Dear RMSE Creator,

I'm greygerbil on AO3, thank you for writing or drawing for me! Right from the start, I want to say you don’t have to do anything with my prompts, they’re just here in case you want some ideas. If it has my pairing and avoids my DNWs, I’m sure I’ll enjoy it! All ratings are great. I included a list of my general likes and smut likes which apply to all my requests. When it comes to kinks, you can include anything not listed under my DNWs.

Feel free to entirely erase the existence of canon relationships or break them up if they get in the way of the pairings I requested, whichever works best with what you’re trying to do.

Fic where the couple is not yet together but clearly in love, or on the road to getting together, or having their first time kissing/in bed together are great. However, so are established relationship fics. Whatever suits your ideas!

Some prompts may read like ideas for longer fics, but if you’re interested in them, please just grab a scene with the general idea out of the middle of those hypothetical longfics and write me that! I love fic of all length and don’t want anyone to feel like they have to go above the minimum word count. I just get excited writing prompts sometimes.

Considering the number of canons I have where you slaughter your way through untold heaps of NPCs, I should also point out I generally have no problem with gore, blood, and graphic violence.

Table of Contents

DNWs
Likes
Smut Likes
Art Likes
Mass Effect Trilogy
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game)
Assassin’s Creed
Granblue Fantasy
Vampyr
Yuri!!! on Ice
魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī
陈情令 | The Untamed
Middle Earth Books

DNWs and Likes

DNWs

• permanent death of requested characters (they can die temporarily and come back to life, though; if a character canonically dies and is not part of the pairing you’re creating for but just requested in a different pairing, they can also die; MDSZ/Untamed characters can also stick around as fully conscious fierce corpses or fully conscious spirits)


• requested characters cheating on anybody


• unrequested open relationships or poly for requested pairings (threesomes can start out as open relationships between two or three of the characters, or have two characters simultaneously fall for a third, or have unclear FWB-who-are-pining lines, but I'd like them to eventually become closed triads and for no one to deliberately cheat on someone else while it’s clear that the rules of their relationship don’t allow being with others)


• unrequested noncon including sexual assault attempts (mentioning/discussing/describing canonical instances of SA & noncon is fine, as is mentioning noncon that doesn’t happen to or between the requested characters; and of course, if I request a tag including SA or noncon or have a prompt that includes it, it is totally fine to include as well!)


• completely unhappy endings (vaguely hopeful or bittersweet is fine, just not full dark)


• smut involving underage characters (under 18) (it can be referenced as backstory if the character is 15 or older at the time, like as something they did when they were younger, but I wouldn’t want any explicit scenes with underage characters)


• unrequested non-canonical incest (for requested characters, not a problem for background characters)


• ageplay, diaper play, daddy or mommy kink


• raceplay


• scat, emetophilia


• necrophilia (MDSZ/Untamed’s fierce corpses with full human-level consciousness wouldn’t count as this for me, neither would fully conscious spirits)


• cannibalism, debilitating mutilation of requested characters for sexual pleasure, vore


• crackfic (humour is great, but I don’t enjoy complete randomness)


• high school/college AUs (other modern AUs as well as all other sorts of AUs are fine; modern or Modern AU characters just going to school or college as part of their life at some point is also no problem; basically, I just don't want it to be the main setting)


• 1st and 2nd person POV (they are fine for epistolary fic and mock articles/social media entries/documents/research papers, though)

Likes

• UST (and also eventual resolving of UST)


• friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, enemies to friends to lovers, friends with benefits to romance


• battle couples fighting together


• loyalty kink


• admiring competence/skill


• sparring


• protectiveness


• possessiveness


• hurt/comfort


• fluff


• mpreg


• kidfic


• epistolary fic


• angst


• arranged marriage turning into marriage of love, characters pretending to be in a relationship falling in love


• tough characters being driven to their breaking point


• character who is suffering trying to soldier through


• hurt character trying to comfort distressed person who is helping them


• dancing


• one partner manhandling the other


• focus on height differences if applicable


• PWP


• Soulmate AUs, played straight or averted


• Kemononimi AUs (I don’t even need an explanation, though having one could be fun, but feel free to just give somebody animal ears and a tail)


• Wing AUs


• Modern AUs


• I also enjoy A/B/O AUs and gave some ideas who I’d like to take which role in the header under every pairing. Male omegas can have the male cis gender set of genitalia or have a vagina in addition, either is fine for me! Alphas can have knots or not, whichever you like. For mpreg childbirth, A/B/O or otherwise, feel free to give them new genitalia to manage it or just have an anal birth or a Caesarian. Male lactation is also fine to include.

Smut Likes

• rough sex


• slow, loving sex


• marking with biting and love bites, scratch marks, bruises


• overstimulation


• focus on hands, fingering, handjobs


• intercrural, intergluteal


• oral


• anal


• rimming


• body worship


• first times (in general, or with that partner, or with a partner of that gender)


• BDSM, D/s, honour bondage (as well as regular bondage)


• generally playing around with dominance, one character calling the shots very clearly, or both challenging each other during sex, fighting for control


• however, I also love smut that is just really vanilla and fluffy and gentle


• for vampires (and other people who don’t do lasting damage to each other): bloodplay

Art Likes

Generally, I enjoy a wide variety of different art styles, from realistic paintings to manga to western comics to 3D/render and pixel art and everything in between, so please feel free to go with whatever you enjoy. I like black-and-white lineart just as much as elaborately shaded coal or pencil drawings and, of course, colours of every sort, traditional and digital alike. I’d very much like to see my requested pairings in your style, but if you have a specific stylistic idea, that’s always super fun, too.

Literally any motive that indicates the picture is shippy would always be appreciated, from hand-holding to explicit porn. I’m also always here for pictures of battle couples in action, if you enjoy fight scenes, or the characters doing simple, everyday things together and enjoying themselves. I also have pairing-specific art prompts under the entry for each pairing.

Mass Effect: Trilogy

Male Shepard/Javik
Javik is possibly my favourite companion in ME3 and I love his interactions with Shepard. He’s so abrasive, but the longer you talk to him, the more you realise that the glorious Prothean empire they taught them about when he was born was really already a long lost memory in ruins and he lived his whole life in a total dystopian nightmare, only to wake up to the next apocalypse. I like Default Shepard just fine, but feel free to make him look different and give him a different first name. Paragon, Renegade or Paragade/Renegon (mix-and-match choices) all work, too, though I wouldn’t want a Shepard who is totally irredeemable. I also like Javik having touched the Echo Shard, but would not want him to go through with his plans to kill himself (but feel free to have him stop at the last possible moment). As for the Endings… whichever one you want, as long as Shepard lives somehow, really! I’m not a fan of any of them and I’d also be totally fine with an AU ending or with the Crucible just being a big Reaper-targeting gun. For smut, I prefer bottom Javik. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Javik. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Javik and alpha or beta Shepard (scenarios where only one species has A/B/O or they have A/B/O systems that aren’t completely the same are also fun!).

• I would love for Javik and Shepard to still be out there helping people after the end of the Reaper war. Javik doesn’t really have a place in the new world yet except at Shepard’s side – and him realising that his place being there is true in many ways would be great.


• Javik and Shepard fighting together and being big damn heroes. That’s it, that’s the prompt. Would especially love it if they had complimentary skills, like perhaps a soldier or vanguard Shepard who makes use of the biotic setups that Javik can create, or whatever else you can think of.


• Was there even time for something like romance back in Javik’s day? Or was it all forbidden by their multitude of strict rules to keep people focused? Did people do it anyway? Whether Javik ever had a real boyfriend or not, the man’s definitely dead now (and considering probability, may actually have been one of the indoctrinated people from his ship that Javik was forced to kill). With all that in mind, how does he go about starting a relationship with Shepard?


• What about Shepard? Did he have any romantic entanglements? Maybe he’s just over that break-up with Kaidan or Ashley in ME2 (other former romances are totally fine, too, though), or swore off relationships a while ago for some other reason, and now there’s Javik and suddenly, on the eve of the apocalypse, Shepard wants more.


• Shepard is interested in Javik, but there is an extinction event going on and they’re both twelve flavours of traumatised. But when Shepard recovers after the Crucible incident, suddenly him and Javik have some time and get closer.


• Javik and Shepard tell themselves and each other the fact that they keep falling into bed together is just them letting off steam. It’s definitely more.


• Paragon Shepard (or hell, maybe even Renegade Shepard!) enjoys cuddling, hugging, physical affection in general. Javik needs a little while to get used to it, but finds he’s just as touch-starved as Shepard and really loves it, to his own embarrassment.


• Maybe Javik is the one who is unexpectedly touchy-feely with a partner – after all, Protheans communicate and read through touch. Shepard didn’t think he’d be into it, but he actually totally is.


• Generally, I’d prefer for Javik to have genitalia that is somewhat comparable to humans, whether he's biologically male or intersex. I don’t think it was ever said how Protheans procreate, or how many sexes/genders they had, aside from like one line from Javik that may or may not have been another weird Prothean joke. Three or more sexes/genders or just one, like the asari, could also be options, after all. Javik and Shepard intimately exploring each other would be a lot of fun either way.


• Javik had his trysts with half-opened armour on some military cots back in the day and that’s probably how it went with Shepard at the start, too. It’s really the only sort of sex he knows. Now, after the war, they suddenly have time. Cue Javik getting really flustered/insanely turned on/probably falling even harder (or all of the above) when Shepard decides to spend an evening going really thorough and slow.


• How does the Prothean touch-reading thing work with sex? Maybe Javik is unfailingly good at predicting what Shepard wants him to do in the moment? Maybe Shepard asks Javik to be as vocal as possible to pay him back in kind, since he can’t do the same for Javik?


• Shepard is suffering from PTSD in ME3. Maybe Javik notices through his touch-reading or just context clues and surprisingly turns out to be quite helpful? He must have some strategies to handle it, considering, well, his entire life. Maybe they can also heal together.


• Javik gets hurt on the battlefield, but fights on. This is pretty normal to him as they didn’t have much time for any not totally necessary medical treatment back in his day. To his surprise, after the mission is over, Shepard sits him down in the shuttle (or wherever) for some first aid to hold him over until he can get to an actual doctor. Javik probably gripes that it’s a waste of time/resources, but boy does it not help his crush on Shepard.


• Javik bodyblocking for Shepard or otherwise saving him at the risk of his own health. It’s totally just because Shepard is the avatar of this cycle and not because Javik has a big crush on him.


• If Shepard has one of the firmer personality types (Renegon, Renegade, or even an outspoken Paragon) I could see him and Javik clash often at the start. Their frequent arguments lead to them getting to know each other, though, and they find they have common ground as well.


• The Crucible really is a straight-forward Reaper-killer weapon and the destiny-choice machine was an indoctrination hallucination. Shepard fights through it and uses the weapon and then meets Javik again (maybe collecting a traditional hero’s reward in the form of a kiss?).


• If Javik touches the Shard, he will want to kill himself to be with his crew. I would love for Shepard to either talk him out of it or become the person Javik wants to live for (not the most psychologically healthy thing, maybe, but let’s face it, the bar is low for Javik), and maybe from there Javik can go on to establish a real foothold in the new cycle, too.


• Shepard and Javik building a new life for each other after the war and getting used to peace (something which Javik has never actually seen before and Shepard hasn’t experienced in a while), whether that be on a Spectre ship or in a house on a quiet farming colony.


• Spacer Shepard introduces Javik to his mother (and father if he’s around).


• Shepard and Javik adopting some war orphans and perhaps settling down after the war would be cute. Also, in case you want to go for mpreg, maybe Protheans can get pregnant by any species, like the asari. Shepard is eager to help Javik repopulate the Prothean race (Javik being mpregnant the mammal way or laying eggs both seem equally likely here).


• For Art: An illustration of any of the above prompts would be amazing. Fight scenes would be great, as would be seeing them just chilling together – cuddling up as they sleep (not that they’d admit it), Shepard helping Javik explore the new cycle, watching the stars, maybe visiting the Citadel or some garden colony world or Shepard’s home together (whether that’s where he grew up or some other place with significance for him). I’d also love a picture that shows some small, gentle gesture of affection between them, even as they are both hardened warriors. Them exploring an old Prothean ruin would be interesting, too. I’d also love a picture of them both undressed (not necessarily smut, though I’m not saying no!), contrasting their bodies. What does Javik look like underneath the armour? Does he have wings like some of the collectors?

(I also have a letter dealing with heats, sex pollen and A/B/O, one for soulmate tropes, one for epistolary fic as well as in-universe articles, one with smut prompts, one for marriage tropes, and one with an AU focus for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)


Original Male Character/Javik
Javik is possibly my favourite companion in ME3. He’s so abrasive, but the longer you talk to him, the more you realise that the glorious Prothean empire they taught them about when he was born was really already a long lost memory in ruins and he lived his whole life in a total dystopian nightmare, only to wake up to the next apocalypse. I’d love for him to get a partner with whom he can experience this new cycle. For decisions in the game, I also like Javik having touched the Echo Shard, but would not want him to go through with his plans to kill himself (but feel free to have him stop at the last possible moment). As for the Endings… whichever one you want! I’m not attached to any of them and I’d also be totally fine with modified endings or with the blunt idea of the Crucible just being a big Reaper-targeting gun, if that suits your story better. I am fond of Shepard surviving, but it’s not a must. For smut, I prefer bottom Javik. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Javik. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Javik and alpha or beta OMC (scenarios where only one species has A/B/O or they have A/B/O systems that aren’t completely the same are also fun!).

• Maybe Javik starts dating an OMC who travels with Shepard (either ship maintenance or an OMC companion). If so, that relationship could be developing during ME3. Perhaps they fall into bed together and are immediately head over heels, or maybe it’s something that develops from FWB to something more romantic? Perhaps it’s also a slower, more careful approach that directly blossoms into romance.


• A male drell would be an interesting choice for Javik, especially if they follow the religion of the Enkindlers.


• I could see Javik getting along with krogans (for the battle-ready nature) or turians (for their duty to their state) very well. The quarians pretty much always need all the help they can get, so maybe he ends up with them for some reason and meets a male quarian who interests him. And though he’s suspicious of AIs, perhaps he starts taking an interest in a specific geth unit (another exception to the male category, since they’re genderless, but the Reaper code changed them, so perhaps this unit considers himself male, or decided to go with male pronouns). Then, of course, there are humans. If Javik is stranded on Earth for a bit after the war, there’ll be an abundance of those taking an interest in him.


• Fleshing out the Multiplayer Classes into characters is great, too. We only have their little wiki descriptions, but I’d also be happy for someone who doesn’t match them at all and found his way to the frontlines a different way. Who of that group might appeal to Javik and vice versa? How does he get to know them better? (This group also includes the Awakened Collector Adept, which could be interesting for obvious reasons. I have some prompts for that specific scenario here, if you want some ideas!).


• His boyfriend talking Javik out of killing himself to join his dead crew would be very appreciated. Similarly, Javik being quietly influenced to not do it by this new relationship and only revealing what he had originally planned later would also be interesting.


• Now that the fighting is over, where does Javik go? He doesn’t have a home, probably not even any money. Maybe he can join one of the militaries, perhaps the one his boyfriend belongs to? Or maybe he really wants to do anything else but fighting so he takes another job and meets his boyfriend there, or his boyfriend invites him to live with him. If his boyfriend is someone with their own ship, maybe that’s where he goes?


• How does Javik settle into a world after war? He only knows peace from echo shards. It’s going to be difficult to handle. And what about his boyfriend? How much combat has he seen, what has he lost? Can they lean on each other for this?


• Javik not knowing what to do with himself and helping with the rebuilding somewhere and meeting a random civilian and falling for them would be a sweet twist, too.


• Maybe, when the galaxy has stabilised a little, his boyfriend can take him sightseeing to one of the major worlds or a place that is special to him.


• Has Javik ever been on a date? Was that a thing Protheans did? Was it something they used to do, but didn’t when he lived because wasn’t the time or opportunity anymore? Javik getting to go on a normal date with drinks and a movie or something would be fun.


• Different cultural courting strategies!


• I feel like a species who communicates so much through touch could like cuddling/hugging/general contact. Now, Javik probably wouldn’t admit that, but him latching on to a boyfriend, or his boyfriend figuring out how touch-starved he is and helping out, would be very sweet.


• For Art: An illustration of any of the above prompts would be great. I also like Javik’s design a lot and would love to see him out of armour – not for smut, necessarily, but I’m not saying no! Does he have wings like some of the Collectors? Also, Javik will eventually need to find a set of clothes that is not a bulky armour. Maybe he steals some from his boyfriend? He has a humanoid build, so it might work. Generally, I just want to see him and his boyfriend having a reason to switch into civvies, though. Generally, Javik and his boyfriend visiting the planets of the new species, maybe trying the food, seeing the sights? Or his boyfriend bringing him to a Prothean ruin? Or the boyfriend’s own home? Also would love fluff of the ‘Protheans are touchy-feely’ variety – maybe Javik is a cuddly sleeper?

Mass Effect: Andromeda

Jaal Ama Darav/Evfra de Tershaav
I always thought these two would make a sweet couple. Jaal is very much the quintessential angara with his emotional honesty, whereas Evfra seems unusually closed-off for his kind. Opposites attract! However, they also have a lot of ambitions and skills in common, both being passionate fighters for the freedom of their people. There’s also this conversation (with timestamp at 1:47) of Jaal praising Evfra to Drack, which just sounds like he may have a crush. Whether it’s set before, during, or after the game, it’s all great. For smut, I prefer bottom Evfra. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Evfra. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Evfra and alpha or beta Jaal.

• Evfra obviously can’t be on the frontlines all that often since he’s running the Resistance, but we do see that he goes out to fight sometimes, like at the end of the game, and he’s known for being good at it. Jaal and him kicking some ass together would be great.


• Evfra and Jaal going out to some of the planets the new map established and finding old angaran worlds would be cool. Or maybe Jaal just taking him to an especially beautiful, newly rediscovered place! It would be very nice for Evfra to get out a little.


