Yuletide Letter 2024

[nonesensed]

All hail you, most generous of Yulegoats!

I hope you find this letter inspiring and that I’ve managed to make it easy to parse. All the essential are in here, but if you're like me and love to know as much about your recipient's preferences as possible, I also have a very long list of favorite tropes and kinks over here. Most of it's about general tropes I enjoy. Near the end you'll also find things related to NSFW topics. If you want to take a look at what I usually write and read when it comes to fanfic, I'm Nonesensed over on AO3, and I get up to quite a few fandom things on Tumblr, nonesensed.

Starting with my squicks and do-not-wants, to get them out of the way. If one of my squicks happens to be one of your favorite tropes or kinks, no judgment! I've nothing against people who like stuff I don't, these things just aren't for me :)


Not my cup of tea & Squicks
- A/B/O aka Alpha/Beta/Omega aka Omegaverse. I have read interesting A/B/O-stories, but mostly the tropes don't work for me due to the whole "the gender you've been assigned decides if you're submissive or dominant in bed"-thing most A/B/O stories go with. I know A/B/O is more of an "opt-in" trope, but since I've listed "messing with gender roles and heteronormativity" as things I like, I thought I'd specify that A/B/O isn't what I'm looking for.
- Animal abuse leading to animal death or animal abuse where the animal is left to suffer. I can deal with fictional animals being mistreated if they get rescued from said mistreatment. Also, since I'm down with xenophilia (aka humans getting it on with sentient/sapient extraterrestrials), I'd like to clarify that animal abuse in the form of bestiality (humans having sex with animals) also squicks me.
- Daddy/Mommy kink. Not my thing, whether there's actual incest involved or not. Guardian/child romances or sexual situations are really not my cup of tea, be they play-pretend or not. Same goes for using "daddy" and "mommy" as pet names even if there's no actual incest play involved.
- Plots where character have non-canon amnesia or characters suddenly age regressing into children aren't my cup of tea since they're so common in fanfiction. That said, I have nothing against these tropes being delved into and explored if they're part of canon. Oh, and unless I’ve specifically requested it, characters switching bodies isn’t usually a plot I’m looking for in a story.
- High school AUs. Meaning that I don't mind school-related things if they're canon.
- Reader insert isn't my thing.
- Underage. No explicit sex scenes or sexual situations involving children, please. I am Old(tm) so I mean everyone under 18 when I say children. This said, I will not be squicked out if it's implied or threatened (e.g. two teenagers having had sex with each other "off screen", adults mentioning having had an early sexual debut, characters having had past traumatic experiences, a villain saying creepy things about someone's children, etc.) It's explicit sex scenes involving people under 18 that I'm looking to avoid.
- Vore. Don't mind it implied, but an explicit sex scene of this will be not-fun-horror and squick to me, not sexy.
- Women and feminine-presenting people always being the submissive partner in D/s scenarios between a man and a woman. No hate on submissive women! They just tend to be the default in a lot of fiction. I'd love for there to be more Dominant women if there is to be a BDSM and/or D/s dynamic between a man and a woman <3 For all other possible gender combinations I've got no particular preferences. Please just avoid the "all women and fem-presenting people are automatically submissive in bed, even if they start out taking the initiative"-trope that permeates a lot of media (I say as a very much not submissive woman who often has been assumed to be submissive or a switch simply based on my gender, and has seen the same assumption show up in fiction A Lot – to the point where the assumption has become a tableflip-inducing rage button for me XD).
- Watersports and scat (i.e. urine & feces involved during sex - again, this is more of an "opt-in" thing, but since I brought up A/B/O and am looking for Fear & Hunger fic, I thought I'd better list these as nopes too).

That's it for the Do-Not-Wants! Moving on to the things I enjoy:

Genres
Open to pretty much anything regarding genres! When it comes to horror, a happy ending is 100% optional! I enjoy all manner of fic from fluff to horror. I love creepy/eerie horror and cosmic horror, am more 'meh' about slasher-horror and religious horror. I've also signed up for the following mini-challenges:
Chromatic Yuletide, Crueltide, Queering the Tide, Three Turtle Doves, TransTide, Two for One - The Crossover and Fusion Challenge, Wrapping Paper, Yulepoem and Yuleporn.

Ratings
Anything goes! I enjoy everything from the kid-safest of fics to the most explicit of sex and violence. When it comes to the AO3 Archive warnings, the only two I'd prefer to avoid are Underage and Major Character Death (though I'm fine with Major Character Death in horror stories or if the death is canonical).

