Chromatic Yuletide 2024

[dauntlessshadowice]

Chromatic Yuletide is a collection post for Yuletide requests that include characters of colour. Posting here doesn't obligate you to do anything, but it helps writers find your requests and treat you.

Posting requirements:
Your request centers around at least one character of colour.

(I acknowledge there are some shortcomings with the "person of colour" descriptor. I'm also not going to police who is or isn't a character of colour; please just use your best judgment.)

What you must include:
Your AO3 name
Whatever fandoms & characters of colour you're requesting

What you should probably include:
Links to your letter or copy/pasted requests
A brief description of your canon or a link to a canon promo, if you think it's unfamiliar to most people & you want to boost interest in it

If you write for one of these requests, you can tag your fic with Chromatic Yuletide so people can easily find it.

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[ambyr]

AO3 name: ambyr

Letter: ambyr's letter

Fandom 1: Dispatches from Elsewhere (TV) (Fredwynn, Lee)



Dispatches from Elsewhere is a one-season TV show about a group of strangers brought together by chance to play an alternate reality game, which may or may not be more than a game. Fredwynn is one of the four team members, a conspiracy theorist who is absolutely determined that there's more to the game than meets the eye. Lee is one of the people organizing the game (and struggling to deal with our protagonists' occasionally over-enthusiastic efforts to peek behind the curtain). I struggle to give specific prompts without wildly spoiling canon, but there's definitely space for some interesting fic about both of them, individually or together.

Fandom 2: Star Wars Rebels: Servants of the Empire - Jason Fry (Zare Leonis, Dhara Leonis)



Servants of the Empire is a four-volume middle-grade series (They're short! They're all on Kindle Unlimited!) about a teenaged boy who goes undercover as an Imperial cadet to find and rescue his older sister, who went missing from the same academy. If you've seen Rebels, you might recognize Zare as a side character in two episodes; if you haven't seen Rebels, the novels stand on their own perfectly well and will tell you everything you need to know to understand Zare's perspective and personal quest. The way I keep wanting to describe them is "much better than they have any right to be"; they're children's books, but they manage a surprisingly nuanced look at why some people comply with fascist regimes while others are radicalized against them. And a lot of the middle books are focused on Zare's struggle to cope with the psychological strain of long-term undercover work.

Fandom 3: Star Wars: Doctor Aphra (Comics) (Chelli Lona Aphra, Sana Starros)



Doctor Aphra spans two runs (2016-2019, and 2020-2024) and is mostly collected into two omnibuses. Doctor Aphra is a rogue archaeologist (think: tomb robber) who has an extremely limited sense of morality (or monogamy) and is constantly getting into scrapes with the worse people in the galaxy, then double-crossing her way out of them as best she can. Sana Starros is a smuggler and one of Aphra's on-again, off-again girlfriends. Together they . . . fight crime? No, together they mostly cause crime. But in a way that's entertaining to anyone outside the blast radius.