Chocolate Box 2018 exchange letter
Dear Chocolatier
Rest assured that nohing mentioned here is a must-have. I'm an omnivore in terms of fanwork consumption. So if you have a specific idea you're dying to use, and it doesn't hit anything on my "Please do not inlude" list, feel free to use it! If you get inspired by one of these prompts but would like to take a different direction with it than specified here, absolutely go ahead. I think fanworks tend to turn out more enjoyable when someone really enjoys making it.
General prompts:
- Seasonal themes, especially spring and summer.
- Lying in the grass, looking up at the sky.
- Pining. Can be one-sided or stay unresolved within the fanwork.
- Courtship: ritualistic; normal, easy-going dates; serious; wacky and unexpected.
- Kissing: especially lips, back, palm.
- Clothes-sharing
- AUs: canon-divergence, fantasy, omegaverse, roleswap, werewolves
- Holding hands
- Dreamy, fantastical backgrounds/landscapes for art - stick 'em on clouds or bubbles or giant dandelions or something, I'll love it. It works for fic too where the canon has room for it, like with Digimon, Inception, etc.
- Hair kink
- Weddings: grand and fancy; quiet and simple; official; unofficial; strange rituals; familiar and long-awaited; for poly ships.
- Sharing a bed. Or some other sleeping spot - couch huddle? floor pile?
- Homestuck fusion, or a crossover of the "characters of a different canon play SBurb" variety.
Please do not inlude:
- For art: breaking the fourth wall, with e.g. characters posing for the viewer rather than interacting with each other. Omegaverse.
- Non-canon character deaths
- Rape
- Cheating/infidelity
- Fisting
- Sex involving characters under 16
- Cannibalism as anything more than a brief mention.
- Steampunk
- Unrequested ships
- Zombies
Digimon Adventure 02
(art, fic)
English dub or original names are both fine. I'm using dub because that's what I watched, but I've consumed a ton of fanworks with the original names so it all works for me.
Davis/Tai
I love them for the hero worship, the shared understanding of leadership and jockhood, and friendship. Prompts: Something with a big Davis-->Tai crush, requited or unrequited. One really missing the other during some kind of separation. Fighting together. Anything with them hanging out with their digimon, or even other digimon. Established relationship, on a date. PWP. Relaxing in Digiworld. A look at their later lives (but not with them breaking up, please, have it AU. Or the epilogue progeny could be their clones, frankly, and they're married): I love that noodle cart, and being a Digiworld ambassador sounds intriguing - maybe Davis joins in on a long ambassadorial expedition, or Tai helps taste-test new recipes.
Gomamon/Joe
I once saw someone saying they're like a romcom, and ever since it's been at the back of my mind. Now I want the adventures of a boy and manic pixie dream seal who helps him to lighten up. Any depiction goes: Deep but unspecified connection, or the connection turning into different feelings, or post-canon with digimon/human relationships starting to be a thing? Prompts: Actual romcom AU (though preferably with some weirdness of a human being semi-soulmates with a cute monster-thing retained). Getting to know each other better during Adventure. Other kinds of AU - maybe a fantasy story with an irreverent, easy-going selkie and a ship's medic, or AI Gomamon accidentally gets uploaded into cyborg Joe's system, or something. Gijinka Gomamon. Any cute scene with Gomamon's magic fish. Art-specific: I love that 'falling through the sky, towards each other' imagery in Adventure.
Homestuck
(fic)
Jane Crocker/Feferi Peixes
(Any quadrant) Two heiresses, who have looming shadows within that inheritance hanging over them, and big plans brewing in the backs of their heads ... and possibly with too much of a tendency to take the brakes off those plans, but at least that keeps things interesting. Prompts: Anything featuring horrorterrors. Sudden instant attraction that they (or only one of them) don't quite know what to do with. Going swimming together. Disagreements and agreements on ruling strategies. A post-game Feferi who has gleefully given up on bothering with long-term plans and this having more of an effect on Jane than she would have thought.
Davepetasprite/Jasprosesprite
They could just be hovering and talking to each other and that would be enough. I find them batshit and delightful, and love that they offer deeply bizarre happy endings for characters that were unlikely to get them otherwise. Prompts: Xeno - animalistic, strange hybrid genitalia, different social mores. Praise kink would be good too. Doing something weird and gamebreaking with their off-the-chain powers. Both of them on Earth C. Jasprose helping Davepeta with whatever it was Davepeta set off to do (aside from hugging Arquius).
The Condesce/Colonel Sassacre
(Preferably redrom) This relationship managed to stick it out in two universes and I'm dying to know how it worked out. The pies in faces. The mutually incomprehensible wooing. Did the Condesce's evil take a break around him so she could put her jewel-bedecked feet up, or did Sassacre have his own streak of appreciation for ruthlessness and a mind dedicated to conquering? Probably Sassacre was asked to dress up as a clown sometimes; I bet he did careful research on this. Maybe even something angsty and a little wistful, with the Condesce happy to be able to get onto Alpha Earth and get another run of married life.
Davepetasprite/Gamzee Makara
I figure Gamzee had a bit of a blackrom interest in Dave, and he also killed Nepeta. And now Nepeta and Dave are one godly, light-hearted, confident being. I'd love them to feel like they can match him, and to confront him about his wrongdoings in general and them in particular, and then blackrom ensues. Prompts: pitting obscure game secrets against each other. Nightmares. Aftermath of a mutually-agreeable fight, with blackrom grooming (probably involves lots of pinches). Outside POV being baffled by all their weirdness.
