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.

Comments

[aranciata]

AO3 Name: brella
Fandoms & Characters of Color: Tashi Donaldson in Challengers, Javi Rivera in Twisters
Link to letter: Here
Prompts/Comments: They were two of my very favorite characters to come out of the past year and I am really aching for gen/character studies of both of them. And I feel like the respective fandoms take generally no interest in them in the grand scheme of things lol but maybe I'm just not looking in the right places.
Twisters: I love Javi unconditionally. I want more of his emotional interiority on EVERYTHING, from pre-canon (discovering a love of storms, going to Muskogee State, growing up Latino in Oklahoma—he says he's from "Miami" but I wonder if this was a mispronunciation of Miami, Oklahoma, which if you're local is pronounced more like "Miamuh") to mid-canon (friend group shenanigans with Jeb, Kate, Praveen, Addy; coping with their deaths, maybe having an ill-considered grief hook-up with Kate, joining the military to run away but just obsessively chasing tech that might have saved his friends if he had just invented it sooner, connectihg with Scott, gearing himself up to reach out to Kate—canonically he visits her mom!—pining longing guilt yum) to post-canon (in love with Kate again, finding community in the wrangler crew, slowly opening himself up to love and adventure again).
Challengers: Would LOVE Tashi POV if you're up for that. A Tashi character study, a proper elegy to the art she has lost; the emotions of that scene where she sits down beside the tree and stares at her knee, but a whole fic length. I am reminded of that New York Times profile of Keith Jarrett after it was announced he would never play the piano again due to a stroke. “Right now, I can’t even talk about this,” he said when the issue came up, and laughed his deflective laugh. “That’s what I feel about it.” And while the magnificent achievement of “Budapest Concert” is a source of pride, it’s not hard to see how it could also register as a cosmic taunt. “I can only play with my right hand, and it’s not convincing me anymore,” Mr. Jarrett said. “I even have dreams where I am as messed up as I really am — so I’ve found myself trying to play in my dreams, but it’s just like real life.”