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acequeenking) wrote2024-01-07 08:30 pm
Candy Hearts 2024
Dear sweet sugar candy person,
Thank you for writing for me! I am looking forward to seeing whatever you create! I consider all prompts optional, but I added some below in case they might be helpful. If you’d rather just work with a likes list, please feel free to use my general likes as something you can base your fic on. Feel free to be creative and create what you want as long as it doesn’t cross my DNW.
I know some of the prompts here are shorter than others, but this isn't a lack of interest on my part, rather just that I had less prompts/ideas for it!
Likes:
+Genre/Narrative Likes:
- 5 Times/Five Things
- Canon-Divergent AUs e.g. "What if Character A went left instead of right?"
- Darkfic, including bad-guys-win and character death
- Epistolary/Found Documents Fic
- In-World (fiction or nonfiction) articles/stories
- First time(s)/ Last Time(s)
- Hurt/ Comfort
- Metafiction/ Interactive Fiction
- Past Third, Present Third, Second or First Person Perspective(s)
- Third Person Narration/ "Different Points of View" (e.g. Char A observes Char B & Char C)
+ Favorite Kinks and Tropes:
- Arranged Marriage
- Bad guys win / Villain Victorious
- Body horror
- Came Back Wrong/resurrection tropes
- Changing Sides
- Characters who say "I love you" in their actions without actually saying/being able to say "I Love you" in their words
- Complicated Relationships
- Conflicted Loyalties
- Desperate kisses and embraces
- Domestic scenes
- Doomed relationships
- Dystopias
- Eldritch/Eerie things
- Experienced/Inexperienced partnerships
- Fake Marriage/dating
- Fluff/moments of happiness
- Forbidden/Star-Crossed Relationships
- Gender fluidity/experimentation
- Generational Divide/complications in May/December relationships
- Ghosts or other spooky/supernatural occurrences
- Gods being inhuman/unusual
- Grey Morality
- Hurt/Comfort in pretty much any form
- Irreconcilable differences leading to conflict between lovers (but not an absence of love)
- Jealousy
- Lovers caught on opposite sides of a conflict
- Loyalty Kink
- Lust/UST/Pining
- Mindfuckery - the more twisted the better
- Mission/Case fic
- Misunderstandings
- Myths/legends/cultural traditions
- Non-Canon exploration of Character's Gender
- Non-Penetrative sex
- Non-verbal communication and quiet intimacy
- Outsider POV
- Penetrative Sex
- Pyrrhic victories
- Physical recovery from injury
- Playing with danger, e.g. a character being able to hurt another but not doing so (despite them both knowing they could);I also love this being subverted (e.g. known bad-ass A has to be rescued by not-so-badass B)
- Politics
- Possessiveness
- Power differences
- Power play
- Pregnancy, including alien/unusual pregnancy
- Protectiveness
- Redemption being complicated and not easy
- Rule 63/Gender swapping from M to F for one or more requested characters
- Relationships bringing out the worst in one another
- Shows of trust and intimacy
- Snippets of long-term relationships at different points in the relationship
- Trapped in a snowstorm/earthquake/etc
- Trust kink
- Unhappy and/or complicated endings
- Unhealthy Relationships and/or Codependency
- Unreliable narrator
- World-building
+ Smut-Specific Likes:
- Aftercare
- Anal sex
- Bathing
- Body worship
- BDSM
- Blowjob(s)
- Breathplay/Chokeplay
- Cunnilingus
- Dubcon
- First Time/Losing Virginity
- fail!sex or humorous sex
- Fem-Dom
- M!Dom
- Pegging
- Porn with plot/porn as a character exploration
- PiV sex
- Pregnancy/Impregnation kink
- Quickies/Sex in Public Places/Situations
- Ritual(istic) Sex
- Rough sex
- Sex Pollen
- Sex on tables/desks/chairs/other furniture
- Switching/Reversal of top/bottom dynamic
- Shows of total trust
- Size kink
- Slow and tender sex
- Tending to another's scars/cuts/etc
- Voyeurism
- xeno or other kinds of "unusual" sexual organs (I am up for anything here: tentacles, burrs, cloacae, whatever)
+ Art-Specific Likes:
- Atmospheric glimpses of a scene
- Costume Redesigns (especially for characters who are clotheshorses)
- Cuddles, kisses, and other displays of affection
- Family/couples/friends portraits or snapshots
- Limited pallets (black and white, two toned, etc)
- Unusual viewpoints (e.g. not seeing someone head-on/three-quarters)
- Views that tell a story by what they hide as much as what they reveal - eg, a smut scene illustrated by two characters' hands and nothing else)
+Do Not Want:
- Omegaverse (aka Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics)
- High School/College/Coffee Shop/Mundane AU
- Character Bashing
- Xrossovers with another fandom not in my sign-up (crossovers between canons in sign-up ok)
- Extremely Detailed Descriptions of Gore
- Prepubescent Characters in Sexual Situations
- Retellings of the Canon (bringing up canon events that occurred is great, but I would like something that isn't just a scene from canon retold from the same/different perspective; a missing scene is both fine and welcome)
- Scat/Urine/Vomitplay
Fandoms:
Cheers (TV):
Pairings/Groups I requested:
Diane Chambers/Lilith Sternin
Formats requested: Fanart, Fanfic, Podfic
Diane was one of my favorites when I was a child watching this show, and Lilith has become one as I've become an adult. I really love how both are unapologetically erudite, even snobbish at times, yet still both able to kind of embrace the low-brow and often unapologetically silly world of cheers. I know this is set in Cheers-verse, but I've seen all of Frasier as well so feel free to bring in any of the post-Cheers details from that show if you'd like. Also, shout out to whoever nominated this; I didn't know I needed this, but I did!