Jane Crocker & Dirk Strider
They have this weird almost tense, but not really, friendship that I'd love to see more of the ins and outs of. Dirk being upfront about intending to be the secret power in the shadows to Jane's go-getter leader, and Jane just laughing it off, was particularly dear and hilarious to me. Prompts: First getting to know each other. Helping each other through tough times - maybe when isolation is wearing on either/both? Discussing their kinks. Going horse-riding together. Dumped into yet another universe (feel free to go for a crossover) and how they work together to find their way back. More Pony Pals stories, or maybe telling Pony Pals in-jokes that everyone else sort of ... stares at them about.
Gamzee Makara/Chahut Maenad (Chahut's troll call summary: http://whatpumpkin.tumblr.com/post/168017520455/troll-call-and-dont-forget-to-find-out-your)
(Any quadrant) ...I just really like clown trolls now, that's where Homestuck has me. Prompts: Size kink with Chahut being bigger than Gamzee in at least one dimension, taller or wider or genitalia-wise. Actual maenad Chahut/Dionysus Gamzee, or actual maenad Chahut/acolyte Gamzee (whether or not there is any mangling, also humanstuck is fine). Discussions of faith and any kind of clown bullshit worldbuilding that entails. One as mentor to the other, or perhaps a bit of a hero - maybe they manage to cross-timeline troll each other by accident, since Trollian seems to be capable of anything.
Aradia Megido/Vriska Serket
"[S] Make her pay" messed me up, the way Aradia hated Vriska coming across so personal at a time when Aradia's emotions were barely accessible. And I think Aradia was one of few people who made a proper dent in Vriska's view of herself. I would enjoy wild black passion between near-forces of nature. Or! It would be cool to have something where all that old hate is fairly background, because times and incarnations have changed. God tier Aradia and Vriska-lost-in-the-void or (Vriska) might not have that potential black conflagration in them at all - maybe another quadrant, or a hatred less likely to wreck them and everyone else they value, more stable. Prompts: no-Sgrub AU and how an uninterrupted relationship might shake out. AU where Aradia never died during the revenge cycle. Sharing historical notes. Helmsman Aradia. Auspistice relationship (with Terezi would be great, but pick whoever works; humans or sprites also welcome).
Gamzee Makara & Karkat Vantas
I like this as a relationship of extremes of feeling - I can take fluff and sweetness like you would not believe and would equally enjoy messy fuckery and emotional pain. Prompts: Becoming friends back on Alternia. Pale pining. Anything about what they thought about each other or how they interacted in the retcon timeline, where the friendship seems to have fallen by the wayside pretty completely. (I like the lite grotesquerie of fridge clown, so feel free to do something with that.) Nepeta witnesses/hears about interactions that makes her start shipping Gamzee pacifying Karkat as one of her OTPs (as was mentioned in that Murderstuck minigame). Mind-control, whether anything in canon, or Gamzee using chucklevoodoos with terrible intent, or hey, maybe he saves Karkat from Kurloz using chucklevoodoos.
Kuprum Maxlol/Equius Zahhak (Kuprum's troll call summary: http://whatpumpkin.tumblr.com/post/168509068260/troll-call-another-two-for-one-curious-about)
(Any quadrant but pale) It just really sounds like their weirdnesses surrounding class and hierarchy could intersect beautifully and godawfully. Feel free to include Kuprum's energy-sapping pal/parasite, they seem like they ... just hang about all the time. Prompts: How did Kuprum find out about what happens to strong psychics - does he do illegal things Equius would disapprove of in fighting for the Empire? Kuprum is a strident online crusader, but in person he presents quite differently (at first). Equius is the lead engineer who straps Kuprum into a ship and ten tons of helmsman kink ensues. Kuprum is so enthusiastic about his place in society that it actually manages to weird Equius out.
Inception
(art, fic)
Dom Cobb/Saito
That 'young men together' line and Cobb searching for Saito in such dangerous territory were great to me. That sense of potential, sacrifice, and a connection-but-not-quite makes me want more. Prompts: Sugar daddy-ish relationship with Saito buying tons of stuff (whether or not Cobb actually needs a sugar daddy). Cobb's thoughts on many things as he continues his search, including thoughts on Saito. Post-movie recovery - I love that shot of Saito at the airport at the end, still so uncertain of reality. AU where Saito is the one getting incepted - does Cobb get to a point where he has second thoughts, because there's something about this guy? Different-setting AUs - a fantasy one could be cool. Anything with lavish dream settings (canon or not). Anything showing them at the tops of their respective games - Saito in business, Cobb in dream architecture or something else that he takes up post-canon. Art-specific: dressed in casual clothes.
Note: I DNW infidelity but Saito already has a mistress, and so presumably a wife, too. I'd prefer no mention of them, a break-up and divorce, or amiably open relationships.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
(art, fic)
Stephen Black/Mrs Brandy
I'm intrigued by how Mrs Brandy fell in love with Stephen and he didn't notice a thing. Or maybe he didn't conceive of it as a possibility? Prompts: AU where Mrs Brandy makes her affection clear. A snapshot of what each of them thinks of the other in canon (so one-sided is perfectly fine). Mrs Brandy asks for help with the magic changes wrought to her goods by the fairy gold, and it leads to more. They see each other again post-canon - Mrs Brandy takes a wrong turn and comes across Stephen in Fairy, or perhaps Stephen takes a moment to go back to England to seek familiar places and faces. An exchange of gifts - maybe a few more (much nicer) (probably still kind of weird) fairy presents left for Mrs Brandy, plain but delicious home-cooking for Stephen.
Katekyou Hitman Reborn!
