Yuletide 2020
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convenientaliasIt's Yuletide again :) This year I'm requesting Asian dramas bc that's what I've been into all year (and so many of them are such small fandoms lols).
I'm giving some general likes and basic prompts, but please take the prompts as just suggestions if you want direction. These fandoms are all really really really small so I would love to see your take on them no matter what you want to write.
General Likes
I'm giving some general likes and basic prompts, but please take the prompts as just suggestions if you want direction. These fandoms are all really really really small so I would love to see your take on them no matter what you want to write.
General Likes
Identity porn
Kidnapping or captivity
Crack written seriously
General Dislikes
Circle: Two Worlds Connected
Requesting: Any character(s) from the tagset (including Kim Woo Jin, Kim Bum Gyun, Lee Ho Soo, and Han Jung Yeon)
Circle is a 12-episode sci-fi kdrama about missing brothers, aliens, and memory-erasing technology. It's a bit hard to chase down online with English subtitles, but I believe you can watch it here. I love it for the angst! The lost memories angst, the trying to hunt down brothers angst, everything.
DNW: Bum Gyun/Woo Jin.
Some ideas:
-Woo Jin and Bum Gyun's life pre-canon. Bum Gyun obsessing over aliens before landing in jail, Woo Jin perhaps trying to moderate his behavior unsuccessfully. The angst when Bum Gyun ultimately does land in jail.
-Woo Jin and Joon Hyuk's life post-canon. How does Woo Jin integrate into a society twenty years advanced from what he remembers? How does he deal with being a clone--any identity crises going on there? Does Joon Hyuk actually start a bakery? Are they entrenched in a legal tangle with the collapse of Smart Earth (needed as witnesses against Human B, for example)? What's up with that possible new alien sighting? This is a show where I would enjoy either angst or fluff or both in this area.
-The utter weirdness that has to be Byul and Woo Jin's relationship post-canon. They say these two are reverting to their 2017 selves, but that time has passed--Byul is older now, with many new experiences, and while Woo Jin is the same he also literally isn't Woo Jin. I would love something exploring their non-apparent age gap, or Byul telling Woo Jin about what she's been up to since he's been gone.
-A Lee Ho Soo/Joon Hyuk fic. Ho Soo seducing Joon Hyuk for information during the time he's working for Human B. Explosions of angry sexual tension. The two of them commiserating over lost memories--or maybe Joon Hyuk finding technology in Human B that could return his, and Ho Soo supporting him through the process. Ho Soo dissing Joon Hyuk's baking skills. Joon Hyuk trying to convince Ho Soo to not wear literally only white (he's seen him in black, he knows it looks good). Or for more angst, what if Ho Soo really did have his memories of Joon Hyuk erased when he was taken in by Smart Earth security?
-A Lee Ho Soo/Joon Hyuk/Byul fic. This was the dream team, and I'd love to explore their dynamic--either platonic or romantic if you want to go there. I'd love a scene of Byul threatening Ho Soo with a gun again (and maybe Joon Hyuk trying to convince her to put it down), or maybe Byul and Joon Hyuk worrying and reminiscing about Woo Jin while Ho Soo's like "...I don't know this guy but I'm sorry you guys are having feelings. He sounds nice?" Or just the three of them hating and scheming against Human B together.
-Byul's years in hiding, becoming Bluebird and avoiding Human B. Did she have any close calls? When did she acquire her goth fashion sense of later years?
-If you wanted to write Byul femslash I would be into that. Her getting together with Park Min Young, maybe? Or some OFC she met in the 20 year time skip? Idk I know it's a long shot but I'm always up for femslash tbh.
-A Woo Jin lives fic! Cuz, you know, it's kind of a bummer he died! Does he manage to escape Human B and go on the run with Byul or into hiding with the comatose Bum Gyun? Does he still end up in a coma and only awaken twenty years later? Does he get captured by Human B and endure twenty years as a lab rat/computer part? Does Professor Park convince him (perhaps violently) that it's really for the best if he joins up with Human B... and maybe he really does become the chairman? It's up to you! Maybe the clone's still around too, and there's just two (or more) Woo Jins. Maybe this could lead to self-cest. The possibilities are limitless.
-Being honest I would also love ghost!Woo Jin haunting the shit out of Human B and occasionally appearing to his brother to be supportive.
