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Dear Everywoman Author (2022)
Dear Everywoman Author:
Hi! Thank you for sharing these fandoms and loving their female characters! I’m sure that whatever you most want to celebrate in these characters and their worlds will make a lovely story! If you’d like more story thoughts from me, read on.
Across fandoms
I usually most enjoy stories with the feel of canon, whether an incident or interlude that could have been there all along, or a different choice or chance that diverges from canon to somewhere new. To engage me with a full-on (not divergent) AU, a good tactic is to play up where the original themes thrive in the new concept.
With a few specific exceptions, I usually prefer gen to romance. Mystery, drama, history, reflection, confrontation, growth, discovery, tragedy! The quiet times between adventures! For romance, I have fairly vanilla tastes. I value fidelity, mutuality, and complementarity. Except for Journey to the West, which is a comedy, I do opt in for tragedy, including requested character death; I like stories of continuing on from bereavement.
Where appropriate, I especially love bits where heroes incidentally, without thinking they’re doing anything special, show that they value others highly — that is, not only their own loved ones, but the dignity and abundant life of all people, especially those on the margins.
Please do mix and match the requested characters with each other and added appropriate characters to build your story as you need! Please don't feel confined to "solo introspection" for characters requested outside pairs and groups.
D&DC | HL | BSG78 | FK | YB | JTTW | PoGPO
Fandom & character-specific
D&DC: Dungeons & Dragons (the ‘80s cartoon)
I’m intrigued by the possibilities of stories of our gang grown up, whether in the Realm or back here. I also love stories of them in the midst of growing up, and every kind of quest for or journey home from the Realm or back to the Realm. (Any romances should please suit their ages and eras, whether ‘80s teenager or ‘20s adult.)
I imagine that one reason that there’s not nearly enough fanfic celebrating Diana may be that our 6 adventurers are 1 more than the typical "5-man band" story squad (leader, lancer, heart, head, brawn). Instead of consistently owning any one role, Diana seems to rotate through all five. (I speculate that the creators originally meant Diana to be the lancer, with Eric the odd one out.) How about a story where Hank is out of commission and Diana has to lead? Or one where she and Eric sort of contest the lancer role between them? Or maybe a story that explores how Diana feels about where her hard-earned acrobatic skills end and her javelin's magically-bestowed skills begin? Or, if it's your cup of tea to tackle, how does Diana process being nearly the only Black person in the Realm? (If you’d like romance, how about Eric/Diana (if they're older!) and Kosar/Diana (AU or added scenes?)?)
For Sheila, I'd love to read about the thematic connection — or disconnect — between her thief/rogue invisibility and her fear of being alone. Sheila generally counsels caution, but she is very brave in her own ways; perhaps a rendition of one of the others not realizing that, or recognizing it anew, would be fun? (If you’d like romance, how about Hank/Sheila (especially while they're still kids) or Eric/Sheila (especially when they're older)? I’m open to Reformed!Kareena/Shelia if Kareena loses her powers (or similar) and Shelia is a grown woman, so that they would be less unequal... perhaps Kareena stumbles into the real world decades after Shelia went home to it.)
I think that it's clear that Martha and/or her parents came from our world and became Dungeon Master's pupils, just like our heroes, and surely they must have had Weapons of Power form the Dragons' Graveyard as well as a magical pet, just like our heroes. But they never made it back, perhaps gave up, perhaps lost each other tragically, perhaps even were cast aside by Dungeon Master under circumstances...? I would be very interested in either learning Martha's backstory (and the life-long fallout of adventuring like this) or seeing her move on from her one canon appearance stronger and happier and more satisfied with her life than we found her.
HL: Highlander: The Series
I love the underlying fairy tale of the character who lives on and on, doomed to lose everyone and be alone, but astonishingly brave enough to go on and care again. I most enjoy the first two seasons, when there are more mortal than immortal characters and that theme is most present. I also love the historical content and parallels between past and present.
Tessa is one of my favorite TV characters. I’m absolutely delighted to follow her in action or to mourn her and linger in her loss. Perhaps a story with a mortal villain to be overcome (like "Bad Day in Building A" or "Deadly Medicine") with Tessa bravely involved (like "See No Evil" and "Eyewitness")? Perhaps a plot as she researches for a sculpture? Perhaps she gets to rescue Duncan for a change? Or she counsels Richie through a disappointment? Or how did she see Michelle when she and Duncan were friends with Michelle's parents? (Or romance! Duncan/Tessa is one of those happy exceptions where I eagerly seek romance stories. Now, Tessa’s jealousy is a thorn, and she must know it, but it creeps up on her, anyway; and Duncan’s occasional archaic “she was your woman”-style nonsense reveals more than he knows — but they are so well matched and well balanced, valuing each other and themselves for each other.)