(fic)
Chrome/Kyouko
Every time the girls show Chrome kind and uncomplicated friendship I could die, because it is adorable and what I most want for Chrome. Kyoko edged into the shippy lead because of that panel in the Arcobaleno Arc where Chrome starts tearing up and goes in for a hug. Implicit trust and hurt/comfort, I love it. Prompts: Kyoko has a flame and Chrome helps her to use and handle it (I prefer mist or sun). Food kink. Anything that plays with their personal oddities a little - like Kyoko having a slightly off-kilter sense of humour or repressing things to the point of blocking her own memories, and Chrome's tendency to be socially way off the norm. Hurt/comfort. Suddenly, Kyoko discovers that she is now kind of part of the Kokuyo Gang, due to her girlfriend (and possibly has fun acting feral, to fit in).
Kyouko & Ryohei
Prompts: How they've influenced each other, with Ryohei being gentler than he seems and Kyoko more rambunctious. Genderswap. Managing their protective urges regarding each other, learning to support each other in more ways than that. TYL interaction vs. present day interaction; TYL Kyoko pings me as having been kept in the dark about the mafia, while present Kyoko now knows the truth, which Ryohei was upset about, and I'd love something that contrasts the two different paths. The two of them having to escape enemies together. Does Kyoko ever cultivate fighting power? (If she gets a flame going, I like her as mist or sun.) Any sibling bonding TYL: watching sport together, Kyoko teaching Ryohei to cook, etc. One desperately trying to heal the other/treat wounds after some serious injuries.
Kyouko/Tsuna
I love the sweetness and the funny qualities to this ship. Sweet: They grow closer and become good friends, and Tsuna's crush keeps on trucking as his concept of Kyoko moves away from her simply being an ideal figure. Funny: it kills me those times when Kyoko realises that she might think Tsuna is attractive and proceeds to look like it gave her an aneurysm. Poor Tsuna, but it is hilarious. So anything with them stumbling around attraction and occasionally feeling gobsmacked by it (Kyoko on realising she's thinking of her good buddypal that way, or Tsuna on figuring out his massive crush is getting reciprocated) is great. Prompts: genderswap. Wedding. Tsuna keeping that good-luck charm Kyoko made him unto perpetuity, and cuteness ensuing on her finding out. Time travel shenanigans. Vampire AU. Something about how mafia life changes and tempers them - the scene between Tsuna and TYL Kyoko is fascinating to me in that sense.
Les Misérables - Hugo
(art, fic)
Courfeyrac/Marius
I'm yet another person suckered by 'I have come to sleep with you'. But translation choices aside, I love how terribly awkward Marius is and how Courfeyrac rolls with it, though with a lot of teasing. It feels like Courefyrac knows that his friend is Like That and just enjoys his company anyway (when Marius isn't acting too weird to share it). Prompts: vampire Marius (an inspiration post). Little moments when they hang out together. Accidentally (?) falling into bed together. Courfeyrac surviving the barricades. Fashion plate Courfeyrac helps Marius out with his self-presentation, and things get hands-on. Marius helps Courfeyrac with something political (smuggling plans, making arrangements to have illegal pamphlets printed, idk) - and maybe, on successful conclusion, there is triumphant kissing? or things go wrong, and then a rescue?
Cosette/Courfeyrac/Marius
Courfeyrac/Marius for funny, awkward, adorable friendship, Cosette/Marius for hilarious courtship with real sweetness, and Cosette/Courfeyrac because I think it'd be sunshine and delight but would also offer a chance for Cosette to expand her mindset and independence a little more. Prompts: I enjoy that trope where Courfeyrac is the sex guru friend who helps loosen the poor dear innocents up in the bedroom. Vampire Marius again! Quiet evenings in, somewhat wild evenings out. Dancing. Courfeyrac/Cosette or Courfeyrac/Marius happens first, and much navigation of feelings and relationships ensues. 2x lawerly assistance for Jean Valjean, and also 2x noticing his lovely daughter. Crossdressing.
Marvel Cinematic Universe
(art, fic)
Peter & Granddad Quill
There's a deleted scene from after the battle of Xandar, with Grandpa Quill looking at a photo of Peter and Meredith and then up at the stars, while standing in what is probably the field Peter got nabbed from. TEARS 4 YEARS. Please give me anything on them: Grandpa Quill's thoughts at that moment. How they got along before and after Meredith's sickness. Thinking about the other in the years they're apart - what did they learn from each other that they decided to keep? Meeting again. Or Peter sending his alien friends to meet Grandpa on his behalf because he's laid up after Infinity War, and the picture Grandpa builds of him that way. Hugging.
Korg & Miek
They are weird in my kinda way. I think I started loving it with Korg's continued relaxed attitude in the face of the gross question 'so is that like, ectoplasm, or are you laying eggs?' They probably roll with absolutely anything about each other, whether they or other people think it's bizarre. Prompts: their survival on Sakaar. Life in the gladiatorial games. Becoming part of Asgard (or not?). How they communicate. Miek's opinion on revolution. Xeno similarities/differences/culture/etc. Miek was laying eggs, and now they're hatching - cue taking care of the 'kids'. Art-specific: Miek riding on Korg.
Bruce Banner/Valkyrie
Instant admiration and affection, disastrous coping methods, knowing and not knowing each other ... I want the various parts to their relationship to get a chance to shake out into something more solid. Prompts: Dealing with the Bruce/Hulk switch. Life on New Asgard: the Space Ship. Going for a ride on a winged horse. Sweet tender sex that Valkyrie totally surprises herself with really enjoying. Viking AU with berserker Bruce and warrior/valkyrie ... Valkyrie. (Well, Brunnhilde.)