The Flame's Daughter
Requesting: Any character(s) from the tagset (which is to say, Anye Luo, Yu Zihan, Dao Liexiang, and/or Lei Jinghong)
The Flame's Daughter is a 52-episode wuxia cdrama about feuding martial arts sects and a sect heiress caught in the middle of it all. It has cartoonishly evil and smug villains, all the whump you could wish for, beautiful costumes, and a fair amount of martial arts. You can watch it on Viki.
What I liked about this show was mostly its intrigue and its whump. Loved watching Anye Luo being extremely villainous and awful, Yu Zihan being stoic and smart and suffering, and Dao Liexiang and Lei Jinghong being terribly dysfunctional constantly. If you write a fic that is about Bad Things Happening to these people, that's probably a good bet. That said, I would also be up for any of them being happy post-canon (or in the case of Anye Luo, in an AU).
DNW: A focus on Yu Zihan pining for Lie Ruge (it's fine as background, just please not as the only plot), Anye Luo/Lie Ruge.
Some ideas:
-I shipped Anye Luo/Yu Zihan in the worst way. The mind games! Anye Luo has Yu Zihan cursed, and then kidnapped, and then poisoned, and later on imprisons and tortures him... but there's still some weird respect there for Yu Zihan's abilities. That rant he gives to Yu Zihan the first time they meet about how Yu Zihan deserves better, deserves to be emperor someday, is catnip to me--did he mean it? How exactly does he see Yu Zihan? Anyways I would be very interested in seeing these two manipulate each other or just in seeing Anye Luo do more awful things to Yu Zihan--what if he won? Would he have killed Yu Zihan off eventually, or continued holding him prisoner? Alternatively, AU where Anye Luo becomes sexually/romantically obsessed with Yu Zihan and it replaces his obsession with Anye Ming.
-Then there's Dao Liexiang and Lei Jinghong, the slightly less awful dysfunctional couple. I would love something between them set during the time when Lei Jinghong is basically a prisoner in Wu Dao City and Liexiang is pressuring him to marry her. How does he come to that decision? Does he resent her? I'd be up for dubcon within this timeframe in particular. Otherwise, I'd like to see them postcanon on an occasion where they're actually together; how long does it take them to fully reconcile and how do their sects see their relationship? I also shipped these two as an OT3 with Feng Huang, so if you want to include her, feel free--or for that matter, if you want to throw in Zhan Feng, and just explore ALL the awkward marriage dynamics, I'd be into it.
Apart from these couples:
-Dao Liexiang/Feng Huang femslash!
-Lei Jinghong/Feng Huang--being together on the run, Feng Huang hiding Lei Jinghong at the Taste Flower Pavilion, etc.
-Dao Liexiang angsting over her position in a sect that is doing bad evil things, angsting over her relationship with a bad evil brother.
-Lei Jinghong angsting over losing his position in his sect, over being wrongly accused. Lei Jinghong's conflicted relationship with Anye Jue, growing up or in the canon timeframe.
-Anye Luo being a creep to people who aren't Yu Zihan. Zhan Feng's a good candidate (some good old "you're my nephew/the son of the woman I loved but also the son of the man I hate" vibes, or maybe some sexual tension). So is Yin Xue (what the fuck is those two's history?). Frankly, this dude could be a creep to anyone.
-Yu Zihan coming out of seclusion post-canon. He can't sit around in seclusion forever; or rather, I don't want him to! Let him find a new love or make more friends or get entangled in politics supporting his brother or have to help restore Flaming Hills to its former glory. Let him eat sesame cakes and not cough blood as a result. Let him have some fun.
-I'm also curious about Yu Zihan's relationship with his brothers, both blood brothers and martial brothers. They don't seem exactly close--what bonds do they have, or if there is distance, what caused that distance?
Method (2017)
Requesting: Jae Ha, Young Woo
This is a Korean movie about a method actor and a young idol who method act together and fall in love, but maybe only fall in love because they're method acting. It's queer, fairly dark and problematic (the method actor is married so there's infidelity, and there's also some obsessive behavior at the end), atmospheric and pretty fun. You can find it on Viki here. I have to say, I find it kind of hilarious in the sense that it's basically a cautionary tale about method acting. Don't method act and romance, kids. It only leads bad places.
