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fiachairecht) wrote2019-02-12 10:40 pm
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yours immortally [agegapex 2019]
Hello friend, it is time for weird eldritch immortals and the mortal women they love (and also Overwatch, I failed at finding a theme for these requests), and I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this letter I am also ![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
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I've by and large chosen canons I love for their worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as their 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.
If you are writing shipfic, 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. Please no unrequested ships unless specifically allowed for, but 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, body horror (especially flowers growing out of people's bodies); 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; desire, women who aren’t afraid of desire, women who lean too far into desire, women who desire to kill and eat their gods; porn as character work.
Hair braiding, hair pulling; bathing, washing, bath/shower sex; painplay, bloodplay, edgeplay; mirror sex, identity porn; bondage, blindfolds, D/s dynamics (though not 24/7 bdsm lifestyle setups); jewellery and clothes kink; consent play, somnophilia; 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), mutual masturbation, 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); 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, feeding/stuffing kink; 'only one destined true love' aus like soulmates or hanahaki disease; 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.
General: I am here for the vampires and the witches and the weird fey horror stuff, mostly! Drusilla was an early formative favourite of mine and I am here for anything where she gets to have a good time. Darkfic - including Wishverse - encouraged. Drusilla/Spike can be included as an also-extant ship alongside the requested Dru ships, but I'd rather he not play a huge role in those relationships. Character-turned-into-a-vampire fic does not fall under my character death DNW. Angel: the Series-era fics welcome. I have no idea what's going on in the comics.
Fandom-specific DNW: Xander, Giles/Jenny
Drusilla/Jenny: Let the witch and the vampire fuck! I want to read about the world where Drusilla turned Jenny and we had vampire girlfriends instead of, yknow, any of the other choices the show made about Jenny, or the world where Drusilla offered Janna an even better revenge against Angelus than her tribe could, or the world where Jenny comes back from the death wrong in ... well, really any intriguing way, and goes to Drusilla looking for advice.
Drusilla/Willow: I love these wild crazybrains girls so. Darkfic is good, vampire!Willow is good, wishverse fic is good, fic delving into Drusilla’s worldview (her dolls! her Need to nurture-kill others!) is good, dubcon because of Dru's hypnotic charm (or maybe Willow turns the tables on her with her own magic) is good, smutfic is good. Really just ... anything.
Drusilla/Faith: Gods they would be so perfectly terrible for each other - they're so deeply each other's type, and so bad for the entire world around them, and it's perfect and I love it. Anything and everything where Faith ends up with Dru - whether that's a Dru instead of the Mayor situation, or Dru goes hunting and finds a pet, or Faith tries to kill her but can't (bonus for this being a like 5+1 thing - five times Faith didn't kill Dru and one time Dru killed and turned her?)
Drusilla/Buffy: So I especially love this in s6+ when Buffy's trying to deal with being brought back from the dead - seeking Dru out for all kinds of bad-idea sex, begging to be turned because it's the closest thing she has to dying again, and Dru is more than happy to give her newest doll anything she wants. That being said, if you have a great idea for earlier seasons fic, go for it!
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.
Fandom-specific DNW: Scanlan, Percy, Percy/Vex even as a mention/background, ace!Keyleth (nb I fucked up my copy-paste and these somehow didn't make it into my AO3 signup - I'm sorry, and I know they're not enforceable like this)
Keyleth/Raishan: I'm obsessed with these vicious near-immortal sorceresses. There's the potential for anything, from hatesex to philosophical arguments, to the reluctant '.....shit we grew old together and you’re the only one left who knows everything about me' realisation. Polymorph/shapeshifting/wildshape sex is good. I like Keyleth domming Raishan if you're playing with D/s elements. There's so much to play with here with obsession and similarity and mirroring (either Keyleth or Raishan turning into each other during sex is um. The Best.) and honestly, feel free to go anywhere with this. I like Keyleth's anger and the amount of pleasure Raishan takes in winding her up. Raishan redemption arcs are fun. Neutral evil ancient dragon luring young true neutral durid into her lair are fun, roleswap AUs (neutral evil ancient druid Keyleth happening upon youngish true neutral dragon Raishan). I love alternate meeting AUs, or AUs where Raishan chose to infiltrate the Air Ashari in addition to/instead of the Fire Ashari. Raishan-survives AUs are also excellent, whether she survives as herself or as a dracolich/demigod/etc. Raishan using murder to flirt with Keyleth. Raishan coming back from the dead cured of her disease but Wrong(tm) in some other way. Keyleth and Raishan take a trip to the Feywild for Reasons. Anything about their mutually complicated relationships with Melora. Loyalty kink stemming from obsession - once every couple decades they try, genuinely, to kill each other, but somehow never quite manage to do it (because they have Feelings) (it takes them like 300 years to figure it out) (they're so uniquely dumb about Feelings as opposed to literally any other aspect of their life I adore them).
