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critmas 2018
Hello friend, it is time for campaign 1 hero/villain femslash and I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this, I am also @kimaracretak on tumblr (where I am only intermittently active but may have some thoughts on some of these canons/ships), 8tracks and playmoss (for #aesthetic takes on some of these canons/ships), and AO3, where I have a small but reflective of things I like collection of bookmarks.
I love Critrole for its worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as the characters and relationships, and I am easy to please as long as you stay away from my DNWs (both general and canon-specific), so don't feel like you Have to write any of my specific prompts. Don't read anything into relative lengths of sections, I am equally happy to get something for anything in this letter! Some of these prompts are reused from old letters, and if you have written them for me before, rest assured that I loved your fic, I am simply greedy and would like to see every possible take on my favourite scenarios.
I like everything from pre-ship feelings navigation to PWP, so for / relationships don't worry about whether they're shippy 'enough'. I don't need a lot of romance in my ships, sex for power, manipulation, or just between friends who want to have fun is also great. If you want secondary/background ships, I am happy to see any femslash, Keyleth/Vax(/Kash, the Raven Queen, Allura), or feel free to combine any compatible ones from my requested ones.
Mentorship and loyalty dynamics, including ladies' suicidal world-saving or world-breaking devotion to other ladies, also especially #unavailable older women in positions of authority; femslash and female friendship in both the foreground and the background; nature and cities and houses and spacecraft as characters, especially when they would like to eat you because they love you; vampires, magic, witchcraft, rituals; eldritch things, fey things, eerie things, cosmic/eldritch horrors; feelings about embodiment and iconography; epistolary fics, IF, poems for poetry canons, song lyrics for song/album canons; second-person pov; politics; flirting, domesticity, sensuality; canon-divergent/what-if AUs, Vampire: The Requiem, Changeling: The Lost, Scandinoir, and Star Wars Sith AUs; conflicted loyalties, moral ambiguity, hero/villain and villain/villain relationships, darkfic; arranged marriages, marriages of convenience, married by a technicality; relationships negotiated around characters' different vocabularies of trust and care; 'I hate you I love you I would like to wear your skin as a sign of my devotion' types of relationships; porn as character work.
Hair braiding, hair pulling; bathing, washing, bath/shower sex; painplay, bloodplay, edgeplay; mirror sex, identity porn; bondage, D/s dynamics (though not 24/7 bdsm lifestyle setups); jewellery and clothes kink; consent play; praise kink, loyalty kink, competency kink; public and semi-public sex, having to stay quiet; oral sex; biting, marking; first time with each other; sex for manipulation/political gain/conversion to the other political-military side (success optional); inappropriate use of the Force and lightsabers (and of magic and weapons more generally), one person in a threesome directing the other two and getting off watching them.
Unrequested m/m or m/f ships; rape (dubcon is fine unless otherwise specified); permanent death of female characters; kidfic, breeding, pregnancy including unconventiional forms like fpreg/oviposition, age-regression and time-travel to see kid versions of characters; scat, watersports, emetophilia; food sex and associated kinks like feeding; a/b/o; 'only one destined true love' aus like soulmates or hanahaki disease; eye- and feet-related gore; apocalypse and post-apocalypse fic, zombies; *isms, issuefic; 'it was all a dream' sort of mindfuckery; age gaps causing angst; bodyswap fic; crackfic; sex involving under-16s.
Fandom-specific DNW: Scanlan, Percy, Percy/Vex, ace!Keyleth.
General: I consider the campaign guide, artbook, and anything said on Talks Machina nebulously canon at best (and don't know much of what's said on Talks, because I can neither watch live nor afford Alpha) so feel free to conform to/depart from what they say as you wish. I'm familiar with most wider D&D lore/sourcebooks/mechanics from 3.5e onwards, including 5e's unearthed arcana, if you want inspiration for additional worldbuilding/plotting (though I know 4e best). I like fics that take into account mechanical D&D limitations (e.g. characters saying they need to rest before doing any more magic) but DNW characters using the actual real-world terms (e.g. characters saying they're 'out of spell slots'). I adore 4e's epic destinies and would love it if you incorporated relevant ones for the requested characters (special love for World Tree Guardian!Keyleth, Master of the Eternal Hunt!Vex, and Archspell!Delilah with Finger of Death, but, yknow, go wild!). Canonverse Vampire!Cassandra is a welcome AU for any of these ships.
