles her) while Michael is trying not to be weird about her and failing, and also getting to know her in all the ways she's different from "regular" Georgiou. But please don't feel like "getting together" automatically = fluff (for either pairing, actually), and you don't have to conclude with anything more than some unnerving UST if you don't want to! Anything from "five times Mirror Georgiou could have stabbed Michael in the back but didn't" to, like, Michael's best way to survive in the mirrorverse turns out to be marrying the emperor, leading to the beginnings of fraught slow-burn, would be fantastic!
• Worldbuilding: I'm just going to split this up into a bullet per setting, but:
+ For Michael & Georgiou, Michael & Tilly, or Michael/Tilly, I'd be delighted with anything that expands a little more on the main universe—and feel free to bring in or reference anything from TOS that you like or want to work in, or just stick to making up stuff that works with DIS alone, by the way. :D Turns out I really love getting to see the Federation at a point where its principles aren't quite as firmly established and it's a little more vulnerable to shady decision-making and iffy choices than in, say, TNG; feel free to expand on that or poke at it, tell me what it means for the worlds under Federation control—or dive into what happened during that nine-month timeskip! Or, of course, the aftermath of the war (do the Klingons just surrender everything they'd taken? What's the recovery process like?), in as much or as little detail as you want.
+ And for Michael/Mirror Georgiou, feel free to use any framework you'd like that involves them as an excuse to tell me more about the mirrorverse! I very much enjoy fictional court intrigue and people plotting against each other, politic maneuvering and managing the interests of competing factions and all that kind of stuff—so if you like it too, please indulge yourself. :D Or, of course, anything about the history of the mirrorverse, or made-up science about getting to and from it, or how they developed their mycelial drive; or the history of the rebellion movement instead, how it started and its struggles. Seriously, ANYTHING.
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I really, really hope you aren't reading this paragraph because you actually staggered through that entire thing, but if you did, please let me take the opportunity to apologize. /o\ :D I hope this letter was useful and not just excruciating, and that you enjoy this exchange and receive a wonderful gift yourself! ♥
If you're interested in my ridiculous and excessive >5k feelings about these fandoms, then here you are. :D Someday I'll start posting properly again, but until then you can find me on the AO3 as Damkianna, and you can look back on how well I used the free time I once had on LJ/DW at
damkianna/damkianna and on Tumblr at Past letters are in my Yuletide tag, my rarewomen/rarelywritten tag, and my fandom5k tag—if there's a prompt in any of those for one of these fandoms that strikes your fancy, feel free to roll with it even if I don't actually repeat that prompt this time around!
In General
If you really don't want to read this whole thing but are still hoping there's something in it that might be useful, here's the takeaway: I meant the intro 100%. Whatever you're interested in telling stories about, and through whatever means—character studies or adventure shenanigans, high-fantasy AUs or soulbonding, trauma or angst or character death—I can promise you in advance you are FULLY AUTHORIZED to give it to me. :D For this particular exchange, I'm going to make suggestions based on the genre tags, because anything that lets me subdivide my tl;dr is probably a good idea. But as far as I'm concerned, the tags (and my prompts, for that matter) are only suggestions! Please don't feel like you can't include some horror or humor when I haven't requested those tags, or like 5k of pining isn't okay because it's not technically a Getting Together fic, or anything like that.
And broadly speaking, please rest assured that I enjoy and would be totally delighted to receive any/all/any combination of:
• shipfic! I absolutely multiship in most of my fandoms, and I'm interested in all kinds of pairings—I adore every one of the romantic combinations I've requested, and would be over the moon to get 5k about any of them. :D (And that includes having them hinted at, or in a single scene with a vague gesture toward some UST, or implied somewhere in the background! Any degree of shippy content will satisfy me, no worries.)
• gen! Anything you want to write about any of my requested characters individually or any requested platonic combinations is more than welcome—introspection! Pre-canon! Post-canon! Episode tags or missing scenes! Ensemble adventures with FRIENDSHIP. \o/
• free space! Which I intend to mean anything that all my nattering + my choice of genre tags may have left off your metaphorical bingo square. Your favorite trope (or your least-favorite, subverted!), the ridiculous iddy idea that didn't quite fit your last exchange recip's request, anything unusual or weird that you've always wanted to try—5k of second person, or future imperfect, or epistolary excerpts! Post-apocalyptic marriage-of-convenience zombie-fighting AU! ANYTHING.
