Yuletide Letter 2018
Oct. 10th, 2018 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_kings_scribeDear Yuletide Writer,
Thank you for writing for me! I’m The_Kings_Scribe on AO3.
Likes: I like gen, het and slash, any rating. No POV preferences. I like found families, competence kink, loyalty kink, history, hurt/comfort, and humour. And lots more things, but for the life of me I can’t name any more, sorry I know that’s not very helpful…
Dislikes: underage sex, child abuse, rape, Mpreg, Alpha/Beta/Omega, bestiality, watersports, scat, guro, necrophilia, D/s, humiliation, genderswap, fics with the characters' sexual preferences or gender as the entirety of the premise, anvilicious issuefic, fics that take the characters out of the canon setting or change the canon's genre or tone (examples: In Space! In Renaissance Italy! In a coffee shop! Serial killers!), zombies in canons that don't feature zombies (same goes for more generic apocalypse scenarios), death of canon characters who didn't die in the original.
So, here are the fandoms and characters I requested:
Langelot Series - Langelot
After almost two decades of combing through every place where second-hand books are sold, I finally completed my collection of this childhood fave last year: all 40 Langelot books and the two Corinne ones. I loved this series so much as a kid, and they’ve held up amazingly well! It’s James Bond, but for kids, and more grounded in reality. I loved the sense of humor, I loved that the protagonist was smart and competent but still allowed to make mistakes sometimes, and I loved that, despite the corny pen name, the author came across like he knew what he was talking about (and, as it turns out, he actually did).
So I’d like something that revisits this verse. Just some ideas to get you started:
-Langelot’s wondeful father-son-like relationship with Capitaine Montferrand and subsequent semi-adoption into the family. The first «proper» introduction to the captain’s wife? The first family dinner he was invited to? Tutoring the children?
-Anything about Langelot hanging out « after hours » with people his age, either work friends like Gaspard or Mistigri, or civilians like Choupette.
-Outsider’s perspective: Montferrand bragging to his colleagues about his protégé (as implied in Volkoff’s « for adults » spy novels)? Carefully edited watercooler conversations at SNIF HQ that lead to Langelot becoming as much of a legend as Pierrot la Marmite?
-Casefic: any famous scientific innovations Langelot had a hand in keeping out of the wrong hands?
-Lifting the time warp that makes Langelot perpetually eighteen J What does his career and personal life look like at thirty? Fifty? Post Cold War, modern day?
Loki: Agent of Asgard - Loki
*sigh* Marvel had such a good thing going there, from The Siege to Journey Into Mystery to Agent of Asgard, with the titular character coming to wraps with his place in the cosmic order, attempts at redemption and change, dealing with past guilt… Maybe someday someone at Marvel will decide to do something interesting with the character again.
Anyway, Agent of Asgard. Prompts!
-What might the series arc have looked like without the constant event-driven interruptions? Would Loki have confessed his problems to Verity much earlier? How might they have tackled King Loki together? Or, just more time for them to have fun, non-angsty adventures together!
-So issues 12-13 are obviously literary masterpieces and great sources of dubcon selfcest fodder and all that, but part of me wishes King Loki hadn’t shown up when he did at the end of issue 11, and Loki would have had to deal with life in exile. Bonus points if the inability to lie is permanent.
-Another sad consequence of the breakneck pace is that we never saw Thor’s (Odinson’s, whatever) reaction to Story!Loki. Because after he’d have cooled down a bit, you know he’d have sought out Loki to demand a more detailed explanation - only to find his brother dead, again, and replaced by a stranger, again. And the last thing he ever said to AoA!Loki… Ouch. Alternatively, the King Loki Delayed AU as above where Thor and AoA!Loki try to come to terms with everything that happened, and painfully build a tentative new bond on the ruins or the past one, and maybe even deal with King Loki together? (Just one thing: DNW Thor/Loki incest. Sorry.)
-God of Stories!Loki floats the possibility of a crossover or teamup with his own past selves. Since Marvel probably isn’t going to give it to us in the foreseeable future, it is up to us to imagine the total disaster that would be GoS!Loki, AoA!Loki and JiM!Loki trying to get anything done as a team, especially if their good-for-nothing versions are thrown into the mix too!
燃えろ!トップストライカー| L'école des Champions - Benjamin, Eric, Catherine
I know, I’m a heretic for preferring this show to Captain Tsubasa. What can I say? It’s shorter, faster paced, less physics-defying, the games feel exciting, the characters are archetypes but I like them and their interpersonal drama.