I would love either a kind of dark story (though preferably no darker than canon) or something a little lighter. I don't really want pure fluff, though, or for Jae Ha and Young Woo to get back together and be perfectly happy post-canon.
Some ideas
-What if Jae Ha and Young Woo were in a different kind of play together? Suppose they were just portraying nemeses or a father/son relationship or a friendship or a romantic relationship that was less tense. Would this make the sexual tension lower, or would it simply strip away their excuses?
-Missing scene--a moment where Jae Ha and Young Woo's attraction grows stronger. Maybe it's when Jae Ha sees Young Woo taking his role seriously. Maybe, to be a little dark, it's at a moment when Jae Ha acts violent or cruel to Young Woo (he seems to get kind of into that, given that he first gets into method acting after Jae Ha looms at him and their first kiss is after Jae Ha gets too into the role and hurts him). Or maybe it's off set, eating dinner or talking about the art of theater or going to the marketplace.
-The fallout post-canon! That show was Jae Ha and Young Woo's OPENING NIGHT. I assume that means they will have to act it out again. Multiple times. And Jae Ha's not going to be having much fun at all. Does Young Woo continue to mess with him, or act like he never did anything wrong? After all, it's all acting, Jae Ha. If you're not going to take your relationship with Young Woo seriously, why take his creepiness seriously either? (...but Jae Ha can't help but take it seriously.)
-Post-canon Jae Ha finding he's still attracted to Young Woo even though their relationship is so fucked up. Is Young Woo willing to take him back?
-We don't get much of Young Woo's perspective of their relationship in canon. I'd love to see him talking to a friend about it or maybe his manager or one of his coworkers--convinced it's love, high on adrenalin and dopamine. Or him talking to reporters about it after the fact.
-For that matter, this is a canon where a social media style fic of outsiders reacting to the weird goings on in this show would be very fun. Do Jae Ha and Young Woo's fans believe they're in a relationship or that it's all getting into character or a publicity stunt? What do they think of Jae Ha's near mental breakdown on stage?
Dysfunctional relationships
Dubious consent
Dubious consent
Obsession
Hurt/comfort
Magic AUs (vampires, animal transformations, soulmarks, spells backfiring, etc.)
Angst
Couples getting together
Pre-slash or UST
Fix-it fic
5+1 fic
Alternate first meetings or relationship dynamics
Canon divergence
Fighting--swords, fists, guns, etc. Any level of seriousness.
Complicated power dynamics.
Bondage.
Trapped in an elevator/landslide/snowstorm together.
General Dislikes
Main character death as the focus of the fic.
Watersports or scat
Pregnancy or characters having non-canonical children
Modern/mundane AU
PWP
Eye horror, or finger or toe injury
Extreme ageplay
Explicit sex involving ppl under the age of 16
Incest
A focus on suicide or suicidal ideation.
Men raping women.
Men raping women.
Circle: Two Worlds Connected
Requesting: Any character(s) from the tagset (including Kim Woo Jin, Kim Bum Gyun, Lee Ho Soo, and Han Jung Yeon)
Circle is a 12-episode sci-fi kdrama about missing brothers, aliens, and memory-erasing technology. It's a bit hard to chase down online with English subtitles, but I believe you can watch it here. I love it for the angst! The lost memories angst, the trying to hunt down brothers angst, everything.
DNW: Bum Gyun/Woo Jin.
Some ideas:
-Woo Jin and Bum Gyun's life pre-canon. Bum Gyun obsessing over aliens before landing in jail, Woo Jin perhaps trying to moderate his behavior unsuccessfully. The angst when Bum Gyun ultimately does land in jail.
-Woo Jin and Joon Hyuk's life post-canon. How does Woo Jin integrate into a society twenty years advanced from what he remembers? How does he deal with being a clone--any identity crises going on there? Does Joon Hyuk actually start a bakery? Are they entrenched in a legal tangle with the collapse of Smart Earth (needed as witnesses against Human B, for example)? What's up with that possible new alien sighting? This is a show where I would enjoy either angst or fluff or both in this area.
-The utter weirdness that has to be Byul and Woo Jin's relationship post-canon. They say these two are reverting to their 2017 selves, but that time has passed--Byul is older now, with many new experiences, and while Woo Jin is the same he also literally isn't Woo Jin. I would love something exploring their non-apparent age gap, or Byul telling Woo Jin about what she's been up to since he's been gone.
