Fic in a Box Letter 2022

[firstroad]

First of all, thank you so much for writing for me! I'm excited for anything you come up with, and very easy to please :D Feel free to mix and match any of the likes, or borrow a prompt for one fandom for another, or dust off that fic at the bottom of your drawer!

Most of what I mention is within the canon universe of each fandom, but I'm really more than happy to receive AUs and Fusions, if that's what you'd prefer!

Regarding all the medium opt-ins, pretty much all that I've checked are things I know absolutely nothing about, so I wouldn't want to risk making a godawful list of likes. I love to be surprised, so anything goes!

 

Contents:

Likes/DNWs

Bleach

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

Squid Game

Death Note

Dare Me - Megan Abbott

The Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater

 

Likes:
(alphabetically):

• action & combat
• adventures
• aging up of teen characters
• angst
• body swap
• breaking up & making up
• canon divergence
• case fic
• characters being liars and frauds
• characters fighting (both in the verbal and physical sense)
• clashing worldviews
• codependence
• competence
• crack treated seriously
• darkfic
• denial
• details that nobody else might care for but the author does
• developing relationships
• enemies/rivals to friends (to lovers) (and the reverse!)
• established relationships
• falling in love with the target trope
• god complexes
• hurt/comfort, hurt without comfort
• the illusion of choice
• identity porn
• “if you can’t beat them, join them”
• manipulation
• misaligned love languages
• missing scenes
• non-linear narratives
• obsessive behaviour
• post-canon / futurefic
• regret of the 'SHOULD have done that' rather than the 'SHOULDN'T have done that' variety
• repression of feelings
• rituals
• physical touch as a love language (not necessarily in the romantic sense)
• power dynamics
• science-y things
• selfcest
• time loops/any time or dimension-related trope
• undercover anything
• worldbuilding

I will never say no to Serial Killer or contestants-have-to-fight-each-other AUs (death games, gladiators, etc.)


DNWs:

•     pregnancy being a major focus (and subsequently miscarriage or abortion being a major focus)
•     dub-con or non-con with female victims (mentions are fine if it has happened in canon, but no new incidents or recovery plot please)
•     first person POV in narration
•     explicit underage (under 18) sex
•     graphic abuse or torture of anyone under 18 (fine if aged up for the purpose of the fic/age not mentioned for anime or book characters)
•     A/B/O of the Alpha/Omega variety (other configurations such as Alpha/Alpha are okay)
•     permanent character death of requested characters
•     rule 63 if the end result is a M/F ship
•     terminal illness
•     unrequested ships being the main focus (them existing for unrequited love purposes or in the background is fine)
•     unrequested gender or body-related headcanons (e.g. weight gain kink, flat chested characters suddenly being busty) (body modifications as part of a scifi universe are OK)
•     AUs in which the characters are parents or kids/de-aging
•     lengthy descriptions of cooked food
•     for non-mundane canons, AUs that remove any fantasy/sci-fi/action element (AUs that include completely different SFF elements from canon are OK)

The list is slightly long, but only so everything is covered! Anything not touching those is fair game and probably something I love.

I'm fine with animal abuse, body horror, fusions (I don’t need to know the canon, as long as it can be wiki-ed), graphic violence, gore, OCs as a love interest (I do however prefer F/F and M/M to F/M), one-sided relationships, cheating, unusual POVs that aren’t 1st person (2nd person, outsider, etc.) (1st person also great in notes, diary entries, tweets, etc.)

Any & ships I also enjoy romantically, if that's something you like!




    Bleach


Fandom-specific DNW: mentions of Kazui or Ichika.

re: canon : I’ve read the NO BREATHES FROM HELL chapter, I’ve skimmed some Can’t Fear Your Own World chapters but have never fully read the novels (but don’t mind spoilers/things from them being used), and I have watched the movies, if you want to use something from those :)

I have never read any of the other light novels but also don't mind spoilers.


Arisawa Tatsuki/Inoue Orihime (Bleach):

•     I find their friendship really really sweet, I’d love any sort of get together fic – during canon, after canon, anything!
•     I think Orihime spending more time around people who aren’t able to protect themselves through fantastical means would be a great way for her to see how powerful/valuable she really is, which is something I missed from canon for the most part (minus one or two instances, which for me weren’t enough!)