Thoughtful fic, action-centric fic, five things that add up to 5k; pre-canon backstory, a chain of missing scenes, post-canon continuing adventures; OCs, worldbuilding, fix-its or Bad Endings or alternate perspectives! I am here for 5k of whatever it is you want most to write about any of these characters or pairings. ♥
Babylon 5
Delenn, Susan Ivanova
Action/Adventure, AU - Canon Divergence, Canon-Style Plot, Fix-it Fic, Getting Together, Worldbuilding
Basically anything you'd like to write about either or both of these characters will have my attention, believe you me! Any sort of adventure or canon-style shenanigans (serious and plotty, or just the little mundane day-to-day trials and tribulations of life on B5) would be fantastic, whether it's Delenn and internal Minbari politics, Susan trying to accommodate a particularly unusual species' needs, or five conversations the two of them had (plus one they didn't?).
Or tell me about any other possibilities that interest you! What if Delenn had been warrior-caste or worker-caste, instead of religious-caste? What if Susan had been just a little stronger in psi terms and had ended up in the Corps instead of the military? If you're at all inclined to write Delenn/Susan, feel free—but if you've only offered one of them, I'm here for get-together fics with either and any other character you ship them with, by all means. :D (There are never too many Susan/Talia fix-its; but I'd be just as thrilled to receive gen fix-it about the assassination of Santiago failing, or Dukhat recovering instead of dying! GO WILD.)
This show! I have fond memories of rewatching this on VHS tapes back in the day (/so old), and my DVD box set is now a prized possession. :D ♥ I love the plottiness and philosophical depth and thoughtfulness—but also the humor and friendship and all the little character moments. So whatever element of B5 you like best and want to focus on (the danger! the badassery! the politics! the everyday work of keeping a station running—or the ANCIENT UNKNOWABLE DARKNESS at the edges of the universe!), I'm so there for it. *chinhands*
• Action/Adventure: This and Canon-Style Plot can mean almost the same thing, really, depending on which episodes you've got in mind, but:
+ For Delenn, I'd love any sort of adventure set at basically any point in her life! Backstory, any sort of challenge or trial she might have had to undergo as training (and some kind of spiritual experience definitely counts as adventure here, in my eyes), or (if you want to incorporate movie canon, that is) the lead-up to that attempted peace accord? Absolutely anything set during the show from her POV, from the Shadow War to the Minbari or Earth Alliance civil wars—or anything post-show about the ISA, for that matter!
+ For Susan, same goes! Backstory about her early days in the military or during the Earth-Minbari War, training exercises gone wrong or rescue/covert missions she participated in. Or anything during the show, ofc, defending the station or dealing with the Psi Corps sniffing around, Homeguard bullshit or X-wing patrols going after raiders—or post-canon, on the EAS Titan or as Ranger One! ANYTHING. :D
• AU - Canon Divergence: I absolutely love fork-in-the-road AUs, and I'm interested in anything you want to tell me about one. :D
+ For Delenn, there are all kinds of critical moments and pivotal decisions where things could diverge, and I'd be delighted to read about any of them. If she'd never become Dukhat's aide, or if she'd been warrior-caste during the war (and captured Sinclair? Or Sheridan? ... Or Ivanova? :D); if she had decided it was her duty to lead the Council, prophecy or no prophecy, and had done so instead of undergoing her transformation (could she have stopped the Minbari civil war? Or would it have happened, but differently?). If she hadn't realized who Mr. Morden was working for before speaking to him—TELL ME HOW AWFUL IT ALL COULD HAVE GOTTEN. (Or, of course, tell me about the world where she manages to have him removed from the station before he can even speak to Londo!)
+ For Susan, I mean, take your pick—if her mother had managed to evade the Psi Corps, had fled to Mars or something, would she still have ended up on B5 somehow or other? If she had been the sleeper agent instead of Talia, how might things have played out—could she have broken the control of the sleeper personality, with Talia's help? If she'd gone undercover with Nightwatch when the offer to join was made to her, or had ended up in command of B5 after Sinclair time-traveled, or Minbar had won the Earth-Minbari war, or or or ... tell me about it!
• Canon-Style Plot: This is a more general category, so I won't bother breaking out separate sets of prompts for each of them, and instead I'll just say: as I mentioned in my signup, I love the whole range of canon-style plots available for both of these characters, from unexpected rent charges and Green and Purple Drazi to Delenn stepping into the Wheel and Susan nearly dying for her chosen cause. So! Pretty much anything you're interested in writing about either or both of them and their lives on the station would be a wonderful gift. Diplomatic shenanigans with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds? Ivanova actually does have a secret admirer? Delenn has to kick somebody's ass with a White Star? Ivanova saves the day in a Star Fury? GO WILD.
