Worldbuilding Ex letter 2022

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Hello Worldbuilder! I go by Brachylagus_fandom on AO3. I've provided some prompts below, but if you have a different idea, please go for it; I'm excited to see what you'll create for me. Fandoms are listed in the order they appear in the tagset, and tags are listed alphabetically within their fandoms; I've requested Any or No Characters and Original Character(s) and fic/art/meta for all of them

Do Not Wants: explicit sex or gore (fade to black okay), animal cruelty

 

Likes:

• Characters being competent in their area of expertise
• Mystery/intrigue, casefic
• Missing scenes and alternate perspectives
• Crack, particularly crack treated seriously
• Hurt/comfort
• Fluff
• Hijinks
• Music

Worldbuilding-Specific Likes:

• Logistics - how does stuff get made? How is it moved?
• History and its relation to the present
• Period-appropriate details, esp. in clothing
• Science and scientific approaches to magic
• Things that did happen in canon but were only referenced
• Tech - what's standard, what's cutting edge, how it works. Blueprints always welcome.
• Cultural attitudes around queerness, race, education, or any other issue 

Art Likes:

• Vivid colors, or colors used to emphasize parts of the piece
• I love really bold lines and really soft ones, really realistic drawings as well as really stylized ones 
• Basically the art equivalent of pastiche - stuff meant to look like canonical drawings or specific periods/styles (e.g., your fave in medieval tapestry)
•  Overlap with In-Universe Meta!

In-Universe Meta Likes:

• Bureaucracy/paperwork
• Outsider POV/Descriptions of canon events from dramatically different perspective
•  Noodle incidents, either explained or created by the meta

Fairy Tail

Any Guild Master, Any or No Characters, Freed Justine, Levy McGarden, Original Character(s)

• Guild Traditions - I'd love to see how these vary between guilds, and within the same guild over time. Are some of them tied to the guild hall (and as such change when the guild hall is moved/rebuilt)?
• Script Magic - That of my canonical faves! I'd love to see how script magic works or how Freed and/or Levy learned it. Clever applications of it are welcome, too!

The 39 Clues - Various Authors

Any Historical Cahill, Any Modern Cahill Agent, Any or No Characters, Original Character(s)

• Cahill History - In the series, basically every major event in the past 500 years has been tied to the Cahills somehow. I'd love to see an exploration of an event not covered by the books - or intra- and inter-branch squabbles that haven't made the history books! The early years and first couple generations of the branches must've been extremely rocky, with a lot of the things modern Cahills treat as standard not in place yet, and that would be interesting to explore. The early years of Madeleine's adventures as the first Madrigal could be super fun. Or the previous attempts at unification seen in Into the Gauntlet!
• The Serum - An endlessly fascinating subject. How did Gideon create it and source his ingredients? How did Olivia source the ingredients for the counter-serum after his death? How has it been reconstructed since? How does it work?
•  The Vespers - Another thing that is explored in canon but nonetheless fascinates me. How are they structured, and how has that changed over the years? Why are they trying to end the world, and how did the Guardians come about? How did the various Vespers in canon come into contact with the organization?

Hunger Games Series - All Media Types

Any or No Characters, Original Character(s), Original Victor

• Career Districts - How much of an advantage does being a Career really give them? How are they trained? How has District culture shifted around volunteering? How does this differ between the Career districts? When did the "Career" reputation begin?
• Previous Hunger Games - I love seeing how the games have changed over time, and previous games are a great way of showing that.
• Tributes - How are Reapings handled in districts where the eligible population can't easily fit in one place? How do tributes generally react to the reaping? Have there been other outer district volunteers?
• Victors and their relationship to their home districts - Who loves it, who hates it, and who oscillates between the two? In conjunction with the "Previous Hunger Games", the first Quarter Quell's victor would be a particularly interesting case.
  
• Victors and their relationships to each other - they share an experience no one else can come close to understanding, and I'd love to see how that shapes their relationships. Who has an unlikely friendship/enemyship with another victor and why? How do they separate the arena/current games from their relationship?

Encanto (2021)

Any or No Characters, Original Character(s)

• Legends about the Encanto in the outside world - There's clearly some interchange with the rest of the world, and with interchange comes stories. How is it regarded by the outside world? Is it a common story, or is its existence considered more along the lines of a conspiracy theory? How does that impression vary with region/circumstances? 
• The Casita - How has the Casita changed over the years? How does it change between the version we see in the film and the one that's rebuilt?
•  The early years before the triplets got their gifts - How did the village form during that time? Were they aware something was going to happen before the triplets' birthday, or were the gifts a shock? How did the gifts shift the family dynamic?

The Mysterious Benedict Society (TV)

Any or No Characters, Original Character(s) 

• Backstory - both the ones shifted by the show and the ones similar to the books. I'd love to see how Martina (or Lindsay, or any of the other non-Society kids) got to the island, or Milligan's mission gone wrong in this universe.
• Messengers and Executives - Martina, Jackson, and Jillson appear to wear different uniforms than the other messengers; do they also have other duties? Is Messenger status based on class ranking (and if so, are grades manipulated to get the "right" kids the stash), or are the criteria vaguer (and if so, what do the students speculate the criteria are)? How do the messengers feel about the privilege/LIVE in general, and how did they come to the island?
• Other Exceptional Children - The two we saw in the show, or Number Two and Rhonda, or any others Mr. Benedict might've come across. How did they find and complete the tests?
• Ten Men/Recruiters - The show doesn't appear to do the kidnapping thing, but we do have an ominous-looking security crew that seems to serve the same narrative role. I'd love to see why they're not recruiting via abduction here (or if they are and it's just in the background), as well as their response to Curtain's downfall.
•  Tetherball - A surprisingly homoerotic sport! Why is it the most prominent sport at LIVE? What does the intermural/professional scene look like?

Scaredy Cats (Netflix 2021)

Any or No Characters, Original Character(s)

• Good vs Evil Witches - This is presented as a very stark dichotomy in the show, and I'd love to see it explored. Are there witches in between? How did Willow become a good witch, and how did Wanda and Wilma become bad witches?
• Hiding Potion - How was it created? Are there alternate versions that turn you into other animals? What is the difference between hiding potioned humans and familiars? And if warlocks are turned into dogs and witches into cats (and canon implies a gendered division between the two), why was Sawyer transformed into a cat, and how does the potion work beyond a strict gender binary? Is the effect on good vs evil witches different?
•  Spells - An excuse for hijinks! How are spells developed, and what causes them to go right - or horribly wrong?