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.

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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?