• Fix-it Fic: And this is, too, because honestly most fix-its for either one of them are fix-its for both of them, at least where the state of the galaxy is concerned. :D If you're interested in writing a pairing-related fix-it (Delenn time-travels with Sinclair! What happens to Talia is fixable! Marcus doesn't die!), that is more than okay, but I promise I'd be equally delighted with gen versions of any of those, or any fix-it for the wider universe of B5 that involves either or both of these characters. What if Clark's plot against Santiago had been foiled—or Marie Crane had won the election instead in the first place? Or if Clark had just had a heart attack or something, dammit—could the other factors building toward an Earth Alliance conflict have been turned aside?
• Getting Together: I just tossed this on the pile in case you happen to decide you want to write shipfic about Delenn or Susan—I realize this exchange does "OR" matching and I'm more than happy with gen. But! Any of your personal favorite shipfic tropes would also be totally welcome—sex pollen, accidental telepathic bonding, marriage of convenience, there is nothing too cliché for me. :D And this goes for any ship you happen to ship, Delenn/anybody (Sinclair! Sheridan! Lennier! Lyta!) or Susan/anybody (Talia! Marcus! Neroon! GARIBALDI) or Delenn/Susan. YOU HAVE OPTIONS, is where I'm going with this. :D
• Worldbuilding: Also a general one! I'll be happy with any degree of worldbuilding you want to do or include, from fake documentation or excerpts from in-universe "nonfiction" to just a little extra detail about a species joining the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, or filling in some blanks about Minbar in the course of writing backstory about Delenn. Anything! (And feel free to pull from the movies/novels/whatever other sources there may be, if you want to—if you're unfamiliar with them, no need! Either is fine with me. :D) I love the universe of B5 a lot and am interested in basically every part of it, so anything you want to explore further—or make up out of whole cloth, for that matter—would be fantastic!
Dark Matter (TV)
Nyx Harper/Two | Portia Lin, Three | Marcus Boone/Six | Griffin Jones
Action/Adventure, AU - Canon Divergence, Canon-Style Plot, Fix-it Fic, Getting Together, Worldbuilding
There's basically no way you can go wrong with this combination of characters, just for the record! A canon-style plot or any sort of adventure or AU with either or both of these pairings hinted at in the background would be wonderful—a planet-of-the-week job set somewhere in S1, or finding someone to sell that Shadow to in S2, or facing up against a black blob-alien again before the S3 finale.
But of course you should also feel free to write straight-up shipfic, and/or branch off from canon wherever you want to (what if the crew had come across Nyx and the Seers in S1, or Six had decided not to give them up to the GA?), or keep Nyx or Six (or both!) definitely alive as a fix-it and tell me what happens (might Nyx have had a vision about what was happening with Two in the S3 finale, and manage to get in touch with Six?). Any trope you enjoy would be fantastic as a get-together for either of these pairings (fuckbuddies who are both definitely not having feelings about each other! pretending to be married! huddling for warmth!), and 5k of worldbuilding about the ship, the political situation in the galaxy at any point, or the exact nature of the goo-aliens would be more than welcome!
I grew to adore this show over time, and now that it's canceled I'm going to miss it SO MUCH. /o\ BUT WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE FANDOM. Please rest assured that I love how complicated everything is and how bad it gets, how quickly things seem to fall apart on people—but also the found family elements, how the crew learns to care about each other and ends up trying to take care of the galaxy sort of despite themselves, and all the little humorous moments baked in there. So you won't be able to write me something so depressing I won't love it, AND you won't be able to write me something so silly I won't love it. :D Just so you know!
• Action/Adventure: Almost the same thing as Canon-Style Plot, in some ways—but I'm totally open to anything where you really want to focus on the action and adventure aspects. :D
+ For Nyx/Two, go wild! Nyx getting retaken by the Seers and Two kicking ass to rescue her, or Two getting retaken by Alex Rook and Nyx kicking ass to rescue her, would be fantastic. As would any other adventure-y trope you happen to be interested in—the show's already sort of had zombies and time loops and alternate universes, but as far as I'm concerned there are never too many of any of those. :D (And seriously, UST or ship-if-you-squint is more than okay; you don't need to come up with an adventure AND set up and resolve a shipfic arc if that's not where your inspiration takes you!)