Cassandra de Rolo/Delilah Briarwood: Cassandra as daughter/sacrifice/future Lady is endlessly fascinating to me. How cruel did she grow under the Briarwoods? Did she even mind? I'd love to see Delilah slowly introducing Cassandra to magic, to Vecna, to death. I really love the idea that Delilah might have killed and resurrected Cassandra more than once during their years together, all the better to prepare her to be a sacrifice to an Undying King. Whitestone as a semi-sentient city torn between two masters. Alternate takes on the Grey Hunt, anything involving vampire!Cassandra, Cassandra learning to manipulate her manipulator, AU where Cassandra chooses the Briarwoods for real during the ziggurat battle, AU where Whitestone was never retaken, and Delilah and Cassandra rule together. Cass/Delilah sex (dubcon or consensual) is definitely okay as long as she's 16+ and Sylas isn't involved - I like the disconnect between Delilah seeing her as a daughter but Cass seeing her more as a mentor/queen, and can see powerplay and D/s dynamics going either way.
Cassandra de Rolo/Delilah Briarwood & Raishan: Can also be Cass/Delilah/Raishan, I amn't picky about particulars here. Basically, any/all of the Cass/Delilah but with bonus dragon! Delilah and Cassandra as co-queens and their loyal dragon living in the Alabaster Sierras. Delilah sending Cassandra on a hunt to kill Raishan, and Cass betraying Delilah to team up with Raishan. A Briarwoods-come-later AU where Delilah has to deal with both Queen Cassandra and her secretly-a-dragon advisor. Delilah deciding it was more important to keep Cassandra than to please Vecna, and joining the fight against Thordak. Raishan bringing Cassandra Delilah as a present to prove her loyalty. Just ... all the glorious fucked-up politics and queens and dragons and gods, yknow? Feel free to OT4 them with Vex.
Cassandra de Rolo/Raishan: Consider: Dark Queen Cassandra regnant in Whitestone with Raishan as her trusted advisor. Or Raishan proving she can be a better mother/lady than Delilah. Cassandra allying with Raishan because it feels right to finally say yes to something like this, and Raishan understands how possessive she feels towards Whitestone. Raishan making a new lair in the forests by Whitestone and Cassandra stumbling upon her sometime post-canon.
Keyleth/Raishan/Allura Vysoren: Raishan was obsessed with Keyleth and Allura during the fight in Opash's lair (Allura was unconscious twice! So much of Allura's support was directly to Keyleth!), and tbh I'm mostly thinking of the AU where she succeeds in capturing them and having them to help her with whatever ritual she was planning (Keyleth and Allura comfort!sex with voyeur!Raishan optional but encouraged if you're so inclined). I love alternate-meeting ideas: Allura falling in with Raishan while looking for ways to raise her friends who died fighting Thordak, Raishan picking Keyleth up early in her Aramente and Allura fighting to get her protege back. Keyleth being torn between two mentors, Raishan being obsessed with Allura's hoard of knowledge and Keyleth's life. In canonverse, Raishan in search of godhood with two of the most godless characters in the show as her means of ascension, nhh, I love. Don't soften Raishan unnecessarily (a lot of these scenarios have a lot of dubcon sex potential and I'm here for that) but also don't make her Cartoonishly Evil. Dark!Keyleth and Dark!Allura (and fics where either/both of them slowly turn darker over the course of the story) are great. I love Changeling: The Lost AUs always, and am super interested in the AU where Raishan was Keyleth's Keeper and Allura is trying to rescue her.
Keyleth/Raishan/The Raven Queen: I have Feelings(tm) about druids and fate and how Keyleth canonically ended campaign 1 as a weird semi-immortal semi-in love with the Raven Queen, and how druidic interpretations of curses and lifecycles come up against the realities of the world. I'd love something that works with the 'winter' aspect of the Raven Queen's portfolio - fate and death get a lot of attention but that much less so, and it goes wonderfully with Keyleth and her summer storms and Raishan's slow autumnal decay. The one bit of campaign guide canon I am incredibly wedded to is the 'familiar spirit' flying back to her forest lair and oh my gods do I wanna know what happened between Raishan and the Raven Queen to make that possible. What bargain did she make, what (who?) did she promise, how was she changed? Or in a world where Raishan won, does she try to convince the Raven Queen to heal/spare her? Does Keyleth plead Raishan's case to the Raven Queen? What if Raishan succeeded in forcing Keyleth to help her ascend to godhood - how does the Raven Queen feel about that?
Keyleth/Vex'ahlia/Delilah Briarwood: Who's still in denial about Delilah's final death it's me. I really want there to be another clone hidden somewhere, and Keyleth and Vex find her and punish her. Or maybe Delilah captures one of them and learns how far the other will go to keep her safe. Or Delilah gets in over her head with something and somehow convinces Keyleth and Vex to help her. Marquesian adventures - what if they found her while looking for the cloak? Dark AU where Delilah succeeds in turning Vex into her undead servant and Keyleth tries to rescue her.