Scott Lang/Sam Wilson
They got to be buddies after that apologetic fight in Ant-Man, and now I really want gap-filler for how that happened. And also romance! This ship also taps into a place where I'm happy to have deeply fluffy AUs. Prompts: on the run post-CW. Dates crashed by super hero-related incidents. How the "Tic Tac" nickname started. Settling back into normal life once the CW legal issues get sorted out, but missing the time when they were together constantly. Trying out each other's superhero gear. AU where only one of them is a superhero and is trying to keep it quiet. Established marrieds. Art-specific: high-five. Hanging out along with their friends, lots of joking and laughter.
Bruce Banner/Tony Stark
Bruce missed Tony so much! I love their understanding of each other and Tony making a dent in Bruce's shields when they met, and I really loved all the signs of affection in Ragnarok. And now I want Bruce to have some Tony time, it'd make him happy. Prompts: talking about alien stuff, but hopefully not setting off Tony's PTSD (or whatever lingering issues Bruce might well have). Fantasy AU with alchemists. Fanart-specific: rocking out to music. Or maybe a band AU, which could totally be fic too. Sleeping draped all over each other in a lab. Composing messages to each other they can't send.
PS: Pepper/Tony as an open relationship in the background or foreground OT3 Bruce/Pepper/Tony totally works too.
Heimdall/Loki
I was getting the impression that Heimdall is constantly getting an idea of the 'truth' to what Loki's up to before anyone else. The suspicions from when Loki was merely a sneaky prince, knowing that 'Odin' was about to send people after him, welcoming him back when he came to help. I'd love to know how his views of Loki changed over time. Prompts: discussing rules and the breaking thereof. Relaxation after a long, difficult day. Indulgences on board the Asgard ship. Adventuring somewhere in order to get goods for the ship, and finding they make an excellent team. Heimdall keeping an eye on Loki through the years, as much as he could, finding himself unable to quit the habit. Loki does something that looks traitorous, but Heimdall has noticed a few hints that it's not so simple and stands by him.
Gamora/Loki
Both seem to have a newfound tendency towards empathy and inclinations towards good ... mostly good ... that they are still working out. And chances are that they knew each other, or heard of each other, while both of them were with Thanos. What do they think of the 'new' versions of each other? Prompts: it's actually kind of a relief to be with someone who knew the 'bad' you, so you can relax a little. Gamora has to go on a more subtle mission than she's grown used to, and Loki and his illusions help. Hurt/comfort. Trying to work together through mutual distrust brought on by knowing each other through Thanos. A scene of surprising protectiveness (from either or both).
Heimdall/Thor
Loyalty kink omg. And the 'let me see through your eyes' long-distance telepathic link thing? Intriguing possibilities! There's a very practical and yet personal way that Heimdall interacts with Thor - this is s king, but also someone he likes, and someone he can agree with in the actions he takes. I just want them to get each other. Prompts: fighting alongside each other. Arguing about which potential actions to take, and surprising themselves because it's about the first time they've ever fought that way. Thor getting to know Heimdall when he's more relaxed and not quite as deferential as he used to be when Asgard was whole. Piecing together the history of what Asgard was. Grieving together. PWP with long-distance semi-telepathic sex or masturbation (seriously, I liked that scene).
Loki/Stephen Strange
There could be such a fine balance between these two. Loki's been shown that Strange is no one to mess with, but my suspicion is that Strange set the encounter up carefully to keep both Loki and Thor as wrong-footed as possible, so that he had the upper hand. Now I want some push and pull. Prompts: Strange finds the edge of danger to the relationship a remarkable turn-on. Magical ambushes turn into accidental dates. Both of them enjoying comforts and extravagance. Sitting and reading together. Bound to each other by some or the other magical artefact (and bonus points for reaction from the Cape of Levitation). Wong snarking at both of them. Strange caught at Loki's mercy, at least for a while.
Mantis & Guardians of the Galaxy
Four-year pass in-universe between Vol. 2 and Infinity War, which means there is little chance of seeing how Mantis is absorbed into the GOTG group. I want that growing closeness and her development. Maybe Groot adopts her on the Drax Principle, where she's his favourite weird aunt but he loves fighting with her. Does the topic of her (potentially) watching Kraglin & the other Ravagers drop off kids come up? Does she work with the goal of officially earning a 'Guardian' appellation? And there are the difficulties of getting along with Gamora, having to learn her own needs (she doesn't even know what her antennae do!), maybe wanting to talk with Peter about Ego, dealing with Drax's worse tendencies as well as enjoying his friendship, Rocket's volatility... Or, something about what kind of music she likes. Let her at that Zune.
Loki/Steve Rogers
That time in TDW when Loki copied Steve made me sit up straight. Oho, you noticed him in such detail! I want more about how Steve struck him, even through everything that Loki was up to at the time. Maybe the mind stone helped? Prompts: AU where Steve is captured by the mind stone too. Accidental soul-bond. Having to fight alongside each other. The tesseract zaps WWII Steve (and Red Skull?) somewhere that Loki spots them, and he decides to go see what's up. AU where they meet back in the old days in Brooklyn, and get into a ton of trouble together.
Pacific Rim
(art, fic)
Hannibal/Newt
Because they shouldn't really be together but actually work out pretty well. Hannibal should be beyond this dumbass nerd, but seems to have a streak of dumbass nerd himself, since that eye injury makes it look like he also tried drifting with a kaiju. Newt should be terrified of this giant unpredictable gangster, and he is, but also busts into his place shouting at him. Prompts: Newt semi-transforming into a kaiju, cue xeno kink. Roleswap: scientist Hannibal and gang boss Newt. Baby Otachi imprints on Newt and Hannibal wants it alive to make sweet cash moneys out of; ta-da, world's unlikeliest adoptive family. Simple, natural deployment of size difference kink. Sugar daddy Hannibal. Kaiju cultists cause them trouble. The Anteverse affects Newt and he grows increasingly amoral, and now maybe it's his turn to loom over Hannibal, or they become partners in crime. Knifeplay.