Prompts:
- I feel like these two would get along so well - both are very ambitious, well-learned, and they even have the same ex to make fun of. I would love to see them meet, especially if, hilariously, it didn't involve Frasier at all (much to his dare I say eternal indignation).
- I would also love to see the idea of these two wlw experiencing life in a snippet from the eighties til now! They live through a lot of history and I think Diane and Lilith would have interesting commentary. What do they think of how theater/opera/etc has changed since the eighties? How does Lilith react to some of Diane's books and how does see react to some of Lilith's?
- I honestly just really want to see their flirting. I think they both have pretty high brow tastes with a solid interest in low brow, and I think it would be fun.
Doctor Who (2005):
Pairings/Groups I requested:
Any Doctor & Martha Jones
Fourteenth Doctor/Rose Tyler
Metacrisis Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler
Ninth Doctor & The Master (Simm)
Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler
Twelfth Doctor/Missy
Formats requested: Fanart, Fanfic, Podfic
Group: Any Doctor & Martha Jones
I LOVE Martha but she got such a raw deal having to deal with the Hot Mess Express that was 10 after Rose got stuck in another dimension. I got very frustrated by how they had him be a jerk to her at times ("If Rose were here, she'd know what to do" WOULD SHE TEN??? WOULD SHE???), and I've always wanted to see Martha interacting with the other Doctors as a result. #Justice for Martha.
I would honestly love any Doctor for this -- Martha is one of my fav's and I think she'd have interesting experiences with almost all of them! Feel free to use any doctor from Classical Who, Nu Who, etc. I'm open to any pairing for her as well if you want to bring in a romance; it does not need to be canon. I know Martha is awesome and I'd buy any other character in the series finding her awesome, too lol.
Prompts:
- I just really love her character and would love to see more adventures with her and a Doctor, whether as an AU of canon (she traveled with this version instead of 10) or one that takes into account her history with 10 (and this meeting takes place while she's traveling, when she's walking the world in Season 3, or past her time as a companion).
Pairing: Fourteenth Doctor/Rose Tyler
Woof, I wasn't expecting the new Donna specials to bring back my interest in Doctor/Rose but it just came roaring back. I've always had a special fascination with the idea of "older, but wiser" characters falling (back into?) love after a long time apart. It stood out to me that Fourteen, unlike Ten, was able to tell Donna that he loved Rose (and all the companions, in their own way), something he couldn't do at Journey's End; Rose, too, by now, would be over a decade older and wiser than she was at Journey's end, and perhaps had been in a relationship with a form of him (or not) -- I'm fascinated thinking about how their relationship would have changed between Journey's End and a possible new meeting.
Prompts:
- I have a horribly sad metacrisis doctor headcanon where 14 gets his face back by "taking back" the life from the metacrisis doctor (involuntarily, of course)...which is a problem, because the metacrisis doctor was in a relationship with Rose for years, and now she's come looking for him....and finds 14 instead.
- I just want to see an image/snippet of them falling back in love after all this time -- both have been through a lot! Is it easy to slip back together, like nothing ever happened? Or is it really knoting and difficult? Either way, I'm really into the idea of seeing it!
- Rose finds 14 during her hunt for the Doctor in Journey's End. She can't stay, but oh, he does not want her to go...
Pairing: Metacrisis Tenth Doctor/Rose Tyler
I feel like Journey's End was so bittersweet; Rose gets a Doctor, but not her Doctor, and they're both just...stuck, there in Pete's world, but they're stuck together this time. I feel like the Doctor being both Ten! and Not! Ten means he's essentially his own man, but one with a lifetime of memories with Rose (and everyone else in the Doctor's timeline) from a different man. Does he fall in love with her (or vice versa)? What happens if he doesn't/he can't (or vice versa!)? And if they do, how do they handle his identity being both something so familiar and yet so different?
And how does either handle the fact that their travels are pretty much over; they're earthlings now, if also both aliens, in a way, on Pete's world.
Prompts:
- I am so curious about how their relationship worked over in Pete's world. Rose was going full pelt toward getting back to 10, only to find herself back in Pete's world with the metacrisis! Ten, a Doctor whose committed to her, and 10 abruptly fleeing. How do they feel about 10 leaving them behind? How do they fall in love -- do they start a relationship right away, or does it happen over time?
