Chocolate Box 2021
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fencesit
Hi! Thanks for creating for me, or for otherwise taking a look at my letter. I’m fencesit on AO3! I'm requesting all fic for this exchange as well as art for The Untamed and Strange Trails.
DNW:
- unrequested AUs
- canon divergence is okay
- obviously the crossovers and non-canon divergent AUs I'm requesting may involve some adjustment of the world the characters live in, which is fine! I would like ninja to still be ninja and cultivators to still be cultivators and so on, though.
- it's fine for a time looping character to kill themself to start a new loop, if that's a mechanic you want to include, as long as they're doing it to deliberately reset the loop rather than in hopes of dying for good.
- please see specific clarifications for The Untamed in that section.
- Implied/referenced is fine!
- feel free to fudge timelines or just not mention ages specifically, though
- Please see Story Break (Jar Jar Binks) section for exception.
- derealization — An alteration in the perception or experience of the external world so that it seems unreal.
- depersonalization — The persistent feeling of observing oneself from outside one’s body or having a sense that one’s surroundings/body aren't real.
- Typically dissociation shows up as reaction to stress or trauma where the character experiencing it feels disconnected in some way from their emotions, their body, reality, etc; sometimes the character acts on autopilot.
- If you're writing/drawing a character who's literally having an out of body experience (like, because they're a ghost and something else has taken over their body) or dealing with an actual fake world (like, because they're trapped in a magical illusion) then that's okay.
- See specific clarifications for Harry Potter in that section
- magically preserved non-rotting undead like vampires or skeletons are fine
- please see SVSSS section for clarification notes.
- including using characters from other canons as stand-ins for OCs, even if the character or their appearance in the fic is very minor.
- including borrowing worldbuilding/magic systems/artifacts/alien races/etc.
- definitely fine for characters to know about or reference anything you think it's reasonable for them to have consumed as media, e.g. modern mundane characters have probably heard of Star Wars.
Naruto DNWs/clarifications
- Relationships/plot development/worldbuilding from Boruto
SVSSS DNWs/clarifications
- characters finding out that they're fictional
- the rotting undead/zombies clarification: TLJ kind of falls into this category but I love him and he can definitely show up! Please gently skirt around any gross details about his poor sad plant body — mentions of his limbs falling off are fine, but description of why exactly they won't stay attached is best left implied.
Story Break (Jar Jar Binks) DNWs/clarifications:
- character death exception: any character death is fine for this fandom, up to and including Jar Jar Binks himself!
- unrequested crossovers clarification: inclusion of characters/worldbuilding/etc from actual Star Wars media is definitely fine and doesn't cross this DNW.
- vehicle accidents clarification: space ships crashing in space is fine; space ships crashing onto planets is fine; I DNW crashes involving vehicles mostly used for on-planet transport, even if those vehicles fly.
Beware of the Villainess!
- characters finding out they're fictional
- focus on Melissa having to choose between Nine and Yuri — canon-typical jealous squabbling for Melissa's attention is fine (great, even!) and one or two lines worrying about it is fine, but I DNW Melissa having to chose as a major part of the fic. If Melissa does pick one over the other (eg, because you are writing my Nine/Melissa request) then I'm down for either A) the other's feelings to be portrayed as nonromantic or B) the picking-between-them to have happened in the past/off-screen in some way.
Likes
Fic likes:
- Canon divergence
- slice of life, canon-compliant fic, missing scenes from canon
- time travel
- especially peggy sue/with a fix-it focus
- time loops
- (see much longer list below in its own section!)
- fake/fantasy politics/science and explorations of systems/relationships (eg magic systems, fictional governments or economies, the local gossip network)
- character backstory, noodle incidents, references to past canon or noncanon events, a sense of history between two (or more) characters
- vivid/specific details that relate to things like where a character is, what that location is used for, why, and how the character feels about it
- casefic/missionfic
- investigations/mysteries
- characters with specific goals or problems to solve (finding some treasure, getting a glass of water, murdering their nemesis)
- monster/murder/crime-of-the-week type plots
- the enemy of my enemy is my friend
- making friends under unusual circumstances
- A being uncertain of or surprised by how deep B's loyalty runs
- found family
- friends reconnecting after being out of contact for a long time
- signs of familiarity/intimacy, like knowing each other's habits really well or feeling comfortable touching them/being touched in a society where that's notable
- in terms of physical hurt: sprained ankles, dislocated shoulders, concussions, bruised/broken ribs, broken bones where the bone isn't sticking out, blood loss....pretty much anything non-permanent and not too gorey or with the gore skimmed over. special mention for Naruto-esque eye loss where it's traumatic and bad but the eye can just be put back in if they find a good medic.
- also as implied by my DNWs I'm not a big fan of sickfic but I love huddling for warmth and hypothermia fic!
- poisonings and venom are also good — I like a good spout of dizziness or swooning or confusion!
- in terms of emotional hurt: self esteem issues and unexpected mercy! Special mention for everything below.
- character convinced no one would help even if they asked (but someone does help!)
- character convinced there will be no rescue (but there is a rescue!)
- usually powerful character is helpless due to drugs (and at the mercy of someone they don't trust? :D)
- cynical/pessimistic/distrustful characters being proven wrong by things turning out better than they could have hoped for — for example: "I could never be loved!" -> Is absolutely loved, "We could never have peace." -> Peace is had
- aftermath of captivity, torture, rape, isolation, etc.
- injured character can't complete rescue mission without help from unlikely source
- lying so that the other will accept comfort or help
- hands too shaky to complete task
- forcing exhausted character to get some sleep
- characters who have to work hard to function in the same space and also characters who don't like each other — see my Hate Exchange letter!
- handcuffed together
- sharing a bed because they're safer together than apart
- captured together, working together in enemy territory
- 5+1
- drabble series
- outsider POV
- second person POV, especially if it's thematically relevant
- I'm not really into letters or social media fics, but articles, essays, textbooks, mission/case records, and wikipedia entries are all great.
- I've never received interactive fiction/CYOA before but I'm down to try it!
- I'm open to a mix of text and images and I view works with the creator's skin enabled. I do sometimes download my gifts or read them on mobile, however, so I appreciate when unconventional works use tricks like display:none (explained in this tutorial in the "What do I do if the Creator's Style is hidden?" section) which also makes works with HTML/embedded pictures more accessible!
- curses
- garbage-tier magical items
- extra senses
- worldbuilding around learning/doing magic
Ship likes:
- Anything on my general likes list is excellent in shipfic too of course. Also, I am a pretty big fan of understated shipfic — if you just put the characters together and show that they care about each other then I don't even need kissing or anything, really, which I think can work well for fandoms where characters are frequently in life-or-death situations or need to be professional. Not that kissing isn't welcome! Just, I am extremely easy to please on the "Is this shippy enough?" front.
- Slow burn, friends to lovers, enemies-to-friends-to-lovers — The slower the better. FWB-to-lovers is also great.
- Characters who have history with each other — established relationships are good, but what I really love is feeling like the characters know each other well and think about each other often. In characters who are already friends, that probably looks like, say, knowing what kind of coffee the other person likes. In characters who were enemies, they probably know each other’s weaknesses and faults really well.
- Arguments where each person thinks the conversation is about something subtly different — I mean, misunderstandings in general are great for tension, but I like it when characters are trying to communicate but they’re coming from perspectives so different that they can’t even argue without clarification.
- Casual physical affection — a lot of my ships involve people who have massive or very specific personal bubbles, so seeing the way the characters touch each other when they’re not already in Kissing Mode is really great.