Keyleth/Raishan/Allura Vysoren: Raishan was obsessed with Keyleth and Allura during the fight in Opash's lair - Allura was unconscious twice and a lot of Allura's support was directly to Keyleth - and I would die for the AU where she succeeds in capturing them and having them to help her with whatever ritual she was planning, especially if it involves Keyleth and Allura comfort!sex with voyeur!Raishan. 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. Apotheosis, accidental or not. 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.
Delilah Briarwood/Cassandra de Rolo: 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. Feel free to OT3 them with Vex, Raishan, or Ripley if that's where your muse goes.
Delilah Briarwood/Vex'ahlia: Who's still in denial about Delilah's final death, it's me! I really want there to be another clone hidden somewhere, and Vex finds her and punishes her. Or Delilah gets in over her head with something and somehow convinces 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. I know I mentioned Archspell!Delilah up above, but especially for this ship - she used Finger of Death so specifically and so consistently on Vex and I have all sorts of feelings about how death loves Vex and Delilah is just its instrument. Anything inspired by Cellar Darling's 'The Spell' [youtube link, lyrics in description].
Cassandra de Rolo/Vex'ahlia: I would love Vampire!Cass/Fey!Vex AUs of any sort, especially if it's the case that Vex accepts Saundor's deal in the Feywild and only then truly understands what Cassandra is. Vex training Cassandra (archery lessons turning sexy?), stories of alternate Grey Hunts (I was a little bit underwhelmed by what the hunt actually turned out to be), fey fairy tale elements (the princess and her knight, Whitestone’s fey queen and her captured ranger ... for this pairing I would actually be interested in just a straight-up fairytale!au), Vex distracting Cass from paperwork, Whitestone history and what it means for Vex to build a home there, something about the horror of Fenthras turning corpses into trees, fey woodland creature Vex happens upon Cassandra sometime during the Whitestone occupation and they plan to overthrow the Briarwoods together.
General: I did it, friends, I fell facefirst into the PLOT of my bonkers beloved shooty MMO after a year of only paying very close attention to one or two character stories so: go wild with your worldbuilding! I prefer things set post-fall and love things set post-recall, and adore missionfic and introspective and smutty pieces all equally. Inappropriate uses of their powers/weapons/tech are all wonderful, especially fun somnophilia play with Ana's sleep darts (I see it more consensual with Mercy and D.Va and more dubconny with Amélie, but am definitely willing to reach whichever take you like!). For Amélie ships, I have no preference if fic is set when she's Amélie or Widowmaker or both. I like dark!Mercy fics (super not a requirement, just felt worth noting since it seems fandom-divisive). Any AU based off any skins for the requested characters (e.g. witch!Mercy, pirate!Ana, comtesse!Amélie) is welcome even if I haven't specified the general version of that AU in my likes. Leaning into the body horror aspects around Ana's missing eye encouraged (I have a special love for flowers growing in the empty eye socket, because, well, I'm me) but not required. If you want to address the age gaps here, I really love how comfortable Ana is in her own skin, with her own age (even/especially her missing eye), so anything that highlights that would be lovely.
Ana/Mercy: So, Ana has a complicated relationship to death and Mercy has rez so I am highkey thinking death kink, ngl. Painplay, edgeplay specifically to the edge of death, all of Mercy's weird messy feelings about being devoted to Ana but also having the power to kill and bring her back. But I also love softer h/c fics, and the just sort of - weary bonding that comes from having seen So Much Shit on the frontlines. AU of the Bastet story where Ana and Jack do go see Mercy, or angsty we're-both-pretending-it's-anonymous sex while they're both in Egypt (sex where Ana keeps her Shrike or Bastet masks on >:)).