Co-productions, localisations and dubs, oh my: I watched the French version; that’s what I’m familiar with, and ideally I’d like the fic to be written based on it. I know there are differences from the Japanese version (names and nationalities, mostly), but since the show is nominally a co-production (even if the collaboration went sour), I consider the French and Japanese versions to be equally ‘true’ and ‘real’ (though heaven knows the French version is flawed and doesn‘t make sense in places). But if you want to include nods to the Japanese version, by, say, making Benjamin half Japanese on his mother’s side, I won’t object. As for the biggest plot difference, episodes 50-52 (the bribery scandal), I don’t have strong feelings about it; you are free to make references to this plot, or to pretend the show ended at episode 49.
The hero, the hero’s (eventual) friendly rival, and the hero’s girlfriend who is also the rival’s sister: I’d like to read something about them when they’re older. They’re my OT3, both platonic and… not. (During his captaincy at Team Genova, Benjamin spends almost as much time wishing Eric were there as he does pining after Catherine; as for Eric and Catherine, go rewatch their scenes in the Swiss Alps and try to see how long you can keep your mind out of the gutter. OT3, I tell you!)
I’d like to read about their future careers. Jupiter Wings is a Junior’s club, so what comes after? Can the boys sort out their problems with their respective federations? What clubs do they play in? Are Benjamin and Eric playing together, or in rival clubs? Will Catherine ever become a prima ballerina? Do they manage to work in the same city, or even the same country? Or do they live their lives most of the year, and spend all their vacations in a little love nest in the Alps?
I’d like to know how the long-distance relationship works out. It would be nice to see Benjamin and Eric be supportive of Catherine’s career and along the way kinda getting sucked into being ballet fans! It’s only fair since she got sucked into being a football fan!
Benjamin doesn’t talk much about his parents and has even less to say about their deaths. It would be nice to see him open up to his friends about it. They could meet his aunt! He could meet their elusive parents! After all, he’s dating one -both- of the siblings, they’re all practically family now!
The scandal at the end of the series: is everything resolved? Is there an even bigger scandal because people noticed some goals were identical J? Are the characters caught in some sort of weird time loop J?
Or, you know, you could answer the age-old question: Who would win, Jupiter Wings or Nankatsu?
Thank you for writing for me! I’m The_Kings_Scribe on AO3.
Likes: I like gen, het and slash, any rating. No POV preferences. I like found families, competence kink, loyalty kink, history, hurt/comfort, and humour. And lots more things, but for the life of me I can’t name any more, sorry I know that’s not very helpful…
Dislikes: underage sex, child abuse, rape, Mpreg, Alpha/Beta/Omega, bestiality, watersports, scat, guro, necrophilia, D/s, humiliation, genderswap, fics with the characters' sexual preferences or gender as the entirety of the premise, anvilicious issuefic, fics that take the characters out of the canon setting or change the canon's genre or tone (examples: In Space! In Renaissance Italy! In a coffee shop! Serial killers!), zombies in canons that don't feature zombies (same goes for more generic apocalypse scenarios), death of canon characters who didn't die in the original.
So, here are the fandoms and characters I requested:
Langelot Series - Langelot
After almost two decades of combing through every place where second-hand books are sold, I finally completed my collection of this childhood fave last year: all 40 Langelot books and the two Corinne ones. I loved this series so much as a kid, and they’ve held up amazingly well! It’s James Bond, but for kids, and more grounded in reality. I loved the sense of humor, I loved that the protagonist was smart and competent but still allowed to make mistakes sometimes, and I loved that, despite the corny pen name, the author came across like he knew what he was talking about (and, as it turns out, he actually did).
So I’d like something that revisits this verse. Just some ideas to get you started:
-Langelot’s wondeful father-son-like relationship with Capitaine Montferrand and subsequent semi-adoption into the family. The first «proper» introduction to the captain’s wife? The first family dinner he was invited to? Tutoring the children?
-Anything about Langelot hanging out « after hours » with people his age, either work friends like Gaspard or Mistigri, or civilians like Choupette.
-Outsider’s perspective: Montferrand bragging to his colleagues about his protégé (as implied in Volkoff’s « for adults » spy novels)? Carefully edited watercooler conversations at SNIF HQ that lead to Langelot becoming as much of a legend as Pierrot la Marmite?
-Casefic: any famous scientific innovations Langelot had a hand in keeping out of the wrong hands?