For Anne, I’d be most interested in seeing more of her after she knows about Duncan’s immortality and remains, if tangentially, in his life. She made her choice about how to live her values; she didn’t stop caring, and neither did he. For example, when and what (if anything) does Anne learn about Richie's death and Duncan's breakdown? (If you like romance, Duncan/Anne is viable for me.)
Rebecca: An abused woman immortal like Sharon from the "Rite of Passage" flashbacks shows up on Rebecca's doorstep with a letter from Duncan to the best teacher he knows?
Angie: Believes Richie dies in the motorcycle accident, but refuses to let that go unmarked, unmourned, and shows up in Paris and pushes her way in with the one other person she knows is mourning him...?
Alexa: Wholly from her perspective, not Methos's, one of the days in Santorini? Maybe even one of the days while he is gone back to France or the US and then he returns to her?
Ceirdwyn: Amanda could not be what Michelle (“Rite of Passage”) needed in the way of a teacher and somehow Ceirdwyn got pulled in and saved Michelle from a dark path?
(The only HL characters I’ll ask you to please omit, if feasible for your story, are Cassandra, Kenny, and the Horsemen (other than Methos).)
BSG78: Battlestar Galactica (the original)
In my imagination, since childhood, this canon always feels like it must actually be several seasons long, and I’ve just somehow missed many episodes that absolutely must exist.
Cassiopeia has become my favorite BSG78 character as an adult. Her professional transition from socialator to medtech matters in complex ways for herself and her refugee society. Her layered understanding of Starbuck matters. (If you like romance, thoughtful Starbuck/Cassiopeia is dear to my heart.)
Serina was my favorite BSG78 character as a child. Her professional transition from reporter to shuttle pilot seemed exciting then, but as an adult I question the progress of civilian life and civil society in the fleet. Did they not still need reporters? Curiously, her relationship with Boxey is something I haven’t actually seen explored. (Serina/Apollo absolutely works for me.)
Sheba, I never really liked or understood until I read James’s Yuletide story about her relationship with her father. Now, I see her more deeply, and I’m interested in the struggles of being Cain’s daughter, and of the awkwardness of personal feelings she develops toward Apollo, and therefore involving Boxey, in the wake of Serina’s death and all the death of the annihilation of the Colonies. (I wonder if Sheba gets counseling after the incidents with Iblis getting in her head. I would wish that for her, but there is no established mental health professional or religious counselor in canon... possibly the most in-demand professions in the fleet, with an entire society suffering PTSD.)
Rigel, our communications/dispatch officer with the long braids, is a cipher. I like to imagine that she had some involvement with Serina before Serina died, as the communications and journalism professions could perhaps be seen to overlap. What else should we know about Rigel? Who did she lose in the Annihilation of the Colonies, how does she cope, what does she hope...?
Ila of course has next to no canon presence. I’d like to see a story from before the annihilation of the colonies, perhaps from her children’s childhoods, reconstructing her from her influence on them, and on Adama, as we know them. Or perhaps a technological or psychological plot that confronts her adult children or Adama with her memory or presence?
FK: Forever Knight
I love the way history, mystery, metaphysics, and morals come together in FK. First season is my favorite, where Nick is free of Lacroix and striving toward a bright — if distant and always imperiled — future with his goal of approaching humanity. And I'm always delighted to see "first-season-ness" come back in and rescue the later seasons by causing a divergence.
Urs is the best thing to come out of the otherwise dire third season. I enjoy her possibilities for growth, moral positions, unexplored history, and her superficial differences from FK’s other strong women characters, which recede when you look under her surface. What did Vachon mean when he said she didn’t know her own strength? Where did she go from the realization that recognizing and admitting her challenges may not alone be enough to overcome them? (In this case, romance, yes, please! I ship Nick/Urs! I believe that they could be stronger together, for each other, and divert third season from its doomed path by the strength of joint faith in each other’s better angels and understanding of each other’s demons. Or what if they’d met at another key moment in Nick’s history?)