- Pining, especially longstanding they-could-never-want-me pining — the id wants what the id wants and what the id wants is characters with low self-worth. Bonus points if it's tied up in some kind of misunderstanding about their relationship (eg, "They hate me!" or "I'm ugly!") or their differing rank/species/wealth/etc.
- When their hands touch and other very understated moments of romantic or sexual tension — aaaaaaa I don't even have words for how much I love this, if you include it I will wail happily at you about it in my comment, possibly at length.
Smut likes
I don't usually request smut but if you want to include it then I don't mind. I know that that's kind of an extremely bland and unenthusiastic way to start out but it's, uh, really honest, at least? I'm usually after character interaction, plot, or worldbuilding with my requests, but getting a sex scene along with other stuff definitely wouldn't ruin a gift. Overall, I want you to feel free to write sex if you would enjoy doing so/if you think the fic will be better with it! I'm generally just enthused by my writer getting to have fun writing something they're proud of, you know?
There are obviously some things I do like, and I know some folks really enjoy tailoring their fic (i'm one of them!) so:
- Extremely emotionally charged sex — No matter what kind of sex acts they do, I really love when the sex has a lot of feelings involved, especially if it's sad emotions or desperation or part of some hurt/comfort or whump.
- Sex that's very directly relevant to the plot or character arcs — I love sex scenes where I learn more about a character or relationship. Is 'character driven smut' a thing? Because if so, that's my favorite. And also porn with plot.
- anal and pegging, PIV, frottage, intercural, handjobs, all kinds of fingering, strapons, toys
- overstimulation and edging, orgasm delay/denial
- bondage — handcuffs, spreader bars, honor bondage, and honestly pretty much anything in the general category of restricting someone's movement during sex
- praise kink, loyalty kink, hurt/comfort, trust and sex otherwise overloaded with emotion
- magic/super powers being used in fun and inventive ways
- clothing/uniform kink, half-clothed sex, one naked and the other not.
- hair petting, cuddling, lazy mornings in bed, touch starvation
- size difference, size kink, come inflation, large insertions
- pregnancy, including mpreg — impregnation porn and pregnant sex welcome, eggpreg and het mpreg are also fine. And while we're talking about it, narratively speaking I love a fic where being pregnant/mpregnant is upsetting because the character didn't plan for it, thinks their partner doesn't want it, conceived in a nonconsensual or dubiously consensual way, can't afford it, etc, all of which could be comforted away with or without sex. I'm not much for birthing scenes.
- probably other things that I'm forgetting! I'm pretty open to a bunch of things that aren't on the above list or mentioned in my DNWs, and if you're unsure if you should include something please feel free to ask through the mods.
Marriage likes!
(sorry these are mostly Capitalized Like That they're mostly freeforms!
- Misunderstandings and surprises!
- Accidental Marriage due to Misunderstanding the Norms of Another Culture
- Accidental/unexpected soulbond is cultural equivalent of marriage
- Both Spouses Are In Love But Believe The Other Is In The Marriage Out Of Obligation
- Character Thinks Their Spouse is Trying to Kill Them (but they aren't! or not anymore at least lol)
- Deathbed Wedding And Unexpected Survival
- Proposal recipient thought they were just a fling
- Mistakenly Thinking Your Spouse Hates You
- Accidentally Married Someone You Hate
- Arranged marriage to end conflict
- Forced Marriage Leads to Genuine Feelings
- Marrying an Enemy to Keep Them Close
- Marrying Someone You Don't Like to Save Them From a Worse Fate
- Marriage Arranged by Third Party With Dubious Motives
- Marriage As Clemency At Public Execution
- Suspected or Confirmed Traitor Forced To Marry Spouse Who'll Monitor Them For Further Treachery
- Spouses mutually help each other gain status from the marriage
- Long-Time Betrothed Couple Adds Third To Marriage For Political Reasons And Falls In Love
- Divorced Arranged Marriage Spouse must Marry Back Into The Family
- Second Marriage for Someone whose First Marriage was Abusive
- Character A Not As Over Traumatic First Marriage As They Thought
- Marriage Makes It Impossible to Keep Trauma Secret
- Marriage of Convenience - Divorcing Terrible Spouse Requires Support From Prospective New Spouse
- Character Entering Into M/M Marriage Invents Mpreg In Hopes Of Pleasing Their Spouse With An Heir
- Getting Married to Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage to Unbearable Third Party
- Marriage to Satisfy Life-Debt / Life-Debt is Considered Marriage
- Character Agrees To Seemingly Terrible Marriage Believing It's The Only Proposal They'll Ever Get
- Family Won't Pay Bride Price/Dowry So They Have To Find Someone Who Will Marry Them For Free
- If A Fight Ends In A Knock Out The Winner Can Take Your Ring And Marry Your Spouse
- If Character A Can't Have Their Loved One They'll Marry Younger Sibling B (& Fall In Love With B)
Horror Likes!
(sorry these are mostly Capitalized Like That they're mostly freeforms!
- A pervasive yet unidentifiable sense that something is terribly wrong
- Aftermath of Torture
- Being Polite About Eldritch Genitals Which Are Too Much For Human Eyes To Behold
- Belated Realization That Your Jerk "Friends" Tricked You Into This Horrifying Situation
- Betraying Someone to Save Them from a Worse Fate
- Building layout changes sometimes
- character convinced no one would help even if they asked
- character convinced there will be no rescue
- Character(s) are totally done with this ghost bullshit
- Characters are all alone in the middle of nowhere with no one able to help
- Fucking around with the Ouija Board was a bad idea
- Garbage-Tier Magical Item Which Is Regrettably Undeniably Dangerous In Its Mediocrity
- Garbage-Tier Magical Item Which Some Poor Demon Or Ghost Has Possessed
- Mannequins That Move When a Character Looks Away
- People Suddenly Start Mysteriously Disappearing
- Physically impossible spaces/buildings
- Principle of object permanence is violated
- Seemingly Mundane Object Is Surprisingly the Wrong Texture
- Seen only out of the corner of your eye
- Sharing a bed because they're safer together than apart
- The Setting Wants You to Stay; Slowly You Do Too
- Time Loop - Character Keeps Looping The Day of Their Death
- Time Loop - Friends and/or Loved One(s) Die Again and Again
- Time Loop - Looping Character Keeps Dying
- Time Travel - Character(s) Learn Dark Secret They Didn't Know at the Time
- Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Hunt A Ghost Together
- Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Save Each Other From Horrific Fates
- Two Characters Who Don't Like Each Other Grudgingly Solve Gruesome Murder(s) Together
- Usually Powerful Character is Helpless Due to Drugs and at the Mercy of Someone They Don't Trust
Time travel Likes!
(sorry these are all Capitalized Like That they're mostly freeforms!