- I would love to see Metacrisis! Ten trusting Rose and telling her more of his background, especially about his children/Susan. I know some of the post-canon glimpses they've done of these two (I think in the comics?) they have kids so I'd be very curious about how he feels about becoming a father (again).
- The Metacrisis! Doctor telling Rose his true name, and them trying to adapt it to something humans can use, or the Doctor's slow realization that he will be living Just One Life, This Life, with Rose (as a frienly ex helping him through it or as a romance), and how they're not travelling through time and space anymore, but taking things very slow, and how he deals with that.
Group: Ninth Doctor & The Master (Simm)
Oooh I think this one would be so interesting because I think 9 is quite a bit different from 10 in terms of his temperment. 9 is obviously a bit closer to the time war, and a lot more damaged, and I think a lot less patient and a lot more ruthless in a way (or at least, a lot more willing to acknowledge that sideof himself). The Simm! Master is obviously good at getting under any Doctor's buttons, but I think he'd particularly be good at hitting 9 where it would hurt the most, and god I'd love to see him stick the knife in (literally or metaphorically).
Prompts:
- Would he be less forgiving of Simm! Master? Would Simm! Master find him more infuriating? What would change?
- Any snippet/image of a retelling of Season 3 but with 9 instead of 10. Would he catch on quicker to how the Master survived the time war? Would he tolerate how Simm! Master treated 10, or would he have taken different actions? Would he have been as sad when Simms elected to let himself die, or would he feel like the Time Lords dying out would be "necessary"?
Pairing: Ninth Doctor/Rose Tyler
I've always been a bigger 9/Rose fan than 10/Rose fan (I like both, but big ears is more where I'm at) and I think a lot of the reason for that is just how much they bring out the best in one another and embrace one another's damages. The Doctor sees Rose's lack of confidence and reassures her that she is special, despite all the mistakes she's made and the losses she's gone through; she, in turn, brings out the tenderness in him that's quite deeply buried under a gruff exterior. They're both tough as nails, ride or die for one another, and I love how they make such a loving, tender team.
Prompts:
- Rose comforting the Ninth Doctor after a nightmare, or vice-versa; sleeping in the same bed for the first time, and how "domestic" it is...and their ideas about what that domesticity means.
- Rose coming back to 9 while she's on her Journey's End run, and 9 figuring out, slowly, that This Rose is Not His Rose. Do they bond? Does he push her away?
- Any small scenes from an AU of an episode in Season 2 of Nu-Who where Nine didn't regenerate. Would he have made a different decision in Doomsday? What would he have thought about Pete's world?
Pairing: Twelfth Doctor/Missy
Woof. I thought 12 and Missy had frenemy chemistry off the charts, and I am delighted every time I get to see them together on screen. I just love 12 and Missy's vibe and 12 is so old and weathered and Missy is his best/cattiest...friend? Frenemy? Frenemy with benefits? She's got a certain lightness to her after her "upgrade" (though don't get me wrong, she's not gone soft) that makes her so ebuolient...and after the canon goes through twisting 12 through every possible bit of pain, I feel like that lightness is just what the Doctor may need to have ordered to discovered a love of living life again.
Prompts:
- Look, I just need these two bonding somehow. Missy providing some unexpected comfort during one of 12's many periods of Seeing Some Shit? Some rare "let's break some shit" bonding?
The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo:
Pairings/Groups I requested:
The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov
The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova & Genya Safin
The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Genya Safin
Genya Safin/Alina Starkov
Formats requested: Fanart, Fanfic, Podfic
Pairing: The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov
While I don't mind Alina's final end-game pairing in the books, I loved her relationship with the Darkling and the idea that he keeps hoping that she'll "save" him while ultimately, making it impossible for her to do so. I feel like he's so much a lost little boy deep down inside, and she obviously can identify with that. I also feel like there's always a temptation for her to go to him, despite all the horrible things he's done, because he really is the only other person who can understand her to some extent.
And frankly I really wonder what would have happened if she had gotten the "last" amplifier first (ie the Darkling figured out just what that amplifier was early on) -- or just what his reaction would have been if she'd joined him but gotten all three amplifiers anyway.
As far as Alina's love life, I'm equally fine if you want to present it as pre getting together with Mal, after breaking up with Mal (or Mal dies), or Alina-is-having-an-affair-with-the-Darkling-but-is-also-with-Mal (or even Mal knows and is somehow okay with her loving them both).
Prompts:
- a reaction from the Darkling after Alina's hair colored changed after the end of Seige & Storm
- any sort of psychic connection/conflict moments/ "when you're with him, you're thinking of me" moments
- lingering shadows post-canon, literally or metaphorically...