Writing styles
Almost anything goes! Third person? Second person? First person? Present or past tense? Future tense? Epistolary? Twitter conversation? Outsider POV? I'm here for all of that! The only thing that isn't for me is "choose your own adventure"-stories; no hate for them, but I have trouble making up my mind on what choices to pick and I thus end up never finishing them XD

Things that make me smile (SFW)
- Anticipation, tension and suspense. Be it unresolved sexual tension, a manhunt for a dangerous killer, or a race against time to save someone's life – if it keeps me on the edge of my seat, I'm happy!
- Character introspection. While I adore an engaging mystery or conflict, I also enjoy slice-of-life and stories that focus on the inner life of one or more characters.
- Competence! Characters getting to show off their skills. I love all scenarios where a character who's really skilled at something (e.g. magic, diplomacy, detective work, medicine, etc.) get to use that skill to solve a problem and solve it well.
- Culture-clashes, where both cultures are seen as equals by the narrative - aka not "Oh, look at these poor uneducated barbarians, we must enlighten them!" but more "You've been courting me? How was I supposed to know you wearing a green scarf means you're in love with me???".
- Found family. Characters who go from strangers to "I would die for any one of you" are a delight!
- Messing with and questioning heteronormativity and gender roles. I adore queernorm settings <3
- Kidnappings, for any reason. It's more for the rescue part of the plot that I enjoy it, especially if it's an "unexpected" character saving a more "rescuer"-like character.
- Loyalty in all its shapes and forms! I especially love characters who are a little too loyal; maybe to people they shouldn't be loyal to, maybe to a point where they value that person/those people's life more than their own. Buuuut, I also love when loyalty is rewarded! I love it when trusting someone and relying on someone proves to be the best thing to do - especially if that situations is contrasted with past betrayed loyalty. Just...people being devoted to other people, it floats all my boats~!
- Mysteries, be it a "who did it?", a "what is the meaning of this old text", a "who at court is gossiping about the main character?" or whatever else kind of mystery you can think up. I'll happily read any and all of it!
- Pairings or gen. I've listed pairings for some of my fandoms, and I adore all kinds of pairing-focused fics, be they couples, threesomes, moresomes, etc. This said, I also enjoy fics that have no pairings or only implied pairings. So if my ships happen to not be your ships, gen is very welcome!
- Role reversals (usual rescuer being rescued, "weaker" character saves the day, otherwise more worldly character is courted/seduces/approached by otherwise more "naive" character, etc.) Since who I consider the "usual X" might be tricky to guess, I'll try to elaborate on this for each fandom.
- Vulnerability, especially when it comes from otherwise "closed off" characters. Through being wounded, kidnapped, drugged, bested (even if said person just is pretending to lose to please someone else), being open about something meaningful to them, or in any other scenario you can think of. I'll try to add more specific ideas for each fandom further down.
- I'm very happy to receive AUs and crossovers! All AUs but high school-AUs make me smile, and my favorites kinds are fantasy/science fiction/solarpunk/cyberpunk AUs and "what if" AUs (aka close to canon, but one or two things are changed). If I say in a fandom prompt that I'm only interested in canon-based AUs that's just because I love that worldbuilding so much that I want it explored more, it's not that I dislike AUs. If you choose to set the fic IN SPAAAAACE for a non-space fandom I'm soooo here for that :D. Here's a list of fandoms I'm familiar with to some degree, in case you want to write a crossover but only know one of the fandoms I've requested for Yuletide. And here's a list of the fandoms in the current Yuletide tagset I'm familiar with, to give you even more crossover options.