- Time Travel Fix-It
- Peggy Sue (Mental Time Travel to Past - Replacing Past Self)
- Altering Canon or Backstory
- Altering Non-Canonical Disaster
- Dimension Hopping to Find a Timeline That's Not Doomed
- fixing one's own mistakes
- Time travel to save a friend or loved one
- Trying To Change The Timeline By Saving Someone
- Character’s Suspicious Actions Get Them In Trouble With The One(s) They’re Trying To Help
- Character Travels Back to When They Were Still a Massive Jackass
- Time Traveling To A Different Time Than The One You Meant To Travel To
- Attempted Time Travel Sends Character To Another World Instead
- Time Travel Fix-It - Time Traveler Fixes Things By Accident
- Time travel inadvertently reveals past secret
- Accidental Time Travel To The Past
- One character likes other character's past self way more than they expected
- Falling in love/making friends with a past version of an enemy
- Enemies Travel Back In Time Together
- Fixing the Timeline Requires Saving An Enemy
- Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy They Will Be Friends/Allies In Future
- Character From Future Tries To Convince Current Enemy To Work Together
- Unexpectedly Living With The Consequences Of Actions During Final Loop
- Groundhog Peggy Sue
- Strangers Meet During Shared Time Loop
- Enemies Have To Work Together To Solve The Loop
- Looping character trying to save another character's life
- Time loop where character makes things worse before making them better
- Character(s) Remain in Alternate Timeline They Created
- Time Travel To The Past Destroys Original Timeline
- Can't Time Travel To A Time You're Already Alive In
- Adjusting to a Different Era
- Outsider POV Of Strange Events Caused By Time Travel
- Outsider POV Of Time Traveler(s)
- Redeemed Villain Travels to Before Their Redemption
- Introducing Advanced Technology/Medicine/Sanitation to the Past
Art Likes!
- soft colors, and also specifically moss green and all shades of purple, especially for slice-of-life and domestic pictures
- lineless art and thick lines and messy lines!
- dramatic lighting, especially if the moment is tense or dangerous
- cartoony styles
- realistic styles
- movement and foreshortening
- crosshatching, stippling, visible brushstrokes, and other techniques that let me see what the artist physically did with their pencil/brush/digital equivalent
- that thing where it's all back and white or greyscale except for one (1) color
- art that explores the minutiae of a character's life, like what exactly is on their bookshelf or in their bag
- comics and pictures-with-text! for comics, I sometimes have a hard time following very complex panel layouts and also sometimes a really hard time deciding if I'm supposed to read in left-to-right or right-to-left, but otherwise all comics are good comics.
Naruto
AO3 matching tag: Naruto
Fandom note: As a quick reminder, references to Boruto are in my DNWs — I haven't seen it, so that content would be wasted on me. On a related note, the end of Naruto, with Kaguya and stuff, didn't really do much for me, so I'm happy to pretend Madara was the final villain and/or ignore most of the end of the series and just let ninja be ninja.
Requested ships:
- Senju Hashirama & Uchiha Izuna (Naruto)
- Senju Tobirama & Uchiha Izuna (Naruto)
- Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara (Naruto)
- Senju Tobirama/Uzumaki Mito (Naruto)
Requested mediums:
- fanfiction
Senju Hashirama & Uchiha Izuna
Izuna was so against peace and so unwilling to trust Hashirama that he literally died for it so I would LOVE to see him be Like That with Hashirama. Maybe they do a sort of enemies-to-friends thing where Izuna realizes he's wrong...or maybe Izuna remains staunchly certain that Hashirama is his enemy! I would honestly enjoy either. Overall any kind of focus on how terrifying Hashirama is to other ninja/Izuna in particular would be wonderful, as well as any look at the sort of general suspicion and caution required in the warring clans era! Like, is it hard for Hashirama to trust Izuna? Is helping Izuna a difficult choice, despite Hashirama's dream?
I would enjoy anything from Hashirama and Izuna becoming friends despite Izuna's best efforts to Hashirama having to injure or kill Izuna for the sake of the village, so really go where your heart takes you!
Timeline: Pretty much anything would be good, pre- or post-village founding, but I usually like for characters to be 12 or older just because I don't find children very interesting to read about? On the other hand they're off being child soldiers at that age, so maybe it'd be good! I trust you.
Prompts:
- Okay hear me out Hashirama rescuing Izuna from people trying to steal his eyes.
- Or both of them captured and having to escape together.
- Izuna could be injured and Hashirama could heal him whether he likes it or not.
- Hashirama defeating Izuna in a fight or capturing him and izuna being surprised by how well Hashirama treats him/by Hashirama keeping him alive at all.
- Any situation where they have to collaborate.
- Any situation where Izuna is forced to trust/rely on Hashirama or has not worry about Hashirama taking advantage of some weakness.
- ...sorry this is so short! I've basically just requested it for two freeform exchanges so I don't have a good prompts list built up yet. You can read the Gen Freeform Exchange prompts here and the Hurt/Comfort Exchange prompts here.
Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara
This ship has just SUCH good potential for tension, conflict, politics, and iddy, iddy goodness. They're from two warring clans! They're at the center in a crazy shift in ideology and warfare! They're both hot! Listen, I could gush about them forever.
Tobirama and Madara have a really interesting contrast (eg, Tobirama is logical, keeps his emotions locked down, has a strong leaning towards analysis and systems...and meanwhile Madara is like a big huge hot mess of All The Feelings) and the fact that they were probably raised very differently and definitely raised on opposite sides of a longstanding conflict is hella good. Their thoughts on the village, their approaches to problem solving, and even probably their very fundamental belief systems are extremely different and that's the kind of thing that can lead to really interesting tension. What they do have in common (Hashirama, losing brothers, wanting to protect their clans, each at some point in some way genuinely believing in Konoha, probably PTSD from the whole child soldier thing) makes for an interesting foundation to build a relationship.
I'd love something that explores how hard it is for them to trust each other, especially when vulnerable. Any kind of focus on ninja being cautious, dangerous, suspicious, sneaky, and etc. I don't need/want them to be grimdark edgelords who assassinate kids once a week or anything, but just kind of...a general awareness that they've been at war their whole lives against the kind of enemies who use illusions, poison, infiltration, subtle manipulation, and any other means necessary to achieve their goals! I love that shit.
Ship likes:
- either or both whumped
- physical or emotional h/c
- enemies-to-lovers or enemies-to-friends-to-lovers
- bottom!Tobirama if you want to write anal (not a deal breaker, just a preference!)
- Izuna as an antagonist (including Izuna nonconning Tobirama and/or trying to murder him, although he doesn't have to be that antagonistic — I am also into fics where they very grudgingly start to work together by the end!)
- Either or both of them being socially isolated from their respective clans
- Either or both of them having poor marriage prospects despite their status/power
Timelines: I definitely like things set before the village comes together, in AUs where Izuna lived to see the village come together, or in relatively canon-compliant situations where Tobirama killed Izuna. The world is your oyster. I'm somewhat less interested in anything set after Madara leaves the village, but only because I like happy endings; if you think you can make it work please go for it.
Prompts:
- Enemies forced to work together — hired by the same very rich or important person. Maybe even the Daimyō? Someone who can afford to have them both work for him and who Tobirama and Madara can't afford to piss off. Maybe they have to sleep in the same room. Maybe they have to fight for their lives back to back. Maybe one of them needs to be rescued, or protected, and the other one steps up to do it because of their joint connection to Hashirama. Maybe, somehow, there's some identity porn.
- AU where empathic soul bonds form during moments of extreme empathy — they're not soulmates and they're still ninja, but whoops they feel exactly the same thing at exactly the same time in close proximity to each other and become linked. Maybe both of them accidentally yearn for the village to be true. Maybe both of them see Hashirama die/almost die. Maybe
- Arranged marriage — Hashirama decides that Tobirama should marry into the Uchiha to seal the peace. Or, maybe, decides that a Senju should marry an Uchiha and then is very surprised when Madara actually wants Tobirama. Maybe Izuna is dead and it's a really rocky road to getting the ship together. Maybe Izuna is alive and hating every minute of this. I'm okay with Madara and Izuna sharing Tobirama in the most awkward spouseshare EVER if you want, too, but it's definitely not necessary. Just an option! For added tension! And maybe a marriage night threesome.
- Levirate marriage — Tobirama was in an arranged marriage to Izuna (which was a terrible idea) who is now dead (which Tobirama definitely wasn't involved in, he promises) and now the marriage defaults to Madara.
