Dear Yuletide Author

Hello! I am Ermingarden on AO3 as well. (Treats enabled and welcomed <3) I am so, so excited to see what you create!

General Likes and DNWs

I’m a big fan of epistolary fic, in-universe documents, casefic, outsider POV, only one bed, friends to lovers, magic, music, and general merrymaking. I like hurt-comfort, as long as there’s at least a little comfort at the end! I have a soft spot for holiday fic, so please feel free to explore any and all winter holidays that fit with the setting.

DNW: rape/sexual assault, non-canonical pregnancy or parenthood fic, PWP/porn without plot, BDSM, omegaverse, incest, setting-change AUs (canon divergence is perfectly fine).

Templar Knight Mysteries

Requested characters: Bascot and Gianni
Fandom-specific DNW: any romantic or sexual relationship between Bascot and Gianni, even if the fic is set when Gianni is an adult.

Found family, complex relationships with religion, and engaging mysteries, all in an impeccable medieval setting - what more could one want? I absolutely adore this series, and I'd love just about anything in this fandom!

I have a few prompts, but they are totally optional and you should feel free to ignore them if you have a different idea!

I'm interested in the role religion plays in the characters' lives, especially Bascot's difficult relationship with the Church and with the Templar Order in the earlier novels. I'd love to see a fic exploring what would have happened if Bascot had chosen to leave the Templars after all, whether that's to enter Nicolaa's service as a lay knight or even to enter a different monastic order as the Templar rule would normally mandate.

Gianni's relationship with the art of writing and his training as a clerk is another element of the story that I really love! Maybe a look at a normal day for him during his training, or at how Bascot first taught him to write?

Along those lines, I'm really interested in the sign language Gianni develops to speak with Bascot, and in what it felt like for Gianni to codify this intensely private language - spoken by one person and understood by one other person - into written form to be shared more widely! (And what was the afterlife of that book?)

I am interested in Bascot's experience of disability as well, and how he compensates for and comes to terms with his physical limitations - I love the little side arc with the boots in The Alehouse Murders.

Casefic would be fantastic if you're into that, but so would a slice of their ordinary lives when people aren't getting murdered! (And perhaps a much smaller kind of mystery?) Holiday fic would be amazing, especially about Christmas or Epiphany!

Dragonlance

Requested character: Raistlin
Fandom-specific DNWs: Raistlin/Crysania, evil Caramon.

If you feel like writing something shippy, I ship both Raistlin/Dalamar and Raistlin/Magius - but I am also just as happy with gen!

I have some prompts, but they are totally optional and you should feel free to ignore them if you have a different idea!

Brothers in Arms is one of my favorite Dragonlance books, and I'd love to see something about Raistlin and Caramon's time in the Mad Baron's army! I particularly love Raistlin's relationship with Horkin, and Horkin's unique teaching style. Perhaps something exploring Raistlin's apprenticeship assistantship after Hope's End? Or even Raistlin getting the chance to join one of Horkin's evenings with his divine drinking buddy! We also know that Raistlin and Caramon are very skilled at fighting as a team, melding battle magic and martial prowess, by the time of Autumn Twilight - how did they develop those techniques? It could be fun to see a bit of their practice, or just some highly competent butt-kicking once they’ve honed those skills.

Continuing the teaching theme, I'd also love to see something from Dalamar's apprenticeship - either before the events of Time of the Twins or, if you want to do a canon divergence where the whole Legends situation doesn’t happen or happens differently, after. If the latter, I’d be interested to see how Raistlin and Dalamar work through the whole spy situation, and I’d prefer a positive resolution. What kind of fascinating arcane research are they doing in that tower?

This is such a great canon for magical shenanigans! Polymorph problems? Sex pollen? Bodyswap? (I feel like a Raistlin and Caramon bodyswap would be emotionally devastating in the best way - would Raistlin even give the body back?) Go wild!

If you like sickfic/whump, I'd welcome something about the Elistan incident or similar situations as well.

There are a lot of amazing stories about Raistlin figuring out how to break the Curse of Raelanna, and while I love that, I'm more interested in ways of adapting to the curse, or mitigating its effects, if it ultimately can't be broken outright.

I really enjoy Raistlin and Tika's interactions - they’re so hilariously catty in Dwarven Depths! - and I'd like to see them forced to work together and perhaps get to know each other a little better. Maybe Raistlin and Tika have to team up to rescue Caramon? Perhaps in a world where the events of Legends played out a little differently, or where Raistlin never set his plan in motion at all.

This is another canon I'd enjoy holiday fic for - perhaps a Yule celebration, or the Night of the Eye!

Note: The last few prompts contain some spoilers for Dragons of Fate and Dragons of Eternity.

I kind of lost my mind over Raistlin and Magius when I read Dragons of Fate - I love their friendship, and I also immediately started shipping them so hard. I just really enjoy their relationship, that for the first time in both of their lives, here's someone else who really gets it - a true kindred spirit. I'd love anything with these two, shippy or gen, from fun magical shenanigans to angst (I shed actual tears at Magius' death scene), whether a missing moment from canon or an AU.

The relationship between Raistlin and Magius in Dragons of Fate has me thinking about the Staff of Magius! Is it possible that the reason the staff took such a liking to Raistlin that it remembered him? (After all, the staff was just going through time in the usual direction.)

I'm also intrigued by what we're told about Raistlin and Caramon being part of an undercover resistance movement against Takhisis in the Chaos Timeline! Anything exploring that, or their backstories in Chaos Time generally, would be really interesting.

The Once and Future King

Requested characters: Galahad and Lancelot

So, funny story: my teenage Arthurian obsession began with, of all things, the Queste del Saint Graal, the Cistercian fever dream that first gave us Galahad. I've been fascinated by the Grail narrative ever since, and I absolutely adore the way T. H. White tells it, piece by piece after the fact, everyone making different attempts to figure out what it all meant and make it make sense!

I would love something with Galahad and Lancelot set during the Grail Quest! I really enjoy the glimpses we get of Lancelot and Galahad's time in the boat together, and would love to see more of that. We know Lancelot comes to understand Galahad better than any of the other knights by the end of this - how did that understanding grow between them, and did Galahad also have to learn to understand Lancelot?

I love the parallel between Galahad teaching Lancelot about the animals they encounter and Arthur's education by Merlin. Maybe some more detail on some of those "adventures with animals on the out islands"?

I am generally interested in how they interact with each other as adults, especially with the almost role reversal that takes place during the Quest - not just in Galahad teaching Lancelot things about nature that Lancelot never learned as a child, but also in Galahad's status as a kind of moral exemplar while Lancelot is a penitent. (And is this connected with the idea we see throughout the book of animals being in some ways morally superior to humans? Is it Galahad's quasi-angelic inhumanity that makes him a moral paragon?)

I'd be really interested to know how Lancelot, after he has returned to Guenever and when everything goes wrong, might look back on his time with Galahad and his experience of moral correction during the Quest in general. How might his perspective change once more time has passed? How often does he think of his son during the rest of his life?