-A Lee Ho Soo/Joon Hyuk fic. Ho Soo seducing Joon Hyuk for information during the time he's working for Human B. Explosions of angry sexual tension. The two of them commiserating over lost memories--or maybe Joon Hyuk finding technology in Human B that could return his, and Ho Soo supporting him through the process. Ho Soo dissing Joon Hyuk's baking skills. Joon Hyuk trying to convince Ho Soo to not wear literally only white (he's seen him in black, he knows it looks good). Or for more angst, what if Ho Soo really did have his memories of Joon Hyuk erased when he was taken in by Smart Earth security?
-A Lee Ho Soo/Joon Hyuk/Byul fic. This was the dream team, and I'd love to explore their dynamic--either platonic or romantic if you want to go there. I'd love a scene of Byul threatening Ho Soo with a gun again (and maybe Joon Hyuk trying to convince her to put it down), or maybe Byul and Joon Hyuk worrying and reminiscing about Woo Jin while Ho Soo's like "...I don't know this guy but I'm sorry you guys are having feelings. He sounds nice?" Or just the three of them hating and scheming against Human B together.
-Byul's years in hiding, becoming Bluebird and avoiding Human B. Did she have any close calls? When did she acquire her goth fashion sense of later years?
-If you wanted to write Byul femslash I would be into that. Her getting together with Park Min Young, maybe? Or some OFC she met in the 20 year time skip? Idk I know it's a long shot but I'm always up for femslash tbh.
-A Woo Jin lives fic! Cuz, you know, it's kind of a bummer he died! Does he manage to escape Human B and go on the run with Byul or into hiding with the comatose Bum Gyun? Does he still end up in a coma and only awaken twenty years later? Does he get captured by Human B and endure twenty years as a lab rat/computer part? Does Professor Park convince him (perhaps violently) that it's really for the best if he joins up with Human B... and maybe he really does become the chairman? It's up to you! Maybe the clone's still around too, and there's just two (or more) Woo Jins. Maybe this could lead to self-cest. The possibilities are limitless.
-Being honest I would also love ghost!Woo Jin haunting the shit out of Human B and occasionally appearing to his brother to be supportive.
The Flame's Daughter
Requesting: Any character(s) from the tagset (which is to say, Anye Luo, Yu Zihan, Dao Liexiang, and/or Lei Jinghong)
The Flame's Daughter is a 52-episode wuxia cdrama about feuding martial arts sects and a sect heiress caught in the middle of it all. It has cartoonishly evil and smug villains, all the whump you could wish for, beautiful costumes, and a fair amount of martial arts. You can watch it on Viki.
What I liked about this show was mostly its intrigue and its whump. Loved watching Anye Luo being extremely villainous and awful, Yu Zihan being stoic and smart and suffering, and Dao Liexiang and Lei Jinghong being terribly dysfunctional constantly. If you write a fic that is about Bad Things Happening to these people, that's probably a good bet. That said, I would also be up for any of them being happy post-canon (or in the case of Anye Luo, in an AU).
DNW: A focus on Yu Zihan pining for Lie Ruge (it's fine as background, just please not as the only plot), Anye Luo/Lie Ruge.
Some ideas:
-I shipped Anye Luo/Yu Zihan in the worst way. The mind games! Anye Luo has Yu Zihan cursed, and then kidnapped, and then poisoned, and later on imprisons and tortures him... but there's still some weird respect there for Yu Zihan's abilities. That rant he gives to Yu Zihan the first time they meet about how Yu Zihan deserves better, deserves to be emperor someday, is catnip to me--did he mean it? How exactly does he see Yu Zihan? Anyways I would be very interested in seeing these two manipulate each other or just in seeing Anye Luo do more awful things to Yu Zihan--what if he won? Would he have killed Yu Zihan off eventually, or continued holding him prisoner? Alternatively, AU where Anye Luo becomes sexually/romantically obsessed with Yu Zihan and it replaces his obsession with Anye Ming.
