Thursday: Rare Characters

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Hi, everybody! I’m templefugate, your host for the week. As a reminder, for January, we will be trying a new posting schedule. Sundays are for Lonely Prompts and sharing the fills that you completed during the week, Tuesdays and Thursdays are for new themes and prompts, and Saturdays will remain a Free for All.

With that being said, today's theme is rare characters. Prompts should be focused on and involve rare characters - i.e., characters who are often overlooked in fan works. They deserve love, too! (In my case, I tend to define a character as being rare if they are tagged less than 100 times on Ao3, but I'll give everyone else wiggle room.)

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and the fandom's full name
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above-mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ The X-Files, Queequeg, getting to help Scully on a case
+ Barbie, Weird Barbie & Sugar's Daddy Ken, overly enthusiastic dog parents
+ Any, any rare character, self-esteem issues

We are now using AO3 to bookmark filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and post it to AO3 please add it to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2024 collection. See further notes on this new option here.

Not feeling any of today’s prompts? You can use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community.

While the use of LJ's advanced search options is available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching in the future.

If you are viewing this post on our Dreamwidth site, please know that fills posted here will not show up as comments on our LiveJournal site but you are still more than welcome to participate.

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tag=rare characters

Comments

[nagi_schwarz]

Any, any, hall of fame

[nagi_schwarz]

Any, any, main character energy

[nagi_schwarz]

Any, any,

Popular!
I'll help you be popular!
You'll hang with the right cohorts
You'll be good at sports
Know the slang you've got to know
So let's start
'Cause you've got an awfully long way to go!
(Popular — Wicked)

[nagi_schwarz]

Any, any, People are strange when you’re a stranger (People Are Strange — The Doors)

[brumeier]

Any, Any, character prefers to stay in the background, mostly unnoticed, for whatever reason

Drabble Fill, Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, Bunter

[jupiter2932]

It's the part of any good manservant to fade into the background; the mark of quality service to make sure a master's needs are seen to before their lack is noticed. One becomes, when performing one's duties properly, merely scenery.

This is not a circumstance with which Bunter has ever taken issue.

It suits him, hiding in plain sight. He is not a creature of the shadows--though he's made their acquaintance, on occasion--but he has no interest in spotlights.

If no one sees you when you're standing right in front of them, they won't be watching when you strike.

Re: Drabble Fill, Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, Bunter

[brumeier]

If no one sees you when you're standing right in front of them, they won't be watching when you strike.

Heck, yeah! There are benefits to being invisible for sure. Thanks for this great fill!

Re: Drabble Fill, Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, Bunter

[jupiter2932]

Glad you liked it :D

[brumeier]

Any, Any, being an understudy rarely pays off

[brumeier]

Any, Any,

Mister Cellophane
Shoulda been my name
Mister Cellophane
'Cause you can look right through me
Walk right by me
And never know I'm there...
(Chicago the Musical)

[jupiter2932]

Any, any, their terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day

[jupiter2932]

Stargate: Atlantis, Chuck, book (or any hobby, really) club

[jupiter2932]

Any, any, chaos gremlin

[cornerofmadness]

Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Morn, a day in Quark's

[cornerofmadness]

The Owl House, Alador's rat palisman, trying to get his witch to take a day off

[creepy_shetan]

Stranger Things, Bob Newby or Murray Bauman or Alexei or Dmitri Antonov (with or without Joyce Byers or Jim Hopper), let's never do that again


(They're each tagged in a fair number of AO3 works, but they're not usually the focus, from what I've seen.)

[creepy_shetan]

The Witcher (Netflix 'verse), Istredd +/ any character besides Yennefer or Geralt, late nights and early mornings

[creepy_shetan]

Venom (movie 'verse), Mrs. Chen + any, nothing phases her (and nothing gets past her)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Morn, a day in Quark's

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

The Owl House, Alador's rat palisman, trying to get his witch to take a day off

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

The X-Files, Queequeg, getting to help Scully on a case

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

Barbie, Weird Barbie & Sugar's Daddy Ken, overly enthusiastic dog parents

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

Any, any rare character, self-esteem issues

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

Marvel, Carlie Cooper, caught in someone else's chaos

[templefugate.livejournal.com]

Any, any rare character, a fly on the wall

[dealer_of_aus_666]

Revolutionary Girl Utena, Keiko or Yuuko or Aiko, the price of popularity