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kimaracretak ([personal profile] fiachairecht) wrote2019-05-26 12:04 pm

wedding march for a bullet [justmarried 2019]

[3/6/19 - now complete]

Hello friend, it is time for marriagefic 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] kimaracretak, where I have a small but reflective-of-things-I-like set of bookmarks, and kimaracretak on 8tracks if you want #aesthetic musical inspiration.

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 or numbers of freeforms per section, 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 love everything from long plotty missionfic to sex scenes as ways to explore character/setting/worldbuilding, and 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.

Likes || Smut Likes || DNWs || A Song of Ice and Fire || Chilling Adventures of Sabrina || Critical Role || Overwatch || Star Wars (OT/RO) || Star Wars: The Old Republic

Likes;

Mentorship and loyalty dynamics, including ladies' suicidal world-saving or world-breaking devotion to other ladies, #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; first- and second-person pov; politics; flirting, domesticity, sensuality; canon-divergent/what-if AUs, Aniara, 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, 'I am the only one allowed to hurt you' hero/villain relationships; getting back together after messy breakups; 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.

Smut Likes;

Hair braiding, hair pulling; bathing, washing, bath/shower sex; painplay, bloodplay, knifeplay, wax play, edgeplay; mirror sex, identity porn; bondage, shibari/kinbaku, suspension, honour bondage, blindfolds, gags, 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 magic and weapons, mutual masturbation, one person in a threesome directing the other two and getting off watching them.

Do Not Want;

Unrequested m/m or m/f ships; rape (dubcon is fine); permanent death of female characters; kidfic, breeding, pregnancy including unconventional forms like fpreg/oviposition, age-regression and time-travel to see kid versions of characters; scat, watersports, emetophilia, anal, enemas; 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; 'I am too old to be loved' angst in age-gap ships; bodyswap fic; crackfic; sex involving under-16s.

A Song of Ice and Fire

General: I stopped watching the show after season 3 when it was clear we wouldn't get Lady Stoneheart, and the only pieces of show!canon I'm really up for are Arya & Sansa's ages and Arya & Melisandre meeting early on - and those are absolutely optional pieces of show!canon. I'm fine with permadeath for Cersei if it's a murder-suicide dying-in-each-other's-arms deal with Jaime, I DNW valonqar!Tyrion or anyone else killing her.

Cersei/Jaime: Best obsessive gilded fucking fools who have not yet learned that when they do not fuck their twin people die: I love them. I love how absolutely obsessed with each other they are, I love that more myself than I am is true both ways even if Jaime is bad at realising it (see again: gilded fools, I think they're smart about a lot of things but also deeply stupid about each other, and it's such a beautiful conflict.) Queen Cersei with Jaime as her prince consort, expanded versions of Cersei's dream of being married to Jaime with Joffrey still alive that slowly become obviously magical/prophetic (re: the prophetic dreams/visions tag, please take 'soulmate' in the 'whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same' sense rather than the 'soulmate AU' one). Marrying to keep Cersei on the throne, while different factions order each of them to kill the other (which may or may not backfire on those giving the orders). Just - something that leans into their brilliant amoral sameness, whether they get a happy ending or not doesn't matter as long as they're together.

Freeforms: Always Married to Same Person When You Dream, Characters Consider Themselves Married Even if in the Eyes of the Law They're Not, dying in each other's arms on their wedding night, Marriage As Political Tool, Openly Incestuous Marriage, political marriage where both partners are under orders to kill their spouse, Prophetic Dreams or Visions of Marrying Their Soulmate, Someone's trying to kill me and I think it's my spouse, Wedding Altar Sex

Melisandre/Arya: I am HIGHKEY OBSESSED with Arya as sideways-fulfillment of all of Mel's dreams, and Melisandre's preternatural talent at seeing Arya under her many stolen faces. They're both temple children with weird magics and even weird approaches to murder/creation, and I just want something that binds them together and dwells in that dead-not-dead/real-not-real space.

Melisandre/Sansa: Queen in the North Sansa with her red priestess (and possibly also her undead mother) at her side, yes plssss. I don't ... really have anything specific for this one beyond the freeforms, but I promise I want it just as much as everything else!