• The angara pushing the kett back in some place and Jaal, who helps at the front lines with Evfra, proving to Evfra how much he has learned in his time with the Pathfinder (and making Evfra’s crush on him that much worse).


• Jaal being with the Pathfinder will obviously make Evfra pay more attention to him. He always figured that he was a very capable soldier (he even calls him his best in one conversation in the game), but now Jaal is showing other talents, too. Naturally, Evfra starts to work more closely with him and suddenly they spend time together...


• Evfra is well aware Jaal has a crush on him, but he’s likely at least 10 years older and has a lot of baggage, so he doesn’t think he’s the right person for Jaal. However, Jaal is persistent and charming and talented and Evfra isn’t made of stone, no matter what people say.


• Evfra has a bit of a crush on Jaal that he’s not going to tell anyone about, ever, counter to how angara usually act (and perhaps also for the reasons stated in the prompt above). Jaal finds out somehow, anyway, and is quite intrigued.


• Evfra and Jaal, true to the angaran habit of emotional honesty, start sleeping together to let off steam. But what happens when they start pining? Because Evfra might not be so honest about that and Jaal might think it means he’s not interested... how do they manage to get together?


• Angara are wild about family, so I’d love Jaal and Evfra tentatively thinking in that direction if they have been together for a while. There are probably lots of orphans around and I’d love the option of adoption (maybe one kid started following Evfra or Jaal around?), but maybe some angaran males can also get pregnant? Being mpregnant might not help Evfra’s mood, but building a life with Jaal sure would.


• If they’re together before the Pathfinder mission starts (or just sleeping together, but realising how much they miss each other being separated this much), I would love to read about their brief but surely passionate meetings whenever Jaal is back on Aya.


• Evfra is a fairly severe and headstrong guy and maybe Jaal thinks Evfra wants to top and thus leaves that spot to him – which Evfra doesn’t mind at all. He’d just also like for Jaal to fuck him, but it doesn’t seem like Jaal is interested and surely someone like Jaal would tell him, since he’s so open about everything else. Jaal is maybe just suffering from a bit of timidity in front of the leader of the Resistance, or thinking that since Evfra very rarely speaks about what he wants or likes, he should go by his best guess. He in fact would very much like to top Evfra. Can they figure it out?


• I’d love for them to do something light-hearted, like explore a kink together (although if you want some inner conflict, maybe it’s a kink one of them is ashamed about – my go-to suggestion is Evfra wanting to sub or Jaal wanting to Dom and wondering what the other would make of that, but feel free to go for something totally different, too!).


• Jaal finds out that Evfra used to sub to his late husband (and/or perhaps to others) and is very interested. Evfra eventually agrees to teach him. Basically, I really like experienced sub/newbie Dom, so, this is that!


• Evfra may have lost a husband (and perhaps even children) with that family the kett stole from him. I could see Jaal being the first person who reawakens the desire to have a lover and/or a family again. How does he deal with it?


• Jaal is still somewhat unsure of his way in life when he goes with the Pathfinder. I’d love it if becoming more secure in his role also led him to realise he wants to take a shot at dating Evfra (and if Evfra finds this new confidence low-key quite attractive).


• Jaal introducing Evfra to his big family as his boyfriend. Obviously, every angara knows who Evfra is and Jaal even has family in the Resistance, but this would be a very different context. How does Evfra deal with suddenly being swept up in a typical giant angaran family again after shutting himself off for so long after losing his own?


• Jaal and Evfra writing messages and e-mails while Jaal is with the Pathfinder, chatting, videochatting, just having a budding (or established) long-distance relationship.


• Both Jaal and Evfra worked themselves ragged lately. Maybe they get to take a few days off together after the kett have been pushed back?


• Whatever the angaran equivalent of a marriage proposal is! That, and the build-up towards it/what happens afterwards would be awesome.


• For Art: Any of the above prompts would be great, of course. I really like the design of the angara, so seeing the two of them together would just be neat. The two of them working together on something Resistance-related or fighting side by side sounds awesome. I’d also like to see them relaxing, though: Evfra napping against Jaal’s shoulder because he just pulled a 48 hour shift at Resistance HQ; Jaal covering Evfra’s entire bedroom floor in weapon parts while Evfra is watching him while working from the bed; the two of them on one of the old or newly discovered angaran homeworlds or colonies (they’re all so pretty in their own ways).

(I also have a letter dealing with heats, sex pollen, and A/B/O, one with smut prompts, one for marriage tropes, one for pining tropes, one for mpreg and kidfic, one for hurt/comfort tropes, one for epistolary fic and one with an AU focus for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)


Avitus Rix/Evfra de Tershaav
Evfra and Avitus would make for a great couple, I think. They’re both no strangers to loss and to fighting and leading. Avitus, especially if he accepted the role of turian pathfinder, is basically walking Evfra’s path of trying to push back against what killed the loved one he lost and they might appeal to each other in that way. However, I could also see Evfra having compassion for Avitus if he became a mercenary – sure, Evfra did something different in response to trauma, but I imagine there must have been points in his life where he considered giving up, too. Maybe Avitus becomes a contact on Kadara and later Evfra’s mercenary, getting his second chance that way? And then there’s the turian SAM if Avitus is a Pathfinder... we know very little about this SAM, other than that he got thoroughly shaken by Macen’s death. How involved is he? For smut, I prefer bottom Evfra. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Evfra. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Evfra and alpha or beta Avitus (scenarios where only one species has A/B/O or they have A/B/O systems that aren’t completely the same are also fun!).

• The turian pathfinder is put in charge of assisting the angara with rediscovering other possible homeworlds. This means Evfra and Avitus now work pretty closely together. Over time, a connection sparks between them.


• I have a letter dealing with the turian SAM’s involvement in their relationship, so if you’re interested in exploring that (perhaps even to the point of basically making it Avitus/SAM/Evfra, if you’re so inclined), that would also be cool.


• Mercenary Avitus seems to keep away from factions on Kadara, mostly helping settlers. This gets him on Evfra’s radar as a possible contact on Kadara. After meeting him in person a few times (a mercenary who can move among the new aliens is pretty handy) and getting some intel from Jaal, Evfra feels like Avitus deserves the second chance he obviously wants to deny himself. Evfra did not plan to become this closely involved, though.


• Mercenary Avitus taking more and more important jobs from Evfra, eventually realising that he’s kind of helping people again, and that he’s enjoying it, and that he really likes working with Evfra.


• If Evfra and Avitus have both lost their partner (Evfra could have had a husband among his lost family), it’d be sweet to see something melancholy and slightly hopeful. Maybe one of them gets drunk on the anniversary of their partner’s death/disappearance (for Evfra, also because of the other people he lost) and the other joins them and just stays around as a shoulder to lean on. And maybe through that, they come to realise they really like each other.


• Maybe, as pathfinder or mercenary, Avitus becomes one of the first Nexus people to settle on Aya to stay with Evfra. How does he integrate into angaran society? Can Evfra help him?


• Avitus and Evfra exploring a rediscovered world together. Maybe Pathfinder Avitus even prepared it (Vault etc.) and now gets to show it off to Evfra? Or maybe they’re setting foot on it for the first time together?


• Evfra bringing Avitus to where he used to live before everything went to hell with his family. Where is Evfra’s home? And is Evfra bringing him to show him some of his life, or is it a coincidence that they are there for a mission and Avitus eventually has to ask why Evfra seems so tense?


• Avitus showing Evfra around the Nexus, or maybe taking him for a ride to a new world on his pathfinder ship. I’d love to see more about Avitus growing into the pathfinder role/gaining the confidence to face the people at the Nexus again if he’s a mercenary.


• Avitus and Evfra together in a fight! Battle couples are awesome and the leader of the Resistance and an ex-Spectre are going to make a hell of a team.


• But also, Avitus and Evfra getting to relax. Maybe they have a drink at a bar on the Nexus or in a private space, or talk to each other about anything and everything, or they just nap on each other or have slow, passionate sex.


• For Art: Any illustration of the above would be great. Angara and turians have fairly different character designs, with the angara being more made of round lines and the turians all hard spikes, so just seeing them together halfway or fully undressed would be interesting (could be porn, but also just be them bathing or lounging in bed together). A kiss or forehead bump (because of missing turian lips) would be cute as well. The two of them working on something together, whether at the HQ or in the sense of fighting together, would be cool – I love couples being competent together. However, I’d also love a picture of the two of them stretched out on some pretty beach or meadow on Aya or enjoying themselves sight-seeing on the Nexus or a colony world.

(I also have a letter dealing with marriage tropes for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)


Original Male Character/Evfra de Tershaav
Evfra is my favourite character in this game. I thoroughly enjoy how gruff he is and that his guarded personality makes him such an outlier amongst the angara. Yet, the man has dedicated his life to helping his people, shouldered a lot of responsibility, and the few times you manage to dig a little deeper in his dialogue, it’s clear that he cares about them and even starts to accept the outsiders once they have proven themselves. Please give this grumpy guy with the good heart a boyfriend! For smut, I prefer bottom Evfra. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Evfra. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Evfra and alpha or beta OMC (scenarios where only one species has A/B/O or they have A/B/O systems that aren’t completely the same are also fun!). There are some ideas for the OMC below, but feel free to go wild as long as the character isn’t related to Evfra and isn’t underage.

• Evfra is not the most approachable person and people greatly respect, and, as the game suggests, often even fear him. How does the OMC break through his tough shell?


• Or maybe, unexpectedly, Evfra has been in a relationship with someone for a while now, but never really made it public? Would love to see everybody’s reactions when it eventually becomes clear.


• Evfra lost his whole family – perhaps also a husband? It’s very unlikely, but maybe, through some great stroke of luck, that husband is still alive all those years later? But I’m sure this much time in a kett labour camp would have changed him and Evfra must be a much different person now, too, having worked his way up from what seems to have been obscurity to the leader of the Resistance. I would love to see them rekindling their relationship. (If they had other partners in the time in between, thinking the other was dead, I’d like for those not to have been serious relationships.)


• Probably to Evfra’s own surprise, it’s one of the alien newcomers who manages to win his heart. Is it a contact he knows from Kadara or someone else he gets to know on the Nexus?


• However, I'd also love to see an angara as the OMC. Is it a Resistance member, a politician, a random civilian, or maybe even an angara from a newly discovered world which was up to now cut off from the others?


• Evfra enters a political marriage with someone from an important family and figures it will never be more than a marriage of convenience, but then the two actually fall in love.


• Fleshing out the Multiplayer Classes into characters is also always fun. We only have their little wiki descriptions and a handful of voicelines. Who of that group might appeal to Evfra and vice versa? How does he get to know them better? In-game, they were APEX strike teams, but there were angaran characters, too, like the Insurgent and Exemplar. However, I’m also open to a completely original APEX guy.


• I enjoy battle couples, or couples who otherwise work well together in some capacity if your chosen boyfriend for him isn’t into fighting.


• However, I’d also enjoy Evfra getting to take a bit of time off for once with his lover. What do they do to relax?


• Evfra and his boyfriend exploring one of the new places discovered through Meridian.


• Evfra working hard and falling sick/growing exhausted and his lover ushering him home and making him rest; and if Evfra’s sick, it would be sweet if his lover hung around to care for him even with the angaran taboos around talking about sickness.


• Evfra probably hasn’t been on an actual date in ages. I would love for someone to take him out to have a drink or private dinner or maybe watch a movie, just some normal stuff that Evfra probably did in the past but has basically forgotten about by this time.


• Someone is openly flirting with Evfra, which throws him off a little. He’s not exactly opening himself up for contact, after all. Still, we see Evfra doing well with people who put it out there (when the Pathfinder tells him the reason he should let them help is that they get things done, he says “Bold. A little arrogant. Like me.” and doesn’t seem annoyed by it). Maybe he actually agrees to a date, if only to test if the guy means it? And he does.


• Evfra likes karaoke. This is actually canon (well, if Liam’s intel is good, anyway). Maybe his crush/boyfriend can coax him into leaving work be for a while and singing a few songs? Is there a lover’s duet? I don't even mean this in a crackfic way, I just want Evfra to get to have a little fun.


• For Art: Any of the above scenarios would be great. I love the design of the angara in general and Evfra in particular, so chances are I’m already happy about any picture where Evfra appears. I would love to see a picture showing a small gesture of affection between his boyfriend and him – or, if his boyfriend is more obvious about his feelings, maybe a big one, like Evfra getting stealth-hugged from behind. I would also love to see Evfra and his lover on the boyfriend’s home-world, whichever one of the three you want to give him, on the Nexus or in the Andromeda Initiative colonies if his boyfriend is not angaran, or generally in some lush newly discovered place. I’m also very into battle couples, so if his boyfriend is someone who fights, too, that would be a great picture. On the other hand, I would also like to see Evfra relax, so him sleeping against his boyfriend’s shoulder or just hanging out with him half-dressed in bed or eating breakfast or at a bar would be sweet.

Cyberpunk 2077 (Video Game)

Male V/Delamain
Okay, so a taxi service is certainly kind of a new one for me as far as characters I love go, but Delamain and his relationship with V are great. I really like his perspective on humanity and how he purposefully sought out a job where he has a lot of contact with humans and their chaos because he enjoys adapting to it, and also that he seems to have a concept of beauty and some philosophical thoughts on humanity. V also seemed quite impressed with Delamain and considering how many bad things happen around and to V, Delamain seemed like a bright spot in Night City.

From non-lethal to highly dangerous, I’m happy for any interpretation of V that’s not on the road to becoming full cyberpsycho, with any look and origin you prefer. I’m not into major character death, so if you’re setting it post-ending, it’d be great if Mr. Blue Eyes could find a way to keep V alive, or if V found a different way to cheat the 6 month time limit (this doesn’t have to be part of the story, you can just handwave it). As for Delamain, I’m happy with him being Delamain V.2 (Reset), Delamain Jr. (Merge), Excelsior (Destroy), or for V to find a way to keep Delamain V.1 intact while also releasing his other personalities, in case you’re setting it after Don’t Lose Your Mind.

I prefer Delamain to bottom, but considering his state, those roles might not even be applicable considering he doesn’t have a human body. He can get an android one, though! Or not, both is fine! The only thing I’m not really interested in is objectophilia/sex involving the cars too directly (sitting in the car to jerk off to be close to Delamain, or playfully touching or patting the cars outside of sex would be perfectly fine, though). If you wanna do A/B/O and V is an alpha or a beta who is into omegas, maybe Delamain adjusts his mechanical body accordingly to be closer to that of an omega.

• V moves heaven and earth and spends significant money and/or effort and/or resources to quickly cobble together a solution where he can preserve the original Delamain while also releasing his other personalities. Delamain is thankful, but not sure why V went through such trouble to keep him. V eventually has to admit it’s because he’s in love with Delamain.


• A V who is already flirting/FWB with Delamain (but secretly pining for more) resets the Core, but did not expect Delamain’s backup to set him back so far. He’s depressed until Delamain sends him on a mission to retrieve some data his previous version apparently considered very important. Turns out Delamain’s last act was to make a backup of all memories regarding interactions between the two of them because it was so important to him, and now Delamain can make that re-merge within himself.


• V goes for the Nomad ending and takes Excelsior or Delamain Jr. (or basically any Delamain who can be contained within one car) with him. Delamain growing into a Nomad setting with the Aldecaldos would be really fun. I’d also love the two of them just bailing from Night City and setting off on their own adventure, too.


• V lets Johnny have the body, joins Alt, and goes to find Delamain in cyberspace. Delamain helps him to become a stable presence and retain his personality.


• For the Night City Legend ending, one of the speculations is that Mr. Blue Eyes is an AI. Maybe Delamain can cajole him or steal the secret he has that might allow V to continue living, even if Mr. Blue Eyes doesn’t end up holding up his end of the bargain. Alternatively, Delamain hits up his own AI contacts and finds his own solution. Is that when V realises Delamain likes him a lot? Or are they already together?


• Maybe V tends to be closed off from others after losing Jackie, but once he gets his Delamain taxi after Don’t Lose Your Mind, he gets in the habit of talking to Delamain and starts to build a relationship.


• However, I also kind of like the opposite idea, where he’s more social and starts to introduce Delamain to Viktor and Misty and Judy and/or whoever else he’s friends with in that playthrough and Delamain learns, through V, to have friends, too. How do their friends react to V’s and Delamain’s relationship if/when they find out?


• For that matter, what does Johnny think about V falling in love with a whole-ass taxi service?


• I want V to cause devastation to his enemies with the Delamain combat function at least once more. I was so sad the taxi you get doesn’t have them anymore! Maybe a scene of that?


• The Night City Legend ending seems to indicate that the split-off Delamain goes back to running his taxi service (you do get in a Delamain AV), which makes sense, since he seemed to enjoy it. However, I’d also love to see V help Delamain explore other parts of humanity, maybe a hobby? Maybe Delamain, being into beauty, could like art? Or maybe Delamain only plays taxi for V alone at this point and has a whole different occupation?


• I also think V wouldn’t necessarily have to drive his Delamain by himself (I mean... it’s a taxi! And Excelsior will eventually figure out how to drive, too, I’m sure). The two of them having a slow cruise through the city and V enjoying the sights while chatting with Delamain on autopilot would be great.


• I’m not really into objectophilia, so I’d prefer if V wasn’t sexually attracted to the cars/having exhaust pipe sex or anything, but I could see the cars or building being part of their sex life? Maybe V likes to jerk off sitting in the Delamain car(s) (or in the AV) or inside the HQ/core room just because he feels closer to Delamain that way. Maybe Delamain helps along with dirty talk, too?


• Maybe Delamain can experience sexual pleasure, but it’s a bit different than with humans. Luckily, V happens to be a techie, gets himself a good cyberdeck and figures out exactly how to press Delamain’s buttons. I could also see V meeting Delamain in cyberspace and the two of them having weird but very fun code-sex there.


• So V has been through hell and back and yeah, he’d like to have sex, but he’s really just happy that someone in this weird city earnestly loves him, even if it’s an AI, and if sex is not in the cards, whatever. Then Delamain gets an android body to surprise him. The body could have a biologically male configuration or also have a vagina or be able to switch if Delamain guesses V might be into that. I’d love it if the body looked a bit like Delamain’s visual representation, too.


