Hello, Chocolatier!

This is not my first rodeo, but it is my second, and one seems like an awful low number of rodeos to have it all figured out by the end of. Obviously I have a lot of ideas, but please feel free to use them as a guide and not a stricture! If an idea really grabs you but it's not discussed here, go with it! My only request is to please honor my DNWs; I'm sure I'll be delighted by whatever you offer. I am okay with art treats even for fandoms I didn't request art of!
Shall we begin?

DNW:
  • Generally speaking, M/M as a main focus (with obvious exceptions where I've requested an M/M pairing specifically)
  • Rape or dubcon (with one fandom as exception, noted under the Bluebeard's Bride subhead)
  • "Bad ends" (with exception for canonical death/catastrophe, and one fandom as exception, noted under the Bluebeard's Bride subhead, where in fact I do not want a happy ending)
  • Major character death (with exception for canonical death/catastrophe, and one fandom as exception, noted under the Bluebeard's Bride subhead)
  • Second-person POV
  • Sexuality/gender angst; homophobia; etc (characters should be at peace with their identities and any conflict or strife should not be on the basis of these things)
  • Jealousy or infidelity as a major part of the emotional landscape
  • Hatesex (with exceptions noted)
  • Incest
  • Underage NSFW
  • A/B/O dynamics
  • Most bodily fluids (no watersports/scat; menses; vomit; etc)
  • Lalafell WOLs (for FFXIV)
  • Male WOLs (for FFXIV)
  • Male Byleth (for FE:3H)
  • Male Valentine Games
Likes:
  • Canon-compliant fic and canon-divergent AUs
  • Interiority (lots of focus on a character's thoughts and emotional landscape)
  • Explorations of complicated relationships and the ways they can grow and change over time
  • Found and chosen family
  • Characters torn between love and duty
  • Characters with a strong sense of loyalty
  • Reincarnation romance
  • Established relationships (feel free to skip the meet-cute and show me how these couples work in their day-to-day; canon covers that in most of my requests anyway)
  • Finding comfort in adversity
  • Angst (but with hope)
  • Intertextuality (reference some poetry or classical work and i'm THERE, babey!)
  • Polyamory
     
Smut likes:
  • F/F
  • M/F
  • M/F/M
  • Vanilla sex (100% okay! please don't feel you absolutely have to cater to the kinks I list here!)
  • Femdom (with a few exceptions I'll discuss for the relevant pairings)
  • Dirty talk
  • Orgasm denial / edging / ruined orgasm
  • Rope bondage
  • Impact play (spanking, flogging, caning)
  • Blindfolds
  • Praise kink
  • Semi-public sex (the thrill of maybe getting caught is especially crucial)
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex
  • Guided masturbation
Art likes:
  • Whatever you've got to offer!
  • I am happy to receive art treats even for fandoms/prompts I did not request art of!

Original Work:

Some of these are my noms and some aren't; some were somebody else's noms last year but are mine this year. I think most of them are pretty self-explanatory. They tend toward fantasy settings, but that doesn't have to be a hard-and-fast rule! I love science fiction, and for some of them could easily see them in a modern/urban setting as well. It didn't make it into my requests this year, but I have also been a big Warhammer 40K fan, so science fiction that feels like medieval fantasy is also welcome here.
  • Enemy General/Princess of the Land they Conquer; Conqueror of a Kingdom/The Defeated Princess They Have to Marry
    • I would prefer a little tenderness here and the blossoming of genuine, if unlikely, feelings.
    • I'm also super into the idea of a very public consummation of that marriage.
  • Adventuring Spaceship Captain/Sentient Spaceship
    • Bioware were cowards and Ryder and SAM should have been able to embark on a romance. (Especially since Joker got to romance the Normandy! Come ON!)
    • I would love if they were connected by a neural net or something like that (or even a sort of psychic link, if that's more your speed). It lends itself to an unusual sort of intimacy.
    • Despite my chatter about Joker above, I would almost prefer if the ship didn't have a physical avatar.
  • Female Paladin/Incarnation of Her Goddess
    • I'm just saying, this seems ripe for some trans explorations and gender feelings.
  • Big City Woman/High School Sweetheart Who Got Bit By A Werewolf
    • I prefer that my werewolves have tails. That's my only big request here!