- Timeloop — One of them is in a timeloop and takes forever to ask the other one for help, and then maybe takes forever convincing the other one to help. Either or both of them in a time loop that has something to do with Izuna's death. Or: Tobirama has been looping for as long as he can remember and he's so tired, tired enough to finally refuse to fight because nothing else has worked.
- Huddling for warmth — While visiting a cold climate — the mountains between Land of Fire and Land of Lightning? The northern, mountainous stretch of the Land of Wind? — one of them saves the other from freezing to death.
- Taking a mission together — After the village comes together,an Uchiha child goes missing and Tobirama and Madara have to work together to find and rescue them.
- Bloodline thieves — Bloodline theives make AMAZING antagonists, especially for pre-village stuff, because they can make these two work together :D so anything with them would be great. People trying to steal the Sharingan from Madara is obvious, but I'd also take bloodline thieves capturing Tobirama under the mistaken assumption that either A) he has the mokuton or B) his red lines are a powerful bloodline. Or maybe the aftermath of Tobirama rescuing Izuna from bloodline theives and Madara is ssssoooo thankful? :D :D :D
- Fem!Tobirama welcome — I like my female Tobirama just as sharp and analytical and powerful and controlled as my male Tobiramas. "Tobira" or "Tobirama" works for me. A female Tobirama who's publicly pretended to be male is also welcome!
Senju Tobirama/Uzumaki Mito
I started thinking about these two as a ship because it was nice to imagine Tobirama getting to be with someone who shares his interest in seals, and it seems like a nice direction to go to explore Mito's character! And the more I thought about it the more I wanted it, especially because of the delicious potential for misunderstandings and drama and tension.
When it comes to dealing with Mito's marriage to Hashirama, I am okay with (but don't kink on) infidelity, or Hashirama could be dead (earlier than in canon or otherwise), or Hashirama could be gay for Madara, or Hashirama and Mito could have an open relationship, or Hashirama and Tobirama could both be married to Mito at the same time. Or whatever! Live your dreams.
Of course, I would also be really into gen fic for them too!! I can't really bare to write a new section for them — it would basically just be an edited version of the above and most of the "Things I'd like to see explored" sections below, which I hope will work for you!
Timelines: Before Mito comes to the Senju, after Mito comes to the Senju, pre-village construction, post-village construction... I have no preferences although it'd be nice if Mito and Tobirama could be 18 or older. Don't be afraid to make them much older, like during Tobirama's tenure as Nidaime!
Things I'd like to see explored about Mito:
- Did/does she want to get married to Hashirama? Did/does she want to get married at all?
- How does she feel about the village before/during/after its construction? Who first told her about it? How much did she help with its construction?
- Does she miss Uzushiogakure? Does she play her part in clan and international politics?
- How hard is it for her to become adjusted to living with the Senju? How hard is it for them to become adjusted to her? Do her expectations line up with reality?
- How does Mito feel about the Uchiha?
Things I'd like to see explored about Tobirama:
- How does Tobirama feel about having another accomplished seal master around? Has he ever had so much opportunity to talk about seals before?
- Do he and Mito use the same kind of sealing (maybe Tobirama was taught by the Uzumaki/from Uzumaki materials?) or do they use different sealing techniques (like maybe Tobirama is self-taught?)?
- Does Tobirama desperately want a relationship but think he can't have one? Does he think he doesn't want one until he meets Mito? What do other people assume he thinks about sex/romance and are they right?
- If Mito isn't a kunoichi (or, hasn't frequently fought/taken missions) how does Tobirama feel about being involved with her? — does he consider her vulnerable despite her sealing abilities?
Other Prompts:
- AU where empathic soul bonds form during moments of extreme empathy — they're not soulmates and they're still ninja, but whoops they feel exactly the same thing at exactly the same time in close proximity to each other and become linked. Grief over Hashirama would work, but connecting over something else would be great too! I'd also be interested in seeing this link grow slowly as they become more in sync instead of snapping into place suddenly — a manifestation of their emotional intimacy that they can't ignore.
- Sex pollen — Tobirama comes back from a mission sex pollened (or drugged-in-a-conveniently-sexy-way, or chakra-sick-in-a-conveniently-sexy-way, whatever) and Mito steps up to help him out.
- Maybe it's conventional for married-in wives to help their brother-in-laws like this, maybe it isn't.
- Maybe Hashirama suggests it or maybe he's off on important business and the decision falls completely to Mito.
- Maybe Tobirama is relieved and grateful, maybe he fears Hashirama's wrath. Maybe it has to be Mito because no one else is willing...or maybe it doesn't have to be Mito but she insists.
- I'd prefer Tobirama to end up really into the sex even if he doesn't start out that way.
- I'm way more interested in guilt on Tobirama's part for fucking his brother's wife than I am for guilt on Mito's part for sleeping with someone other than his husband, but I'll take both or either!
- Femdom absolutely welcome.
- Maybe Tobirama’s mission pay over the years has mostly gone into the fund to get Hashirama a good wife? Maybe the Uzumaki find this out and Mito thinks she gets to pick between Hashirama and Tobirama? Maybe Mito finds out that that's why Tobirama isn't so much as engaged even years later?
- Mito accidentally falls in love with Tobirama during her engagement to Hashirama, something which Tobirama is maybe 100% oblivious about. She has to move carefully to switch her arranged marriage from Hashirama to Tobirama without insulting the Senju.
- Hashirama is busy with something so Tobirama is sent to pick Mito up and escort her to the Senju/the wedding venue. Mito spends the whole trip thinking Tobirama is her husband-to-be.
- Mito and Tobirama are forced to marry and both think it will go terribly, but grow to like each other
- Mito picks Tobirama as the best out of what she thinks are a lot of bad options
- they’re drawn together by shared grief
- one of them has been silently in love with the other, or they’ve both silently been in love with each other, and now they finally have a chance to confess their feelings and be together.
Senju Tobirama & Uchiha Izuna
I love how much these two hate each other and I especially love that Izuna was committed enough to hating the Senju that he literally died over it. Izuna was clearly, I think, a man of conviction and focus, and Tobirama had to match him on the battlefield and with strategy. It seems to me that Izuna and Tobbirama were probably similar in a lot of ways (suspicious, non-idealist younger brothers!) but I'm also interested in the ways they were probably different! Is Izuna a social butterfly where Tobirama is a shut-in? Does Izuna's temper run hot where Tobirama's runs cold? Does Izuna excel at quickly-adjusted tactics where Tobirama is more for long term strategy? There are so many directions for exploring their characters to go and I would love to see what you'll do with them.
Also, I'm not opposed to a fic where they don't hate each other, but I would really really love a sense that it was a hard-earned truce. I love that Warring Clans Era ninja lead dangerous, violent lives and I love that Izuna distrusted the Senju so much he died that horrible death, so I prefer not to see all that suspicion and caution swept away so easily. Even if they've grudgingly begun to work together and even maybe respect each other, I am very very into them each being ready for the other to try and kill them at any point.
Timeline: Pretty much anything would be good, pre- or post-village founding, but I usually like for characters to be 12 or older just because I don't find children very interesting to read about? On the other hand they're off being child soldiers at that age, so maybe it'd be good! I trust you.
Freeforms:
- Anything from their childhood/teen years: fighting each other on the battlefield, working against each other on missions, regrettably running into each other at some Daimyō's palace or somewhere else where they can't afford to throw down.
- Izuna lives and continues to seek to prevent the village from coming together. Tobirama really doesn't appreciate this.
