yuletide | 2022 Yuletide Promo Post

Welcome to the Fandom Promo post, everyone!

Here's where you get those eyes on your fandoms for sign-ups!

Share what makes your Yuletide fandoms the shiniest and why you love them. A big part of Yuletide is how small our fandoms can be, and this is a good way to make sure other people know what gems there are out there!

NEW: We've made a register! There is now a searchable Google spreadsheet index of the canons promoted on this post. Go ahead and add yours or any you see that are missing! We hope this helps connect people up with canons of interest to them.

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Title: Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age

Media: A JRPG-style video game released in English in 2018

Approx length: ~85 hours

Important note: You do not need prior knowledge of the other 10 games to enjoy this one!

Where to find it: Youtube playthrough (with commentary) DQXI on steam Youtube 'movie' of the game (5-part edit of cutscenes)

What is it, in summary?: You play as the Luminary, who's on a hero's journey to find his destiny and save the world! Complete with a lovable cast of characters and a colorful world bundled into three acts.

What do you love about it?:

{spoilers ahead!}

Look at this boy.

Three images next to each other all depicting screenshots of the Hero from Dragon Quest.

Now tell me you don’t at least think he’s cute or are slightly interested in his Hero’s Journey across a land that eventually succumbs to crippling darkness but through the power of friendship and found family is saved, with the hero going back in time at the end of the second act to prevent the darkness from happening in the first place.

DQXI is full of a cast of lovable characters, each with their own unique voice and appeal. (Even the 30-year-old men get some love!) The game has a lot of lore, fun character dynamics, and potential for worldbuilding. (IF you can overlook the mindf*kery that is the world map.)

An image of Sylvando from Dragon Quest, looking smug as ever.

The man, the myth, the fabulous legend.

Sylvando is probably at least 50% of what makes this game great. He’s a lot of people’s favorite character, and who can blame him? He might initially come off as a gay stereotype but spend some more time with him and you will rapidly fall in love with his energy, kindness, and humor. It’s like they took everything LGBTQ and put it into this one precious little character. Give him different pronouns, let him be a literal clown, have him be your party’s Emotional Support Parent. It’s all up for grabs when Sylv’s around. (Or Sylvia, if you prefer~)

Lastly, the shipping. The longer I stick around this fandom, the more brain worms I have accrued, to the point that I don’t think there’s any (reasonable) ship that I would not enjoy. There are so many possible pairings that have yet to be explored, and don’t even get me started on friendships!

Missing scenes, fix-its, and canon diverge are popular mainstays for this fandom and there is a lot of canon material you can twist, tweak, and tamper with.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Canon divergence, time traveling nonsense, and post-canon aus. I'm also interested in events happening before canon, and during canon, and anything you can think of, really. I'm most in love with luminerik but am chest-deep in the minutae of this fandom and would happily devour fanfiction about anything, from an obscure NPC's perspective of act 3 to slice of life.

Content warnings: non-explicit past child abuse, implications of sexual assault, child death/main character death.