Other things that make me smile (only relevant to smut)
- Consent play aka when the people involved pretend one or more of them aren't into the scene, but they definitely are. Love this best when it's very clear to the reader that it's all play-pretend.
- Foreplay and teasing/tempting (both verbal and otherwise). Doesn't actually have to lead to sex – the teasing is fun in itself.
- Hot Spots - when a character has a spot on their body that makes their knees go weak; i.e. when someone nips their ear, pulls their hair, kisses their neck, etc.
- Kink negotiations. I adore when characters discuss what they're into as a form of foreplay <3
- Overstimulation, as in people being overwhelmed by pleasure, especially when combined with orgasm delay <3
- As much as I love drama and angst, I also adore people having fun while having sex, especially if it's First Time Sex we're talking (and you feel it works with the characters' personalities and the situation). Just a relaxed, laughing-with-you-not-at-you, friendly mood to go with a very fun activity! I also love angry sex and "Oh my god, you almost died!"-sex etc. etc. but if that doesn't fit with your story, know I will still be delighted to read about undramatic, joyful sex <3
- Playful dominance/submission + bondage. Extra great when initiated by the submissive partner. Small gestures, such as holding the other's hands still, biting, rough play, verbally dominating someone, and so on, I love it all! And in pairings involving both men and women, I do love femdom, if you feel that works with the personality of the woman/women in question. I'm also down for painplay and pretty much anything that is included under the BDSM-umbrella, as long as everyone involved in the sex scene are into it (or are trying things out for the first time and get to say stop if they don’t end up enjoying it).
- Roleplay, be it super serious or super silly. I'm all for playacting in the bedroom <3
- Vanilla sex. Although kinky is wonderful, I don't require it to like a sex scene. I love when there's a clear difference between "D/s scene" and "people just deciding to have sex" because sex can definitely happen without anyone taking the lead (no matter what men with microphones on the internet say).

Fandom specifics!
Beware of possible spoilers for all fandoms listed below!

Candela Obscura
(Character: Sean Finnerty)


What the canon is: An actual play show about people secretly battling cosmic horrors in a second world fantasy queernorm setting inspired by early 1900s post-war USA. I wrote a promo post for it over here and you can watch it all for free over here.

Why I love the canon: While I enjoyed the first circle of Candela Obscura, I truly fell in love with the show with the introduction of the second one. While Vassal & Veil was a lovely introduction to the setting and the game itself, the action packed and plenty-of-shared-backstory situation of Needle & Thread is even more my kinda thing! Their introduction mid-assignment via shootout on top of a train? Brilliant, love it, no notes! While I am a huge fan of horror, cosmic horror in particular, what I adore even more about this series are the characters and the big found family energy of Needle & Thread, at the start of their arc. Even with how it ended, I can't help but love the dynamic of these five! There's so much loyalty and conflict and love all mixed up in a glorious mess and I just want more of it :D

Why I love the character:
- Sean Finnerty: Okay, so we've got a competent soldier-type guy with little to no self-preservation who covers a lot of trauma with humor and who's enraged and frustrated yet loyal and feels at his most relaxed when he gets to follow orders? That's basically catnip to me. I both want to watch this guy suffer and want him to finally find some comfort and peace. Especially with what he ends up doing to his Circle...

Pairings? You want to ship Sean with someone? Great, so do I! And I'm delighted with the many fun options available! I'm a big fan of the "lower screen OT3" that blossomed very early on in the fandom (Jean/Marion/Sean). I'm also a fan of Marion/Sean, especially pre-them-meeting-Jean. Jean/Sean on their own without Marion I'm less keen on, mainly because Jean and Marion have had some quite obvious romantic and/or sexual tension in canon and her ending up with Sean "instead" would lead to some painful consequences between them and Marion that I'd rather avoid. But if Marion and Jean aren't your thing, how about Nathaniel? Sean is wonderfully loyal and protective of his LT and follows orders so well ;) I'd also love Marion/Nathaniel/Sean! Or maybe you're looking to go for an unknown quantity and have Sean run into the Lightkeeper from the opening and intro sequences? Go for it, I say! And just to clarify, I'd rather not see Sean shipped with Auntie Bea because she's such a mentor and/or mother figure to him or any of the Vassal & Veil gang (simply because I've got other ship combos I prefer that group in :) ). If you're interested in writing something NSFW and in the flavor of D/s, I would have most fun reading if Sean was the submissive party (or one of the submissive people in the scene, should you be writing something sexy with more than 2 people involved).

Story prompts: If you're inspired to write something plot-focused, I'd love to see what previous Candela assignments Sean has been on! With his full Circle, with some of them or an assignment he's been left to handle alone, I'd just love to see him get to be Good At His Job. It's clear the rest of the Circle relied on him for protection and help in violent and/or dangerous situations, and he's over and over again proven they've got reason to rely on him (well, until it all ended how it ended...). I love getting to see characters be competent at things they're supposed to be good at :D That said, I also love how the Circle worked as a team. Getting to see them work an assignment is a delight, so whoever you'd like to combine Sean with, I'm all for it! If you want to go "What-if?" AU, how about the story of how Sean & co (whoever you want to include) get his mother out of her imprisonment? Or a different ending to their joint story? Perhaps happier, perhaps worse?

As another idea, with the Circle so often relying on Sean to come to save them in different ways, I'd be delighted to watch someone getting to rescue Sean in his turn. Though just to clarify, while I definitely welcome flashbacks to what Sean went through during the war, I'd rather not read a whole story about his war time experiences. That's just not my cup of tea.