- The village comes together despite Izuna's best efforts. Izuna now has to live with it, but at least he can make everything as hard for Tobirama as possible, who in turn makes everything difficult for Izuna.
- Pre- or post-Konoha's founding, Izuna and Tobirama are captured and forced to work together, much to their displeasure.
- Pre-Konoha's founding, Tobirama is captured by the Uchiha. Izuna is in charge of making sure Tobirama doesn't escape.
- Dimension travel — Tobirama visits a universe where he died instead of Izuna? Izuna visits a universe where he died from something non-Senju related, peace happened, and it's going great?
The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System
AO3 matching tag: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
Fandom note: I'm pretty sure I've read all the available extras, so no worries about spoilers.
Requested relationships:
- Luo Binghe & Mobei-Jun
- Luo Binghe & Shang Qinghua
- Shang Qinghua/Mobei-jun
- Shang Qinghua/Mobei-jun & Luo Binghe
Requested mediums:
- Fanfiction
Shipping note: References to canonical ships are fine to include! If you want to include background LBH/SQQ, I like them most when they're in that messy misunderstanding stage of things where SQQ is sure he's going to be tortured and then killed, so while I still would like the focus on the gen ship (and would be fine with the gen ship set at any point), if you do want to include a lot of references to LBH/SQQ in the LBH gen requests, I would prefer that set pre-getting together, when LBH is making all the wrong moves.
Luo Binghe & Shang Qinghua
I desperately want to see them interact more because they're both disasters. I think SQH probably deliberately avoids LBH as much as possible, but please push them together! Pre- or post-abyss would be equally wonderful. I'm really interested in situations where LBH is vulnerable and needs SQH's help, or where he's hurt and SQH has to figure out how to comfort him.
Prompts
- LBH is poisoned and SQH has to protect him.
- AU where LBH went to An Ding Peak
- Canon divergence — SQH is visiting MBJ when LBH arrives, fresh out of the Abyss
- Canon divergence — SQH runs into LBH right after LBH's mom dies.
- Trapped in a time loop together.
Luo Binghe & Mobei-jun
I feel like MBJ has a lot of loyalty to LBH and also is extremely lucky LBH didn't turn him into a fine paste after getting out of the abyss so I'd really like to see anything that explores their relationship and also the demon-y politics that they probably get up to! I'd love an exploration of MBJ's trust issues, his motives and opinions, his usefulness as an assassin, etc.
Prompts
- What was their first conversation like after LBH got out of the Abyss? How did Mobei-jun become LBH's right hand?
- When and why did MBJ decide to give LBH his loyalty? How deep does that loyalty go?
- Does LBH trust MBJ? When and how does that trust develop?
- LBH and MBJ are trapped in a time loop! Maybe they need to depend on each other. Maybe they learn new things about each other. Maybe one of them watches the other die trying to save them over and over again.
- One of them time travels and seeks the other out well before they would have met in canon.
- Some third party tries to convince one of them that the other is turning on them. Maybe it even succeeds for awhile!
Shang Qinghua/Mobei-jun (SVSSS)
This ship has it all??? Miscommunication! Loyalty/fealty! Cultural differences! Class/status difference! A daring rescue! A dramatic reveal! Noodles!!!
I like that SQH is a disaster and MBJ is too stoic for his own good. They're never on the same page until they get together and that appeals to me a lot. I don't need dramatic misunderstandings, but I do like that they struggle to understand each other and that even when they both think they're communicating clearly it's very easy for them to fuck it up and walk away from the conversation with entirely different ideas of what just happened simply because MBJ is a demon and SQH is A) a human and B) a transmigrator. One of my favorite things in the world is when two characters have an argument and don't realize that they're actually arguing about different things — misunderstandings that are about trying to communicate but failing because neither character realizes that they're trying to get on the same page using two different books.
Other things I'd love to see explored:
- MBJ and loyalty — he's very powerful and has been constantly surrounded by people he can't trust. SQH worms his way in there. I love to see a canon divergence or something where SQH proves himself loyal and trustworthy earlier than in canon!
- SQH's status and power — An Ding is the logistics peak of a huge, influential sect! In canon SQH doesn't really get any respect because SQQ pegs him as Airplane-bro and dunks on him constantly, but I'd love to see something that explores SQH's power, influence, reputation, and connections with people who don't think of him as Some Guy Who Wrote A Really Terrible Harem Smut Novel.
- Worldbuilding about demons — I'm especially interested in how being a demon lords works and the demon economy and trade and, like, basically anything having a really great logistics guy around would be useful for!
Other prompts:
- AU where things go wrong for MBJ and he ends up as SQH's secret demon servant somehow
- No System AU
- Either of them being ruthless in protecting the other. Maybe with a dramatic rescue???
- These freeform tags: Injured by Mind Controlled Friend or Loved One, One character thinks the other is intensely hot but entirely unattainable, Stressing so much about a future event that you have a Qi Deviation and miss it, Transmigrator gets magical exhaustion frequently because they've never used magic before
Shang Qinghua/Mobei-jun & Luo Binghe (SVSSS)
Given my other requested relationships it's just a no-brainer to request this tag too, lmao.
- SQH tries and fails to save SXY, but does fish LBH out of the river. Or, comes across LBH after the washer woman dies. Either way: oops, SQH has a kid now! Something something, now he and MBJ are parenting together.
- LBH's demon heritage or demonic cultivation gets outed well before the Immortal Alliance Conference and SQH helps LBH get the hell out of dodge. And then LBH needs a place to go. And SQH knows a guy! A guy he's in love with! Something something, now he and MBJ are parenting together.
- LBH POV of SQH/MBJ
- Any kind of post-canon exploration of how all three of these characters work together.
- I would also enjoy a straight SQH/MBJ-focused shipfic with a B-plot exploring SQH & LBH or MBJ & LBH or both.
Gravity Falls
AO3 matching tag: Gravity Falls
Fandom note: I think I've seen/read most of the extra content for Gravity Falls, so if you want to write something that incorporates things from the web shorts or something that's fine! If you end up basing your work on something it turns out I haven't seen, I'm fine with that too.
Requested relationships:
- Hand Witch & Multi-Bear (Gravity Falls)
Requested mediums:
- fanfiction
- fanart
Shipping: Mentions of canon ships/crushes and canon-typical levels of romance would be fine. Also, I would love for Hand Witch's romantic life to come up, actually! Maybe things worked out with that hot hiker.
Hand Witch & Multi-Bear
I really love to imagine these two as friends, because they seem to live on the same mountain! They're at least neighbors in a very general sense. They both seem like the kind of people who would have trouble making friends in conventional ways, and also Multi-Bear gives off huge "shops for deals at the swap meet" vibes, imo.
In terms of fic, I think the easiest prompt I have is just: their first meeting! Was it several decades ago and Hand Witch was still an old crone but dressed for the era? Was Multi-Bear a cub? Were the Manotaurs giving him a hard time? There are many options and all of them would be delightful. Please feel free to drag in other Gravity Falls denizens.
In terms of art I would honestly be over the moon with even just a simple drawing of them standing next to each other, but I will give more art prompts below.
Things I'm interested to know about Multi-Bear:
- Was he ever at one time A) a single bear or B) multiple bears but separately in a bunch of different, not-connected bear bodies with a hive mind?
- How did he get into BABBA? Like both on a character backstory/emotional level and also on a logistical level?
- How did his beef with the Manotaurs start?
- What other forest denizens does he know?
Things I'm interested to know about Hand Witch:
- When and why did she start selling watches at the Swap Meet?
- Does she have anything to do with Poolcheck's hook hand?
- Can she only curse hands, or is it just like...a specialization?
