Battleship 2024 Dear Creator Letter
Hello Battleship Buddy!
I hope you're as ready for this exchange as I am! Or even more ready!
My requests that fit squares/opt-ins (Board 1):
Rape/Noncon: My Callum/Finnegrin request in Dragon Prince is for non-con, and you only have to watch one episode!
Trans character: Terry and Kazi in Dragon Prince
Female character of color: Janai and Kazi in Dragon Prince
Language barrier: Amaya and Janai in Dragon Prince- Janai is learning sign language
Non-Human POV: Any of the elves in Dragon Prince, Vision in WandaVision
Adoption: Rayla in Dragon Prince, and I would love to read an adoption fic for Cressida in Bridgerton
Other opt-ins:
Asexual spectrum headcanons
Under-Negotiated Kink
Omegaverse
Art likes:
I like grayscale artwork, linework, comic strips, Post-It art, whatever's fun for you this month!
I like sky-like palettes, like blue-yellow-gray, or earthy palettes like red-brown-dark green.
I like it when the artist puts the palette on the side, though I understand that doesn't work for every style!
I don't use wallpapers but if you like making lockscreens, that's cool.
I'd love to see a new style you're working on that maybe you haven't mastered yet, or just whatever kind of materials/style you have the most fun working with.
I like AUs of characters playing sports.
DNWs:
Suicide
Head or eye trauma, except for concussions
Apocalypse, dystopia, pirate, or mob/mafia AUs.
Fandoms and ships are not listed in any order of preference.
The Dragon Prince:
I think this show has amazing characters and character development for a kid show, so I'd love to read something similarly light- and pure-hearted as the show, but I also think there's a ton for room for more complexity and gray area to develop. I'm fine with things being 'post-canon' or at some unspecified future point, and I'll be watching the new season as soon as it comes out, so if that's during Battleship please feel free to incorporate or ignore anything from there as well.
Amaya & Callum & Ezran: Understandably as there have been a lot of plotlines happening at once, but I'd love to explore their familial relationship and what it means that they're all each other have for family at this point, even as/even though they may go create new ones.
Amaya & Gren: They have such a sweet relationship. I'd like to see them interacting with the backdrop of Amaya/Janai, or Gren/Kazi, or Amaya becoming more ingrained in Sunfire elf society. How does their relationship change as life moves on, and how do they support each other?
Janai & Kazi: It's hard to decide up front if these two are actually friendly or if they're just colleagues. If the former- how did that happen? How does their friendship change after Aaravos poisons their city? If it's the latter- are they forced to become closer as Kazi's knowledge is needed more often, or as Kazi gets closer with Gren.
Gren/Kazi: I do have a soft spot for sweetheart/sweetheart ships. The two smart, nice people getting to be smart at and nice to each other? Sign me up. I'd also be very down for a sedoretu or polyamory situation with Amaya and Janai.
Amaya/Gren/Janai: Established Amaya/Gren before she meets Janai? Or did Janai and Gren find some chemistry while he helped her pick up some sign language? I just think they'd be cute :)
Amaya/Janai: God these two are so great *happy sigh* Battle couple, melding together two cultures, Janai learning a new language for Amaya, what will they do about succession?? Janai suddenly being an aunt to several kids who are the WORST at keeping themselves safe. The actual work of ruling over a people who are unable to inhabit their city. So much going on for these two! I also have a smutty request for these two, but I feel like the tags there are pretty self-sufficient. Just them getting to get down with another sexy warrior and show how much they love each other and maybe discover some differences between human and elf physiology,
Amaya & Janai & Rayla: This is what I was thinking about with the adoption tag :') Rayla has had such a rough go with parent figures, and she's attached herself enough to Ezran & Callum that she could almost qualify as a niece for Amaya anyway. I want to see her getting the supportive adult care she deserves and giving Amaya and Janai someone so care for an protect after all they've lost.
Callum & Ezran: They're lucky in that they have similar communication styles and a lot of love and respect and faith in each other. I'd like to read something about how their bond changes and grows as they grow up, take on new responsibilities, meet new people.
Callum &/ Rayla: Whether shippy or not, I like how these two sort of bounced off each other in the first arc, and then how they've been stuck in that weird place of 'I don't forgive you, but you're still my best friend' in the second arc. I'd like to read about Rayla returning to the Moonshadow elves with Callum (maybe as diplomats or after they get her parents out of the coin) and having to navigate how she's changed in comparison to her home, along with how they're reacting to how she is now, and Callum. Really anything about navigating their relationship while dealing with politics or saving the world.