If you're in the mood to focus more on a relationship (romantic, sexual, or otherwise) I'd also enjoy a story that's about Sean getting to have a good day with people he cares about. What does he get up to when no one is in mortal danger and who does he choose to hang out with and why?

I also would love to see Sean re-imagined in any non-canon setting, aka AUs or crossovers with other fandoms! Be they small canon divergences, a completely different setting or if you want to throw in other characters and settings from other fandoms, it's all good! I'm curious to see what you'll come up with :D

Yuletide sign-up info: While I enjoyed the first three episodes of Candela Obscura, it's the Circle of Needled and Thread that made me love the show. I am a sucker for found family heist groups and this gang fits that description to a T (even though they as a group got an ending fitting a horror story). I picked Sean to focus on since he ended up my absolute favorite character, but I do love the whole Circle <3

Basically, I want more of Sean! Be it a story about his mental state and relationships, a pulse-pounding previous assignment, or something in-between, I'm here for all of it :D If his fellow Circle members show up, that would be delightful! But I did only request Sean, so I'm not going to demand specific people other than him. Sean is my absolute favorite of the bunch because he's a combination of several tropes I adore: loyal in a not always healthy way, self-sacrificing yet frustrated about it (which turned out so very wonderfully tragic in canon), competent fighter, covers pain with humor, clearly cares a lot about the people around him and is aware that he's not the only one suffering but hurting himself by not talking about his pain, aaaaand he loves to follow orders. Combined these things are 100% My Kinda Blorbo!

Should you happen to be in a shipping mood, I'd love to read a story focused on that too! I'd be delighted to read Marion/Sean, Jean/Marion/Sean, Nathaniel/Sean, Marion/Nathaniel/Sean, Marion/Jean/Nathaniel/Sean or, hell, why not Lightkeeper/Sean? I'd love to read any and all of these combinations! If you also are a fellow enjoyer of D/s, I'd love for Sean to be submissive in any D/s-dynamics~ (but if you'd rather keep things more vanilla and/or not focus on sex but rather only on romance, I'd love that too! Especially if there's a focus on someone flirting with/paying attention to/courting Sean.)

To clarify, I am a huge horror fan, especially of the cosmic horror part of the genre. Feel free to include whatever monstrosities or mind-bending awful things you like! I have few horror related DNWs so live your horror dreams :D

If you're an AU and/or crossover kind of person, I'd love to see Sean, and anyone else from the tagset you wish to include, re-imagined in another setting (as the crew of a spaceship? a D&D adventuring party? a superhero team? etc), put in another canon's setting or faced with another canon's characters/setting. I'd love a crossover with any of my other wished for fandoms (+ have a "here's all my fandoms"-list linked in my Yuletide letter to give you options for crossovers).

I 100% happily welcome treats! <3

DNWs for this fandom: A/B/O, age regression, non-canon amnesia, animal abuse that leads to animal death, bestiality (but I'm okay with xenophilia), body-switching, daddy or mommy kink, high school AU (other AUs welcome!), non-canon character deaths, people under 18 in explicit sexual situations, reader insert, a story that only takes place during the pre-canon war, vore, watersports & scat, women always automatically being submissive in sexual situations when the pairing is male character/female character.


Fear & Hunger (Video Games)
(Characters: Crow Mauler, Worldbuilding)


What the canon is: Two cosmic horror games that contain pretty much every horrific thing you can imagine. Steam describes them as “JRPG x Survival Horror”. You play as one of several characters as they try to outlast horrific circumstances.

Why I love the canon: As you can see from my promo post I am a sucker for cosmic horror and games that you have to puzzle together from pieces of lore you find here and there out in the game world. Fear & Hunger fits does two categories perfectly. I’m more drawn to this settings’ worldbuilding than its characters, but I don’t dislike the characters. So whether you want to write about a character from this world or just invent your own characters to explore other parts of it than are shown in canon, I’m up for both!

Why I love the setting and Crow Mauler:
- Crow Mauler: Aka Captain Rudimer. I just love the whole tragic backstory of how Rudimer became the Crow Mauler, it’s so wonderfully horrific. I’d love to get the full story of how that change happened and/or what the Crow Mauler’s existence is like now in whatever present you pick to focus on.
- Worldbuilding: I’m up for any and all worldbuilding you’d like to explore in this fandom! Whatever time period or place in the world you’d like to write about, I am here for it! Be it the old gods, the new gods, the humans, the non-human people, how technology interacts with magic, I’m interested in reading your story about any and all of it!