Ana/D.Va: So: COMPETENCY KINK. (And mentorship, and loyalty, and all the excellent love-in-wartime tropes.) I love the idea of the veteran soldier and the young one just coming to terms with what the fight means, they way they can bond over what's happened to their respective homelands. D.Va replies to Ana's 'youth is wasted on the young' line with 'aw, c'mon Ana, I bet you got up to all sorts of crazy things when you were my age', so maybe some reminiscing leading to present-day shenanigans? All of the excellent h/c tropes.
Ana/Amélie: Not quite colleague-friend-lovers who can't quite kill each other, the best of the best who keep chasing after each other because there shouldn't be two of them but there are and an undeniable part of them loves it. Women who draw lines between killing and leaving to die but can't quite examine the difference because that comes to close to their feelings. The problem of 'I should kill you but I can't hurt you because you have already hurt too much because of me'. I have a slight preference for post-Fall fics - the angst, the guilt, the Shrike, the chase, the meeting across new post-Recall battlefields - but I will love anything you write for them!
General: I love the lush expansiveness of Tolkien's work, the history and the care and the sheer amount of space characters are allowed to take up and that we are able to fill in. My favourite bits are the horror and the weird fey things, but moments of levity and happy couples dealing with supernatural things (happy couples murdering other things :D) are also excellent! I'm entirely happy to just have the canon husbands not mentioned, but I have no infidelity-related squicks, dislike Eol, and do like Celebron, Earendil, and Gorlim, if that becomes relevant to your writing.
Aredhel/Thuringwethil: I amn't sure it's possible for me to be disappointed with anything for them, tbh. Eldritch marrieds running a crossroads inn and eating patrons who stay too long? Thuringwethil finding out the hard way that she's not the most dangerous thing in the woods? Aredhel barters with Thuringwethil for safe passage for her or her people and gets in over her head. Aredhel is tired of her life with Eol and asks to be turned into a vampire (the two of them working together to kill him in turn optional).
Eilinel/Thuringwethil: Vampire Eilinel! Wraith Eilinel! Eilinel and Thuringwethil team up to make mischief against Sauron! Eilinel gets lonely while her husband is off and wanders too far into the woods! I have. Nothing more specific than 'eldritch girlfriends' to offer you as prompts, sorry.
Elwing/Thuringwethil: I did not know I needed this until I saw it in the tag set, and like with Eilinel/Thuringwethil I still don't know precisely what I want out of this beyond 'eldritch girlfriends' but gosh yes let Elwing's story be vast and WEIRD and glorious!
Varda/Galadriel: I mean, I'm a simple gremlin with a simple taste for honour bondage and inappropriate uses of Galadriel's mirror and the possible complications of loving a goddess who might be a literal star, but again, I'm super hard to disappoint here! I especially like their mentorship dynamic and would love pre-Exile fic, or perhaps mutual pining during Galadriel's exile. Setting-wise, I can never get enough of Dark Queen Galadriel AUs where she takes the Ring, and Galadriel in Dark Queen Luthien AUs.
General:I play a female cyborg Sith Inquisitor named Nevrasa in SWTOR. You can read more about her here if you want to write about her specifically, or you can use a generic inquisitor/your own/etc, I'm not picky and love meeting other peoples' PCs (and Nevrasa suffers a bit from 'first OC in this fandom' syndrome and isn't that fleshed out of a character). Zash in Khem Val's body doesn't violate my character death DNW.
Female Sith Inquisitor/Darth Zash: I picked this class because of the Force magic and ended up buried under a pile of women-and-embodiment feelings. As I do. Everything from how Zash had to sacrifice her life essence to the Force in order to maintain her life for an eternity, to what it meant for a (cyborg) inquisitor to hear people talking about how and why she has to kill the (cyborg) Skotia. Add in the expectations of the master/apprentice dynamic and I am on the floor with feelings. I'm good with this being set at any time period, with feelings being requited or unrequited. I'm also super intrigued by the AU where Zash ends up sharing the inquisitor's body, instead of Khem Val's. Basically, tell me about loyalty, and age, and magic, Sith betrayals and Sith passions. Do they eventually find a new body for Zash? Does she become a Force ghost/learn how to do some sort of Force-projection from inside Khem Val's body? Or maybe the two of them just have a quiet moment (or a not so quiet mission) together before everything goes to shit.