Freeforms: Blood Ritual Accidentally Results in Marriage, Eldritch Marriage Ritual, Marriage As Political Tool, Marrying the dead as resurrection

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

General: Please refer to Lilith as Lilith (rather than Madam Satan) for fic from her POV/from the POV of people who know she's no longer Mary Wardwell. I like worldbuiling and pre-canon stories, especially stories about Lilith slowly siphoning witches away from Satan, stories where Sabrina (or Zelda, or the Weird Sisters) sign their name over to Lilith directly rather than into the Book of the Beast, and stories about centuries of history and the distinctly inhuman perceptions and desires of witches and demons. There's so many levels of glorious fucked-up obsessive mentorship here along with, you know, the gore and the deification-via-cannibalism and I love all of them. Murder + in-fic resurrection/came back wrong is fine for any of these prompts.

Lilith/Zelda: Oh man this ship is such a glorious mess of feelings about embodiment and apotheosis and pride and praise and I am dead, and cordially invite you to be dead with me! Zelda's whole … wanting to fuck not even necessarily her gods but like the entire concept of divinity is so MUCH, and Lilith is absolutely amused by it. I love fics that get into how wildly other Lilith is as a demon queen, how her perceptions of desire and bodies would differ. Praise kink, competency kink - Zelda has a hard time admitting even to herself how desperate she is to prove herself, and I totally see Lilith granting or witholding praise just to see what she can make Zelda do, what she can make Zelda admit she wants. I have some preference for fics set after Zelda knows Lilith's true identity, but I also love stories about the reveal (less into 'hm I want to fuck my niece's hot teacher for some reason' stories). Lilith marrying Zelda to get her away from Faustus, Zelda and Lilith marrying in order for Zelda's status as her prophet to be legitimised.

Lilith/Sabrina: I am 100% convinced that Sabrina's crush on the original Mary Wardwell was a factor in Lilith's choice of person to possess. She wants Sabrina, and she wants Sabrina to be her, and Sabrina is? Entirely okay with that? The implication of 'Lilith takes over the Dark Lord's place and Sabrina takes over Lilith's' is really obviously going to a consort-to-the-queen-of-hell!Sabrina place? Lilith stares at Sabrina like she's the most fascinating thing she's ever seen? Sabrina thinks Lilith is the only person in the world who understands her? Lilith red-string-of-fate kited Sabrina through mortal purgatory? The soundtrack underlines their scenes with phrases like If I had a heart I would love you? This picture exists? This ship is tailor-made for me IN CANON and I don't know what to do with myself about it! S1 was super heavy-handed with the 'turning sixteen is basically equivalent to marrying Satan' imagery, so basically - that, but with Lilith instead! Possession rituals, blood magic, the literal entire forest dressing Sabrina up to meet her queen-of-Hell bride.

Freeforms: Accidentally Married to Your God/Goddess, Blood Ritual Accidentally Results in Marriage, Blood sex required for marriage to be valid, Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress, Marriage as part of channeling a god, Marriage As Political Tool, Marriage Is Sealed with Blood Drinking, Marriage to a god leads to possession by said god, Pagan Wedding Traditions, Secret Wedding in the Forest, Wedding Location Chosen For Its Magical Properties

Edward/Zelda: Okay part of me just wants to link this cover of 'Cry, Little Sister' and be done with it but: you know how Zelda reacts to high priests? And how Edward knew he was called to be high priest from age six so there was - literally no time in Zelda's LIFE where she did not know her brother was destined to be high priest? YEAH. That whole - singular obsession, he-is-divine-therefore-I-must-be-too desperation thing, I love it so goddamn much. Apart from that, I would also love worldbuilding-through-marriage here - what do unholy marriages look like, did they keep it secret, did Lilith matchmake them, obviously or not (I would not say no to an OT3). As for the alternate universe prompt - look, they're magic, go as in-depth into how alt!Edward shows up as you like! I just want to see Zelda grappling with her voracious wanting now that he's back and they can try again to reshape the church.

