Dear Fic-in-a-box creator

[soryenn]

First and foremost: THANK YOU!

Besides DNWs everything that follows are just ramblings on stuff I like, so feel free to disregard everything there if you already have an idea of what you want to write! The important thing is for you to have fun.
I opted in for almost all media, except audio (except songs - not a native English speaker and I have some auditory processing issues) and poetry (for most of the canons). This means that if you want to write 10k of headcanon or 100 drabbles or make your own Dark of The Moon movie with the animes below, I wholeheartedly welcome it.

For each fandom I added specific medium likes in my sign-ups. See the related chapter in this letter for detailed prompts for those.
 

I. General likes and dislikes

Things I love:

- angst with an happy ending and its hurt/comfort cousin
- mutual pining
- kissing, lots of it, kissing every part of the body, desperate kisses, I-almost-lost-you kisses, all of them
- touch, tenderness, cuddles
- falling asleep together, needing the other partner(s) to sleep
- poly relationships, ranging from strictly equal (everyone brings something the others need) to the lone character warming his bones by the fire of an established couple who protects them
- found family dynamics
- casefic, adventure, action: competent characters acting at their top capacity in the face of tough challenges
- vulnerability and trust, and people overcoming their fears and flaws together
- long dialogues between characters
- tending to wounds, body care, brushing hair, shower scenes, etc.
- taking an injury for someone else, protectiveness in hyper dangerous situations
- age gap with the corresponding angst that the other wouldn't want them because too young/old
- dealing with the aftermath of war or other trauma, scars or physical injury that never quite fade away
- dreams, nightmares, dreamwalkers, dreamshifters, deamreaders, all things dreams
- reality shifting, parallel worlds
- death-adjacent themes: ghosts, immortals, shinigami/grim reapers, etc.
- AUs of all stripes, see below

Tropes I love:

- battles couples (a lot of my faves are warriors in some capacity)
- fake dating, fake marriage
- break-up & reunion fics (the & reunion part is mandatory)
- genderbend to F/F
- only one bed
- any plot-related reason to have characters paired off
- oh no we're isolated/stranded together here for plot-related reason!
- we have to share body warmth or we'll die probably

AUs I love:

- Daemon AU
- Sentinel AU
- Wingfic
- Loveless AU
- Any kind of magical, fantasy or sci-fi AU
- Actual witch AU (aka witches in the real world)
- Historical AU
- In particular, WWI and WWII AU (on allied side for WWII) and Aéropostale AU
- Mundane AU, especially with a focus on a topic you are knowledgeable about (are you into ice skating? baking? database management? give it to me)

Styles I love:

- 2nd person POV
- weird deconstructed narrative, non-conventional format, experimental stuff

Smut likes:

I'm not that much into sex and would be fine with a G/T-rated fic. But if you do want to write mature or explicit stuff and it helps your wordcount, feel free!
- Tender, long lovemaking
- But also rough, urgent sex especially after dangerous situations
- Focus on foreplay and excitation building
- Frottage, coming in pants, coming untouched, intercrural sex, fingering, handjobs, scissoring
- I'm fine with most sexual acts as long as they aren't DNWs.

DNWs:

- hopeless endings (bittersweet okay)
- rape, non-con, dubious con
- omegaverse
- underage sex (below 15)
- ageplay-daddy-mommy-kink
- detailed blowjobs
- BDSM (light bondage okay)
- scat-emeto (watersports okay)
- pregnancy-impregnation-lactation in a sexual context
- kid-fic (appearances are fine, but please don't make the adult characters kids or have the story focus on kids)
- eating disorders
- necrophilia, cannibalism
- issue fic of all kinds including social homophobia, transphobia, etc. and real world illnesses
- incest (except cousins and siblings)
- genderbend to F/M
- abusive behaviour (recovery from it 100% okay, just don't focus on the abuse part)
- embarassment-humiliation
- animal cruelty or death
- major character death besides canon ones
- unrequested trans or ace headcanons

Fandom specific DNWs are listed below.