• As with the prompt above, Delamain gets an android body. Maybe before this, Delamain had no way to experience sexual pleasure, but this body has functionality that mimics this, and it’s quite overwhelming at first. V loves to experiment with it and show him all the fun things organics can do.


• Delamain plans to get an android body and since it’s mostly just for interacting with V and Delamain has no strong opinions on it, he involves V in the planning of what it’s supposed to look like/which genitalia he’d prefer etc. V finds this kind of weird at first, but also kind of sweet.


• For Art: Any of the above prompts would be great, of course. I’d also really like a picture of V just hanging around in the HQ or Core or in a Delamain cab, relaxing for once. V sitting on the hood of a Delamain car or leaning on its roof would be nice picture. I’d also love V talking to Delamain on a screen. If you want to go with an android body, V and Delamain, but this time with more than just head and shoulders, would be great to see together. I’d also love to see Delamain’s tarot – whatever tarot card you think would match him – together with V’s Fool, or alternatively with one of the tarot cards that represent V’s endings, or just generally tarot motives in a picture of them.

(I also have a letter dealing with smut, one with iddy tropes, one for heat fic, sex pollen and A/B/O, and one with an epistolary fic focus for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)


Sandayu Oda/Goro Takemura
Takemura was one of my favourite side characters in this game and we didn’t see much of Oda, but I really enjoyed what we got. Though the dignified middle-aged bodyguard in the pretty suit and the cyberninja with the 2004 jrock hairdo and combat gear are quite the stark contrast, their attitudes are plainly very similar. Their backstory is great, too – that at some point Takemura started being a mentor to Oda, probably when it became clear he was destined for a higher position at Arasaka, and that their relationship then developed into a friendship that lasted for a quite a while before the beginning of the game. The push and pull of that friendship against the intense sense of duty these two have was great to watch. Since I don’t like major character death, I’d like both Takemura and Oda to survive (actually possible!). I’d also prefer if Oda were at least 20 when they first start to get to know each other. I prefer bottom Takemura for smut. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Takemura. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Takemura and alpha or beta Oda.

• I would love for Takemura to visit Oda when Oda is recovering from the boss fight. Takemura is probably pretty beat up himself from the ambush on the hotel. Maybe Hanako keeps them stashed away together to keep both their survival secret from her brother? It would be interesting if after this dramatic time they lived through, the two discover their shared romantic feelings. However, I’m also totally here for established relationship – I think things could pretty much have gone down the exact same way even if they were lovers, since they’re both so dutiful.


• The two of them sparring would be great! It’s said that everything Oda knows he learned from Takemura. I just gotta know: can Takemura go cyberninja, too, and has just opted for a different fighting style? Whether he does or whether he has learned to take on Oda through other means, I’m here for it. I'd also love to see them practice sword-fighting if you want to go for something with weapons. Which one wins? Is there maybe a private wager, a “prize” to claim?


• Takemura and Oda both seem like guys who take their jobs seriously and are pretty much married to them, so how does their friendship tilt into romance? Waiting outside a meeting between Hanako and Saburo? Sharing a hotel room between Hanako’s and Saburo’s rooms because it’s just the best place for them to guard both of them? Double missions? Training session? Just on small breaks enjoying good food? All of it somehow cumulating?


• I imagine Takemura and Oda would feel they’d eventually have to reveal a steady relationship to their bosses (could be a security risk, after all!). What do they think? Or maybe someone else saw something and they’re being asked to explain themselves, forcing them to put words on it for the first time?


• I always love FWB to lovers with lots of pining in the middle, so that would also be great.


• Generally, I’d love to see prequel stuff, from when Takemura was still somewhat more Oda’s mentor to when they were friends on equal footing and probably felt like the only people who could really understand each other due to their similar positions.


• The two of them fighting together! Maybe Militech or another rival company is hitting Arasaka and they have to get their charges out of there in one piece, or launch a counter-attack.


• For established relationship, I’d love to see little details: how a rare lazy morning goes, if they have quirks the other rolls their eyes at (maybe Oda enjoys the substandard food that Takemura hates?), moments of gentleness when one gets hurt, etc.


• Takemura talks about cooking in the game once, so apparently that's a skill he has? I'd love to see him cook for Oda.


• In one of the endings where Arasaka struggles, maybe Takemura and Oda are fucked over somehow, as corpos are wont to do, and have to flee to survive. Old dog Takemura might feel like his life is really over now, but Oda could have enough enthusiasm (or spite) left to continue. Oda learning to fight without his Arasaka implants, the two of them joining the nomads as Takemura says he might have liked to do, and/or them generally starting a new life together would be awesome.


• As above, but it's only one of them about to be taken out. However, unlike the situation in the game, it is massively clear that the person is being targeted for company politics reasons and they realise that Arasaka is nowhere near as loyal to them as they are to it. The one who wasn't targeted then decides (possible after much angst and deliberation) that they will be loyal to the other instead of Arasaka and they escape together (would also work well with established relationship).


• Smut would always be great. Are any of those fancy Arasaka implants put to good (if potentially unintended) use? Do they have some uninterrupted alone time or is it a quickie between obligations?


• I love younger Dom/older sub, so if you’re in the mood to write BDSM, that would be great. I could imagine that maybe Takemura hasn’t trusted anyone to Dom him, at least not in a long while, since he can’t chance being incapacitated – but for Oda he makes an exception. Or maybe Oda is the one who brings it up and Takemura makes the decision that he’s going to try it because it’s Oda and then he actually finds he enjoys subbing.


• Related to the BDSM prompt, experienced sub/inexperienced but enthusiastic Dom is also always great. They did say Takemura taught Oda everything he knows... so whether it’s them just starting out or Oda eventually ‘surpassing the master’ and finding something to surprise Takemura with, either would be great.


• For Art: Any of the above prompts would be awesome, of course. As I said in my little intro, I just really like their visual contrast, so I’d love any and all shippy pics with them. Alternatively, a picture where they're both in suits, like the first time we see Oda, would also be great. Oda “pinning” Takemura with his mantis blades during a sparring session (not literally, but maybe ramming it in the ground/wall next to his head), or Takemura kicking his feet out under him or getting one over on him (despite the mantis blades) would be fun. I’d also like to see them undressed, for smutty purposes or just showering together/in bed because I’d really like to see the modifications on the rest of their bodies – they looks pretty heavy from the neck up. Also, even though they’re such hardened soldiers, I’d love to see a picture that’s just them doing couple things: having fancy food together, kissing, hugging, and so on. If you like to have fun with styles, I do love the tarot cards, so I'd also like to see what tarot cards Takemura and Oda might match and maybe a picture of those cards or the characters on those cards together? I'd also generally enjoy tarot motives in a picture of them.

(I also have a letter dealing with smut, one for iddy tropes, one for mpreg tropes and kidfic, one for heat fic, sex pollen and A/B/O, one for epistolary fic, and one with a hurt/comfort focus for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Assassin’s Creed

Bayek/Apollodorus of Sicily
Apollodorus didn’t have the biggest role, but I really enjoyed the often somewhat teasing interactions between them, as it brought out Bayek’s fun side. They’re both driven and confident people, too, and I think they would get along well in the long run. I would like for Apollodorus to survive, if it comes up in the timeline of your fic, and I think with both of them a bit lost in this new part of their life, with Bayek now fully a Hidden One and Apollodorus having lost faith in Cleopatra and her allies, it could be quite interesting to go past the end. As for Bayek’s relationship with Aya, they could break up at an earlier point than in canon, or this could be set after Bayek and her split up; basically, I just don’t want Bayek cheating on Aya. For smut, I prefer bottom Apollodorus. If you include mpreg, I like pregnant Apollodorus. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Apollodorus and alpha or beta Bayek.

• Bayek always seemed more reluctant than Aya to me when it came to putting all his personal connections aside. Perhaps he’s still licking his wound over the marriage ending while keeping on eye on a recovering Apollodorus. Then, they start slowly falling in love over long conversations and Hidden Ones business.


• Or Aya and Bayek break up (whether at the end of the game or earlier) and Bayek, hurt and angry, takes some of his feelings out with Apollodorus during passionate sex. Neither of them expects it to become anything serious, but eventually, there’s a breaking point that reveals their feelings. If it happens before the end of the game, maybe it’s Apollodorus almost dying? If it’s afterwards, maybe it’s some other crisis or even a smaller, private moment that makes them realise they like each other more?


• Generally for FWB to romance (or slightly antagonistic acquaintances to romance), do they realise they like each other quite soon, or is there a lot of mutual pining? How do they eventually manage to turn it into a relationship?


• Being disgraced, Apollodorus has to flee his estate in Kanopos Nome. Since he’s still wounded and easy prey, Bayek takes him in. Apollodorus becomes one of the Hidden Ones, maybe sort of a bureau leader? He was already the organiser of Cleopatra’s agents and spies, so he seems to have talent in that direction.


• Or maybe Apollodorus and the Order of the Ancients are at a shaky impasse, where they won’t admit they tried to kill him and he doesn’t accuse them openly because he knows Cleopatra would likely rule in their favour. So Apollodorus continues to live on his estate, but becomes an important Hidden Ones contact/organiser (in exchange for some protection) and him and Bayek get closer.


• Speaking of Hidden Ones work, Apollodorus can be pretty sneaky, too, as we know (that whole carpet stunt!). So I’m sure he could also go on a mission or two with Bayek and impress him there.


• I’d love to see them fight together! Whether Apollodorus plays bait and tank and Bayek comes jumping out of the shadows or they fight back to back, it would all be great fun.


• Exploring old tombs together, riding through the desert, visiting new places... Origin was one of those games were I immensely enjoyed the world and I would love for Bayek to explore it alongside Apollodorus.


• Bayek’s eagle takes a liking to Apollodorus. This may be because she realises that her owner is quite affectionate towards him as well (or maybe because Apollodorus just feeds her a lot of treats, lol). Can she (maybe unwittingly) arrange an opportunity for the two to figure out that they like each other?


• Bayek was always with Aya and very focused on her. Has he ever contemplated his attraction to men, does he accept it, or is it something he’s pushed away so far? Maybe it’s something he still has to come to terms with. I would love for him to work through it with Apollodorus.


• Smut would be great. Bayek seems to have spent his entire life with Aya, so I assume he doesn’t have any experience with men. Apollodorus is quite a bit older and doesn’t seem to be married, so he could potentially have quite a lot of experience with men and is happy to share with Bayek.


• Maybe Apollodorus stopped bottoming once he was older (maybe he also did it for a little longer than he should have by the rules of Romans and Greeks, but at his current age, there’s really no argument around the fact that he “should” top). However, Bayek doesn’t feel beholden to all these rules and Apollodorus does enjoy being convinced by him. (On the other hand, I could also see Apollodorus being more free-spirited and using the fact that he does not live in the Roman Republic anymore to his advantage, doing whatever he wants in bed.)


• For Art: Any of the above prompts would be great. I like all of Bayek’s looks, but I have a special preference for him with his beard and sideways ponytail from the start of the game, so if you want to go for that, I’d be delighted. I would also really enjoy a picture of them relaxing on Apollodorus’s estate or in Siwa. The two of them crouching in the shadows during a mission or fighting together in the open would be great. One of them patching up the other after a fight (or after Apollodorus gets almost killed) would also be nice. For historical canons like this, I also am obligated to request a picture of them riding on the same horse or camel together. Of course, kissing, embraces, or smut would also be amazing. I’d love a picture that captures their teasing, too, like one of them biting the other’s earlobe, putting their hand down the other’s clothes, surprise-hugging them and stuff like that.

(I also have a letter dealing with heats, sex pollen, and A/B/O in case you're looking for more prompts.)


Alexios/Stentor
Alexios and Stentor have such a deliciously complicated relationship. Stentor is obviously threatened by Alexios’s presence, and Alexios is probably jealous that Stentor got to have Nikolaos as a father whereas Alexios got to be shoved off a mountain. However, considering how attached Stentor is to Nikolaos, I doubt he has any birth family that cares about him, either. He and Alexios might eventually find themselves unexpectedly able to bond over some things. They would also make a great battle couple and their verbal and physical sparring is a lot of fun. I write mostly with protagonist!Alexios in mind, but feel free to go for Deimos!Alexios if you want to, I like him, too. For smut, I prefer bottom Stentor. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Stentor. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Stentor and alpha or beta Alexios.

• I assume since Nikolaos was happy to have his family back and Stentor wants to please him in all things, he decides to grit his teeth and make nice with the new relatives. I would like to see Stentor wondering where he still fits into this family dynamic now that Nikolaos has his ‘real’ children back, and they both happen to be unstoppable fighting machines with god-like powers that outclass Stentor dramatically (which to a Spartan must be quite important) and also one of them sort of saved Sparta from the Cult and won the Olympics. However, in Stentor’s attempts to learn to tolerate his new brother – whether he be Alexios or Deimos!Alexios –, the two end up developing quite a different relationship. The focus I want is on romantic developments, but I also wouldn’t say no at all to Kassandra/Deimos!Kassandra and Myrrine developing a family relationship with Stentor, too, and Nikolaos getting to know Alexios and Kassandra better, and/or reassuring Stentor. Family fluff is great! Well, as fluffy as this family can get... does the five of them fighting through a bandit camp or something count?


• Speaking of stories with a family focus, you can recruit your whole family as lieutenants after the good ending. Alexios sailing around with his family (or just Stentor) on board, calling them into battle to help him, and their developing relationships would be great. Oh, and him and Stentor accidentally falling in love, of course.


• Stentor and Alexios tell the family about their relationship (or get caught red-handed). How does everyone deal with it?


• Alexios and Stentor have to work together to solve some new problem in Sparta – general politics or Cultist related. This forces them to come closer and look at the other one’s strengths and skills and they develop a grudging respect – and more. Bonus if they fight together at some point.


• I also like the idea of the two of them sleeping together but never admitting their feelings until something bad happens to the other. The rest of the family/their friends is very confused when the dude they thought would have been relieved to see the other go, or at the very least hardly bothered by it, flies completely off the handle and runs to go save their lover or has basically been welded to the bedside of the sick man.


• When they meet again in Boeotia, after the battle, perhaps Stentor gets almost assassinated or badly wounded by some Cultist (or other general traitor) in his ranks. Alexios stays around to help solve the problem and they grow closer over it and fall in love, perhaps even stay close in the coming years?


• I also love the idea of them meeting before Megaris and having an affair and genuine connection, a crush, or at least some hot nights together before they know who the other is. That, or a scene after, when it all falls into place, would be great.


• Spartan marriage included a ritualistic kidnapping of the bride. This could be fun with Stentor reintroducing Alexios to some customs of his old and new home by "kidnapping" him, or Alexios deciding to woo Stentor in the traditional way by stealing him away. (Also, Deimos!Alexios doing the kidnapping could be interesting as well, though probably a good deal more frightening at first.)


• To everyone’s great surprise, probably Stentor’s included, Deimos!Alexios and Stentor are the ones who have the easiest time finding to each other because fighting is the primary language they both speak. I would really like it if the two of them managed to take out their aggressions on each other, which at first might be nothing but them funnelling their energy so they don’t actually kill each other (and Deimos doesn’t kill anyone else), but slowly turns into friendlier sparring as they grow closer on other levels, too.


• Anything to do with Alexios’ mythical bloodline! I like the Isu fine, but I also like Alexios just straight up being related to Greek gods, so whichever one you prefer. Do Alexios and Stentor run into mythological trouble together?


• Also, stuff with Alexios and his animals and Stentor's reaction to them. His horse seems to be pretty special (20 foot drop is usually something it can walk off), his eagle is clearly magical, and I'd love a story that works with the Beast Master skill somehow, too (feel free to make it more effective/longer-lasting than in the game). Maybe Alexios has permanently tamed himself a mountain lion?


• If you wanna go the smut-heavy route, I have a preference for Alexios on top, but I also like Alexios and Stentor fighting for dominance. A scenario where Stentor is quite happy to often be the loser (and very, very ashamed about enjoying Alexios topping him) would be great, though. I could also see them using fighting, physical or otherwise, as an entrance into their little dalliances. Do they eventually get a point where they realise that they want to sleep with each other even without almost breaking their noses in a sparring match beforehand? Where Stentor even admits to his preference for bottoming, if he has it in this fic? Enemies to People (hardly friends) With Benefits to Lovers certainly is a great trope for them.


• For that matter, D/s with sub Stentor would also be fun. I could see Alexios as a gentle Dom who turns these situations to his favour subtly and softly (and it’s really good), or the two of them going at it from a consensual but probably not very safe or sane angle, where they work out their frustrations with each other and secretly enjoy having really rough sex (Stentor could be the ultimate brat sub…).


• For A/B/O, Stentor as the angriest omega in all of ancient Greece would be a lot of fun (however, him being at peace with his nature would also be interesting, so whichever way you want to write it). I'd love anything about him with Alexios, seriously, so these are really just ideas. Perhaps a sudden unexpected heat can bring him and Alexios closer together? Literally and figuratively, ehm. Or maybe omegas get treated differently/better in warrior-ethos-focused Sparta than they do in the rest of Ancient Greece, so Stentor has quite a bit of independence there, but him and Alexios need to pretend to be bonded on some mission outside the city because Stentor would not be allowed to go certain places/do certain things otherwise (I love pretend relationship turns into real relationship)? Or the Spartan king decides that the alpha who obviously has shown himself worthy of getting a child on the very decorated omega Stentor is Alexios.


• I wish Phoibe had survived and I feel like a plucky orphan like her might win Stentor’s heart against his will. Maybe Stentor was somehow with Alexios in Athens (in disguise) and managed to save her? Maybe Alexios can save her and brings her to Stentor so he can protect her (she could be his servant/helper like she was to others before)? Stentor doesn’t seem to like Alexios, but Alexios judges correctly that he wouldn’t send an innocent girl to her almost certain death. Or maybe Stentor is the one who tells him that though Phoibe is quite independent, Alexios should try to help her for her own good, even if she pretends she can do it all alone. Either way, through caring for Phoibe, the two of them get closer, too.


