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dauntlessshadowice ([personal profile] dauntlessshadowice) wrote in [community profile] yuletide2025-10-15 12:15 pm
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Siblings Mini-Challenge: Family Matters 2025

 What is Family Matters?
Unrelated to the sitcom (or anything else, actually), Family Matters is a mini challenge focused on sibling relationships. Whether that be traditional, half, foster/adoptive, or step siblings, siblings of all kinds are welcome. For the purposes of this mini challenge, I am excluding found family (unless there are sibling relationships within) and “I see them as a sibling” relationships (unless, of course, that statement is meant to be literal.) As I won’t be policing anything, please use your best interest and feel free to ask me any questions in the comments.

What about incest?
This is NOT the incest mini challenge. Someone made one last year and I'm hoping, for all interested, that it's continues on. However, nothing and no one is stopping you from signing up to both if that’s what you want.

What if [character]’s sibling isn’t in the tagset?
Good news! As long as at least one sibling is in the tagset (and you’re requesting them), this won’t be a problem.

How do I participate?
Leave a comment with the following details:
<strong>AO3 Username:</strong>
<strong>Letter Link (if applicable):</strong>
<strong>Fandoms & Requested Characters + Their Siblings (not necessary, but it might help to put if they’re in the tagset or not/if you’re requesting them):</strong>
<strong>Prompts (optional):</strong>
<strong>Any Other Details:</strong>

How do I tag for this?
The challenge, specifically? Yuletide Family Matters
But in general, try some of these, if applicable: Siblings, Sibling Rivalry, Brother-Brother Relationship, Brother-Sister Relationship, Sister-Sister Relationship, Adopted Sibling Relationship, Step-Siblings

[personal profile] panickyintheuk 2025-10-17 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
AO3 Username:panickyintheuk
Letter Link: https://panickyintheuk.dreamwidth.org/356.html
Fandoms & Requested Characters + Their Siblings: The Leftovers - Nora Durst & Matt Jamison
Prompts (optional):
- Matt after Nora "goes through" (or doesn't! I tend to prefer the interpretation where she did, but a different take could be interesting)--how does he feel about what happened? How does he explain it to people?
- Matt and Nora as kids--their letters to and from Bible camp? Their grandparents seem to have been strict; does Matt protect Nora from them? How does this affect him and his faith?
- Matt as an uncle to Lily; Nora as an aunt to Noah. Is it painful for Nora to have a relationship with Noah, especially after she no longer has Lily? What about her relationship with Mary?
Any Other Details: Matt is not nominated but Nora is.
Edited (wrong 'affect' :'() 2025-10-25 13:25 (UTC)