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person4Hi there!
I'm so sorry for the blank sign-up, I decided to jump in at the last minute and was just trying to make sure I got my sign-up in hoping I'd have enough to to edit in the details afterwards. Obviously that didn't work out! I really hope that if you need any prompts you check the letters post and spot this!
I generally prefer lighter fic, fluff and comedy and happy things, but don't feel that you need to force your fic in that direction, especially if you matched on one of the fandoms that really don't work well for it (I know one of my Collar X Malice requests in particular could give you trouble there!). I will ask that if you can please aim for an ending that is happy, or at least hopeful. An unrelenting angst parade down into unending misery without any light at all really is not my thing.
Genre-wise, I'm not generally a fan of major AUs or crossovers. By "major" AUs I mean things like high school or modern day AUs, where the characters are transposed into a hugely different setting. I'm fine with AUs exploring how the story's world and the character's places in it would be different if some events in the story were changed. I'd also really rather not get something that's pure porn, I don't read that much porny fic to begin with and would generally rather get plot or character introspection over a PWP. I like futurefic as long as it's not purely focused on the characters being domestic with kids (I don't mind them having kids, I just get bored by futurefic that focuses totally on the characters' at-home family life instead of anything neat they're doing outside the home).
I like both plotty and character-centric stories (or character-centric plot!). I like missing scenes fic. Not a big fan of canon scenes from a different viewpoint unless you can do it in a way that really twists how the original scene is viewed. I'll admit that I love catching little references to canon sprinkled into a story, nods to previous episodes or quests or whatnot. No issue-fic, please, or trans headcanons.
BEWARE OF SPOILERS!
Collar x Malice
Hoshino Ichika/Enomoto Mineo
This was the first pairing I played through in the game, and it very quickly moved from "This relationship is kinda moving too fast for my tastes" to "Oh my god, you adorable dorks". I like how, outside of his big love confession, Ichika usually has to be the bolder one in their relationship because Mineo will get so flustered about everything and it would be fun to see something with her continuing to have to take the lead as their relationship deepens. Or, alternately, something where she teases him by making him be the one to make some move or another. I also, after playing a few more routes and seeing how against some of her relationships he can be, really appreciate how approving Kazuki is of their relationship (heck, there was one point where he had me going "Wait, Kid, are you giving your sister permission to fuck her boyfriend in your room there?" and I'm still not sure that he wasn't accepting that possibility), so maybe something where he helps Mineo pick out a present for Ichika, or helps Ichika work through some issue with Mineo, or pulls more stuff like the couple's concert on them? Or Mineo trying to train Ichika to be able to transfer to Field Operations before he rejoins the force, because he wants to keep his partner? Or, less shippy, something with these two dorks regularly visiting Ogata in jail because they're taking their mission to redeem him seriously and don't want him to start feeling all alone in the world again?
Hoshino Ichika/Saeki Yuzuru
Alternate "route" where Ichika actually did always have feelings for him that she never acted on until the fear of death makes her decide that she doesn't want to risk dying without ever giving it a shot? Something in the path where she asks the collar for permission to tell him what's up, or at least that she's in danger, because if she up and dies on him she doesn't want it to be out of no where, and his own reaction on the other side of the collar to being asked? Something where Ichika decides to try to Lima Syndrome the person on the other end of the collar by yammering away about her day and thoughts whenever she's alone and trying to get them to engage in return, and how that effects him? (Or him trying to pull his brainwashing mojo on her in return through these chats if she's going to be pulling this, a tug of war over each other them trying to sway the other.) Something where Ichika gets a bad ending after the concert in Mineo's route so that relationship doesn't work out, then Saeki wakes up from his coma with all his plans and Adonis itself having imploded and how he deals while Ichika is trying to be very very there for him. Or where he wakes up, she tries to be very there for him, but also at some point reveals that she's been thinking and doesn't want to think this, but her getting grabbed would have been a lot easier if it were by someone within the station who could easily find her movements, and Adonis did turn into a giant clusterfuck as soon as he was out of commission, and she's not going to be going there over someone she cares about based on just suspicion but... should she?
Super Mario & Related Fandoms
Koopa | Bowser/Peach-hime | Peach Toadstool
You know, I spent my whole life playing the platformer games and never giving the idea of this pairing a second thought (outside of the common '...She is way to accepting of the idea that she's Bowser Jr.'s mom, what?' thought in Sunshine) , but then a few years ago I started picking up the RPGs, where Bowser's (usually) both less straight-out villainous and more obviously actually in love with Peach and suddenly started loving it like burning.