For Natalie, how about a new visit with a beloved in-fandom trope, like a precinct picnic, or police ball, or watching a movie with Nick, or presenting a paper at a conference, or moving from her first-season to her second-season apartment, or her cat Sidney, or her coworker-friend relationship with Grace...? Or, of course, working on a treatment or cure for Nick.
YB: Young Blades
With only 13 episodes, YB had barely found its feet before cancellation, but oh! So much potential! The back half of its little season lifted it up out of some early silliness toward rich storytelling of historical adventure.
Jacqueline pushes many of my buttons, as a survivor grieving her parents and missing her brother, as a woman making a not-too-anachronistic entry into an historical man’s world in the only way she could, as a woman of faith, and as someone frequently choosing between goals — her mission on behalf of her king and country, her vengeance on behalf of her father and Mazarin’s other victims, and her own personal development and hopes.
Queen Anne, properly Anne of Austria as a real historical figure, seems foolish and superficial where it serves her, yet reveals herself as shrewd and deep in other moments. She’s holding power through her son, tenuously, and she has her own battles with Mazarin. Could she and Jacqueline ever trade secrets and work together? Or will their truths necessarily always be ships passing in the night? Which of our other musketeers could she reach out to, in either the younger generation or the older?
JttW: Journey to the West (Monkey King)
I discovered Journey to the West via the amazing, rollicking, illustrated retelling by Red of "Overly Sarcastic Productions" (which you must check out if you love this story! so fun!) and also the version on the "Myths & Legends" podcast. Since then, I've watched a children's retelling and a "Lost in Adaptation" analysis, and am almost through an abridged translation of the original. (Next: Unabridged!) I know that JTTW has deeper allegories all over the place, and I love that, but I must admit that I'm primarily drawn in by the fantastic, snarky hilarity of this episodic adventure and its iconic characters.
I respect that Guanyin has true religious significance (and tends to get syncretized with the Virgin Mary, who is religiously important to me). Yet as the fictionalized character in JttW specifically, I would love to read another incident in which Guanyin is not immediately at her very best -- like when her pet goldfish goes rogue as a child-eating demon -- or another time in which Monkey challenges what seems to be cruel from her (like the migraine hoop) and she has to either explain how it's actually a higher compassion that he just can't yet understand or applaud his insight.
PoGO: Pokemon GO
I'm level 49, Team Valor. I'm much more a PvP player than a shiny hunter; I actually won 1 local Silph Cup tournament. I have spent waaaaay more time in this game than I should have over the past 5 -- 6? -- years. (I do know a fair assortment of the main-series games/anime lore.)
What's the story behind Sierra's Strange Eggs project? We know a lot about Arlo's work on the Shadow Pokemon initiative, with toxins and science and his deep insecurities that lead him to break from Team Valor and sneer at us "commoners," but we know almost nothing about what led Sierra to work on the Strange Eggs and what she expects from them for her own career or for Team Rocket. Did she want to supplant the Shadow Pokemon approach, but it failed? Did she want to impress Giovanni? Is she maneuvering to be the head administrator of this Earth region for Team Rocket? She is clearly the structural parallel for Spark; the game associates both of them with eggs and baby pokemon. Is that something Sierra loves, or something she just got assigned? Similarly, she's a dark-type specialist -- how did that come to be for her?
With Candela, what has the coming of PvP meant for her? She is structurally the representation of battling, so it must have been dull or frustrating for her here in this Earth region with our lack of proper battles -- just our silly gyms and raids -- for those first several years she was here. We know that she's naturally fiery-tempered, and that she's worked hard to control this and become a strong, patient leader and trainer. In my head-canon, Candela is originally from Unova; do you think that she writes correspondence home to friends and family, telling them about our odd region and her work to document it and protect the pokemon in it, since Team Rocket appeared?
Or how about: What is a Community Day like from Candela and/or Sierra's perspectives? Clearly it is not true -- just a vile rumor! probably started by Team Rocket! -- that the extra pokemon sent to the Professor get ground up and turned into candy. No, of course they get measured and tagged and re-released into the wild. Obviously. Busy day for his team! But what about on the Team Rocket side...?
Do Not Want (DNW)
Thank you for taking these into consideration; I appreciate it!
Villains should do villainy, of course, and that can make awesome stories! But when villains win, I feel that it's properly a tragedy, not a triumph; please don't ask me to root for evil. Also, no second-person, please (unless you're crafting something super clever).
Thank you very much!
Hi! Thank you for sharing these fandoms and loving their female characters! I’m sure that whatever you most want to celebrate in these characters and their worlds will make a lovely story! If you’d like more story thoughts from me, read on.
