#218 Calv&Hobbes,FAQ:SnakeFight,MrRogersNeighborhood,MyTeacherIsanAlien,Nimona23,TenkuunoEscaflowne

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Calvin & Hobbes, FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, My Teacher Is an Alien - Bruce Coville, Nimona (2023), Tenkuu no Escaflowne | The Vision of Escaflowne

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Request 1 by silveradept
Fandom: Calvin & Hobbes
Characters: Miss Wormwood (Calvin and Hobbes)
Character Requirement: My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Prompt:
Miss Wormwood is very clearly a long-suffering teacher who is not entirely sure how to deal with Calvin in her class (admittedly, I think many of us would be unsure of how to deal with Calvin in our class) and possibly also unsure about how to handle Susie, especially when Calvin starts things with Susie. Or any of the other children in the class, but I'm looking for Miss Wormwood's perspective on the class and its residents, and that will probably involve Calvin a fair amount. Report card commentary, letters sent home, parent-teacher conferences, however would work best, but getting to see it from the side that's not engaged in imaginative flights of fancy at the drop of a hat would be interesting to see. Or what it's like for Miss Wormwood and all the other students who aren't Calvin or Susie.

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Request 2 by silveradept
Fandom: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns
Characters: Worldbuilding (FAQ Snake Fight)
Character Requirement: My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Prompt:
I really like this world, where there are snake fights as part of the thesis defense. This kind of situation feels a lot like it's ripe for data science or other papers that analyze the types of snakes and who they were given to, whether because there's implicit or explicit biases in the world and that's reflected in the choices of snakes, or whether certain institutions try to maintain their elite status by insisting that they never give any snake that's easier than a certain type, or the papers arguing about how snake fighting is an antiquated thing, or it was one college on a lark and somehow everyone decided they were going to adopt it. I think there's a lot of worldbuliding space available here, so if you have an idea, go for it.

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Request 3 by silveradept
Fandom: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
Characters: Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)
Character Requirement: My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Prompt:
It's been more than two decades since Mister Rogers retired, and the world has gone on significantly since. I think there are a fair number of us who would have liked to have had the guidance of Fred Rogers over the years, so my basic thought is: what would an episode of Mister Rogers Neighborhood have been like with a significant event of the last two decades or more, whether it would have been a disaster or a triumph or an ongoing struggle? He did so much, both on and off the camera, that it seems impossible that he wouldn't have had an episode about that thing, and he would have treated it in the same way that he did all the other important things of the previous decades.
If you have some other story about Fred Rogers, or the character that Fred Rogers played, you can do that one, as well. It just happens to be that's what came to mind first.

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Request 4 by silveradept
Fandom: My Teacher Is an Alien - Bruce Coville
Characters: Any
Character Requirement: My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Prompt:
The potential prompt I had in mind for this series was "Hoo-Lan explains to [Broxholm and/or Kreeblim] why Earth is the place that deserves studying," possibly divulging to them the secret that ended My Teacher Flunked The Planet, although how directly it was done would be up to the writer. Or it could be some other parts of the story where the aliens are doing something and Peter/Krepta is bewildered but trying to understand, or it could be all aliens all the time. Since I couldn't really think of anything specific enough to know which of the cast would be best to include, I decided I didn't want to specifically require any of the characters to make it work. Have fun with it.

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Request 5 by silveradept
Fandom: Nimona (2023)
Characters: Gloreth (Nimona 2023), Nimona (Nimona 2023), Worldbuilding (Nimona 2023)
Character Requirement: My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags; or it may use exceptions I explain in the form

Prompt:
I couldn't decide on whether I wanted to have a Worldbuilding story about Nimona, using whatever characters are most useful to hand, because there's so much of that world and what's been set up that asks for greater exploration and deeper dives into how it all came about, and how the people were successfully contained within the single city for so long of a time...
...or whether I wanted to explore the relationship that happened between Gloreth and Nimona that seemed to be going places, until things got screwed up at Gloreth's village. Which might feed into the worldbuilding, anyway, since the soured relationship is what started a lot of things on their path and built the legend of Gloreth defeating the black beast and the city and the walls and the cannons. (I would not be opposed to skipping off-track and going to an alternate world where the relationship continued to do well, or did well in spite of the people in Gloreth's village being afraid, or where Gloreth knew she had to do what she did for Nimona's sake, but came to apologize a lot afterward and managed to convince her that she still wanted to be friends and/or more with Nimona.)
So, you can choose either of those ideas (pure worldbuild, characters do not matter) or Nimona+Gloreth together. There's so much there to dive into, I'm sure there will be so much to work with.

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Request 6 by silveradept
Fandom: Tenkuu no Escaflowne | The Vision of Escaflowne
Characters: Kanzaki Hitomi
Character Requirement: My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags (if 0: any from tag set)

Prompt:
I am interested in what happens after with Hitomi. She now knows the truth about her pendant and what kind of power she can wield with it, and what kinds of things she can do about predicting and possibly altering fate, even if the effects of it might be not as strong on Earth as they are on Gaea. Does Hitmoi decide she wants to lean into it and start a career out of it while she goes through the rest of her schooling? Does she decide she's had more than enough of fate and Gaea and try to put it away and not think about it (possibly to be dragged back into it by the presence of someone from Gaea, or some other thing)? Does she dig in more about her past and the trips that others in her family have taken to Gaea and try to puzzle out what happened to them?
There's so much more possibility for her after the events of the series and I think Hitomi, clever, smart, and swift, will have many more adventures to come from it. If you have a story to tell, go ahead and do so, and use whatever characters in addition to Hitomi are needed.

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