- How do things go with that handsome hiker? What have her previous relationships been like?
- Are there other witches around Gravity Falls?
Fic prompts:
- Maybe you don't like writing about characters meeting for the first time or establishing a new friendship! (Or, maybe you're an artist who really wants to draw their canon designs!) In that case, I'd love something set mid-friendship. Like an established relationship fic, but for pals! Multibear could help Hand Witch run her swapmeet stall! Hand Witch could get them BABBA tickets! They could trash-talk the Manotaurs together! They could have HOA disagreements with fellow neighbors! In terms of art I would be over the moon with literally any drawing of them in the same place doing anything.
- Maybe you don't think they're friends (maybe you'd prefer, I don't know, terse neighbors? Complete strangers?) and I'd be into that, too. Explore the mountain and the forest around it! Tell me more about Multi-Bear (was he once several single bears?) or about how Hand Witch's powers work (can she only curse hands?) or whatever else comes to mind!
- There's something new and bad in the forest or on the mountain. They have to team up (maybe with other characters, if you want) to figure out what it is and what to do about it.
- One of them travels back in time; they decide the other is the only person in the past that they can trust.
Art prompts:
- Hand Witch and Multi-Bear enter a costume contest where they dress up as each other.
- Some kind of domestic scene! Like maybe Hand Witch showing Multi-Bear the sweet new facelift that Mabel gave her cave.
- Something that feels warm and comfortable and plays with light, like them watching the sun set over the valley together.
- Dancing, high fiving, hugging, standing in a gas station as Hand Witch pulls every single pair of cheap sunglasses off the display and puts them on Multi-Bear's various heads, ranting to each other about the terrible Ducktective season finale, trying to make handpies together, walking through the forest with Mabel or Dipper or Grenda, meeting Soos, visiting various local tourist traps besides the Mystery Shack.
- All of the above are pretty concrete images, but something less realistic/more symbolic would be fun too!
Story Break (Podcast): The Jar Jar Binks Movie
AO3 matching tag: Story Break (Podcast): The Jar Jar Binks Movie
Fandom note:
About Story Break/The Jar Jar Binks Movie: Story Break is a podcast where three guys sit around and come up with pitches for movies they'll never write. The Jar Jar Binks Movie is their second episode; it is one hour long and can be listened to here or wherever you like to get podcasts probably. I've been unable to find a transcript.
In 2021 Story Break will be writing the script out scene by scene, but as of writing this letter they haven't started yet! When the episodes go up they'll be here, and I'll listen to them, but you can ignore them if you want of course!
About Star Wars: I have technically seen 8 out of 9 of the main Star Wars movies? But I don't really remember them very well.
If you're familiar with Star Wars, please pick and choose from whatever Star Wars stuff you want (the movies, video games, novels, whatever!) but just so you know you might confuse me if you namedrop characters or events that aren't covered in the podcast without providing any context. Also, I think the podcast directly throws out the Jar Jar Binks stuff from that Clone Wars cartoon, but if you want to cherry pick from it anyway that's fine — I won't notice!
On the other hand, maybe you're sitting there like "wow, fence has seen most of the movies? I've literally never seen any of them!" but damn do you love hasty summaries of political thrillers...in which case I absolutely support you. This request is not a sneaky request for prequel trilogy fic and if you want to just wiki your heart out or go on your best guess, that's terrifying and brave. Live your dreams!
Basically, feel free to be scrupulously in-character and canon compliant OR throw caution to the wind and delve into alternate character interpretations that you think will provide an interesting story about the hypothetical Jar Jar Binks we all would have hypothetically gone wild over if the Jar Jar Binks movie existed.
Requested character:
- Anakin Skywalker & Jar Jar Binks (Story Break)
- Jar Jar Binks & Original Resistance Character(s) (Story Break)
- Jar Jar Binks & Qui-Gon Jinn's Lightsaber (Story Break)
Requested mediums:
- Fanfiction
Shipping: I'm okay with Jar Jar being in a romantic relationship, with mentions of canon relationships, with you slipping a reference to your rarepair into the background, with OCs being married, and/or whatever other ship-related thing you can think of as long as the story is still focused on the requested gen relationships!
Why I Like This Movie That Doesn't Exist
It's very silly that THIS is the Star Wars thing I finally latch onto and want fanfiction of but I really can't help it because every single part of this podcast really smacked me right in the id. SAD TRAGIC POLITICAL THRILLER? Sign me the fuck up. I love Jar Jar Binks starting out like "Well, fuck, the guy I owed a life debt to beefed it" and everyone thinking he's useless and annoying, I love him being manipulated by Palpatine, I love him being a Secret Rebel that No One Knows About, and I love him fucking dying tragically and everyone still hates him. Every SINGLE part of it is SO delicious and if this were a real movie that really existed I would join the Star Wars fandom with bells on.
...but instead it's a weird summary by three dudes, so we're here instead!
I think about tragic still-kind-of-a-loser politician Jar Jar Binks who has no friends and dies hated by the very people he sacrificed himself for a lot and if you listen to the podcast and also have many Thoughts I am sure I'll enjoy whatever you write even if it's not specifically anything I've prompted!
General prompts for this fandom:
- Five mistakes Jar Jar Binks makes and one he doesn't/one he fixes.
- Canon divergence where somehow Jar Jar Binks succeeds in his assasination attempt even though he kind of meant to fail it.
- Jar Jar Binks & sweet sweet political intrigue! Jar Jar Binks & being a really REALLY weird politician, probably especially for his aides and/or other subordinates.
- I love the stupid minutiae of government, like infastructure and zoning and public comment periods and paperwork, so Jar Jar Binks dealing with any of that would be wonderful.
Other notes:
- Please feel free to combine my requested relationships!
- I know one of the things people hate the most about Jar Jar Binks is, uh, the way he talks, so feel free to tone that down or cut it out if you'd prefer.
- I don't require a happy ending, so feel free to stick with Jar Jar Binks dying.
- I am interested in both "canon compliant" fic (ie, fic that just follows and fleshes out the plot laid down in the podfic) and "canon divergent" fic (ie, fic that diverges from the plot laid out in the podfic) that explores this interpretation of Jar Jar Binks' characterization and/or gets into the nitty gritty worldbuilding details and/or gives me all the feels.
Anakin Skywalker & Jar Jar Binks
I really like that Jar Jar Binks and Darth Vader have a shared history, during which time both of them were very different people. I'm a little fuzzy on if Jar Jar Binks should know who Darth Vader is — the podcast certainly implies that he'd know that Vader is Anakin, but to me that doesn't seem like a thing that'd be common knowledge? But maybe Jar Jar Binks finds out because he's in Palpatine's inner circle! Or maybe he doesn't find out and we get to roll around in all of the delicious dramatic irony! Or maybe Jar Jar Binks only finds out when he pulls Qi-Gon's lightsaber! All of these choices and others would be wonderful.
Prompts:
- A canon compliant scene where Vader is suspicious of Jar Jar Binks' loyalty to Palpatine.
- Canon divergence where specifically Jar Jar Binks manages to talk Anakin off of the Being Super Evil ledge!
- Time travel fix-it — Jar Jar Binks is killed by Darth Vader and then travels back in time to try and do it better.
- Time travel fix-it — Darth Vader does the traveling back in time! And maybe slowly realizes he has to rely on Jar Jar Binks' dubious political clout!
- Worst Ever Buddy Cops Jar Jar Binks and Darth Vader go on a harrowing life changing field trip together where everything is tense and they're enemies and it's a game of cat and mouse but oh, also, their lives are in danger and they have a complex history where they used to be friends and stuff!
