Rule 63 Exchange letter
Dear Rule 63 Creator,
Thank you so much for offering to write a story for me! I love all these fandoms and characters, and I'm really keen to see what you do in them! I've provided some prompts in case you're looking for inspiration, but I'd also love to see whatever other ideas capture your imagination.
For me, it's about the characters and their relationships. I'm not a stickler for canon details, as long as the spirit of the characters and the flavour of their world is there.
RULE 63 NAMES: I'm happy to go with the canon names of the characters. But if you come up with an alternate version you want to use, I'm happy to go with that too.
LIKES: Some of the things I enjoy in stories are: undying loyalty, personal bravery, big damn hero moments, special everyday moments, confessions exposing emotional vulnerability, conversations loaded with unspoken meaning, tough people showing a soft side, and soft people showing a tough side.
DISLIKES: I generally prefer optimistic stories in exchanges, so I'm not keen on anything that is brutally violent or depressingly bleak. However, I don't mind darkness as long as there is a glimmer of light. Bittersweet endings are also fine.
RATING: I've requested ships in this exchange. I'd enjoy anything ranging from unresolved sexual tension, to getting together, to established relationship. I'm fine with explicit sex, but it's usually not the most important part of the story for me.
STYLE: I'm fine with first, second, or third person. I'm fine with past or present tense. I'm fine with stories of any length, including stories that start in media res or consist of a scene that implies a larger plot.
CROSSOVERS: I would prefer no crossovers with other canons.
AUS: I like seeing the characters in their own settings, so I would prefer no alternate universes like high school, coffee shop, or omegaverse. However, I like alternate universes where something happened differently in canon.
I hope this helps. Have fun writing!
Yours sincerely,
meteordust
(AO3 name Serenade)
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Request 1: From Eroica With Love - fanfic
Relationships: F!Klaus/F!Dorian
Freeform tags: Always a 63
What I love: I love when Klaus and Dorian get to display their sexy competence, or when they're forced to work together and work together well, or when they reveal that they actually do care about each other.
Prompts:
* I want to see Klaus and Dorian being their sexy, competent, badass selves - but as women! Dangerous missions, daring stunts, banter, rivalry, and admiration. Or even in their civilian lives, getting a cup of coffee is full of smouldering tension.
* How have their attitudes to life have been tempered by their experiences as women? Note that I'd still like them to end up with similar personalities to canon.
* Going undercover! Either separately or together. What disguises might they use: ordinary? glamorous? drag? What backstories and pseudonyms might they come up with?
* Team dynamics! Are the interactions between Klaus and the Alphabets, or between Dorian and the Eroica gang, any different? Would they have recruited more women or all women to their teams? Would their renown or infamy inspire other women to follow in their footsteps? (I'm fine to genderswap any existing canon characters on their teams.)
Canon knowledge: I've read up to Volume 15 of the CMX release, and up to "Emperor Waltz" of the scanlations. I'm not fussed about continuity though, especially since this premise is an AU. I don't mind spoilers for this canon either.
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Request 2: Tekken - fanfic
Relationships: F!Lee Chaolan/M!Anna Williams
Freeform tags: Temporarily 63ed
What I love: Both Lee and Anna see themselves as smooth and sexy, but they are also kind of cheesy and ridiculous. I can imagine them having lots of lovers of all genders, but I can also imagine them being failboats at it. I like the idea that over the years, they keep having casual flings with each other. I also like the idea that as veterans of Iron Fist - sometimes rivals, sometimes allies - they might share jaded musings over drinks.
Prompts:
* They get genderswapped, either intentionally (eg as a disguise), accidentally (eg trying to power up with experimental science or ancient magic), or mysteriously (eg strange artefact or woke up different). Maybe they have to work together to figure out how to reverse it. Maybe they go out shopping for clothes and go on fancy dates. Maybe they just find each other really hot, and then they bang.
* Identity porn! They enter the Iron Fist tournament in their new identities, unknown to each other. Or maybe they recognise each other, but swear each other to secrecy. Or maybe everyone else recognises them anyway and they're just playing along.
* I'm fine with something cracky or something serious.
Canon knowledge: I've played up to and including Tekken 5. I don't mind spoilers for the later games, and I'm fine for you to include those characters and events, as long as the story can be understood without having played them.
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Request 3: The Elric Saga - Michael Moorcock - fanfic
Relationships: F!Elric/M!Cymoril
Freeform tags: Always a 63
What I love: The fantastical worldbuilding and imagery. Elric being a subversion of the typical sword-and-sorcery hero. The fragile albino sorcerer king, dependent on a souldrinking black sword, trying to be a moral person, even against the traditions of his people and his gods.
Prompts:
* I just want to see cool sword-and-sorcery tropes, but with Elric as a woman and Cymoril as a man. Magic, duels, dragons, quests, curses, kingdoms, prophecies, etc. (Regarding Cymoril as the tragic doomed lover: I'm fine to see his fate played out for angst, or for his fate to be averted somehow.)
Canon knowledge: It's been so long that I can't remember which books I've read or haven't read. I'm not fussed about continuity though, especially since this premise is an AU. I don't mind spoilers for this canon either.
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Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are
comments. Comment here or there.
