Chocolate Box 2020
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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:
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.
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
- 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
- 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.