letter: fffx exchange 2022

Dear Creator,

Thank you for creating something for me, I'm gonna list my likes and optional prompts, but if nothing catches your fancy, or you have a fic idea of your heart, write whatever you want if it doesn't go against my DNW, I'm pretty easy to please!

General Trope Likes: casefic ● slow burn ● hurt/comfort ● angst ● hanahaki disease ● wound cleaning/treating ● food as a metaphor for love● injury recovery ● whump ● psychological torture ● mental breakdown ●horror stories - even non-horror fandoms written as horror ● body horror ● broken bones ● eye trauma ● feelings realization ● getting together/first kiss ● mind control ● epistolary fic ● nightmares ● truth spell/serum ● fairy tale retellings, fairy tale motifs ● mind games ● identity porn ● trapped together ● handcuffed/bound together ● chosen/found family ● deal with the devil ● mistaken for couple ● undercover as a couple ● forced bed-sharing ● falling asleep against someone’s shoulder ● huddling for warmth ● mutual pining● love spells, curses ● Groundhog day AU/time loop
 

 

General Notes

● I'm more into get-together/feelings realization fics for my non-canon ships, for the canon ships (Garrus/Shepard, Thane/Shepard) you can go with established relationship.

● Darker fics: if you've ever wanted to write a deconstruction or a darker and edgier version of canon, or exploring the darker implications of some world-building, or go deeper into a character's past trauma that canon glosses over, here is your chance! I like to see my canons's darker side! Anything dealing with gray morality is also great.

● Lighter fics: I like mutual pining, slow burn, bickering & bantering, trope-y ship fic, something on the lighter side of hurt/comfort, with lots of comfort is also great.

● Hurt/comfort and whump: I'm okay with any kind of injury: stab wounds, gunshot wounds, burns, broken bones, eye trauma, any permanent damage (including loss of limbs and vision), for sickfic I'm okay with vomiting. I love to see my faves being hurt, beaten and bloody! Be it the most bloody torture or just a little cold, if A is hurt and in the meanwhile has to deal with their feelings for B, while being taken care of by them, I'm so there! I'm also into emotional h/c, so if you wanna go with that, I'm happy with just about anything, for example dealing with trauma (I'm pretty sure every character I requested has some), grief.

● Hanahaki: I enjoy hanahaki body horror (so you can go wild and explicit with blood and gore on this one), I like it as fatal and chronic too, so you can go either way. I'm fine with major character death, though I'd rather it happen at the end of the fic and not at the beginning, where character A just mourns character B. (For art, of course, a character death-focused work is okay.) I'm also okay here with unrequited love, if you wanna chose that way, though I really like the idea of A hiding their illness from B, while they both pine for each other, and the progress of hanahaki forces them to reveal their feelings.

● I'm okay with any POV: outsider POV about the characters, 1st person, 2nd person, anything experimental! I love non-linear story telling too!

● I like epistolary fic, interactive fiction, choose your own adventure
● For comic: I really don't have any specific art DNWs, I'm not choosy about style, color, anything. For anything visual if you go with my setting AU likes, I love the redesigns of my favs looks/costumes to fit into my requested AUs, for soulmate AUs, I like the soul mark designs (whatever you come up with) and red string of fate. I'm also really into horror, body horror, blood and gore, so you don't need to hold back. :) For random cute ship idea: I really like to see my favs wearing each other's clothes.
 

 

AU Likes: soulmate AU ● apocalypse/dystopia AU ● Mass Effect fusion ● role reversal AU
 

 

For Soulmate AUs: I’m more into the canon setting (and canon first meeting/character backstories) here with the added world-building of soulmates. I like the sappy, fluffy soulmates with misunderstanding and pining, but I equally enjoy if my ships are not soulmates but make it work. Or in the case of poly ships, there are multiple soulmates. I enjoy seeing how people relate to the idea of soulmates – do they hate it? Secretly crave it? I don’t necessarily need soulmates to be happy.

I like any kind of soulmate marks (name/first-last spoken words written on skin, some kind of tattoo, seeing colors the first time when you meet your soulmate) but I also like soulbounds: soulmates sharing injuries, feeling each other's pain or pleasure, or some kind of emotional, telepathic bond.

 

For Mass Effect AUs: Here I love the world-building, the different planets, the colonies, and the tension between species. I’m interested in what you think about who would be which species in a Mass Effect setting.
 

For Apocalypse AUs: I generally like when an apocalypse happens with in-canon stuff (for the Marvel's Spider-Man the Devil's Breath gets out of hand or Phin's bomb has an even more dire consequence, for Marvel's GotG what would a world look like where the villain wins?), but go with your favorite tropes! I equally enjoy pandemic plots (it can be COVID-like, I don't mind it), zombies, aliens invading, anything. If it helps, some of my favorite apocalypse canons are: Revolution (tv series), Pure Trilogy by Julianna Baggott, The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker, and The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. I love to see how society and the characters deal with the imminent threat of the world ending, how they restructure society, build up myths and urban legends about the old world, and I like morally gray decisions and fighting for survival.