Pairings?: Not really interested in any specific pairings in this canon, but if you’ve got a ship you’re really invested in, feel free to throw them in!

Story prompts: Do you want to write a research article or portion of a history book from this world, showing how someone in this world think it works? I’m 100% here for that! Do you want to write an exchange of letters between two random people in this world experiencing horrors? I’m all for it! Do you want to write a story about a person living in this world, just experiencing what for them is a completely normal day? Absolutely here for that too!

Basically, I’d be thrilled to read your ideas of how this world works and what it’s like to live in it, in any type of fic you can think up! Go as broad or as specific as you like.

For example, what was the world like right after Francóis, Nilvan, Valteil and Ronn Chambara became new gods, what changed? Is it true that humans conquered the city of Ma'habre from the lizardmen and that becoming a new god is a "corrupted" version of the lizardmen becoming blights, or is that all made up and the truth is wholly different? What is it like to commune with one of the Old Gods? What would the girl’s life be like if she escapes the dungeon and doesn’t become the god of Fear and Hunger?

Body-switching is usually not my thing, and I’m not exactly requesting it for this fandom, but I am fascinated by the games’ “marriage act”. What is it like for two people to become one person? Does one personality take over but gain skills from the other? Is there a complete ego death for one of them? Or do both people merge into a completely new consciousness?

Yuletide sign-up info: I love cosmic horror and I love games where you have to puzzle together what the world is through lore clues found within the game. Therefore, I was really drawn in by this world, as horrific and full of explicit content as the games are! I want to read theories about what’s going on and how everything fits together, and read stories about what it’s like to live in this awful, awful world. Anything from what you think life was like in the city of Ma’habre to what communing with one of the Old Gods is like, to seeing the events of the games or other horrors through a third party who didn’t go through it themselves.

Focus on any characters you like or make up your own, at any point in this world’s history! Pretend to be an in-world scholar and write a research paper or historical entry about this world. Write a letter exchange between two people living through a time of huge upheaval (take your pick of which upheaval, this world has got plenty). If you want to focus on the Crow Mauler, what was he like pre-change, as Captain Rudimer, and is there anything left of that man inside the creature he’s been turned into?

I 100% happily welcome treats! <3

DNWs for this fandom: This canon is pretty much Trigger Warnings The Games, and I’ve chosen to request it, so I won’t be upset if you include awful things that actually happen in canon, _even if_ those things appear on my over all DNW-list. Though I’d be happy if you avoided focusing the story on/writing in detail about the follow canon or canon-ish things:
animal abuse that leads to animal death, bestiality (but I'm okay with xenophilia), high school AU (it’s a hilarious addition to the first game but it’s not what I’m looking to read about right now), people under 18 in explicit sexual situations, vore, watersports & scat,
My DNWs that to my knowledge don’t appear in canon: A/B/O, age regression, amnesia, daddy or mommy kink, reader insert, women always automatically being submissive in sexual situations when the pairing is male character/female character.


Killjoys (TV)
(Character: Alvis Akari, Fancy Lee)

What the canon is: A five season scifi TV series. Not sure if it's streaming somewhere right now, but it's out on both DVD and Bluray, plus, y'know, ~Internet~ ;) TV Tropes link and Wikipedia link plus link to a promo post I've written.

Why I love the canon: There are three main things I love about Killjoys: 1 - No "as we all know"-moments, 2 - No Worf Effect, 3 - The fact that most characters on the show are decent people who care about each other! Even the "evil" characters :D

To elaborate:
1) All the tiny world details are so delightful! That plant in the corner of the kitchen on Lucy, the fact that Dutch keeps changing her hairstyle, the peppering of linguistic differences between their "English" and our world's English – great touches to make the world seem lived-in and real! The fact that we still have no idea if these humans originated on Earth and how far spread humanity is/if there are aliens (other than the Hullen) is great because it's not part of the main story and it's not something that would naturally come up in conversation for these people. Just...I'm so in love with the worldbuilding!

2) All characters who're supposed to be competent at something are shown to be that (e.g. Dutch's fighting skills, Johnny's tech skills, Alvis' diplomacy & contacts, Fancy's inventiveness) so when they are challenged you feel it’s real because you've actually seen proof time and time again of how good they are at what they do – huzzah for no Worf Effect!

