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Dear author,
Thank you for offering to wrote for me! I hope these prompts help, and please feel free to disregard anything that doesn’t. They’re here as a bonus brainstorming guide, not rules.
Fic Likes:
Parallels (and contrasts) between characters and their journeys are a thing for me. Just look at my ships!
I like characters looking out for each other and rescuing each other, giving care and emotional support. Especially when women are the ones receiving care and support, getting their needs made a priority by their loved ones.
Canon divergence and role reversals are loved, though I also enjoy other AUs. Also, is it clear that I like crossovers and crossover ships yet? Cross any of the fandoms listed above with each other, or even with one I haven't listed, and I'll love it.
If you'd rather do something with a character that doesn't involve the ships I listed, that would be appreciated too! In the end they're just my favorites.
Here are some more things I enjoy:
fusions, vignettes, character studies, plotty stuff, angst, fluff, smut, adventure, characters talking to each other, character focus in smut, enemies to lovers, friends/lovers to enemies to lovers/friends, pining, worldbuilding, quiet character moments, bittersweet endings, happy endings, open endings with hope/upbeat tones, romance, gen, gen with a strong dose of romance, quiet and subtle romance, the total opposite of quiet and subtle romance (passion, fervor--after all, my fandoms have a high melodrama quotient)
DNWs:
Character death, mpreg, detailed gore, detailed description of bodily fluids and excretions, noncon, rape, incest, permanent breakups, a/b/o, genderbending unless it's for the male characters, body horror, explicit and/or permanently damaging torture, maiming, mutilating, bashing of characters or ships, unrequited love (except if it's only unrequited in a characters' head), ships unless mentioned in the letter
Now, fandoms!
Star Wars - All Media Types
These two characters really ping me because they’re so sensitive, so temperamentally unsuited to the Jedi Order that you can see it even when they’re older, and so determined to prove they can be good Jedi and get recognition for it too. The start of their relationship is Anakin seeing that in Ahsoka and being willing to mentor her, because she’s like him; he verbally recognizes that the master he had would not be the best for her.
Ahsoka uses her species’ hearing and her senses to aid Anakin in battle when he’s disbelieving and doesn’t want that particular kind of help; how many other situations has she used her sensitivities to good effect? Did some of them involve her enjoying herself with them?
Anakin is one of the strongest—with the potential to be the strongest—in Force-sensitivity; what’s that like in an environment where sensitivity is both expected and encouraged but also meant to be handled in specific, controlled ways?
Give me one or both of them not filtering everything out, just living in the chaos their senses give them—maybe sometimes they use their training to focus, but other times they just get carried away by the sensory experiences.
What’s it like to be sensitive to the Force and stim?
If you want to write them both, give me them bonding over their shared traits and finding a care and understanding from each other they don’t find in anyone else, even the people who love and support them.
Note: I love these two, both as the platonic relationship we see and as a romantic relationship; feel free to go either way with them! If you go with the second option, I’d rather it be after Ahsoka leaves the Order, or after she’s become a Knight in an AU where she doesn’t leave.
Community
Britta Perry! A character with a strong passion for social justice as she understood it (flawed as that passion was), who struggled as other people felt alienated by that passion, and felt awful over it. I feel like an autistic Britta would’ve learned to perform “normality” pretty well, but of course her special interest would be hard to hide, especially given what it is: something that runs contrary to going along and getting along, and something she would feel a moral imperative to pursue. (This is complicated by her incomplete version of social justice, too; see the famous quote “I can excuse racism but-”)
Something about her struggles to perform that well, and how it feels juggling that with her special interest, would be cool.
Or how does she think about that performance, given that she’s a woman and she knows something of what’s expected of and for women in order to be seen as worthwhile?
Maybe she finds another community—in addition to or instead of the one on the show—where people are more receptive to her beliefs because they share them more, and makes a friend like her while navigating that?
What does she do that’s stress-free, that she can sink herself into, without navigating the needs of her performance and how that interacts with the politics of being a woman? How does she stim?
