Extended Nominations and Query Post #1

[mimihylea]

 

Thanks everyone for your nominations so far! Due to AO3’s technical issues earlier this week and where we’re currently at with processing nominations, we’re extending nominations by two days to Tuesday March 10 at 9pm EDT. We still plan to open sign ups on schedule on Thursday the 12th. We’re still working through the nomination queue, but if not all of yours have been approved, please see the questions and clarifications below. 

Please nominate characters in the character slot, and worldbuilding topics in the relationship slot (formatted as "WB: Topic (Canon)"). Relationships ("Character A/Character B") will be rejected. Worldbuilding tags nominated in the character slot will be rejected.

For the following fandoms, please edit nominations to use character slots for characters and relationship slots for worldbuilding topics:

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

Loki (TV 2021)

Please don't nominate specific types of original characters other than gender. For example, "Original Female Character(s) (DC Comics)" can be nominated, but not "Original Superhero Character(s) (DC Comics)". For the following fandoms, please edit nominations to avoid specific types of original characters (but worldbuilding prompts that might use such characters are welcome):

Harry Potter (Books Only)

For the following fandoms: we have questions about the fandom as nominated, or about one or more worldbuilding tags. If you’re the nominator, please include a link to your nominations page in your response.

Disco Elysium (Video Game) - For WB: First Meeting(s) and WB: You held a young woman by the arm and kept her in your apartment for 20 minutes against her will, the first is very broad and the second is very specific. Can you clarify how these are worldbuilding tags? For WB: Cunoesse's Backstory, this seems more like a character study tag--can you clarify?

Fire Emblem: Awakening - For WB: Future children trying to deal with knowing their younger parents in the present and WB: Future children´s relationships and/or memories of their parents, these seem more like plot or character study prompts--can you clarify how they are worldbuilding?

Gladiator (Movies - Scott) - For WB: The illness affecting Emperor Caracalla, can you clarify how this is a worldbuilding tag distinct from real-world illnesses? 

If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device (Web Series) - Several nominated but unapproved tags seem more like plot prompts than worldbuilding; can you clarify?

Minecraft: Story Mode (Video Game) - For WB: Exploring a Woodland Mansion, this seems more like a plot prompt--can you clarify how it is worldbuilding? For WB: Exploring features from a mod of your choice, this exchange doesn't generally use "creator's choice" tags; can you specify a target mod? For WB: Xara's Escape Attempts from the Sunshine Institute, this seems more like a character prompt than worldbuilding, would you be okay with this being changed to just WB: Escape Attempts from the Sunshine Institute? 

Moon Knight (Marvel Comics) and Moon Knight (Original Ultimate Marvel Universe) - Several nominated but unapproved tags seem to be more plot prompts or character studies than worldbuilding; can you clarify?

Phantasy Star - For WB: Odin and Myau's pre-game adventures, this seems more like a plot and/or character study prompt; can you clarify how it is worldbuilding?

If you nominated a tag that was rejected and you don’t think it should have been, or if a fandom you nominated was approved along with some but not all of the associated characters or WB tags, please let us know your nominations page.

Comments

[lovelytomeetyou]

Hi there! For the fire emblem awakening one, I’ll have to spoil the plot, apologies. The children come from a future world where everything is in ruins caused by the man villain. The world they know and the parents they remember are cast different than the young versions we play as/with. I wanted to see more of their relationship played out as part of the game is building relationship links and seeing how the children react to their younger parents (some badly, some great). The worldbuilding aspect comes from how different their future world is and how it affects their personality. I particularly picked Lucina and Owain since their canon storylines show how the different world and loss of their parents at a young age shape how they interact now. But I see how it can be seen as a character prompt!

Should I rewrite the tags to say memories of the future world and parents vs. Current present? I can also add a tag to specifically describe what the future world looks like under Grima, which is barely shown even in game extra content. That’s something I want focused on but can seem too indirect with the tags I used.

