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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!
You may notice that I have less details or prompts for some fandoms/ships/mediums than others. Please don't take this as an indication that I want those things any less than other things! I very much desperately want everything I've requested, I've just had more time to request some things than others.
And: please don't feel like you need to follow one of my prompts to keep from disappointing me. I've provided all the information below in an attempt to help my writer feel confident in producing a gift for me, but if prompts and extra details don't work for you then feel free to ignore them.
I'm up for recursive fic of my own fic or recursive of gifts I've received in the past (assuming you have the author's permission).
DNW:
- unrequested AUs
- canon divergence is okay
- I would like ninja to still be ninja and cultivators to still be cultivators
- Something like "Airplane-bro made a cultivation otome game instead of writing a cultivation stallion novel" or "Konoha was never founded" in Naruto — I consider those technically canon divergence rather than straight AUs.
- including spit as lube, but oral is fine
- please see Gravity Falls section for clarification.
- please see The Adventure Zone section for clarification.
- feel free to fudge timelines or just not mention ages specifically, though
- please see Strange Trails section for clarification
- 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.
- magically preserved non-rotting undead like vampires or skeletons are fine
- please see SVSSS section for clarification notes.
- please see The Adventure Zone section for clarification.
- please see Strange Trails section for clarification
- 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.
- please see Gravity Falls section for clarification.
Naruto DNWs/clarifications
- Relationships/plot development/worldbuilding from Boruto
SVSSS DNWs/clarifications
- characters finding out that they're fictional
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 my Past Imperfect letter!
- 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.
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
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; the worldbuilding I'm interested in is unrelated to Kaguya anyway.
Requested medium: fanfiction
Requested ships:
- Senju Tobirama/Uchiha Madara (Naruto)
Shipping note:
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
- forced intimacy (nonsexual or sexual!)
- 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)
- 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. Or Izuna died in some other way! Or the village never came together! 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.
Requested freeforms
- Marriage - For The Purpose Of Assassination (But Falling In Love Instead)
- Political Marriage - Arranged To End Conflict, Arranged Marriage - Arranged as a Means of Keeping Enemy Under Control, Arranged Marriage - Arranged as a Means of Keeping Reluctant Ally Under Control — I love the tension of them being on opposite sides of the Senju-Uchiha war, but what if that same tension...but with marriage??? :D
- Life-Debt Marriage - Life-Debt is Considered Marriage, Life-Debt Marriage - To Satisfy Life-Debt — I love the idea of saving someone's life meaning always being connected to them, and in a canon like Naruto with characters who are ninja and, in this case, are or were enemies, I love the idea of a single life debt being so heavy and notable that it starts turning everything around! Furthermore:
- For this canon, I prefer this to be a cultural thing rather than a magic AU thing! So, like, society at large or just ninja or just one clan consider marriage to be a way (or the only way) to repay a life debt, any maybe it's a religious thing or a superstition, but no one gets soulmarks about it or soulbonds over it or gets hit by lightening for hesitating on the way to the altar, if that makes sense? I especially like it that way because it can preserve some of the inherent Narutoverse tension and danger!
- I don't have any preference for who saves who.
- Given the logistics of someone needing to run the Uchiha clan I assume Tobirama would marry into the Uchiha...but heck, if you want to plot it the other way go ahead!
- Timeline-wise pre-village probably makes more sense (they're enemies so it's more notable!) although after peace but before the village makes sense (it's a tentative alliance still, so it matters a lot that one of them helped the other and a marriage will help solidify things!) and if you really want to do it after the village is founded — well, maybe it was a really extreme life saving, I guess?
Haruno Sakura/Uchiha Madara
What I really like about this ship is a chance to explore the Warring Clans Era (or the village founding era!) in comparison to the future that Sakura comes from. Konoha winds up with a lot of problems, but I think it's also probably an inconceivably improved situation compared to the Warring Clans experience, and I really love the idea of Madara as a worn-down idealist who thinks even peace with the Senju might not be possible meeting — and falling in love with! — Sakura, who not only knows peace is possible but who probably had lots of ideas about how to improve the Konoha of the future!