The Last Unicorn – All Media Types
Unicorn! Lady Amalthea! She’s fine being alone, but not; she’s happy in her forest, but learns to regret what this means she can’t have—she can’t stand not being in her own skin even when needing it to survive, but she loves something she could only experience because she went through that first.
What kind of stimming does one do as a Unicorn?
She can recognize when others are like her; what if she spends some time with a different kind of being, a centaur or a tree nymph perhaps?
Give me Lady Amalthea, learning to cope with the life she now has throughout the movie, and caring for the person—Liir—it gave her access to.
Post-book/movie, does she ever come out again? I have read the sequel story; I enjoy it, but feel free to disregard if you wish. Or give me something on how she feels, with regard to coming out and seeing the people she knew, set after that story.
Andersen Hans Christian – Works
When I was small I had a particular love for Hans Christian Andersen stories. Fairytales in general too, then and now—but these were in a red book full of text, if abridged, and the drawn illustrations were not like the giant children’s books I was used to seeing fairytales in. Most of all, the stories were emotive, and the characters had their troubles fitting in.
The Little Mermaid
The mermaid wanted something different from the life she was expected to have—and she ended up having a chance at it, though not the way she was told she would. She was different both in the sea and out of it. What’s life like, as a spirit of the air? Getting to have her efforts recognized as worthy, and finding a place where she truly fits in with the people around her? Disregard the rules about how good versus bad children affect her getting into heaven, unless you feel inspired to use them for something.
Her performance as a human on land required her to feel the pain of walking on knives; relatable! Tell me about the pleasures she felt, that could let her justify it.
Give me her nights on the marble steps, where she took a break from living like a human and touched the sea again.
Her life as a mermaid involved sacrifice too; the painful performance of her beauty when she was finally allowed to go to the surface with her sisters. Show me her interest in the sun and the world above, finding things for her undersea garden, dreaming of the stories she’s been told, the happiness she took in a world where she was loved, if not wholly understood.
The Princess and the Pea
The titular princess—I know it’s meant to be class-related, but I love her for her sensitivity and how that makes her the right choice. Perhaps she shares other experiences with the prince, things that make her more of a kindred spirit than anyone else; that’s what the test means, whether he’s autistic too or his brain is wired in a different non-neurotypical way.
What if the test were unofficial, not deliberate and a little different in what was being “tested,” and maybe extended to show the other ways they might work well with each other?
What is the princess’ future like, now she’s found this person who bonds with her because of how she is? How did she find pleasure in the world before?
Note: I’m good with you wanting the prince to be a princess too! I’m also fine whether you go with the f/m in the story, choose f/f, or opt for gen.
The Marsh-King’s Daughter
Helga, the girl who “allowed herself to be called and guided” when she was “hideous” and sad as a frog at night, and “wild” when she was “beautiful” during the day. That contradiction in how her nature was perceived by the world always captivated me. Then there’s the idea that she was trapped and moved to help someone in a similar situation, thus getting her story going. Instead of her being “cured,” what if the compassion and understanding shown her simply let her be herself in a way others could respond to, and inspired her to respond in a way which would not have been expected by the people who loved but didn’t get her?
Show me her communing with the storks who witnessed her story and helped her reconnect to her origins and herself.
Or show me moments of peace in the turmoil of her existence before she found these things. Her joy in horses, in the the water, in being an archer. Her efforts to be close to her adopted parents, day or night.
Give me happy moments with the family she had initially lost, and how she fits in as someone like them but with a different experience.
The Ugly Duckling
Speaking of returning to your origins—what’s it like for the duckling who is actually a swan now that he’s home? How does he learn to connect to people, now he’s found some who are more willing to see him as who he is? How is it different for him, having been among others and alone until he grew into adulthood? What are the joys of discovering your own beauty and finally seeing it reflected in the eyes of another being?
Again, thank you so much for writing for me! I’m excited to see what you do.
