Yuletide Letter 2013
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penitence_roadDear Delightful Yuletide Author:
Hello, and thank you so much for signing on to write one of these weird mishmashes of minor characters! Apologies for how long this letter is going to be; I'm inclined to blathering about stuff I like. Rest assured that I will do the same for whatever you end up writing--and on that note, let me stress that the stuff below is really just to give you an idea of what I like and don't like, and should be considered guidelines more than hard rules; if you have a really stellar idea otherwise that you think I would like, please, by all means, write it! Yuletide should be fun for everyone, and any character in the tag set for the fandoms below is one I'm going to be delighted with fic for.
For general form, I don’t have a lot of particular preferences. I like introspective pieces and active ones, long things and short ones, holiday-themed or non. I like extrapolation of canons, I think genderswaps are pretty keen, and I’m fine with bizarre AUs (think more Weird Worlds and less Modern Day). I don’t really like crack-fics and fics that are nothing but porn. I tend to favor gen-fic over shippy-fic, but shippiness as a plot element is fine, and feel free to include het, slash, OT3s, OTEverybodys, asexuality, platonic lifemates, etc. I like relationships of all sorts, all the different permutations and articulations of the ways people are important to one another beyond just the romantic.
I like consequences and characters who think about them and deal with them. A series can be fun or a series can be dark, but more than anything I like a series that lets its side characters be as real and human as its main cast, and doesn’t let its main cast forget it.
That said, here are my requests, some blurbs about the series, and some ideas for what I’m looking for in fic that will make me squeal at you like a preteen.
1) Gankutsuou
Characters: Any Nominated (Andrea Cavalcanti, Baptistin, Lucien Debray, Beauchamp)
About the Series: It's The Count of Monte Cristo IIIIN SPAAAAACE. Oh, and it's also told from the perspective of Mercedes and Fernand's son Albert, making the Count a far more mysterious and ominous figure. Oh, and it's stupidly gorgeous, thanks to the "patterns" style of the animation. (It's hard to explain, but unmistakable in motion.) The series is the most tightly plotted anime I've ever seen, with even the next episode tagline and the last episode recaps proving to be significant in the end. It's got a fantastic, colorful cast, deeply flawed individuals at every turn, and buckets and buckets of style. The ending departs pretty wildly from the novel's, but that's to be expected of a Studio Gonzo anime.
Basic Request: Anything about any of the nominated characters. It's a weird mix of characters I asked for, so go with any one or combination of them you'd like. I liked all of them quite a bit, but they didn't get a tremendous amount of attention in the main series. Anything you want to tell me about any of them would be great, pre-series, post-series, mid-series; it's all good.
A Little Help Here?: Feel free to use any ideas you have, but if you'd like a few things to get you thinking, here are of the stories I'd find interesting:
Tell me more about Baptistin's opinions on the plot! Or his crush on Haydee! He seems to be the more hot-blooded of the Count's two black-leather manservants; when do his feelings start to turn from cheering his boss on in his revenge plots to more concern for his boss' state of mind at the end of it all? How does he adjust after the series, as the household moves from underground maneuvering to the intergalactic political stage?
For Beauchamp, how did he fall in with all these rich kids? He definitely has a more downrent wardrobe, and has a way more cynical, disapproving outlook on the upper classes than the others; how did they get to be friends? Or tell me about his daily life. Lucien I'm mainly interested in in association with Beauchamp, the give-and-take of how their relationship is going to look in the future between Lucien's political ambitions and Beauchamp's journalistic ideals. I love how fluidly all of Albert's friends worked together late in the series, and I'd love to know how that's all going to look in the years to come, as they inherit their parents' world and have to move on from their carefree childhoods.
I have basically no excuses for wanting more on Andrea. He is awful and I'd like anything from his perspective on his history or what he thinks of getting picked up by the Count. It seems obvious that he's being used as little more than a tool, but he seems to think he has a unique understanding of the Count (that everyone else finds distasteful at best); how did their first encounter go, and how aware is Andrea of his role in events? Feel free to be as awful as you like; he is a shithead and I love his twisted incestuous personality unreservedly. (My only note there is that I don't think he raped Eugenie. I think he had every intention of doing so after he married her, yes, but I don't think he did during the series--he mentions that she'd be his soon enough anyway, and that ridiculous scene in the bathtub licking his wounds later had a strong element of the savoring of anticipation to me. You can interpret otherwise if you like, just don't, like, give me a an explicit non-con fic between the two of them or something.)
