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21 Days of Valdemar!

Welcome to 21 Days of Valdemar!

Put on your party hats - it’s time for the Dead Vanyel Memorial Party! Vanyel is OFFICIALLY the Woobiest of the Woobies, and we celebrate in his honour!

WE'RE DONE.

No More Fills posted here! Post to AO3 or FF.Net and post the link here!

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Schedule

Day 1 -Aug. 9 - Prompts! You will have seven days to put as many prompts as you'd like on this post. And if you start writing them early, well that's just good planning!

Day 8 - Aug. 16 - Prompting ends, posting begins! You have 14 days to write, draw, and potentially diorama as many prompts as you can.

Day 19 - Aug. 27 - This is the cut-off day for prompters to reply to any questions about their prompt. Unanswered questions are considered enthusiastic agreement.

Day 21 - Aug. 29 - Last day of posting! All fills must be posted by 11:59 PM North American Mountain Time.
Day 22 - Aug. 30 - Party time! You now have the option of going unanon and reposting everything you've done to AO3 under our fancy AO3 Collection. Or unanoning in whatever manner you please.

(Click on the dates for countdowns; the fest is following MDT/Mountain Time)

Rules

For the purposes of this fest, the prompts themselves are warnings. If you have issues with this policy, we recommend either not participating or using Dreamwidth blocker.

Joining the 21_days community is optional for prompters, fillers, and all interested parties; we have some extra content for comm members, but this prompt/fill post, the discussion post, and the mod call post are open for everyone.

MOST IMPORTANT RULE: Posting unanon will be deleted. This doesn't mean you aren't welcome here! And if you'd like the content of your comment PMed to you, contact the MOD CALL post.

For Prompters and Readers

Subject lines should include the series, characters and/or pairing you want. Feel free to be as descriptive as you'd like. Warnings aren't required, but they also aren't banned.
You don't have to write or draw. It's anon, there's no IP-tracking, and we aren't going to stalk you.
Do not comment on other people's prompts to try and change pairings or characters. Post your own version with the characters you want instead.
If you fail to respond to a 'is this okay?' kind of question about any of your prompts by the 19th day, it'll be taken as an enthusiastic yes, no matter what the question is.
There are no subject bans. You may prompt anything you want.
If you don't want to answer any questions, you can say so, and that will work as blanket permission for anything people might want to do with your prompt.
Prompts for non-Valdemar Mercedes Lackey series are allowed.

For Artists and Writers

No claiming prompts, please, as multiple fills are welcome!
Minimum wordcount per fill is 100 words.
All content is allowed and all warnings are optional, but if you want to write or draw extreme kinks** for a prompt that doesn’t specifically request them, you have ask the prompter first.
If the artist requests it, the mods will repost art fills as an embedded picture in a reply to their comment. NSFW art will be labelled as such in the subject line by re-posting mods. Art involving underaged characters in porn situations will not be re-posted as an embed.
RPF of underage people is not allowed. We're not even sure if it's possible for Valdemar fic, but whatever. It's not allowed.

** "extreme kinks" for the purposes of this exchange include but are not necessarily limited to: extreme underage, major character death, scat/watersports/emetophilia, extreme gore, and bestiality. Please use reasonable discretion, and ask a mod if you have any questions!

For Everyone

This is a Choose Not to Warn fest. At no point will any comment be deleted for failure to warn of its content in the subject lines. They will be deleted for rampaging dickery and failure to follow the rules.

Unanon comments will be deleted.

Attempts at policing other people's fun will be deleted.

Prompts posted after the end of the 7th day will be deleted.

Links to off-meme posts posted prior to end of the 21st day will be deleted.

Concerns are to be directed to the MOD CALL post. If posted here, they will be deleted.

Fills that have spectacularly failed to fulfill the prompt/been posted to the wrong spot will be screened. You can request a copy of your work at the MOD CALL post.

The rules may change without warning in response to unforeseen circumstances, like us thinking of better ones.

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Because Leareth has a heart attack at how incredibly pretty Vanyel is. And has a magic death spurt that accidentally kills his entire army.

