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Gen Freeform Exchange 2023 Letter
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Brachylagus_fandom on AO3. I love gen in all its many flavors, and I'm excited to see what you will be creating for me! I've requested fic and art for all fandoms and fanvids for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Leverage, and Lockwood & Co.
DNWs: gore, animal cruelty, completely unhappy endings (bittersweet OK)
Freeforms I'm Requesting Across Fandoms
Other Freeform Tags I like
DNWs: gore, animal cruelty, completely unhappy endings (bittersweet OK)
Freeforms I'm Requesting Across Fandoms
- Awkward and Unconventional Gestures of Friendship
- Banter - character development through conversation
- Canon-typical shenanigans
- Character Unexpectedly Turned Into Child: this is a ride-or-die trope for me! I love the way the de-aging shifts group dynamics; someone who used to be your equal is now reliant on you for basic needs, and them returning to their typical age doesn't erase that experience (or make you feel any less awkward around your now-adult-again teammate). I am particularly fond of the h/c version where the deaged character is reverted to a traumatic age (esp. when their now-caretakers didn't previously know about said trauma!).
- Characters work together to find an unexpected solution to problems
- Cleanup and paperwork after canon-typical plot: I love the small, fiddly logistical details, and paperwork is one enumeration of that. What forms in superhero land do you need to resurrect yourself? What do Leverage Consulting's official filings look like? How is the insurance for a psychical agency in Lockwood & Co. underwritten?
- Fix-It
- Hurt/Comfort: one of my favorite genres on fic! The major attractor to the genre for me is the comfort, but I really love when the hurt is proportionate to said comfort; in order to get that really satisfying emotional payoff for me, the hurtee needs to get whaled on first, physically or emotionally. There's some heavy overlap with whump for hurt scenarios, but some additional hurt/comfort tags I like are: Aftermath - Character doesn't tell anyone they were tortured/raped; is found out anyway, Character thinks no one is coming to save them; MULTIPLE people team up for the rescue, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hurt/Comfort - Character Doesn't Expect Tenderness But Gets It Anyway, Hurt/Comfort - Character expects to be punished but is comforted instead, Hurt/Comfort - Character hurts themself doing something stupid, Hurt/Comfort - Character(s) discover Character A's biggest secret, Hurt/Comfort - Comforting from Nightmares, Hurt/Comfort - Hurt character initially mistrustful of comforter, Hurt/Comfort – Hurt/sick character still has to get their job done, Hurt/Comfort- A pretends to be okay when really sick/injured; B figures it out, Terrifying Captor treats Captive Better than Own Side Ever Did, Unexpected Kindness, Unexpected Mercy
- Nerding over technology or science: or ~science! Some additional related tags: Bonding over science and/or magic, Intelligent Characters Enthusing Over Learning New Things (Especially From Each Other), Mad Science, Mathematics, Science & Philosophy, Science as a Disturbing and Destructive Hobby
- POV Outsider: Outsider POV is one of my favorite narrative devices. I really love how a person's knowledge of a situation alters how much of it they understand (and how close to the truth that understanding is), whether that be used for dramatic irony purposes, to raise stakes/tension, or for a good old lack-of-frame-of-reference gag. Some additional related tags I like are: Canon Events From Perspectives Not Given In Canon, Character's Canon-Typical Actions Are Terrifying To An Ordinary Person's Outsider POV, Outsider POV - Peers React to Teenager's Casual Familiarity with Potentially Dangerous Adult.
- Queer Gen: I'd love to see how queerness shapes a character's relationship with their world - and with their friends. Self-discovery fic, coming out fic, two queer pals just hanging out fic, it's all great to me.
- Ride-or-Die friendship: I am always here for friends who are always here for each other, for better and occasionally for worse.
- Time Loop: I love how time loops focus in on one thing that must be fixed or else the world stops; it's a great set-up for single-minded obsession. I'm open to all sorts of ways of getting into/out of a loop, as well as different loop lengths (very long, very short, variable, etc) and reasons to reset. Some additional tags I like about time loops are: Time Loop - During Worst Day Of Their Lives, Time Loop - Enemies Have To Work Together To Solve The Loop, Time Loop - The part where the looper breaks and stops giving any fucks, Time Loop - the trauma of it follows the looping character after the loop has been broken, Time Loop - Two characters stuck in a time loop slowly realizing they're not the only one
- Time Travel: Time travel is another one of my favorite tropes! I love the contrast between the time traveler, with all the weight of what they've lived through in the future, and the characters from the present time. I think how the time traveler chooses to interact with the past - what they try to change, if anything, and how they try to change it - can be a really interesting look into a character, and I also love how those changes carry forward, sometimes in unexpected (and negative) ways. Some additional tags about time travel I like are: Outsider POV - Time Travel From the POV of a Non-Time-Traveling Character, Time Travel - Character changes the past to prevent traumatic events and succeeds, Time Travel - character goes back to try to prevent traumatic events & ends up causing them, Time Travel - Character meets their child self, Time Travel - Character saves their younger self from trauma, Time Travel - deliberately stomping on butterflies, Time Travel - From the POV of a Non-Time-Traveling Character, Time travel - meeting your past/future self, Time travel - Time traveler's foreknowledge leads to treating a difficult/scary person very kindly, Time travel - trying to change the past but hampered by lack of full knowledge of past, Time Travel Fix-It, Time Travel Make-It-Worse.