+ For Three/Six, I mean, set this in any season you like—I'm as interested in Three and a Six who thinks he used to be Griffin Jones, and/or just found out about Kal Varrick and his GA connection as I am in S2 Six trying to earn back Three's trust, or an S3 Three who's struggling with goo-possession flashbacks! Trap them on a planet together, force them to rescue each other, get them arrested by the GA—ANYTHING. :D (And, as above, this doesn't have to end in resolved Three/Six by any means; a sprinkling of tension or a hint that somebody's feeling more than they're willing to say would be absolutely wonderful!)
• AU - Canon Divergence: I'm equally interested in AUs that are canon divergence start to finish, and characters taking trips to AUniverses and discovering what the differences are, for the record. :D
+ For Nyx/Two—what might have happened if the crew had come across the Seers in S1, and met Nyx then? Or if Nyx had never gotten away from them, and Rebecca had never gotten away from Dwarf Star—and then Rook had secured the Seers' services, and they'd met that way? Or give me something angsty where Nyx agreed to be Ryo's empress at the end of S2 (because she still loved him? Or just thought she did? Or for tactical reasons, and she's keeping in touch with Two?)—and then he still invites the crew to Zairon in S3! HOW MUCH DID TWO MISS HER? HOW MUCH DID THEY PINE? *chinhands*
+ For Three/Six—if either one of them had accidentally gotten re-imprinted during S1, or both of them (Varrick aware that he's GA and undercover! Boone unaware? Suspicious?), what might have happened, during or after (assuming it gets reversed)? If Six had been the one implanted with the goo alien in S2, or if he hadn't left the ship for that chunk of S3 (or had, but Three had stayed with him as grudging backup)? Or go way further: if Kal Varrick had taken a leave of absence instead of going undercover on the Raza in the first place—what other circumstances might lead to him encountering the crew anyway? Or if Marcus Boone had never left Tanner's gang to join up with Portia? :D
• Canon-Style Plot: This is a general one—basically I'd just love anything with any of these characters or any subgroup, set in any season, that captures some element of the show's drama/tropiness/affection for its characters and setting. :D Something a little more planet-of-the-week-y, set in S1, with Six and Three fighting about ethics; or a con job or search for more information about Dwarf Star/Reynaud/whatever else, set between episodes of S2, with Nyx and Two in charge (or in danger, or both!); or gesturing toward the increasing plottiness of S3, in the runup to the coup on Zairon or the aftermath, the GA or the goo-aliens. Or, of course, futurefic—if you're at all inclined to write a 5k chunk of what you imagined might happen in the S4 pilot we'll never get, by all means lay it on me! (Any kind of nod toward Two/Nyx or Six/Three is fine, even if you decide Six is a goner. ;D)
• Fix-it Fic: When it comes to fix-it for this fandom, I'm predictable—EVERYONE LIVES, PLEASE. /o\ Misaki doesn't manage to take Nyx down, for any reason you like (Nyx says yes to Four first, and then tells him trying to steal the blink drive at Eos-7 won't work, so he doesn't do it! Misaki doesn't land a blow that breaks Nyx's skin with the poisoned blade before the android arrives on the bridge! ANYTHING), and she's able to help with the retrieval of Two and Six, and/or around to affect the events of S3? YES PLEASE. The S3 finale didn't necessarily kill Six, but it could have—so tell me all about the future where he's just stuck in the goo-alien dimension, but Three starts seeing him (actual him, not an alien using his face) in goo-visions and realizes it, and the crew rescues him! A++ WOULD READ. And of course less drastic fix-its are totally welcome, too—Six not betraying the crew to the GA at the end of S1 qualifies, I would say, or Nyx being able to help secure the blink drive before going after Milo, so this time they succeed and the Seers can't catch them. Anything you want!
• Getting Together: There's no shipfic trope so cliché that I won't read it, just fyi—trapped in a confined space, accidental telepathy, meeting married selves from an alternate universe, just, seriously, go for it. :D But if you want a few more pairing-specific prompts:
+ For Nyx/Two—does Nyx ever see a split-second possibility of Two touching her, or kissing her? Let it happen, or let it pass (except then it happens again, and again)? Feel free to use Two's nanites to handwave that telepathy! Or let Two use them to heal Nyx before she's been dead too long, and let a connection linger? MAYBE THEY HAVE TO KEEP TOUCHING FOR A WHILE AFTERWARD OR IT WON'T WORK. :D (And it's a-okay with me to bring up Four/Nyx, by the way—I'd love something where Nyx opens up a little and deals with Four turning into Ryo by talking about it with Two, frex.)