The only pairing I particularly see working there is Lucien/Beauchamp, but if you have a plot bunny about Andrea's new gang kidnapping the young Chief Secretary of the Cabinet for ransom, by all means, have at.
Links to More Info: Licensed by Pioneer before it went under, the series is 24 episodes long and wholly available on Crunchyroll. Have fun! Wikipedia also has brief episode summaries if you just need the refresher.
2) Emma - A Victorian Romance
Characters: Monica Mildrake and Hakim Atawari
About the Series: Emma is a manga series by Kaoru Mori about a romance between a young nobleman, William Jones, and a maid he meets, Emma. Meticulously researched, this is not your standard moe maid and master story, but rather a far more accurate (though still optimistic in the end) portrayal of the day to day life of people in Victorian England. Emma does real work, William has real responsibilities, and they both face real difficulties in the development of their relationship. It's a slow-paced walk through the lives of Emma and the people around her, with worldbuilding detail and side character flavor to spare. Not recommended for everyone, but for those who like any combination of romance, slice-of-life, maids or historical manga, it's top tier.
Basic Request: Monica's Magical Journey of Self-Discovery.
What?: Literally all we see between Monica and Hakim is their first encounter, Monica's shock at her little sister getting engaged, and then suddenly Monica's gone haring off to India to ambiguously lounge around with Hakim for nearly twenty chapters. They barely exchange three sentences in canon, and barring that scene and a few panels during a timeskip, we never see them together again. What the HELL happened there? How was the idea of her going to India broached? What did she tell her husband about it? What do people in Hakim's home make of her? What did she do all day while he was off dealing with the silkworm crisis the newspapers mentioned? I would love to hear anything you can think of about how exactly that relationship formed, progressed, and/or ended. Anything you want to tell me is wonderful, and whatever level of intimacy you feel suits the story is fine with me; I really just want to read about them interacting. Monica is deeply practical, and Hakim very capricious, but they're both such straightforward people, save for when Monica is being so clearly falsely polite that it borders on open antagonism. it's always driven me up the walls that we don't get to see them talking to each other at all after their very first meeting.
There's a problematic tendency in stories like this to reduce countries full of brown people to little more than exotic locales for a white person to go discover themselves, and while that doesn't have to be an explicit conversation or anything, I'd like there to be at least an undercurrent of awareness there. The series itself doesn't talk a great deal about England's relationship with India, but makes a few passing, oblique comments: the Viscount calls Indian apparel heathen, Hakim's father tells William's father that England will pass through India and be gone, as other invaders have done before them. That sort of nod would be more than enough.
Links to More Info: Emma is licensed but out of print and pricey, so unless you have a library nearby that carries manga, scanlations are about the only reasonable avenue. The relevant scenes for Monica and Hakim are in chapter 25, chapter 43, and chapter 44. A trope page can be found here, but otherwise the fandom is ridiculously tiny.
3) Longshot (1985 mini-series)
Characters: Longshot, Arize, Mojo
About the Series: The 1985 miniseries that introduced Longshot to the Marvel universe. It's very clearly a work of the 80s, but it's a lot of fun in spite of the clunky dialogue (though it's no clunkier than most other American comics of the period) and dated references, largely on the strength of its very likable lead character and its comically self-absorbed villain with the god complex. Longshot is introduced as an amnesiac on the run, not quite human from the very first page. As he runs around New York having fish-out-of-water misunderstandings and dodging bounty hunters and the odd well-meaning Marvel superhero cameo, he gradually uncovers his history, a jumbled mess involving monstrous bulbous "Spineless Ones" who rule another dimension and use Longshot's race as slaves, to serve them and entertain them in ultraviolent movies and TV shows. His race was packaged with a few nasty surprises, though--a desire for freedom, a disinclination to obedience--thanks to the fickle humor and far-seeing eye of the man who engineered them for the Spineless Ones, Arize. Longshot himself draws his name from his incredible luck, which itself is contingent on the purity of his motives, which means he falls all the harder when he begins to doubt himself.
Meanwhile the stakes get much higher for Earth when one of those Spineless Ones, Mojo, comes through to investigate what he's hearing about a whole planet of free, independent people with spines. That's not the kind of rumor you want making the rounds in your be-spined slave race, so clearly the thing to do is pre-emptively subjugate the place. In the end, with help from a few friends and Dr. Strange, Longshot drives Mojo back into his own dimension and follows, hope renewed and intent on taking another crack at this whole "freedom fighter for his species thing." What's he got to fear from long odds, after all? He's the always-lucky Longshot!