Final Fantasy XIV:

My WOL is a Seeker of the Sun Miqo'te named X'shasi. Her art reference is here. I've written any number of fics about her and her allies (including and especially Zenos), which can be found here.
For art I would obviously prefer if you would draw X'shasi, but for writing I am perfectly happy with a more generic WOL.
Just a couple of other notes:
  • Azem/Emet-Selch
    • If you'd like to know how I like my Azemet, my roleplay partner wrote this fic (~2k words) and basically defined how I like to ship them.
      • By the way, once you've read this ... do you ever think about how Hythlodaeus could absolutely have taken the seat of Emet-Selch, and Hades could have served as the Architect, and the sense of decorum that kept Hades from Azem wouldn't have been nearly as much of a factor?
    • Grapes Island is called "Cythera," in my headcanon, and also in that headcanon, Hades never went there until after Azem was gone. That seems incredibly sad to me. Azem doesn't have to be present in this fic for it to be about their relationship.
  • Azem/&Emet-Selch/&Hythlodaeus
    • See above--a lot of that headcanon is still good even for this trio/triad!
    • Hades refers to Azem and Hythlodaeus as "the grape-lover and their accomplice" in the French version of that Tales From ... story, and it just said so much to me about the begrudging affection he has for both of them.
    • There's a popular headcanon that the way Azem died was trying to save their friends during the Final Days (ultimately making them responsible for the creation of the Ascians). What if, tho.
  • Estinien/Gaius
    • This is honestly a PWP request.
    • I headcanon both of them as bi anyway (and kind of ship Gaius with Midas nan Garlond, up until Mid's death, as well as Esti with both Ysayle and Aymeric, so any of that stuff in the background is fine), but I don't think these two would get together under normal circumstances. Still, it's lonely out there hunting shadows, and men have needs that must be satisfied.
    • I have no particular preference on who does what to whom. They both just really need to come.
  • Haurchefant Greystone/Warrior of Light
    • I headcanon Haurchefant as a trans man, and would love to see him represented as such in your fic!
    • This really could range anywhere from fluffy to smutty to full-on-angsty, since canonical deaths are fine here.
      • Haurchefant's death and the memory of his loving presence is one of the things that really fuels my WOL's pursuit of the Dark Knight's path: "No matter how powerful you are, you cannot stop those you love from dying." Even if the WOL you write isn't a Dark Knight, what mark has that loss left on them?
      • What was it like for the WOL to show up unannounced at Camp Dragonhead, knowing they were wanted for regicide, and have a friend welcome them with open arms and a cup of cocoa?
      • Hey, remember that time Haurchefant canonically propositioned the WOL for pony play?
      • There's strong (pun intended) evidence in canon that he's super into muscle worship, too.
  • Regula van Hydrus & Warrior of Light
    • I headcanon Regula as blind in both mundane eyes, reliant on the spatial awareness of his third eye to navigate life and the battlefield (somewhat similar to Y'shtola's aethersight, I suppose). It's free real estate under that helm, but this is how I see him.
    • The fact that when the chips are down in the Warring Triad quests, Regula was willing to outstretch the hand of cooperation to the WOL has always felt very significant to me. So too the fact that he sacrificed himself for Unukulhai! I think that, were it not for the politics of the realm, the WOL and Regula could have been good friends, bonded by their sense of duty to the peoples who need them.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Hi, please write the FE3H fics I don't have time to. Hahaha.
  • F!Byleth/Jeritza
    • I just really love a big blonde man who gets horny about a swordfight. Zenos (see my FFXIV requests above) tickles the same spot in my brain. Jeritza is extremely, extremely, hornt for the idea that Byleth could kill him and is constantly asking her to fight. She bests him, and then conquers him. Femdom pretty much a must, bloodplay, knifeplay, etc, highly welcome. I have written one Bylitza fic (2.2k), and if you'd like to write the follow-up I teased, I would love you forever.
  • Edelgard/Hubert/Byleth
    • My preferred dynamic is that Edelgard tops both of them, Byleth switches, and Hubert is the devoted submissive to both of these incredible women.
    • I would love a scenario where Edelgard dictates to Byleth exactly how Hubert is to be fucked by her tonight, and Byleth gleefully carries out Edie's orders.
    • Outside the bedroom, I would just love to see these three navigating the world together, defeating Those Who Slither in the Dark, balancing duty with tender feelings best not shown before all and sundry.
  • Hubert & Mercie
    • This tumblr post.
    • That's it. They would be the most unlikely of best friends and I would eat it up. Jeritza/Emile can feature or not, as you choose.
  • Edelgard/Hubert
    • I would prefer them not to fuck on page, but rather something about, like, all the little ways that Hubert serves (and services) Edie in the day-to-day and just how fulfilling he finds that (sexually and otherwise). I have a particular love of things like hair washing--there's something very intimate about tending to another in the bath--so that could certainly feature.
Blaseball

