Yuletide 2022

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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 You don't have to follow any of the prompts! 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 importantly, I hope you have fun

If you want to write holiday fic, I'm totally here for it! Any holiday around that period that belongs to any religion, real or made up!

If any sections seem wordier it's probably because of me having had prompts/time to think about the fandom for a longer period. I love all of these equally!

Contents:

Likes/DNWs

W.I.T.C.H. (Comics)

Villains Series

Dare Me

Dreamer Trilogy

Darker than Black

Psycho-Pass




Likes:
(alphabetically):

• action & combat
• adventures
• ambiguous relationships
• aging up of teen characters
• angst
• blackmail
• 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
• class issues
• codependency
• competence
• corruption
• 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 for the "wrong" person
• falling in love with the target trope
• god complexes
• horror
• hurt/comfort, hurt without comfort
• identity porn
• “if you can’t beat them, join them”
• the illusion of choice
• internalised homophobia
• manipulation
• masks (both in the literal and figurative sense)
• 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
• role reversals
• physical touch as a love language (not necessarily in the romantic sense)
• science-y things
• selfcest
• sports
• time loops/any time or dimension-related trope
• that tweet by @arod_twit that went like "characters [..] are too self aware now. every emotional convo is like «I guess I yelled at you earlier because I never processed my dad leaving» no!! no!!! flush someone's blood pressure medication because they called you lazy"
• undercover anything
• worldbuilding
• "you can change what you do, but you can't change what you want" trope

I will never say no to Serial Killer or contestants-have-to-fight-each-other AUs (death games, gladiators, etc.). The most general idea of my likes is basically anything that includes anything sensory and character flaws. The entire gift could be a description of a character perceiving a waterfall and I'd be in love!


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) (dubcon fine if f/f)
• 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 (character death for timeloops, or to be turned into a vampire or whatever is all OK)
• 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, as are long-term disabilities or injuries, as are body changes because of any supernatural reason)
• 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) (AUs that are in the real world but have focus on the physical/contain action elements built into the premise such as pro athlete/spy/bodyguard or survival stories like deserted islands etc are OK)
• anything to do with faeces (other bodily fluids such as blood or stomach acid or vomit or urine are OK, jokes are OK, something being mentioned in the 'character spent all day in the bathroom' way is OK)

The list is slightly long, but only so everything is covered! Anything not touching those is fair game.

I'm fine with 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, torture, cheating/adultery, unusual POVs that aren’t 1st person (2nd person, outsider, etc.) (1st person also great in notes, diary entries, tweets, etc.)



W.I.T.C.H. (Comics)
Characters: Irma lair

I love Irma! I love how stubborn she is, but how she still holds self-respect and won't keep on pressing a matter obviously lost, and how INCREDIBLY attached she is to the fact that they have powers. I love issue #57 because you can SEE the moment her priorities and the way she views some things change.

In general I do prefer the tone of the first two issues to the rest of the series, so something disregarding everything else and going based on those I'd love.

As far as ships go, I ship her romantically with any of the other members of W.I.T.C.H. and Orube! Platonically I enjoy her relationship with quite honestly every single character in canon.

• Post-canon, post-graduation guardian-ing? Do the girls specifically choose to stay nearby? Do they scatter for work/university? Does that pose any problem?
• Loss of powers, temporarily or permanently. She ties so much of her self-identity to them, she feels so special because of them… how would that go?
• A little bit related to the above, there is contrast in the way Cornelia is actually burdened by their powers and quite happy to get rid of them. An exploration of that and if/how it’d impact their relationship would be nice!
• Despite them currently having an amazing relationship, we don’t see much of Irma and her stepmom. I’d love anything with them! How do they spend time together? If something less overly-fluffy, was the relationship always rosy? Did they have to overcome anything to get where they are?
• Not in line with the tone of the canon, but I do love horror! I think it can work especially well in a de-powered AU where she'll be unable to do anything about it, but also in canon setting with her powers intact where they're just unhelpful in the situation anyway
• Anything else as well!

