I am Imperatia.

Gender: Male

Country: Slovenia (EU)

Religion: Apathetic Atheist

Political Belief: Left-ish

Education: Political Theory

Fandoms: Code Geass, Harry Potter, One Piece, High School DxD, Stargate SG-1, Star Wars

My blog: imperatia(dot)wordpress(dot)com stupid ffnet (nothing really there yet)

You may suggest things to me regarding stories and I may sometimes listen, however I write my own storylines and will not bend backwards to please you. The best story is one that writes itself. Please respect the fact that the more I would bend to your whims, the lesser would the result probably be.

If you criticize me, please be polite and courteous. If you're writing a review for the sole purpose of bashing my ideas and my stories without saying anything constructive, please don't even bother. I'm not going to modify or delete everything for your amusement. If your bashing can't help me improve on the existing story or chapter, then it's completely worthless to me.

My story ideas.

You may adopt them if you wish, just ask me first, oh and do change the title since this is supposed to be my name for it. Needless to say, none of those should be attempted unless you posess a relatively decent writing skill.

Code Geass/Harry Potter.

Lelouch is banished from the CG universe and arrives into the Harry Potter universe. He has a Code. C.C. may or may not be with him.

He arrives either some decades before HP is born or a few centuries. He becomes a Duke in Great Britain and is renowned in both the magical and mundane world. Reason for that not decided, possibly a liason between worlds, influential diplomat or for services as a spy in WW2 or something else. Eventually, he becomes HP's father, either after HP is abandoned at the doorsteps or a bit later. Snarky, dark, uncompromising asshole politician like he'll hopefully be in With All My Heart. He and CC (if present) are both wizards, powerful ones. LL starts meddling politically in the Magical world once HP goes to school. Possibly becomes Minister of Magic, Prime Minister of Great Britain, C.C. maybe becomes an influential politician in either the USA or France, possibly their Minister of Magic. HP joins either Slytherin or Gryfindor (a really sneaky one).

LL/CC pairing (optional), HP pairing undecided. Probably not HP/HG (too cliche, the sentence 'a certain bushy-haired witch' makes my eyes bleed).

Code Geass/Stargate SG-1.

Lelouch is banished from the CG universe and arrives into Stargate SG-1 universe. He has either a Code, Geass, both or neither. CC, Kallen, Shirley, Jeremiah and Rolo or any combination of the above also arrive in the same dimension, but each on a different world.

Lelouch wakes up on the planet of a minor Goa'uld. He kills the false god and takes over. In the next few years LL searches and finds the others and then begins his new empire. New Britannia, Black Empire, Geass Empire, whatever. After a few centuries (thanks to a sarcophagus they are effectively immortal, though they must find a way to remove madness inducing side effects) the Tau'ri arrive on the scene. Eventually LL's Empire and USA meet.

No pairings of SG characters. Romance (if any) takes a back seat.

Code Geass.

Emperor Charles zi Britannia is diagnosed with dementia and the Imperial Family attemps to hide this. Unfortunately for them, the 11th Prince, Lelouch vi Britannia, learns of his father's senility. Instead of rebelling, Lelouch, armed with his brain as well as pure malice, resolves to use this newfound information to turn Charles' reputation into dust.

Probably crack. Romance takes a back seat.

Code Geass/Elder Scroll Series.

Lelouch is banished from the CG universe and arrives into the Elder Scrolls universe. (you may have started to notice a pattern here) He either keeps his Geass or not. He doesn't have a Code.

It is slightly before the time of The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind. The mad god, Sheogorath pulls Lelouch from his universe for fun and gives him one of the few remaining artifacts of his alter ego, Jyggalag. The daedric essence of the supressed diety assualts Lelouch and attempts to take over, but Lelouch either defeats it (somehow, maybe Geass?) or molds with it equally. Lelouch wears the mantle of the daedric prince of Order and eventually becomes Jyggalag. (Therefore, the Hero of Kvatch cannot become Sheogorath anymore) He pulls C.C. into TES universe.

C.C. keeps her Code and is after some time dropped into Tamriel to secure followers for Lelouch/Jygguch xD. She attempts to build a shrine to him, but is arrested by the Imperial Legion. She gets shipped to Morrowind. She joins Great House Telvanni, eventually becoming Archmagister. She may also become the Morag Tong Guildmaster. She follows the TES III main quest and becomes the Nerevarine. Avoid other titles. Given that she is a member of the Telvanni and the Nerevarine, she becomes a very powerful witch.

She at some point (undecided when) succeeds in building a daedric shrine for Lelouch. After she does this, Lelouch can physically enter Tamriel and be with her and can also allow her to form portals to his Realm, allowing her to visit him at will.

After the TES III main quest conclusion, she eventually becomes a member of the Elder Council. She works to legalise daedra worship to help Lelouch gain more followers. During the Oblivion crisis, she helps the Hero of Kvatch (an OC, rather stealthy thief assassin type character, though not a member of more than 1 guild of choice). During the final showdown with Mehrunes Dagon, she may somehow summon Lelouch, who either helps or defeats Dagon on his own.

After 200 years, LL and CC have three semi-divine children. CC passes Telvanni leadership to Aryon, while one of her sons takes over her stronghold. Her daughter is a daddy's girl and therefore spends a lot of time as Lelouch's steward, while another son becomes the last Dragonborn (but gains no other titles, except possibly Archmagister of the College). CC becomes the High Chancellor of the Elder Council and a ridiciolusly powerful sorceress, bordering on godlike.

After Motierre successfuly assassinates the Emperor using the Dark Brotherhood, CC becomes a candidate for the Empress and Motierre hopes to succeed her as High Chancellor. CC makes sure that Motierre understands that if he attempts the same with her, consequences would be dire.