Thank you for offering to wrote for me! I hope these prompts help, and please feel free to disregard anything that doesn’t. They’re here as a bonus brainstorming guide, not rules.
Fic Likes:
Parallels (and contrasts) between characters and their journeys are a thing for me. Just look at my ships!
I like characters looking out for each other and rescuing each other, giving care and emotional support. Especially when women are the ones receiving care and support, getting their needs made a priority by their loved ones.
Canon divergence and role reversals are loved, though I also enjoy other AUs. Also, is it clear that I like crossovers and crossover ships yet? Cross any of the fandoms listed above with each other, or even with one I haven't listed, and I'll love it.
If you'd rather do something with a character that doesn't involve the ships I listed, that would be appreciated too! In the end they're just my favorites.
Here are some more things I enjoy:
fusions, vignettes, character studies, plotty stuff, angst, fluff, smut, adventure, characters talking to each other, character focus in smut, enemies to lovers, friends/lovers to enemies to lovers/friends, pining, worldbuilding, quiet character moments, bittersweet endings, happy endings, open endings with hope/upbeat tones, romance, gen, gen with a strong dose of romance, quiet and subtle romance, the total opposite of quiet and subtle romance (passion, fervor--after all, my fandoms have a high melodrama quotient)
DNWs:
Character death, mpreg, detailed gore, detailed description of bodily fluids and excretions, noncon, rape, incest, permanent breakups, a/b/o, genderbending unless it's for the male characters, body horror, explicit and/or permanently damaging torture, maiming, mutilating, bashing of characters or ships, unrequited love (except if it's only unrequited in a characters' head), ships unless mentioned in the letter
Now, fandoms!
Star Wars - All Media Types
These two characters really ping me because they’re so sensitive, so temperamentally unsuited to the Jedi Order that you can see it even when they’re older, and so determined to prove they can be good Jedi and get recognition for it too. The start of their relationship is Anakin seeing that in Ahsoka and being willing to mentor her, because she’s like him; he verbally recognizes that the master he had would not be the best for her.
Ahsoka uses her species’ hearing and her senses to aid Anakin in battle when he’s disbelieving and doesn’t want that particular kind of help; how many other situations has she used her sensitivities to good effect? Did some of them involve her enjoying herself with them?
Anakin is one of the strongest—with the potential to be the strongest—in Force-sensitivity; what’s that like in an environment where sensitivity is both expected and encouraged but also meant to be handled in specific, controlled ways?
Give me one or both of them not filtering everything out, just living in the chaos their senses give them—maybe sometimes they use their training to focus, but other times they just get carried away by the sensory experiences.
What’s it like to be sensitive to the Force and stim?
If you want to write them both, give me them bonding over their shared traits and finding a care and understanding from each other they don’t find in anyone else, even the people who love and support them.
Note: I love these two, both as the platonic relationship we see and as a romantic relationship; feel free to go either way with them! If you go with the second option, I’d rather it be after Ahsoka leaves the Order, or after she’s become a Knight in an AU where she doesn’t leave.
Community
Britta Perry! A character with a strong passion for social justice as she understood it (flawed as that passion was), who struggled as other people felt alienated by that passion, and felt awful over it. I feel like an autistic Britta would’ve learned to perform “normality” pretty well, but of course her special interest would be hard to hide, especially given what it is: something that runs contrary to going along and getting along, and something she would feel a moral imperative to pursue. (This is complicated by her incomplete version of social justice, too; see the famous quote “I can excuse racism but-”)
Something about her struggles to perform that well, and how it feels juggling that with her special interest, would be cool.
Or how does she think about that performance, given that she’s a woman and she knows something of what’s expected of and for women in order to be seen as worthwhile?
Maybe she finds another community—in addition to or instead of the one on the show—where people are more receptive to her beliefs because they share them more, and makes a friend like her while navigating that?
What does she do that’s stress-free, that she can sink herself into, without navigating the needs of her performance and how that interacts with the politics of being a woman? How does she stim?
