Chocolate Box 2021
Jan. 6th, 2021 03:52 pm 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?
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.
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:
Hi, please write the FE3H fics I don't have time to. Hahaha.
We are all love Blaseball.
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.
Love,
starcunning
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
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.
- 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.
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?
Love,
starcunning