+ And for Three/Six—their conflict in S2 was wonderful for me, I love love love everything about the idea of Three being pointy and prickly and holding a grudge BECAUSE HE WAS JUST SO HURT UNDERNEATH, and Six being, like, patient but not a doormat, knowing he needs to prove himself and ready to do it. ♥ So, yeah, if you want to just write me 5k where that trapped-in-the-shuttle episode ends a little more pornily, that would be amazing. :D But! I also love Three's propensity to get himself beaten up, and would love to see Six come to the rescue (or, of course, the other way around); or goo-alien-related hurt/comfort; or just the two of them arguing about morality and being reluctantly attracted to each other. ANYTHING.
• Worldbuilding: Another genre tag that's a little more general! ANYTHING you'd like to tell me about what it was/is like to be a Seer (what it was like on the ship, drugged to the gills, and what it's like now that that isn't happening anymore) through Nyx's POV, or what it's like to be constructed through Two's (did the nanite upgrade change things—can she feel them now, or even link to them like she linked to the ship's computer?) would be awesome. Or, naturally, the goo-aliens and additional visitations they make or insights into how they work, with Three! Or the political situation in the galaxy with the colonies and Pyr and Zairon, with Six and his attempts to sort things out. Do as much or as little worldbuilding as you want, seriously—but if you want to do a lot, I'M HERE FOR THAT. :D
Marvel Cinematic Universe
Brunnhilde | Valkyrie, Nakia, Okoye
Action/Adventure, AU - Canon Divergence, Getting Together, Worldbuilding
Normally I'm basically too scared of the MCU to request it, but I enjoyed both Ragnarok and Black Panther so much and they're so close to being standalones that I figured I might as well go for it! And, seriously, I enjoyed Ragnarok and Black Panther SO MUCH, so basically anything you'd like to write about Valkyrie, Nakia, or Okoye, together or separately, would be fantastic. :D Backstory adventures during Valkyrie's training, or trying to secure Hela? Nakia getting in trouble and saving people? Okoye and the Dora Milaje protecting T'Challa or T'Chaka from a plot to topple Wakanda?
Or! Tell me all about the AU where Valkyrie decides to break the Hulk out on her own because he's unhappy, or Nakia does take the herb and become the Black Panther when it looks like T'Challa's gone, or Okoye gives her a different answer and the Dora Milaje refuse to serve Killmonger from the start. I multiship and am totally opening to pairing fic with any of these women and a) each other or b) pretty much anybody else, and 5k of worldbuilding about Wakanda, Asgard, or anything else you're interested in would be fantastic!
I enjoy the MCU a lot and have seen basically all of the movies, so no need to worry about spoilers or references to events outside of Ragnarok or Black Panther—if you want to bring in the larger MCU, by all means feel free, and if you'd rather stick to just the parts that have to do with these particular characters, that's fine also. :D I'm flexible!
• Action/Adventure: Please tell me anything you like about any of these women on adventures! THERE ARE A LOT TO CHOOSE FROM, and I'm excited about any and all of them. :D
+ For Valkyrie, obviously there's plenty of potential for action and adventure in her backstory! With the Valkyries, both before and after Odin's change of heart and Hela's imprisonment, all the way through to her arrival on Sakaar (how did she get there? Did she acquire her ship before or after, and from whom?), and how she rose up through the ranks there until she had the Grandmaster's favor. Or! 5k of her POV on anything we did or didn't see in the movie would be great—as would 5k of post-canon about whatever trouble the Asgardians might get into on their way through the galaxy.
+ For Nakia, backstory's also kind of the first place my head goes—War Dog training! Other missions she's undertaken! Even childhood adventures growing up in Wakanda in the River Tribe would be fantastic. :D Or, of course, tell me more about the mission she was on when the movie started, before T'Challa interceded—or about that journey into the mountains looking for the Jabari Tribe, or her perspective through the movie's endgame. Or post-canon (plus or minus anything you want to imagine about Infinity War), because even if she has to cut back a bit on the spying as queen, I bet there's still plenty for her to do.
+ For Okoye, I mean, I'm sort of repeating myself, but I would love any story you want to give me about the Dora Milaje! Joining them, leading them, any trials Okoye had to undertake or challenges she had to surpass, plots against T'Chaka they had to foil or problems she had to deal with during CA:CW with T'Chaka dead and T'Challa off Black Panthering. Or the situation in the palace after Killmonger took the throne, any challenges from her own people that she had to deal with, and the conflict between agreeing with them and being sworn to serve the throne. Post-canon adventures sparked by Wakanda's increasingly-open borders! Anything!