Thank you so much for offering to write a story for me! I love all these fandoms and characters, and I'm really keen to see what you do in them! I've provided some prompts in case you're looking for inspiration, but I'd also love to see whatever other ideas capture your imagination.
For me, it's about the characters and their relationships. I'm not a stickler for canon details, as long as the spirit of the characters and the flavour of their world is there.
RULE 63 NAMES: I'm happy to go with the canon names of the characters. But if you come up with an alternate version you want to use, I'm happy to go with that too.
LIKES: Some of the things I enjoy in stories are: undying loyalty, personal bravery, big damn hero moments, special everyday moments, confessions exposing emotional vulnerability, conversations loaded with unspoken meaning, tough people showing a soft side, and soft people showing a tough side.
DISLIKES: I generally prefer optimistic stories in exchanges, so I'm not keen on anything that is brutally violent or depressingly bleak. However, I don't mind darkness as long as there is a glimmer of light. Bittersweet endings are also fine.
RATING: I've requested ships in this exchange. I'd enjoy anything ranging from unresolved sexual tension, to getting together, to established relationship. I'm fine with explicit sex, but it's usually not the most important part of the story for me.
STYLE: I'm fine with first, second, or third person. I'm fine with past or present tense. I'm fine with stories of any length, including stories that start in media res or consist of a scene that implies a larger plot.
CROSSOVERS: I would prefer no crossovers with other canons.
AUS: I like seeing the characters in their own settings, so I would prefer no alternate universes like high school, coffee shop, or omegaverse. However, I like alternate universes where something happened differently in canon.
I hope this helps. Have fun writing!
Yours sincerely,
meteordust
(AO3 name Serenade)
***
Request 1: From Eroica With Love - fanfic
Relationships: F!Klaus/F!Dorian
Freeform tags: Always a 63
What I love: I love when Klaus and Dorian get to display their sexy competence, or when they're forced to work together and work together well, or when they reveal that they actually do care about each other.
Prompts:
* I want to see Klaus and Dorian being their sexy, competent, badass selves - but as women! Dangerous missions, daring stunts, banter, rivalry, and admiration. Or even in their civilian lives, getting a cup of coffee is full of smouldering tension.
* How have their attitudes to life have been tempered by their experiences as women? Note that I'd still like them to end up with similar personalities to canon.
* Going undercover! Either separately or together. What disguises might they use: ordinary? glamorous? drag? What backstories and pseudonyms might they come up with?
* Team dynamics! Are the interactions between Klaus and the Alphabets, or between Dorian and the Eroica gang, any different? Would they have recruited more women or all women to their teams? Would their renown or infamy inspire other women to follow in their footsteps? (I'm fine to genderswap any existing canon characters on their teams.)
Canon knowledge: I've read up to Volume 15 of the CMX release, and up to "Emperor Waltz" of the scanlations. I'm not fussed about continuity though, especially since this premise is an AU. I don't mind spoilers for this canon either.
***
Request 2: Tekken - fanfic
Relationships: F!Lee Chaolan/M!Anna Williams
Freeform tags: Temporarily 63ed
What I love: Both Lee and Anna see themselves as smooth and sexy, but they are also kind of cheesy and ridiculous. I can imagine them having lots of lovers of all genders, but I can also imagine them being failboats at it. I like the idea that over the years, they keep having casual flings with each other. I also like the idea that as veterans of Iron Fist - sometimes rivals, sometimes allies - they might share jaded musings over drinks.
Prompts:
* They get genderswapped, either intentionally (eg as a disguise), accidentally (eg trying to power up with experimental science or ancient magic), or mysteriously (eg strange artefact or woke up different). Maybe they have to work together to figure out how to reverse it. Maybe they go out shopping for clothes and go on fancy dates. Maybe they just find each other really hot, and then they bang.
* Identity porn! They enter the Iron Fist tournament in their new identities, unknown to each other. Or maybe they recognise each other, but swear each other to secrecy. Or maybe everyone else recognises them anyway and they're just playing along.
* I'm fine with something cracky or something serious.
Canon knowledge: I've played up to and including Tekken 5. I don't mind spoilers for the later games, and I'm fine for you to include those characters and events, as long as the story can be understood without having played them.
***
Request 3: The Elric Saga - Michael Moorcock - fanfic
Relationships: F!Elric/M!Cymoril
Freeform tags: Always a 63
What I love: The fantastical worldbuilding and imagery. Elric being a subversion of the typical sword-and-sorcery hero. The fragile albino sorcerer king, dependent on a souldrinking black sword, trying to be a moral person, even against the traditions of his people and his gods.
Prompts:
* I just want to see cool sword-and-sorcery tropes, but with Elric as a woman and Cymoril as a man. Magic, duels, dragons, quests, curses, kingdoms, prophecies, etc. (Regarding Cymoril as the tragic doomed lover: I'm fine to see his fate played out for angst, or for his fate to be averted somehow.)
Canon knowledge: It's been so long that I can't remember which books I've read or haven't read. I'm not fussed about continuity though, especially since this premise is an AU. I don't mind spoilers for this canon either.
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Crossposted from Dreamwidth, where there are
comments. Comment here or there.