How about a plan going right for Bowser (possibly because of Peach going "Have you ever thought of just asking me to visit instead of staging a kidnapping?")? Does he get super paranoid when it looks like the Mario brothers are effectively out of the picture, because they always show up? Something when Peach has become queen where they two of them have to come together (with or without other royalty about) for official country-running business outside of the constant kidnapping attempts, and how that goes? Something where she approaches him about a possible marriage alliance between them and everyone around her is both horrified on her behalf and baffled that she seems fine with the idea as she's putting it together, whether because the kidnappings were a cover for them actually hooking up when they had a chance or because, even if she never considered him that way during them, she knows him and knows that he loves her and there are much worse ways for an arranged marriage to start out as long as he'll agree that there'll be no villain-scaping of her country.
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Fayt Leingod/Albel Nox
I love how easy-going Fayt becomes about Albel's whole... Albelness, and something focusing on Albel's reaction, that after his screwed up life this is a guy who reacts to him stabbing his pillow in his sleep by just chiding him for it being dangerous then follow him into the night totally trusting he won't pull anything, to that it always nice. Or the nightmares mentioned in his ending, since nobody talks to him about it in-game he apparently either sleeps far enough from the others not to let them hear him or remains edgy enough around them that even in his sleep he's able to keep himself from reacting to them, so when does he start relaxing around Fayt enough for them to start breaking through around him? What's his reaction the first time Fayt wakes him up from them or mentions them later, and how do they reach a point where Fayt becomes comfortable joking around with him about them? Something based off of Fayt's turning down his attempt to rejoin, when Albel vows to find his own path to becoming stronger than Fayt and future meetings between the two as rivals (who bang)? Or something in private between the two of them after you first turn down his attempt to join and then recruit him after all, when he goes from claiming that he wants to join you so he can figure out how to beat Fayt to admitting that he actually just wants to help.
Cliff Fittir/Fayt Leingod
I love how for a huge stretch of the game Fayt and Cliff are each the only person the other can fully be themselves around without worrying about breaking their cover, so anything set during that time period would be great. I love how Cliff's clearly designed to make you expect him to be a typical big dumb bruiser but he's actually a sharp guy, and how after being the leader in-game Fayt falls into being Cliff's subordinate in their ending, so something during that adjustment could be fun, or the members of Quark watching as this new kid actually just falls into an equals relationship with Cliff because after everything that's happened they fail at having any kind of superior/subordinate working relationship. I'd adore you forever if you could work in the two of them visiting Vanguard III since I've always kind of wished there was an ending where Fayt ends up back there, but don't stress about it if you can't get a story to go there. Or something playing with Cliff's Klausian strength and having to be careful of his squishy human boyfriend is always fun!
I'm so sorry for the blank sign-up, I decided to jump in at the last minute and was just trying to make sure I got my sign-up in hoping I'd have enough to to edit in the details afterwards. Obviously that didn't work out! I really hope that if you need any prompts you check the letters post and spot this!
I generally prefer lighter fic, fluff and comedy and happy things, but don't feel that you need to force your fic in that direction, especially if you matched on one of the fandoms that really don't work well for it (I know one of my Collar X Malice requests in particular could give you trouble there!). I will ask that if you can please aim for an ending that is happy, or at least hopeful. An unrelenting angst parade down into unending misery without any light at all really is not my thing.
Genre-wise, I'm not generally a fan of major AUs or crossovers. By "major" AUs I mean things like high school or modern day AUs, where the characters are transposed into a hugely different setting. I'm fine with AUs exploring how the story's world and the character's places in it would be different if some events in the story were changed. I'd also really rather not get something that's pure porn, I don't read that much porny fic to begin with and would generally rather get plot or character introspection over a PWP. I like futurefic as long as it's not purely focused on the characters being domestic with kids (I don't mind them having kids, I just get bored by futurefic that focuses totally on the characters' at-home family life instead of anything neat they're doing outside the home).
I like both plotty and character-centric stories (or character-centric plot!). I like missing scenes fic. Not a big fan of canon scenes from a different viewpoint unless you can do it in a way that really twists how the original scene is viewed. I'll admit that I love catching little references to canon sprinkled into a story, nods to previous episodes or quests or whatnot. No issue-fic, please, or trans headcanons.
BEWARE OF SPOILERS!
Collar x Malice
Hoshino Ichika/Enomoto Mineo
This was the first pairing I played through in the game, and it very quickly moved from "This relationship is kinda moving too fast for my tastes" to "Oh my god, you adorable dorks". I like how, outside of his big love confession, Ichika usually has to be the bolder one in their relationship because Mineo will get so flustered about everything and it would be fun to see something with her continuing to have to take the lead as their relationship deepens. Or, alternately, something where she teases him by making him be the one to make some move or another. I also, after playing a few more routes and seeing how against some of her relationships he can be, really appreciate how approving Kazuki is of their relationship (heck, there was one point where he had me going "Wait, Kid, are you giving your sister permission to fuck her boyfriend in your room there?" and I'm still not sure that he wasn't accepting that possibility), so maybe something where he helps Mineo pick out a present for Ichika, or helps Ichika work through some issue with Mineo, or pulls more stuff like the couple's concert on them? Or Mineo trying to train Ichika to be able to transfer to Field Operations before he rejoins the force, because he wants to keep his partner? Or, less shippy, something with these two dorks regularly visiting Ogata in jail because they're taking their mission to redeem him seriously and don't want him to start feeling all alone in the world again?