- For [handwaves] reasons, Darth Vader is in a timeloop. Does killing Jar Jar Binks get easier or harder?
Jar Jar Binks & Original Resistance Character(s) (Story Break)
I really love original characters and I think this is a really fun opportunity to request them because there's SO much you could do. Like:
- Jar Jar Binks' handler: who are they? what is their relationship with Jar Jar Binks like: friendly, respectful, tense, distant? in the podcast they die — how does that happen?
- Resistance members Jar Jar Binks meets while doing stuff for Palpatine. They don't know Jar Jar Binks is on their side. He can't let them know. Sometimes he can't save them at all.
- The Resistance members that Jar Jar Binks dies to save — do they really never find out? What would happen if they did?
- POV: the droid who works with Jar Jar Binks and has its memory erased. Maybe someone does data recovery!
- ...and this is a little silly but like, listen, you never want to have just one spy when you could have two spies, right? So what if one of Jar Jar Binks' personal aides was also a resistance spy. Spying on Jar Jar Binks without knowing that Jar Jar Binks is also a resistance spy. "The Bombad General is so suspicious!" they say in all their reports. "I just KNOW something is up with him!!!"
Jar Jar Binks & Qui-Gon Jinn's Lightsaber (Story Break)
I really love life-debts as a concept and I'm also really really into the way Story Break uses Qui-Gon's death as Jar Jar's motivation and as a really important part of his characterization. The lightsaber is a great physical symbol of the weight of Qui-Gon's death and I'm really really into the idea of Jar Jar Binks hanging onto it while he gets into politics, gets in over his head, and then gets murdered by Darth Vader.
Prompts:
- How does Jar Jar Binks get the lightsaber? Is it at Qui-Gon's funeral? Is it only after all the Jedi are killed?
- The movies definitely involve people just picking a lightsaber up and using it, but Wookiepedia also confirms to me that it's supposed to be really hard to just do that. Does Jar Jar Binks have to secretly practice using it? Does he just know how to use it right away because he's strong in the force?
- Five times someone almost finds out Jar Jar Binks has Qui-Gon's lightsaber and one time Jar Jar can't (or doesn't want to) hide it.
- You can also feel free to interpret this request as a Jar Jar Binks & Qui-Gon request if you want! I don't need Qui-Gon to be alive or show up in the fic, which is why I requested the lightsaber instead of Qui-Gon himself, but if you're into Qui-Gon please go for it. He could be a force ghost! Or he could be secretly not dead! Or Jar Jar Binks could have traveled back in time and saved him from dying with his own lightsaber! There are a lot of good choices along those lines.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
AO3 matching tag: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
Fandom note: I've only seen the anime, not read the manga, but I'm fine with manga-only details!
Requested relationships:
- Ling Yao & Mei Chang (FMAB)
Requested mediums:
- fanfiction
Shipping: Mentions of canon ships are fine.
Ling Yao & Mei Chang
You know that part after the Promised Day where Mei is crying because she's glad her Amestrian friends didn't die and all but she failed to get the philosopher's stone so now her whole clan is totally fucked? And then Ling promises to help her and protect her clan and your heart grows three sizes? That scene is a DIRECT HIT to my id. It's literally the iddiest scene in FMA for me. Sorry, all those other scenes, but THIS is the best scene. When I watch that episode alone I sometimes rewind to rewatch that scene! Sometimes more than once!
What I'm saying is, I'm really into the idea of Ling Yao being Mei's big brother despite all the obstacles and I really love unexpected kindness/mercy and I also really love that Mei's clan is poor and weak while Ling's clan is rich and powerful. It's excellent! It's so good!
Also, I'm okay with Greed!Ling & Mei if you want — feel free to very vaguely handwave Greed surviving if you're writing post-canon.
Prompts:
- Literally anything about Xing politics before or after the events of canon.
- Character expects to be punished for failure but is shown unexpected concern — Maybe Ling becomes emperor without him and Mei actually managing to have that nice scene after the Promised Day, so Mei gets to be surprised by Ling's kindness later and more dramatically!
- Comforted By An Enemy — Ling realizes how young she is before they're forced to work together, or helps her out of a situation he wouldn't even leave his worse enemy in and then gets attached.
- Lying So That The Other Will Accept Comfort Or Help — Ling hides his identity, maybe! Or lies about why he's in Amestris! Or literally anything.
- Character makes a mistake and expects the worst due to past experiences; is met with gentle kindness — The former emperor was presumably not a forgiving man, so of course it would catch Mei off guard when Ling is different!
- A is too uncertain of their place in B's life to directly ask for direly needed help — Sure, Ling SAID he'd help...and he's emperor now so he totally has the power to do so....but Mei balks at the idea of actually being so arrogant as to believe the emperor of Xing will really help her.
Beware of the Villainess
AO3 matching tag: 그 악녀를 조심하세요! | Beware of the Villainess!
Fandom note: Beware of the Villainess is a comic that you can read here. It's about a main character who transmigrates into the body of a villainess and throws all the terrible canon love interests in the garbage where they belong. I'll keep up to date with new chapter translations that come out on mangadex over the writing period, but if what you write gets suddenly jossed by a new update don't worry about it.
Requested relationships:
- Melissa Podebrat & Nine Forton & Yuri Elizabeth (Beware of the Villainess!)
- Melissa Podebrat/Nine Forton (Beware of the Villainess!)
- Melissa Podebrat/Nine Forton & Melissa Podebrat/Yuri Elizabeth (Beware of the Villainess!)
- Melissa Podebrat/Nine Forton/Yuri Elizabeth (Beware of the Villainess!)
- Nine Forton & Yuri Elizabeth (Beware of the Villainess!)
Requested mediums:
- Fanfiction
Shipping: Having background Nine/Melissa, Yuri/Melissa, or Nine/Melissa/Yuri in any fic is definitely okay — for example, background Melissa/Yuri in a Melissa/Nine fic would be great! I also don't mind mentions of/references to canonical ships.
Melissa Podebrat & Nine Forton & Yuri Elizabeth
Melissa Podebrat/Nine Forton & Melissa Podebrat/Yuri Elizabeth
Melissa Podebrat/Nine Forton/Yuri Elizabeth
I'm shoving these all together because I really don't have a preference on gen vs V vs perfect triangle! I love all their canonical interactions and I would extremely enjoy whatever dynamic best fits your fic.
I like Melissa's strength and conviction, especially her ability to totally derail the plot and her willingness to do whatever it takes to get the outcome she needs. I would love to see more politics, and also worldbuilding about the Podebrat estate, and also anything about Melissa's reputation. I'd also love anything that touches on how Yuri and Nine interact with the servants on the Podebrat estate, or how Melissa and Nine interact with the Elizabeths. I like that Nine is sad and loyal and very pretty and improving a ton as he works for Melissa, and I like that Yuri thought of Melissa as her hero long before Melissa showed up to rescue her from Migen! The way Yuri and Nine squabble with each other because they both want attention from Melissa is also really charming, particularly because it never has high stakes, it never gets mean, and it never gets in the way of more important things. I'd love to see more of that, but I'd also like to see what it looks like when the dust has settled and they have an understanding!
Prompts:
- One, two, or all three of them get trapped in a time loop.
- AU where Yuri can save scum
- Aftermath of Yuri being rescued with lots of hurt/comfort all around.
- We know how far Nine would go for Melissa, but how far would Yuri go? Bonus points for them enabling each other.
- Yuri wakes up from a bad nightmare about something Melissa and/or Nine prevented from happening. She seeks Melissa and/or Nine out for comfort. (Also, any hurt/comfort focused on her briefly forgetting what timeline she's in.)