- any sort of rumination on how old the darkling is and how very young the sun summoner is in comparison, and the power differentials implied
- merzost usage -- used together or apart
Pairing: The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova & Genya Safin &/or The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Genya Safin
Woof, I really love poor Genya but man does she go through it. I feel like she would have some attraction to the Darkling (as a lover or as a friend) because he's probably one of the few people in the castle who doesn't look at her like a Just a Hot Dish, and certainly I think he understands her dissatisfaction in her place in her life as well as her angst about the King using her like, well, a hot side-dish. And I think he would come to value her as a particularly useful underling, both for her powers and her ability to get close to the crown...but I also think he would understand her, especially her feeling that she doesn't really belong in any one Ghrisha category.
Prompts:
- The Darkling giving Genya instructions on how to use the poison that they will use on the king.
- The Darkling helping Genya clean up her body with lye after a "visit" with the king.
- The Darling and Genya, after she is scarred. Why did he take away her beauty in particular? It feels very personal, especially considering how light Alina gets off in comparison.
Pairing: Genya Safin/Alina Starkov
Genya and Alina really go through it as the Darkling's favorites; both get absolutely tortured by the man and are the only known survivors of the nichevo'ya's bites. I really would love to see the shift in their allegiences that occurs during/after Seige and Storm; we really don't get a lot of them "making up" after Genya gets returned to Alina's group. I also am fascinated by them post-canon; I feel like Genya, of all people, can understand Alina best and what happened to her "gifts".
Prompts:
- Domestic! stuff set post-canon. (Changing or keeping their canon fates/love interests is fine, so long as there's Alina/Genya)
- Genya dressing Alina up for some occasion and feeling conflicted about it.
- Alina commenting on Genya's beauty...after she is "ruined".
Hades (Video Game 2018):
Pairings/Groups I requested:
Hades & Thanatos
Hades & Zagreus
Formats requested: Fanart, Fanfic, Podfic
Group: Hades & Thanatos
Hades and Thanatos are interesting to me because they seem to be two of the most productive members of the House of Hades, and work well together. However, Zagreus seems to be a weak point for them both -- Hades just plain doesn't understand his kid, and how he deals with Zagreus seems to be one of the few places where Thanatos feels the need to stick up for Zagreus. I'd really be intererested in hearing more about their working relationship, and how it changed over time.
I love Zag/Than (and Zag/Meg, and Zag/Than/Meg), but I'm fine with them just being friends as well.
Prompts:
- Hades giving Thanatos the Shovel Talk when it comes to his son (whether they are dating or not)
- How did Thanatos wind up working for Hades, anyway? And when? It seems like Zagreus' comes to his career relatively late in the house of Hades, but Than has the second highest workload short of Hades' himself.
- Working through a huge surge of new arrivals together!
- Nyx/Zagreus/another third party observation of them being somewhat similar.
Group: Hades & Zagreus
I'm a huge sucker for difficult family stories and was there ever a family so dysfunctional as the family of the Gods in Hades? I really love would love to see any gen snapshots of Hades' and Zagreus' relationship, especially ones that don't skip over how COMPLICATED the history between these two has been. While Hades does have his reasons, it's easy to seet hat he's done some real damage to Zagreus, and given how he acknowledges it in game, he's painfully aware of it.
Prompts:
- Any of the scenes of the original game from Hades' perspective: how does he justify what he's doing to Zag?
- I would love to see any early moments of tenderness/bonding or, if you'd rather do something angsty, I would love to see those bonds being broken, too. Any sort of connection would be fascinating: an attempt to play ball? Zag's first attempt to hug his dad or impress his dad?
- Hades' high-grade freakout over Persephone being gone and being left alone with an infant child (and having to RELATE to this infant child that is half him but half her also -- and Zag has so much of his mother's face)
- Hades reaction to one of the times he's forced to kill Zagreus?
Hadestown:
Pairings/Groups I requested:
Formats requested: Fanart, Fanfic, Podfic
Pairing: Eurydice/Hades
Woof, this is one of those "hurts so good" pairings to me. I feel like Eurydice and Hades are so of a kind; both really are ruthlessly practical but deeply long to be loved and to live the lives that their lovers want them to yet are unable to embrace those dreams in quite the way their lovers want them to. I really do think there's an attraction between them and although I can't see either one as the other's soul mate, I do think they can "kill time" together, and well, when you're dead/a God, "time" is eternity...
Plus to be honest, I am always fascinated by portrayals of Gods' with their worshipers. What is it like to be a mortal girl dating someone whose lived literally forever and expects to just keep on going?
I'm fine with AUs where Persephone/Orpheus doesn't exist, or they've broken up for good, or Hades is still with Persephone and Eurydice still loves Orpheus, but they're having an affair with one another.
Prompts:
- I love to see scenes of this post-canon where they're both very lonely people who are just trying to kill time until the ones who they really love come back, and just need comfort, and no one is really happy but they're not...unhappy, sort of mess.
- Eurydice's views on Hades! It has to be so weird to be courted by a God? What does that feel like? She calls him a strange man, but what makes him so strange? How does she feel about coming to the underworld, and is he different there, and if so, just how?