Hoshino Ichika/Saeki Yuzuru
Alternate "route" where Ichika actually did always have feelings for him that she never acted on until the fear of death makes her decide that she doesn't want to risk dying without ever giving it a shot? Something in the path where she asks the collar for permission to tell him what's up, or at least that she's in danger, because if she up and dies on him she doesn't want it to be out of no where, and his own reaction on the other side of the collar to being asked? Something where Ichika decides to try to Lima Syndrome the person on the other end of the collar by yammering away about her day and thoughts whenever she's alone and trying to get them to engage in return, and how that effects him? (Or him trying to pull his brainwashing mojo on her in return through these chats if she's going to be pulling this, a tug of war over each other them trying to sway the other.) Something where Ichika gets a bad ending after the concert in Mineo's route so that relationship doesn't work out, then Saeki wakes up from his coma with all his plans and Adonis itself having imploded and how he deals while Ichika is trying to be very very there for him. Or where he wakes up, she tries to be very there for him, but also at some point reveals that she's been thinking and doesn't want to think this, but her getting grabbed would have been a lot easier if it were by someone within the station who could easily find her movements, and Adonis did turn into a giant clusterfuck as soon as he was out of commission, and she's not going to be going there over someone she cares about based on just suspicion but... should she?
Super Mario & Related Fandoms
Koopa | Bowser/Peach-hime | Peach Toadstool
You know, I spent my whole life playing the platformer games and never giving the idea of this pairing a second thought (outside of the common '...She is way to accepting of the idea that she's Bowser Jr.'s mom, what?' thought in Sunshine) , but then a few years ago I started picking up the RPGs, where Bowser's (usually) both less straight-out villainous and more obviously actually in love with Peach and suddenly started loving it like burning.
How about a plan going right for Bowser (possibly because of Peach going "Have you ever thought of just asking me to visit instead of staging a kidnapping?")? Does he get super paranoid when it looks like the Mario brothers are effectively out of the picture, because they always show up? Something when Peach has become queen where they two of them have to come together (with or without other royalty about) for official country-running business outside of the constant kidnapping attempts, and how that goes? Something where she approaches him about a possible marriage alliance between them and everyone around her is both horrified on her behalf and baffled that she seems fine with the idea as she's putting it together, whether because the kidnappings were a cover for them actually hooking up when they had a chance or because, even if she never considered him that way during them, she knows him and knows that he loves her and there are much worse ways for an arranged marriage to start out as long as he'll agree that there'll be no villain-scaping of her country.
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time
Fayt Leingod/Albel Nox
I love how easy-going Fayt becomes about Albel's whole... Albelness, and something focusing on Albel's reaction, that after his screwed up life this is a guy who reacts to him stabbing his pillow in his sleep by just chiding him for it being dangerous then follow him into the night totally trusting he won't pull anything, to that it always nice. Or the nightmares mentioned in his ending, since nobody talks to him about it in-game he apparently either sleeps far enough from the others not to let them hear him or remains edgy enough around them that even in his sleep he's able to keep himself from reacting to them, so when does he start relaxing around Fayt enough for them to start breaking through around him? What's his reaction the first time Fayt wakes him up from them or mentions them later, and how do they reach a point where Fayt becomes comfortable joking around with him about them? Something based off of Fayt's turning down his attempt to rejoin, when Albel vows to find his own path to becoming stronger than Fayt and future meetings between the two as rivals (who bang)? Or something in private between the two of them after you first turn down his attempt to join and then recruit him after all, when he goes from claiming that he wants to join you so he can figure out how to beat Fayt to admitting that he actually just wants to help.
Cliff Fittir/Fayt Leingod
I love how for a huge stretch of the game Fayt and Cliff are each the only person the other can fully be themselves around without worrying about breaking their cover, so anything set during that time period would be great. I love how Cliff's clearly designed to make you expect him to be a typical big dumb bruiser but he's actually a sharp guy, and how after being the leader in-game Fayt falls into being Cliff's subordinate in their ending, so something during that adjustment could be fun, or the members of Quark watching as this new kid actually just falls into an equals relationship with Cliff because after everything that's happened they fail at having any kind of superior/subordinate working relationship. I'd adore you forever if you could work in the two of them visiting Vanguard III since I've always kind of wished there was an ending where Fayt ends up back there, but don't stress about it if you can't get a story to go there. Or something playing with Cliff's Klausian strength and having to be careful of his squishy human boyfriend is always fun!