General: Oh hey this weird book about fucked-up missionary siblings in Fairyland snuck into my life and ruined me for two weeks and I would love to be further ruined by any fic you write! I really, really loved the Changeling!Cathy faux-reveal and was a bit put out by its last-chapter reversal, so any Changeling!Cathy fic - or fic where she's human but grappling with the fact that she enjoyed elements of the time when she thought she was a soulless creature - is always adored. Canon-compliant deathfic for Ariel is fine - especially if it leads to Mab further manipulating/fucking with Cathy, and Cathy continuing to spiral about her identity, but I am also thrilled by any AU you come up with where she survives. I didn't nom/request the Ariel/Cathy/Mab OT3 because I didn't have specific prompts for it, but if you want to write it as a V or a triad or just a Ariel/Mab + Cathy/Mab thing, go for it!
Ariel Davenport/The Pale Queen: Changeling stories are my favourite in all universes, and I love Ariel madly. She clearly has some history with the Pale Queen, with her lies and her masques, and I'd love any glimpse of it. How was Ariel summoned back from the mundane world? How did Mab 'lay claim' to her changeling - did she get any pushback form other Faerie lords? Did Ariel ever think about defecting to another court, or is that not allowed by Faerie laws? (AU where she did defect to another court, and how that influenced her relationships with both Mab and Catherine? Is necromancy possible in Arcadia? Came back wrong fic would be delightful.
Catherine Helstone/The Pale Queen: Changeling Cathy! Either one where Mab made her before sending her off into the mortal world, or one where Mab decides to turn her into one at some point during/after the events of the book (look ... we don't know how Changelings are made, it's totally possible). I wasn't entirely sold on the 'Arcadia = literally Hell' conceit of the ending, so maybe something where that was Mab's real lie? But, look, Cathy killed someone she liked to spite Mab, I am gonna be super into whatever you write for them!
I've by and large chosen canons I love for their worldbuilding and mytharcs as well as their 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.
If you are writing shipfic, 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. Please no unrequested ships unless specifically allowed for, but 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, body horror (especially flowers growing out of people's bodies); 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; desire, women who aren’t afraid of desire, women who lean too far into desire, women who desire to kill and eat their gods; 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, blindfolds, D/s dynamics (though not 24/7 bdsm lifestyle setups); jewellery and clothes kink; consent play, somnophilia; 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), mutual masturbation, 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); 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, feeding/stuffing kink; 'only one destined true love' aus like soulmates or hanahaki disease; 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.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
General: I am here for the vampires and the witches and the weird fey horror stuff, mostly! Drusilla was an early formative favourite of mine and I am here for anything where she gets to have a good time. Darkfic - including Wishverse - encouraged. Drusilla/Spike can be included as an also-extant ship alongside the requested Dru ships, but I'd rather he not play a huge role in those relationships. Character-turned-into-a-vampire fic does not fall under my character death DNW. Angel: the Series-era fics welcome. I have no idea what's going on in the comics.
Fandom-specific DNW: Xander, Giles/Jenny
Drusilla/Jenny: Let the witch and the vampire fuck! I want to read about the world where Drusilla turned Jenny and we had vampire girlfriends instead of, yknow, any of the other choices the show made about Jenny, or the world where Drusilla offered Janna an even better revenge against Angelus than her tribe could, or the world where Jenny comes back from the death wrong in ... well, really any intriguing way, and goes to Drusilla looking for advice.
Drusilla/Willow: I love these wild crazybrains girls so. Darkfic is good, vampire!Willow is good, wishverse fic is good, fic delving into Drusilla’s worldview (her dolls! her Need to nurture-kill others!) is good, dubcon because of Dru's hypnotic charm (or maybe Willow turns the tables on her with her own magic) is good, smutfic is good. Really just ... anything.