Basic Request: Longshot is a very annoying but very profitable bullet fired from his creator at the Spineless Ones. Longshot is also oblivious to this fact.
That's a statement, not a request: Okay, Longshot's one of my top three favorite X-Men characters, but his perpetual memory resetting keeps him and us from finding out much about his deeper history as portrayed by his original miniseries. I'm interested in the idea that Longshot unknowingly serves as a gambit on Arize's part, and how that shapes both Longshot's time with Arize and with the Spineless Ones. I'd like anything set in Longshot's early days, as everyone's sort of figuring him out, both his personality and his buttons, and also the traits that are basically a trap set by his creator. As a moneymaker he's worth it, of course, but he is still regularly infuriating. Mojo's mercurial temperament matched with his dense self-centeredness is uniquely hilarious, Arize is a delightfully smug chessmaster, and the sunny Longshot charms me at any stage of his drift from obliviously cheerful movie star to charismatic rebel leader to superhero who doesn't really understand Earth things like swimming pools. Use any or all of them as perspective characters, include any of Mojo's other snarky, put-upon minions, just tell me a story from Longshot's "childhood".
As a side note, because I couldn't find anywhere else to put this, I've always had a fondness for psychometry--the psychic power to read an object's history like a telepath would read minds--so while it's definitely the odd element out in Longshot's array of abilities, I like it and would be tickled pink by any references to it you make.
Links to More Info: Seeing as it's a Marvel series, you can of course find ridiculous career summaries of Longshot all over the web. Here are some summaries of the miniseries itself, though if you want to read the thing itself, the paperback is available quite cheaply on Amazon.
4) Monster
Character: Dieter
About the Series: A sprawling 18 volume psychological thriller by Naoki Urasawa, the series concerns genius neurosurgeon Kenzo Tenma as he hunts down a young man whose life he once saved, a boy who grew up and became a monster. It sits at the sweet spot of being just complicated enough to be a rollicking good suspense read but not being so choked in coincidence and happenstance that it becomes completely unbelievable (a problem I have with some of the author’s later works). It’s a layered, complex work that asks more questions than it answers, dealing ably with child abuse and the after-effects of trauma, the complicated political situation in eastern Europe after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, and a dollop of tremendously creepy childrens’ books. The anime is among the most faithful adaptations ever made, usually shot-for-shot echoing the manga, just moving and in color, with music and voice acting. It's got fantastic characters, with its villain in particular being one of manga’s best, but Urasawa has a real gift for turning a completely normal person on the street into a terrifying cypher in a panel, and needing little more time than that to turn an implacable hunter into a truly nuanced character.
Basic request: Anything about Dieter, but particularly something examining how his viewpoint is situated between that of a totally normal person and a person deeply warped by their childhood brainwashing.
So what do you want me to do with the kid?: Dieter as a character fascinates me because of all of the lines he’s straddling: dependent vs. independent, innocent vs. traumatized, naïve vs. worldly. I want something about that border—the abuse he grew up with and what he saw when travelling with Tenma and Nina, versus the fact that he was rescued from all that relatively young and is still a wholly decent and surprisingly well-adjusted kid. (Though, make no mistake, a little bit of maladjustedness would tickle me too; I’d like to hear about lingering emotional scars and how he deals with them.) This could be in the timeframe of the series or afterward; I’m partial to both. I think a post-series fic intrigues me slightly more; Dieter has a hell of a history that he’ll be bringing to the table for the rest of his life, and I’d like to see how he handles that as he grows up and slips back into a more normal life—school, college, finding a job, maintaining interpersonal relationships, etc. Literally the only thing the canon tells us about what he’s getting up to after the series is that he has regular soccer practice through some avenue or another.
Links to more info: This is the longest series I requested fic for, licensed as are the other two. You can still find scanlations online, as well as episodes of the anime, though the places and channels that were playing it legally seem to have stopped doing so. Here’s the general Wikipedia entry; it also has a full list of the anime episodes, which include summaries, nicely giving a quick but thorough rundown of the series.
Finally, the end: I know that was an awful lot of rambling about things I do or would like, but seriously, write something you want to write, too! As I said way up there at the top of this letter, I'm going to be thrilled with anything that gets written about these characters/fandoms anyway, so have your own Yuletide fun with it. And thanks again!