I also think this ship has a ton of great potential for tension and trust issues, assuming Sakura made it far enough into the events of canon to meet Madara as an enemy. Also, if you want to make Madara sad or hurt, and maybe make Sakura OP or emphasize her crazy good future healing skills, I would be very into that.
I would prefer that Sakura and Madara be roughly the same age (like, both teenagers) or at least both roughly adults even if one is older.
Worldbuilding I would love to see explored:
- What's Madara's reputation like in the Warring Clans Era? How do clans besides the Senju view the Uchiha?
- How does Sakura's medical knowledge differ from the medical knowledge of the era? How did having access to the knowledge of many clans and village-supported research influence medical knowledge in Konoha?
- How do Sakura's techniques differ from the common techniques of the era? How does her knowledge about chakra, strategy, etc match up to what the Uchiha know? Would also love something that touches on Sakura being raised in relative peacetime.
- Sakura grew up in a place where she had close friends in lots of different clans and she was encouraged to make strong bonds of friendship with them. What kind of societal norms (especially in relation to personal space, food sharing, gossiping, technique sharing, shows of trust) did she grow up with that are different from the societal norms of the Warring Clans Era?
Prompts you could probably squeeze one of my tags into:
- Stuck in the past alone, Sakura needs to make a living while she waits for the village to be founded/start accepting random citizen applications, but taking missions without a clan is a terrible idea...so she works as a healer instead. This somehow brings her in contact with Madara.
- Stuck in the past with a Konoha comrade of your choosing, Sakura is brought into a clan by her teammate! When it becomes clear that an arranged marriage would really smooth the clan's entry into Konoha, Sakura volunteers to be the bride...only to really regret it when the groom turns out to be Madara.
- Madara is captured by bloodline thieves! Sakura rescues him.
- Sakura's goal for coming back to the past was to preemptively murder Uchiha Madara. Unfortunately, she's now met pre-going-crazy Madara and he's hot and sympathetic and wants kids to stop fucking dying unnecessarily and, oops, murder is looking less and less like a good solution...
- The village has been founded! Sakura can finally join! It turns out it's really weird for her to be in Konoha as it's coming together, and extra weird for there to be so many Uchiha around, and double extra weird to keep turning the corner and finding Uchiha Madara standing around talking to people.
- Uchiha Izuna is dying and won't let a Senju heal him...but Sakura conveniently isn't a Senju!
Requested freeforms
- Dimension Travel - Marriage After Permanently Traveling to AU
- Life-Debt Marriage - Life-Debt is Considered Marriage
- Life-Debt Marriage - To Satisfy Life-Debt
- Proposal - Accidental Proposal due to Cultural Differences
- Proposal - Unplanned Pregnancy Triggers Marriage Proposal
- Arranged Marriage - Enemies to Lovers
- Arranged Marriage - Expecting Hurt; Receiving Kindness
- Arranged Marriage - To Someone They Think Will Hurt Them
- Marriage - For The Purpose Of Assassination (But Falling In Love Instead)
- Marriage - Living Together Makes It Impossible to Keep Trauma Secret
- Marriage of Convenience - Marriage to Save Reputation(s)
- Proposal - Each Thinks The Other Must Propose Due To Cultural Differences
Senju Tobirama/Hoshigaki Kisame
I guess why I like the idea of this ship is that A) it's blatantly nonsensical, honestly, it's delightfully ridiculous but B) I think if it were taken as seriously as possible and an earnest attempt was made a really really interesting fic could result. Kisame has a lot of Opinions about a village system that Tobirama more or less built, and I think that that could lead to some EXTREMELY interesting interactions. Plus, you know, Kisame's main contact with Konoha is through Itachi which means his has an incredibly different POV of it compared to most characters who typically meet Tobirama via time travel.
I don't mind mentions of past Kisame/Itachi and I have a very very low bar for what would be "shippy enough" for a weird ship like this. In fact, honestly, I would be pleased with gen interactions between them, too, so do that if you want.