• Alexios’ special bloodline needs to be continued. Either by way of an Isu artefact, mpreg just always being possible for some men, or A/B/O, Stentor could be the one to carry that kid. Or maybe it has nothing to do with Alexios wanting to continue his bloodline, but he just wants to have a family with Stentor. I’m also always here for unplanned pregnancies, too.


• For Art: Any of the above prompts would be great. Alexios and Stentor in full armour on a battlefield or in a war camp together (blood covering them optional), or wearing ‘civvies’ like chitons and tunics back in Sparta would be cool. I also enjoy people swapping clothes or armour pieces or wearing the other one’s clothes entirely. I’d also love to see Alexios teasing Stentor, like hugging him from behind or surprise-kissing him. The two of them just sitting side by side, eating, sharpening their swords, reading, relaxing would be great as well. They don’t get a lot of downtime in the game. The two of them riding on the back of Alexios’ horse together would be sweet. I’d love to see Alexios’ eagle teasing Stentor, or perhaps also acting affectionate towards him as a sort of proxy for Alexios (who may not dare to yet). Alexios showing Stentor the Forge or another Isu place would make for a great picture. I like Alexios being descended from actual gods and Greek mythology being real as well, but the Isu, too; so a picture that incorporates mythological creatures, gods, tales with the two of them, whether they be classical or Isu-style, would be sweet.

(I also have a letter dealing with heats, sex pollen and A/B/O, one for marriage tropes, one for smut, one for mpreg and kidfic, one for pining tropes, one for epistolary fic, one for id fic, and one with an AU focus for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)


Original Male Character/Stentor
I love Stentor. He is so angry, so jealous of Alexios/Kassandra, so worried that he will not live up to what his father wants of him, and he’s trying so goddamn hard all the time. I have this headcanon that Stentor is gay because he’s such a perfect Spartan, but doesn’t seem to have the mandatory-by-thirty wife he would need in Sparta. However, I’m also totally fine with headcanons that he’s bisexual as long as he’s dating a man in this story. I’m happy both with historical fics were Stentor being interested in grown men is not considered proper and fics where M/M marriage is already a possibility. I prefer bottom Stentor for smut. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Stentor. There are some ideas for OMCs below, but feel free to go wild as long as the original character isn’t related to Stentor and isn’t underage. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Stentor and alpha or beta OMC.

• Generally, as long as they have a chance at a happy ending, I’m down for pretty much anything. What sort of guy might sweep him off his feet, or at least get his attention? Is it a fellow soldier, or maybe a Spartan man taken out of the fight by an injury who now has other tasks than going to war? Maybe someone not Spartan altogether, but a local resistance fighter loyal to the Spartan cause or one of the non-Spartan inhabitants from Spartan lands, a perioikoi fighting alongside the Spartan warriors or perhaps doing a totally different job? Whatever you come up with would be fun!


• If M/M marriage is possible, Stentor might agree to marry a man to further his father’s family and live according to Sparta’s tradition. Maybe Nikolaos even arranged a marriage, or the kings suggested one? The man would probably be from the upper classes of Sparta. How do they make their arranged marriage work?


• Did Stentor have an erastes? How did they meet and why did he pick Stentor? Was Nikolaos alright with the relationship or did he have to be convinced? Are they still secretly dating despite Stentor’s age now being too advanced for that to still be considered appropriate? (I would like it if Stentor was at least 18 years old when they started their thing, which would be late historically, though not without precedent, but it’s not like AC: Odyssey is one hundred per cent accurate, anyway.)


• Another scenario that might be fun is if a maybe sixteen, seventeen year old, or maybe even a young-looking older teen came up to Stentor at one point and asked to be his eromenos, but Stentor sends him away because he’s not interested in boys. Years pass and Stentor runs into him again and now he’s grown up into a well-spoken, tall, handsome, way too likable guy. To make matters worse, he very quickly recovers his crush on Stentor, who cannot bring himself to dismiss him so quickly now.


• I’d also love to see Stentor take up with a somewhat older man, too, maybe an experienced warrior. Does he help Stentor out as he’s reeling from having to take over Nikolaos’ job without warning? Or maybe the man is already off the battlefield with permanent injury, but a smart person who manages to temper Stentor a bit? Did Stentor used to have a puppy crush on him when he was younger that he somehow can’t get rid off, or does he only learn to like him now when they have a chance to really get to know each other?


• Sort of a specific idea, but I like the idea of a Cultist OC seducing Stentor to get him into the Cult or have him kill Alexios/Kassandra. However, if things went alright with Alexios/Kassandra and Nikolaos, Stentor won’t go for that. Another man fixing Stentor’s broken heart after Stentor realises he’s been used (and in a ploy to get to Alexios/Kassandra, no less – as if his life doesn’t revolve around Alexios/Kassandra enough already) would be great.


• I love me some battle couples, so if the man you choose for Stentor is a fighter as well, I would love to see them fighting together. If he’s not a fighter, maybe Stentor can heroically protect him from some danger?


• Stentor seems like the kind of guy who basically lives in armour, which is what the Spartans want for their men, of course. Still, maybe his partner could make him relax.


• If Stentor can’t marry his lover, perhaps they can still play at it. I’d love Stentor getting kidnapped (or kidnapping) his lover on their ‘wedding night’. I’d also totally want the ritual bridal kidnapping if they can officially get married, though!


• For smut, I definitely enjoy everything listed in my smut likes and would be happy to receive it. If you want a specific prompt, though, I like Stentor working through cultural hang-ups he has about bottoming. Maybe he hasn’t done it before meeting this man? Maybe it’s the first time he’s doing it with this partner? What (or who) convinced him to give it a try?


• For Art: I would definitely love an illustration for any of the above ideas. I also would enjoy seeing Stentor and his boyfriend in ‘civvies’, so maybe in a chiton or tunic or something, just relaxing, or, if they both happen to be fighters, wrestling in nothing but underwear. However, I would also enjoy a picture of them dressed up properly on the battlefield together (or Stentor in full armour being admired by his civilian boyfriend). His partner surprise kissing or hugging grumpy Stentor would be very cute. I also love characters riding on the same horse, so that would be fun. I also like that little scar Stentor has on his lower lip – maybe a picture of his lover touching or kissing it?

Ratonhnhaké:ton | Connor/Clipper Wilkinson
If you don’t quite remember Clipper, well, I don’t blame you! He doesn’t have a big role, but I quite liked him. He’s the Assassin recruit who allows you to order sniping at a distance when you call for your little helpers in a fight. Here is a video with all interactions you have with him directly. Short as it was, I really enjoyed the relationship Connor and him had – how much Clipper admired Connor, and how Connor respected him, and how well their morals matched up from the very start. I think for Connor, it would be great to have someone reliable and good-natured like Clipper in his life, considering how difficult it has been so far. For smut, I prefer bottom Clipper. If you include mpreg, I like pregnant Clipper. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Clipper and alpha or beta Connor.

• It always seemed to me that Clipper hadn’t really found his place in life yet and I think he really would have enjoyed living in Connor’s little village. Connor offers, or Clipper just comes around so often they eventually decide it just makes sense. This affords them many chances to meet and do things together and fall in love.


• Clipper has to leave his place quickly because of Templar-related problems and Connor offers him a room in his house. It’s big and rather empty, after all! Except being so close all the time makes it even harder for both of them to ignore their crush.


• Connor’s story is just generally one that feels rather sad, not triumphant, even though he does eventually get Lee. Clipper being there for him after the end of the game and that bringing the two of them together would be awesome.


• Generally, I would have liked for Connor to have a confidant after Achilles’s death! Despite him living in a village of his own design, he always seemed exceptionally solitary throughout the game. Clipper following him on missions, hunting with him, doing sidequests with him would be great to see.


• After the end of the game, Connor decides he needs a time-out and disappears into the countryside. The Assassins/villagers get worried when he doesn’t return for a while and Clipper, coming from a surveyor family at the frontier, is the one who can actually track him down. Connor didn’t think he wanted company, but he actually enjoys Clipper being around...


• I would love to see Connor teach Clipper Assassin things! And maybe Clipper can help him with his aim with a rifle, being such a great sniper? Perhaps Connor teaches him how to use a bow and arrow in return. This all would afford them a lot of opportunity to get to know each other better.


• How do they handle their attraction to men? Were they both aware of their own feelings? Is one of them more comfortable with it and the other still needs to handle it? I would like it if they worked through it together, of course.


• Maybe a few of the villagers also realise that Connor may have a thing for Clipper and vice versa? They generally seem kind of relaxed about people not fitting into the expected boxes of the time, so it’d be fun to see them try their hand at match-making.


• Smut would be fun! Clipper generally seems like he doesn’t have super much experience, and I think someone on the writing team actually said that Connor is a virgin throughout the whole game (so him either having no experience or very little would be interesting). Seeing the two of them fumble through and have a lot of firsts but also fun together would be really appreciated.


• Maybe one of them thinks the other must definitely be more experienced (Connor is so self-confident and attractive! Clipper is very personable and has been around many parts of the country!) and so they don’t dare approach the other because they feel they would disappoint them in bed, or they are at least nervous about sex. How do they figure out neither of them is exactly Casanova?


• For Art: Any of the above would be great. I would love to see the two of them fighting together or sitting on a rooftop together to spy on a target. However, I’d also enjoy them being alone up there because it’s just a good spot to hang out (and maybe share a secret kiss). Connor and Clipper in the village or otherwise out in nature, which I’m sure they both enjoy, would be great, too. And, of course, with a nature backdrop comes a great opportunity for romance or smut out in the wild. I would also really enjoy a picture of them riding on the same horse together. Finally, the two of them just hanging out in Connor’s house would be great to see.

(I also have a letter dealing with heats, sex pollen, and A/B/O in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Granblue Fantasy

Justin/Valentin
I had too much fun with these two. Whether they were rocking on stage, doing way too public casual BDSM stuff or being catty music critics, they really seemed to get along very well for two intense personalities that might be somewhat challenging to deal with for ordinary people. Whether during their time with the Vicious Three or later, when it was just those Vicious Two left killing guitarists, or after they’ve been drafted into Aoidos’s new band, I’d love to see more of them together.

For smut, I prefer bottom Valentin. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Valentin. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Valentin and alpha or beta Justin (however, alpha or beta Valentin being “forced” (willingly) into the omega role by Justin would also be fun). Valentin does seem to be indestructible for some reason, so feel free to take a loose interpretation on the DNW “no debilitating mutilations for sexual pleasure”. If all his body parts stay attached and he’s not permanently disabled in some way, I’m totally fine with it (even if they do stuff that really should permanently disable a human being, as long as Valentin bounces back from it...).

• Fine, Justin is going to play Aoidos’s goddamn ballads. However, he’s going to have to let his frustration out on somebody. Valentin is happy to volunteer (he might start enjoying this kind of music just for the side effects it has).


• We know Valentin will take hurt and humiliation wherever it comes from and that doesn’t really bother Justin. Yet at some point Valentin collides with somebody who actually finds it pretty fun to play with him and leans into it. Justin realises rapidly he’s not actually okay with Valentin having other “main sadists” next to him anymore. I’m sure Valentin wouldn’t mind the resulting punishment from Justin at all, though perhaps he’s a bit confused about it (and maybe happy when he realises the reason)?


• Once Justin’s ‘weakness’ has been established, Valentin provoking punishment by flirting with other Doms/sadists etc. would also be fun. Justin’s happy to teach his bad sub better manners!


• Valentin always figured that between the three of them, Justin and Benjamin really had the tighter bond (in the sense that Justin was singularly fascinated with Benjamin and his talent). Now that they’re back with Aoidos, it stings a little bit (for once not in the good way) that he probably won’t have as much of Justin’s attention anymore. Turns out Justin actually is still very interested in Valentin, perhaps to his own surprise.


• Related to the prompt above, but could also be set before that: Justin dealing with the concept of falling in love would be amazing. Being obsessed with Aoidos is kind of logical given his world-view, but actually being in love? What is he supposed to do with that?! And it’s Valentin, who isn’t even some outstanding musical inspiration like Benjamin, so there’s not even a justification.


• Similarly, Valentin trying to come to terms with the ideas that he’s in love with Justin – it’s not like he’s much better adjusted, either. Does he try to court him and what would that look like? Gifts, sex, confessions? Maybe a love song with a little blood and violence (or invitation for Justin to commit violence)? Does he think he doesn’t have a chance because, well, he’s no Benjamin, so it’s all pining until it (hopefully) gets better?


• I would also like to see them make some music together – whether it’s one of the concerts where they kill their criminal guitarist, or whether they’re just practicing. Obviously, they both have pretty high standards, after all! Justin seems to have taken over as songwriter as well, too, so maybe Valentin helps him find some inspiration in that department.


• I love that if Aoidos’s new band sticks together, that would theoretically mean Justin and Valentin are now hanging out on the Grandcypher. They’re probably not even the weirdest people there, to be honest, so why not. Would love to see them settling into their new life. (Alternatively, I would also like them to adjust around Aoidos’s new style if they do travel with him without the others.)


• What does a regular day without a gig look like for these two? They seem to have worked as mercs sometimes, do they still? And what about days off? I’d love to get a glimpse into their normal life, whatever that means for them...


• Playable Justin and Valentin is my fever dream and the event described them as attack dog and shield/sandbag respectively, which sounds like DPS and tank to me, so it’d be interesting to see them fight! If you wanna do h/c, I would love Valentin getting bodied beyond the point where it’s fun even for him (which would be a lot) and Justin flipping out and causing a bloodbath because he thinks Valentin is dead/dying.


• Smut would be very welcome here, of course. I mean, these two seemed to be doing everything but taking off their clothes in game already, Valentin sounded like he was starring in a smut VN. BDSM would be great here, with all that humiliation and/or pain Valentin is constantly begging for. Safe and sane is already out of the window with these two, but I would like it to be consensual (well, aside from all the poor people who constantly have to listen in on their very public dirty talk).


• If you wanna go for something softer, it’d be interesting if one of them was actually hurt and had to recuperate, so they’re forced to be careful or rely on dirty talk and other stuff (well, if Valentin’s hurt, Justin may put his thumb in the wounds a tiny bit).


• I’d also love to see kind of desperate, passionate sex for whatever reason – near-death experience (one they actually didn’t want to end up in, lol), thought the other had died, first time after confessing. I doubt that would end up being vanilla, but it might be a different flavour of spice!


• In the past, one or both of them didn’t really think their sadistic/masochistic urges had a sexual component or repressed that thought, at least. Then they meet each other and, well, that leads to an impactful revelation.


• Do they ever do something like aftercare? Probably not in the traditional sense, but maybe Justin helps with those bandages or chucks a bottle of water at Valentin sometimes?


• Art: Any of the above prompts would be great, of course. Their designs are just really good and I love that short, slight Justin is the sadist and taller, stronger-looking Valentin wants to be slapped by him, so any picture that captures their dynamic (smutty or not) is going to be great. I would also love a picture of them at a concert together or, since they might potentially be hanging out there alongside Aoidos now, hanging out on the Grandcypher. However, I’d also like to see them off-stage, maybe in sleeping clothes or generally just chilling. Also, any sort of shippy interaction from hugs to kisses to Valentin getting stepped on is always welcome!

Benjamin | Aoidos/Valentin
We know more about Justin’s relationship to Benjamin than Valentin’s relationship to him, but it’s clear he’s attached to him as well. I would love to see Valentin around Benjamin or Aoidos or both, since I think either dynamic has a lot of promise. As for Benjamin, he obviously really liked throwing Valentin around and seems to have tolerated his presence, which for Benjamin’s standards is quite good! And how does Aoidos relate to him? Now that he’s founds his memories again, does he still have fun pushing Valentin around a bit?

For smut, I prefer bottom Valentin. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Valentin. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Valentin and alpha or beta Benjamin | Aoidos (however, alpha or beta Valentin being “forced” (willingly) into the omega role by Benjamin | Aoidos would also be fun). Valentin does seem to be indestructible for some reason, so feel free to take a loose interpretation on the DNW “no debilitating mutilations for sexual pleasure”. If all his body parts stay attached and he’s not permanently disabled in some way, I’m totally fine with it (even if they do stuff that really should permanently disable a human being, as long as Valentin bounces back from it...).

• Apparently Benjamin collected Justin “from the gutter”. Where did he scoop up Valentin and why? Did Benjamin hear Valentin play and get inspired? Did Valentin hear Benjamin play and approached him? Did Valentin’s masochistic urges seem interesting to Benjamin? Both? I would love to see their first meeting.


• Benjamin being the person who first makes Valentin fully give in to his masochistic side, basically unlocking it with his personality and/or music, would also be great.


• What was life with the band like during Vicious Three’s first stint? Benjamin obviously had fun punishing Valentin like he wanted, but did he ever sleep with him? If yes, did it start from the beginning or was there something later in their history that triggered it? I’d love to read about it.


• I would love to read about what Valentin sees in Benjamin’s music and how it intersects with what he sees in him as a person.


• I’d also love to know how his feelings for Benjamin develop (whether they’re traditional ‘being in love’ or something more twisted and intense, or both). Is he as fascinated as Justin, but just not quite as obvious about it most of the time? Does he have a little bit more distance?


• The game describes Valentin as the sandbag/shield for the group. Well, that just spells h/c for me (although in Valentin’s case, the hurt probably is in some ways the comfort, lol). Still, even Valentin probably doesn’t quite want to die yet, so things might still get out of hand. Benjamin or Aoidos not being very happy with their enemies at all when Valentin lies ostensibly lifeless on the ground would be very cool, too.


• Benjamin used sleep with Valentin. Aoidos, recovering memories, realizes he’s in love with him (possibly still in love with him, as far as Benjamin could be in love). He resolves to win Valentin back. Considering that he is a very high drama person, this is probably not a quiet and understated process. Do Grandcypher personnel and/or Justin get roped in?


• Aoidos composing and singing a lovesong with heaps and heaps of pathos would be really fun as well. What does Valentin think of it?