Drusilla/Faith: Gods they would be so perfectly terrible for each other - they're so deeply each other's type, and so bad for the entire world around them, and it's perfect and I love it. Anything and everything where Faith ends up with Dru - whether that's a Dru instead of the Mayor situation, or Dru goes hunting and finds a pet, or Faith tries to kill her but can't (bonus for this being a like 5+1 thing - five times Faith didn't kill Dru and one time Dru killed and turned her?)
Drusilla/Buffy: So I especially love this in s6+ when Buffy's trying to deal with being brought back from the dead - seeking Dru out for all kinds of bad-idea sex, begging to be turned because it's the closest thing she has to dying again, and Dru is more than happy to give her newest doll anything she wants. That being said, if you have a great idea for earlier seasons fic, go for it!
Critical Role
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.
Fandom-specific DNW: Scanlan, Percy, Percy/Vex even as a mention/background, ace!Keyleth (nb I fucked up my copy-paste and these somehow didn't make it into my AO3 signup - I'm sorry, and I know they're not enforceable like this)
Keyleth/Raishan: I'm obsessed with these vicious near-immortal sorceresses. There's the potential for anything, from hatesex to philosophical arguments, to the reluctant '.....shit we grew old together and you’re the only one left who knows everything about me' realisation. Polymorph/shapeshifting/wildshape sex is good. I like Keyleth domming Raishan if you're playing with D/s elements. There's so much to play with here with obsession and similarity and mirroring (either Keyleth or Raishan turning into each other during sex is um. The Best.) and honestly, feel free to go anywhere with this. I like Keyleth's anger and the amount of pleasure Raishan takes in winding her up. Raishan redemption arcs are fun. Neutral evil ancient dragon luring young true neutral durid into her lair are fun, roleswap AUs (neutral evil ancient druid Keyleth happening upon youngish true neutral dragon Raishan). I love alternate meeting AUs, or AUs where Raishan chose to infiltrate the Air Ashari in addition to/instead of the Fire Ashari. Raishan-survives AUs are also excellent, whether she survives as herself or as a dracolich/demigod/etc. Raishan using murder to flirt with Keyleth. Raishan coming back from the dead cured of her disease but Wrong(tm) in some other way. Keyleth and Raishan take a trip to the Feywild for Reasons. Anything about their mutually complicated relationships with Melora. Loyalty kink stemming from obsession - once every couple decades they try, genuinely, to kill each other, but somehow never quite manage to do it (because they have Feelings) (it takes them like 300 years to figure it out) (they're so uniquely dumb about Feelings as opposed to literally any other aspect of their life I adore them).
Keyleth/Raishan/Allura Vysoren: Raishan was obsessed with Keyleth and Allura during the fight in Opash's lair - Allura was unconscious twice and a lot of Allura's support was directly to Keyleth - and I would die for the AU where she succeeds in capturing them and having them to help her with whatever ritual she was planning, especially if it involves Keyleth and Allura comfort!sex with voyeur!Raishan. 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. Apotheosis, accidental or not. 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.
Delilah Briarwood/Cassandra de Rolo: 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. Feel free to OT3 them with Vex, Raishan, or Ripley if that's where your muse goes.
Delilah Briarwood/Vex'ahlia: Who's still in denial about Delilah's final death, it's me! I really want there to be another clone hidden somewhere, and Vex finds her and punishes her. Or Delilah gets in over her head with something and somehow convinces 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. I know I mentioned Archspell!Delilah up above, but especially for this ship - she used Finger of Death so specifically and so consistently on Vex and I have all sorts of feelings about how death loves Vex and Delilah is just its instrument. Anything inspired by Cellar Darling's 'The Spell' [youtube link, lyrics in description].
Cassandra de Rolo/Vex'ahlia: I would love Vampire!Cass/Fey!Vex AUs of any sort, especially if it's the case that Vex accepts Saundor's deal in the Feywild and only then truly understands what Cassandra is. Vex training Cassandra (archery lessons turning sexy?), stories of alternate Grey Hunts (I was a little bit underwhelmed by what the hunt actually turned out to be), fey fairy tale elements (the princess and her knight, Whitestone’s fey queen and her captured ranger ... for this pairing I would actually be interested in just a straight-up fairytale!au), Vex distracting Cass from paperwork, Whitestone history and what it means for Vex to build a home there, something about the horror of Fenthras turning corpses into trees, fey woodland creature Vex happens upon Cassandra sometime during the Whitestone occupation and they plan to overthrow the Briarwoods together.
