Maybe World

Apologies in advance: I've been out of the exchange game for a couple of years, I'm trying to start over fresh (though I have cribbed some prompts from old letters) and I'm pretty rusty at it. If you have any queries, you can ask a question here anonymously, or ask through the mods.

In most of my prompts, and most of my past exchange requests, I'm trying to steer you towards writing ships as requited, happy, and healthy. That's not to say that an angsty or bittersweet read is unwelcome, but I'd generally prefer the fic to lean on the hopeful side of the balance.

There's one major exception this time, and it's Fate/Zero. You can make it hurt for that fandom.

Likes:

• Missing scenes that fit right into canon
• Characters in a pairing making each other laugh
• Pining, especially coupled with guilty fantasizing and masturbation, though PG-rated types are also loved
• H/C, both emotional and tending to injuries (sickfic not so much)
• Huddling for warmth and similar forced-proximity tropes
• Fake dating
• Arranged marriage
• Bickering domesticity (I don't know why curtainfic has such a fluffy reputation, IME curtain shopping is a great way to get in a fight with your SO)
• Cuddling, both post-coital and non-sexual
• Focus on hands, both visual and sensory (noting scars, calluses, the shape of fingers; clasping hands during sex, holding hands at any time)
• Focus on hair (in a touch sense — washing, braiding, running hands through a partner's hair, giving a scalp rub)
• Beards and stubble
• Characters laughing together and having fun in bed
• Awkward or imperfect but still enthusiastic and happy sex
• Frottage (specifically rubbing clothed genitals against other clothed genitals; intercrural is a big nope)
• Clothed or mostly clothed sex
• Lingerie kink
• Exploration of magic or superpowers in canons where that fits

DNWs (all kinds):

• Embarrassment, humiliation — I don't like it when a character uncomfortably embarrassed or made the butt of jokes
• Non-monogamy (infidelity, poly, group sex, etc.) when not requested
• Use of not-traditional-for-sex bodily fluids (blood, urine, vomit, tears, etc.) in sex
• Graphic or lingering focus on any bodily fluids (mentions are fine, cumplay is not)
• Dirty talk
• Unrequested BDSM
• Foot fetish
• Singular they used as a pronoun outside of dialog
• Non-canon or unrequested pronouns
• Identity headcanons of any kind (gender ID, sexuality, etc.)
• Unrequested AUs or crossovers
• Issuefic
• Harm to minors outside the scope of canon

Final Fantasy VI

Fandom-specific notes: No Locke/Celes, even as a background or past relationship, please.

Sabin Rene Figaro/Cyan Garamonde
Sabin Rene Figaro/Cyan Garamonde & Gau

( The Veldt Family )

Terra Branford/Locke Cole (FFVI)

( OTP of OTPs )

Tiger & Bunny

Please, no singular "they" for Nathan in narration. If you can't bring yourself to use he/him/his, which is my preference, please use ze/zem/zir or ey/em/eir.

Antonio Lopez/Nathan Seymour
Keith Goodman/Nathan Seymour

( Getting Nathan some action )

Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kotetsu T. Kaburagi/Karina Lyle
(obviously poly is okay for this!) Barnaby Brooks Jr./Karina Lyle
Kotetsu T. Kaburagi/Karina Lyle
Kotetsu T. Kaburagi/Barnaby Brooks Jr.

( An OT3 and all its subsets )

Ikemen Sengoku

I'd prefer that if the game protagonist is present, she not be in a relationship with Nobunaga or Kenshin. She's more than welcome (I love her narration! And I love her with Masamune, or Mitsunari, or Ieyasu or Shingen) but I don't care for those two relationships, although I enjoy all the characters involved. I actually find Nobunaga's brotherly relationship with Ieyasu, and his general trollishness in Hideyoshi's route, absolutely delightful.

( Historically Inaccurate Warlords )

Fate/Zero

Although I know there's a larger Fate universe out there, and bits and pieces about Stay Night, Fate/Zero is basically a self-contained entity for me. I don't mind references to other parts of the canon, but I'm not going to immediately be able to appreciate them, either. (That said, my husband plays Fate/Grand Order, so I've osmosed a fair bit from it. Mostly ridiculous shit, rather than magic meta, but that's how it goes...)

I didn't actually intend to put this in my signup. The fandom wasn't even on my radar. But the Lord El-Melloi II OVA came out, and Waver was wearing the Admirable Grand Strategy tee-shirt at the end, and I checked the tagset and saw that all my ships were nominated, and now here I am, re-watching Fate/Zero in one browser and opening up all my Pixiv bookmarks from 2012 in the other, and I regret everything.

As I said at the top of my letter, this is the fandom where you can bring the pain. Character study, angst, contrasting happy moments in the past with present loss, whatever works for you. You don't have to! If you have a non-mundane AU idea where things could go differently, I'm game. But I'm ready to feel sad when it comes to these guys.

( Fandom of Pain )

I hope that wasn't too much, but I also hope it was enough! Again, I'm open to questions, and I have a big backlog of other letters if you want to browse those as well. My AO3 name is Lirillith, just like here.