Best Regards,
penitence_road
Hello, and thank you so much for signing on to write one of these weird mishmashes of minor characters! Apologies for how long this letter is going to be; I'm inclined to blathering about stuff I like. Rest assured that I will do the same for whatever you end up writing--and on that note, let me stress that the stuff below is really just to give you an idea of what I like and don't like, and should be considered guidelines more than hard rules; if you have a really stellar idea otherwise that you think I would like, please, by all means, write it! Yuletide should be fun for everyone, and any character in the tag set for the fandoms below is one I'm going to be delighted with fic for.
For general form, I don’t have a lot of particular preferences. I like introspective pieces and active ones, long things and short ones, holiday-themed or non. I like extrapolation of canons, I think genderswaps are pretty keen, and I’m fine with bizarre AUs (think more Weird Worlds and less Modern Day). I don’t really like crack-fics and fics that are nothing but porn. I tend to favor gen-fic over shippy-fic, but shippiness as a plot element is fine, and feel free to include het, slash, OT3s, OTEverybodys, asexuality, platonic lifemates, etc. I like relationships of all sorts, all the different permutations and articulations of the ways people are important to one another beyond just the romantic.
I like consequences and characters who think about them and deal with them. A series can be fun or a series can be dark, but more than anything I like a series that lets its side characters be as real and human as its main cast, and doesn’t let its main cast forget it.
That said, here are my requests, some blurbs about the series, and some ideas for what I’m looking for in fic that will make me squeal at you like a preteen.
1) Gankutsuou
Characters: Any Nominated (Andrea Cavalcanti, Baptistin, Lucien Debray, Beauchamp)
About the Series: It's The Count of Monte Cristo IIIIN SPAAAAACE. Oh, and it's also told from the perspective of Mercedes and Fernand's son Albert, making the Count a far more mysterious and ominous figure. Oh, and it's stupidly gorgeous, thanks to the "patterns" style of the animation. (It's hard to explain, but unmistakable in motion.) The series is the most tightly plotted anime I've ever seen, with even the next episode tagline and the last episode recaps proving to be significant in the end. It's got a fantastic, colorful cast, deeply flawed individuals at every turn, and buckets and buckets of style. The ending departs pretty wildly from the novel's, but that's to be expected of a Studio Gonzo anime.
Basic Request: Anything about any of the nominated characters. It's a weird mix of characters I asked for, so go with any one or combination of them you'd like. I liked all of them quite a bit, but they didn't get a tremendous amount of attention in the main series. Anything you want to tell me about any of them would be great, pre-series, post-series, mid-series; it's all good.
A Little Help Here?: Feel free to use any ideas you have, but if you'd like a few things to get you thinking, here are of the stories I'd find interesting:
Tell me more about Baptistin's opinions on the plot! Or his crush on Haydee! He seems to be the more hot-blooded of the Count's two black-leather manservants; when do his feelings start to turn from cheering his boss on in his revenge plots to more concern for his boss' state of mind at the end of it all? How does he adjust after the series, as the household moves from underground maneuvering to the intergalactic political stage?
For Beauchamp, how did he fall in with all these rich kids? He definitely has a more downrent wardrobe, and has a way more cynical, disapproving outlook on the upper classes than the others; how did they get to be friends? Or tell me about his daily life. Lucien I'm mainly interested in in association with Beauchamp, the give-and-take of how their relationship is going to look in the future between Lucien's political ambitions and Beauchamp's journalistic ideals. I love how fluidly all of Albert's friends worked together late in the series, and I'd love to know how that's all going to look in the years to come, as they inherit their parents' world and have to move on from their carefree childhoods.
I have basically no excuses for wanting more on Andrea. He is awful and I'd like anything from his perspective on his history or what he thinks of getting picked up by the Count. It seems obvious that he's being used as little more than a tool, but he seems to think he has a unique understanding of the Count (that everyone else finds distasteful at best); how did their first encounter go, and how aware is Andrea of his role in events? Feel free to be as awful as you like; he is a shithead and I love his twisted incestuous personality unreservedly. (My only note there is that I don't think he raped Eugenie. I think he had every intention of doing so after he married her, yes, but I don't think he did during the series--he mentions that she'd be his soon enough anyway, and that ridiculous scene in the bathtub licking his wounds later had a strong element of the savoring of anticipation to me. You can interpret otherwise if you like, just don't, like, give me a an explicit non-con fic between the two of them or something.)