Prompts you could probably squeeze one of my tags into:
- Arranged Marriage — After traveling back in time, Kisame joined back up with the clan that has his bloodline. When Konoha forms, he lands himself a husband and his clan a place in a slightly better village.
- Assassination Attempt(s) — After joining the village as a clanless ninja, Kisame distinguishes himself by preventing Tobirama's assassination. They they fall in love.
- Enemies to Lovers — Kisame's thrilled to get a bunch of chances to try and kick Tobirama's ass. He didn't count on catching feelings, though.
- Loyalty — Okay, nothing to add here, I just want to point at it and point at Kisame and make eyes at you about it.
- Rescue — Kisame is pretty sure if he doesn't save Senju Tobirama there's a good chance Itachi will never be born.
- Time Travel — A free space for this ship, lmao.
- Trust Issues — Sure Tobirama, you and Hashirama talk big game, but how does Kisame know you aren't going to want half the kids to kill the other half of the kids to blood them for real combat?
- Worldbuilding — Tell me ALL you ideas about the culture and places Kisame is used to vs the Warring Clans Era.
Requested freeforms
- Arranged Marriage - Mutually Beneficial Arranged Marriage That Turns To Deep Love
- Courtship - Unconventional Courtship that Ends in Marriage
- Dimension Travel - Marriage After Permanently Traveling to AU
- Forced Marriage - Leads To Genuine Feelings
- Life-Debt Marriage - Life-Debt is Considered Marriage
- Life-Debt Marriage - To Satisfy Life-Debt
- Proposal - Accidental Proposal due to Cultural Differences
- Proposal - Agrees To Seemingly Terrible Marriage Believing It's The Only Proposal They'll Ever Get
- Proposal - Genuine Proposal Assumed to be a Cruel Joke
- Arranged Marriage - Expecting Hurt; Receiving Kindness
- Proposal - Each Thinks The Other Must Propose Due To Cultural Differences
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 medium: fanfiction
Requested relationships:
- Liu Qingge/Original Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS)
- Mobei-jun/Shang Qinghua(SVSSS)
- Shang Qinghua & Liu Qingge (Scum Villain)
- Shang Qinghua & Shen Jiu (Scum Villain)
- Shang Qinghua & Shen Jiu & Liu Qingge (Scum Villain)
Liu Qingge/Original Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS)
I love that LQG mistakenly thinks SQQ tried to kill him and SQQ knows that LQG thinks that and never apparently tried to clarify it. SQQ is so hilariously petty and honestly is the very definition of getting in his own way and meanwhile LQG doesn't see him clearly at all, so the idea of them getting married and then having to work that shit out is absolutely stunning. And so is the idea of them having a different first meeting, because sometimes you just want to see what characters would do if you remove the bad blood between them.
Requested freeforms
- Forced Marriage - Leads To Genuine Feelings — After being forced into the marriage they end up having to rely on each other and trust each other and then, oh no, feelings, stop self, this wasn't the plan! The marriage could be forced for social/political reasons or by something supernatural.
- Life-Debt Marriage - Life-Debt is Considered Marriage, Life-Debt Marriage - To Satisfy Life-Debt— I love the idea of saving someone's life meaning always being connected to them, and I think that this is exactly the kind of convoluted trope Airplane-bro would have written in for wife #450 without necessarily thinking through the consequences
Furthermore:
- For this canon, a cultural thing or a magic thing would be equally fine with me, because I think it's very interesting when it's cultural (especially if sometimes life debts can be satisfied in other ways but in this particular case it has to be marriage for some reason!) but I also think there's plenty of room in the canon worldbuilding to make it a You're Now Married Because Magic Says So sort of thing.
- I don't have any preference for who saves who.
Mobei-jun/Shang Qinghua (SVSSS)
This ship has it all??? Miscommunication! Loyalty/fealty! Cultural differences! Class/status difference! A daring rescue! A dramatic reveal! Noodles!