Across fandoms
I usually most enjoy stories with the feel of canon, whether an incident or interlude that could have been there all along, or a different choice or chance that diverges from canon to somewhere new. To engage me with a full-on (not divergent) AU, a good tactic is to play up where the original themes thrive in the new concept.
With a few specific exceptions, I usually prefer gen to romance. Mystery, drama, history, reflection, confrontation, growth, discovery, tragedy! The quiet times between adventures! For romance, I have fairly vanilla tastes. I value fidelity, mutuality, and complementarity. Except for Journey to the West, which is a comedy, I do opt in for tragedy, including requested character death; I like stories of continuing on from bereavement.
Where appropriate, I especially love bits where heroes incidentally, without thinking they’re doing anything special, show that they value others highly — that is, not only their own loved ones, but the dignity and abundant life of all people, especially those on the margins.
Please do mix and match the requested characters with each other and added appropriate characters to build your story as you need! Please don't feel confined to "solo introspection" for characters requested outside pairs and groups.
Fandom & character-specific
D&DC: Dungeons & Dragons (the ‘80s cartoon)
I’m intrigued by the possibilities of stories of our gang grown up, whether in the Realm or back here. I also love stories of them in the midst of growing up, and every kind of quest for or journey home from the Realm or back to the Realm. (Any romances should please suit their ages and eras, whether ‘80s teenager or ‘20s adult.)
I imagine that one reason that there’s not nearly enough fanfic celebrating Diana may be that our 6 adventurers are 1 more than the typical "5-man band" story squad (leader, lancer, heart, head, brawn). Instead of consistently owning any one role, Diana seems to rotate through all five. (I speculate that the creators originally meant Diana to be the lancer, with Eric the odd one out.) How about a story where Hank is out of commission and Diana has to lead? Or one where she and Eric sort of contest the lancer role between them? Or maybe a story that explores how Diana feels about where her hard-earned acrobatic skills end and her javelin's magically-bestowed skills begin? Or, if it's your cup of tea to tackle, how does Diana process being nearly the only Black person in the Realm? (If you’d like romance, how about Eric/Diana (if they're older!) and Kosar/Diana (AU or added scenes?)?)
For Sheila, I'd love to read about the thematic connection — or disconnect — between her thief/rogue invisibility and her fear of being alone. Sheila generally counsels caution, but she is very brave in her own ways; perhaps a rendition of one of the others not realizing that, or recognizing it anew, would be fun? (If you’d like romance, how about Hank/Sheila (especially while they're still kids) or Eric/Sheila (especially when they're older)? I’m open to Reformed!Kareena/Shelia if Kareena loses her powers (or similar) and Shelia is a grown woman, so that they would be less unequal... perhaps Kareena stumbles into the real world decades after Shelia went home to it.)
I think that it's clear that Martha and/or her parents came from our world and became Dungeon Master's pupils, just like our heroes, and surely they must have had Weapons of Power form the Dragons' Graveyard as well as a magical pet, just like our heroes. But they never made it back, perhaps gave up, perhaps lost each other tragically, perhaps even were cast aside by Dungeon Master under circumstances...? I would be very interested in either learning Martha's backstory (and the life-long fallout of adventuring like this) or seeing her move on from her one canon appearance stronger and happier and more satisfied with her life than we found her.
HL: Highlander: The Series
I love the underlying fairy tale of the character who lives on and on, doomed to lose everyone and be alone, but astonishingly brave enough to go on and care again. I most enjoy the first two seasons, when there are more mortal than immortal characters and that theme is most present. I also love the historical content and parallels between past and present.
Tessa is one of my favorite TV characters. I’m absolutely delighted to follow her in action or to mourn her and linger in her loss. Perhaps a story with a mortal villain to be overcome (like "Bad Day in Building A" or "Deadly Medicine") with Tessa bravely involved (like "See No Evil" and "Eyewitness")? Perhaps a plot as she researches for a sculpture? Perhaps she gets to rescue Duncan for a change? Or she counsels Richie through a disappointment? Or how did she see Michelle when she and Duncan were friends with Michelle's parents? (Or romance! Duncan/Tessa is one of those happy exceptions where I eagerly seek romance stories. Now, Tessa’s jealousy is a thorn, and she must know it, but it creeps up on her, anyway; and Duncan’s occasional archaic “she was your woman”-style nonsense reveals more than he knows — but they are so well matched and well balanced, valuing each other and themselves for each other.)