How does Vanyel and Yfandes' return to Stef and Haven go?

Oh, this one's hitting me right in the id in the best way. And it's such a logical extension from canon....

Stef uses his Gift to overwhelm Van with lust and/or to make himself seem totally irresistible. Optional: begging, dirty talk or dirty music, shame/humiliation, orgasm control. Consensual, please - doesn't have to be verbally negotiated in the text, but it has to be there.

Because you know they need a space to commiserate when their Chosen are acting like fucking morons.

Slightly canon-divergent Magic’s Promise AU. Instead of disguising himself as a simple minstrel getting molested in taverns, Vanyel disguises himself as a minstrel or bard to infiltrate Vedric’s household for a month or two to get information. (Let’s pretend he’s able to sufficiently shield himself so Vedric can’t sense his magic.) In the course of this disguise, Vanyel aka Valdir ends up seducing Vedric, and feels horrifically guilty and conflicted and dirty about it because the man looks just like older Tylendel but is also Really Evil.

Bonus dubcon points:
Instead of Vanyel seducing Vedric for information, Vedric comes onto Vanyel first. Vanyel is too scared not to go along with the seduction for fear of breaking his cover as a financially insecure minstrel/Bard

Double bonus dubcon points:
Creepy dirty talk from Vedric about how pretty and vulnerable Vanyel is, his mouth is more useful for sucking cock than singing, etc

Too true. The poor things -_-

At the end of Mage Winds, Nyara gets turned into a more human looking version of herself, without anyone actually asking her if this is what she wants or not. Can I see the aftermath? The confusion about losing her identity and body so suddenly and without warning, and whether she misses her cat features and anything else you can think of!

You can add as much Skif as you want, the book has that throwaway line about how he tells her he'll love her even though she's not exotic anymore, which is all well and good, but I want ALL THE ANGST ANYHOW.

Now that is a lovely thought... :D

So Kris survives, and then Talia and Dirk and Kris have to figure out what to do with the fact that Talia and Dirk are lifebonded to each other, but they both still love Kris too. Can this OT3 be saved?

So, um, it's canon, right?

Tarma and Kethry are soulbonded sisters, and there is absolutely nothing sexual between them. This does not stop them from, say, massaging each other's backs after hard scouting days, or cuddling for warmth in their traveling blankets, or holding each other while they cry about traumatic memories. I'd love to see any of this.

*blink*

*stare*

Yes, please. Why did I never think of this before?

Jadrek likes to be told what to do in bed, and Kethry likes to tell Jadrek what to do... and occasionally make him do it.

Jisa loses all three parents at the end of Magic's Price. She's a strong woman, and I'd like to see how she deals with grief and begins to take up her new life. Treven (who of course is the new King) and Stefen (who is of course a traumatized grieving basket case) are welcome. So is Taver -- is Jisa Chosen as King's Own after all, or does something else happen?

When Kero rescues her sister-in-law, she suddenly becomes famous and an embarrassment to her family, particularly her brother. Write me something during that uneasy time. She's obviously always felt like she didn't fit in at the keep but now that she really feels like she needs to leave for the sake of her brother's honor, is she ambivalent about taking the less traditional path in life? Is it just the inaccuracies of the ballads being sung that make her uncomfortable? Or is it the lack of privacy? Or perhaps the implication she might be attracted to women and her own uncertainty of whether or not maybe that is actually true.

Basically anything that explores what has to have been a very uncomfortable intermediary period would be welcome. I just don't see that one having been as simple and hand-wavy as it was in the book.

We don't see nearly enough of this highly functional and potentially kick-ass relationship in the books. More please! Anything, seriously! Porn, Day to day, Scouting missions, Fights, Warm fuzzies, Diplomatic duties, Court intrigues. You name it, I'll love you for writing more about it.

Can we please see more of Tarma and daily life within the Shin'a'in tribes?

There's implication in the Herald Mage series that Savil has DOES have friendships and possibly even some comfortably casual romantic involvements. Can you write more of this for me please? Either from her perspective or from the perspective of some of her sane students (present and past).

