Dear Creator - Turing Fest 2019
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simplecoffeeHi there! Thank you so much for sharing my fandoms and excitement about robot characters, and for creating for me! (And I am so sorry for unlocking my letter so late. Thank you deeply for your patience with me. <3)
Here are some of my thoughts about the fandoms I've requested - please feel free to use any of them as prompts, or just to use them as a guideline instead! Thanks for reading.
General likes: hurt/comfort (sickfic, injuries, emotional h/c - I'm a sucker for hurt/comfort of any description, as long as it's not hurt without comfort), character studies, exploration of canon character dynamics, honour bondage, femdom
Oblivion (2013)
Group: Jack Harper & the Drones
DNW: non-canon character death, noncon, anal, mundane AUs
Jack's main job for his five years on earth has been as a maintenance technician for the drones. I love how the film frames the drones as though they're sentient, and how Jack speaks to and of them as though they're animals, pets or just Large, Deadly Friends; he calms them with his voice, they clearly feel reassured by his presence and feel the need to defend him, and at one point he asks the surrounding people to 'give it some space, you're making it nervous', which got me right in the heart.
Jack 49, in light of the plot reveal later in the film, is shown to feel some kinship with the drones, too: "no, it's just a machine - I'm the weapon". I'd love for this kinship, this mutual understanding, to be explored in some way. So, a few thoughts:
• slice-of-life fic showing Jack getting to know the drones in the way you would get to know a new pet, noticing the little differences between them - he knows they understand him when he speaks, but given that they're nonverbal, how does he start to understand what they're feeling, rather than just what they're programmed to do? does he pet them, hug them, curl up and rest with them sometimes? what's the origin of their easy mutual trust?
• Jack taking the drones into his confidence in a way he can't do with Vika, though he wishes he could. What do the drones think of their tech's murmured thoughts about Earth being his home, about a sport they don't understand in a world they've never known, about him growing a flower in a can to give Vika because apparently humans give other humans things as a sign of affection?? why does that make them feel warm and pleasant??
• There's a scene where Jack has to talk a drone down from hurting a stray animal, and steps into its line of fire to do so. What if he was a split second too late to stop it firing, and it hurt him instead of its target? How would the drone's programming deal with that cognitive dissonance? Would it try to fix him or take care of him? Follow him home? Would that drone turn pacifist and refuse to hurt any other living beings? Would it try to apologize?
I'm 100% okay with some additional exploration of canon relationship dynamics re: Jack/Vika's supposedly happy but really weirdly tense romantic partnership, as well.
Blade Runner (Movies)
Group: Rick Deckard/Rachael, Group: Rick Deckard / Roy Batty, Group: Rick Deckard/Pris Stratton
DNW: pregnancy, unrequested pairings, non-canon character death, noncon, anal, mundane AUs
Sexual likes: femdom, praise kink, hand kink, finger-sucking, marking/bruising, honour bondage, restraints, shibari, handjobs, vaginal fingering, oral sex
I love the original Blade Runner, but I'm not too keen on the sequel. Deckard and Rachael's romance tugs on my heartstrings in just the right ways, but I like their ambiguous ending in the first film better than what the sequel gave us - so feel free to ignore 2049 entirely and simply use 2019 as the jumping-off point!
• Roy and/or Pris seduce an only-slightly-afraid Deckard, possibly while the other watches. They're trying to prove a point about their humanity to him, after all.
• Rachael is a replicant, but didn't know it; what's her headspace like when she discovers it thanks to Deckard? How does she come to terms with her own mortality, her false memories that seem so real? How does she experience attraction and/or love? How does she experience being loved?
• The novel gives Deckard a bit of a motif with constantly asking if animals are real. When he and Rachael leave the city, they might find real, actual feral animals at some point; as the landscape gradually becomes more real, how do they feel about it? Do they feel real? What do they think?
Robot Series - Isaac Asimov
Group: R. Daneel Olivaw & Elijah Baley, Group: R. Daneel Olivaw/Elijah Baley
DNW: explicit sex, unrequested pairings, non-canon character death, noncon, anal, mundane AUs
HI I LOVE THESE BOYS AND THEIR FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE AND LOYALTY SO MUCH. I love all four Robot books, but my favourite dynamic between Daneel and Lije is in the first two novels, where they're kind of still feeling each other out but deeply fond of each other nonetheless, and Lije is all stoic and awkward and just a little resentful of the fact that he has Emotions about a Robot and it's just all kinds of great.
My requests are for both fanart and fanfic, so I'll put some thoughts here for both:
Fanart:
• I love the scene of Daneel helping Lije walk, despite Lije's reluctance to lean on a robot.
• Daneel being intriguedand charmed by an Earth cat, having never seen a cat before, and Lije being incredibly amused by this.
• A fancast that's super close to my heart is Tommy Lee Jones as Lije and Harrison Ford as Daneel (both actors looking as they did circa late 80s-early 90s). I'd love a scene from any of the books, or even a cover redraw/reinterpretation of Caves of Steel, with these two actors as the characters.
Fanfic:
• We never do get to see Daneel's point of view when he steps in to help Lije while he's ill, hurt or vulnerable. I'd love to hear his thoughts and/or feelings when Lije is hurting - whether a canon instance of such, or just something else (a normal human illness, migraine, etc).
• What if Lije really did kiss Daneel when he clearly wanted to (when he first saw him in The Naked Sun)? How does Daneel think/feel about romantic affection?
• Daneel is used to being concerned about Lije's safety - he is a squishy human, after all - but he's not at all used to his own safety being cared about. How does he deal with the squishy human worrying about him?