I am still in that phase of shipping this ship where my first thought when I try to explain why I like it is to just emphatically gesture at very canon passages but, okay, I find it really interesting 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, especially in a marriage exchange where they can be shoved together and made to have a wedding and live together before any actual, real communication can take place.
Also I think it would be hard to read a fic that focuses too hard on the beating-three-times-a-day canon, but I definitely wouldn't mind SQH being kind of afraid of his life/unable to stop thinking about how MBJ is going to kill him eventually, so long as he's also turned on/romantically flustered/just kind of generally seriously into MBJ despite his worries.
Requested freeforms
- Marriage of Convenience - To Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage To Unbearable Third Party — I think MBJ is the more likely one to have a marriage to avoid, but either way is fine! I could also go a couple ways with how it actually happens — maybe MBJ plans/suggests it seriously, maybe SQH brings it up as a nervous joke or genuinely just thinks of it as a stalling tactic and is waiting for MBJ to divorce him, ahaha.
- Life-Debt Marriage - Life-Debt is Considered Marriage, Life-Debt Marriage - To Satisfy Life-Debt — I love the idea of saving someone's life meaning always being connected to them, and I think that this is exactly the kind of convoluted trope Airplane-bro would have written in for wife #450 without necessarily thinking through the consequences
Furthermore:
- For this canon, a cultural thing or a magic thing would be equally fine with me, because I think it's very interesting when it's cultural (especially if sometimes life debts can be satisfied in other ways but in this particular case it has to be marriage for some reason!) but I also think there's plenty of room in the canon worldbuilding to make it a You're Now Married Because Magic Says So sort of thing.
- I don't have any preference for who saves who.
Shang Qinghua & Liu Qingge
Shang Qinghua & Shen Jiu & Liu Qingge
I love Shang Qinghua so much and as much as I love Shang Qinghua/Mobei-jun, my favorite part of the Airplane extras was 100% the mission to the haunted well. What a disaster team! The Cang Qiong Peak Lords are politically powerful and a very formidable force and ride-or-die for each other...but emotionally speaking they're also a MESS and I am so here for it. None of these people understand each other. None of these people like each other, I'm pretty sure. I just want to read more about them being simultaneously the tops of their respective fields and also complete trainwrecks.
I definitely do not need these characters to like each other, work together, stay married, treat each other well, consider each other's feelings/POV, etc. The appeal of these character match ups for me is really how terrible the characters are at getting along and understanding each other, and if you want them to just continue to be terrible at it and never resolve it then I'd actually be very into that! Of course, if you do want their accidental/forced marriage to be a successful get-along shirt, I'd be really into that too!
Requested freeforms
- Accidental Marriage - Magical Curse
- Accidental Marriage - To Someone You Hate
- Accidental Marriage - Trying To Keep Accidental Marriage Secret
- Forced Marriage - Marrying Someone You Don't Like To Save Them From A Worse Fate
- Forced Marriage - Traitor Forced To Marry Spouse Who'll Monitor Them For Further Treachery
- Supernatural - Forced To Marry Due To Supernatural Reasons
- Accidental Marriage- Fake Marriage Unknowing Hits All Cultural Wedding Rites of Current Location
Shang Qinghua/Shen Jiu (SVSSS)
This is kind of a ridiculous ship and definitely a disaster waiting to happen BUT ALSO...it makes sense. SQQ is cold, scary, prideful, and beautiful! Meanwhile SQH gave up on having any dignity well before he and SQQ met, doesn't really care if other people are dignified, is surprisingly competent when he's not being an idiot or playing dead like a coward, and knows so many things. This would be the weirdest fuckbuddies and/or romance ever, but I think it would work! At least for awhile! Maybe in secret!
I'm really interested in how SQH knows way, way more about SQQ than SQQ would ever expect or want him to know, and how for years and years SQH looks at SQQ and thinks "I know how you die" but doesn't think he can stop it. I really loved that part in the Airplane Extras where SQH tries just a little to avert LQG's death by giving SQQ weird advice and I'd love to see him step up his interventions more and more, pushing against the boundaries set by the System, until he actually maybe succeeds. And makes a friend! Maybe.