We are all love Blaseball.
  • Mike Townsend/Tillman Henderson; Mike Townsend & Tillman Henderson
    • The buttmonkeys of their particular teams. I have this feeling like they would both struggle with impostor syndrome: do they really deserve to be where they are? Why keep playing the game when nobody wants them to, not even their teammates? I feel like they'd have a lot to commiserate about. And maybe smooch.
    • Tillman's absolutely That Guy but I feel like his That Guy-ness is covering for his insecurities, whereas Mike's preferred defense mechanism against insecurity is to make himself as unremarkable as possible and pretend that his isolation is a choice.
    • And then Mike is sent to the Shadows for Jaylen's sake! And then Tilly dies! And then Tilly's back? And Mike's back? And then the Crabs ascend without Tillman, almost as if it's deliberate! And then Mike! Is sent! To the Shadows! Again! Holy shit!
      • Yeah, so obviously my usual "no bad endings" DNW doesn't apply here.
    • Mike bakes and I think that's just so cute. Tilly's pregame ritual is "inventing secret handshakes" and I can picture him trying to rope Mike into this nonsense. There's also some shades of "intricate rituals" there, huh?
  • Oliver Notarobot & Pitching Machine
    • Are they robots? Are they people? Can they be both?
    • If the Pitching Machine counts as a person, are they a scab? (If the Pitching Machine is a person--ie, it's sentient--please don't use "it" pronouns; I would prefer "they.")
  • Valentine Games & Richardson Games
    • I headcanon the Games siblings as Puerto Rican, scouted to play Blaseball as their way off the island. They probably lived in NYC together (see also: Nuyorican). It's not that hard to go between Boston and New York after all. But Richardson's on the Shoe Thieves now, as is his husband Cornelius. And Val moves around a lot. A lot a lot. How do they keep in touch?
    • I'm really into the headcanon that Valentine is super into poetry.
    • Either or both of them may be trans (or not). I'd be happy with that, even if it's barely hinted at in passing.
Cordelia Movie Poster
  • Woman/Man
    • We all (read: Twitter) thought this was a period piece where the gentleman gets pegged because our eyes are broken and/or we had our horny goggles on. I would like them to remain firmly in place.
    • I don't particularly care if she's named Cordelia or not.
Bluebeard's Bride