Rest assured that nohing mentioned here is a must-have. I'm an omnivore in terms of fanwork consumption. So if you have a specific idea you're dying to use, and it doesn't hit anything on my "Please do not inlude" list, feel free to use it! If you get inspired by one of these prompts but would like to take a different direction with it than specified here, absolutely go ahead. I think fanworks tend to turn out more enjoyable when someone really enjoys making it.
General prompts:
- Seasonal themes, especially spring and summer.
- Lying in the grass, looking up at the sky.
- Pining. Can be one-sided or stay unresolved within the fanwork.
- Courtship: ritualistic; normal, easy-going dates; serious; wacky and unexpected.
- Kissing: especially lips, back, palm.
- Clothes-sharing
- AUs: canon-divergence, fantasy, omegaverse, roleswap, werewolves
- Holding hands
- Dreamy, fantastical backgrounds/landscapes for art - stick 'em on clouds or bubbles or giant dandelions or something, I'll love it. It works for fic too where the canon has room for it, like with Digimon, Inception, etc.
- Hair kink
- Weddings: grand and fancy; quiet and simple; official; unofficial; strange rituals; familiar and long-awaited; for poly ships.
- Sharing a bed. Or some other sleeping spot - couch huddle? floor pile?
- Homestuck fusion, or a crossover of the "characters of a different canon play SBurb" variety.
Please do not inlude:
- For art: breaking the fourth wall, with e.g. characters posing for the viewer rather than interacting with each other. Omegaverse.
- Non-canon character deaths
- Rape
- Cheating/infidelity
- Fisting
- Sex involving characters under 16
- Cannibalism as anything more than a brief mention.
- Steampunk
- Unrequested ships
- Zombies
Digimon Adventure 02
(art, fic)
English dub or original names are both fine. I'm using dub because that's what I watched, but I've consumed a ton of fanworks with the original names so it all works for me.
Davis/Tai
I love them for the hero worship, the shared understanding of leadership and jockhood, and friendship. Prompts: Something with a big Davis-->Tai crush, requited or unrequited. One really missing the other during some kind of separation. Fighting together. Anything with them hanging out with their digimon, or even other digimon. Established relationship, on a date. PWP. Relaxing in Digiworld. A look at their later lives (but not with them breaking up, please, have it AU. Or the epilogue progeny could be their clones, frankly, and they're married): I love that noodle cart, and being a Digiworld ambassador sounds intriguing - maybe Davis joins in on a long ambassadorial expedition, or Tai helps taste-test new recipes.
Gomamon/Joe
I once saw someone saying they're like a romcom, and ever since it's been at the back of my mind. Now I want the adventures of a boy and manic pixie dream seal who helps him to lighten up. Any depiction goes: Deep but unspecified connection, or the connection turning into different feelings, or post-canon with digimon/human relationships starting to be a thing? Prompts: Actual romcom AU (though preferably with some weirdness of a human being semi-soulmates with a cute monster-thing retained). Getting to know each other better during Adventure. Other kinds of AU - maybe a fantasy story with an irreverent, easy-going selkie and a ship's medic, or AI Gomamon accidentally gets uploaded into cyborg Joe's system, or something. Gijinka Gomamon. Any cute scene with Gomamon's magic fish. Art-specific: I love that 'falling through the sky, towards each other' imagery in Adventure.
Homestuck
(fic)
Jane Crocker/Feferi Peixes
(Any quadrant) Two heiresses, who have looming shadows within that inheritance hanging over them, and big plans brewing in the backs of their heads ... and possibly with too much of a tendency to take the brakes off those plans, but at least that keeps things interesting. Prompts: Anything featuring horrorterrors. Sudden instant attraction that they (or only one of them) don't quite know what to do with. Going swimming together. Disagreements and agreements on ruling strategies. A post-game Feferi who has gleefully given up on bothering with long-term plans and this having more of an effect on Jane than she would have thought.
Davepetasprite/Jasprosesprite
They could just be hovering and talking to each other and that would be enough. I find them batshit and delightful, and love that they offer deeply bizarre happy endings for characters that were unlikely to get them otherwise. Prompts: Xeno - animalistic, strange hybrid genitalia, different social mores. Praise kink would be good too. Doing something weird and gamebreaking with their off-the-chain powers. Both of them on Earth C. Jasprose helping Davepeta with whatever it was Davepeta set off to do (aside from hugging Arquius).
The Condesce/Colonel Sassacre
(Preferably redrom) This relationship managed to stick it out in two universes and I'm dying to know how it worked out. The pies in faces. The mutually incomprehensible wooing. Did the Condesce's evil take a break around him so she could put her jewel-bedecked feet up, or did Sassacre have his own streak of appreciation for ruthlessness and a mind dedicated to conquering? Probably Sassacre was asked to dress up as a clown sometimes; I bet he did careful research on this. Maybe even something angsty and a little wistful, with the Condesce happy to be able to get onto Alpha Earth and get another run of married life.
Davepetasprite/Gamzee Makara
I figure Gamzee had a bit of a blackrom interest in Dave, and he also killed Nepeta. And now Nepeta and Dave are one godly, light-hearted, confident being. I'd love them to feel like they can match him, and to confront him about his wrongdoings in general and them in particular, and then blackrom ensues. Prompts: pitting obscure game secrets against each other. Nightmares. Aftermath of a mutually-agreeable fight, with blackrom grooming (probably involves lots of pinches). Outside POV being baffled by all their weirdness.
