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minutia_rDear Rare Women Author,
Hi there! Thank you for volunteering to write me a story about one of my favorite obscure ladies. I'm afraid that I asked for characters who are really obscure, not just kind-of-obscure, so I really do appreciate it, and not just kind-of.
Here are some things that I like: families (of birth or choice), loyalty and especially fealty, competence porn, magical adventures, fucked-up relationships that are nevertheless sources of strength and happiness for the people involved.
Plotty stories are my favorite, but I love all kinds of stories: character studies, series of vignettes, domestic fluff, porn without plot, porn with plot, het, femmeslash, polyamory, bring it on. Although, I'd rather you didn't spring porn on me if I didn't request the pairing.
Fandom: Marvel Comics
Characters: Chance, Ariel
Chance is a Korean-American street kid with a switchblade and the mutant ability to cancel or boost other people's powers. Ariel is a glam alien with mind-control and spatial manipulation powers. They commit crimes! Usually petty theft but sometimes things like betraying their friends to alien evil overlords.
I like Chance and Ariel as best friends or as girlfriends, and their relationship as anything from mildly to extremely fucked-up. Roberto DaCosta and/or Boom Boom can come too, if you like, either as friends or sexual partners.
I've always wanted to see Chance take down Reverend Park, the cult leader who brought her family to America and kept them as virtual slaves until Chance escaped. Or some sort of criminal caper would be cool too.
Chance and Ariel first showed up in the 1987 miniseries Fallen Angels, which was released as a collection last year. Ariel made some brief appearances in X-Men afterwards, and was apparently killed, although in a never-found-the-body sort of way, which in the Marvel Universe and especially for a teleporter doesn't mean much. I'm only familiar with her stint in the X-Men in broad outlines; if you want to ignore it that's fine with me; if you want to incorporate it that's also fine, as long as it doesn't stray too much from her characterization in Fallen Angels.
Fandom : Chronicles of Chrestomanci
Characters: Rosa Montana, Corinna Montana, Lucia Montana, Carol Oneir, Miranda Chant
If you’re the eldest of three, everyone knows that you will fail first, and worst, when the three of you go out to seek your fortunes, right? There are three Montana girls—did they ever go out to seek their fortunes? Maybe they did it before Paolo was born, and they were the only three Montana children; maybe they did it after Rosa was married, because who says being married should stop you from seeking your fortune. Maybe each of them did on a different occasion. In any case, I'd like to read about what happened when they did.
I also wonder what happened after the events of "The Hundredth Dream of Carol Oneir." You don't suddenly bring thousands of people into the world without consequences, do you? What ever became of Carol and her Cast of Thousands?
Miranda Chant is a terrible mother, but I have a certain affection for her as a character, in all her self-absorbed social-climbingness. I'm interested in her backstory or a character study, or maybe something about her relationship with Ralph. (I am not totally averse to incest.)
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci—in case you are a pinch-hitter or a curious onlooker or whatever—is a series of six novels and one short story collection by Diana Wynne Jones. The Montana sisters appear in The Magicians of Caprona; Carol appears in the story "The Hundredth Dream of Carol Oneir" in Mixed Magics, and Miranda in The Lives of Christopher Chant.
Fandom : Chronicles of the Kencyrath – PC Hodgell
Characters: Jamethiel Priest’s-Bane Knorth, Kallystine Caineron, Lyra Lack-Wit Caineron, Brier Iron-Thorn, Kallystine’s maid
How much do I love Lyra Lack-Wit? Despite the name, I don't think she's actually stupid—but she has been deliberately kept ignorant, and away from any access to power, both in the secret corridors of the women's world and in the wider sphere. Her father actually contracted her for a marriage outside the Kencyrath; he couldn't have said, "You are an entirely disposable pawn" much plainer. And yet Lyra remains relentlessly cheerful, which is part of why I find her so appealing. Also—and this is another thing that leads to her being seen as stupid—she has basically no impulse control. But the flipside of never taking time to think about things is being a quick thinker, and Lyra has several times demonstrated her ability to act before anyone else gets a chance to. She can be terribly, thoughtlessly cruel. And she has a for-serious-canonical crush on Jame (at one point she says in her internal narration that Jame is the sister of her choice, and we all know what sister-friend means to a Highborn lady) which I'd love to see explored. One-sided is fine, and reciprocated is also good—Jame seems pretty straight in canon, but I would not mind at all if she went gay for Lyra.
