critmas 2019

[fiachairecht]

ETA: Deleted signup for Reasons(tm), keeping this here just for recordkeeping.

Hello friend, it is time for Critical Role fic and I am so excited to see what you will write for me! If you want inspiration beyond this letter I am also 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 love both campaigns for the 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. A lot of my prompts are very horror-slanted, I suppose because it's nearly Samhain and I'm in the mood already, but if your muse is inclined to things less murderous, feel free! That being said, I'm extremely not into plotless/conflictless fluff or 'soft' takes on these characters/this canon, and would prefer you avoid them.

I love everything from short introspection bits to 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 || Smut Likes || DNWs || General Critrole Notes

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), architectural horror


• Vampires, magic, witchcraft, rituals, eldritch things, fey things, eerie things, cosmic 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, unreliable narrators


• Politics, worldbuilding


• Flirting, domesticity, sensuality, friends-and-lovers


• 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, 'I am the only one allowed to hurt you' hero/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


• 'You don't get to save me but you will kill me' types of relationships, especially when the killing doesn't actually happen and they both have to live with that


• 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.

Dark Likes;

• Accidental apotheosis, non-consensual apotheosis


• Blood magic, blood kink, blood rituals, blood as art medium


• Body horror


• Conflicted loyalties, abuse of loyalties, loyalty leading people into really bad decisionmaking


• Died and came back wrong, died multiple times and comes back wronger each time


• Doomed ships, ghost ships, ships that should be abandoned but aren't, cursed ships (spaceships/airships/sailing ships all good!)


• Eerily pristine abandoned places, ruined castles/fortresses/villages, other eldritch places


• Folk horror


• Ghosts


• Human sacrifice, ritual scarification, what happens when sacrifices to higher powers aren't accepted


• Identity Issues, especially those stemming from close bonds with another person


• In-universe regional horror, myths, (urban) legends, and folklore


• Killing and eating your gods as a form of worship


• Memory loss


• Nature that wants to crawl inside you and never come out, nature that wants to eat you, sentient malevolent nature


• Necromancy, the unpleasant aftereffects/costs of necromancy


• Oneiromancy, dreamsharing, dreams that bleed into reality, cursed dreams, prophetic dreams


• One character dressing another up to die


• Repeatedly killed and resurrected


• Ritual gone wrong


• There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls trope


• Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms


• Unintended consequences of having your future told

Smut Likes;

• Hair braiding, hair pulling


• Bathing, washing, bath/shower sex


• Painplay, bloodplay, knifeplay, wax play, edgeplay, edgeplay to the edge of death


• Mirror sex, identity porn


• Bondage, shibari/kinbaku, suspension, honour bondage, blindfolds, gags, 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


• Overstimulation


• Biting, marking


• First time with each other


• Sex for manipulation/political gain/conversion to the other political-military side (success optional)


• Inappropriate use of 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/noncon (dubcon is fine)


• Permanent death of female characters (ghosts count as dead).


• Kidfic, breeding, pregnancy including unconventional forms like fpreg/oviposition, age-regression and time-travel to see kid versions of characters


• Scat, watersports, emetophilia, enemas


• A/B/O


• Food in/on genitalia or used as sex toys, weight gain/stuffing kink (fantasy body horror and metaphors are fine)


• 'Only one destined true love' AUs like soulmates or hanahaki disease


• Detailed descriptions of injuries to feet, amputated feet (minor/referenced injuries are fine)


• Zombie apocalypse fic, day-to-day survival in the postapocalyptic wasteland fic (fic dealing with the aftermath of the Conclave's arrival, or general Vecna-won AUs would probably not hit this, but feel free to ask via mods if you're unsure)


• Issuefic, fic focussing on characters' romantic/sexual/gender identities, characters describing themselves with


• '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.


• Mentions of Brexit in contemporary canons

General Notes on the Canon;

• Campaign 1 DNW: Percy, Scanlan, Percy/Vex as even a background/mention/former thing (AUs where they never got together only, please), asexual!Keyleth, Vax's campaign 1 end being treated as a permanent death.


• Campaign 2 DNW: Nott, Mollymauk, Avantika's E43 ending being treated as a permanent death.


• M/M and M/F ships I am happy to see as secondary pairings: Vax/Gilmore, Vax/Allura, Vax/Kash, Keyleth/Kash, Keyleth/Kash/Vax, Keyleth/Vax/Allura, Keyleth/Vax/The Raven Queen, Keyleth/Vax/Vex.


• 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 interpreted Vax's ending in Campaign 1 as 'became a weird eldritch immortal' rather than 'dead' and prefer that interpretation in fics.


• 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'm familiar with pretty much all D&D lore/sourcebooks/mechanics from 3.5e onwards, including 5e's unearthed arcana, if you want inspiration for additional worldbuilding/plotting. That being said I know and love 4E the best, and love fic that merges Matt's Exandria with 4E's Shadowfell/Feywild/Astral Sea/etc.


• Speaking of, 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!


• I have loads of darkfic prompts and a slightly smaller number of marriage prompts for some of these ships in previous requests.

Character/ship prompts soon