Jane Crocker & Dirk Strider
They have this weird almost tense, but not really, friendship that I'd love to see more of the ins and outs of. Dirk being upfront about intending to be the secret power in the shadows to Jane's go-getter leader, and Jane just laughing it off, was particularly dear and hilarious to me. Prompts: First getting to know each other. Helping each other through tough times - maybe when isolation is wearing on either/both? Discussing their kinks. Going horse-riding together. Dumped into yet another universe (feel free to go for a crossover) and how they work together to find their way back. More Pony Pals stories, or maybe telling Pony Pals in-jokes that everyone else sort of ... stares at them about.
Gamzee Makara/Chahut Maenad (Chahut's troll call summary: http://whatpumpkin.tumblr.com/post/168017520455/troll-call-and-dont-forget-to-find-out-your)
(Any quadrant) ...I just really like clown trolls now, that's where Homestuck has me. Prompts: Size kink with Chahut being bigger than Gamzee in at least one dimension, taller or wider or genitalia-wise. Actual maenad Chahut/Dionysus Gamzee, or actual maenad Chahut/acolyte Gamzee (whether or not there is any mangling, also humanstuck is fine). Discussions of faith and any kind of clown bullshit worldbuilding that entails. One as mentor to the other, or perhaps a bit of a hero - maybe they manage to cross-timeline troll each other by accident, since Trollian seems to be capable of anything.
Aradia Megido/Vriska Serket
"[S] Make her pay" messed me up, the way Aradia hated Vriska coming across so personal at a time when Aradia's emotions were barely accessible. And I think Aradia was one of few people who made a proper dent in Vriska's view of herself. I would enjoy wild black passion between near-forces of nature. Or! It would be cool to have something where all that old hate is fairly background, because times and incarnations have changed. God tier Aradia and Vriska-lost-in-the-void or (Vriska) might not have that potential black conflagration in them at all - maybe another quadrant, or a hatred less likely to wreck them and everyone else they value, more stable. Prompts: no-Sgrub AU and how an uninterrupted relationship might shake out. AU where Aradia never died during the revenge cycle. Sharing historical notes. Helmsman Aradia. Auspistice relationship (with Terezi would be great, but pick whoever works; humans or sprites also welcome).
Gamzee Makara & Karkat Vantas
I like this as a relationship of extremes of feeling - I can take fluff and sweetness like you would not believe and would equally enjoy messy fuckery and emotional pain. Prompts: Becoming friends back on Alternia. Pale pining. Anything about what they thought about each other or how they interacted in the retcon timeline, where the friendship seems to have fallen by the wayside pretty completely. (I like the lite grotesquerie of fridge clown, so feel free to do something with that.) Nepeta witnesses/hears about interactions that makes her start shipping Gamzee pacifying Karkat as one of her OTPs (as was mentioned in that Murderstuck minigame). Mind-control, whether anything in canon, or Gamzee using chucklevoodoos with terrible intent, or hey, maybe he saves Karkat from Kurloz using chucklevoodoos.
Kuprum Maxlol/Equius Zahhak (Kuprum's troll call summary: http://whatpumpkin.tumblr.com/post/168509068260/troll-call-another-two-for-one-curious-about)
(Any quadrant but pale) It just really sounds like their weirdnesses surrounding class and hierarchy could intersect beautifully and godawfully. Feel free to include Kuprum's energy-sapping pal/parasite, they seem like they ... just hang about all the time. Prompts: How did Kuprum find out about what happens to strong psychics - does he do illegal things Equius would disapprove of in fighting for the Empire? Kuprum is a strident online crusader, but in person he presents quite differently (at first). Equius is the lead engineer who straps Kuprum into a ship and ten tons of helmsman kink ensues. Kuprum is so enthusiastic about his place in society that it actually manages to weird Equius out.
Inception
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Dom Cobb/Saito
That 'young men together' line and Cobb searching for Saito in such dangerous territory were great to me. That sense of potential, sacrifice, and a connection-but-not-quite makes me want more. Prompts: Sugar daddy-ish relationship with Saito buying tons of stuff (whether or not Cobb actually needs a sugar daddy). Cobb's thoughts on many things as he continues his search, including thoughts on Saito. Post-movie recovery - I love that shot of Saito at the airport at the end, still so uncertain of reality. AU where Saito is the one getting incepted - does Cobb get to a point where he has second thoughts, because there's something about this guy? Different-setting AUs - a fantasy one could be cool. Anything with lavish dream settings (canon or not). Anything showing them at the tops of their respective games - Saito in business, Cobb in dream architecture or something else that he takes up post-canon. Art-specific: dressed in casual clothes.
Note: I DNW infidelity but Saito already has a mistress, and so presumably a wife, too. I'd prefer no mention of them, a break-up and divorce, or amiably open relationships.
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
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Stephen Black/Mrs Brandy
I'm intrigued by how Mrs Brandy fell in love with Stephen and he didn't notice a thing. Or maybe he didn't conceive of it as a possibility? Prompts: AU where Mrs Brandy makes her affection clear. A snapshot of what each of them thinks of the other in canon (so one-sided is perfectly fine). Mrs Brandy asks for help with the magic changes wrought to her goods by the fairy gold, and it leads to more. They see each other again post-canon - Mrs Brandy takes a wrong turn and comes across Stephen in Fairy, or perhaps Stephen takes a moment to go back to England to seek familiar places and faces. An exchange of gifts - maybe a few more (much nicer) (probably still kind of weird) fairy presents left for Mrs Brandy, plain but delicious home-cooking for Stephen.
Katekyou Hitman Reborn!