 

Smut: explicit sexual content is not expected, I'm okay with fade to black, but if you wanna include some spicy scenes, here are some of my favorite tropes:

blood play ● knife play ● clothed sex ● wall sex ● shared dream sex ● public sex/voyeurism ● xeno stuff ● tentacles ● phone sex ● oral sex ● vaginal fingering ● bondage ● sex pollen ● quiet sex

 

 

I'm okay with/Opt-Ins:

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 darkfic - any mental illness, any trauma, any dark topic you can think of is fine by me. :) Off the top of my head: suicide, necrophilia, depression, war, war crimes, dehumanization, torture

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 major character death - yes, you can kill one (or both) half of my ship but I'd like to have some emotional resolution or feelings realization before the death scene, so the whole fic is not just character A mourning character B

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 rape/dub-con - even between my requested ship, if it's a wholesome ship then sex pollen or villain makes them do it is also okay

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graphic violence and gore - anything goes, really! permanent mutilation, dismemberment, decapitation, flaying, vivisection, eye trauma, cannibalism, characters forced into cannibalism, super-powers/healing powers prolonging torture

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 bittersweet/unhappy endings - I'm fine with my ship not getting together, or the story ending on a downer note but I'd rather have the romantic feelings reciprocated and confessed (exception here is hanahaki, see the notes on hanahaki).
 

 

DNW:

❌ infidelity between the requested ship or as a way of my ship getting together. I'd prefer the canon ships broken up, hand waved away or an AU where the canon ship just never got together

❌ pregnancy and miscarriage in the background or mentioning in passing is okay but not as the main focus of the fic (for example, my ship can talk about having a kid in the future, but I wouldn't like a fic where someone gets pregnant and it's the main focus of the whole fic. Miscarriage is fine to reference, for example, if a background OC for a case fic had had a miscarriage, but I'd rather not see any in depth description of it, or it happening on screen.)

❌ all human/mundane/no power AUs (high school, coffee shop, etc.), omegaverse

 

 

Optional Prompts/Fandom-Specific DNWs:

Miles/Peter - Marvel's Spider-Man:

● Mentoring but with mutual pining and sexual tension

● An AU where Miles discovers Peter is Spider-Man way later, hence some identity porn ensues. Maybe Miles doesn't get his spider-power so early? Or there is some other reason he doesn't show his powers to Pete. I'm a sucker for the two-person love triangle, so with four identities, there are so many ways they can interact. ;_;

● going undercover as a couple so many times, they catch feelings
 

DNW:
❌ if anything sexual happens, Miles being under 18.

 

Micheal/Eleanor - The Good Place:

I think this is my only ship that can work as a dark, forked up ship and a healthy, fluffy one. I'm happy with both versions, whatever floats your boat!
● if you wanna go with a darker, manipulative version, I'm interested in seeing a reboot where Michael plays Eleanor's soulmate. Or anything with the reboots, really. (Bonus if soulmates turns out to be real, see my soulmate AU likes.)
● I take anything from the start of season 3 where Eleanor is human again, and Michael is trying to help her. Maybe accidentally or manipulatively gets in a relationship with her?
● for anything fluffier and healthier, I'd like to see them in season 4 with the new experiment, being co-architects.
 

Fem!Shep/Jack, Fem!Shep/Garrus, Fem!Shep/Thane, Fem!Shep/Garrus/Thane, EDI/Fem!Shep, Fem!Shep/Mordin - Mass Effect:

I'm preferring paragon Shep, and the Control or maybe the Refusal ending if you wanna write something post-canon, but I'm okay with anything set during the canon timeline. For Thane and Mordin, I'd rather have them alive in a post-canon setting (somehow they survived!) but if you feel you'd rather follow the canonical storyline and build a relationship there, I'm also okay with that.

 

Optional Prompts:

● they retire after the ending and try to get back to a normal life, dealing with trauma. (Could be pure fluff or bittersweet, whichever you like most.)

● shenanigans on shore leave, like the Citadel DLC.
● if you go with the Control ending, I'm interested to see how AI Shepard behaves. I'm partial to the idea that she still retains a part of herself, even if her perspective changes. I'd be mostly interested to see her as someone akin to EDI. (With EDI/Fem!Shep I could see EDI helping her to get her bearings as an AI, as much as an AI needs that.)
● if you go with the Refusal ending, I'm interested to see the happier (they somehow still defeats the Reaper and they retire and they deal with PTSD and such) version or you can go full-on apocalyptic, but our heroes are still fighting.
 

Hypnos/Zagreus - Hades:

● what if always being resurrected is not without consequences? How does Zagreus deal with the trauma or maybe some lingering pain? Maybe Hypnos helps?

Aloy/Erend/Varl, Aloy/Alva, Aloy/Kotallo, Aloy/Avad, Aloy/Nil - Horizon: Zero Dawn:

● Aloy/Nil: an AU where Nil joins the team during Horizon: Forbidden West.

● obvioulsy not for a full fic, but for a few scenes, I'd really like to see: GAIA doesn't dissuade Erend, and they do manage to throw a surprise birthday party for Aloy.

● Your choice of the gang tries different courtship customs from the Old World to woo Aloy, bonus if they misinterpret them (like with the stuffed animals.)

 

(Note: I ship Aloy with literally everyone, so if you wanna go and make it a happy poly arrangement, I'm in.)

Cat & B-12 - Stray:

● B-12 getting a new body and helping our cat to get back to their family.

● B-12 adopting the herd of cats, exploring the world, finding other human ruins.

Alex/Ryan/Steph - Life is Strange: True Colors:

● Alex chooses both of them at the Spring Festival, then later on they have to deal with Jed's betrayal. Note: in my playthrough Ryan didn't side with Alex at the council meeting but later on Alex forgave him. I'd really like to see the tension and dealing with this (Ryan's guilt, Steph's indignation) later on.

● they play lovers or a full on poly love story in a LARP game over different sessions, maybe it starts out as a joke and turns into something more

Nikki/Peter, Nikki & Peter - Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy:

● The Peter/Nikki dynamic just hit my mentor/protege buttons (and I blame the actor being 21 years old that I started to ship them :D) - here I'd prefer something aged up for the romantic version (Nikki being at least 18 years old).