Edit: also forgot to add that I’d like to see this as dialogue (children talking to parents and remembering) and not as journalistic or academic text in this instance. I can also add a tag to specify that if you’d like.

Let me know how I should rewrite them. Thanks!

[mimihylea]

Thank you for explaining! Would "WB: Differences between the future and present worlds" and/or "WB: Relationships with current and future versions of the same character(s)" fit what you're looking for? You'll still be able to request them with the specific character(s) you're interested in in the characters slot, but this lets us keep the worldbuilding tags a little more in scope.

Descriptions of a referenced setting (such as WB: Future world under Grima's reign) is certainly in scope and welcome!

Dialogue vs journalistic text does not need a WB tag; you'll just want to specify Fanfiction vs In-Universe Media when you signup

[lovelytomeetyou]

Yes! All of them work! I'll start with the Future world under Grima's reign as the main tag since it's the aspect I'm most curious about. I've added all three as they fit what I was aiming for. Thank you!

Perfect then! I submitted the renamed tags.

Also, one question: I see a fandom that interested me a lot in the nominations. When offering, can I answer the request for that fandom or do I write an offer mentioning the fandom/characters? I'm not quite sure how to proceed in ao3 for the next part but I'll await the post when it's time, maybe my questions will be answered there!

[mimihylea]

Excellent, thank you, we've approved them! For signups, you'll be able to request and/or offer anything from the tagset. For offers, that'll just be listing the fandoms, characters, worldbuilding tags, and mediums you're interested in creating for/in, and that's what we'll use to match you up with a recipient. For requests, that can include do-not-wants for your creator to avoid and optional details such as prompts or likes, and if you see a request you're particularly interested in you're welcome to create for it as a treat if you don't end up being assigned it!

[lovelytomeetyou]

Thank you! Understood, I think I got the hang of offers. For requests, I might have some questions down the line but I'll let you know if that's the case! And I might indulge in a treat so let's see what happens! Or maybe pitch hit if I know the fandoms but don't want to promise something and not fulfill it later.

On another note, I joined an exchange that had a similar tagset type (WB: prefix ones) and had some questions there. For this one, I'll see if I have any questions checking the platform but since I've been here since the nominations phase, all good for now! Thank you for your patience always!

[bluerosekatie]

Hello, I'm the nominator for Minecraft: Story Mode and I'm fine with the Xara one being changed to "WB: Sunshine Institute Security and Escape Attempts" or the one you proposed! I will still be requesting the same character though lol!

I'm fine with both of the other plot prompts being replaced with "WB: Other Locations in the Portal Network" if that would be acceptable?

[mimihylea]

Hi, yes, both of those sound good and I will put them through!

[raininshadows]

Hi! I nominated Wings of Fire and now the characters and fandom, but not the worldbuilding tags, are approved. Here's my noms page:

https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/27911/nominations/437761

I can explain what's up with them if needed, but I'm guessing it's AO3 being weird again?

[ermingarden]

Thanks for checking in! We do intend to approve those tags.

[digjig]

re:
"If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device (Web Series) - Several nominated but unapproved tags seem more like plot prompts than worldbuilding; can you clarify?"

I'll try to explain. Please help me reword as needed.


WB: Custodisi's Return from the Warhammer Fantasy universe (If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device)


So in episode 27, https://youtu.be/25ZvvprhWZo?si=yhKAAWID4Mr5Klqr&t=1956 (timestamp) Custodisi gets banished by the Emperor.
After getting banished, he ends up in different universe - the Warhammer Fantasy Universe, where he becomes a Gorger Lord. He then loses an arm and gets pushed into a hole. (Special 6: Tabletop Adventures) https://youtu.be/M-9-bQ3JoWY?si=UMYDvYSG6F_wlZA9&t=1749
But then in episode 28 https://youtu.be/9qi3Evua2Cs?si=8YRZJ6v6pb3L6sHk&t=236 he just comes back to the main universe with a robotic replacement arm.

So what else he did in the Warhammer fantasy universe, the process of getting a new arm, and how he managed to get back are completely unexplained.