CC's ascension is made conditional on having a husband, the suggestion put forward by other members in the hopes of controlling her. CC says she already has a husband. CC summons LL and tells him this. Lelouch takes his sweet time to gather the family (Dragonborn son succeeds meanwhile), while CC prepares for war with the Thalmor.

CC ascends and with the help of LL's minions, the Telvanni high sorcerers and her own magic beats a Thalmor invasion. Then the time comes for a counter attack.

CC/LL pairing. Daedric prince Lelouch, powerful Telvanni sorceress and politician CC. Romance takes a back seat to politics (Telvanni, Vvardenfell, Imperial, Skyrim, Daedric, etc.) and battles (CC vs. Dagoth Ur, CC vs. competitors, Telvanni vs. daedra, Vvardenfell/Morrowind vs. daedra invasion, Empire vs. Thalmor, Empire vs. Stormcloaks, CC or LL curbstops everyone etc.)

Absolutely massive idea. Why Morrowind? Because it's story is many times more interesting than the generic saving the world in Oblivion and Skyrim.

Some tips (from a picky reader)

When a new person speaks, make a new paragraph.

Avoid cursing, unless a character is specifically meant to be a potty mouth or or it's rare. But it sounds unsophisticated and immature if you over-do it.

Avoid long-winded explanations. Things do not have to be re-explained over and over again to different characters. Just pretend that there was an explanation off-screen and then reference it.

Similarly, there is no need to familiarise us with the entire life story of each character. Or all of the characters thoughts. More is sometimes less. This is especially true when introducing OC characters.

Try to keep at least a 70/30 or 30/70 ration in regards to text/dialogue. Plain text with no dialogue is boring, just dialogue with no text is cheap.

No need to announce the POV (point of view). Some of us do have brains, you know. Also, it breaks immersion.

Make plenty of paragraphs in general. Better more rather than less. Walls of text can kill your story.

When you are done writing, put your text into Word (or whatever) and fix those words that have red wavy underlining. If you do this, you will avoid at least the most obvious errors.

Never write that you will never abandon the story. This to me is a warning sign, saying that the story might soon be abandoned. You might feel this way at that moment, but all feelings are transient.

When you update, there had better be a chapter in there somewhere. Never post your pathetic apologies in place where a chapter should be. If a story is well-liked by someone, this first causes euphoria and then disappointment.

No sneak peeks, previews or anything like that. When you have a chapter, you post it. If you don’t have a chapter, write until you have a chapter.

Avoid stereotypes. Either that or present them in new, fresh, surprising ways.

Characters should have a personality, not a trope. If you write your characters based entirely on TV-tropes, you and your readers are going to have a bad time.

Do conserve your unreasonably violent female characters. I can do without those. Check the sentence above this one.

The same goes for all of your overly controlling wives (which give the impression that their behavior was supposed to be cute).

There is too much romance everywhere. I get it, people love each-other. I just don’t want to read about it all the time. Especially not any of those love-at-first-sight or shag-at-first-sight type of stories that seem to be so common.

Try to have the main character (MC) have some flaws. Goes for others as well.

When writing an original character (OC) that is not the MC, there is no need to tell us their entire life story. That’s the route to the reviled Mary Sue OC’s and is the reason why people avoid stories with OC characters in them.

OC’s should not take your own personality if at all possible. Again, the above applies.

If you are writing a little socially less acceptable person/situation, such as incest, young/old romance, about a person who does a really bad deed, don’t try to rationalise it. Really, don’t. Don’t try to make your ‘hero’ to be some misunderstood saint or sth. I once read about a story, which was about a man travelling dimensions and meeting his younger female self. The story was a bit cringey in some respects and it was obviously incest. But that was fine, at least until it was adopted by a moron. That guy then made a big deal about the duo getting blood tests revealing the two not being really related, so it was fine for them to screw each-other. There were other things too, but this idiotic rationalisation was one of those things that transformed this from a guilty pleasure into just plain suck. So, my point is: be unapologetic. A better way would have been to describe the two as knowing that their love was “wrong”, but continuing nonetheless.

Avoid flanderisation. Emperor Palpatine doesn’t have to whip and torture poor Vader and neither do the Dursleys have to do the same to Harry Potter.

Connected with the last one. Don’t be overly dramatic. Not everything has to be about saving the world.

Avoid binary divisions, Us vs. Them, as much as possible. One side is (usually) not the absolute good, while the other is not absolute evil. Unless it’s that way it is in original content, but that still shouldn’t be an excuse.

Don’t be too vague, but at the same time don’t tell too much. It’s a balance difficult to achieve. Put unnecessary explanations off-screen.

No Harry Potter shopping scenes. Seriously, don’t.

Whether or not HP (or anyone else) has 100 titles or not is completely irrelevant if the entire society is against them. Being the heir to all four founders, wizarding royalty and a holder of many other titles would be more of a liability than an advantage, since everyone would be out to kill you.

Rules can be changed, avoided, interpreted differently or simply ignored. Possessing formal influence means effectively nothing. See the previous one.

A person who rises up from nothing is a lot more impressive than the person who suddenly discovers they are the heir to everything. The second also suggests that there is no upward mobility.

When you make the MC mysteriously turn gay (as you unfortunately, inevitably will), there should be at least some basis for that in canon. Also, the entire dominant/submissive thing is entirely fucked up in my opinion and should just burn and die already. No need to turn the badass, independent MC into a crying, little pansy for no explicable reason. Even if he is “the bottom”, he can still keep his personality. I’m not certain that gay relationships even work that way, but whatever.

Connected with the above. The submissive/dominant creature story genre should just die already. The entire idea of mates as well. Especially unwilling ones.

Imperatia