Kallystine's maid doesn't get a name, she doesn't get a point of view, she doesn't get to live past chapter 10, and yet I find her character so intriguing. We know she's half-Highborn, and it's not so much of a stretch to think her father is Caldane—he leaves bastards all over the place, and it wouldn't be the first time he'd given one of them to a legitimate child of his as a servant. What was her relationship with Kallystine like before it reached its breaking point? (Once again let me point out that I'm not averse to incest. Especially not in the Chronicles of the Kencyrath, the high-fantasy epic that A Song of Ice and Fire only wishes it were as incestuous as.) I'm also intrigued by the parallels between Kallystine's nameless maid's story and Brier Iron-Thorn's, the way the Cainerons tested their loyalty to the breaking point and the different ways it broke. Did they know each other? What did they think of each other?
The Chronicles of the Kencyrath is an ongoing fantasy series by PC Hodgell. Jame is the protagonist throughout, and first appears in God Stalk. Lyra and Kallystine first appear in the second book, Dark of the Moon. Brier and the nameless maid first (and in the maid's case, only) appear in Seeker's Mask.
. . . And now that I've written more words in this letter than I'm required to write for my assigned story, perhaps I should be wrapping up. If you want to stalk me, I'm dead easy to stalk: I'm minutia_r here, on AO3, on ff.net, on tumblr, and even on deviantart if that's in any way relevant. Poke around a bit and you'll figure out the sort of thing I like quickly enough. Thank you once again; I hope you enjoy writing the story and aren’t cursing my name come April!
Hi there! Thank you for volunteering to write me a story about one of my favorite obscure ladies. I'm afraid that I asked for characters who are really obscure, not just kind-of-obscure, so I really do appreciate it, and not just kind-of.
Here are some things that I like: families (of birth or choice), loyalty and especially fealty, competence porn, magical adventures, fucked-up relationships that are nevertheless sources of strength and happiness for the people involved.
Plotty stories are my favorite, but I love all kinds of stories: character studies, series of vignettes, domestic fluff, porn without plot, porn with plot, het, femmeslash, polyamory, bring it on. Although, I'd rather you didn't spring porn on me if I didn't request the pairing.
Fandom: Marvel Comics
Characters: Chance, Ariel
Chance is a Korean-American street kid with a switchblade and the mutant ability to cancel or boost other people's powers. Ariel is a glam alien with mind-control and spatial manipulation powers. They commit crimes! Usually petty theft but sometimes things like betraying their friends to alien evil overlords.
I like Chance and Ariel as best friends or as girlfriends, and their relationship as anything from mildly to extremely fucked-up. Roberto DaCosta and/or Boom Boom can come too, if you like, either as friends or sexual partners.
I've always wanted to see Chance take down Reverend Park, the cult leader who brought her family to America and kept them as virtual slaves until Chance escaped. Or some sort of criminal caper would be cool too.
Chance and Ariel first showed up in the 1987 miniseries Fallen Angels, which was released as a collection last year. Ariel made some brief appearances in X-Men afterwards, and was apparently killed, although in a never-found-the-body sort of way, which in the Marvel Universe and especially for a teleporter doesn't mean much. I'm only familiar with her stint in the X-Men in broad outlines; if you want to ignore it that's fine with me; if you want to incorporate it that's also fine, as long as it doesn't stray too much from her characterization in Fallen Angels.