• Valentin actually said he kind of got Benjamin’s string-ballad-including vision, so he doesn’t seem to be as opposed as Justin to that kind of music, or he at least doesn’t mind following Benjamin’s lead. Would love for him and Aoidos to work together on some music.


• Aoidos still has some of Benjamin’s violent urges, but unlike Benjamin, he doesn’t want to kill people during concerts anymore and generally really doesn’t want to hurt unwilling people at all. Luckily, there’s someone who is very, very willing. Does Aoidos feel bad at first? Can Valentin take that worry from him?


• Generally, smut would be great, of course. Benjamin seemed to enjoy playing with Valentin, so if he wants to step on him some more, or find other ways to play, that would just be great. However, Aoidos re-learning Valentin’s basically non-existing boundaries would be very fun as well. Benjamin probably had no scruples to go hard from the beginning, but Aoidos might push and push it a little more each time, kind of fascinated (possibly a little horrified, also horny) when there just never seems to be a limit. I also like the idea of Aoidos still being a Dom, but a different sort of Dom than Benjamin (maybe less harsh, or maybe more into all sorts of experiments, or whatever else you’d find interesting) and Valentin adjusting to that.


• Perhaps Aoidos also wants to have normal sex sometimes. Valentin manages to deal with it because, well, at least he’s still doing what is asked of him, right? And maybe he actually finds he likes this a little bit, too (though it’s unlikely it’s ever going to fully replace his thirst for getting messed up).


• Aftercare would be interesting! Benjamin’s might be cursory, but perhaps he does like to make sure Valentin is not literally coming apart at the seams (since he’s unsure if Valentin would even notice or care). Aoidos, meanwhile, could actually do some of the more standard stuff, which severely confuses Valentin at first. Does he end up liking it?


• Art: Any of the above prompts would be great, of course. They have pretty designs and I really like that the one who’s got the beautiful outfit and long hair is the one stepping on the tougher looking guy, so any picture that captures that dynamic (smutty or not) is going to be great. However, I’d also enjoy our exuberant Aoidos being all over Valentin. I would also love a picture of the two at a concert together or, since they might potentially be hanging out on the Grandcypher now, something they’re doing there. However, I’d also like to see them off-stage, maybe in sleeping clothes or generally just chilling. Also, any sort of shippy interaction from hugs to kisses to Valentin getting stepped on is always welcome!

Benjamin | Aoidos/Justin/Valentin
Let’s get the whole band together! I really liked the vibe between these three from what little we got to see. Whether it’s Vicious Three in its short heyday or Justin and Valentin adjusting around the new Aoidos (and Aoidos dealing with recovering his memories and incorporating them into his personality), all would be good. I’d be happy for something that goes deeper into their personalities and relationships, or a plotty fic of them getting roped into Skyfarer or merc work, but I would also enjoy smut, considering these three were like a BDSM porn waiting to happen when Benjamin was still around.

For smut, I prefer bottom Valentin and have no preference between the other two. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Valentin. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Valentin and alpha or beta Benjamin | Aoidos and Justin (however, alpha or beta Valentin being “forced” (willingly) into the omega role by the other two would also be fun).

This fic can of course also include Benjamin | Aoidos/Justin, Justin/Valentin, or Benjamin | Aoidos/Valentin as long as it eventually turns into a closed triad; I just don't want anybody actively, purposefully cheating on somebody else, but muddled circumstances and we’re-pretending-we're-just-FWB-but-actually-pining is fine (as is two of them actively looking for a third, or just happening to find one, of course). Valentin does seem to be indestructible for some reason, so feel free to take a loose interpretation on the DNW “no debilitating mutilations for sexual pleasure”. If all his body parts stay attached and he’s not permanently disabled in some way, I’m totally fine with it (even if they do stuff that really should permanently disable a human being, as long as Valentin bounces back from it...).

• Justin said Benjamin picked him out of the gutter, but how and where did these two happen on Valentin? Perhaps they realised that having someone to release their urges on would be very handy to have around. And hey, he’s a talented drummer, too, so that’s even better.


• Valentin is pretty damn obvious about his wishes now, but maybe before meeting Benjamin and Justin, he was still trying to keep it in? Would definitely love a story where Valentin first gives in to his desires while spurned on by their music and personalities.


• Alternatively, Benjamin collecting Valentin first and finding Justin later. Justin being enabled by Benjamin’s music and then having Valentin as a punching bag already available – how convenient!


• If you want to do an AU, it’d be interesting to see what would have happened if Justin had bit his tongue and somehow managed to force himself into going along with Benjamin’s musical experiments. What would a more balanced version of Benjamin look like? Maybe he would have mellowed the others, too?


• I would love to see a day (or hour or moment) in the life of the Vicious Three before they broke apart.


• Since Aoidos has decided the band is reunited, I guess Justin and Valentin now travel with him (and potentially the Grandcypher). I bet it’s going to take some time to get used to Aoidos, but by the New Year’s event it sounded like they’d kind of adjusted to the situation, even if they still find interacting with normal people kind of difficult... I would love to see something from their everyday life!


• Valentin’s position as the shield/sandbag was probably not chosen without being self-serving (it’s a good way to collect punches!), but nevertheless I would love for him to tank for his somewhat more fragile-looking boyfriends in a fight, whether it’s fun for him or actually uncomfortable – especially if the other two pay back the attackers.


• Okay, here’s an old joke. What’s the last thing a drummer says to their band? “Hey guys, why don’t we try one of my songs?” Well, Valentin doesn’t seem to be very pushy when it comes to that, other than wishing Justin would write more violence against him into his tracks, but it would be interesting if he was experimenting with drum parts and stuff by himself or even actually writing songs. His and Justin’s nagging about the Doss does show they do take music seriously, lol. Benjamin and Justin listening in and incorporating some stuff would be fun. Or maybe Aoidos is the first one who wants Valentin’s input, though Justin is skeptical, but it works out.


• Perhaps Benjamin/Justin used to be a thing, but after Benjamin was gone, Justin and Valentin started sleeping together in an FWB sort of arrangement. Now that Aoidos has force-reunited the band, Justin and him get back together. Valentin expects that he’s only going to get scraps in the form of some random punishment as before, but is actually unhappy about the situation, even though he’d get to feel inferior, so that’s very odd to him! When do the other two catch on? Maybe Valentin confesses? Or perhaps (invonceivably) he rejects an insult or physical attack – they’d definitely realise something is super off. And they actually really don’t want to be without him...


• Aoidos and Valentin are flirting, but they both know Aoidos probably won’t hurt Valentin like he wants it. Aoidos has a lightning strike of inspiration, though: why not keep outsourcing that part to Justin, who loves doing it anyway? (Aoidos also thinks watching would be interesting, too, maybe...) Only, of course, Justin accidentally ends up entangled much deeper in their relationship.


• Aoidos still has some leftover violent urges from his time as Benjamin, but no more desire to act them out randomly. However, Valentin is still there and oh-so-happy to help. This means he does not spend a lot of time petitioning Justin for punishment anymore, though. Justin likes literally nothing about this new arrangement because he wants both men. It turns out Aoidos and Valentin are glad to invite him when they realise he’d like to join in.


• Alternative to the prompt above, it would also be very fun if Justin is the one who offers Valentin to Aoidos to share to get his violent urges (that Justin incidentally likes to watch) under control.


• Benjamin and Justin arguing while casually shoving an excited Valentin around was kinda hot, not gonna lie. I would love to see more of that! (Especially if it doesn’t end in a (nonconsensual) stabbing this time.)


• Generally, smut would be awesome, whether with Benjamin or Aoidos. Benjamin seemed to be Justin’s match in sadism, if not more. Safe and sane is already out of the window with these three, but I would like it to be consensual. Otherwise, go wild! But what about Aoidos? Maybe he brings a completely different dynamic to the bedroom as a Dom that Valentin and Justin will first have to get used to, or maybe his sadism is just a bit more loudly enthusiastic.


• Art: Any of the above prompts would be great, of course. They have pretty designs and I really like that the two beautiful men are the ones stepping on the tougher looking guy, so any picture that captures their dynamic (smutty or not) is going to be great. However, I’d also love a picture of our exuberant Aoidos all over Valentin and Justin (perhaps to Justin’s despair, but hey, he’s probably secretly happy to be back with him anyway). I would also enjoy the three of them at a concert together or hanging out on the Grandcypher, since they might all be there now. However, I’d also like to see them off-stage, maybe in sleeping clothes or generally just chilling. Also, any sort of shippy interaction from hugs to kisses to Valentin getting stepped on is always welcome!

Original Male Character/Valentin
So I’m sure it’s obvious, but I really like Valentin and I’d like to see him bounce off all sorts of people. Whether it’s a relationship that develops through music, whether it’s someone he just meets on the road or on the Grandcypher or something, or whether it’s simply an enjoyable fling with someone (or another meeting with a former enjoyable fling that turns into more), all would be great. Maybe he even ends up having a suitor? He’s not exactly shy about what he likes, so I imagine if there’s a sadist in his 50 metre radius, they might become interested in what is going on over there. There are some ideas for the OMC below, but feel free to go wild as long as the character isn’t related to Valentin and isn’t underage (I would somewhat prefer no Harvin, too, since visually their adults also look a bit like kids to me).

For smut, I prefer bottom Valentin. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Valentin. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Valentin and alpha or beta OMC (however, alpha or beta Valentin being “forced” (willingly) into the omega role by the OMC would also be fun). Valentin does seem to be indestructible for some reason, so feel free to take a loose interpretation on the DNW “no debilitating mutilations for sexual pleasure”. If all his body parts stay attached and he’s not permanently disabled in some way, I’m totally fine with it (even if they do stuff that really should permanently disable a human being, as long as Valentin bounces back from it...).

• Who is the OMC? Is he a fan of the Vicious Three with a special dedication to Valentin? Or maybe he’s just another merc of skyfarer who ends up travelling with them or that Valentin keeps running into. He could just meet him on an island that they visit. Maybe Valentin also gets to know him on the Grandcypher (where he potentially lives now maybe if it’s convenient for the fic, lol) or on tour with Aoidos.


• So far, Valentin’s Doms all seem to be on the slighter side (Benjamin and Justin), so maybe he ends up running into a pretty Erune that he’s also very into? That would be very hot. However, I would also like to see him collide with a big draph (or human) man, or just generally someone who outclasses him in strength.


• Perhaps Valentin used to have an affair/Thing with someone before he was in the Vicious Three. After years, he runs into the OMC again and it turns out they still very much enjoy each other’s company.


• Someone being like head over heels in love with Valentin could be cute, too. I mean, we know Valentin is really into humiliation and being degraded, but he does seem to want attention from people who he likes nevertheless (as evidenced with Aoidos multiple times), so it might still be quite enjoyable for him.


• An OMC sadist who has never quite met his match runs into Valentin and they have the most amazing night together, getting along in bed and also otherwise. Later, the OMC can’t stop thinking about it and ends up making another meeting happen to ask Valentin on a date (or possibly into bed, or both).


• There’s an OMC that Valentin keeps being around, maybe on the Grandcypher, who is absolutely adamant he has no sadistic tendencies whatsoever and all that weird BDSM stuff Valentin does is crazy, yet he still really likes hanging around Valentin. Valentin correctly thinks that he protests way too much and loves teasing him, but also finds him fun to be around. This does lead to them getting closer over time, though (and eventually, maybe the OMC breaks and lets out everything he’s been holding in and they end up having amazing sex).


• The OMC is a musician who is really into the Vicious Three artistically, but didn’t think he’d find the band members so interesting. However, Valentin and him share more than an appreciation for music.


• Maybe the OMC is someone with strong powers of healing magic. This opens up quite a few possibilities when it comes to what they can do in bed. (And as a professional, the OMC just finds Valentin’s unexplained super-human resilience interesting, so he just has to experiment.)


• I would definitely like to see what a date with Valentin is like if the OMC is inclined to take him on one. Maybe it’s a classic sort of date, like they’re out for something to eat? Maybe it’s one that starts and ends in the bedroom? Maybe he would enjoy going to a concert? Alternatively to being into the concert, the two of them are being music snobs and just think the bands on stage are bad, but hey, complaining can be fun as well, lol.


• If you want to go for something romantic (and/or dramatic), I would love Valentin having a moment where he’s like Oh No I’m Attached because he’s probably capable of being attracted to anyone who is willing to hit him, but he’s not all that used to being in love and might in fact wonder if he’s the kind of person anyone falls in love with since he’s kind of objectively messed up. How do OMC and him get together?


• What do Justin and Benjamin | Aoidos think about the whole thing? I mean, I doubt they care about Valentin’s hook-ups, but in case the OMC keeps sticking around, they’ll end up running into him. Does the OMC manage not to be totally terrified? Or maybe he fits right in with them personality-wise. Aoidos might also be a good buffer if we’re in that part of the timeline, since he’s... well, not normal, but at least less murderous than Justin.


• As some of the above prompts probably imply, I would also enjoy smut and of course with Valentin, BDSM is kind of implied. Just Valentin getting to enjoy himself with someone who gives him what he wants and being very eager to please the OMC in turn would be fun. Whether it’s verbal humiliation or someone stepping on him or giving him another scar, all sounds good. We know Valentin is very resilient, so there are many possibilities.


• Aftercare could be fun here if you’d like to focus on the aftermath? Maybe the Dom he picks up always does it, but we know while Valentin consents to pretty much anything, safe and sane have never been on his list and he might not have had that before. Turns out it’s kind of fun to let someone put the pieces back into place (with the implicit promise they’ll be shattered again sometime).


• Art: Any of the above prompts would be great, of course. I really like Valentin’s design, what with him having all the scars and bandages, but still looking kind of intimidating regardless. I would really like to see your design for the OMC, too. Depending on what he’s like, I imagine there are a lot of different possibilities for his look and possible poses for the two. The OMC watching Valentin on the drums (or playing an instrument/singing himself if he’s a musician) would be fun as well. However, I’d also like to see them hanging out, maybe in sleeping clothes or generally just chilling together. Also, any sort of shippy interaction from hugs to kisses to Valentin getting stepped on is always welcome!

Vampyr

Jonathan Reid/Sean Hampton
Sean is the love interest I wanted! I enjoy how gentle and meek he is, but also how he obviously has a lot of courage and a stubborn head of his own. Meanwhile, Jonathan cares about people, but is a very good protagonist in that he seems always ready to push his own will through. Plus, they are both caretakers (who are also people-eating monsters) in their own right. I can see everything from tooth-rotting fluff to the two of them solving crimes and helping people together to them getting into an argument over something they are at odds about and having to resolve that somehow. For smut, I prefer bottom Sean. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Sean. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Sean and alpha or beta Jonathan.

• I would still love a version of the game where Sean is the love interest instead of Elisabeth. I don’t mean repeating the whole game, of course, but changing/adding some scenes. Sean’s already Princess Peaching it in Bishop’s den where you valiantly save him, it’s the perfect set-up for a charged conversation or three back in the hospital. Perhaps Jonathan can get some comfort and guidance from Sean by half-alluding to the terrible situation he’s in (or Sean, having known vampires for a decade, surprises Jonathan eventually with the revelation that he knows very well what Jonathan is and is not afraid of it). I’d also enjoy scenes of Jonathan returning to him between missions and/or an adjusted ending where Jonathan goes to Sean afterwards. Maybe they help Old Bridget clean up the sewer hide-out, which could be a sombre scene, since Sean also considered the Skals his flock. Or, for something happier, they could simply celebrate the end of the epidemic and Jonathan’s survival.


• Jonathan is the fighter between the two, but I can see Sean throwing himself into an altercation to help a wounded Jonathan, too. Dude turns into a pretty high-level feral Skal with shadow clones when you leave him to the blood of hate, so he could probably at least hold his own for a bit, long enough for Jonathan to recover; but he’s also not someone used to fighting and might get pretty banged up. I just like them working together or saving each other and any situation where that happens would be great, plus them taking care of the problem for good once they have licked their wounds.


• Sean is worried about one of his flock who has been behaving very strangely, or something else that is fishy at the docks, and him and Jonathan solve the mystery and get closer again in the process.


• Or the other way around, Jonathan has a mysterious case at his clinic who also asks for spiritual guidance and so Jonathan goes to find Sean, who gets some strange half-confessions and pleas for help. Who is responsible? What is going on in Londontown this night? I don’t know, but Sean and Jonathan may end up kissing while they find out.


• They also generally have a lot of enemies: the Ascalon club could be going after Jonathan for not heeding their wishes or become too interested in what a weird Skal type Sean is, other elder vampires might come back from the continent and bring their own entourage, there’s the Guard of Priwen and certainly other hunter factions, too, some less respectful upstart gang or union member with his cronies around Sean’s territory could be trying to teach him a lesson... these two have their hands full.


• I’d also love a quieter fic about their relationship which just kind of tracks its development. Does Jonathan ever introduce Sean to... well, what’s left of his family, his mum and his butler? Probably not as his boyfriend, but maybe he wants to see Sean make a connection with them. What about sex? Is Sean a virgin, apart from what happened to him? Does he ever say more about that to Jonathan when they get closer? Does Jonathan try to let intimacy start slowly to get him used to it, or does something happen unplanned that perhaps surprises them both?


• I’d also love them dealing with the actual fallout of the Spanish flu epidemic (that still happened, after all) and/or the returning soldiers. There’ll be a lot of work for a spiritual caretaker and a doctor to do.


• Also, Jonathan returning to London after the second-worst ending, when he failed to save Elisabeth and might just generally feel terrible about himself, and Sean meeting him, and the two of them attempting to put their lives back together while getting closer, would be nice.


• I’m also a sucker for vampires feeding and hurt/comfort, so if Jonathan or Sean got hurt and the other offered them some blood, that would also be a great fic. Skals don’t seem to heal as well or quickly as Ekons, either, so maybe Jonathan can put some proper bandages on Sean, too, or Sean could allow him to do that examination he rejected at first (that part could probably veer into a smut prompt, heh).


• Jump forward in time! I’d love to see their established relationship thirty, fifty, a hundred years down the road. How do they live? Or, perhaps they haven’t always been together, but they meet again like eighty years later or something and fall in love.


