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

[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.

[mimihylea]

Thank you for explaining! I see your updated Twenty Questions wording and that looks good. For the other two, would "WB: Warhammer Fantasy Universe" (or "WB: Travel to and from Warhammer Fantasy Universe") and "WB: Boy's supernatural sight" work for you?

[digjig]

"WB: Travel to and from Warhammer Fantasy Universe" and "WB: Boy's supernatural sight" sound good, thank you!