II. Simoun

Fandom safety: the show is 26 episodes long (about 9h). If you're not in the US there's a large possibility the show isn't licensed in your country. I use the French fansub available here.
There's a manga available here with a slightly different story which I also love. It's only 3 chapters and 2 extras. The last extra is a highschool AU that is awesome so don't hesitate to run with hikikomori!Neviril and trader!Aaeru if that's your jam too.

I LOVE THIS SHOW. That's all.
Joking aside, I had to choose few ships for this exchange but I love everyone. Have some prompts!

Aaeru/Neviril

I'd like to see your take on Aaeru's training on the North frontline, because this girl has seen the war from way too close before even becoming a sybilla.
Pre-series, I don't mind seeing quite a lot of Amuria/Neviril, especially as the contrasts and similarities between her and Aaeru are really what makes Neviril fall for her.
During the war, I think there's a lot more to tell about the way Neviril's feelings develop unconsciously. Her role is central in the war and this comes with a heavy cost; one that Aaeru can understand when others can't.
Post-series, I'd like to follow their adventures through time and space, and especially meeting Dominuura and Limone.
AU-wise, a Loveless AU with Aaeru as a blank Fighter would be most excellent.

Rodoreamon/Mamiina

Unless you do a fix-it or an AU, this has to be pre-canon or during canon.
I like everything in their relationship, the power imbalance and the way it completely shifts multiple times until they found their balance, the nobility of Mamiina and her views on the war and her role as sybilla, the inner strength of Rodo and her kindness.
Maybe a mission that goes wrong and get them stuck somewhere in the snow?

Dominuura/Limone

I'd prefer it if the sexy stuff could wait until Limone is whatever age she's supposed to be in the last episode (15? 16?), besides that I'm on board for anything.
Limone's training is quite important to her story and was only approached in the flashback episode. So much to unpack there!
Dominuura is the sole survivor of Chor Dextra: how did that happen and how did she lose her Pair? Was it as traumatizing for her as it was for Neviril when she lost Amuria? Can she even remember it, and do other people know?

Alty/Kaim

There's so much drama potential with these two. So much hurt/comfort. I have abuse on my DNW but discussion of the past scene with Alty/Kaim is completely okay.
Of course, if you want to take it to AU town and forget that happened, that's fine with me too.

Rodoreamon/Paraietta

This is more of a post-canon or AU ship for me: I just think they'd be great for each other as they both have a lot of grief to deal with, and insecurity issues to overcome. They have the shadows of the two people they lost that will always be there, but they have so much to live for still. They also seemed to have found a good relationship in the finale. I just want them to be happy tbh.

Floe(f)/Vyura(f)

Also a post-canon or AU ship. In the end, Vyuraf gets called to war, and Floef hope they won't have to meet on the battlefield. What if he decided to take matters into his own hands and infiltrate the opposing army to get Vyuraf back? What if Vyuraf deserted when forced to attack civilians?
In this particular plot, all of the characters could be involved as well: Alty, Kaim, Rodo and Paraietta to help hide people and maybe activate Rodo's contacts in the aristocracy, Yun to intercede in a peace council, Anubituf and Guragief to fight, etc.

AUs I'd find especially great for this:
- I loved the high-school/hikikomori AU that's in the manga, any take on that would be grand
- Aéropostale AU where the whole of Aéropostale are the girls and they have to take missions on those tiny breakable ships in dangerous weather to get mail to its destination. Crashing in the mountains and having to seek shelter. Bonding with their Pair as they have to work perfectly together to get the ship to its goal, and surviving if things go badly.
- WWI or WWII AU in which the girls are war pilots. Everything above, with added war!
- Thieves AU, since I've now been introduced to this glorious idea.

Medium Opt-ins:

- Technical drawing: of the Simouns, the Arcus, the other ships from Plumbum and Argentum, the helical motoris itself, the trains, the boats...
- Academia: all the languages on the planet (we have almost nothing on those so if you're a conlanger, have a field day!), Simoun and Ri Maajon studies from all countries.
- Religious text: Tempus Spatium-related of course, but what about the other religions on this planet? Dominuura or Limone could be compiling or writing those.
- Worldbuilding: anything, but I'd especially love worldbuilding around the religious and/or gender themes, and how the society works in general
- Recipe book: this is mostly for fun but please, I wanna know how to cook mice soup ^^
- Game walkthrough: Simoun is a PS2 game after all! I never played it and will most likely never get any access to it. If you do, I'd love an actual game walkthrough, but I was more imagining a fake game for this - a mecha battle game? Or a romance visual novel?
- Fanmix/FST: I actually made two of those (an Aaeru/Neviril mix and a Chor Tempest mix) and would like to see more.