The only pairing I particularly see working there is Lucien/Beauchamp, but if you have a plot bunny about Andrea's new gang kidnapping the young Chief Secretary of the Cabinet for ransom, by all means, have at.
Links to More Info: Licensed by Pioneer before it went under, the series is 24 episodes long and wholly available on Crunchyroll. Have fun! Wikipedia also has brief episode summaries if you just need the refresher.
2) Emma - A Victorian Romance
Characters: Monica Mildrake and Hakim Atawari
About the Series: Emma is a manga series by Kaoru Mori about a romance between a young nobleman, William Jones, and a maid he meets, Emma. Meticulously researched, this is not your standard moe maid and master story, but rather a far more accurate (though still optimistic in the end) portrayal of the day to day life of people in Victorian England. Emma does real work, William has real responsibilities, and they both face real difficulties in the development of their relationship. It's a slow-paced walk through the lives of Emma and the people around her, with worldbuilding detail and side character flavor to spare. Not recommended for everyone, but for those who like any combination of romance, slice-of-life, maids or historical manga, it's top tier.
Basic Request: Monica's Magical Journey of Self-Discovery.
What?: Literally all we see between Monica and Hakim is their first encounter, Monica's shock at her little sister getting engaged, and then suddenly Monica's gone haring off to India to ambiguously lounge around with Hakim for nearly twenty chapters. They barely exchange three sentences in canon, and barring that scene and a few panels during a timeskip, we never see them together again. What the HELL happened there? How was the idea of her going to India broached? What did she tell her husband about it? What do people in Hakim's home make of her? What did she do all day while he was off dealing with the silkworm crisis the newspapers mentioned? I would love to hear anything you can think of about how exactly that relationship formed, progressed, and/or ended. Anything you want to tell me is wonderful, and whatever level of intimacy you feel suits the story is fine with me; I really just want to read about them interacting. Monica is deeply practical, and Hakim very capricious, but they're both such straightforward people, save for when Monica is being so clearly falsely polite that it borders on open antagonism. it's always driven me up the walls that we don't get to see them talking to each other at all after their very first meeting.
There's a problematic tendency in stories like this to reduce countries full of brown people to little more than exotic locales for a white person to go discover themselves, and while that doesn't have to be an explicit conversation or anything, I'd like there to be at least an undercurrent of awareness there. The series itself doesn't talk a great deal about England's relationship with India, but makes a few passing, oblique comments: the Viscount calls Indian apparel heathen, Hakim's father tells William's father that England will pass through India and be gone, as other invaders have done before them. That sort of nod would be more than enough.
Links to More Info: Emma is licensed but out of print and pricey, so unless you have a library nearby that carries manga, scanlations are about the only reasonable avenue. The relevant scenes for Monica and Hakim are in chapter 25, chapter 43, and chapter 44. A trope page can be found here, but otherwise the fandom is ridiculously tiny.
3) Longshot (1985 mini-series)
Characters: Longshot, Arize, Mojo
About the Series: The 1985 miniseries that introduced Longshot to the Marvel universe. It's very clearly a work of the 80s, but it's a lot of fun in spite of the clunky dialogue (though it's no clunkier than most other American comics of the period) and dated references, largely on the strength of its very likable lead character and its comically self-absorbed villain with the god complex. Longshot is introduced as an amnesiac on the run, not quite human from the very first page. As he runs around New York having fish-out-of-water misunderstandings and dodging bounty hunters and the odd well-meaning Marvel superhero cameo, he gradually uncovers his history, a jumbled mess involving monstrous bulbous "Spineless Ones" who rule another dimension and use Longshot's race as slaves, to serve them and entertain them in ultraviolent movies and TV shows. His race was packaged with a few nasty surprises, though--a desire for freedom, a disinclination to obedience--thanks to the fickle humor and far-seeing eye of the man who engineered them for the Spineless Ones, Arize. Longshot himself draws his name from his incredible luck, which itself is contingent on the purity of his motives, which means he falls all the harder when he begins to doubt himself.
Meanwhile the stakes get much higher for Earth when one of those Spineless Ones, Mojo, comes through to investigate what he's hearing about a whole planet of free, independent people with spines. That's not the kind of rumor you want making the rounds in your be-spined slave race, so clearly the thing to do is pre-emptively subjugate the place. In the end, with help from a few friends and Dr. Strange, Longshot drives Mojo back into his own dimension and follows, hope renewed and intent on taking another crack at this whole "freedom fighter for his species thing." What's he got to fear from long odds, after all? He's the always-lucky Longshot!