For Anne, I’d be most interested in seeing more of her after she knows about Duncan’s immortality and remains, if tangentially, in his life. She made her choice about how to live her values; she didn’t stop caring, and neither did he. For example, when and what (if anything) does Anne learn about Richie's death and Duncan's breakdown? (If you like romance, Duncan/Anne is viable for me.)
Rebecca: An abused woman immortal like Sharon from the "Rite of Passage" flashbacks shows up on Rebecca's doorstep with a letter from Duncan to the best teacher he knows?
Angie: Believes Richie dies in the motorcycle accident, but refuses to let that go unmarked, unmourned, and shows up in Paris and pushes her way in with the one other person she knows is mourning him...?
Alexa: Wholly from her perspective, not Methos's, one of the days in Santorini? Maybe even one of the days while he is gone back to France or the US and then he returns to her?
Ceirdwyn: Amanda could not be what Michelle (“Rite of Passage”) needed in the way of a teacher and somehow Ceirdwyn got pulled in and saved Michelle from a dark path?
(The only HL characters I’ll ask you to please omit, if feasible for your story, are Cassandra, Kenny, and the Horsemen (other than Methos).)
BSG78: Battlestar Galactica (the original)
In my imagination, since childhood, this canon always feels like it must actually be several seasons long, and I’ve just somehow missed many episodes that absolutely must exist.
Cassiopeia has become my favorite BSG78 character as an adult. Her professional transition from socialator to medtech matters in complex ways for herself and her refugee society. Her layered understanding of Starbuck matters. (If you like romance, thoughtful Starbuck/Cassiopeia is dear to my heart.)
Serina was my favorite BSG78 character as a child. Her professional transition from reporter to shuttle pilot seemed exciting then, but as an adult I question the progress of civilian life and civil society in the fleet. Did they not still need reporters? Curiously, her relationship with Boxey is something I haven’t actually seen explored. (Serina/Apollo absolutely works for me.)
Sheba, I never really liked or understood until I read James’s Yuletide story about her relationship with her father. Now, I see her more deeply, and I’m interested in the struggles of being Cain’s daughter, and of the awkwardness of personal feelings she develops toward Apollo, and therefore involving Boxey, in the wake of Serina’s death and all the death of the annihilation of the Colonies. (I wonder if Sheba gets counseling after the incidents with Iblis getting in her head. I would wish that for her, but there is no established mental health professional or religious counselor in canon... possibly the most in-demand professions in the fleet, with an entire society suffering PTSD.)
Rigel, our communications/dispatch officer with the long braids, is a cipher. I like to imagine that she had some involvement with Serina before Serina died, as the communications and journalism professions could perhaps be seen to overlap. What else should we know about Rigel? Who did she lose in the Annihilation of the Colonies, how does she cope, what does she hope...?
Ila of course has next to no canon presence. I’d like to see a story from before the annihilation of the colonies, perhaps from her children’s childhoods, reconstructing her from her influence on them, and on Adama, as we know them. Or perhaps a technological or psychological plot that confronts her adult children or Adama with her memory or presence?
FK: Forever Knight
I love the way history, mystery, metaphysics, and morals come together in FK. First season is my favorite, where Nick is free of Lacroix and striving toward a bright — if distant and always imperiled — future with his goal of approaching humanity. And I'm always delighted to see "first-season-ness" come back in and rescue the later seasons by causing a divergence.
Urs is the best thing to come out of the otherwise dire third season. I enjoy her possibilities for growth, moral positions, unexplored history, and her superficial differences from FK’s other strong women characters, which recede when you look under her surface. What did Vachon mean when he said she didn’t know her own strength? Where did she go from the realization that recognizing and admitting her challenges may not alone be enough to overcome them? (In this case, romance, yes, please! I ship Nick/Urs! I believe that they could be stronger together, for each other, and divert third season from its doomed path by the strength of joint faith in each other’s better angels and understanding of each other’s demons. Or what if they’d met at another key moment in Nick’s history?)
For Natalie, how about a new visit with a beloved in-fandom trope, like a precinct picnic, or police ball, or watching a movie with Nick, or presenting a paper at a conference, or moving from her first-season to her second-season apartment, or her cat Sidney, or her coworker-friend relationship with Grace...? Or, of course, working on a treatment or cure for Nick.
YB: Young Blades
With only 13 episodes, YB had barely found its feet before cancellation, but oh! So much potential! The back half of its little season lifted it up out of some early silliness toward rich storytelling of historical adventure.