3) My experience of humanity is that most people are decent toward others as long as they're treated well and given the resources to care – and that when those resources are taken away not everyone turns into a serial killer. I love that there's so much focus on Johnny and Dutch being BFFs, that neither could blame D'avin for what he did while mind-controlled (though there was of course trauma related to what happened!) and that there's just so much love! So many people being friends and caring for each other! So many missions that basically boil down to "they're our friend and they're in danger so we'll risk our lives saving them". Plus that the main cast are so good at treating strangers with decency and respect, even when their loved ones could benefit from the pain of said stranger (thinking about Clara and the shield).

Oh, and the humor and sense of fun in the midst of all the drama is also delightful! I love all the banter and jokes exchanged both during off-time and in battle situations! And that the humor they use to deflect or deal with pain is shown as different from their bonding-humor and trying-to-make-you-laugh-humor.

Why I love the characters:
- Alvis Akari: While I'm not religious I have several friends who are very (we're talking being-actual-priests-level faith) and it's so great to see a character in a position of religious 'power' portrayed as so very human. Alvis isn't a fanatic or a hypocrite – he's not infallible either, but him questioning his faith feels genuine and believable, instead of a pendulum swinging between Believe or Not Believe as the plot demands. It's also great how he's shown as a person not just "this character is a Monk/Priest". I love all the little humanizing exchanges he has with other characters (e.g. D'avin calling him a "creepy little dude" to which Alvis just whispers "Thank you~"). Alvis is so very, very human, and I love following along on as he ponders his faith and in his fight for Westerly's freedom. Oh, and a friend and I have jokingly noticed that he tends to wear more clothing the sadder he is, and less clothing the happier he is. Just thought that was a funny character touch. Basically, I wish we gotten more of him <3
- Fancy Lee: I love all the hints we get that Fancy is more than he seems. By this I mean that he comes off as this arrogant asshole at first, and then you get more and more subtext (and outright text) that he actually cares a lot about the people around him. Not only his fellow killjoys – Fancy turns out to be a decent person who's set himself up to play the villain/antihero so other people can have peace of mind. To me, this was especially underlined in that scene where Alvis goes up to Fancy and says how he should have checked in with Fancy more (I'm paraphrasing here). In short, I love how competent Fancy is, I love his snarky humor, I love how he sticks to his own code of conduct, but most of all I love how loyal he is - in his own way.

Pairings?: I’m happy to read gen-fic, but if you’re looking to write a story focusing on or including romance and/or sex, I’m here for it! You’ve probably already guessed this, but I’d love to see Alvis Akari/Fancy Lee as a ship. I know, I know, they barely speak to each other in canon, but I still think it would be an interesting match-up, especially after that last exchange between them before we lost Alvis. If that’s not a ship for you, I’m also open to shipping either Alvis or Fancy with any combo of D’avin, Dutch and Johnny (just no ship combo that involves D'avin/Johnny or Dutch/Johnny).

Story prompts: If you, wonderful wonderful writer, want to included both Alvis and Fancy in a story, you will have my heart immediately! I'd love to see anything with them pre-canon or set during canon - or, if you're very kind and write a fix-it fic where Alvis survives to post-canon, that too! I'd love to see the two of them having to work together to solve a problem/enact a heist/get a bounty/go undercover for whatever reason. Fancy needing Alvis as part of a cover story would be extra fun! Or, if you want to explore the regrets Alvis voiced re: Fancy right before he went and got killed, I would be fascinated to read your take on that! In what exact way does Alvis think he let Fancy down?

However, if you're more interested in focusing on only one of them, a "slice of life" story out of canon would be welcome about either Alvis or Fancy! Feel free to add in any other canon character, I love them all! Something introspective about Fancy dealing with being or having been Hullen or about Alvis' crisis of faith would be wonderful, but so would a more action-y story about Fancy going on a bounty hunt or Alvis doing some rebelling. Just, more of these two or at least one of them, will make me happy!

If you want to ship Fancy and Alvis, I’d be so happy! I'm open for both a slowburn, established relationship, a one-off-thing, exes-getting-back-together, or a pure Plot What Plot! Go where your heart takes you! If you like to go more D/s than vanilla, I'd love for Fancy to take the lead in bed – though otherwise I'd love for it to be a "sparring match", seeing as Alvis is way more in touch with being open about his emotions than Fancy. Also, we know it's canon Alvis likes to get tied up in bed, just sayin' ;)

Yuletide sign-up info: Ah, Killjoys! How I love this show <3 The worldbuilding, the found family, the mystery, the competent people getting to show off their skills~! It's everything I ever could want and more. Well, other than characters like Alvis Akari and especially Fancy Lee being part of the main cast at all times, that is. I have this thing where I rarely find my favorite characters among a work's main cast, and for Killjoys my faves ended up being Fancy and Alvis.