Prompts you could probably squeeze one of my tags into:
- Tropey nonsense — handcuffed together, there's only one bed, accidental soulbonds, huddling for warmth, etc!
- SQQ needs a dual cultivation partner for medical reasons or something and picks SQH under the (completely correct) assumption that he'll at least be able to bully SQH around. But then, oh no, he catches...the feelings.
- I would love something that explored Shang Qinghua's public reputation, and especially if he has any kind of reputation for pulling strings and manipulating things (surely someone eventually figures out that he sabotaged the previous An Ding Head Disciple?) or else something where SQQ travels back in time from a PIDW-y verse and finds that SQH is...different from how he remembered.
- All Peak Lords need to symbolically marry another Peak Lord and SQQ picks SQH in a moment of spite and panic when it looks like he might get stuck with YQY.
- SQH accidentally or on purpose switches places with YQY during whatever situation led to YQY and SJ's canonical reunion. SJ still saves his life — or SQH manages to dodge! — and then SQH has to convince SJ to come to Cang Qiong.
- On a joint mission, SQH recognizes that the people who called on them for help are entering into the very beginning of some future horribly tragic wife plot. He insists on getting involved. SQQ is not happy.
- Canon divergence: SQH figures out how to weaponize SQQ's spiteful, vicious nature against the Huan Hua Palace Master early on and accidentally solves the plot by arranging for SQQ and the Palace Master to be enemies. (MBJ is very impressed, probably.)
- SY doesn't transmigrate, things go terribly wrong, and SQH decides to travel back to the past to fix things. Somehow.
- SQQ's terrible reputation ultimately became a really big problem for SQQ and for the sect, so SQH starts fixing it. SQQ notices.
Requested freeforms
- Forced Marriage - Marrying Someone You Don't Like To Save Them From A Worse Fate
- Life-Debt Marriage - Life-Debt is Considered Marriage
- Life-Debt Marriage - To Satisfy Life-Debt
- Marriage of Convenience - To Avoid Otherwise-Likely Marriage To Unbearable Third Party
- Proposal - Agrees To Seemingly Terrible Marriage Believing It's The Only Proposal They'll Ever Get
- Supernatural - Forced To Marry Due To Supernatural Reasons
- Accidental Marriage - Can't Annul without Ruining Spouse's Reputation
- Accidental Marriage- Fake Marriage Unknowing Hits All Cultural Wedding Rites of Current Location
The Adventure Zone
AO3 matching tag: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
Fandom note: For this exchange, I'm not interested in the other TAZ seasons, just Graduation! You can listen to TAZ here. Not into audio mediums? No problem! Try out the official transcripts.
Requested medium: fanfiction
Requested ships:
- Gray the Demon Prince/Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt
Shipping note: I don't really ship anything else in this fandom, but minor background pairings that you need for logistical/worldbuilding flavor are totally fine!
Gray the Demon Prince/Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt
The shippy vibes of these two in the back end of the show is OFF THE CHARTS. I really love both characters individually (Fitzroy is such a bundle of insecurity and ambition! Gray is so arrogant and mercurial!) but together???? Every conversation they have is gold, I think because they both talk like polite business rivals despite all the attempted murder, threats of war, etc. They're enemies and it's delicious but they're not exactly personally invested in hating each other — they just happen to be on opposite sides! And when they stop being on opposite sides they become "best friends"! Also Fitzroy is 6'4" (after his magical growth spurt!) and Gray is 12' and I am so here for that size difference.
In terms of what I am specifically hoping for out of my gift for these two, I would really enjoy any flavor of these two interacting! I want to know more about Gray's demon culture and his blue-orange morality (war is for "blood, and chaos, and conflict, and victory" apparently!) and I'd love to see more of Fitzroy being kind of a scumbag but not, like, a down with murder scumbag. Graduation's worldbuilding is really fascinating to me, and I'd enjoy getting to see more of the world (or of Gray's hell dimension!) and I'd enjoy something set pre-, during, or post-canon!