WB: Twenty Questions

In "Russ plays a 'Small Baby Game' with the Dark Eldar" (https://youtu.be/MQyxbBuUfH8?si=g-FWr2O8ETcT0PS_&t=272) after Leman Russ gets voluntarily captured by the dark elves, they play twenty questions and the thing being guessed starts becoming real or gets summoned if the dark elves don't guess fast enough.

This is caused by Leman Russ using psychic powers.

Leman Russ mentions that he used to play Twenty Questions with his brother (strongly implied to be Magnus), and that something similar happened which made him hate it.

So I want to know things like what happened with his brother, or how he came to be able to attain a similar skill set (he used to not be particularly proficient as a psyker, in fact, he hated psykers), or if there are particular limitations to what he can summon by playing Twenty Questions...self imposed or otherwise. Like, how much control did he have over it? Was he actually confident that he could UNsummon an entity that could destroy everything around them, or did he not care when he started to do it?




WB: Boy sees strange things with the eye that went blind (If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device)

so in the second emperor's podcast https://youtu.be/TYgItphyeXQ?si=R6LzaTtPN3-oTNuh Boy goes blind after a Black Templar smashes a cup and the shards wind up in his eye. In the Third emperor's podcast, https://youtu.be/LwKC5fxhIZo?si=R9hV1wFKF4UxynJQ&t=200 Boy mentions that reading a certain book has "awakened things in him", and he's seeing things with the eye that doesn't exist anymore. Magnus (who has also lost an eye) mentions that it also happens to him. In universe, Magnus is a powerful psyker.


So, does this mean that boy is starting to see things out of his blind eye BECAUSE he's starting to develop psychic powers (if so, what kind?), or is it something else? Are there any other things he can now see that are not book related? or is it confined to being related to what he reads?

Then in the Christmas special https://youtu.be/jaLCzwRac2g?si=pJYZ_KzAF89P_VgD&t=283 a rat creature that seemingly no one else sensed starts talking to him. Could that potentially be one of the things he sees due to having lost an eye?

Also note that Boy's style of speaking changed a lot while he was first starting to see things with that empty eye, so do these visions influence him in any way?

I think mainly I want to know more about the context of it, and how this "blind sight" works.

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Disco Elysium (Video Game)



For WB: Cunoesse's Backstory, this seems more like a character study tag--can you clarify?


Sorry that was worded really badly. I think I should change it to something like "what made Cunoesse gain a reputation as a killer" instead?

In Disco Elysium, the game, Cuno is Cunoesse's friend. When he talks about Cunoesse, he says, exact quote, "You don't know the half of it. She's not crazy, she's insane. Dangerous. She smoked a man. She's done people in, probably even pigs..."

What he's trying to say is that he believes that Cunoesse, a child, has killed people, including the police.

Harry, the police detective with people-reading powers which may or may not be psychic (in the game he's able to make eerily accurate predictions about things, and also in universe supernatural powers exist)...thinks that Cunoesse maybe did kill people, but it was more likely to have been another child.




WB: You held a young woman by the arm and kept her in your apartment for 20 minutes against her will


Harry, the police detective, does a lot of very strange things while trying to solve his cases. Some of them are less than ethical, like solving an "unsolvable" case which had repeat offenders by beating one of them so badly he had trouble walking, which made him stop being able to go outside and do more crimes.

Holding a young woman in his apartment for twenty minutes was one of the bad things he did, but we're not given context for it.

but I think I could reword it to something closer to "problematic methods police officers in the RMC routinely get away with while solving cases" or whatever you think is best.



WB: First Meetings

Yes this one is worded really really poorly. can this be changed to "initial contact with the pale" instead?

I was thinking of people's first meetings with it. it's a supernatural phenomenon that envelops mass and land. Also in canon multiple expeditions were sent into the pale, but most did not return, and most who did return lost their minds, and we don't really know what happened to them.