- Hades' views on her! For a man whose been with a goddess for so long, why does he pick Eurydice for his scheme? Is it just because she was praying and he happened to hear it? He seems rather interested in her from that early stare-down on and given that he's married to a literal goddess, I'm curious how he views Eurydice and what their affair would look like from his POV.
Pairing: Hades/Persephone
I love them, but these two are so complicated. They are constantly going in cycles, and that cycle weighs mightily heavily on them, and the tragedy of it all is that it truly just isn't fair. Plus they live so long that I love that you can write them at almost any point in history and it works, or write a truly epic romance between them.
Is their estrangement a very recent development? How does a relationship evolve when Hades and Persephone have known one another for the vast majority of, if not the entirety of their lives, and those lives span millenniums?
Prompts:
- I just want to see more of the times that they meet and split for the seasons; is it always as rough as the time that we saw in canon? Does he ever "win" the argument they have when he makes her come home early? Does she ever "win" the argument and he leaves without her -- if only for a while? What do their goodbyes look like?
- I really want to see them in the larger context of Greek mythology. How do their friends/relatives/subjects??? (whatever their relationship to humanity/to the workers) view them? As their relationship issues have such...uh, public displays (the weather turning so bad), I feel like everyone knows they're on the outs. Does anyone try to help make it better? Do they succeed?
- A detail I love in the show that just fascinates me is that Hades is the only character at the very end of the musical who comes out in his act 2 outfit, instead of his act 1 outfit. I really want to see interpretations of what this means for the character! When the next "retelling" starts, does Hades act any differently? What changes?
House of the Dragon:
Pairings/Groups I requested:
Rhaenyra Targaryen & Laenor Velaryon
Daemon Targaryen/Rhaenyra Targaryen/Laena Velaryon
Daemon Targaryen/Rhaenyra Targaryen/Laenor Velaryon
Corlys Velaryon/Rhaenys Targaryen
Formats requested: Fanart, Fanfic, Podfic
Pairing: Rhaenyra Targaryen & Laenor Velaryon
I really love the friendship between Rhaenyra and Leanor. Rhaenyra really seems to have been the best pick as far as Leanor's possible (het) spouses could be counted, and I love how they manage to make a family arrangement that works for them. Although they're certainly not perfect, I really love how they made a lavender marriage work in a medieval context.
Prompts:
- I really like their friendship and would love any little scenes of their marriage as friends.
- Rhaenyra telling Laenor about her plan where he can go with Karl and she can marry Daemon! I really want to know his reaction, if they have any sort of words given to one another or if its more of a "have a nice life".
- I would love to see a bit of their childhood - surely they've met from time to time as cousins! Dragon riding together? A courtly visit? Dining in the Targaryen halls?
Pairing: Daemon Targaryen/Rhaenyra Targaryen/Laena Velaryon
I really love this pairing. I feel like Daemon certainly seems to have a soft spot for both his wives, and I love his relationship with Laena. While a bit out of left field, they seem to certainly care for one another, and I love how well she "reads" him. I also love him with Rhaenyra, of course, but I'm interested to see how their dynamic would change with Leana in the mix: she's more practical than either of them, and so much of Rhaenyra and Daemon's relationship is built on loss (of Harwin, of Laena) so I'm very curious how the dynamic would change if Laena had survived.
As far as Leanor and Harwin, do with them what you want - I'm fine if Rhaenyra is married to/with them as well, or if you want to hand waive those relationships away.
Prompts:
- I feel like there is a fun AU to be had where Daemon and Laena know about Leanor's preferences and Daemon certainly wouldn't have any problem with being the "stud horse" for Rhaenya's kids so that they would look more properly Targaryen, and I'd love to see even one little snippet of that: the idea being suggested (who would suggest it?!), the smut, the after-care, the handling of the kids, etc.
- Honestly, I would love to see something with them dragon riding together, and the mood that might inspire. Daemon seems somewhat unique in that for both of the wives he chooses, he picks women who can ride.
- Anything from Laena's perspective! She's so underutilized. I would love to see her, especially because I think she would be the more level-headed characters in this pairing. She seems to subtly call Daemon on his bullshit and I've love to see how the story would change if she could do the same for him and Rhaenyra.
Pairing: Daemon Targaryen/Rhaenyra Targaryen/Laenor Velaryon
Another one I'm really curious about the dynamic. I think it can be inferred that part of why Daemon went away from Westeros so long with Laena was because he didn't want to see Rhaenyra as she moved on/got married. I think he's not against having an affair with her (he's said as much), but I do think he respects her to a certain level and doesn't want to ruin her relationship with Laenor before she gets a chance to have one. But I'm really curious what would have happened if he had stayed, because if he had, I can't imagine Rhaenyra wouldn't have come back to them, and I can see him really getting along with Laenor well as they'd served in battle together (and lets face it, Laenor is a very pretty Velaryon, which is the next best thing to a Targaryen for Daemon).
Prompts:
- Similar to the Laena prompt above, I'd love to see Daemon uh, volunteering to help Leanor and Rhaenyra have children who will "pass" as Targaryen in the eyes of the castle gossips.