I know that via WOG Fitzroy is asexual, and if you want to write him asexual then I'm into that! I'm not really into most asexuality-focused narratives, but I'm definitely fine with a read of this ship where Fitzroy only feels romantic attraction or even where they're in a QPR — a story that focuses on emotional intimacy would really hit the spot for me and I'm honestly such a complete sucker for gen that I'd be pretty satisfied with anything that had Fitzroy and Gray interacting a bunch (+ marriage, because this is a themed exchange, of course!).
On the other hand, if you don't want to write Fitzroy as asexual then I am 100% on board with that, too. I've left my smut likes section the way I usually leave it because it does apply for everything else I've requested, but for this ship I would actually love for Gray to fuck Fitzroy in a wide variety of situations! I'll opt in to anything from fully consensual to extremely dubious consent — for this ship, the line for me is that I want them both to end whatever sexual encounter they have pleased that it happened and possibly planning to let it happen again, even if they were reluctant or unable to consent at the start. Please note I have specifically DNW'd corrective rape, though.
Below I have some specific prompts, but I'm so crazy invested in this ship that I want to emphasize that basically anything is fine! Please feel free to scrounge through my general likes.
Prompts you could probably squeeze one of my tags into:
- Canon divergence — Fitzroy does end up joining Gray's side the way Gray planned, or he does get all the materials he was supposed to get from Goodcastle, or Chaos' plan doesn't kick off until the Thundermen are out of school and floundering around as young professionals!
- Something set in that possible future where Fitzroy is His Royal Highness, The Thunder King and Lightning Lord, Fitzroy Maplecourt, The Storm Bringer...or something where Fitzroy really does get thrown forward in time and has to cope with that life. Like, what's Gray up to in that universe? Things probably went terribly for him, right?
- Something with the Ring of Truth or the True Sight Lenses! I love all the little magic things that TAZ PCs pick up during campaigns, and always yearn to see them used more. In the case of the Ring of Truth I would particularly like to see it used in a romantic or sexual context to let them really trust each other (...or to highlight how much they don't trust each other!)
- Post-canon get together. Gray wants someone to come make his next war campaign interesting, maybe, and has even picked out enemies he thinks Fitzroy wouldn't object to killing! Now he just needs to convince Fitzroy that this is a good idea, isn't a trap, will be fun, won't end with him being fed to Hellhounds, etc.
- The above prompt but also this is a classic, deeply romantic demon courting technique that ends up working weirdly well on Fitzroy.
- I don't require Gray to have exciting genitalia if you're going to write him fucking Fitzroy, but I am open to knots, pinecone dick, and anything else you think demons should definitely have.
- ...come to think of it, please also give Fitzroy whatever kind of genitalia you think would best facilitate him being fucked, if you're writing him being fucked! Again, if you want to stick with normal anal sex then that's fine and I won't be disappointed, but it seems worth it to mention you can live your, uh, genital dreams.
Requested freeforms
- Accidental Engagement - Didn't Know Item Was Traditional Betrothal Gift
- Accidental Marriage - Due to Misunderstanding the Norms of Another Culture
- Arranged Marriage - Arranged as a Means of Keeping Reluctant Ally Under Control
- Arranged Marriage - Mutually Beneficial Arranged Marriage That Turns To Deep Love
- Arranged Marriage - Slow Seduction of Spouse
- Courtship - Formal Courtship with the Intention of Marriage
- Courtship - Misunderstood Attempts at Courting Result in Surprise Proposal
- Courtship - Unconventional Courtship that Ends in Marriage
- Life-Debt Marriage - Life-Debt is Considered Marriage
- Life-Debt Marriage - To Satisfy Life-Debt
- Political Marriage - Only Means of Saving One's Homeland
- Proposal - Rejected Proposal due to Misunderstanding
- Arranged Marriage - As Part of a Business Deal
- Arranged Marriage - Enemies to Lovers
- Proposal - Each Thinks The Other Must Propose Due To Cultural Differences