III. Gundam Wing

Fandom safety: 49 episodes. The manga has 7 volumes, 3 of which being the main series.

The gist of this request is: I love Duo Maxwell. Please make him happy.

Ships requested: Wufei/Duo, Heero/Duo, Heero/Duo/Relena

- All the action scenes, the I-almost-lost-you scenes, the physical damage of war, the protectiveness of the pilots for each others, etc.
- I get the feeling Duo would run away after the war - he was shown not feeling well on L2 in Endless Waltz and it's the one thing Frozen Teardrop got right. So the pilots would be searching after him?
- Us vs. the world dynamics, especially in regards to Preventers
- AUs in which they aren't war-damaged boys with a laundry list of psychic and emotional problems would be nice too
- Aéropostale AU in which they're piloting small ships in the 1920's to get mail all across the world, get lost in the Andes, get stranded and need to seek shelter, insert here all the tropes.
- WWI or WWII AU in which they are war pilots or special ops.

Fandom specific DNWs: anything related to Frozen Teardrop.

Medium Opt-ins:

- Technical drawing: Gundams of course, but all mechas are good. Also maps of the colonies, floor plans for missions (or of that lovely house they built together? or Relena's palace?)
- Bureaucratic paperwork/mission report: Preventers missions? or did they create their own special organization?

IV. Yu-Gi-Oh!

Fandom safety: not safe with 224 episodes or 38 manga volumes.

Bakura Ryou/Mutou Yuugi
I could see them bonding more after the series end, as they both have to deal with the loss of part of themselves. But Yuugi lost a very dear partner (more than fine with past Yami-Atem/Yuugi) and Bakura lost someone who would use their body to their advantage.
They also share an interest for game design and Egypt, and they have a quick mind and will easily banter with each other.

Bakura Ryou/Marik Ishtar
I headcanon Marik/Yami Bakura during the series, so this means that Marik would still be attracted to Bakura's body, but only really get to know Ryou after the series. And that's a whole lot to unpack (even if you don't share that headcanon, tbh). I like their emotional bond - nobody knows the other one as well as they do. I also like the banter between these two. Bakura being "adopted" in Marik's family would be extra nice.

Kaiba Seto/Mutou Yuugi

The shadow (no pun intended) of Yami Yuugi/Atem looms over those two. It took that final duel for Seto to acknowledge Yuugi as a duelist - was Yuugi pining for all the series before that and it only gets resolved then? Or until Seto decides to throw it all to hell in favor of dueling a dead man? Or do the feelings blossom between them much later on?
I especially like a strong Yuugi for this, who is kind but doesn't let Kaiba control him.

Kaiba Seto/Bakura Ryou
Oh, the nerds love, even if Kaiba would never admit it. Plus Kaiba went to the land of the dead and I really like the fanon of Ryou being a medium or dealing with ghosts on the regular. It just makes a lot of sense for those two to work together. Bakura is probably the only person Kaiba can really talk with about his death experience.

Medium Opt-ins:

- Bureaucratic paperwork/Workplace documentation: Kaiba Corp is filled with those juicy files on everything in the YGO world!
- Social media: the gang is famous in YGO world so they would have a social media presence - even if Kaiba probably doesn't monitor his own public account except for random dragon pics, Ryou has fangirls, Marik knows nothing about this, all great opportunities for mayhem
- Technical drawing, technical code or design specification: I thought this would be cool to explore with all the cool tech, the cards themselves, the virtual reality worlds, the dragon-shaped... anything tbh.
- Academia: anything about the cards, the ancient Egyptian artifacts, the archaeological discoveries, and I'd love to read the Domino City museum exhibit book for the exhibit Ishizu organized.
- Horoscope: all I have for this is I love astrology and we know their birth date, also they would probably all hate it. But something about reincarnations could be interesting here!
- Tarot cards: even better, reading using YGO cards instead. =D