I love Critrole for its worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as the characters and relationships, and I am easy to please as long as you stay away from my DNWs (both general and canon-specific), so don't feel like you Have to write any of my specific prompts. Don't read anything into relative lengths of sections, I am equally happy to get something for anything in this letter! Some of these prompts are reused from old letters, and if you have written them for me before, rest assured that I loved your fic, I am simply greedy and would like to see every possible take on my favourite scenarios.
I like everything from pre-ship feelings navigation to PWP, so for / relationships don't worry about whether they're shippy 'enough'. I don't need a lot of romance in my ships, sex for power, manipulation, or just between friends who want to have fun is also great. If you want secondary/background ships, I am happy to see any femslash, Keyleth/Vax(/Kash, the Raven Queen, Allura), or feel free to combine any compatible ones from my requested ones.
Things what I like;
Mentorship and loyalty dynamics, including ladies' suicidal world-saving or world-breaking devotion to other ladies, also especially #unavailable older women in positions of authority; femslash and female friendship in both the foreground and the background; nature and cities and houses and spacecraft as characters, especially when they would like to eat you because they love you; vampires, magic, witchcraft, rituals; eldritch things, fey things, eerie things, cosmic/eldritch horrors; feelings about embodiment and iconography; epistolary fics, IF, poems for poetry canons, song lyrics for song/album canons; second-person pov; politics; flirting, domesticity, sensuality; canon-divergent/what-if AUs, Vampire: The Requiem, Changeling: The Lost, Scandinoir, and Star Wars Sith AUs; conflicted loyalties, moral ambiguity, hero/villain and villain/villain relationships, darkfic; arranged marriages, marriages of convenience, married by a technicality; relationships negotiated around characters' different vocabularies of trust and care; 'I hate you I love you I would like to wear your skin as a sign of my devotion' types of relationships; porn as character work.
Things what I like, smut edition;
Hair braiding, hair pulling; bathing, washing, bath/shower sex; painplay, bloodplay, edgeplay; mirror sex, identity porn; bondage, D/s dynamics (though not 24/7 bdsm lifestyle setups); jewellery and clothes kink; consent play; praise kink, loyalty kink, competency kink; public and semi-public sex, having to stay quiet; oral sex; biting, marking; first time with each other; sex for manipulation/political gain/conversion to the other political-military side (success optional); inappropriate use of the Force and lightsabers (and of magic and weapons more generally), one person in a threesome directing the other two and getting off watching them.
Things what I do not want;
Unrequested m/m or m/f ships; rape (dubcon is fine unless otherwise specified); permanent death of female characters; kidfic, breeding, pregnancy including unconventiional forms like fpreg/oviposition, age-regression and time-travel to see kid versions of characters; scat, watersports, emetophilia; food sex and associated kinks like feeding; a/b/o; 'only one destined true love' aus like soulmates or hanahaki disease; eye- and feet-related gore; apocalypse and post-apocalypse fic, zombies; *isms, issuefic; 'it was all a dream' sort of mindfuckery; age gaps causing angst; bodyswap fic; crackfic; sex involving under-16s.
Critical Role
Fandom-specific DNW: Scanlan, Percy, Percy/Vex, ace!Keyleth.
General: I consider the campaign guide, artbook, and anything said on Talks Machina nebulously canon at best (and don't know much of what's said on Talks, because I can neither watch live nor afford Alpha) so feel free to conform to/depart from what they say as you wish. I'm familiar with most wider D&D lore/sourcebooks/mechanics from 3.5e onwards, including 5e's unearthed arcana, if you want inspiration for additional worldbuilding/plotting (though I know 4e best). I like fics that take into account mechanical D&D limitations (e.g. characters saying they need to rest before doing any more magic) but DNW characters using the actual real-world terms (e.g. characters saying they're 'out of spell slots'). I adore 4e's epic destinies and would love it if you incorporated relevant ones for the requested characters (special love for World Tree Guardian!Keyleth, Master of the Eternal Hunt!Vex, and Archspell!Delilah with Finger of Death, but, yknow, go wild!). Canonverse Vampire!Cassandra is a welcome AU for any of these ships.