Ethari & Rayla & Runaan: It feels like their plotline is at a standstill until they get Runaan out of the coin. So at that point- what happens? Rayla didn't run away, and in fact she did potentially save them from a worse war if the human kingdoms had marched against Zubeia as one. But, if Runaan hasn't felt the passage of time inside that coin, he could still be pretty mad about how it went down. Is Ethari ready to leave it all in the past? Can Rayla forgive either of them? Would everything be happy, except for how her parents came back, or her relationship with the humans? Lots of potential here. (I hope they get here is Season 6!)
Ezran & Rayla: These two don't get a ton of screentime alone together. Do they deepen their friendship when they have to go on a quest together, or as part of a diplomatic mission? Or are they each other's easy, uncomplicated friendship even when everything else is hard?
Rayla & Terry: I think that Rayla could use some of the grounding techniques that Terry used on Claudia. Or just a laid-back friend to make her relax sometime. It would be really cool to see her help Terry get adopted into the Moonshadow elf society, or Katolin society. Just somewhere where he'd be embraced.
Callum & Terry: If these two ever got to meet and be on the same side, I bet they'd be the best of friends. Just talking about cool plants until the others have to make them stop to come to dinner. Or maybe Terry's caretaker habits would kick in and he'd have an eye on the clock. But I think he'd be excited to help Callum try and crack the Earth arcanum.
Claudia/Terry: Literally just finding someone who matches your freak. I love how they're so silly together and supportive of each other. I think that's something both of them needed. I also loved that Terry was able to pull Claudia back from the darkness a little and give Rayla the coins. I think that shows how good of an influence he is on her. I'd love to see them get a happy ending. I also have a smutty request for these two, but I think the tags are pretty self-sufficient. Just them getting to have fun and explore and be goofy and maybe discover some differences between human and elf physiology,
Claudia & Soren: These two had a lovely relationship at the start, before their dad put the schism on them. I don't know if Claudia post S5 is coming back from the dark side at all, but I'd read someone trying. Maybe she's imprisoned, but he still comes to visit her and hopes that she'll get out someday. On a happier, more AU note, I would love to read them as a close sibling pair looking for two more for a sedoretu.
Corvus/Soren: These two seem to have a good relationship despite Soren being how he is and how they first met. Did they bond over their shared sense of duty to Ezran? Or... was it a soulbond! Either way, I like their dynamic. For a prompt, maybe how the relationship fares when Soren comes home after Claudia dies/turns fully into a mermaid/etc.
Callum/Finnegrin: I wish there was a non-con freeform? Because this is it. I'm not looking for Stockholm Syndrome, and frankly you don't even need to watch the rest of the show to be able to write for this ship, just Season 5, Episode 8: Finnegrin's Wake. The whole episode is as explicit a case of domestic violence as a kid's show could get away with between Finnegrin and his first mate. They literally have him shouting about 'power and control'. Personally, I read the part where he's trying to force Callum to do dark magic as non-con coded, especially along with the off-screen torture. And then Callum looking haunted at the end and uncertain how to communicate about it with Rayla? Yes, the trauma of this Dark Magic will be coming back. Callum canonically turns 17 earlier in the season, but he's also the High Mage of his kingdom, so you can frame it as underage or not in the characters' conception as you please.
Bridgerton
1: Cressida Cowper: I think the show did a great job of humanizing Cressida and showing how she's doing her best with what she's got, not that that's saying much. I'd love for her to end up with some people who are able to be more supportive of her and help her develop into a better person. I'm cool with any romantic or friendship.
WandaVision
Pietro Maximoff/Monica Rambeau: Kudos to whoever came up with this! I would love to see any combination of these two. I'd like something set after the show, but the show does not have to have happened the way it did in canon. There does not have to be an explanation! It does not have to make sense! But I think they would understand each other.
Vision &/ Monica Rambeau: I'm picturing this post-show, but however this happens I think they would both be exposed to someone very interesting who thinks in a way they haven't encountered before. It would be cool to see Vision comparing/contrasting working/being with Monica to being with Wanda.
Men's Hockey RPF
Vince Dunn/Adam Larsson: I'm a fan of assigned relationships in a kneeling or D/s verse or an ABO verse. Anything with sudden heats or any sort of dynamics that create biological and/or sudden needs. If you feel like writing anything along the lines of the D/s courting verse, that would be fantastic. A mundane BDSM fic would also be tops!
Creator's Choice of Recipient's Completed Ao3 Works to Illustrate/Podfic/Remix
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