Freeforms: Divine Decree That They Must Wed, Marrying alternate universe version of dead love, Openly Incestuous Marriage, Secret Wedding in the Forest, Wedding Location Chosen For Its Magical Properties, Worldbuilding through Marriage Ceremony

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

Cassandra/Vex: 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. Lady of Whitestone Cassandra and her loyal huntmistress Vex is a super great dynamic (praise kink + throne sex yes pls). Stories of alternate Grey Hunts - I thought it turned out to be rather dull in canon, and twists that make it as fey and WEIRD as Whitestone has the potential to be are super loved (special love for Cassandra being Vex's quarry, and the two of them marrying to avert/fulfill some kind of historic de Rolo curse). For the resurrection marriage ones, I have a mild preference for Vex being the dead one and Cassandra reviving her, but the other way is good too! Political marriages to seal some kind of Syngorn-Whitestone alliance would be great - I love seeing Vex-stayed-in-Syngorn AUs. Other miscellaneous things I love: 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, Cassandra joins Vox Machina instead of Percy AUs, Vex training Cassandra (archery lessons turning sexy?).

Vex/Keyleth: Necrotic damage loved Vex, and I would to see Keyleth, accidentally or not, marrying her to try to stop that and protect her. The sunken tomb seems a natural branch point for canon-divergent AUs, but if you want to spin off from some of her other deaths - I am especially fond of the fight against Thordak going worse, and Raishan being the one to tell Keyleth she can save Vex by marrying her. Or, yknow, it's Vex and Keyleth, they're absolutely the ones to try cool new nature magic and then have the 'oh ... shit we're married now, huh' realisation. Or, for dead!Keyleth variants: You know Keyleth's dream where she's semi-dead and also a tree? And how Fenthras makes trees grow out of corpses? Vex + Fenthras accidentally (or, in a dark!AU, on purpose) turning Keyleth into a semi-alive corpse tree? 100/10 excellent. In general, I love that they're sweet and messy and dark and complicated and that they challenge each other in very necessary ways. I would be happy with most things for them tbh, so here are some specifics: sex pollen (reactions can be established relationship 'this is hilarious' or mutual pining 'we wanted it but not like this' or anywhere in between), post-canon Vex settles in Zephra with Keyleth, flying lessons, Keyleth goes with Vex on the Grey Render hunt during the missing year.

Vax/Keyleth: Gods, I shipped them forever but didn't think I had marriage feelings about them until they were denied marriage in canon and: give them the eldritch mortality-weird marriage they deserve tbh! I don't read canon!Vax as dead-dead, so anything that explores the weird marriage-death connection/transgression they have is excellent.

Vesh/The Raven Queen: These two are my favourite of the divine/semi-divine that we meet in campaign 1, and I am absolutely in love with the idea of Vesh possibly playing a version of Nerull to this version of the Raven Queen. Which is to say: pre-Calamity worldbuilding! Did the Raven Queen marry and then displace Vesh? Were they mortal lovers/wives before the ascension to godhood forced them apart (was their marriage originally an attempt by one to save the other, with godhood as an unexpected side effect?) Vesh has a habit of marrying her chosen, and the Raven Queen was and is desperately lonely, I absolutely see her trying to take advantage of that loneliness. Any of these songs used as inspiration would be amazing.

Freeforms: Blood Ritual Accidentally Results in Marriage, Bringing someone back to life constitutes marriage, Eldritch Marriage Ritual, Having to remarry due to death and resurrection, Marriage As Political Tool, Marriage to Stop Eldritch Forces From Re-Entering The World, Marrying the dead as resurrection, Resurrection Ritual Requires Marriage

Overwatch

General: I like missionfic/casefic, especially for all the angst it gives post-Fall fic/preemptive angst it gives pre-Fall fics (I am entirely up to date on the canon), but they're not a requirement. For Amélie ships, I have no preference if fic is set when she's Amélie or Widowmaker or both, and I also don't have a preference for never-married-to-Gerard!AUs vs pining/infidelity/open marriage so - whatever works for your fic! If Mercy's relevant to your fic, I am happy to see dark!Mercy as well as Overwatch!Mercy. 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. 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. 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) and how that contrasts with her mixed feelings about what she's done, so anything that highlights that would be lovely.