Basic Request: Longshot is a very annoying but very profitable bullet fired from his creator at the Spineless Ones. Longshot is also oblivious to this fact.
That's a statement, not a request: Okay, Longshot's one of my top three favorite X-Men characters, but his perpetual memory resetting keeps him and us from finding out much about his deeper history as portrayed by his original miniseries. I'm interested in the idea that Longshot unknowingly serves as a gambit on Arize's part, and how that shapes both Longshot's time with Arize and with the Spineless Ones. I'd like anything set in Longshot's early days, as everyone's sort of figuring him out, both his personality and his buttons, and also the traits that are basically a trap set by his creator. As a moneymaker he's worth it, of course, but he is still regularly infuriating. Mojo's mercurial temperament matched with his dense self-centeredness is uniquely hilarious, Arize is a delightfully smug chessmaster, and the sunny Longshot charms me at any stage of his drift from obliviously cheerful movie star to charismatic rebel leader to superhero who doesn't really understand Earth things like swimming pools. Use any or all of them as perspective characters, include any of Mojo's other snarky, put-upon minions, just tell me a story from Longshot's "childhood".
As a side note, because I couldn't find anywhere else to put this, I've always had a fondness for psychometry--the psychic power to read an object's history like a telepath would read minds--so while it's definitely the odd element out in Longshot's array of abilities, I like it and would be tickled pink by any references to it you make.
Links to More Info: Seeing as it's a Marvel series, you can of course find ridiculous career summaries of Longshot all over the web. Here are some summaries of the miniseries itself, though if you want to read the thing itself, the paperback is available quite cheaply on Amazon.
4) Monster
Character: Dieter
About the Series: A sprawling 18 volume psychological thriller by Naoki Urasawa, the series concerns genius neurosurgeon Kenzo Tenma as he hunts down a young man whose life he once saved, a boy who grew up and became a monster. It sits at the sweet spot of being just complicated enough to be a rollicking good suspense read but not being so choked in coincidence and happenstance that it becomes completely unbelievable (a problem I have with some of the author’s later works). It’s a layered, complex work that asks more questions than it answers, dealing ably with child abuse and the after-effects of trauma, the complicated political situation in eastern Europe after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, and a dollop of tremendously creepy childrens’ books. The anime is among the most faithful adaptations ever made, usually shot-for-shot echoing the manga, just moving and in color, with music and voice acting. It's got fantastic characters, with its villain in particular being one of manga’s best, but Urasawa has a real gift for turning a completely normal person on the street into a terrifying cypher in a panel, and needing little more time than that to turn an implacable hunter into a truly nuanced character.
Basic request: Anything about Dieter, but particularly something examining how his viewpoint is situated between that of a totally normal person and a person deeply warped by their childhood brainwashing.
So what do you want me to do with the kid?: Dieter as a character fascinates me because of all of the lines he’s straddling: dependent vs. independent, innocent vs. traumatized, naïve vs. worldly. I want something about that border—the abuse he grew up with and what he saw when travelling with Tenma and Nina, versus the fact that he was rescued from all that relatively young and is still a wholly decent and surprisingly well-adjusted kid. (Though, make no mistake, a little bit of maladjustedness would tickle me too; I’d like to hear about lingering emotional scars and how he deals with them.) This could be in the timeframe of the series or afterward; I’m partial to both. I think a post-series fic intrigues me slightly more; Dieter has a hell of a history that he’ll be bringing to the table for the rest of his life, and I’d like to see how he handles that as he grows up and slips back into a more normal life—school, college, finding a job, maintaining interpersonal relationships, etc. Literally the only thing the canon tells us about what he’s getting up to after the series is that he has regular soccer practice through some avenue or another.
Links to more info: This is the longest series I requested fic for, licensed as are the other two. You can still find scanlations online, as well as episodes of the anime, though the places and channels that were playing it legally seem to have stopped doing so. Here’s the general Wikipedia entry; it also has a full list of the anime episodes, which include summaries, nicely giving a quick but thorough rundown of the series.
Finally, the end: I know that was an awful lot of rambling about things I do or would like, but seriously, write something you want to write, too! As I said way up there at the top of this letter, I'm going to be thrilled with anything that gets written about these characters/fandoms anyway, so have your own Yuletide fun with it. And thanks again!
Best Regards,
penitence_road