• AU - Canon Divergence: *claps hands* I love canon-divergence AUs, and I'm sure there are plenty I haven't thought of, so by all means take these as just a starting point:
+ For Valkyrie, take this anywhere you want! If Thor and Bruce had been recaptured, would she have helped them try again or would she just sink back into apathy? If neither of them had ended up on Sakaar, would she still have left eventually and gone back to Asgard—only to find Hela on the throne? (I would love love love to see the AU where Heimdall saves her from Hela's soldiers and she ends up grudgingly helping the Asgardian resistance! JUST SO YOU KNOW.)
+ For Nakia, this takes a little wrangling, but if she'd ended up stranded outside Wakanda—she did sort of agree with some of Killmonger's stances in the abstract, so might a more isolated and more bitter Nakia have teamed up with him? (And then fallen for T'Challa anyway? :D) Or if she'd been a bit further afield on a War Dog mission and had stumbled across Erik then (before T'Chaka died, even), what would she have done? If she'd thought T'Challa really was dead, and/or he'd needed a lot more time to recover, might she have reached an arrangement with M'Baku and gone for the throne herself, having to fight for this thing she previously never wanted?
+ For Okoye—this is pretty angsty, oops, but what if she hadn't changed her mind during the final battle? If the Dora Milaje hadn't turned on Killmonger, could he have won, and if he had, what would his Wakanda look like? Where would Okoye end up drawing the line? Or tell me about the version of events where she gives Nakia a different answer from the start—or even challenges Killmonger herself once he's tossed T'Challa over the waterfall (maybe that's the one time a Dora Milaje might be allowed to do so?). :D
• Getting Together: I realize I'm not actually requesting any pairings as such, but I adore first-time/get-together fic a lot, and anything you want to tell me about these women falling in love is a thing I want to hear. :D So! If you have any interest in writing shipfic about any of them, individually or together, please rest assured I'd be delighted to read it. Valkyrie/Thor, Valkyrie/Bruce, Valkyrie/Heimdall, Valkyrie/Sif, Valkyrie/Her Unnamed Valkyrie Girlfriend Who Died—go wild! How Okoye and W'Kabi got together in the first place, or Okoye/Ramonda, Okoye/Killmonger, Okoye/M'Baku ... Okoye/Ross! Any headcanon you have about how Nakia/T'Challa first got together (or broke up—I LOVE ANGST AND PINING TOO) would be fantastic, but I'm also totally here for Nakia/Killmonger, Nakia/M'Baku, Nakia/Shuri, and of course Nakia/Okoye. And if you're at all interested in manipulating circumstances such that Valkyrie/Nakia, Valkyrie/Okoye, or Valkyrie/Nakia/Okoye is a possibility, YOU HAVE MY BLESSING 1000%. *______*
• Worldbuilding: Just two bullets here, since that's sort of how the worldbuilding possibilities divide themselves!
+ For Valkyrie, I mean, as much or as little as you want to tell me about the Valkyries as a group and how they functioned, your headcanon about how Asgard worked back then and what Odin was like, all the way through to day-to-day living on Sakaar and all the various species of aliens who pass through there—whatever part of that you might be interested in worldbuilding for, I'M THERE. :D
+ And for Nakia and Okoye, I will more than happily accept 5k about the War Dogs or Dora Milaje, how you join them and what they do, other members of each; or Wakanda itself, its political structures and divisions, its economy and technology and everything you can use vibranium for! One of my favorite things about Black Panther was the attention it paid to internal politics—and, I mean, compared to my deepest worldbuilding dreams it was lip service, but I LOVED that there was any mention at all of Killmonger needing the support of each of the represented tribes, and the balance they appear to have achieved (but with the potential upset of the Jabari always there, too). So 5k of, like, your thoughts on that dressed up in a fic suit would be AMAZING. Just FYI. :D
Star Trek: Discovery
Michael Burnham & Philippa Georgiou, Michael Burnham & Sylvia Tilly, Michael Burnham/Sylvia Tilly, Michael Burnham/Mirror Philippa Georgiou
Action/Adventure, AU - Canon Divergence, Canon-Style Plot, Fix-it Fic, Getting Together, Worldbuilding
New Star Trek! :D YAY. I actually only recently managed to catch myself up on the end of the season, but now I finally have and I can guarantee you that I'll be delighted with pretty much anything you'd like to write for me about it. :D Any new adventures or canon-style plot (like, planet-of-the-week rather than KLINGON WAR ARC, no worries) would be lovely. 5k of any sort of canon-divergence AU (Georgiou doesn't die? Tilly's the one who's a mutineer, or who crossed over from the mirrorverse instead of Lorca?) would be awesome, too, if you're so inclined!