If you wish to write only about Fancy, I'd love a story either focused on him being extremely competent while doing his job and/or needing help from someone else. I'd also love a closer look at Fancy's own brand of loyalty - where his lines are drawn, what he sees as 'just', and maybe have someone let him know that he doesn't have to 1) try to fix things on his own so much, and 2) challenge him on his methods (aka the whole 'being an asshole because the world needs assholes who can get shit done'-attitude). If you want to write something shippy, I'm all for Fancy/Alvis, Fancy/D'avin/Dutch or Fancy/Johnny (or Alvis/D’avin/Dutch, Alvis/Fancy/D’avin/Dutch, Alvis/Johnny or Alvis/Fancy/Johnny).

If you’d like to include and/or focus on Alvis, I’d love that too! Either if you want to write a fix-it fic so he can join the shenanigans of the later seasons or post-canon, or if you want to explore the earlier seasons or pre-canon. I'm especially curious about how he feels about the other characters in the cast, major and minor - scenes with any and all other characters that we didn't get to see in canon would be wonderful! But most of all, I'd love to see interaction between Alvis and Fancy, pre-canon or otherwise. What would have happened if Alvis _had_ supported Fancy in the way he seems to feel he didn't? Are there any adventures the two of them might get or have gotten entangled in together?

I'm usually super fond of AUs, but I love the worldbuilding of Killjoys so much and feel there's so much left to explore that the only AUs I'm looking for (right now at least) are canon divergent AUs aka "what ifs". I am, however, very much up for crossovers! Either 'fusion' crossovers where characters from another fandom belong in the Killjoys-setting (e.g. Fancy meets another killjoy who happens to be named "James T. Kirk") or where the Killjoys universe and another fandom setting turn out to be part of the same universe or there's a rift in space time or what have you (e.g. Alvis runs into Starfleet while traveling outside his usual territory). See my Yuletide Letter for a list of fandoms I'm familiar with, in case you'd like to write a crossover but not with any of the other fandoms I've requested for Yuletide.

I 100% happily welcome treats! <3

DNWs for this fandom: A/B/O, age regression, non-canon amnesia, animal abuse that leads to animal death (I'm fine with implied animal death & animals being rescued from abuse), AUs that changes the setting aka high school AU or coffee shop AU (canon-divergent AUs absolutely welcome!), bestiality (but I'm okay with xenophilia), daddy or mommy kink, death of characters who aren't dead by the end of canon, people under 18 in explicit sexual situations, reader insert, vore, watersports & scat, women always automatically being submissive in sexual situations when the pairing is male character/female character.


Rook & Rose – M. A. Carrick
(Character: Derossi Vargo)


What the canon is: A second world fantasy trilogy about a con artist who goes back to the city of her birth to get herself and her sister a secure place in life but ends up getting involved in magical and political schemes instead. I wrote a promo post for it over here last year.

Why I love the canon: I'm a sucker for morally-gray-people-with-hearts-of-gold and this series has a bunch of them! I also enjoy the slow revelations of all the political and magical machinations our main cast has accidentally involved themselves in. Plus, the worldbuilding and magic systems are topnotch and the characters getting to be kind to each other despite struggling to survive gives me life <3

Why I love the character:
- Derossi Vargo: I'm a huge sucker for loyal characters and characters who hide good and noble-ish intentions behind an asshole persona. Vargo has turned out to fit these tropes to a T and I thus can't help but love him. For example, his devotion to Alsius despite almost getting killed by him as a child, is wonderfully complex, especially as Vargo seems convinced no one, not even Alsius, truly cares about him as a person, only as a tool (though of course Alsius does care, and I love how much development that got in book 3!). I love how Vargo has plenty of self-confidence and yet deals with a lot of guilt and shame. Vargo being so willing to let people see him as a villain and to let the ends justify the means, while still caring about what some people think of him, is exactly my kind of conflict~. For example, him going out of his way to protect Ren as her nobility-personality while he knew she was furious with him and likely wouldn't be his friends again and not telling her he'd helped? Yesss, that's my favorite doing-good-in-the-shadows kind of deal <3 Also, he's clearly starved for affection and has decided to deal with it by at least partially denying he wants it/giving up hope on every finding someone who'll truly care for him, and I would love to see him proved wrong there. (Though please don't make him fall in romantic love. The subtext that he's likely aromantic is something I'm very happy about, as aro representation is something I rarely get to see.)