-Lifting the time warp that makes Langelot perpetually eighteen J What does his career and personal life look like at thirty? Fifty? Post Cold War, modern day?
Loki: Agent of Asgard - Loki
*sigh* Marvel had such a good thing going there, from The Siege to Journey Into Mystery to Agent of Asgard, with the titular character coming to wraps with his place in the cosmic order, attempts at redemption and change, dealing with past guilt… Maybe someday someone at Marvel will decide to do something interesting with the character again.
Anyway, Agent of Asgard. Prompts!
-What might the series arc have looked like without the constant event-driven interruptions? Would Loki have confessed his problems to Verity much earlier? How might they have tackled King Loki together? Or, just more time for them to have fun, non-angsty adventures together!
-So issues 12-13 are obviously literary masterpieces and great sources of dubcon selfcest fodder and all that, but part of me wishes King Loki hadn’t shown up when he did at the end of issue 11, and Loki would have had to deal with life in exile. Bonus points if the inability to lie is permanent.
-Another sad consequence of the breakneck pace is that we never saw Thor’s (Odinson’s, whatever) reaction to Story!Loki. Because after he’d have cooled down a bit, you know he’d have sought out Loki to demand a more detailed explanation - only to find his brother dead, again, and replaced by a stranger, again. And the last thing he ever said to AoA!Loki… Ouch. Alternatively, the King Loki Delayed AU as above where Thor and AoA!Loki try to come to terms with everything that happened, and painfully build a tentative new bond on the ruins or the past one, and maybe even deal with King Loki together? (Just one thing: DNW Thor/Loki incest. Sorry.)
-God of Stories!Loki floats the possibility of a crossover or teamup with his own past selves. Since Marvel probably isn’t going to give it to us in the foreseeable future, it is up to us to imagine the total disaster that would be GoS!Loki, AoA!Loki and JiM!Loki trying to get anything done as a team, especially if their good-for-nothing versions are thrown into the mix too!
燃えろ!トップストライカー| L'école des Champions - Benjamin, Eric, Catherine
I know, I’m a heretic for preferring this show to Captain Tsubasa. What can I say? It’s shorter, faster paced, less physics-defying, the games feel exciting, the characters are archetypes but I like them and their interpersonal drama.
Co-productions, localisations and dubs, oh my: I watched the French version; that’s what I’m familiar with, and ideally I’d like the fic to be written based on it. I know there are differences from the Japanese version (names and nationalities, mostly), but since the show is nominally a co-production (even if the collaboration went sour), I consider the French and Japanese versions to be equally ‘true’ and ‘real’ (though heaven knows the French version is flawed and doesn‘t make sense in places). But if you want to include nods to the Japanese version, by, say, making Benjamin half Japanese on his mother’s side, I won’t object. As for the biggest plot difference, episodes 50-52 (the bribery scandal), I don’t have strong feelings about it; you are free to make references to this plot, or to pretend the show ended at episode 49.
The hero, the hero’s (eventual) friendly rival, and the hero’s girlfriend who is also the rival’s sister: I’d like to read something about them when they’re older. They’re my OT3, both platonic and… not. (During his captaincy at Team Genova, Benjamin spends almost as much time wishing Eric were there as he does pining after Catherine; as for Eric and Catherine, go rewatch their scenes in the Swiss Alps and try to see how long you can keep your mind out of the gutter. OT3, I tell you!)
I’d like to read about their future careers. Jupiter Wings is a Junior’s club, so what comes after? Can the boys sort out their problems with their respective federations? What clubs do they play in? Are Benjamin and Eric playing together, or in rival clubs? Will Catherine ever become a prima ballerina? Do they manage to work in the same city, or even the same country? Or do they live their lives most of the year, and spend all their vacations in a little love nest in the Alps?
I’d like to know how the long-distance relationship works out. It would be nice to see Benjamin and Eric be supportive of Catherine’s career and along the way kinda getting sucked into being ballet fans! It’s only fair since she got sucked into being a football fan!
Benjamin doesn’t talk much about his parents and has even less to say about their deaths. It would be nice to see him open up to his friends about it. They could meet his aunt! He could meet their elusive parents! After all, he’s dating one -both- of the siblings, they’re all practically family now!
The scandal at the end of the series: is everything resolved? Is there an even bigger scandal because people noticed some goals were identical J? Are the characters caught in some sort of weird time loop J?
Or, you know, you could answer the age-old question: Who would win, Jupiter Wings or Nankatsu?