[digjig]

If you nominated a tag that was rejected and you don’t think it should have been, or if a fandom you nominated was approved along with some but not all of the associated characters or WB tags, please let us know your nominations page.

This is my nominations page.
https://archiveofourown.org/tag_sets/27911/nominations/437406

I realize I have some other really poorly worded tags again. I'll try my best to explain.


So for character tag not accepted, I put "Trazyn's Magos Biologis friend (Warhammer 40.000)"

I think maybe this could be changed to "Magos Biologis (War in the Museum)(Warhammer 40.000)"?

This is for a character in Warhammer 40,000 short story "War in the Museum". His name is not given, and he's only referred to as "Magos Biologis", which is a job title. There are countless other people with the same job title in universe.

Trazyn calls him his friend, and the Magos Biologis does not dispute this.

I don't know what else to call the character, any better ideas would be great.




Onto the worldbuilding tags. Please help me fix them as needed I'm really bad at them.


1. WB: How Friendship was acquired (Warhammer 40.000)

I think this could be changed to something more like "How Trazyn befriended the Magos biologis" or "tit for tat friendship agreements between Trazyn and a Magos biologis" instead?

So in canon, Trazyn and the Magos biologis are from enemy factions. yet somehow, the Magos appears to be friendly with Trazyn out of his own free will.

They also appear to have some kind of quid pro quo deal going where currently Trazyn has agreed to keep the magos biologis unmoving in stasis but fully awake and doing calculations and research analysis in his head, and also helps the magos biologis do his research and send the research to the enemy faction he belongs to.
And in return, Magos Biologis hangs around as decoration and helps Trazyn with space bugs on request.

I want to know how it happened, or details in how it works like how the research thing works, or how the Magos is dealing with stasis.



2.

WB: Yama (Warhammer 40.000)

I think this should be changed to something more like "skirmishes in the swamps of Yama" instead.

I'm looking for any worldbuilding about a part of a war campaign that happened in Yama.

Zahndrekh likes to wax poetic about the various battles fought on Yama and force Obyron to listen to him talk about it, so we get a few descriptions but we're never given the full story.


3. WB: Valeria V.S. Trazyn's gift(s) through the mail (Warhammer 40.000)

In canon, Valeria sent attack troops against Trazyn.
Trazyn then sent Valeria mail, claiming that it's a return gift, and part of the message said, exact quote, "Accompanying this message is the Hyperstone Maze, one of a series of Tesseract Labyrinths constructed at the height of the Charnovokh Dynasty. It is a trinket really, only of interest to scholars such as you and I, but I trust you will find it amusing -- assuming you have the wit to escape its clutches, of course."

So, in canon, a tesseract labyrinth is like a pokemon ball that you can trap people in. You get lost in these things and you don't find your way out. Valeria claims to have opened it.

The next time we see Valeria, all her limbs are intact. So Valeria managed to survive and escape whatever Trazyn sent her somehow.

The How part is not explained.


4. WB: First meeting(s) (Warhammer 40.000)

Can this be changed to something more like "First meeting(s) between Valeria and Trazyn" ?

What we know:
Trazyn lives on this planet in the middle of space far far away. Valeria investigated his planet because when alien bugs invaded surrounding planets they left Trazyn's planet alone.

When she landed on the planet she was attacked by swarms of his underlings. She shot him with a gun, and then stabbed him in the heart (but in a later account she claims she stabbed him in the cranium). When neither attempt killed him she retreated.


What we don't know:
How much of Trazyn's gallery did she manage to see?

What words were exchanged?

Trazyn is a robot. He does NOT have a heart. How did she stab him in the heart when he doesn't have one? When she later recounts the incident she only says she stabbed him in the cranium instead. Did she misremember? Did she lie? Or did she stab him somewhere in the chest after she stabbed him in the head?

There were 11 total serious attempts on Trazyn's life when they met. We only know about two.

How many people did she lose trying to get out?

The next time we see Valeria she's on familiar terms with Trazyn. So they very likely met again, but how?