Hollow Ichigo | Zangetsu & Kurosaki Ichigo (Bleach):

•     I loved the move from ‘The Blade and Me’ to ‘The Blade Is Me’ and the entire reveal re: Zangetsu, and I wish we’d spent more time in Ichigo’s inner world. The interactions between them were always golden (and, honestly, I think Ichigo *could* stand to become a little more willing to follow pure instinct).

Shiba Kuukaku/Shihouin Yoruichi (Bleach):

•     I had actually not even thought of this ship until I saw it in the tagset, but I’m very very intrigued :D. There’s lots of room for exploration!

Grimmjow Jaegerjaques/Kurosaki Ichigo (Bleach):

•     I am simply a huge fan of violence as a love language <3.
•     I have a hard time finding something else to add because there’s honestly very little that I wouldn’t want to see from them. Their canon dynamic is amazing, to me, and I deeply enjoyed how Grimmjow called Ichigo out on actually enjoying the fighting.

    FMA: Brotherhood


Fandom-specific DNW: explicit sex, implications of past or present romantic/sexual relashionships between Roy and any of the girls working for Madame Christmas

Edward Elric/Roy Mustang (FMAB):

•     This is the ship that originally made me like soulmate and soulbond AUs, so if those are included I automatically love it.
•     There’s also very few things that I wouldn’t want out of this, so go wild :D

Solo: Olivier Armstrong (FMA):

•     I’d love to see anything regarding how she runs Briggs, both pre- and during and post-canon!
•     Or her friendships/any other relationship she has!
•     Or anything about her growing up, how she decided to join the military, etc

WB: Any (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga):

•     So so so many things… What do the research state alchemists do? We see some of them in canon, obviously, but what about the ones doing less work with humans?
•     How is the country run post-canon? Are there changes in the relationships between the countries?
•     What about the original days of Amestris, before it became its final shape as a country? The first few conflicts?
•     And what about all the other countries, in general :D
•     And honestly anything else, there’s nothing I wouldn’t be interested in.

    Squid Game


Jiyeong/Kang Saebyeok (Squid Game):

•     What if they did somehow find a way to both win that round?
•     What if they were the ones who made it to the last round?
•     What if they’d met during that first round, when the game was called off?
•     In general, I love what little we saw of their interactions a lot and just want more !

Solo: Jiyeong (Squid Game):

•     Anything! I mean it, literally anything.

    Death Note


Character death of requested characters DNW waived for this fandom.

L & Yagami Light (Death Note):

•     There’s nothing about the canon dynamic that I don’t love. They’re both awful and awfully smart and I like anything showing that!

Solo: Yagami Light (Death Note):

•     I love character studies, and he’s such an excellent subject for that.
•     Pre-canon? Canon divergence? Something else entirely? Would love it.

Solo: Yagami Sayu (Death Note):

•     I simply don’t think we see enough of her, barring the one time she’s used for plot purposes. What’s her daily life like?
•     What if she had found out about the Death Note during that first arc?
•     What if she had a Death Note?
•     We never see her mental state later on, it’s something I’d like to see explored :)

    Dare Me


Beth Cassidy/Addy Hanlon (Dare Me - Megan Abbott) / Beth Cassidy/Colette French (Dare Me - Megan Abbott) / Solo: Addy Hanlon (Dare Me - Megan Abbott) / Solo: Beth Cassidy (Dare Me - Megan Abbott):

•     I don’t have specific prompts for this, unfortunately, I just have this line marked “[Could she s]ee that she could make us, stick her hands in our glitter-gritted insides and build us into magnificent teen gladiators?” and a deep deep love for these characters and how single-minded (and, LBR, assholish) they are. When I say I’d love anything at all, I mean it.

    Raven Cycle


re: canon, I’m caught up with the Dreamer Trilogy books as well, if you want to write something based on those.

Fandom-specific DNW: explicit sex

Mundane AU DNW waived for this fandom.

Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish (Raven Cycle):

•     Anything post-canon (whether that be post-Raven King or post-Mister Impossible)!
•     I love the range they have – we get both kisses in one’s childhood bedroom AND framing others for brutal acts! Anything that showcases that is lovely.
•     I always adore canon divergence. What if they hadn’t met through Gansey? What if they’d met earlier or later?
•     Being together in dreamspace!

Solo: Adam Parrish:

•     Also would love anything post-canon that focuses on his life!
•     If we’re accepting Dreamer Trilogy as canon, I’d love to see him running that fake tarot reading service that we only got hints of. If we’re not, what is his post-Henrietta life like? Or if he stayed, why?