Or tell me about these relationships, and take it any direction you'd like—angst or grief for Burnham over Georgiou, or backstory fic about their first meeting; friendship fic about Burnham and Tilly set during the show (♥) or AU or post-canon get-together; or anything from Mirror Georgiou being creepy and manipulative to 5k of the universe where she doesn't screw Michael over but doesn't know why (IT'S BECAUSE YOU LIKE HER, EMPEROR). Or tell me about more of any part of the Discovery universe that interests you—the tardigrade and its care and feeding, differences between the way Georgiou ran the Shenzhou and the way Lorca runs Discovery, the politics of the mirror universe. Whatever you want!
This show! I honestly had no idea what to expect from DIS, but I was excited for it anyway because STAR TREK :D \o/ and in the end I enjoyed it a lot. SO, anything you want to write about it for me is something I want to read!
• Action/Adventure: I mean, there's probably going to be some of this in any Canon-Style Plot fic for this show, too. But, for the record, I'd be delighted by any adventure, plus or minus some action, that you want to write about these characters!
+ For Michael & Georgiou, I'd love anything involving the adventures that must lie in their backstory together—previous missions they went on, when Michael was still adjusting to being around anybody who wasn't a Vulcan, and how their mentor/mentee relationship started to really bloom (presumably in adversity :D). Or, of course, anything you'd like to write that's centered around their relationship and digs into the events of the first couple episodes of the show (the last adventure they have together! ;-;).
+ For Michael & Tilly and/or Michael/Tilly, something set basically anywhere during the development of their friendship would be wonderful! Missing scenes or something set between episodes early in S1 when they're still getting used to each other (trapped on a planet together? A shipboard accident where they're isolated or injured and have to work together and take care of each other?), or later on and a little more entangled with the arc plot (mirror universe shenanigans we didn't see! An attack by the Klingons after the time jump!)—either way, I'm happy. :D
+ And for Michael/Mirror Georgiou, I would be delighted with any adventure that forces them to work together or rely on each other, in between or during or after the events of the show, in either universe. Before the swap back to the "regular" universe, is there some plot against the emperor that Michael realizes she needs to foil? Or if Mirror Georgiou had managed to escape from the Discovery after the switch, would Michael have insisted on going after her personally? :D (This doesn't have to end in resolved or established Michael/Mirror Georgiou, by the way—hinting at it or a little unexpected UST is more than enough for me!)
• AU - Canon Divergence: I enjoy canon-divergence AUs enormously, so no matter where it is you want to branch off of the show, I'M THERE.
+ For Michael & Georgiou, and saving the obvious request for the Fix-it Fic section—if Michael had ended up at the Vulcan Science Academy, could they still have met someday? Or if they'd met earlier, if the ship on which Georgiou had been a lieutenant had been the one to happen across Michael after that Klingon attack, how might Michael's life have been different?
+ For Michael & Tilly or Michael/Tilly, I'd love absolutely anything that changes their circumstances and still lets them be friends/girlfriends in the end. :D If Michael had gotten on the Discovery *waves hands* because science, I don't know, and Tilly had been the court-martialed one; or if their paths had crossed one way or another when Michael was younger, Sarek taking her on a diplomatic mission or something—feel free to handwave, I just love the idea of tiny serious Michael interacting with tiny bubbly-nervous Tilly! (And maybe that way when they met again on the Discovery, Tilly would be more willing to give Michael the benefit of the doubt? Or maybe they hated each other as kids, and Tilly's even more unhappy about rooming with Michael? :D
+ For Michael/Mirror Georgiou, I would absolutely love the story of what might happen if the swap back to the "regular" universe didn't work—or it did, but Michael got left behind with the emperor, and had to figure out how to secure her position and get home on her own. (Could she convince Mirror Georgiou to help her? Or would she have to keep her efforts a secret—or try, but Mirror Georgiou would find out anyway? Would she escape and make contact with whatever she can find of the rebellion instead?) Or, of course, the reverse: if Mirror Georgiou ended up staying on the Discovery longer, and/or not running off with the bomb for whatever reason—could she find a place there, and if she struggled to, would Michael be willing or able to help her?