- I would also love to see them practicing fighting or dragon-riding or some other activity! I feel like we don't get a lot of canon detail on what these guys do every day and I'd be very interested in seeing some courtly recreation/duties.
- I would love to see a romantic version of the scene for what happened when Rhaenyra and Daemon told Laenor they were getting married and he could go across the sea with Carl.
Pairing: Corlys Velaryon/Rhaenys Targaryen
Oh Corlys and Rhaenys break my heart multiple times over. From losing the crown to her male relative to then being rejected by him in a marriage compact with him and her daughter to then fighting in a grueling war to then having their children marry Daemon and Rhaenyra respectfully, and die tragically, and then right back into war. Somehow, during all this, they still love one another and are still ride or die and I just love their quiet relationship, the way they both check one another's bad ideas and comfort them in dark moments.
Prompts:
- I'm so obsessed with these two! Corlys mentions that they were always trying to game for the throne -- is this how Corlys charmed Rhaenys? How did they handle Viserys becoming King over Rhaenys?
- I would love to see anything about them after choosing Rhaenyra's side; some brief moments of comfort during the civil war? Corlys losing his shit after she goes out riding?
- I honestly just want to see more of them being lovey-dovey together as probably the two people who have the least dysfunctional marriage at this time in Westeros.
Shadow and Bone (TV):
Pairings/Groups I requested:
The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov
Jesper Fahey & Milo the Goat
Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa
Kaz Brekker/Jesper Fahey
Formats requested: Fanart, Fanfic, Podfic
Pairing: The Darkling | Aleksander Morozova/Alina Starkov
I loved how Alina's fate was changed in the TV show and I'd really love to see an exploration of her and the Darkling's relationship on the show, especially toward the end. His snarling that he'll make himself her whole support system was terrible and yet so illuminating...because that is/was what she was to him.
I want all the paths not taken with these two. Especially what might have been after season 2, because Alina being able to use the shadow cut in the end certainly suggests that there's something to be explored there!
As far as Alina's love life, I'm equally fine if you want to present it as pre getting together with Mal, after breaking up with Mal, or Alina-is-having-an-affair-with-the-Darkling-but-is-also-with-Mal (or even Mal knows and is somehow okay with her loving them both).
Prompts:
- Darkling and Alina post-canon; as a ghost (literal or not), as a memory, as an accidental amplifier? (maybe burning him led to him somehow being one for her)
- any sort of psychic connection/conflict moments/ "when you're with him, you're thinking of me" moments
- lingering shadows post-canon, literally or metaphorically...
- Alina uses merzost to heal both Mal and Kirigan, but at an unforeseen cost to all of them.
- merzost usage in general, by either of them (or both together)
Pairing: Jesper Fahey & Milo the Goat
I don't have any strong requests for this one, I just freaking adore the goat and Jasper's friendship with it and would love any small story/illustration of them being cute.
Prompts:
- Jasper using his durast talents to make Milo a collar?
- Jasper being followed by a certain Goat across all of canon and beyond to considerably more and more farfetched situations.
Pairing: Kaz Brekker/Inej Ghafa
I really love these two. They're both so damaged and struggling so hard against such high odds, and yet -- they're so very much obviously in love with one another and will ride or die for their little family. I love Kaz buying Inej's freedom and that kind of changing their dynamic but not necessarily dooming it, though Kaz's secret keeping can certainly strain it.
I'm so sad we'll never get a Season 3 for these two, because Inej's hallucination where he pulls off his gloves and gently asks to touch her shows how amazing the chemistry is for a more romantic season.
Prompts:
- I really love these two in the SAB series and I would love to see something set past the ending of the show since it ended, well, how it did.
- Any sort of touch porn, whether about Kaz's feelings when she touches him (positive or not), or her feelings touching him (again, positive or not). Her little "Sorry" after making him eat the butterfly shows how much that she knows him being touched causes pain.
- I would also love to see something about Inej's faith and how she's met two saints now. Especially contrasted with Kaz's (lack of?) belief.
Pairing: Kaz Brekker/Jesper Fahey
These two are just so damn cute. I love Kaz's straight man to Jesper's more bombastic rogue, and oh god, the stupid intimacy in the scene in Season 2 where Kaz reveals he knows Jesper is a durast but kept the secret just made me want to see more of them together.
Prompts:
- I really love Jasper and his charms and I feel like he'd worm into Kaz's defenses, whether as a fun mutual bit of flirting that never goes beyond it or as something more. How does Jasper get into his defenses? Do they ever get past Kaz's no touch thing?
- Kaz being the straight man to Jasper's rather flirty rogue during a heist.
- Something about Jasper's skills as a durast and how they translate to the romantic sphere?