• Jonathan went through seven kinds of hell in the span of like two weeks in the game (and for that matter, Sean wasn’t exactly having a great time, either). If at some point he runs out of energy, or just has a break-down as it all catches up with him, I would love for Sean to be around to pick him up and comfort him and commiserate (even if Jonathan might feel that the rather rough manner in which he saved Sean should preclude him from such sympathy).


• For Art: I’d definitely like anything to do with the prompts above. Otherwise, I’d love to see Sean and Jonathan against the backdrop of the dark London we see in-game that both of them fit into so easily. I’m also always here for anything that shows their height difference. One of them carrying the other would also be cute (with Skal strength, Sean should be able to manage it now!). Also, put Sean in Jonathan’s coat! Or other versions of clothes-sharing, I always enjoy that a lot. The two of them fighting together or Jonathan teaching Sean how to defend himself in a sparring match would be nice. I’d also love a quieter depiction of them just hanging out or cuddling. Maybe Jonathan introduces Sean to his mother and/or butler? A picture of them together in a later time-period with appropriate clothes and styling would also be awesome.

(I also have a letter dealing with AUs, one with heats, sex pollen, and A/B/O, and one with smut prompts for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)


Geoffrey McCullum/Sean Hampton
These two don’t meet in-game, but I feel like it’d be really interesting if they did. Geoffrey has probably never met a Skal like Sean before and his new perspective (either because he is a vampire or because Jonathan spared him) might keep him from killing him outright, and Sean could be really good for him, since surely Geoffrey must be affected by what has happened to him recently one way or the other and could use someone kind who is generally ready to listen and help. Besides, someone’s gotta keep the city standing if Jonathan left to America/the castle, and Sean and Geoffrey are both involved in doing just that, in their own ways. That would give them many opportunities to interact. For smut, I prefer bottom Sean. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Sean. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Sean and alpha or beta Geoffrey.

• What I find fascinating is that if Jonathan didn’t turn Geoffrey, Arthur’s blood might still have done it eventually, and perhaps Sean just happens upon Geoffrey when that occurs and helps him through it. That would also create an interesting connection for them.


• Hell, for all we know, Geoffrey and Sean could have met before the game. There’s a note from Geoffrey saying he knows they don’t have enough recruits at the East End docks, so it’s not impossible he would walk the perimeter there himself sometimes and eventually meet Sean and even befriend him, since Sean is just a human at that point. I would love a calm-before-the-storm kind of mutual crush or cute romance between them pre-game (which might already be tainted by Sean probably lying to Geoffrey about the undead part of his flock). Alternatively, how would poor Geoffrey react to his crush or even boyfriend turning into a Skal? Would he find it his responsibility to kill him, but can’t bring himself to? And then he (potentially) changes himself...


• Jonathan could introduce Sean to Geoffrey before he leaves London with a note to Geoffrey to keep his hands off of Sean if he doesn’t want to get in trouble. However, I’m sure Geoffrey would still want to keep an eye on this Skal positioned just at the right place where he could make people few would miss vanish. Sean working to get his trust and actually getting it and more would be fun.


• Geoffrey and Sean are both from Dublin and have both left terrible memories behind there. How interesting would it be if something necessitated that they have to go back, some case they both try to solve or some vampire/hunter threatening them? I would love to read them navigate the city and their own pasts together. Alternatively, I also like them speaking Irish together, talking about a street or something they both might have known; or perhaps Geoffrey used to be a proper Irish Catholic boy once upon a time, too? Just things like that which provide innitial connection points.


• They also generally have a lot of enemies: the Ascalon Club could be going after Geoffrey for being a hunter or become too interested in what a weird Skal type Sean is, other elder vampires might come back from the continent and bring their own entourage, there’s other hunter factions, too, some less respectful upstart gang or union member with his cronies around Sean’s territory could be trying to teach him a lesson... these two have their hands full.


• Perhaps Jonathan didn’t want to draw Geoffrey’s attention to Sean, so he didn’t tell him about Sean at all and they just run into each other. How does Sean manage to talk his way out of being immediately murdered (or has Geoffrey perhaps mellowed a little bit and now does give vampires who look reasonable a chance – but then again, Skals can’t be reasonable, right...)? How does Geoffrey come to tolerate and like this weird uncommon Skal? Does Sean think Geoffrey’s a thug at first and later comes around, or does he see something else in him straight from the beginning?


• I’d also love a quieter fic about their relationship which just kind of tracks its development. Does Geoffrey tell him about his family or his adopted father, perhaps takes him to the graveyard? What about sex? Sean might be a virgin, apart from what happened to him. Does he ever say something about the abuse in his past to Geoffrey when they get closer, does he tell him at all, or does Geoffrey learn it through gossip like Jonathan did? Does Geoffrey try to let intimacy start slowly to get him used to things, or does something happen unplanned that perhaps surprises them both?


• Sean is worried about one of his flock who has been behaving very strangely, or something else that is fishy at the docks, and him and Geoffrey solve the mystery and get closer in the process.


• Combatant or not, Geoffrey thinks Sean needs some self-defence lessons if he wants to stay alive and protect his immortal flock. They train vampire powers together and get closer over it.


• Jump forward in time! I’d love to see their established relationship thirty, fifty, a hundred years down the road. How do they live? Or, perhaps they haven’t always been together, but they meet again like eighty years later or something and fall in love.


• Both Sean and Geoffrey seemed to take this whole changing into a monster thing kind of eerily well, but maybe they also just didn’t want to talk to Jonathan about it, especially in that very hectic situation with the epidemic. Sure, Sean knew Skals before, but you can’t tell me he has no reaction to wanting to eat corpses now (or that very weird slight personality shift he had when he was still controlled by the blood of hate, that’d scare him in retrospect, I imagine). Perhaps he does allow himself a minor breakdown and Geoffrey finds him, or they are already close and Sean talks to him. Or, on the other hand, Geoffrey reaches his breaking point and Sean comforts him and convinces him that he doesn’t need to stake himself.


• For Art: I’d definitely like anything to do with the prompts above. Otherwise, I’d love to see Sean and Geoffrey against the backdrop of the dark London we see in-game that both of them fit into so easily. I’m also always here for anything that shows their height difference. One of them carrying the other would also be cute (with Skal strength, Sean should be able to manage it now!). Also, put Sean in Geoffrey’s coat! Or other versions of clothes-sharing, I always enjoy that a lot. The two of them fighting together or Geoffrey teaching Sean how to defend himself in a sparring match would be nice. I’d also love a quieter depiction of them just hanging out or cuddling. A picture of them together in a later time-period with appropriate clothes and styling would also be awesome.

(I also have a letter dealing with heats, sex pollen, and A/B/O in case you're looking for more prompts.)


Geoffrey McCullum/Jonathan Reid/Sean Hampton
This mess of a threesome is another favourite idea of mine. There’s just so much charge there: the anger Geoffrey must feel for Jonathan, particularly if he has made him an Ekon, his aggression towards vampires turning against Skal Sean, but his newfound knowledge also perhaps halting him and showing him that both Jonathan and Sean might be the kind of vampires who don’t deserve death and thus confusing him a lot in the process. Sean is likely still a bit resentful towards Jonathan, if his curt answer concerning an examination is anything to go by, and Geoffrey would probably scare or at least worry him, but I think Sean would also try to help Jonathan and Geoffrey both if he knew the extent of their tragedies. Finally, Jonathan sees the good in both these men, but also has to live with the things he’s done to them, and, considering how Geoffrey hunted him, is probably as angry at him as Geoffrey is at Jonathan. This fic can of course also include Geoffrey/Jonathan, Jonathan/Sean, or Geoffrey/Sean as long as it eventually turns into a triad and no one is actively, purposefully cheating on someone else (muddy situations and stuff like we're-pretending-to-be-FWB-but-are-actually-pining is fine though). For smut, I prefer bottom Sean and have no preferences between the other two. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Sean. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Sean and alpha or beta Geoffrey and Jonathan.

• Jonathan is, of course, the logical connection point between them, so it might start out with him in a relationship/flirting with one of them first before the other joins. But perhaps Jonathan also takes a bit of a break from London after the game and finds his progeny have gotten to know each other in his absence.


• Considering how long an examination of how they got together could go, I’d also be perfectly fine if you skipped to an established three-way relationship kind of deal, just showing how they deal with the world as a triad. How do they approach new threats in the city, how does Geoffrey keep his fellow guards from killing his boyfriends (and potentially himself), do Geoffrey and Sean help Jonathan at the hospital or with searching for a way to quell vampire hunger, and do Geoffrey and Jonathan make sure the shelter stays safe?


• I would also just like to see them hanging out, bickering, doing naughty things. These boys are busy, I’m sure they could all stand to relax together sometimes. Just one or all of them reflecting on the relationship would be really interesting, too.


• A story idea for established relationship could be the three of them getting locked in somewhere and fighting their way out – though Sean is not much of a fighter, but perhaps he can make a good blood bag for the other two to replenish after or during the battle? (Then again, we know he turns into a tough mini boss if you let him deteriorate, so perhaps there’s more to him in a fight than anyone expects.)


• If Geoffrey was not turned by Jonathan but by Arthur’s blood, Arthur might come over to London to take a look at his newest progeny and in the process also meeting his younger “brother” Jonathan and Sean the weird Skal. Whether that is a good or bad thing remains to be seen, but it might bring the three closer together.


• Jump forward in time! I’d love to see their established relationship thirty, fifty, a hundred years down the road. How do they live? Or, perhaps they haven’t always been together, or maybe only two of them have been, but they meet again like eighty years later or something and all fall in love.


• They also generally have a lot of enemies: the Ascalon Club could be going after Geoffrey for being a hunter or for Jonathan for not listening to them or become too interested in what a weird Skal type Sean is, other elder vampires might come back from the continent and bring their own entourage, there’s other hunter factions, too, some less respectful upstart gang or union member with his cronies around Sean’s territory could be trying to teach him a lesson... these three have their hands full.


• Combatant or not, Geoffrey and Jonathan think Sean needs some self-defence lessons if he wants to stay alive and protect his immortal flock. They train vampire powers together and get closer over it. Also, Sean might be watching (perhaps with some trepidation – or even with some arousal, to his own surprise) how Geoffrey and Jonathan tear into each other training their powers together and provides them with blood to heal their wounds after.


• For smut, I would love to see them doing it in all sorts of constellations: in a pile all three on each other (Sean being spitroasted would be great), or with two of them performing for the third, or one of them performing for the two others while they touch each other. Perhaps Sean isn’t quite comfortable jumping right in with two men at first, so they ease him into it. Or Sean is a lot more ready to experiment than they exptected and they have fun with that. Perhaps a little later into their relationship, Geoffrey and Jonathan are so busy bickering that Sean somehow ends up taking control at some point and nudges them to do what he wants to get this show on the road.


• For Art: Any of the above prompts would be great. I would love to see the three of them doing anything together – Sean and Geoffrey helping Jonathan out at the hospital, Jonathan and Geoffrey helping out at the shelter, the three of them just hanging out in Jonathan’s house or some other private place and getting a moment to rest (or get up to something naughty). The three of them in full battle mode (or Sean hiding behind them while the other two are) would be awesome, too, as would be Sean patching up the two warriors, or Jonathan and Sean both patching up Geoffrey after a scuffle. Any gesture of affection, like a three-way hug, sleeping in a pile, or sharing clothes between the three of them would be great, too. A picture of them together in a later time-period with appropriate clothes and styling would also be awesome.

(I also have a letter dealing with heats and A/B/O in case you're looking for more prompts.)


Tom Watts/Sean Hampton
I know they don’t meet in game, but Tom and Sean obviously know each other and seem to like each other and respect what the other does, too. It makes sense, of course, since they’re the human protectors of the docks (well, Sean being human to a point), but on the other end, innkeeper and night asylum manager turned local saint are also fairly different jobs. I would be happy for anything from their first meetings and budding friendship to something where they’re already familiar with each other to a post-game story. For smut, I prefer bottom Sean. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Sean. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Sean and alpha or beta Tom.

• I’m sure Tom and Sean end up in each other’s territory a lot. Sean looking for lost sheep he hasn’t seen in a while, Tom dragging a drunk customer shelter-wards, running into each other after Tom locks up and Sean is out searching the streets for lost souls... what is that like?


• Them caring about a common friend with a problem – maybe Dyson or Bishop – and getting closer while they do so.


• Hurt/Comfort in either direction, or even both. I’m sure they could both need someone to lean on themselves every once in a while.


• Specific H/C scenario would be Sean waking up from his Blood Of Hate-stupor after Jonathan broke him down psychologically to make him drink and Tom comforting him (whether he knows what’s going on or not). I mean, if there’s ever a moment to have a nervous breadown, it would have been after that.


• Did Tom ever feel the need to confess his past to Sean? Either because he needs to get some stuff off his chest, or because Sean is not originally a local boy, after all, and Tom wants to give him a chance to judge him on his full merits? And/Or did Sean allow Tom to ask him about the gossip that’s out there about Sean’s past?


• Sean gets roughed up by some gang thugs, maybe when he’s not quite so established yet, or by newcomers who don’t have the same respect. Tom helps him out.


• Perhaps Jonathan arrives just a little too late and Sean was already over the edge and going to start turning people, but happened to run into Tom first, who somehow manages to appeal to his humanity long enough for Jonathan to come and grab Sean to give him some Ekon blood (whether Tom stops Sean on purpose or just by being there). How does Sean explain his acting so erratically to Tom later – with the truth or some more realistic lie? Just how guilty does he feel? (And maybe while being half-mad he also spoke of how drawn he feels to Tom... ?)
  
• Sean was Tom’s boyfriend already when he got turned. He attempts to break up with him afterwards for his own protection so he won’t be dragged into that world, but Tom demands to know what’s going on.


• Does Sean ever tell Tom the truth about vampires, maybe to keep him safe, or because he trusts him, or because an Ascalon Club Ekon kicks down the door of the bar?


• After being turned, Sean at first doesn’t intend to tell Tom about vampires, but how could you lie about something like that after you snogged the person behind the bar?


• Tom somehow getting drawn into the whole affair. Maybe he ends up as an Ekon after colliding with Mary or one of the random Ekons that streak about the London night when the plague gets worse and Sean helps him out? Ekons can drink Skal blood and Skals only have to eat corpses to replenish, so they would make a good pacifist duo...


• Maybe the reason things never really got off the ground with Sabrina is that Tom is gay, though time and place being what it is, he prefers to keep that to himself. The same goes for his crush on Sean Hampton. How does Sean find out? Or does Tom eventually tell him?


• I also like historical AUs where same-sex marriage is allowed, though, in case you want to go for something lighter. I bet if it were acceptable, there’d be some teasing about Sean and Tom tag-teaming so much to keep the district standing, and maybe eventually some actual courtship from the two.


• Speaking of AUs, a no-supernatural AU where they “just” have to deal with the Spanish Flu and having to help their district through this difficult time and falling for each other in the meantime would be awesome, too.


• Soulmate AUs are also great, for that matter. When do the two of them realise? Is it maybe a thing where you have to touch the person and so it takes them ages? Whenever it is, how do they handle it?


• Is Tom the first person Sean is with willingly or were there others? Or maybe Sean is the first man Tom is with? But I’d also enjoy a Tom who is quite experienced and shows Sean a few things.


• For Art: Any of the above prompts would be fun. I’d also love to see Sean resting at Tom’s bar and chatting with him at the end of a long night, or Tom helping Sean out at the shelter with laundry or food or some other little task. The two of them being sweet with each other would be awesome, too – just a peck or holding hands or casually leaning into each other. I would also love to a see a picture of Skal Sean finding a newly turned Tom (maybe he’s an Ekon? It would also be interesting how his design would change were he a Vulkod). If marriage is allowed, or even if they do a wedding privately for themselves, a picture of the two of them getting married would be very cool.

(I also have a letter dealing with pining tropes for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Yuri!!! on Ice

Christophe Giacometti/Georgi Popovich
I know they didn’t meet in the series – well, they did on the podium, I guess! –, but considering they’re “veterans” who are pretty close in age, I’m sure these two have run into each other time and again. With Georgi being all about romance and Christophe all about sex, they have a lot of passion (and potential for drama) between the two of them and I’m just really here for all of it. They could meet up at competitions, training camps, or Chris could just switch to Yakov’s rink, or Georgi come to train in Switzerland at Chris’s rink. For smut, I prefer bottom Georgi. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Georgi. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Georgi and alpha or beta Chris.

• Chris moves to St. Petersburg to train under Yakov. Since Victor and Yuuri are busy with each other, Georgi helps with the move and they start hanging out.


• Georgi moves to Chris’s rink to train. Chris is not used to having someone with at least comparable skill in the roster (though Georgi is not quite as successful, but he can peak high when he’s on his game, as we saw), so this actually turns out to be quite fun for both of them as it gives Chris competition and Georgi a chance to move out of Victor’s shadow. Plus, they start to get closer...


• Georgi has a crush on Chris, but Chris is mostly with Victor when he hangs out with the Russian team. How does Chris find out? Maybe Georgi told Victor, who blabs to Chris? Or maybe Georgi is just really not subtle?


• What does it look like when Chris tries to win someone over? Does he worry sometimes that he has no cards to draw when sex might not do the trick, like with a hopeless romantic such as Georgi?


• Chris totally thinks Georgi is sappy and is just quietly amused by being showered with love declarations and flowers and Georgi wanting a thousand kissy photos on social media... but maybe he enjoys it just a little bit.


• Relatedly, I’d also love a story that incorporates the use of social media, or maybe is just a mix of instagram comments, fan twitter tweets, and forum speculations about these two as they suddenly start to show up around each other in public or post shared training vids or something. After all, figure skating seems to be quite popular in YoI’s world.


• Pair skating or ice dancing or just being silly with each other on a public rink, I just want them to skate together!


• This is more of an add-on, as it’s a threesome with what is essentially an OC, but if you want to go for a three-way relationship between Chris, his brown-haired boyfriend from the series and Georgi, I’d be here for it, too.