- For Reasons™, Nine can remember all of the timelines Yuri has gone through, but he's just never lived this long before. Maybe he has nightmares!
- In an AU where both temporary and permanent empathic soulbonds can form between people feeling the same emotion, Nine and Yuri find that they have a lot in common.
Melissa Podebrat/Nine Forton
Although I love the OT3 in both perfect triangle and V formation, I also have an INTENSE need for more Melissa/Nine specifically. Nine is so loyal and it's PERFECT — the recent fight with Migen hit me full in the face with how much I love Nine and love this ship and want tropey, ridiculous, wonderful fic for them.
Prompts:
- Scandalous, scandalous huddling for warmth.
- Literally any Nine POV of any scene in the comic.
- I assume Yona acts as a chaperone, if indeed chaperones for young ladies are a concern, but...there are probably still rumors, right? About Melissa keeping Nine so close? She went to that ball with him and everything!
- Anything where they protect each other! I would love to see something with Melissa being strong and protective and passionate about it, and I would love to see something where Nine actually does kill or seriously/permanently injure someone in her defense. I love that they're both dangerous in their own way out of love for the people around them and I find anything where characters prove their loyalty extremely iddy, ok.
- Marriage of convenience AU — for Reasons™ a werewolf needs to marry a human noble. The werewolves pick Nine because no one will miss him, and Melissa is chosen on the human side because A) it's the best way she can see to definitely get out of marrying Ian or B) Ian is in love with Yuri and trying to end the engagement with Melissa quickly and quietly or C) some other justification you like better. I'm in this for them getting to know each other and Nine being a sad, loyal mess who really wants Melissa to like him but also thinks that's impossible. And meanwhile Melissa is over here kind of assuming it will be just as hard to get Nine's attention as it was Ian's, maybe?
Nine Forton & Yuri Elizabeth
Nine and Yuri's lowkey rivalry for Melissa's affection is really, really great but I would like to see them interact on their own, without Melissa around! I imagine they have kind of complicated feelings about each other, but they end up spending a lot of time together and it's inevitable that they'll eventually have to deal with each other without any Melissa buffer. Is it uncomfortable? Are either of them nervous? I like the idea of them being friends, or at least being in cahoots to protect and care for Melissa, but I'd also really enjoy seeing them struggle to actually get there. Melissa has had to deal with a lot of garbage men and iirc the Elizabeths don't like werewolves; meanwhile Nine is hella traumatized and has maybe never had anyone be nice to him besides Melissa. It could be a big mess!
Prompts:
- Melissa is missing/kidnapped; Nine and Yuri team up to help her.
- One of them has a problem that Melissa can't help with, either because they can't bring themself to tell her or because she's indesposed with important business, so they have to reach out to the other for the help they need.
- One of the mornings where Melissa et all are staying at the Elizabeth estate, Nine can't sleep or wakes up before Melissa and Yona; he and Yuri talk alone for the first time.
- What does Yuri think about Nine? Did she initially mistake him for Migen? Did she worry he'd be a new love interest?
- For [handwaves] Reasons™ the timeline resets or in a canon divergence or something, Yuri meets Nine before Melissa.
- Anything where Nine gets to be loyal to Yuri, either because he knows Melissa would want that or out of his own volition. Maybe with some hurt/comfort???
Crossover Fandom
AO3 matching tag: Crossover Fandom
Fandom note: Info about SVSSS and Naruto available in those sections above.
The Untamed: I haven't seen the donghua or read the novel so although I don't mind the inclusion of smaller details/worldbuilding from MDZS, I definitely want fic set firmly in The Untamed-verse. I've seen Fatal Journey (the Nie bros movie) but I haven't seen the Wen Ning movie yet.
Requested relationships:
- Haruno Sakura (Naruto)/Wen Qing (The Untamed)
- Haruno Sakura (Naruto) & Wen Qing (The Untamed)
- Luo Binghe (SVSSS)/Haruno Sakura (Naruto)
- Luo Binghe (SVSSS) & Haruno Sakura (Naruto)
Requested mediums:
- Fanfiction
Shipping: Background ships are fine in & fics! For / fics, I would prefer that there be no cheating and that the fic firmly focus on my requested romantic ship, but I don't mind mentions of past relationships/past almost relationships — no need to ignore LBH's canonical interest in SQQ, Sakura's crush on Sasuke, or Wen Qing and Jiang Cheng's almost thing if it's relevant to your fic.
Haruno Sakura & Wen Qing
Haruno Sakura/Wen Qing
I really don't have a preference for gen vs ship for these two because I think either could be really interesting! I'm interested in them getting to know each other, comparing medical techniques, being completely badass, etc. I find OP Sakura power fantasies very iddy, so please feel free to lean into that if you agree — but I also really like it when a fic emphasizes that Sakura's best weapon his her big big brain, so you don't have to make her OP if you don't want to!
RE ages/timelines: for the & tag, any age above 12 or so would be great. For the / tag I'd like Sakura and Wen Qing to be roughly the same age — or both adults at least. If Sakura is late canon or post-canon then I will just read like she and Wen Qing are roughly the same age and not give it any more thought.
Prompts:
- Interesting people you meet in prison/Characters Meet While In Captivity — I have no particular preference about when the meeting happens or who is doing the capturing/imprisoning. The Wen, the Jin, whatever! I also don't actually need both characters to be imprisoned (eg, crossover character could be captured by the Wen and Wen Qing could just be, like, around) nor do I need their time captured together to be the subject of the fic — I would very much enjoy that, but I would also enjoy them running into each other later in some other situation with the "captured together" backstory in play!
- Crossover character helps Wei Wuxian & the Wen Remnants — Maybe Sakura happens to be in the right place at the right time to miraculously heal Jin Zixuan, or maybe she just lives in Yiling, or...maybe a lot of things. I just really want a fixit for the Wen Remnants. She could be hired to escort WWX to the first month party and prevent things from escalating so badly! There are many options, all of them good, and all of them hopefully involving becoming Wen Qing's girlfriend.
- Crossover character saves Wen Ning from WN's canonical death — I would love to see Wen Qing arrive to find WN, terrified that he's dead, and find that Sakura's saved him!
Luo Binghe & Haruno Sakura
Luo Binghe/Haruno Sakura
I really don't have a preference for gen vs ship for these two because I think either could be really interesting! I'm interested in Luo Binghe getting some of that good ol' Leaf nin friendship treatment, in an older and wiser Sakura dealing with a very pretty boy, and in LBH hurt/comfort. I find OP Sakura power fantasies very iddy, so please feel free to lean into that if you agree — but I also really like it when a fic emphasizes that Sakura's best weapon his her big big brain, so you don't have to make her OP if you don't want to!
RE ages/timelines: for the & tag, any age above 12 or so would be great. For the / tag I'd like Sakura and Luo Binghe to be roughly the same age — or both adults at least.
Prompts:
- For wacky disastrous Team 7 mission reasons, Sakura meets LBH in the Endless Abyss.
- Or, for wacky disastrous Team 7 mission reasons, Sakura accidentally sets off a seal that yoinks LBH out of the abyss and into the Narutoverse.
- Trapped far from home and unsure how to get back, Sakura joins or infiltrates Qing Jing Peak for access to their library and meets LBH.
- SQQ is sick! MQF doesn't know how to fix it! Luo Binghe travels far and wide looking for a solution and either kidnaps Sakura or hires her services from the village.
- SQQ or SQH POV of realizing that the PIDW wife arc with the Sakura expy was CLEARLY way too transparent
