Yuletide 2013
Hi! This is my second Yuletide, I had a lot of fun last year and I'm really excited for this time around.
General preferences:
I like action/adventures, but I also really like stories that fill in world building or add new ideas and details not explored in the original material.
I'm fine with original characters, and in some of these requests they're almost required, but I'm pretty wary of ones that are related to or have a relationship with canon characters, especially if they're female. (Sorry, I've run into too many Mary Sues)
I'm cool with slash, het, femslash, even xeno relationships, but I'd rather the story not focus on romance.
I'm cool with gore, especially when it makes sense.
I don't like explicit rape, but I understand it's a thing that realistically happens, especially when law and order breaks down, so it can certainly be mentioned or stated as having happened. I really can't take pedophilia or shota, though.
I don't want to scare you off by thinking I'm picky! I just wanted to cover some of the fanfic bases/triggers so you feel more comfortable if you want the zombies to be gross and scary, the demon summoners to do bad things, etc.
Requests:
Cabin in the Woods
I would like to see a previous years’ scenario.
Whether it is a failed (somebody escapes) or successful scenario (all sacrifices die) is up to you. Whether you choose one of the monsters glimpsed in the meltdown or create an original monster is up to you, but I would like there to be a mention of the monster's myth/origin. I would also like some mention of how the sacrifices are being manipulated to force them into the correct scenarios. You can write the POV of the directors/workers, the sacrifices, or even the monster(s).
Also, you can choose a different country. I would find it very interesting to see how other countries' horror tropes play in or how their sacrifice scenarios differ from the Americans. Anyway, just thinking about this makes me pretty excited!
Valdemar
I would like to see a story that focuses on somebody who's not a Herald.
More specifically I really would love a story about a Healer or a Karsite priest.
Especially a Karsite priest before or during the "Reformation". I was always kind of disappointed we didn’t get more detail on all the chaos that it surely must have caused, those guys were in power and doing their own thing for so long that it can't have been an easy transition even with the Sunlord actively interfering. Were there assassination plots? How did the Demon Summoners react? Etc. (Sorry if my terminology is wrong, it’s been a little while).
District 9
The Black Fluid and the fact that Christopher instantly knew that it was causing Wikus' transformation really intrigues me.
Maybe it's used to conquer other species by literally changing them into their species.
Or maybe it's just a very very strange coincidence and the first time it happened it caused a huge galactic incident for their species. I would really like a story dealing with either of these two scenarios. You could make it so Christopher is explaining things to his kid or to Wikus after he comes back, or a prequel to the movie, or something else.
World War Z
An interview with a child or someone who was a child during the Rising.
Or, an interview with survivor(s) from North Korea that managed to break out of the tunnels