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Hey look, it took over two years of accumulated RL shittiness but I'm back! Hurrah! and with a letter and everything!

Request 1 by shewhoguards
Fandom:The Chronicles of Chrestomanci - Diana Wynne Jones
Tags
Mordecai Roberts | Tacroy
Summary

There are so many fics you could write me about Mordecai and I would love them all. This is the character I can never have too much fic about.

Write me what they did to him on Eleven that squashed him so much that he stopped fighting at all by the time he went back (I am giving you a fairly free hand here concerning how graphic you want to get). Write me him and the Dright. Write me his brain when he had to betray the Castle. Write me hurt:comfort after The Lives of Christopher Chant (I'd probably lean towards Flavian/Mordecai, but I can see Mordecai/Rosalie too.

Play with the intriguing part where Christopher casually claims him as his man and then never mentions it again. There have got to be implications to that Christopher is unaware of. Maybe Christopher uses it casually at some point when he's in his asshole teenager phase and has to be told what he's done? Maybe Gabriel has to step in and explain to them both what this actually means?

Does the Dright let him go as easily as that? Does he try to snag him back? Does he use him against Christopher? Is he still resenting that point where he got defeated for once in his life?

If this was a major fandom and there were 5000 fics about Mordecai I would love them all. I'm here for just about anything but straight out fluff.

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Request 2 by shewhoguards
Fandom:Fire and Hemlock - Diana Wynne Jones
Tags
Thomas Lynn Laurel Leroy
Summary

Thank you whoever decided to nominate ALL the DWJ in the world this year. I most heartily approve.

Tom Lynn has all the features of being utterly squashed that I love in Mordecai (and you've just heard how much I love Mordecai, so..) Apparently I have a thing for characters who are just hit to the point where they give up fighting. There's no point fighting because somewhere in your head you know you've already lost so you might as well lie down now.

The scene I remember most in the book is that moment where Polly realises how young he was when Laurel got him. I assume there was a point where he thought that life was good and then the slow drowning sensation of knowing he was over his head and it was too late then. Tell me about Laurel reeling him in, tell me how long it took for him to panic and how thoroughly resisting got beaten out of him (I am okay with underage here but like.. teenager underage, not younger). Tell me about him trying desperately to warn off Leslie without alerting Laurel to the fact he was doing it (or maybe Laurel knew anyway and was amused by it and let him try so he could fail?) Did he try to save Seb too? He did so try to save people at his own expense.

Tell me about him trying to grab onto Polly to save himself and realising it was wrong (or Laurel telling him that clearly he realised he was wrong) and the despair of having to cut himself off.

Um. I'm not opposed to happy endings here, I'd just like there to be a reasonable amount of not-happyness first.

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Request 3 by shewhoguards
Fandom:A Brother's Price - Wen Spencer
Tags
Cullen Moorland
Summary

I realise this is like the letter of wanting terrible things to happen to people who can't fight it but.. uh, yeah, that's kind of where we're going this year.

This book hints so GLORIOUSLY at awful things happening and then stops just short of any of them actually happening onscreen. There's always a rescue or a miracle of some kind thrown in to make the awful thing not happen.

Cullen: He's had that lovely sheltered spoilt boyhood, surely he realises that things aren't necessarily going to be that way forever? That there are worse things in marriage than just being bored all the time? Do his new wives feel obliged to lay down the law to squash some discipline into a boy who has clearly never had any? Does something happen that mean his family are obliged to trade him into a marriage he begs them not to for the sake of political expediency? How does Cullen get forced into growing up, and how does the innocence get taken out of him?

Request 4 by shewhoguards
Fandom:The Octonauts (Cartoon)
Tags
Peso (The Octonauts)Shellington (The Octonauts)
Summary
OK, so I have kids, and it turns out the *only* thing that stops them fighting constantly in the car is constant reruns of the Octonauts on audio book. And when you're listening to the episodes rather than watching them you suddenly realise what you actually have here is a baby version of SGA or Star Trek complete with monster of the week, even if the peril is somewhat milder than might otherwise be expected.

I am fond of all the characters, but while Captain Barnacles seems like the type of guy you would follow into hell (or possibly the Midnight Zone) my real soft spot is for Peso. There's just something about a medic who isn't a fighter and who doesn't view himself as particularly brave just going right ahead and doing the terrifying things anyway because he has to. And I have a real fondness for the little Peso/Shellington research team, and the fact they frequently get injured is just gravy, even if they get fixed five minutes later.

Team-fic centered on those two would be great, especially if the peril is slightly less mild than in canon. Hurt/Comfort would be awesome. I have zero knowledge of any marine animal that the show has not explicitly educated me on so do not worry about me fact-checking your Creature Report at the end (check! check! check!)