Elspeth's governess somehow comes back/stays until she's a teenager and is manipulating her in more ways than one. Everyone else reacts to The Royal Brat rather than noticing danger signs of something being not right, until the eventual realisation that no, no this is not what they thought it was.

Because setting a child to help catch child rapists is a terrible idea. The rescuers didn't get there in time to stop things going bad. Bonus for guilt for all the adults who didn't realize this was a _terrible idea_.

Vanyel isn't going to take care of himself, obviously, so other people have to do it. There's a whole generation of young people in Haven who would be glad to watch over him, fortunately. I want to see a team-up between Medren, Jisa, and Stefen, allying to make sure Vanyel gets hot food and warm baths and good nights' sleep. Yfandes and Savil might want to join the team too!

Ideally, this fic would take place in the period at the beginning/middle of Magic's Price when things are stressful and the King is dying, but before it's obvious that all of Vanyel's Herald Mage friends are being killed off in sequence. I'm looking for fluff, not doom. It's writer's choice whether Stefen has managed to seduce Vanyel yet, although I do enjoy the sexual/romantic tension when Van and Stef are best friends but Van is still turning Stef down at every opportunity.

It is tragic, TRAGIC, that Vanyel's badass soldier sister only gets one cameo in Magic's Promise, after stealing the show several times in Magic's Pawn. Show me a time when Vanyel and Lissa did something together. This could be anything from getting drunk and trading boy stories at a disreputable tavern to saving Valdemar by thwarting an invasion. Or thwarting a plot while being drunk at a tavern. All I need is some good sibling bonding.

Totally stealing a prompt from the discussion post that hasn't been moved over yet:

Tylendel has read about Tayledras sex magic in one of Savil's books. (Reference note: Darkwind mentions sex magic in Winds of Change when he's trying to figure out his way into Elspeth's pants). He decides to try it out with Vanyel. It gets kinky and wrong, and Van is both unnerved by what Lendel is doing to him and also really turned on. And then Lendel screws something up and the whole thing explodes, literally or figuratively.

I present to you this tasty mental image: Herald-Mage Vanyel Ashkevron at the Karsite border - alone, cold, muddy, dodging lightning strikes when he's not throwing them himself - having a favourite fantasy about a whole bunch of attractive Hawkbrothers, a generously sized private hot spring, and himself in the midst of it all.

You could just write the fantasy itself, as Van imagines it, or feel free to go into the process of it and the surrounding "real life" it contrasts with. I just need Vanyel consensually getting All the Hot Gay Guys, even if it's just in his mind!

After Van's death. When Stef is feeling awful, he doesn't use alcohol or drugs to cope, but he knows how to get other kinds of excessive physical stimulation that will help him turn his brain off for a while. So, sex clubs, anonymous sex, could be framed as sex addiction. Optionally, Medren finds out about these escapades, or catches him as he slips back home afterwards, and tries to get him cleaned up without judging him.

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21 Days of Valdemar!

Vanyel/Stefan, Vanyel Survives, Deus Ex Machina

no subject

Van/Stef, mind control

Any Companions, support group

Vedric/Vanyel - emotionally conflicted dubcon seduction

Re: Any Companions, support group

Nyara gen

Re: Vedric/Vanyel - emotionally conflicted dubcon seduction

Talia/Dirk /+ Kris, Kris lives AU

Lavan/Kalira

Tarma & Kethry, platonic physical contact

no subject

Kethry/Jadrek, gentle dom/sub

Jisa, gen, around her parents' deaths

Kerowyn Gen. - All Elbows & Knees (The discomfort of sudden fame)

Kerowyn/Eldan - Moar please!

Tarma Gen. - @ home

Savil/Any - No really, she DOES have a life outside teaching

Elspeth/Hulda dubcon

Skif non-con

Team Care For Vanyel! (Medren, Jisa, Stefen)

Vanyel and Lissa, gen, any plot

Lendel/Van, sex magic

Vanyel solo, Hawkbrother orgy or gangbang fantasy

Stef/many, sex as coping mechanism