V. Katawa Shoujo

Fandom safety: it's a free visual novel available here. Completing one route is about 7h, completing all takes ~25h.
Ships requested: Emi/Rin, Hanako/Akira, Hanako/Rin

- I would really like to see Hanako all grown up; is she a writer? a journalist? does she work at Yamaku? But also all the girls as adults tbh.
- Emi at competitions! Rin's adventures in art! The girls bonding over what makes them feel alive!
- Rin opening up to anyone is absolutely great. I love her dialogue and I think both Hanako (as another artist & someone who has troubles with her appearance) and Emi (as her friend and supporter) can be great for her. They both see the world completely differently from her but can grow and help her grow at the same time.
- I absolutely loved Akira and Hanako's interactions and think they would be great together. Akira can be irresponsible at times, and has a lot on her shoulders but treats Hanako in a very respectful, kind and open manner. Hanako totally has a crush on her. Also plenty of opportunities for angst with the long-distance relationship.

Fandom-specific DNWs: any AU that would remove their disability.

Medium Opt-ins:

- Pin-up poster: I don't have a deep well researched headcanon about this. The girls are just pretty.
- Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook: Rin's sketchbook of course, but also Hanako's journal? any of the girls' school material in which entirely inappropriate and unrelated things are written?
- Social media: the game came out in 2012 so you could have fun with social media of that time, or a few years later if this is future fic
- Ship Manifesto: tiny fandom & non-canon relationships, I'd love to see your thoughts on them
- Tarot card reading: I get a feeling Hanako would love those, and Rin would love to draw them, so it's a a win/win
VI. Yami no Matsuei

Fandom safety: 13 episodes so just below 5h. There's 12 to 13 volumes of manga depending which languages you can read. You can stop at the first 8 volumes, the arc after that isn't finished and probably never will be. The anime stops at the end of the 8th volume as well.

Kurosaki Hisoka/Tsuzuki Asato

- Hisoka getting over his need to be more powerful and realizing it's not what he or Tsuzuki needs at this point
- Tsuzuki dealing with the fact that not even Tohda can kill him (no but really, what's up with that and Enma saying he can't escape him?). The idea that he's bound to the Juo-Cho and eventually all shinigamis will move on and he will stay behind.
- Tsuzuki slowling healing from his past - the manga does especially hammer on the fact that he broke down twice in a matter of months after it took decades for him to feel better after his suicide; even with Hisoka nearby there is a profound need for time and peace for him to even stabilize. Honestly Hisoka's isn't in a very happy place either at this point and in the manga even says that it's hate that is powering him through. What I mean is recovery or even established relationship in which they deal with the highs and lows of depression, probably.
- But since I like angst: Hisoka and Tsuzuki on a case, protecting each other, using their powers in symbiosis
- And since I want them happy: Hisoka and Tsuzuki enjoying a day off as tourists
- Tsuzuki developing a more romantic/sensual interest in Hisoka post series, shielding harder to not hurt him, and of course Hisoka realizing and thinking Tsuzuki is hiding something.
- An exchange with another country's shinigami-equivalent system (angels for example)?

Tatsumi Seiichirou/Watari Yutaka

- Their relationship is developed more in the last tomes of the manga, but I liked their companionship in the earlier tomes and the anime as well. They just work well together and are very competent.
- Tatsumi does have a lot of issues to work with, especially re: Tsuzuki, and Watari hides a lot of his past. So many delicious opportunities to write angsty stuff.

Fandom-specific DNWs: Muraki/anyone besides Oriya or OCs (references to canon events totally ok).


Medium Opt-ins:

- Bureaucratic paperwork/Mission report/Workplace documentation: I wanna know all about the inner workings of the Assignments Bureau. Also ties with case fics.
- Religious texts: I'd be really interested on more background info/headcanon about the shikigamis and the afterlife in general
- Tarot reading/horoscope: we have their birth dates (and even their death date for some) so there's a lot of potential here. Fortune telling was referenced several times in canon and tarot cards were at the center of the Queen Camellia case, so they're easy to use. And perhaps they could meet a Japanese expert or a foreigner who use tarot cards for magical purposes?