Dear Author letter (TW Holidays)
Dear Writer,
I’m glad you’ve offered some of my requests! Below I briefly went over all the characters, relationships and additional tags I’ve chosen in my sign-up - I hope that helps.
Fix-It
The first part of season 3 has had so many questionable developments and plot holes that there’s a wide array of things to fix, starting with why was .
Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
See above. Mostly it seems like people communicating with each other and thinking before acting would really improve several characters’ life choices. Also, keeping Peter Hale dead, that would definitely be an improvement.
Backstory
Especially in Cora’s and Jennifer’s cases, we’ve hardly learnt anything about them. How did Cora survive the fire and what happened to her during all those years she’s been missing? How did Jennifer become Kali’s emissary? Why did she wait so long with her revenge? Not to mention all the missing pieces about Derek’s life before season 1 - not just the parts we know almost nothing about (like what were Laura and him doing before she went back to Beacon Hills), but also the parts that were filled in by Peter, who’s at best an extremely unreliable narrator.
Road Trips
I like road trip stories because they show how characters act in a different environment and in different circumstances - and if they’re not solitary journeys they also show how they act if trapped, for long stretches of time, in an enclosed space together. Any and all road trips are great: ones with a purpose and a destination and meandering ones; those with one or more of the participants reluctant to be there, or taken along against their wishes; ones that are less like road trips and more like attempts to be somewhere, anywhere else.
Women Being Awesome
Multi-dimentional female characters are the best ones: not necessarily the strongest ones and those doing the most ass-kicking, but those that have their own stories and motivations, instead of being a plot point or an accessory in someone else’s story.
Unreliable Narrator
I love every single iteration of this: omniscient observer narrators, who lie to the reader; POV narrators who lie not to the reader, but to themselves; stories told by an outsider who misunderstands what they’re seeing; stories told from multiple points of view, each of them slightly slanting the story to suit their needs.
Monster of the Week
As a supernatural-themed shows’ equivalent of Case Fic. Or, in Teen Wolf’s case, it should probably be Crisis of the Week, because let’s face it, this is not the kind of story where a monster of the week gets dealt with without in snowballing into a minor tragedy.
Trust Issues
Using this as a prompt seems about as useful as using ‘duh’ in this fandom, but I’d really like to see someone finally working on those trust issues everyone has (and justifiably so).
Danny Mahealani
Somebody needs to tell him what’s been going on. Anyone at all, but I’d like him to stay trauma-less (at least as much as you can be when living in Beacon Hills), so it probably shouldn’t be Peter.
Cora Hale
All throughout the season she was mostly a blank slate and I would love to know more about her, whatever your headcanon is. Does she come back to Beacon Hills? Is the Cora Hale? Or maybe she’s an impostor with a yet unknown agenda?
Derek Hale
We don’t actually learn much from canon about what he’s like when he’s not in the middle of a crisis, and they have to stop coming at some point, right?
If you’d like to write post-canon fic, please try not to heap on a new trauma on him. I’m also not a fan of the failwolf trope.
Lydia Martin
Telling Lydia the truth about what’s going on was the best possible move, because now someone smart and level-headed is in the know and maybe the next problem will get fixed before it becomes a Greek tragedy. Especially if the next crisis is Peter, because she can be both ruthless when necessary and scarily efficient and she should be the one to put him back in the ground.
Jennifer Blake
She made a more compelling character once her agenda was revealed, which makes me believe that most of what we’ve seen of her has been a mask and a performance. I’d love for her to stick around Beacon Hills - she’d make a much better recurring villain than Gerard or Peter. It would also be great to see her and the others (very reluctantly) joining forces against a common threat and have a angry sexual tension with Derek and a barely or not-at-all concealed antagonism with Stiles.