The Last Unicorn – All Media Types
Unicorn! Lady Amalthea! She’s fine being alone, but not; she’s happy in her forest, but learns to regret what this means she can’t have—she can’t stand not being in her own skin even when needing it to survive, but she loves something she could only experience because she went through that first.
What kind of stimming does one do as a Unicorn?
She can recognize when others are like her; what if she spends some time with a different kind of being, a centaur or a tree nymph perhaps?
Give me Lady Amalthea, learning to cope with the life she now has throughout the movie, and caring for the person—Liir—it gave her access to.
Post-book/movie, does she ever come out again? I have read the sequel story; I enjoy it, but feel free to disregard if you wish. Or give me something on how she feels, with regard to coming out and seeing the people she knew, set after that story.
Andersen Hans Christian – Works
When I was small I had a particular love for Hans Christian Andersen stories. Fairytales in general too, then and now—but these were in a red book full of text, if abridged, and the drawn illustrations were not like the giant children’s books I was used to seeing fairytales in. Most of all, the stories were emotive, and the characters had their troubles fitting in.
The Little Mermaid
The mermaid wanted something different from the life she was expected to have—and she ended up having a chance at it, though not the way she was told she would. She was different both in the sea and out of it. What’s life like, as a spirit of the air? Getting to have her efforts recognized as worthy, and finding a place where she truly fits in with the people around her? Disregard the rules about how good versus bad children affect her getting into heaven, unless you feel inspired to use them for something.
Her performance as a human on land required her to feel the pain of walking on knives; relatable! Tell me about the pleasures she felt, that could let her justify it.
Give me her nights on the marble steps, where she took a break from living like a human and touched the sea again.
Her life as a mermaid involved sacrifice too; the painful performance of her beauty when she was finally allowed to go to the surface with her sisters. Show me her interest in the sun and the world above, finding things for her undersea garden, dreaming of the stories she’s been told, the happiness she took in a world where she was loved, if not wholly understood.
The Princess and the Pea
The titular princess—I know it’s meant to be class-related, but I love her for her sensitivity and how that makes her the right choice. Perhaps she shares other experiences with the prince, things that make her more of a kindred spirit than anyone else; that’s what the test means, whether he’s autistic too or his brain is wired in a different non-neurotypical way.
What if the test were unofficial, not deliberate and a little different in what was being “tested,” and maybe extended to show the other ways they might work well with each other?
What is the princess’ future like, now she’s found this person who bonds with her because of how she is? How did she find pleasure in the world before?
Note: I’m good with you wanting the prince to be a princess too! I’m also fine whether you go with the f/m in the story, choose f/f, or opt for gen.
The Marsh-King’s Daughter
Helga, the girl who “allowed herself to be called and guided” when she was “hideous” and sad as a frog at night, and “wild” when she was “beautiful” during the day. That contradiction in how her nature was perceived by the world always captivated me. Then there’s the idea that she was trapped and moved to help someone in a similar situation, thus getting her story going. Instead of her being “cured,” what if the compassion and understanding shown her simply let her be herself in a way others could respond to, and inspired her to respond in a way which would not have been expected by the people who loved but didn’t get her?
Show me her communing with the storks who witnessed her story and helped her reconnect to her origins and herself.
Or show me moments of peace in the turmoil of her existence before she found these things. Her joy in horses, in the the water, in being an archer. Her efforts to be close to her adopted parents, day or night.
Give me happy moments with the family she had initially lost, and how she fits in as someone like them but with a different experience.
The Ugly Duckling
Speaking of returning to your origins—what’s it like for the duckling who is actually a swan now that he’s home? How does he learn to connect to people, now he’s found some who are more willing to see him as who he is? How is it different for him, having been among others and alone until he grew into adulthood? What are the joys of discovering your own beauty and finally seeing it reflected in the eyes of another being?
Again, thank you so much for writing for me! I’m excited to see what you do.
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