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Chrome/Kyouko
Every time the girls show Chrome kind and uncomplicated friendship I could die, because it is adorable and what I most want for Chrome. Kyoko edged into the shippy lead because of that panel in the Arcobaleno Arc where Chrome starts tearing up and goes in for a hug. Implicit trust and hurt/comfort, I love it. Prompts: Kyoko has a flame and Chrome helps her to use and handle it (I prefer mist or sun). Food kink. Anything that plays with their personal oddities a little - like Kyoko having a slightly off-kilter sense of humour or repressing things to the point of blocking her own memories, and Chrome's tendency to be socially way off the norm. Hurt/comfort. Suddenly, Kyoko discovers that she is now kind of part of the Kokuyo Gang, due to her girlfriend (and possibly has fun acting feral, to fit in).
Kyouko & Ryohei
Prompts: How they've influenced each other, with Ryohei being gentler than he seems and Kyoko more rambunctious. Genderswap. Managing their protective urges regarding each other, learning to support each other in more ways than that. TYL interaction vs. present day interaction; TYL Kyoko pings me as having been kept in the dark about the mafia, while present Kyoko now knows the truth, which Ryohei was upset about, and I'd love something that contrasts the two different paths. The two of them having to escape enemies together. Does Kyoko ever cultivate fighting power? (If she gets a flame going, I like her as mist or sun.) Any sibling bonding TYL: watching sport together, Kyoko teaching Ryohei to cook, etc. One desperately trying to heal the other/treat wounds after some serious injuries.
Kyouko/Tsuna
I love the sweetness and the funny qualities to this ship. Sweet: They grow closer and become good friends, and Tsuna's crush keeps on trucking as his concept of Kyoko moves away from her simply being an ideal figure. Funny: it kills me those times when Kyoko realises that she might think Tsuna is attractive and proceeds to look like it gave her an aneurysm. Poor Tsuna, but it is hilarious. So anything with them stumbling around attraction and occasionally feeling gobsmacked by it (Kyoko on realising she's thinking of her good buddypal that way, or Tsuna on figuring out his massive crush is getting reciprocated) is great. Prompts: genderswap. Wedding. Tsuna keeping that good-luck charm Kyoko made him unto perpetuity, and cuteness ensuing on her finding out. Time travel shenanigans. Vampire AU. Something about how mafia life changes and tempers them - the scene between Tsuna and TYL Kyoko is fascinating to me in that sense.
Les Misérables - Hugo
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Courfeyrac/Marius
I'm yet another person suckered by 'I have come to sleep with you'. But translation choices aside, I love how terribly awkward Marius is and how Courfeyrac rolls with it, though with a lot of teasing. It feels like Courefyrac knows that his friend is Like That and just enjoys his company anyway (when Marius isn't acting too weird to share it). Prompts: vampire Marius (an inspiration post). Little moments when they hang out together. Accidentally (?) falling into bed together. Courfeyrac surviving the barricades. Fashion plate Courfeyrac helps Marius out with his self-presentation, and things get hands-on. Marius helps Courfeyrac with something political (smuggling plans, making arrangements to have illegal pamphlets printed, idk) - and maybe, on successful conclusion, there is triumphant kissing? or things go wrong, and then a rescue?
Cosette/Courfeyrac/Marius
Courfeyrac/Marius for funny, awkward, adorable friendship, Cosette/Marius for hilarious courtship with real sweetness, and Cosette/Courfeyrac because I think it'd be sunshine and delight but would also offer a chance for Cosette to expand her mindset and independence a little more. Prompts: I enjoy that trope where Courfeyrac is the sex guru friend who helps loosen the poor dear innocents up in the bedroom. Vampire Marius again! Quiet evenings in, somewhat wild evenings out. Dancing. Courfeyrac/Cosette or Courfeyrac/Marius happens first, and much navigation of feelings and relationships ensues. 2x lawerly assistance for Jean Valjean, and also 2x noticing his lovely daughter. Crossdressing.
Marvel Cinematic Universe
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Peter & Granddad Quill
There's a deleted scene from after the battle of Xandar, with Grandpa Quill looking at a photo of Peter and Meredith and then up at the stars, while standing in what is probably the field Peter got nabbed from. TEARS 4 YEARS. Please give me anything on them: Grandpa Quill's thoughts at that moment. How they got along before and after Meredith's sickness. Thinking about the other in the years they're apart - what did they learn from each other that they decided to keep? Meeting again. Or Peter sending his alien friends to meet Grandpa on his behalf because he's laid up after Infinity War, and the picture Grandpa builds of him that way. Hugging.
Korg & Miek
They are weird in my kinda way. I think I started loving it with Korg's continued relaxed attitude in the face of the gross question 'so is that like, ectoplasm, or are you laying eggs?' They probably roll with absolutely anything about each other, whether they or other people think it's bizarre. Prompts: their survival on Sakaar. Life in the gladiatorial games. Becoming part of Asgard (or not?). How they communicate. Miek's opinion on revolution. Xeno similarities/differences/culture/etc. Miek was laying eggs, and now they're hatching - cue taking care of the 'kids'. Art-specific: Miek riding on Korg.
Bruce Banner/Valkyrie
Instant admiration and affection, disastrous coping methods, knowing and not knowing each other ... I want the various parts to their relationship to get a chance to shake out into something more solid. Prompts: Dealing with the Bruce/Hulk switch. Life on New Asgard: the Space Ship. Going for a ride on a winged horse. Sweet tender sex that Valkyrie totally surprises herself with really enjoying. Viking AU with berserker Bruce and warrior/valkyrie ... Valkyrie. (Well, Brunnhilde.)
Scott Lang/Sam Wilson
They got to be buddies after that apologetic fight in Ant-Man, and now I really want gap-filler for how that happened. And also romance! This ship also taps into a place where I'm happy to have deeply fluffy AUs. Prompts: on the run post-CW. Dates crashed by super hero-related incidents. How the "Tic Tac" nickname started. Settling back into normal life once the CW legal issues get sorted out, but missing the time when they were together constantly. Trying out each other's superhero gear. AU where only one of them is a superhero and is trying to keep it quiet. Established marrieds. Art-specific: high-five. Hanging out along with their friends, lots of joking and laughter.