Once again, thank you for creating a fanwork for me! I hope something here strikes your fancy, and that you have fun with it. 💛
Here are some of my thoughts about the fandoms I've requested - please feel free to use any of them as prompts, or just to use them as a guideline instead! Thanks for reading.
General likes: hurt/comfort (sickfic, injuries, emotional h/c - I'm a sucker for hurt/comfort of any description, as long as it's not hurt without comfort), character studies, exploration of canon character dynamics, honour bondage, femdom
Oblivion (2013)
Group: Jack Harper & the Drones
DNW: non-canon character death, noncon, anal, mundane AUs
Jack's main job for his five years on earth has been as a maintenance technician for the drones. I love how the film frames the drones as though they're sentient, and how Jack speaks to and of them as though they're animals, pets or just Large, Deadly Friends; he calms them with his voice, they clearly feel reassured by his presence and feel the need to defend him, and at one point he asks the surrounding people to 'give it some space, you're making it nervous', which got me right in the heart.
Jack 49, in light of the plot reveal later in the film, is shown to feel some kinship with the drones, too: "no, it's just a machine - I'm the weapon". I'd love for this kinship, this mutual understanding, to be explored in some way. So, a few thoughts:
• slice-of-life fic showing Jack getting to know the drones in the way you would get to know a new pet, noticing the little differences between them - he knows they understand him when he speaks, but given that they're nonverbal, how does he start to understand what they're feeling, rather than just what they're programmed to do? does he pet them, hug them, curl up and rest with them sometimes? what's the origin of their easy mutual trust?
• Jack taking the drones into his confidence in a way he can't do with Vika, though he wishes he could. What do the drones think of their tech's murmured thoughts about Earth being his home, about a sport they don't understand in a world they've never known, about him growing a flower in a can to give Vika because apparently humans give other humans things as a sign of affection?? why does that make them feel warm and pleasant??
• There's a scene where Jack has to talk a drone down from hurting a stray animal, and steps into its line of fire to do so. What if he was a split second too late to stop it firing, and it hurt him instead of its target? How would the drone's programming deal with that cognitive dissonance? Would it try to fix him or take care of him? Follow him home? Would that drone turn pacifist and refuse to hurt any other living beings? Would it try to apologize?
I'm 100% okay with some additional exploration of canon relationship dynamics re: Jack/Vika's supposedly happy but really weirdly tense romantic partnership, as well.
Blade Runner (Movies)
Group: Rick Deckard/Rachael, Group: Rick Deckard / Roy Batty, Group: Rick Deckard/Pris Stratton
DNW: pregnancy, unrequested pairings, non-canon character death, noncon, anal, mundane AUs
Sexual likes: femdom, praise kink, hand kink, finger-sucking, marking/bruising, honour bondage, restraints, shibari, handjobs, vaginal fingering, oral sex
I love the original Blade Runner, but I'm not too keen on the sequel. Deckard and Rachael's romance tugs on my heartstrings in just the right ways, but I like their ambiguous ending in the first film better than what the sequel gave us - so feel free to ignore 2049 entirely and simply use 2019 as the jumping-off point!
• Roy and/or Pris seduce an only-slightly-afraid Deckard, possibly while the other watches. They're trying to prove a point about their humanity to him, after all.
• Rachael is a replicant, but didn't know it; what's her headspace like when she discovers it thanks to Deckard? How does she come to terms with her own mortality, her false memories that seem so real? How does she experience attraction and/or love? How does she experience being loved?
• The novel gives Deckard a bit of a motif with constantly asking if animals are real. When he and Rachael leave the city, they might find real, actual feral animals at some point; as the landscape gradually becomes more real, how do they feel about it? Do they feel real? What do they think?
Robot Series - Isaac Asimov
Group: R. Daneel Olivaw & Elijah Baley, Group: R. Daneel Olivaw/Elijah Baley
DNW: explicit sex, unrequested pairings, non-canon character death, noncon, anal, mundane AUs
HI I LOVE THESE BOYS AND THEIR FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE AND LOYALTY SO MUCH. I love all four Robot books, but my favourite dynamic between Daneel and Lije is in the first two novels, where they're kind of still feeling each other out but deeply fond of each other nonetheless, and Lije is all stoic and awkward and just a little resentful of the fact that he has Emotions about a Robot and it's just all kinds of great.
My requests are for both fanart and fanfic, so I'll put some thoughts here for both:
Fanart:
• I love the scene of Daneel helping Lije walk, despite Lije's reluctance to lean on a robot.
• Daneel being intrigued
• A fancast that's super close to my heart is Tommy Lee Jones as Lije and Harrison Ford as Daneel (both actors looking as they did circa late 80s-early 90s). I'd love a scene from any of the books, or even a cover redraw/reinterpretation of Caves of Steel, with these two actors as the characters.
Fanfic:
• We never do get to see Daneel's point of view when he steps in to help Lije while he's ill, hurt or vulnerable. I'd love to hear his thoughts and/or feelings when Lije is hurting - whether a canon instance of such, or just something else (a normal human illness, migraine, etc).
• What if Lije really did kiss Daneel when he clearly wanted to (when he first saw him in The Naked Sun)? How does Daneel think/feel about romantic affection?
• Daneel is used to being concerned about Lije's safety - he is a squishy human, after all - but he's not at all used to his own safety being cared about. How does he deal with the squishy human worrying about him?
Once again, thank you for creating a fanwork for me! I hope something here strikes your fancy, and that you have fun with it. 💛