• Canon-Style Plot: This is general enough that it's probably not helpful to split it up—just know that I'm here for any episode-like plot that revolves around Michael & Georgiou (I'm imagining this would most likely be pre-canon), Michael & Tilly or Michael/Tilly (set anywhere in S1, or post-canon with acting-captain Saru on the way to Vulcan?), or Michael/Mirror Georgiou (any way you want it, in the mirror universe or after—if Discovery runs across her again, and Michael's tracking her across some ice planet, and they don't trust each other at all but still have to huddle for warmth ... :D) And 5k of missing scenes from any episode are more than welcome, too, or episode tags, or anything along those lines!
• Fix-it Fic: The big obvious request here is KEEP GEORGIOU ALIVE, and if you're interested in exploring how that changes the course of the conflict with the Klingons and whether (mirror) Lorca still tries to track down Michael to take back with him ... or you just want to focus on how it happens and how it affects Michael personally, EITHER WAY, I'm there. :D You also should feel free to fix things for other characters (Culber lives! Tyler realizes what's going on with himself and manages to tell someone a little earlier!), with, say, some Michael & Tilly friendship moments or building Michael/Tilly in the background—or, of course, fix it from Mirror Georgiou's perspective, and let her succeed in killing Lorca and capturing Michael and just generally stabilizing her glorious empire. Whatever you like!
• Getting Together: So, two things here: a) I'm totally open to unrequested pairings being included if you'd like to (frex, a Michael & Tilly story with some Michael/Tyler going on in the background—or a Michael & Georgiou with some Michael/Saru UST happening, or whatever else you're interested in!). And then b) I'm open to pretty much any flavor of Michael/Tilly or Michael/Mirror Georgiou that you're interested in giving me! Any sort of tropey get-together for Michael and Tilly would be absolutely fantastic, whether you want to play around with their early antagonism/friction or set things a bit later with more of a friends-to-lovers feel—slow burn and pining or sex pollen and intensity, transporter accident bodyswap or Tilly doing her sincere best to help Michael work through her feelings about Tyler's departure (and realizing partway through that she's having some feelings of her own! OOPS) ... You really can't go wrong.
AND THEN. I'm here for Mirror Georgiou being menacing and weird and emotionally manipulative, OR 5k of Mirror Georgiou starting to inch closer to actual sincere affection for Michael (which baffles her) while Michael is trying not to be weird about her and failing, and also getting to know her in all the ways she's different from "regular" Georgiou. But please don't feel like "getting together" automatically = fluff (for either pairing, actually), and you don't have to conclude with anything more than some unnerving UST if you don't want to! Anything from "five times Mirror Georgiou could have stabbed Michael in the back but didn't" to, like, Michael's best way to survive in the mirrorverse turns out to be marrying the emperor, leading to the beginnings of fraught slow-burn, would be fantastic!
• Worldbuilding: I'm just going to split this up into a bullet per setting, but:
+ For Michael & Georgiou, Michael & Tilly, or Michael/Tilly, I'd be delighted with anything that expands a little more on the main universe—and feel free to bring in or reference anything from TOS that you like or want to work in, or just stick to making up stuff that works with DIS alone, by the way. :D Turns out I really love getting to see the Federation at a point where its principles aren't quite as firmly established and it's a little more vulnerable to shady decision-making and iffy choices than in, say, TNG; feel free to expand on that or poke at it, tell me what it means for the worlds under Federation control—or dive into what happened during that nine-month timeskip! Or, of course, the aftermath of the war (do the Klingons just surrender everything they'd taken? What's the recovery process like?), in as much or as little detail as you want.
+ And for Michael/Mirror Georgiou, feel free to use any framework you'd like that involves them as an excuse to tell me more about the mirrorverse! I very much enjoy fictional court intrigue and people plotting against each other, politic maneuvering and managing the interests of competing factions and all that kind of stuff—so if you like it too, please indulge yourself. :D Or, of course, anything about the history of the mirrorverse, or made-up science about getting to and from it, or how they developed their mycelial drive; or the history of the rebellion movement instead, how it started and its struggles. Seriously, ANYTHING.
I really, really hope you aren't reading this paragraph because you actually staggered through that entire thing, but if you did, please let me take the opportunity to apologize. /o\ :D I hope this letter was useful and not just excruciating, and that you enjoy this exchange and receive a wonderful gift yourself! ♥
