Thursday ✎ Same Events at Different Ages

[creepy_shetan]

Hi again and welcome back! ^_^ It's me, creepy_shetan, your host this week. Today will be a little different than usual, but I hope that you give it a try. ❤

✎ Today's theme: same events at different ages. This can work for original characters/settings as well as fandoms. Think of it as a "change one thing" AU writing exercise: any event (big or small) that happens in canon still happens, but now one or more (or all!) of the characters are facing that event either when they were younger or when they're older. De-age, age up -- whichever floats your boat. It's also up to you how much of an age change you'd like. Is it a year? Five years? Fifty? Or maybe only a couple of months? A week? After/before a birthday?

A few rules to keep in mind:

✦ No more than five prompts in a row per day
✦ No more than three prompts in the same fandom per day
✦ If one or more of your prompts is filled today, then you may prompt again
✦ Use the full names of the fandom(s) and character(s) in your prompts
✦ For prompts, no spoilers until one month after the release date (use a spoiler tag to hide part or all of the text)
✦ For fills, warn for spoilers, and either leave blank space before the text or hide the text under a spoiler tag
✦ Include a warning in the subject line for any possible triggers

Please remember to use the proper format for prompts.
➔ ➔ ➔ Fandom [/ Crossover], Character [+ or / Relationship], Prompt
Again, please include the full names of the fandom(s) and character(s). This makes it easier to add prompts to the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet and to find prompts through manual search.
(Author's choice prompts and original fills are also more than welcome! ❤)

Examples:

For a single fandom:
✧ Stranger Things, Billy Hargrove +/ Steve Harrington, what if Billy and Max had moved to Hawkins before s1, when they were younger?
✧ Devil May Cry, Dante + Nero + V (+ any), the events of DMC5 take place over a few months, not a few weeks
✧ author's choice, any, a character dies 3~5 years later than they do in the canon timeline

For multiple fandoms / crossovers:
✧ any two fandoms featuring the same historical war, any +/ any, they didn't fight/work in the war -- they were orphaned during it

We use AO3 to keep track of filled prompts. If you fill a prompt and (cross-)post it to AO3, please add your story to the Bite Sized Bits of Fic from 2023 collection. For more information, please go here.

A backup version of this community is available on Dreamwidth.

If the plot bunnies aren’t biting you today, feel free to check out our archive calendar. You can browse the main themed posts and Saturday free-for-all posts for prompts to fill (and fills to read). Or you can check the Sunday posts for requested prompts (and fills written that week). There's also LJ’s advanced search options -- however, it currently seems to only search entries, not comments.

While the above are available options, the simplest method might be to bookmark prompts that you like as you find them and return later when inspiration strikes. (There are no rules against multiple fills for the same prompt, by the way!)

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