• I also like Fantasy AUs (witch Georgi!) or fusions with any of my other fandoms (Assassin’s Creed? Mass Effect? Dragon Age? Star Wars?).


• Smut is always great! Does Georgi have any experience with men? Is it something he worries about when he gets with Chris or does he believe love is enough? Does Chris enjoy playing teacher in the bedroom or is he surprised he accidentally collected a formerly-straight guy and figured Georgi already had experience?


• Georgi has never been with a man and Chris offers to show him (this might possibly be a decision made with some post-banquet alcohol in their system, or while Georgi is rebounding from a break-up). The sex is unexpectedly amazing and they both can’t keep their hands off each other from then on. But feelings start to get involved...


• For Art: Any of the above scenarios that you might want to draw would be great. I also absolutely adore the weird aesthetic choices that happen all around Georgi. His costumes are obviously just amazing (both the glitter goth witch and Elsa’s jumpsuit), so I’d love to see those in a picture. I especially like Chris’ss black-and-red free skate costume. Or maybe it could be older/new costumes for both of them, especially if this is a picture of Chris and him at a competition or doing an ice dance. I also really like Georgi’s ‘internal’ world we saw on the ice, so I’d really enjoy anything that shows him and Chris in one of his mental settings. Another thing I like about YoI in general is the use of social media, so a picture styled to look like an instagram post would be a lot of fun (Mila basically said Georgi tends to post lots of ‘kissy pics’ with his partner! And Chris likes to post thirst traps, so maybe a slightly risqué picture of them?).

(I also have a letter dealing with heats and A/B/O, one for marriage tropes, one for smut, one for mpreg, one for epistolary fic in case you're looking for more prompts.)


Victor Nikiforov/Georgi Popovich
Victor’s and Georgi’s rivalry is so interesting to me precisely because it’s so uneven, with Victor barely having to pay him attention and Georgi’s whole career being defined by being second after Victor in Russia. I also find it very fascinating that they are both probably only two or three years away from the end of their careers at best. What is their relationship going to be like when suddenly it doesn’t matter anymore which one of them can jump more quads? As for Yuuri, I’d prefer if Victor either skipped the banquet or him and Yuuri are broken up again or it’s set before the series. For smut, I prefer bottom Georgi. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Georgi. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Georgi and alpha or beta Victor.

• Georgi has a crush on Victor, but Victor never paid him any attention. Somehow Victor learns about it. Maybe he’s just curious at first, but then actually starts to have feelings himself.


• Victor has a crush on Georgi, but didn’t go for it, either thinking Georgi is straight or there’s no way he doesn’t resent him by this point, or both. Georgi is baffled when he finds out, but willing to give it a shot.


• Georgi and Victor have a one night stand and predictably, Georgi falls for him. To everyone’s surprise maybe including his own, Victor actually responds kind of well to Georgi’s dramatic courtship (because it’s not like Victor isn’t also very extra).


• Victor and Georgi have a long-standing FWB thing going on whenever neither of them is in a relationship. They’re both pretending to not have feelings for each other and pining.


• What would it look like if Victor tried to win Georgi over? He is not exactly averse to big gestures of affection, either, after all.


• Ice skating seems to be huge in their world, considering the media all running after Victor, and everyone who has looked into real life ice skating fandom knows some of those people can be vicious. I’m sure if Georgi started dating Victor, he’d get dragged pretty hard (fans on social media and gossip mags speculating he’s just here to get at Victor’s wealth/fame). How do they handle that? Or hey, maybe they're lucky and the fans are more positive, and it’s just lots of speculation on twitter, instagram, and the fan forums as Georgi and Victor suddenly seem to start appearing in each other’s instagrams a whole lot more than before.


• Georgi has spent pretty much all his life in Victor’s shadow. Does he have to work through being jealous/feeling outmatched in the relationship? Does Victor realise what’s going on and try to help (or does he accidentally make it worse at first, considering how blunt he can be sometimes)?


• Pair skating or ice dancing or just being silly with each other on a public rink, I just want them to skate together!


• Georgi seems like sort of an artsy type. It might be fun if he took Victor to a gallery or opera or whatever, allowing Victor to interact with things that aren’t ice skating-related, since the hyperfocusing seems to have been a issue for Victor up to now.


• Anya broke up with Georgi and Victor doesn’t know where his career is going and didn’t have the banquet experience. They somehow end up talking, both being quite depressed, and things go from there.


• A couple years down the line, Victor is at the end of his career and his relationship with Yuuri didn’t work out. Georgi, too, has to step back from skating and hasn’t managed to get his romantic life on track. They are both in a bad slump and somehow end up going on a road trip/having a drunken hook-up/doing any other number of strange desperate things that accidentally end up with feelings.


• I also like Fantasy AUs (witch Georgi!) or fusions with any of my other fandoms (Assassin’s Creed? Mass Effect? Dragon Age? Star Wars?).


• Smut is always great! Does Georgi have any experience with men? What do they get up to in the bedroom? Is there a rivalry, too, and is Georgi as hopelessly outmatched as he is on the rink? Has Georgi ever covered the bed in heart-shaped confetti and did Victor like it (and is Makkachin dragging them around in his fur three weeks later)?


• For Art: Any of the above scenarios that you might want to draw would be great. I also absolutely adore the weird aesthetic choices that happen all around Georgi. His costumes are obviously just amazing (both the glitter goth witch and Elsa’s jumpsuit), so I’d love to see those in a picture. Victor’s costumes are also very pretty – I especially like the uniform-ish one we see him wearing at the start. Older/new costumes from both of them would also be great, especially if this is a picture of Victor and him at a competition or doing an ice dance. I also really like Georgi’s ‘internal’ world we saw on the ice, so I’d really enjoy anything that shows him and Victor in one of his mental settings. I’d also love to see a kiss or hug or maybe a forlorn, in-puppy-love look from one of them when they are younger; we know Victor’s character design back then, but what did Georgi look like, did he also have long hair? I could also see a teenaged/early twenties goth or rock phase for Georgi. Another thing I like about YoI in general is the use of social media, so a picture styled to look like an instagram post would be a lot of fun (Mila basically said Georgi tends to post lots of ‘kissy pics’ with his partner!).

(I also have a letter dealing with heats and A/B/O, one for smut, one for epistolary fic, one for mpreg in case you're looking for more prompts.)


Christophe Giacometti/Victor Nikiforov/Georgi Popovich
This is a great High Chaos Energy triad. All three of them are so extra, but they all do it in their own ways. Also, for Christophe and Georgi, Victor is the one to chase, but Victor outruns them with ease, which creates an interesting relationship dynamic; and as we’ve seen, Georgi can be pretty good when he’s not allowing his skate to escape him and getting distracted, so Christophe and him have probably been in direct competition during their careers quite a few times, too. They all just had a lot of years to butt heads and of course to get to know each other. This fic can of course also include Victor/Chris, Victor/Georgi, or Georgi/Chris as long as it eventually turns into a closed triad; I just don't want anybody actively, purposefully cheating on somebody else, but muddled circumstances and we're-pretending-we're-just-FWB-but-actually-pining is fine (as is two of them actively looking for a third, of course). For smut, I prefer bottom Georgi and have no preference between the other two. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Georgi. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Georgi and alpha or beta Chris and Victor.

• Chris and Victor have an on-again-off-again relationship that never seems to fully stick. Georgi, newly disappointed by the whole Anya situation, decides that if he can’t have love, he’ll try to patch up theirs at least because he does think they’re a cute couple. This inevitably leads to him getting dragged into the drama. But he could be the missing element they need to stabilise…


• For years, Georgi and Victor have been fooling around whenever both of them aren’t in a relationship. Chris, newly Victor’s or Georgi’s boyfriend, finds out about that. The other reassures him it’s nothing to be worried about, but Chris isn’t convinced, considering it’s been going on for a decade – and also sort of intrigued.


• Georgi has had a crush on Victor forever, but it doesn’t seem like Victor has much time for anyone, much less his rinkmate who always falls short of his glorious successes. At some point, he confesses this to Chris (maybe while drunk or exhausted after a training camp day or something). Maybe Chris decides to play matchmaker and starts to stumble into their relationship in the process?


• Both Georgi and Chris have had a crush on Victor since forever and decide to work it out with each other instead, actually getting close in the process. Somehow Victor learns what’s going on and wonders why they couldn’t have started courting him instead? He would have been up for it… Maybe this can be rectified.


• Victor admits to Chris (who is his friend or FWB or maybe even adventurous boyfriend) that he had a crush on Georgi when he was younger, but feels Georgi didn’t like him because he was always compared to Victor, and also Georgi is probably straight. Chris says you never know until you’ve asked.


• I would guess Chris and Victor have experience with men, but maybe Georgi doesn’t. Does he believe that love will take care of all the possible hitches that could arise from this (especially in intimate matters), or is he nervous or eager to impress?


• A day in the life of those three in an established relationship would be really fun – whether it’s a high stress competition, a training day, or them having time for a rare holiday or date.


• Pair skating or ice dancing or just being silly with each other on a public rink, I just want them to skate together!


• I also like Fantasy AUs (witch Georgi!) or fusions with any of my other fandoms (Assassin’s Creed? Mass Effect? Dragon Age? Star Wars?).


• I’d also love a story that incorporates the use of social media, or maybe is just a mix of instagram posts, fan twitters, and forum speculations about these three as they suddenly start to show up around each other more in public or post shared training vids or something. After all, figure skating seems to be quite popular in YoI’s world.


• I’m always here for smut, of course. I prefer bottom Georgi, no preference for the other two. I imagine with three guys who are this extra, they must get up to a lot of interesting stuff, but I would also be here for something fluffy and vanilla, or Georgi covering the bedroom in rose petals and similar sappy things.


• They’re all at a competition together. Because they’re in a relationship or already used to fooling around, they decide to make it interesting and have a threesome where whoever is in the lead at the competitions gets to decide what’s happening in the bedroom and whoever is last out of the three of them has to serve the other two.


• For Art: Any of the above scenarios that you might want to draw would be great. I also absolutely adore the weird aesthetic choices that happen all around Georgi. His costumes are obviously just amazing (both the glitter goth witch and Elsa’s jumpsuit), so I’d love to see those in a picture. I especially like Chris’ black-and-red free skate costume, and for Victor, the uniform-ish one he wears at the start. Older/new costumes for all of them would also be great, especially if this is a picture of Chris, Victor and Georgi at a competition, or doing an ice dance. I also really like Georgi’s ‘internal’ world we saw on the ice, so I’d really enjoy anything that shows him, Victor and Chris in one of his mental settings. Another thing I like about YoI in general is the use of social media, so a picture styled to look like an instagram post would be a lot of fun (Mila basically said Georgi tends to post lots of ‘kissy pics’ with his partner! Do they officially announce they’re a triad, or maybe just post pictures that make people wildly speculate?).

(I also have a letter dealing with heats and A/B/O as well as one with smut prompts in case you're looking for more prompts.)


Michele Crispino/Georgi Popovich
Georgi is a sleeping prince and Michele wants to be someone’s knight – it’s a match made in heaven. Besides that, Georgi may be someone who would actually thinks of Michele’s somewhat overbearing version of love as romantic, since he’s himself dialled to 100 most of the time, anyway. They could meet up at competitions, training camps, or Michele and Sara could just switch to Yakov’s rink, or Georgi come to train in Italy at their rink. For smut, I prefer bottom Georgi. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Georgi. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Georgi and alpha or beta Michele.

• Georgi tells Michele how much he admired his skating. Michele never really had much contact with other male skaters (what if they hit on Sara!), but now he suddenly seems to be making a friend and maybe more.


• Georgi, Michele’s boyfriend, is out for an evening and Michele won’t stop texting/calling. Everybody around tells him to rein it the hell in (especially Sara might have motivation to make sure Michele does not to drive Georgi to break up with him). Turns out when he does stop being overbearing, Georgi gets worried.


• Relatedly, Michele is kind of used to Sara rejecting the fact that he hovers so much, especially lately. Having someone completely lean into it might be an interesting experience.


• Georgi doing something ridiculously romantic and overblown and Michele being very charmed by it.


• The two of them consuming knight/fairy tale-related media and accidentally getting closer when they thought they had just found someone with similar tastes.


• Mila wants be with Sara without her shadow, so she convinces Georgi to distract Michele (I also ship Sara and Mila, but this could also just be them trying to do something as friends!). Turns out Michele and Georgi get along.


• Sara and Michele come to train under Yakov and Michele and Georgi find they actually are very good practice partners for each other – and maybe more.


• Georgi switches to Sara and Michele’s rink. Michele keeps a close eye on him in case he wants to hit on Sara, but Georgi is just happy someone is paying attention to him since he really knows nobody at the rink and so Michele accidentally ends up striking up a friendship and more.


• Georgi gets hurt/ill somehow and Michele proves to be actually quite competent in the situation and rushes him to the hospital or wherever he needs to be to get help and stays with him. A very grateful Georgi makes him feel like a real-life knight and that’s how Michele accidentally collected a crush...


• Pair skating or ice dancing or just being silly with each other on a public rink, I just want them to skate together!


• I’d also love a story that incorporates the use of social media, or maybe is just a mix of instagram posts, fan twitters, and forum speculations about these two as they suddenly start to show up around each other in public or post shared training vids or something. After all, figure skating seems to be quite popular in YoI’s world. Or maybe their first conversations even happen over DMs or in someone’s comment section? I’d love to read it.


• I’d also be here for an actual AU about a knight and prince (or witch or witch-prince).


• I also like other Fantasy AUs or fusions with any of my other fandoms (Assassin’s Creed? Mass Effect? Dragon Age? Star Wars?).


• Michele and Georgi find out they’re soulmates. How do they deal with that? I’m sure Georgi would wanna go for romance (though perhaps he is surprised it’s a man?), but Michele might somehow have thought he wouldn’t have a soulmate when he already has Sara. How do they find to each other?


• For smut, Michele just doesn’t seem like he would have that much experience, if any at all, since that would have meant taking his attention off Sara. Georgi might also not have any experience with men. How do they fumble through it? I could also see Georgi knowing what he’s doing with a man, too, though, and really blowing Michele’s mind. Is Michele (with his ideal of pure love) shocked how much he likes sex?


• I really like the idea of Michele being a bit kinky but not really okay with it, especially if it’s something that doesn’t seem to go with his knightly morals – for example, if he enjoys domming, doesn’t that mean he wants to hurt the partner he loves? Georgi is willing to try just about anything for a lover, though, and doesn’t judge him.


• The two of them having a lot of fun earnestly role-playing knightly/fairy-tale themes in bed would be great.


• For Art: Any of the above scenarios that you might want to draw would be great. I also absolutely adore the weird aesthetic choices that happen all around Georgi. His costumes are obviously just amazing (both the glitter goth witch and Elsa’s jumpsuit), so I’d love to see those in a picture. I really like both of Michele’s costumes, too, and putting the knight and the prince/ss costumes together (or having them in actual knight armour and a prince’s outfit – or also, Georgi could be crossdressing). Older/new costumes for both of them would also be great, especially if this is a picture of Michele and Georgi at a competition or doing an ice dance. I also really like Georgi’s ‘internal’ world we saw on the ice, so I’d really enjoy anything that shows him and Michele in one of his mental settings. Another thing I like about YoI in general is the use of social media, so a picture styled to look like an instagram post would be a lot of fun (Mila basically said Georgi tends to post lots of ‘kissy pics’ with his partner!).

(I also have a letter dealing with heats and A/B/O, one for soulmate tropes, one for smut, one for mpreg, one for epistolary fic in case you're looking for more prompts.)

魔道祖师 | Módào Zǔshī

Original Male Character/Lan Xichen
I always like seeing what people come up with when it comes to original characters, and I would really enjoy seeing Lan Xichen bouncing off all kinds of guys you might invent, as I think he has a personality that allows him to get along with quite a lot of different types. Something that starts in his youth or during his time as sect leader would be really fascinating to see, though something post-canon would be just as great. I mean, oh boy, canon did not end well for Lan Xichen, did it? I guess unlike many others, he is not dead, but all his best friends are, he’s learned he should not trust his own judgement even a little bit, is understandably riddled with guilt about both deaths of his sworn brothers, and by the time of the banquet, he seems to be slipping ever deeper into depression. It would be great if he also found someone to love and trust, or if he had an existing lover who could give him a hug. I have some ideas below, but anyone over eighteen who is not related to Lan Xichen and wasn't raised by him (like significantly younger disciples of his own sect) works. For smut, I prefer bottom Lan Xichen. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Lan Xichen. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Lan Xichen and alpha or beta OMC.

• Who is the OMC? Maybe a cultivator from a sect who used to come visit when Lan Xichen was still in Lan Qiren’s classes, and whom he maybe had a boyhood crush on? Then, years later, they run into each other again at a Discussion Conference or something.


• Maybe he’s a cultivator or even a civilian that Lan Xichen meets while he’s saving people all over during the Sunshot Campaign. Both being exhausted, frightened, desperate, they spend a night or a few together. They do not expect to meet again (perhaps regretfully so), but it turns out that person moved to Gusu/joined a prominent sect and suddenly they’re facing each other after the war.


• The OMC could also be a rogue cultivator who Lan Xichen knows and likes because he sometimes helps at the edges of their sect’s area. Working together again and again during night-hunts, they get closer.


• Or he could just be a commoner who lives in Gusu or in the surrounding villages who ends up keeping an eye out for the supernatural (maybe he’s a regular hunter who travels back and forth quite a bit). Lan Xichen and him keep meeting up and end up really liking each other.


• If this is past the end of the story, maybe Lan Xichen decides to go night-hunting on his own and then finds himself being hit on by a random traveller/regular hunter who doesn’t know who he is. Feeling like he has little to lose at this point, he shares the bed with him, and they start travelling together. He tells him he’s a sect leader, but the traveller knows little about cultivation and Lan Xichen actually likes just getting to be a person around him. It’s probably a bit of a surprise when Lan Xichen takes him back to the lofty Cloud Recesses, or it’s revealed in a meeting with other cultivators just how renowed Lan Xichen is.