Overwatch
General: I did it, friends, I fell facefirst into the PLOT of my bonkers beloved shooty MMO after a year of only paying very close attention to one or two character stories so: go wild with your worldbuilding! I prefer things set post-fall and love things set post-recall, and adore missionfic and introspective and smutty pieces all equally. Inappropriate uses of their powers/weapons/tech are all wonderful, especially fun somnophilia play with Ana's sleep darts (I see it more consensual with Mercy and D.Va and more dubconny with Amélie, but am definitely willing to reach whichever take you like!). For Amélie ships, I have no preference if fic is set when she's Amélie or Widowmaker or both. I like dark!Mercy fics (super not a requirement, just felt worth noting since it seems fandom-divisive). Any AU based off any skins for the requested characters (e.g. witch!Mercy, pirate!Ana, comtesse!Amélie) is welcome even if I haven't specified the general version of that AU in my likes. Leaning into the body horror aspects around Ana's missing eye encouraged (I have a special love for flowers growing in the empty eye socket, because, well, I'm me) but not required. If you want to address the age gaps here, I really love how comfortable Ana is in her own skin, with her own age (even/especially her missing eye), so anything that highlights that would be lovely.
Ana/Mercy: So, Ana has a complicated relationship to death and Mercy has rez so I am highkey thinking death kink, ngl. Painplay, edgeplay specifically to the edge of death, all of Mercy's weird messy feelings about being devoted to Ana but also having the power to kill and bring her back. But I also love softer h/c fics, and the just sort of - weary bonding that comes from having seen So Much Shit on the frontlines. AU of the Bastet story where Ana and Jack do go see Mercy, or angsty we're-both-pretending-it's-anonymous sex while they're both in Egypt (sex where Ana keeps her Shrike or Bastet masks on >:)).
Ana/D.Va: So: COMPETENCY KINK. (And mentorship, and loyalty, and all the excellent love-in-wartime tropes.) I love the idea of the veteran soldier and the young one just coming to terms with what the fight means, they way they can bond over what's happened to their respective homelands. D.Va replies to Ana's 'youth is wasted on the young' line with 'aw, c'mon Ana, I bet you got up to all sorts of crazy things when you were my age', so maybe some reminiscing leading to present-day shenanigans? All of the excellent h/c tropes.
Ana/Amélie: Not quite colleague-friend-lovers who can't quite kill each other, the best of the best who keep chasing after each other because there shouldn't be two of them but there are and an undeniable part of them loves it. Women who draw lines between killing and leaving to die but can't quite examine the difference because that comes to close to their feelings. The problem of 'I should kill you but I can't hurt you because you have already hurt too much because of me'. I have a slight preference for post-Fall fics - the angst, the guilt, the Shrike, the chase, the meeting across new post-Recall battlefields - but I will love anything you write for them!
The Silmarillion & Other Histories of Middle-Earth
General: I love the lush expansiveness of Tolkien's work, the history and the care and the sheer amount of space characters are allowed to take up and that we are able to fill in. My favourite bits are the horror and the weird fey things, but moments of levity and happy couples dealing with supernatural things (happy couples murdering other things :D) are also excellent! I'm entirely happy to just have the canon husbands not mentioned, but I have no infidelity-related squicks, dislike Eol, and do like Celebron, Earendil, and Gorlim, if that becomes relevant to your writing.
Aredhel/Thuringwethil: I amn't sure it's possible for me to be disappointed with anything for them, tbh. Eldritch marrieds running a crossroads inn and eating patrons who stay too long? Thuringwethil finding out the hard way that she's not the most dangerous thing in the woods? Aredhel barters with Thuringwethil for safe passage for her or her people and gets in over her head. Aredhel is tired of her life with Eol and asks to be turned into a vampire (the two of them working together to kill him in turn optional).