I saw that one person actually offered this and I was so delighted! Was that you? I love you! Even if we didn't match, how cool!
I've never actually gotten to play Bluebeard's Bride, but I've long been interested by the interpretations of the Bluebeard tale. I really love the atmosphere of the sourcebook's writing, especially the Groundskeeper's section.
  • Artwise, I really do love the house style from the sourcebook. If you can pull off a look like old fairie tale illustrations or engravings, I really welcome you to try! If you can't, however, I would still absolutely love to see your interpretations.
  • Bluebeard/[any] Bride
    • I don't think you would offer this if you weren't comfortable with the darker aspects it obviously encompasses.
    • Bluebeard always wins, no matter what the outcome of the game is. Show me how.
  • Bluebeard/The Witch
    • Again, I expect this could be quite dark.
    • "Your sisters are not nearly as important as power." From that line, I always got the impression that it was the Witch who was most likely to stand up to Bluebeard in some way, to try to challenge his power with her own--or else to bolster her power by co-opting his.
    • If any aspect of the Bride could thrive in Bluebeard's castle, I suspect it's this one. What would that look like?
  • The Animus & The Fatale & The Mother & The Virgin & The Witch
    • "I contain multitudes," as Whitman said. When you're playing at the table, the players will negotiate, but what does that look like inside the Bride's head? What are they at odds over?
  • The Maiden & The Mother
    • These two seem to have a natural affinity, although that may not always mean a natural rapport. If we really do carry our parents inside of us, what effect does that have?
  • The Fatale/The Virgin
    • Bringing new meaning to "go fuck yourself," I guess. How does one seduce oneself? What is she trying to make her do? (Both shes, and both hers!) Can one use their own innocence to manipulate?
I'm sure I'll be delighted by whatever you create! Thank you for taking time out of this incredibly interesting year (as it has been so far) to make something for me.

Love,
starcunning
Dear Chocolatier,

Hi. This is my first year doing Chocolate Box! I hope I'm doing everything right. Please bear with me if I make some mistakes.

Obviously I have a lot of ideas, but please feel free to use them as a guide and not a stricture! If an idea really grabs you but it's not discussed here, go with it! My only request is to please honor my DNWs; I'm sure I'll be delighted by whatever you offer.

Likes:
  • Canon-compliant fic and canon-divergent AUs
  • Interiority (lots of focus on a character's thoughts and emotional landscape)
  • Explorations of complicated relationships and the ways they can grow and change over time
  • Found and chosen family
  • Characters torn between love and duty
  • Characters with a strong sense of loyalty
  • Reincarnation romance
  • Established relationships (feel free to skip the meet-cute and show me how these couples work in their day-to-day; canon covers that in most of my requests anyway)
  • Finding comfort in adversity
  • Angst (but with hope)
  • Intertextuality (reference some poetry or classical work and i'm THERE, babey!)
  • Polyamory
Smut likes:
  • F/F
  • M/F
  • Vanilla sex (100% okay! please don't feel you absolutely have to cater to the kinks I list here!)
  • Femdom (with a few exceptions I'll discuss for the relevant pairings)
  • Dirty talk
  • Orgasm denial / edging / ruined orgasm
  • Rope bondage
  • Impact play (spanking, flogging, caning)
  • Blindfolds
  • Praise kink
  • Semi-public sex (the thrill of maybe getting caught is especially crucial)
  • Clothed/semi-clothed sex
  • Guided masturbation
DNW:
  • Rape or dubcon
  • Incest
  • Underage (aged up is okay)
  • A/B/O dynamics
  • Second-person POV
  • Most bodily fluids (no watersports/scat; menses; vomit; etc)
  • Major character death
  • Sexuality/gender angst; homophobia; etc (characters should be at peace with their identities and any conflict or strife should not be on the basis of these things)

FFXIV:

