graveexcitement

Dear Worldbuilder,

Hi! I'm Grave (ao3 user

graveExcitement). I'm very much looking forward to doing

worldbuildingex again! Thanks in advance for writing for me. I hope one or more of these prompts inspires you, but optional details are optional; feel free to ignore the prompts or only use part of them if a different idea strikes you!

The length of my prompts may vary between my requested fandoms, especially in places where I've been able to reuse prompts from previous exchanges. Don't worry — if I requested a fandom, I want it just as much as I want the other fandoms here, regardless of prompt length!

Do Not Wants:
-I'm not interested in smut/explicit content for this exchange.

General likes/favored tropes:
I may not put most of these into my request-specific prompts and they may not even be relevant, but I enjoy these tropes:

-Time travel/time loops
-Telepathy/telepathic bonds/mind-melding
-Bodyswapping or bodysharing
-Bickering/bantering
-Characters cuddling/snuggling/falling asleep together
-Hurt/comfort (especially sickfic)
-Humor

My requested fandoms:

The Expanse Series - James S.A. Corey
The Magnus Archives
New Danganronpa V3

The Expanse Series - James S.A. Corey

Major spoiler warning for Leviathan Falls
These prompts deal with the ending of Leviathan Falls, the final book in The Expanse Series.

Requested medium(s): Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Requested characters: Marrel Imvic, Amos Burton, Any or No Characters, Original Character(s)

Contact and diplomacy between post-collapse systems
As you may be able to guess, I adored the epilogue of Leviathan Falls,, and I'd love to see more in that vein. How do the far-flung children of humanity interact with each other after a millennium apart? What happens once they've re-established contact with each other? Does Amos stick around to help (or be pleasantly threatening) in the negotiations, and if so, at what point does someone realize he's not quite human? Do he and Marrel strike up a friendship of some sort?

Dobridomov civilization and culture
I'm interested in the civilization that reached out into the void and crossed the stars after a millennium of isolation. What drove them to re-establish contact? How successful have they been at making contact with other human systems? Did they originally set out to preserve as much knowledge as they could from before the collapse and rebuild with the aim of reaching the other systems, or did that goal come later? Are there any protomolecule remnants on Dobridomov, and if so how have they affected Dobridomov science & culture?

Post-collapse linguistics
I quite enjoyed the epilogue from a linguistics perspective, and would be interested in more of that vein. A thousand years is enough time for plenty of linguistic drift, making the collapse akin to a Tower of Babel scenario. How many languages were preserved after the collapse on Dobridomov, that Marrel was able to learn at least some of them? Does he befriend Amos because he knows pre-collapse English and Belter?

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The Magnus Archives

Requested mediums: Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Requested characters: Any or No Characters

History and nature of the entities and their avatars and creatures
I loved many of the pre-modern statements, and I'd be interested in seeing reading more about the entities/avatars/creatures' history. When did the very first avatars develop, and what were they like? Which entities developed first, and how have they changed over time with different cultural fears? When and how did the first rivalries between opposing entities and their avatars emerge? Anything along these lines would be wonderful.

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New Danganronpa V3

Major spoiler warning for endgame twists!
Seriously, don't even look at this fandom if you ever plan on playing this game.

Requested medium(s): Fanfiction, In-Universe Meta
Requested characters: Amami Rantaro, Ouma Kokichi, Saihara Shuichi, Any or No Characters, Original Character(s)

General notes: I requested Amami, Ouma, and Saihara because they're the ones I'm most interested in, but featuring/focusing others is also totally welcome (or original/no characters, of course!)

Society that enjoys killing games
How bloodthirsty is their society, that televised killing games are broadly accepted? Or is Danganronpa used more as catharsis for this society? Is killing game entertainment and acceptation of such limited to Japan, or is it worldwide? Does Team Danganronpa have a monopoly on killing game entertainment, or are there other, less popular killing game shows/media? Does anyone try to set up amateur killing games in their neighborhood/school/workplace?

Killing game as reality TV show
What's the process of auditioning for Danganronpa like? Is there any kind of preparation, photo shoots, etc., before the kids' memories get wiped/new memories implanted and they get set loose? How much warning do they get before they find out they're accepted - do they get any advance notice, or do they just get kidnapped and only informed right before the killing game? Do parents, siblings, friends, etc. tune into the new season of Danganronpa only to find out that their kid/sibling/friend is in the latest killing game?

Do all the killing games tend to follow a similar pattern (five or so regular class trials before a final class trial to reveal the mastermind) or are some of them more unusual? Does a blackened ever win? Are there any killing games that reached a "stalemate" where people stopped dying (or the killing never began) but they weren't able to figure out the mastermind either?

What was Amami's previous killing game (or games?) like, and what did he do in between killing games?

In-universe Danganronpa fan communities
What kind of in-universe fanwank is there for Danganronpa? Arguments about best boy/best girl? Arugments about who should have lived/died? (These arguments can be about V3 characters or unseen characters from previous seasons.) What was it like as an individual in-universe Danganronpa fan, watching V3 - did they eventually reject the killing game they loved as wrong, or are they bitter that it ended? What are fan communities centered around a killing game reality show like? Do a great deal of fans audition for Danganronpa themselves, or do they love the show but wouldn't want to actually risk their life for it? Are there different communities for the first group versus the second? How many of the V3 characters participated in online Danganronpa fan communities?

In-universe Danganronpa fannish activity
Fans will be fans, especially with the intentional blurring of fiction and reality when it comes to Danganronpa contestants. So, people writing fanfiction or meta about Danganronpa, the killing game show (potentially including any of the many seasons we don't know anything about). What's it like being an (in-universe) Danganronpa fanfic author? Do they acknowledge that they're writing about real people, or do they use Shirogane's defense of the contestants' backstories and personalities being fictional to mean that they are writing about fully fictional characters?

Did any of the V3 characters ever write fanfiction or meta about previous Danganronpa seasons? (Especially Saihara. And, after the killing game ended, did Saihara come home to find his AO3 account full of Danganronpa fic?)

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I hope you are inspired by something in this letter! Good luck, and have fun!

Sincerely,
Grave