Eilinel/Thuringwethil: Vampire Eilinel! Wraith Eilinel! Eilinel and Thuringwethil team up to make mischief against Sauron! Eilinel gets lonely while her husband is off and wanders too far into the woods! I have. Nothing more specific than 'eldritch girlfriends' to offer you as prompts, sorry.
Elwing/Thuringwethil: I did not know I needed this until I saw it in the tag set, and like with Eilinel/Thuringwethil I still don't know precisely what I want out of this beyond 'eldritch girlfriends' but gosh yes let Elwing's story be vast and WEIRD and glorious!
Varda/Galadriel: I mean, I'm a simple gremlin with a simple taste for honour bondage and inappropriate uses of Galadriel's mirror and the possible complications of loving a goddess who might be a literal star, but again, I'm super hard to disappoint here! I especially like their mentorship dynamic and would love pre-Exile fic, or perhaps mutual pining during Galadriel's exile. Setting-wise, I can never get enough of Dark Queen Galadriel AUs where she takes the Ring, and Galadriel in Dark Queen Luthien AUs.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
General:I play a female cyborg Sith Inquisitor named Nevrasa in SWTOR. You can read more about her here if you want to write about her specifically, or you can use a generic inquisitor/your own/etc, I'm not picky and love meeting other peoples' PCs (and Nevrasa suffers a bit from 'first OC in this fandom' syndrome and isn't that fleshed out of a character). Zash in Khem Val's body doesn't violate my character death DNW.
Female Sith Inquisitor/Darth Zash: I picked this class because of the Force magic and ended up buried under a pile of women-and-embodiment feelings. As I do. Everything from how Zash had to sacrifice her life essence to the Force in order to maintain her life for an eternity, to what it meant for a (cyborg) inquisitor to hear people talking about how and why she has to kill the (cyborg) Skotia. Add in the expectations of the master/apprentice dynamic and I am on the floor with feelings. I'm good with this being set at any time period, with feelings being requited or unrequited. I'm also super intrigued by the AU where Zash ends up sharing the inquisitor's body, instead of Khem Val's. Basically, tell me about loyalty, and age, and magic, Sith betrayals and Sith passions. Do they eventually find a new body for Zash? Does she become a Force ghost/learn how to do some sort of Force-projection from inside Khem Val's body? Or maybe the two of them just have a quiet moment (or a not so quiet mission) together before everything goes to shit.
Under the Pendulum Sun
General: Oh hey this weird book about fucked-up missionary siblings in Fairyland snuck into my life and ruined me for two weeks and I would love to be further ruined by any fic you write! I really, really loved the Changeling!Cathy faux-reveal and was a bit put out by its last-chapter reversal, so any Changeling!Cathy fic - or fic where she's human but grappling with the fact that she enjoyed elements of the time when she thought she was a soulless creature - is always adored. Canon-compliant deathfic for Ariel is fine - especially if it leads to Mab further manipulating/fucking with Cathy, and Cathy continuing to spiral about her identity, but I am also thrilled by any AU you come up with where she survives. I didn't nom/request the Ariel/Cathy/Mab OT3 because I didn't have specific prompts for it, but if you want to write it as a V or a triad or just a Ariel/Mab + Cathy/Mab thing, go for it!
Ariel Davenport/The Pale Queen: Changeling stories are my favourite in all universes, and I love Ariel madly. She clearly has some history with the Pale Queen, with her lies and her masques, and I'd love any glimpse of it. How was Ariel summoned back from the mundane world? How did Mab 'lay claim' to her changeling - did she get any pushback form other Faerie lords? Did Ariel ever think about defecting to another court, or is that not allowed by Faerie laws? (AU where she did defect to another court, and how that influenced her relationships with both Mab and Catherine? Is necromancy possible in Arcadia? Came back wrong fic would be delightful.
Catherine Helstone/The Pale Queen: Changeling Cathy! Either one where Mab made her before sending her off into the mortal world, or one where Mab decides to turn her into one at some point during/after the events of the book (look ... we don't know how Changelings are made, it's totally possible). I wasn't entirely sold on the 'Arcadia = literally Hell' conceit of the ending, so maybe something where that was Mab's real lie? But, look, Cathy killed someone she liked to spite Mab, I am gonna be super into whatever you write for them!