Ana/Amelie: 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, aka the reason I fell into this game and this canon in the first place. I love the angst of their situationally-enforced separation and how they're 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' gives me life and I would love to see how marriage (or undercover as married) affects that. I love post-Fall fics - the angst, the guilt, the Shrike, the chase, the meeting across new post-Recall battlefields, marrying to keep each other close because Gerard's gone along with Ana's eye and Amélie's feelings - but lighter pre-Fall missionfic is also great!

Ana/Mercy: Rez is already lovingly bonkers video-game logic, so don't feel bound to come up with something super scientifically accurate about why resurrection requires marriage - I will love any level of worldbuilding. Ana has a complicated relationship with death and Mercy has weird messy feelings about being devoted to Ana but also having the power to kill and bring her back, so I am super into edgeplay-to-the-edge-of-death with them - maybe it goes too far and there's resurrection marriage and guilt marriage? Entirely magical witch!Mercy AUs are also great for the ritual tags (I lived in that skin before All-Stars this year don't @ me it's perfect). 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, realising the depth of their feelings during a mission and just being - hey, why don't we get married? Bastet AU where Ana and Jack do go see Mercy, or one where Ana and Mercy started a relationship while Ana was the Shrike (up to you whether Mercy knew Ana's identity, in that case!).

Freeforms: Bringing someone back to life constitutes marriage, Marrying because of guilt, Resurrection Ritual Requires Marriage, Undercover as Married, Undercover as Married Leads to Unexpected Feelings

Star Wars (Original Trilogy/Rogue One)

General: I am thoroughly indifferent to Han/Leia, so feel free to pretend they never happened/broke up ages ago/whatever. For Jyn ships set post-Rogue One, I have a mild preference for 'only Jyn and Cassian survived' AUs over 'everyone lives' ones, but I'm fine with those too. I love it when Leia grows up in Padmé lives AUs whether they're Rebellion founder!Padmé ones or Sith Lady Padmé ones. I'm super happy with any combination of Rebellion/Imperial/Sith/ambiguously unaligned Leia & Jyn here, and I've hopefully given enough freeforms to cover all eventualities!

Jyn/Leia: Rebellion babes! they have such different reasons for being there, which of course makes me want missionfic - how do they deal with each others' wildly different tactics in the field? Or good old-fashioned sparring-leads-to-sex character smut. Or maybe Jyn survives and is Leia's (secret?) ally in the New Republic government, or maybe Leia tries to recruit her for the Resistance. Jyn finds out that the truth about Leia's father is going to be leaked (either how it happened in Bloodline or in an entirely different way), and takes it on herself to prevent that (by offering to marry her, With Conditions). Anything with these two butting heads but ultimately being (reluctantly) caring/protective of each other will be loved, but also .... feel free to embrace the potential for angst and the viciousness. Leia has it out for Jyn because her father was responsible for Alderaan's destruction. Jyn flips it around after the Vader reveal and punishes her. Dealing with the trauma of being connected to such loss - there's something about wounds in the Force there that I'd love to see explored. Imperial!Jyn marries Leia to try to subdue Alderaan, and feelings happen (or don't). Sith!Leia captures Jyn and convinces her marriage is a better choice than death. Sith!Leia/Imperial!Jyn as dark queens of Alderaan.

Freeforms: Accepting Their Proposal to Spite Them, Accidental Marriage Causes Scandal, Arranged Marriage - Spouse as Hostage for their Family/People's Good Behavior, Blood sex required for marriage to be valid, Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress, political marriage in which they try to kill each other until they fall in love, political marriage where one partner is under orders to kill their spouse, Political marriage with both spouses trying to win the other to their side

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).

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 definitely see this as an accidental/political marriage, or one to keep an assumed/actual enemy close rather than a true love thing, but there's a very real-if-warped sort of affection there that I love to see explored. Basically, tell me about loyalty, and age, and magic, Sith betrayals and Sith passions and murder-as-love and all the altars they've had ritual sex on.

Freeforms: Blood Ritual Accidentally Results in Marriage, Blood sex required for marriage to be valid, Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress, Ghost spouse tries to murder living spouse because they're lonely, Marriage Is Sealed with Blood Drinking, political marriage where one partner plans to kill their spouse, Resurrection Ritual Requires Marriage

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