Pairings? I'm pretty much open to Derossi Vargo/anyone at this point XD I love his friendly and tender pseudo-relationship with Iascat Novrus in canon, but I'm equally open to a threesome between him, Ren and Grey (at any point in canon). If you have another character you'd like to ship him with, go right ahead! Whoever you choose to ship him with, though, I'd love for Vargo to get to be taken care of and courted for once. He's clearly used to seducing people and using sex as a bargaining tool – and while that's something I'd also love to have explored, it'd be both nice and entertaining for Vargo to be caught off guard by someone(s) honestly and genuinely caring about him with no other goal in mind <3 But ALSO, as an aromantic person myself, I ADORE that Vargo doesn't have romantic feelings for people, even the ones he's attracted to. Sexual attraction, enjoying someone's company and liking them as a person doesn't need to lead to falling in love with them and I am delighted whenever I get the rare fictional representation of that.

Story prompts: As long as the focus is on Vargo, I'm up for pretty much any kind of story! If you're in the mood to write a post-canon story of his adventures in politics and teaching his new heir to do magic, I'm all for that! If you'd rather focus on more literal adventures of him helping Ren & Grey dealing with corruption in the city a little more directly than can be done in political debates, I'm all for that too! Also, if you want to write about Vargo getting BETTER REVENGE ON ALSIUS' EVIL FUCKING MOTHER & OTHER RELATIVES, PLEASE DO!!! After her showing up to 'confront' Alsius in spider form at Vargo's home, I've been chewing at the bit to get to see Vargo fully avenge Alsius' (body's) death! That revenge would be beyond delightful to get to fully experience!

Should you like to go down the what-if route, what would have happened if Vargo found a way to get Ren's "mother" out of the city before she had a chance to ruin Ren's con? The more ridiculous the scheme the better!

If you're prefer to focus on internal conflict, I'd love to see more of Vargo having to face up to the fact that some people like him. Vargo, Ren and Grey hanging out post-canon! Iascat and Vargo making things work between them, despite them not having a romantic relationship or marrying. Vargo bonding more with his brand new heir! Alsius seeking him out in his dreams. I'm not picky about who, I just love it when people let Vargo know he means something to them as a person – either as a friend, a lover or as family.

Also, with Vargo being such a sexual person in canon, he is a great candidate for a more explicit story ;D Plus, with how many awful people in power this canon has to offer, I'd greatly enjoy someone rescuing Vargo from having to deal with the attentions of Someone Awful, and asking nothing in return, just doing it to help him <3

Yuletide sign-up info: I love everything that happens in these books :D That's not to say I'd not enjoy "what if"-looks at how canon might have gone differently, but if you want to explore something that happens post-canon, I'd be delighted to see where you think things go from there! I'd be happy to see any and all canon characters appear in whatever story you'd like to write, though my absolute favorite is Derossi Vargo, so my wish is for a story mainly focused on him.

In general, I'd love for a story where Vargo gets to show off his skills and/or one where he ends up in trouble and has to be helped out of said trouble. Or why not both? Be it political intrigues post-canon, more gang-/knot-related escapades, threats coming in from outside the city, or proper revenge on Alsius' utterly awful relatives, I'm up for any and all Vargo adventures!

I'm also up for pretty much any ship involving Vargo! Him using sex as a tool to get to powerful people is another characteristic I really like about him (it's less rare in male characters these days, but not exactly common either). But as much as I'd enjoy seeing that explored, I'd love it even more if Vargo got to experience someone genuinely wanting to get together with him for who he is, not for his looks or for what they can get out of him. If you end up combining those two things in some way, I'd adore it! On top of all this, I love that he both gets to be a very caring and loyal person while there's also a strong subtext that he's aromantic. So please don't make Vargo fall in romantic love, but do feel free to have him have fulfilling relationships still, be they sexual or familial or friendships.

I 100% happily welcome treats! <3

DNWs for this fandom: A/B/O, age regression, non-canon amnesia, animal abuse that leads to animal death, bestiality (but I'm okay with xenophilia), body-switching, daddy or mommy kink, high school AU (other AUs welcome!), people under 18 in explicit sexual situations, permanent death of characters who survive to the end of canon, reader insert, Vargo being alloromantic/falling in romantic love with someone(s), vore, watersports & scat, women always automatically being submissive in sexual situations when the pairing is male character/female character.