- Whump: I love a good bit of whump! The character trying to deal with the situation as it happens (stoically? extremely unstoically? somehow both?) and then dealing with the aftermath is often very iddy to me! Comfort afterwards also highly recommended but not strictly necessary. Some whump scenarios from the tags I like: Being hurt by possessed/mind controlled loved one (& letting it happen to save the loved one), Character A is delirious and calls for B even though B is right there, Character A is hurt saving Character B's life, Character A Was Possessed And Character B Was The Only One To Notice, Character runs into someone who reveals past traumatic/shameful event to their friends/family, De-aged character is de-aged to an age that was particularly traumatic for them, Nightmares that are memories, Supernaturally induced Fear, Trapped in a Dream, Trapped in a Nightmare, Trapped in a Traumatic Memory, Traumatic backstory reveal, Truth Serum, Touch-Starved, While not lucid character A accidentally lets slip a secret they think B will hate them for.
- Worldbuilding: Worldbuilding is a long-time member of my likes list. How does canon work? What keeps it ticking? What parts of those logistical systems are non-obvious?
Other Freeform Tags I like
- Structural tags: 5 times this happened and 1 time something else happened, 5+1 Things, Adult or Teenage Character's Childhood Backstory, Character Study, Crack Treated Seriously, Cracks showing in moments of happiness, Case Fic, First Meetings, Follow up after canon event, Missing Scene, Non-Linear Narrative, Noodle Incidents, Post-Canon, Post-Canon - Characters Traveling Together, Pre-Canon, Rashomon-Style Conflicting Narratives, Seeming fluff that’s actually incredibly bittersweet due to surrounding circumstances, Unreliable Narrator
- Alternate Universe tags: Alternate Universe - Background Swap, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Daemons, Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Alternate Universe - everyone is a woman, Canon Characters Transported To A Dark/Mirrorverse AU and Meeting Their Alternate Selves, Dimensional Travel - Having To Impersonate Alternate Evil Version of Self, Dimensional Travel - Having To Impersonate Alternate Version of Self, Genderswap - Always a Different Sex, Platonic Soulmates - You feel your soulmate's emotions, Platonic Soulmates - You Gain Your Soulmate's Scars/Injuries, Trapped in a Mirror Universe
- Captivity-related tags: Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape, Character A who was tortured risks captivity again to rescue Character(s) B, Character held captive in public forced to act normally so others won't know, Going through captivity together, A Is Kidnapped and B Will Burn Down the World to Get A Back Safely, Kidnapped to force cooperation from powerful loved one, Rescue Missions
- Tags about being forced to work together: Enemies forced to work together to survive a more powerful mutual enemy, Forced to interact by the disappearance/death of another character important to both, Forced to team up to fight crime, Forced to work together in order to escape
- Loyalty tags: Character Surprised By Their Own Deep Loyalty Feels; Object Of Loyalty Even More Surprised, Loyal character who lost object of devotion is desperate to be loyal again (someone takes advantage), Loyalty - Being Thought of As Nothing More Than Someone Else's Weapon, Loyalty - Betraying Leader or Subordinate to Save Them, Loyalty - Call Off Your Dog, Loyalty - Declaring Oneself Someone Else's Weapon, Loyalty - Leader wants to be worthy of their followers' loyalty, Loyalty - so intense they commit crimes without question, Loyalty so intense they commit crime/treason for the character they're loyal to without question, Monster on a leash - villain only takes orders from one unexpected person
- Family-related tags: Character resigned to loneliness finds (platonic) love/family in a most unexpected place, Families of Choice, Family Adopts Outsider Who Saved One Of Their Own, Family members who would do absolutely anything for each other, Family members who would do absolutely anything for each other (even to their own detriment), Found Family, slow burn found family, Unconventional Found Family, Wrestling with a complicated family legacy
- Teamwork-related tags: Bonding by teaming up during a fight, Competence - highly effective teamwork, Crew as Crew - More complex and unique than just friends or family, Superhero Team, Teeth-Clenched Teamwork, Team as Family, Team Bonding, Team Dynamics, Team Living Together and Learning to Deal with Everyones' Bad Habits, Teaming Up To Pull A Jailbreak From The Afterlife
- Undercover tags I like: Undercover - Character is undercover and their enemy unexpectedly plays along, Undercover - Forced to hurt friend/partner to avoid blowing cover, Undercover agent reluctantly grows to like their target (& still goes through with their mission)
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
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