Bruce Banner/Tony Stark
Bruce missed Tony so much! I love their understanding of each other and Tony making a dent in Bruce's shields when they met, and I really loved all the signs of affection in Ragnarok. And now I want Bruce to have some Tony time, it'd make him happy. Prompts: talking about alien stuff, but hopefully not setting off Tony's PTSD (or whatever lingering issues Bruce might well have). Fantasy AU with alchemists. Fanart-specific: rocking out to music. Or maybe a band AU, which could totally be fic too. Sleeping draped all over each other in a lab. Composing messages to each other they can't send.
PS: Pepper/Tony as an open relationship in the background or foreground OT3 Bruce/Pepper/Tony totally works too.
Heimdall/Loki
I was getting the impression that Heimdall is constantly getting an idea of the 'truth' to what Loki's up to before anyone else. The suspicions from when Loki was merely a sneaky prince, knowing that 'Odin' was about to send people after him, welcoming him back when he came to help. I'd love to know how his views of Loki changed over time. Prompts: discussing rules and the breaking thereof. Relaxation after a long, difficult day. Indulgences on board the Asgard ship. Adventuring somewhere in order to get goods for the ship, and finding they make an excellent team. Heimdall keeping an eye on Loki through the years, as much as he could, finding himself unable to quit the habit. Loki does something that looks traitorous, but Heimdall has noticed a few hints that it's not so simple and stands by him.
Gamora/Loki
Both seem to have a newfound tendency towards empathy and inclinations towards good ... mostly good ... that they are still working out. And chances are that they knew each other, or heard of each other, while both of them were with Thanos. What do they think of the 'new' versions of each other? Prompts: it's actually kind of a relief to be with someone who knew the 'bad' you, so you can relax a little. Gamora has to go on a more subtle mission than she's grown used to, and Loki and his illusions help. Hurt/comfort. Trying to work together through mutual distrust brought on by knowing each other through Thanos. A scene of surprising protectiveness (from either or both).
Heimdall/Thor
Loyalty kink omg. And the 'let me see through your eyes' long-distance telepathic link thing? Intriguing possibilities! There's a very practical and yet personal way that Heimdall interacts with Thor - this is s king, but also someone he likes, and someone he can agree with in the actions he takes. I just want them to get each other. Prompts: fighting alongside each other. Arguing about which potential actions to take, and surprising themselves because it's about the first time they've ever fought that way. Thor getting to know Heimdall when he's more relaxed and not quite as deferential as he used to be when Asgard was whole. Piecing together the history of what Asgard was. Grieving together. PWP with long-distance semi-telepathic sex or masturbation (seriously, I liked that scene).
Loki/Stephen Strange
There could be such a fine balance between these two. Loki's been shown that Strange is no one to mess with, but my suspicion is that Strange set the encounter up carefully to keep both Loki and Thor as wrong-footed as possible, so that he had the upper hand. Now I want some push and pull. Prompts: Strange finds the edge of danger to the relationship a remarkable turn-on. Magical ambushes turn into accidental dates. Both of them enjoying comforts and extravagance. Sitting and reading together. Bound to each other by some or the other magical artefact (and bonus points for reaction from the Cape of Levitation). Wong snarking at both of them. Strange caught at Loki's mercy, at least for a while.
Mantis & Guardians of the Galaxy
Four-year pass in-universe between Vol. 2 and Infinity War, which means there is little chance of seeing how Mantis is absorbed into the GOTG group. I want that growing closeness and her development. Maybe Groot adopts her on the Drax Principle, where she's his favourite weird aunt but he loves fighting with her. Does the topic of her (potentially) watching Kraglin & the other Ravagers drop off kids come up? Does she work with the goal of officially earning a 'Guardian' appellation? And there are the difficulties of getting along with Gamora, having to learn her own needs (she doesn't even know what her antennae do!), maybe wanting to talk with Peter about Ego, dealing with Drax's worse tendencies as well as enjoying his friendship, Rocket's volatility... Or, something about what kind of music she likes. Let her at that Zune.
Loki/Steve Rogers
That time in TDW when Loki copied Steve made me sit up straight. Oho, you noticed him in such detail! I want more about how Steve struck him, even through everything that Loki was up to at the time. Maybe the mind stone helped? Prompts: AU where Steve is captured by the mind stone too. Accidental soul-bond. Having to fight alongside each other. The tesseract zaps WWII Steve (and Red Skull?) somewhere that Loki spots them, and he decides to go see what's up. AU where they meet back in the old days in Brooklyn, and get into a ton of trouble together.
Pacific Rim
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Hannibal/Newt
Because they shouldn't really be together but actually work out pretty well. Hannibal should be beyond this dumbass nerd, but seems to have a streak of dumbass nerd himself, since that eye injury makes it look like he also tried drifting with a kaiju. Newt should be terrified of this giant unpredictable gangster, and he is, but also busts into his place shouting at him. Prompts: Newt semi-transforming into a kaiju, cue xeno kink. Roleswap: scientist Hannibal and gang boss Newt. Baby Otachi imprints on Newt and Hannibal wants it alive to make sweet cash moneys out of; ta-da, world's unlikeliest adoptive family. Simple, natural deployment of size difference kink. Sugar daddy Hannibal. Kaiju cultists cause them trouble. The Anteverse affects Newt and he grows increasingly amoral, and now maybe it's his turn to loom over Hannibal, or they become partners in crime. Knifeplay.