Chromatic Yuletide 2025

[moontyger]

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.)

To participate, simply copy-paste the following into a comment:

AO3 name:
Letter link:
Fandom:
Characters:
What is it? description of canon or a link to a canon promo (optional)
What kind of thing am I requesting? also optional

<strong>AO3 name:</strong> <strong>Letter link:</strong> <strong>Fandom:</strong> <strong>Characters:</strong> <strong>What is it?</stong> description of canon or a link to a canon promo (optional) <strong>What kind of thing am I requesting?</strong> also optional

If you post a fic for Yuletide with one or more POC characters, tag it with Chromatic Yuletide so people can find it easily!

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[yellowmagicalgirl]

AO3 name: YellowMagicalGirl
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Fandom: Khyber Shards
Characters: Ari and Esri are both men of color. Ari is an ambiguously brown man (his player thinks that Dev Patel or a young Oscar Isaac should play Ari in a live-action adaptation of Khyber Shards). Esri was described as "if the Jolly Green Giant's son was a KPop Idol" in an early episode, implying that Esri would be East Asian. In addition, Esri's most significant relative would also be East Asian if the characters were from the real world instead of a fantasy world.
What is it?: Khyber Shards is a D&D 5e Actual Play focusing on four former child soldiers with aberrant marks, magical birthmarks that give them destructive powers and cause their bearers to be discriminated against. The characters spend the first 36 episodes trying to hide their marks, but when that fails they form a school a la the X-Men.

Since the show is complete, I suggest the beginning so you can get the full experience. Episode two will introduce all the requested characters. Do note that there is a slight echo (two players are in one room), and one player accidentally named his character a slur (it got retconned immediately when the player discovered this, but the audio from the episodes before the retcon was not edited to no longer include the slur). If this is an issue for you but you still want to watch as much as possible, then I would suggest instead that you watch the first 10 minutes of this recap, and then start watching from this episode. That episode still contains all of the requested characters. I'd say that the episode after this one is also where the show really starts to feel like an X-Men story as opposed to more generic fantasy about people oppressed for their powers.