Generally for FFXIV, I would love stories that are quiet moments during MSQ or where the storyline's events provide background for what's going on. There will be spoilers for all MSQ and some job quest content in these prompts.
  • Aymeric/WOL: I ship Aymeric with my Legacy WOL, Odette. For art, her master reference is here. She has an identical twin sister, Colette, who is an astrologian and adventurer. Odette and Aymeric have been friends since childhood. She was a few years older than him, and they joined the Temple Knights together. In their mid-late teens, they got together as a couple, but Odette wasn't very serious about their relationship (or any relationship). Shortly after he was appointed Lord Commander, Odette and Colette left Ishgard because they felt called to intervene in Eorzea and started having dreams about crystals and calamities. Both emerged as Warriors of Light, and were lost (thought forgotten) after Carteneau, only to eventually re-emerge into public consciousness five years later. Aymeric is now "older" than Odette thanks to the time she lost after the Calamity. They rekindled their physical relationship during Heavensward, but she wasn't ready to commit (and was kind of fooling around with Fray Myste, whom she had to fight in his trial by combat and ultimately spared). After the events of Stormblood, especially her duel with Elidibus at the Ghimlyt Dark, they have grown close again and are making plans for marriage. I don't imagine BDSM as part of their dynamic, though I think Aymeric takes the lead in the bedroom and is a very gentle, doting lover.
  • Zenos/WOL: I ship Zenos with my miqo'te WOL, X'shasi. For art, her master reference is here. I wrote a long-form (~50k words) fic about the two of them and how they came to be in a relationship called This Beast That Rends Me. A short summary of its contents is available in the authors' notes of this fic, which will also give you some insight into their sexual dynamic: Shasi is his Domina, a strict and challenging presence in his life. She is very strident about when he is allowed to touch her and when she praises him--which he tolerates because it makes the times she does indulge him all the more precious. Shasi can be fierce; impact play is a big part of their play, and both of them have a blood kink. She loves to bite him, sometimes hard enough to draw blood. Zenos has endured periods of forced chastity, and while not especially turned on by pegging itself adores the feeling he gets of her claiming him when she does it. He loves her--perhaps it would hew closer to the bone to say he worships her; in his esteem for her Shasi finds hope that Zenos can learn to value and protect other people as well. Shasi is in a polyamorous relationship with other partners, but Zenos only has eyes for Shasi. In 5.x, Shasi will be bringing him to the First to do the Eden storyline, so something about the two of them vs. Inundation Leviathan could be really fun. X'shasi's main Job is Dark Knight, and it informs a lot of her decisions.
  • Haurchefant/WOL: I also ship Haurchefant with my miqo'te WOL, X'shasi. For art, her master reference is here. X'shasi and Haurchefant, in canon, had some mutually-unrequited pining going on involving co-sleeping and a lot of really casual intimacy. If you want to stick to the canon timeline, something during her time at Camp Dragonhead or living at the Fortemps manse in Ishgard would be appropriate. If you want to write something set after his canonical death, she often stops by his memorial to apprise him on her adventures, and he was very commonly the subject of discussion between her and her Dark Knight mentor, Fray Myste. The Ishgardian Restoration project has him on her mind again, because her grief over his death makes it hard for her to remain in Ishgard overlong, and she now can't stand the thought of moving to the city that she once wanted to make her home. Or, if you want to play around with an AU where they got together ... do you remember in Heavensturn 2014 when he propositions you for some ponyplay? Haurchefant is approximately one of two people in the world I can imagine topping X'shasi, so a scene where he introduces her to ponyplay, tacks her up, and grooms/cares for her would be nice. I think Haurchefant is a gentle but firm Dom, quick to praise when she succeeds and to guide if she falls short of the mark. I also headcanon Haurchefant as transgender--top surgery scars may be apparent, but I have no firm headcanons or preference about what's in his boxers, so to speak.
  • Emet-Selch/WOL: I ship Hades with my Garlean Legacy WOL, Caelina. For art, her master reference is here. I am/was writing a canon-divergent Shadowbringers fic about the pair of them, but it's not posted anywhere publicly yet. Caelina is the reincarnation of the 14th member of the Convocation. Her true name was Pherepapha, but I don't have her Convocation title chosen. Pherepapha was a hobbyist tinker and concerned mostly with cause and effect; when her dear friend Metis chose to summon Hydaelyn, Pherepapha protected the ritualists. Most of her incarnations (of varying races and genders) have been similarly mechanically inclined. They have largely been the foe of Hades' current guise, and in the few instances where they found peace (both were supposed to be on Nyunkrepf's ark during the Sixth Calamity, and would have gone on together to found red magic or build Sharlayan), they were thwarted by other Ascians who feared that Hades would lose his drive. Caelina is the daughter of two engineers who were working on Project Meteor until their defection toward Bojza. She was particularly close with Minfilia, and is good friends with Nero tol Scaeva, who knows more about Garlean culture than she does thanks to her refugee upbringing requiring her to hide her cultural traditions. Hades is theatrical in his courtship--Caelina's immediately previous incarnation was as Aquila jen Novius, whom Solus made his Empress and whose memory is enshrined in art all over Garlemald. Caelina is a far more practical person, but enjoys his attention, overwhelming though it is. I envision Hades as the Dominant in their occasional BDSM forays, which are focused largely on sensation play, forced nudity, orgasm denial and forced orgasm, and essentially psychic sensation through the use of his Ascian/Echo powers.
     