Fandom : Chronicles of Chrestomanci
Characters: Rosa Montana, Corinna Montana, Lucia Montana, Carol Oneir, Miranda Chant
If you’re the eldest of three, everyone knows that you will fail first, and worst, when the three of you go out to seek your fortunes, right? There are three Montana girls—did they ever go out to seek their fortunes? Maybe they did it before Paolo was born, and they were the only three Montana children; maybe they did it after Rosa was married, because who says being married should stop you from seeking your fortune. Maybe each of them did on a different occasion. In any case, I'd like to read about what happened when they did.
I also wonder what happened after the events of "The Hundredth Dream of Carol Oneir." You don't suddenly bring thousands of people into the world without consequences, do you? What ever became of Carol and her Cast of Thousands?
Miranda Chant is a terrible mother, but I have a certain affection for her as a character, in all her self-absorbed social-climbingness. I'm interested in her backstory or a character study, or maybe something about her relationship with Ralph. (I am not totally averse to incest.)
The Chronicles of Chrestomanci—in case you are a pinch-hitter or a curious onlooker or whatever—is a series of six novels and one short story collection by Diana Wynne Jones. The Montana sisters appear in The Magicians of Caprona; Carol appears in the story "The Hundredth Dream of Carol Oneir" in Mixed Magics, and Miranda in The Lives of Christopher Chant.
Fandom : Chronicles of the Kencyrath – PC Hodgell
Characters: Jamethiel Priest’s-Bane Knorth, Kallystine Caineron, Lyra Lack-Wit Caineron, Brier Iron-Thorn, Kallystine’s maid
How much do I love Lyra Lack-Wit? Despite the name, I don't think she's actually stupid—but she has been deliberately kept ignorant, and away from any access to power, both in the secret corridors of the women's world and in the wider sphere. Her father actually contracted her for a marriage outside the Kencyrath; he couldn't have said, "You are an entirely disposable pawn" much plainer. And yet Lyra remains relentlessly cheerful, which is part of why I find her so appealing. Also—and this is another thing that leads to her being seen as stupid—she has basically no impulse control. But the flipside of never taking time to think about things is being a quick thinker, and Lyra has several times demonstrated her ability to act before anyone else gets a chance to. She can be terribly, thoughtlessly cruel. And she has a for-serious-canonical crush on Jame (at one point she says in her internal narration that Jame is the sister of her choice, and we all know what sister-friend means to a Highborn lady) which I'd love to see explored. One-sided is fine, and reciprocated is also good—Jame seems pretty straight in canon, but I would not mind at all if she went gay for Lyra.
Kallystine's maid doesn't get a name, she doesn't get a point of view, she doesn't get to live past chapter 10, and yet I find her character so intriguing. We know she's half-Highborn, and it's not so much of a stretch to think her father is Caldane—he leaves bastards all over the place, and it wouldn't be the first time he'd given one of them to a legitimate child of his as a servant. What was her relationship with Kallystine like before it reached its breaking point? (Once again let me point out that I'm not averse to incest. Especially not in the Chronicles of the Kencyrath, the high-fantasy epic that A Song of Ice and Fire only wishes it were as incestuous as.) I'm also intrigued by the parallels between Kallystine's nameless maid's story and Brier Iron-Thorn's, the way the Cainerons tested their loyalty to the breaking point and the different ways it broke. Did they know each other? What did they think of each other?
The Chronicles of the Kencyrath is an ongoing fantasy series by PC Hodgell. Jame is the protagonist throughout, and first appears in God Stalk. Lyra and Kallystine first appear in the second book, Dark of the Moon. Brier and the nameless maid first (and in the maid's case, only) appear in Seeker's Mask.
. . . And now that I've written more words in this letter than I'm required to write for my assigned story, perhaps I should be wrapping up. If you want to stalk me, I'm dead easy to stalk: I'm minutia_r here, on AO3, on ff.net, on tumblr, and even on deviantart if that's in any way relevant. Poke around a bit and you'll figure out the sort of thing I like quickly enough. Thank you once again; I hope you enjoy writing the story and aren’t cursing my name come April!