Cassandra de Rolo/Delilah Briarwood: Cassandra as daughter/sacrifice/future Lady is endlessly fascinating to me. How cruel did she grow under the Briarwoods? Did she even mind? I'd love to see Delilah slowly introducing Cassandra to magic, to Vecna, to death. I really love the idea that Delilah might have killed and resurrected Cassandra more than once during their years together, all the better to prepare her to be a sacrifice to an Undying King. Whitestone as a semi-sentient city torn between two masters. Alternate takes on the Grey Hunt, anything involving vampire!Cassandra, Cassandra learning to manipulate her manipulator, AU where Cassandra chooses the Briarwoods for real during the ziggurat battle, AU where Whitestone was never retaken, and Delilah and Cassandra rule together. Cass/Delilah sex (dubcon or consensual) is definitely okay as long as she's 16+ and Sylas isn't involved - I like the disconnect between Delilah seeing her as a daughter but Cass seeing her more as a mentor/queen, and can see powerplay and D/s dynamics going either way.
Cassandra de Rolo/Delilah Briarwood & Raishan: Can also be Cass/Delilah/Raishan, I amn't picky about particulars here. Basically, any/all of the Cass/Delilah but with bonus dragon! Delilah and Cassandra as co-queens and their loyal dragon living in the Alabaster Sierras. Delilah sending Cassandra on a hunt to kill Raishan, and Cass betraying Delilah to team up with Raishan. A Briarwoods-come-later AU where Delilah has to deal with both Queen Cassandra and her secretly-a-dragon advisor. Delilah deciding it was more important to keep Cassandra than to please Vecna, and joining the fight against Thordak. Raishan bringing Cassandra Delilah as a present to prove her loyalty. Just ... all the glorious fucked-up politics and queens and dragons and gods, yknow? Feel free to OT4 them with Vex.
Cassandra de Rolo/Raishan: Consider: Dark Queen Cassandra regnant in Whitestone with Raishan as her trusted advisor. Or Raishan proving she can be a better mother/lady than Delilah. Cassandra allying with Raishan because it feels right to finally say yes to something like this, and Raishan understands how possessive she feels towards Whitestone. Raishan making a new lair in the forests by Whitestone and Cassandra stumbling upon her sometime post-canon.
Keyleth/Raishan/Allura Vysoren: Raishan was obsessed with Keyleth and Allura during the fight in Opash's lair (Allura was unconscious twice! So much of Allura's support was directly to Keyleth!), and tbh I'm mostly thinking of the AU where she succeeds in capturing them and having them to help her with whatever ritual she was planning (Keyleth and Allura comfort!sex with voyeur!Raishan optional but encouraged if you're so inclined). I love alternate-meeting ideas: Allura falling in with Raishan while looking for ways to raise her friends who died fighting Thordak, Raishan picking Keyleth up early in her Aramente and Allura fighting to get her protege back. Keyleth being torn between two mentors, Raishan being obsessed with Allura's hoard of knowledge and Keyleth's life. In canonverse, Raishan in search of godhood with two of the most godless characters in the show as her means of ascension, nhh, I love. Don't soften Raishan unnecessarily (a lot of these scenarios have a lot of dubcon sex potential and I'm here for that) but also don't make her Cartoonishly Evil. Dark!Keyleth and Dark!Allura (and fics where either/both of them slowly turn darker over the course of the story) are great. I love Changeling: The Lost AUs always, and am super interested in the AU where Raishan was Keyleth's Keeper and Allura is trying to rescue her.
Keyleth/Raishan/The Raven Queen: I have Feelings(tm) about druids and fate and how Keyleth canonically ended campaign 1 as a weird semi-immortal semi-in love with the Raven Queen, and how druidic interpretations of curses and lifecycles come up against the realities of the world. I'd love something that works with the 'winter' aspect of the Raven Queen's portfolio - fate and death get a lot of attention but that much less so, and it goes wonderfully with Keyleth and her summer storms and Raishan's slow autumnal decay. The one bit of campaign guide canon I am incredibly wedded to is the 'familiar spirit' flying back to her forest lair and oh my gods do I wanna know what happened between Raishan and the Raven Queen to make that possible. What bargain did she make, what (who?) did she promise, how was she changed? Or in a world where Raishan won, does she try to convince the Raven Queen to heal/spare her? Does Keyleth plead Raishan's case to the Raven Queen? What if Raishan succeeded in forcing Keyleth to help her ascend to godhood - how does the Raven Queen feel about that?
Keyleth/Vex'ahlia/Delilah Briarwood: Who's still in denial about Delilah's final death it's me. I really want there to be another clone hidden somewhere, and Keyleth and Vex find her and punish her. Or maybe Delilah captures one of them and learns how far the other will go to keep her safe. Or Delilah gets in over her head with something and somehow convinces Keyleth and Vex to help her. Marquesian adventures - what if they found her while looking for the cloak? Dark AU where Delilah succeeds in turning Vex into her undead servant and Keyleth tries to rescue her.