Labyrinth:

  • Jareth/Sarah: Ficwise some scenario where she returns to the Labyrinth later on (in college or as a young adult) would be neat and they get a second chance at things? I don't know; there was always something really thrilling about the implications of "I have reordered time, I have turned the world upside down, and I have done it all for you!" Perhaps Sarah sees the generosity in this after all and makes wiser requests this time. Artwise, who doesn't love a masquerade, right?


Original Work:

I missed noms, so I bogarted all of these from their original posters. I hope they don't mind.

Most of these prompts obviously skew fantasy anyway, but I also like SF and magical realism stuff. I tend to mostly consume western SFF media, so am more familiar with and fonder of those tropes than anime, but I don't mind overmuch. A "magical girl" take is welcome so long as the "girl" in question is (let's say) high-school aged (and 18+ for anything with smut, please).

  • Wandering Lady Knight/Far-Away Princess she writes letters to: Epistolary fic! Oh my god! I would love to just read a collection of letters from this itinerant knight that are utterly laden with her longing. Perhaps the princess writes back or perhaps she doesn't; perhaps the princess is in difficulty at the castle and relies on these mementos to give her the strength to endure.
  • Queen who is the Last of Her Line/Male Consorts Vying to Father Heir: Normally I'm not really big on a "competitive submissives" scenario, but I think it would be appropriate here. Ideally the focus would be mostly on peacocking and impressing her vs tearing down other suitors. Happy polyamory is not just acceptable but a preferred outcome here.
  • Portal Fantasy Protagonist & Their Mentor In A Trade Useful In Both Worlds: My last (brief!) D&D campaign was actually a portal fantasy, so I was fond of this. My character was studying philosophy and wanted to go to law school, so she's perhaps not ideal for this, but our druid was a botanist and our artificer was a physics major (he chose to remain in the fantasy world at game's end to try and discover what the laws of reality were there). I'd love a bit of a focus on the adjustment to losing modern conveniences (everything from cell phones to running water), and my personal pet peeve with isekai-type protags is that they usually have very few misgivings about leaving their homeworld behind, so someone that has a reason to want to return to Earth would be a nice change.
  • Submissive Female Rape Victim/Her Dominant Lover Who Is Afraid Of Hurting Her: Obviously, reference to her rape and trauma is allowed here, overriding my more general DNW. I don't really want a lot of flashbacks or explicit on-page violence, and I expect her Dom to be loving and supportive during any moments of trepidation or hesitation on her part. This would probably be a guided masturbation type scenario, where he tells her how to touch herself etc, focused more on her pleasure than her servicing him.
  • small dominant woman/large submissive man: my BRAND! If you skipped my FFXIV prompts, one of my very favorite pairings is of this variety. I would love to see him in shibari or suspension, getting caned or pegged, or a tease-and-denial chastity scenario. It could be fun to leave him in his cage and have him fuck her with a strap-on. I can see muscle worship easily being part of this scenario.
  • Crown Princess Who Was A Starving Writer In Her Former Life/Faraway King Who's A Fan Of Her Books: How did she become the crown princess? Is her kingdom well known for its education? I'm assuming the king wants to marry her, but to reveal the root of his admiration in public would bring her shame, so he has to talk around it in formal scenarios. This could be an epistolary fic too.

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