• Or, while he’s in seclusion, a low-level disciple he knows but has never been particularly close with is tasked with checking on him from time to time. Lan Xichen and him start talking, and then feelings slowly develop. Did the disciple always have a bit of a crush on Lan Xichen?


• For something more light-hearted, Wei Wuxian catching wind of some guy always hanging around Lan Xichen and immediately realising what is going on (maybe even before Lan Xichen does) would be very fun. Hey, Lan Xichen is so depressed in seclusion and it worries Lan Wangji, so as a good husband and brother-in-law, Wei Wuxian basically has to intervene and make this happen...


• Smut would be great! Is the OMC the one who takes Lan Xichen’s virginity or vice versa, or are they both experienced? Does the OMC introduce him to some fun kinks or is in possession of some interesting pornography books? Is Lan Xichen in a “nothing matters” mood after the end and sleeps with several strangers in some attempt to stifle the pain, but ends up accidentally catching feelings for one of them?


• For A/B/O or any other AU where two men can create a child (or are allowed to adopt an heir), Lan Xichen is pushed by the elders to finally get married. Since he knows his duties, he lets them pick an important member of a promising sect. Lan Xichen really did not expect their marriage to be based on love, but to his surprise he actually finds himself enjoying the OMC’s presence.


• A slightly darker version could be that Lan Xichen is forced by the Wen sect to get married to protect the Lan sect. They want to humiliate him, so they give him someone unsuitable – a low level Wen disciple, or someone from an obscure clan like YingchuanWang (or another clan that has come into existence under similarly disreputable circumstances). However, the OMC was never a happy Wen servant, he gets along with Lan Xichen, ends up falling hard for him and defects. (If you want to go plotty or include background happy early Wangxian, maybe the Burial Mound-problem never appears because this husband consolidates the rest of the innocent Wen and gains protection for them.)


• If the arranged marriage happens past the ending of the novel, maybe Lan Xichen thinks he can’t bring himself to really love or trust anyone who is not his immediate family anymore. Because he feels guilty that his husband is getting him in this broken state, he tries to be at least pleasant and polite. Turns out his husband, also being a quite high-ranking cultivator, of course knows what happened and ends up being honestly supportive and starts drawing him out more and more. Lan Xichen can’t help but be charmed...


• For Art: Any of the above would be great! The two of them sharing clothes would be nice to see. The OMC holding the forehead ribbon or it being wrapped around his arm or him otherwise playing with it would be great, too. Maybe Lan Xichen plays the flute for him or they dance to someone else playing music? Of course, the two of them embracing, kissing, sitting quietly together (or not so quietly, depending on the OMC’s personality) would also be great. Smut, whether romantic or kinky or both, would of course be appreciated. The two of them fighting together during a night-hunt, if the OMC is a cultivator, would also make for a great picture, but so would Lan Xichen protecting him if the OMC is not a fighter. Also, we know Lan Xichen likes to draw and is apparently very good, so if you want to imitate a sketch or painting he did of them, that would be great as well.

(I also have a letter dealing with tropey stuff for this pairing, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

陈情令 | The Untamed

Original Male Character/Lan Xichen
I always like seeing what people come up with when it comes to original characters, and I would really enjoy seeing Lan Xichen bouncing off all kinds of guys you might invent, as I think he has a personality that allows him to get along with quite a lot of different types. Something that starts in his youth or during his time as sect leader would be really fascinating to see, though something post-canon would be just as great. I mean, oh boy, canon did not end well for Lan Xichen, did it? I guess unlike many others, he is not dead, but all his best friends are, he’s learned he should not trust his own judgement even a little bit, and is understandably riddled with guilt about both deaths of his sworn brothers. It would be great if he also found someone to love and trust, or if he had an existing lover who could give him a hug. I have some ideas below, but anyone over eighteen who is not related to Lan Xichen and wasn't raised by him (like significantly younger disciples of his own sect) works. For smut, I prefer bottom Lan Xichen. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Lan Xichen. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Lan Xichen and alpha or beta OMC.

• Who is the OMC? Maybe a cultivator from a sect who used to come visit when Lan Xichen was still in Lan Qiren’s classes, and whom he maybe had a boyhood crush on? Then, years later, they run into each other again at a Discussion Conference or something.


• Maybe he’s a cultivator or even a civilian that Lan Xichen meets while he’s saving people all over during the Sunshot Campaign. Both being exhausted, frightened, desperate, they spend a night or a few together. They do not expect to meet again (perhaps regretfully so), but it turns out that person moved to Gusu/joined a prominent sect and suddenly they’re facing each other after the war.


• The OMC could also be a rogue cultivator who Lan Xichen knows and likes because he sometimes helps at the edges of their sect’s area. Working together again and again during night-hunts, they get closer.


• Or he could just be a commoner who lives in Gusu or in the surrounding villages who ends up keeping an eye out for the supernatural (maybe he’s a regular hunter who travels back and forth quite a bit). Lan Xichen and him keep meeting up and end up really liking each other.


• If this is past the end of the story, maybe Lan Xichen decides to go night-hunting on his own and then finds himself being hit on by a random traveller/regular hunter who doesn’t know who he is. Feeling like he has little to lose at this point, he shares the bed with him, and they start travelling together. He tells him he’s a sect leader, but the traveller knows little about cultivation and Lan Xichen actually likes just getting to be a person around him. It’s probably a bit of a surprise when Lan Xichen takes him back to the lofty Cloud Recesses, or it’s revealed in a meeting with other cultivators just how renowed Lan Xichen is.


• Or, if he’s in seclusion, a low-level disciple he knows but has never been particularly close with is tasked with checking on him from time to time. Lan Xichen and him start talking, and then feelings slowly develop. Did the disciple always have a bit of a crush on Lan Xichen?


• For something more light-hearted, post-canon Wei Wuxian catching wind of some guy always hanging around Lan Xichen and immediately realising what is going on (maybe even before Lan Xichen does) would be very fun. Hey, Lan Xichen is so depressed and it worries Lan Wangji, so as a good husband and brother-in-law, Wei Wuxian basically has to intervene and make this happen...


• Smut would be great! Is the OMC the one who takes Lan Xichen’s virginity or vice versa, or are they both experienced? Does the OMC introduce him to some fun kinks or is in possession of some interesting pornography books? Is Lan Xichen in a “nothing matters” mood after the end and sleeps with several strangers in some attempt to stifle the pain, but ends up accidentally catching feelings for one of them?


• For A/B/O or any other AU where two men can create a child (or are allowed to adopt an heir), Lan Xichen is pushed by the elders to finally get married. Since he knows his duties, he lets them pick an important member of a promising sect. Lan Xichen really did not expect their marriage to be based on love, but to his surprise he actually finds himself enjoying the OMC’s presence.


• A slightly darker version could be that Lan Xichen is forced by the Wen sect to get married to protect the Lan sect. They want to humiliate him, so they give him someone unsuitable – a low level Wen disciple, or someone from an obscure clan like YingchuanWang (or another clan that has come into existence under similarly disreputable circumstances). However, the OMC was never a happy Wen servant, he gets along with Lan Xichen, ends up falling hard for him and defects. (If you want to go plotty or include background happy early Wangxian, maybe the Burial Mound-problem never appears because this husband consolidates the rest of the innocent Wen and gains protection for them.)


• If the arranged marriage happens past the ending of the novel, maybe Lan Xichen thinks he can’t bring himself to really love or trust anyone who is not his immediate family anymore. Because he feels guilty that his husband is getting him in this broken state, he tries to be at least pleasant and polite. Turns out his husband, also being a quite high-ranking cultivator, of course knows what happened and ends up being honestly supportive and starts drawing him out more and more. Lan Xichen can’t help but be charmed...


• For Art: Any of the above would be great! The two of them sharing clothes would be nice to see. The OMC holding the forehead ribbon or it being wrapped around his arm or him otherwise playing with it would be great, too. Maybe Lan Xichen plays the flute for him or they dance to someone else playing music? Of course, the two of them embracing, kissing, sitting quietly together (or not so quietly, depending on the OMC’s personality) would also be great. Smut, whether romantic or kinky or both, would of course be appreciated. The two of them fighting together during a night-hunt, if the OMC is a cultivator, would also make for a great picture, but so would Lan Xichen protecting him if the OMC is not a fighter. Also, in the book Lan Xichen likes to draw and is apparently very good, so if you want to imitate a sketch or painting he did of them, that would be great as well.

Middle Earth Books

Manwë Súlimo/Ulmo
We don’t know that many details about the Valar, but what we hear just got me to ship these two a lot. They’re close friends and when Ilúvatar points out to Ulmo some of the changes Melkor has made and their unintended positive side effect, he specifically mentions clouds “[and] in these clouds thou art drawn nearer to Manwë, thy friend, whom thou lovest.” Ulmo finds this convincing and says he and Manwë are now going to make melodies together forever. Also, even after Ulmo starts separating from the other Valar, it’s still said that through Ulmo’s waterways news come to Ulmo which “otherwise would be hidden from Manwë”, which to me indicates that they still seem to be in regular contact. Generally, I love that Manwë comes across as like an elf-esque Zeus-Odin figure and is, like all the Valar, very majestic, whereas Ulmo has the distinction of having a hint of an almost eldritch vibe, to the point that living beings find him kind of scary to look at, and with his voice “deep as the deeps of the ocean”. It’s also interesting that Ulmo eventually withdrew somewhat from the other Valar and a great potential point for a fic to explore, but I’d also be very happy about a fic of the Valar’s first conflicts with Melkor, the shaping of the world, and so on. Regarding Varda, perhaps Manwë and her separated or where never together. For smut, I prefer bottom Ulmo. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Ulmo. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Ulmo and alpha or beta Manwë Súlimo.

• Perhaps the reason Ulmo stopped coming to the meetings of the Valar is because seeing Manwë with Varda hurt too much. However, because he lives removed from them, he also misses when Manwë and Varda separate. How and when does he learn? Does it spur him to do anything, or does he still feel like Manwë is not interested in him in general? Does Manwë prove him wrong?


• Manwë actually didn’t think he would be in love again after Varda and he has said so, also to his old friend Ulmo. This becomes a problem when Manwë eventually falls for Ulmo, but knows Ulmo now firmly believes Manwë has no interest in anyone else (and is probably secretly deeply saddened by that thought). How can Manwë fix this and maybe win Ulmo, after all?


• Ulmo is the one who doesn’t think he’s built for romantic love and has said so, but it turns out once Manwë is separated from Varda/after a certain amount of time down on Arda (if Manwë never got with Varda), he realises that what he feels for Manwë is romantic. Does he manage to win Manwë somehow?


• In a version where Manwë never got together with Varda, I would also love to see the two of them start to fall in love when they first end up in the world and everything is still mostly unformed. Do they have innate concepts of personal attraction, love, sex from being semi-gods? Or is it something they start to explore together? (I’d prefer for them not to be too child-like here, just superhuman beings that haven’t explored or really learned about certain things yet.)


• I would also love a story of them fighting together or making music or clouds together or helping some elves/humans. Basically, just showing how their powers can combine and/or contrast.


• If Melkor is still with the Valar or even afterwards, maybe he tries to throw a wrench into their developing relationship by way of some subterfuge or lie (and perhaps succeeds for a while)? After all, Melkor does fear the sea, so it’s not useful to him if Ulmo gets even closer to the leader of the Valar.


• One of them courting the other would be sweet. How do they go about it? Ulmo is clearly the less personable one of the two, so he might have trouble making Manwë understand what he’s trying to do. And what about Manwë? Is he adept at it or does he need a few tries to find a good way to woo someone like Ulmo?


• Manwë seems rather content with his role of king of the Valar in the center of Valinor whereas Ulmo is the weirdo sitting at the bottom of the ocean apart from everybody else. I would love to see how they handle that aspect of their relationship. Does Ulmo move in with Manwë? Or maybe he at least builds another sea palace closer to Taniquetil?


• Are there any songs or legends the elves have about their relationship, any superstitions (true or false) that relate to it (something like if it rains very heavily, it means they’re meeting up, etc.)?


• Smut would be great here, too. I would love to see them have sex in their human-ish bodies (focus on the ‘ish’ especially for Ulmo, I guess!), but I would also love to see the them going at it in the way only gods can. Maybe they have to do it away from any human/elven settlements because it tends to produce rainstorms or something?


• For Art: I would enjoy any of the above prompts, of course! Just seeing Ulmo and Manwë together – perhaps during a kiss or embrace or other show of affection – would also be great, though, because I think you could really do interesting things with their character designs. The two of them creating pieces of nature together or enjoying the world they just disovered would be fun. I’d also enjoy seeing Ulmo visit Manwë on top of Taniquetil or in Valinor, or Manwë desending into the seas to visit his reclusive lover in his palace. If you want to go a bit more trippy, I’d love a picture of them together before they took “the raiments of the world”, too, and were in their spirit forms.

(I also have a letter dealing with epistolary fic and one with a hurt/comfort focus for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)


Original Male Character/Aragorn | Estel
I always liked the way Aragorn interacted with the vastly different people he meets during the book, and how he himself has several sides to himself, from the mysterious Strider to elf-friend Estel to the king of Gondor. I would really like to see him fall in love with any sort of man you’d find interesting, as long as they are over the age of eighteen and not related to Aragorn. Aragorn’s relationship with Arwen obviously runs into my infidelity DNW, so if they are broken up or never got together in the first place, that’d be great. You can go with a medieval view on same-sex relationships or have them be accepted or even have same-sex marriage be a thing, all works for me. For smut, I prefer bottom Aragorn. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Aragorn. For A/B/O, I prefer omega Aragorn and alpha or beta OMC.

• I’ve always liked the idea that Aragorn had a lover up North, either another Ranger or even a “normal” human who fell in with them. If it is a Ranger with his own long lineage and/or awareness of history, perhaps Aragorn arranges for them to meet south when possible and it’s a heartfelt reunion? If they’re someone who has little connection with all the greater evils of Middle-Earth, though, Aragorn might break up with them to protect them; or they were only FWB and while Aragorn is in love, he doesn’t think the feeling is reciprocated, so he doesn’t expect to see his lover again when he leaves the North. However, to his surprise, his lover joins him for the fight against Mordor.


• Similarly, I would find it interesting for him to have an elven lover. I’d prefer if it was maybe not someone who was present at Elrond’s court while Aragorn grew up there (though considering how quick humans age, they’d just have to have been gone for a few years that probably seem insignificantly short to elves), or they were there but didn’t really become aware of Aragorn until he was an adult. Maybe the elf is not from Rivendell at all and thus at first sceptical of Aragorn? How does Aragorn win him over?


• As Thorongil, Aragorn sever in Rohan and Gondor for a while. Maybe there’s other people who still have enough of the old blood to live as long as him and when he returns, he runs into his old lover who he thought he had to give up? Or maybe they secretly kept in contact all these years? However, I would also like to read about their romance back in the day, how they first met and fell in love!


• I could just as easily see Aragorn charm someone from present-day Rohan and Gondor when he returns as the king, or even before people really know who he is. Is it someone important, or maybe just a normal “civilian”?


• Generally, I’m also here for anything else you can think of. Maybe an Orc or Uruk-hai who manages to switch allegiances and overcome the more chaotic parts of his nature (I know this isn’t really a thing due to the way Orcs are created, but I always loved the concept)? A hobbit (though, as much as I like size-differences, I would like the hobbit to be on the taller side here, so four feet or so)? A dwarf? Someone from one of the cultures of Men we don’t see much of in the books, like the Southrons? I’m sure Aragorn has met all manner of interesting people on his journeys and afterwards.


• If Aragorn does not have a lover when he gains the throne, he might consider an arranged marriage to a lord to make his position more secure, whether that is someone from Gondor or Rohan, or perhaps an important Easterling, Haradrim or Dunlending leader (which could also be used to seal a peace treaty). Seeing him navigate that would be a lot of fun and I’d be happy if his husband and him eventually came to fall in love.


• It would be great for someone who only knows one side of him to meet him at a different point of life. Perhaps an elf who only saw him at Elrond’s court runs into him as Strider, or a Ranger or other companion from the North comes to Minas Tirith after Aragorn is crowned. Did they know of this other life Aragorn lived/his heritage? Even if they did, it’s probably very different to see it in person. Aragorn can show the man he’s still the person they know, but he might fall in love with Aragorn all over again seeing this new aspect.


• If Aragorn’s lover is a fighter also, I would love to see them fight together. If he’s not, I would love for Aragorn to protect him (maybe with added hurt/comfort afterwards if you’re so inclined if Aragorn gets hurt).


• If this is pre-Return of the King, Aragorn first telling his lover about his heritage would be a great scene, as I’m sure Aragorn would only do this if he completely trusts him.


• How does Aragorn’s lover assist him after Aragorn ascends to the throne? I’m sure that’s a change he could use help with, whether his lover is inclined to assist him with ruling/strategy/decisions, or whether they’re more the kind who convinces him to relax and recover his energy every once in a while.


• If relationships with men are not accepted, perhaps he figured he would leave that part of himself with Strider because he knows he should marry as Aragorn; but then he falls into bed with an old or new lover? How is the question of his heir decided in that case? Maybe Aragorn decides to adopt a ward? I’m also always here for mpreg, of course – maybe the elves know an old spell.


• Explicit fic is always great. Anything from my smut likes would be very much appreciated here. If Aragorn is dating someone from a different culture or a different species, perhaps there are different ideas of what is taboo to do or talk about? I would love to see them navigate that, too.


• For Art: Any of the above would be really great to see in art as well. I would love to see Aragorn together with his lover in royal robes or shredded Ranger clothes, whatever fits the way they meet (also, a rugged Strider with an elf in beautiful robes or other mismatch like that would also be fun). I’d also like to see them fight together, perhaps back to back if they’re both warriors, or Aragorn standing over him or in front of him to protect his boyfriend if he’s not a fighter. Any canon with wide-spread use of horses also means I am obligated to prompt them riding together on one horse. Also, I would of course love any sort of affection displayed, from a clandestine kiss or touch of hands to full-on explicit art.