Sweeney Todd - Sondheim/Wheeler:
Pairings/Groups I requested:
Johanna Barker & Sweeney Todd
Nellie Lovett/Sweeney Todd
Formats requested: Fanart, Fanfic, Podfic
Group: Johanna Barker & Sweeney Todd
Woof. One of the biggest tragedies of this series - IMHO - is that Sweeney/Benjamin clearly longs to meet his (grown) little daughter, but never really gets to; by the time that he gets a chance to meet her, Sweeney is long gone and he barely (?)/doesn't recognize her. And poor Johanna, of course, never really got a chance to. I'm always fascinated by the idea of just what might change if these two poor souls actually got to meet: would Johanna be so eager to get married to some sailor she just met if she had another potential caretaker besides the judge? Would Sweeney have been slashing throats if he knew his daughter would know him by it?
Prompts:
- I want to know how the path would have changed if Johanna had an opportunity to meet her father, with both recognizing one another! How would Johanna feel about him? Would she find out his darkest secret? Would she help him set up the judge?
- I like the above scenario...but...I would also like to get my heart broken by Johanna rejecting him after finding out about all the, y'know, murder.
- Johanna being haunted by her father's spirit, literally or metaphorically.
Pairing: Nellie Lovett/Sweeney Todd
I saw the Josh Groban version of this recently and it was such a punch to the heart, in ways that I was not expecting. Poor Sweeney Todd had a short and rather miserable life, and I'm all about exploring that. I really love him with Missus Lovett; it feels like they have a natural chemistry, plus them both being widowers and, lets face it, a bit ethically...ambiguous makes them a really interesting, if thorny, pairing. I would love to see some examinations of them; does Sweeney feel like he's cheating on the idea of his wife with her? Does she ever catch on that his feelings about her are a lot less...dedicated, than hers about him? And what ever happened to her husband anyway?
Prompts:
- I just love her flirting with him and would love to see more of that. We all know she loves him, but how does she lure him out of his shell? How successful is she? Does she really believe he might abandon his revenge for her?
- Nellie's POV on any of the events in the musical, especially taking into account her relationship with the beggar woman.
- Does Sweeney ever reciprocate his feelings with her? Since he believes his wife is dead, is he ever quite able to move on?
Tekken (Video Games):
Pairings/Groups I requested:
Kazama Jun/Mishima Kazuya
Lee Chaolan/Mishima Kazuya
Lars Alexandersson/Lee Chaolan
Formats requested: Fanart, Fanfic, Podfic
Pairing: Kazama Jun/Mishima Kazuya
I love these two as star-crossed lovers, though I admit I have a bit of a different idea of their dynamic than a lot of people do. They don't look like they have a lot in common on the surface, but deep down these two actually have a fair amount in common: both seem to have fathers who were disappointed in them (though Jun getting her ass dragged by her ghost dad got cut out of the American manual, thanks Namco), both went down paths that weren't what their parents approved of, both come from very traditional Japanese families, and, I think, vitally, both were exposed to supernatural shit when they really young, and there's no one else in the series that can relate to that at that point. I really can see why they found one another and why they might have gotten squishy feelings.
I tend to see their dynamic as passionate but often firey; Kazuya himself says that Jun is completely fearless and how he found that attractive and I don't see why we shouldn't take his word on it. I don't think they could have lasted forever without some serious therapy for Kaz -- they have some serious moral alignment disagreements -- but I tend to see them as very attracted to one another regardless. The kind of couple who makes out while arguing, if you will. I think for a while, she made him believe that he could live without his demonic aspect, though the deep tragedy here is that he himself was not enough to defeat his father and his attempt to live without his demonic half ultimately drove him more back into the arms of Devil. And I think Kaz, post-T2? He's terrified of her. Because she's one of the few people who can really make him vulnerable (literally and metaphorically). She, for her part, seems to still have a soft spot for him based on her win quote for him talking about becoming his solace (though we really won't know her part in the story until Tekken 8 is out, of course).
Eagerly awaiting them interacting in Tekken 8! Feel free to use the newest game plotline if you want, I have it pre-ordered so I'm sure I'll have played story mode by the time the candy box is opened. :)
Prompts:
- I just...really want to know how this even HAPPENED. She was supposed to arrest him, not have his love child! Love or weird mystic lust dub-con or just two extremely fucked up young people who experienced paranormal shit at TOO YOUNG AN AGE finding comfort in one another or what?
- I would love to see all small snippets of an AU where Kazuya goes to find Ogre seeking power in T3...and finds Jun (or her spirit) instead. Would Tekken 4 still have played out the same?
- Their new T8 special intro/outro HAUNTS me where she tells him she will save him and he says he no longer wants to be saved! Does this mean that she can suppress the Devil in him? How does Kazuya feel about this - does he resent it? Does a part of him secretly crave it? Is he afraid of being that vulnerable with her? Is the Kazuya without Devil a vastly different person?
- I just wanna see a fanwork where Jun is the dom. Most fanfiction about her tends to have her as very passive in this relationship but like, she was an animal abuse investigator, he describes her as absolutely fearless, she went to the tournament to bust him from animal smuggling -- I feel like she isn't that passive as a character. I kinda wanna see her leading him around a lil' bit, especially because Kazuya tends to be pretty dominant all his own.