-Then there's Dao Liexiang and Lei Jinghong, the slightly less awful dysfunctional couple. I would love something between them set during the time when Lei Jinghong is basically a prisoner in Wu Dao City and Liexiang is pressuring him to marry her. How does he come to that decision? Does he resent her? I'd be up for dubcon within this timeframe in particular. Otherwise, I'd like to see them postcanon on an occasion where they're actually together; how long does it take them to fully reconcile and how do their sects see their relationship? I also shipped these two as an OT3 with Feng Huang, so if you want to include her, feel free--or for that matter, if you want to throw in Zhan Feng, and just explore ALL the awkward marriage dynamics, I'd be into it.
Apart from these couples:
-Dao Liexiang/Feng Huang femslash!
-Lei Jinghong/Feng Huang--being together on the run, Feng Huang hiding Lei Jinghong at the Taste Flower Pavilion, etc.
-Dao Liexiang angsting over her position in a sect that is doing bad evil things, angsting over her relationship with a bad evil brother.
-Lei Jinghong angsting over losing his position in his sect, over being wrongly accused. Lei Jinghong's conflicted relationship with Anye Jue, growing up or in the canon timeframe.
-Anye Luo being a creep to people who aren't Yu Zihan. Zhan Feng's a good candidate (some good old "you're my nephew/the son of the woman I loved but also the son of the man I hate" vibes, or maybe some sexual tension). So is Yin Xue (what the fuck is those two's history?). Frankly, this dude could be a creep to anyone.
-Yu Zihan coming out of seclusion post-canon. He can't sit around in seclusion forever; or rather, I don't want him to! Let him find a new love or make more friends or get entangled in politics supporting his brother or have to help restore Flaming Hills to its former glory. Let him eat sesame cakes and not cough blood as a result. Let him have some fun.
-I'm also curious about Yu Zihan's relationship with his brothers, both blood brothers and martial brothers. They don't seem exactly close--what bonds do they have, or if there is distance, what caused that distance?
Method (2017)
Requesting: Jae Ha, Young Woo
This is a Korean movie about a method actor and a young idol who method act together and fall in love, but maybe only fall in love because they're method acting. It's queer, fairly dark and problematic (the method actor is married so there's infidelity, and there's also some obsessive behavior at the end), atmospheric and pretty fun. You can find it on Viki here. I have to say, I find it kind of hilarious in the sense that it's basically a cautionary tale about method acting. Don't method act and romance, kids. It only leads bad places.
I would love either a kind of dark story (though preferably no darker than canon) or something a little lighter. I don't really want pure fluff, though, or for Jae Ha and Young Woo to get back together and be perfectly happy post-canon.
Some ideas
-What if Jae Ha and Young Woo were in a different kind of play together? Suppose they were just portraying nemeses or a father/son relationship or a friendship or a romantic relationship that was less tense. Would this make the sexual tension lower, or would it simply strip away their excuses?
-Missing scene--a moment where Jae Ha and Young Woo's attraction grows stronger. Maybe it's when Jae Ha sees Young Woo taking his role seriously. Maybe, to be a little dark, it's at a moment when Jae Ha acts violent or cruel to Young Woo (he seems to get kind of into that, given that he first gets into method acting after Jae Ha looms at him and their first kiss is after Jae Ha gets too into the role and hurts him). Or maybe it's off set, eating dinner or talking about the art of theater or going to the marketplace.
-The fallout post-canon! That show was Jae Ha and Young Woo's OPENING NIGHT. I assume that means they will have to act it out again. Multiple times. And Jae Ha's not going to be having much fun at all. Does Young Woo continue to mess with him, or act like he never did anything wrong? After all, it's all acting, Jae Ha. If you're not going to take your relationship with Young Woo seriously, why take his creepiness seriously either? (...but Jae Ha can't help but take it seriously.)
-Post-canon Jae Ha finding he's still attracted to Young Woo even though their relationship is so fucked up. Is Young Woo willing to take him back?
-We don't get much of Young Woo's perspective of their relationship in canon. I'd love to see him talking to a friend about it or maybe his manager or one of his coworkers--convinced it's love, high on adrenalin and dopamine. Or him talking to reporters about it after the fact.
-For that matter, this is a canon where a social media style fic of outsiders reacting to the weird goings on in this show would be very fun. Do Jae Ha and Young Woo's fans believe they're in a relationship or that it's all getting into character or a publicity stunt? What do they think of Jae Ha's near mental breakdown on stage?