Jacqueline pushes many of my buttons, as a survivor grieving her parents and missing her brother, as a woman making a not-too-anachronistic entry into an historical man’s world in the only way she could, as a woman of faith, and as someone frequently choosing between goals — her mission on behalf of her king and country, her vengeance on behalf of her father and Mazarin’s other victims, and her own personal development and hopes.
Queen Anne, properly Anne of Austria as a real historical figure, seems foolish and superficial where it serves her, yet reveals herself as shrewd and deep in other moments. She’s holding power through her son, tenuously, and she has her own battles with Mazarin. Could she and Jacqueline ever trade secrets and work together? Or will their truths necessarily always be ships passing in the night? Which of our other musketeers could she reach out to, in either the younger generation or the older?
JttW: Journey to the West (Monkey King)
I discovered Journey to the West via the amazing, rollicking, illustrated retelling by Red of "Overly Sarcastic Productions" (which you must check out if you love this story! so fun!) and also the version on the "Myths & Legends" podcast. Since then, I've watched a children's retelling and a "Lost in Adaptation" analysis, and am almost through an abridged translation of the original. (Next: Unabridged!) I know that JTTW has deeper allegories all over the place, and I love that, but I must admit that I'm primarily drawn in by the fantastic, snarky hilarity of this episodic adventure and its iconic characters.
I respect that Guanyin has true religious significance (and tends to get syncretized with the Virgin Mary, who is religiously important to me). Yet as the fictionalized character in JttW specifically, I would love to read another incident in which Guanyin is not immediately at her very best -- like when her pet goldfish goes rogue as a child-eating demon -- or another time in which Monkey challenges what seems to be cruel from her (like the migraine hoop) and she has to either explain how it's actually a higher compassion that he just can't yet understand or applaud his insight.
PoGO: Pokemon GO
I'm level 49, Team Valor. I'm much more a PvP player than a shiny hunter; I actually won 1 local Silph Cup tournament. I have spent waaaaay more time in this game than I should have over the past 5 -- 6? -- years. (I do know a fair assortment of the main-series games/anime lore.)
What's the story behind Sierra's Strange Eggs project? We know a lot about Arlo's work on the Shadow Pokemon initiative, with toxins and science and his deep insecurities that lead him to break from Team Valor and sneer at us "commoners," but we know almost nothing about what led Sierra to work on the Strange Eggs and what she expects from them for her own career or for Team Rocket. Did she want to supplant the Shadow Pokemon approach, but it failed? Did she want to impress Giovanni? Is she maneuvering to be the head administrator of this Earth region for Team Rocket? She is clearly the structural parallel for Spark; the game associates both of them with eggs and baby pokemon. Is that something Sierra loves, or something she just got assigned? Similarly, she's a dark-type specialist -- how did that come to be for her?
With Candela, what has the coming of PvP meant for her? She is structurally the representation of battling, so it must have been dull or frustrating for her here in this Earth region with our lack of proper battles -- just our silly gyms and raids -- for those first several years she was here. We know that she's naturally fiery-tempered, and that she's worked hard to control this and become a strong, patient leader and trainer. In my head-canon, Candela is originally from Unova; do you think that she writes correspondence home to friends and family, telling them about our odd region and her work to document it and protect the pokemon in it, since Team Rocket appeared?
Or how about: What is a Community Day like from Candela and/or Sierra's perspectives? Clearly it is not true -- just a vile rumor! probably started by Team Rocket! -- that the extra pokemon sent to the Professor get ground up and turned into candy. No, of course they get measured and tagged and re-released into the wild. Obviously. Busy day for his team! But what about on the Team Rocket side...?
Do Not Want (DNW)
Thank you for taking these into consideration; I appreciate it!
Villains should do villainy, of course, and that can make awesome stories! But when villains win, I feel that it's properly a tragedy, not a triumph; please don't ask me to root for evil. Also, no second-person, please (unless you're crafting something super clever).
- No pro-evil, including pro-bigotry (and pro-vampirism, where relevant)
- No non-con or dub-con
- No incest, underage, adult/child, mentor/student, boss/employee, monarch/subject, vampire/human, vampire maker/convert, or similar power discrepancies
- No BDSM or other activities commonly referred to as kinks
- No mpreg, ABO, or similar mechanisms
- No “plotless” violence or sex, and no violent sex (vampire biology excepted, where relevant)
- No anti-religion
Thank you very much!