Pairing: Lee Chaolan/Mishima Kazuya
I've been into this pairing since I was a little baby with access to an arcade with a Tekken 2 machine, and it's still one of my favorite slash ships of all time. I feel like Kazuya and Chaolan have a really strong bond, even if neither likes the other particularly much; there's just literally no one else who can understand the insane childhood they had with Heihachi. They emerged both stronger for it and deeply damaged by it in different ways -- I think both tend to avoid intimacy, but Lee Chaolan is a lot more social than Kazuya is, and perhaps a little shrewder about pursing alliances; Kazuya is indefatigable when he has a goal in mind, and he lets little stop himself from achieving it. They make a good team, but neither quite wants to admit it, because that would mean letting the other know they respect them. And to show vulnerability in the house of Mishima is to lose.
And somehow, despite both being men in their fifties, that sibling rivalry absolutely never died for them. I love how Tekken 6 in scenario mode, both of them are both really poking at one another's sore spots and still sniping at one another...but they also have a sort of easy, sibling dynamic even when they're hurting one another. Chaolan teases Kazuya that he lacks elegance (something that Chaolan has in spades) but admit's Kazuya's ability to cut through his security; Kazuya points out that Chaolan is "the family mutt" (but, you know, that does acknowledge him as family). They don't fear one another the way Chaolan clearly fears Heihachi (bring Heihachi to his stage and he'll freak out), and Kazuya doesn't have the intense hatred for Chaolan he holds for his father. They might not see eye to eye, but they're still the two people who know one another best in the whole world, and I think there's a familiarity there, if a very dark one. I can't see either one ever quite saying I love you but I do think if anyone had hurt one of them, the other would retaliate, because only THEY are allowed to kill one another!
Eagerly awaiting them interacting in Tekken 8! Feel free to use the newest game plotline if you want, I have it pre-ordered so I'm sure I'll have played story mode by the time the candy box is opened. :)
Prompts:
- I really, really love anything with these two set in the time frames between Tekken 4 and Tekken 8 when they're much older, both have a good deal of power they've obtained independently from Heihachi, and both of them...are still deeply fucked up from their childhood and awkwardly bond (hate-bond?) over it.
- I love, love, love to an unreasonable degree Lee's canon smoking habits, and I mean, if you are doing unspeakable things with your demon adopted brother, I feel like the least he can do is light your cigs for you.
- Lee's reaction to Devil! Kazuya. Feel free to go full horror or full tender or somewhere in-between; I am there for the ride with the Mishima clan.
Pairing: Lars Alexandersson/Lee Chaolan
This is a rare pair but its a fav of mine; I love them being the two "dark horses" of the Mishima house uniting to try to save the world. Big God Damn Heroes, except it's not really that clear that either of them are all that morally good (and I will be honest, I really love the darker aspects of the Mishima family, and dark! Chaolan is a favorite that doesn't get written a lot). I feel like the rest of the family tends to brush them off, which gives both of them a big "I WILL prove I AM WORTHY OF LOVE" motivation that they're both a bit blind to.
For Lee Chaolan, I think the attraction is that Lars reminds him a lot of himself and, to some extent, Kazuya when he was younger; Lars is fearless, bold, and never afraid to get into the action. (And uh, literally the same weight/height as Kaz if you wanna, you know, go past! Kaz/Chaolan to present! Chaolan/Lars lol). Lars badly seems to have wanted Daddy Heihachi's approval once; dude joined his dad's fighting force at a "young age" but Heihachi seems to have really disappointed him.
Unlike Chaolan, though, who went through YEARS of starving desperation for affection in the Mishima house, Lars basically went nah that's bullshit and decided to rely on himself. Which I think Chaolan would have insane respect for. And on Lar's end, well, Chaolan is incredibly charming, and seems pretty commited to Lars' idea of justice -- for the moment, anyway -- and isn't afraid to fight on the front lines to accomplish his goals -- all things that Chaolan doesn't get a lot of recognition for in Tekken's Mishima-centric universe so it would hit all the harder for him for being rarer praise.
Eagerly awaiting them interacting in Tekken 8! Feel free to use the newest game plotline if you want, I have it pre-ordered so I'm sure I'll have played story mode by the time the candy box is opened. :)
Prompts:
- Lars and Chaolan talking about Heihachi or any of the Mishima/Kazama clan! I feel like they both had such idealism about him, only to have that torn down when they actually got to know their father.
- Chaolan being an unabashed, unashamed, and, dare I say, truly excellent flirt who works his way into Lars pants despite being twice his age and his adopted brother beside.
- Lars reminding Chaolan of Kazuya in all the wrong (right?) ways and Chaolan's fear that he will fall victim to the same problems that befell Heihachi, Kazuya, and Jin...or Lars attempts to point out that hey, that is not going to happen.
- Lars gets a make-over. C'mon. You know Chaolan wants to, especially in Tekken 7 where Lars really went through an unfortunate character model phase for a while.