Villains - V.E. Schwab
Characters: Victor Vale, Eli Ever

The obsession! The 'I know you better than anyone else'! Putting the only person that knows you in jail! The plotting! I love this canon. I'm going mostly based off the first book because I haven't reread Vengeful since it came out in 2018, but if you like what it added feel free to use it!

• There's a scene during which Victor recognises Eli and then decides to not do anything about it because he had spent years in crafting a plan -- but what if he had? How would that go?
• Anything leaning into their obsession with each other in the worst way
• The entire book is pretty much a competition for control and attention, so what about a literal competition?
• Arranged marriage AU where they still get their powers?
• What if only one of them ended up becoming an EO after all?
• Anything else!

Dare Me (TV)
Characters: Beth Cassidy, Addy Hanlon

This canon and the book are my loves :D !!! I'm requesting the TV show but I have read the book, so either being the base is fine by me!

I do ship them, but I'm also fine with platonic fic, or fic exploring Beth's feelings towards Addy not getting reciprocated!

• I love how deep their relationship goes and I love how they just keep running from their feelings. I love how Beth behaves the way you'd expect the best person in the team to behave, but how Addy is just as much of that "stereotype" and revered by the school population even when she doesn't realise it. I would want absolutely anything with them!
• Their average day spent together pre-that kiss? Or pre-Colette
• Something where their lack of communication somehow lands them in a happy spot anyway, platonically or romantically
• Going their different ways for college and then reconnecting?
• Would also be very happy with AUs!

I'm fine with fic about/mentioning eating disorders or anything else typical to people whose lives revolve around a sport.




Dreamer Trilogy - Maggie Stiefvater
Characters: Adam Parrish, Ronan Lynch

Mundane AUs DNW waived for the fandom.

I haven't included Greywaren-specific prompts because of how new it is,  but I have read it! If you want to write anything based on it I'd be very very happy with it!

• I love their relationship. I love how the one person that they truly let themselves be THEMSELVES with is each other. I love the feelings of frustration arising from the semi-estrangement happening in this trilogy.
• Bryde and all those things from Adam's POV? How did he find out about anything else going on (that Declan/Ronan himself hadn't told him)?
• Anything more like that opening chapter of Call Down The Hawk where Ronan pulls out lots of horror-y creatures from his dreams and they have to deal with it! Is it happening at Harvard again? Is it at the Barns? Feel free to go as dark as you want here (or in general!).
• If you like something more lighthearted, anything that they can goad each other into doing! :D Neither of them backs off in general.
• I found Adam running that fake tarot readings booth thing hilarious, especially considering he could read them for real but instead just does it for people study and profit - more instances of that? (Diverging in order to get Ronan there or Adam where Ronan is or post-canon or even in a general AU all work!)
• AU where Adam is part of one of the organizations hunting Zeds/Dreamers would be fun!
• Anything else, frankly. Have fun!

Darker than Black
Characters: Hei

Fandom-specific DNWs: Hei/Any female character ships, gemini of the meteor stuff as the main setting/plot/focus (taking elements from it is fine)
I ship him with November 11 and Nick Hillman, but you absolutely don't have to include that!

• Another fandom that I adore :D I love how it's kind of impossible to explain it until after you've got several episodes deep into it
• Any mission fic!
• The initial moment of realising that even as a contractor, you can have feelings
• Any Gate weirdness, honestly
• Good old character study!!
• What if the Saturn Ring hadn't been reversed?
• Frankly literally anything pre-, during, or post-canon would be amazing.
• If you have a divergent/totally AU idea that you want to write, go for it!

If that's where your interests lie, feel free to go as dark as you want! Hei was quite cruel to Havoc, I doubt that's an one off occurence (either by him, or to him).





Psycho-Pass
Characters: Kougami Shinya, Makishima Shougo

Permanent character death of requested characters waived for this fandom.

I do ship them, but it's fine to not write a shippy story! Permanent requested character death DNW waived for the fandom.

I haven't requested Ginoza Nobuchika because there are parts of canon I haven't watched, and I wouldn't want to box anyone -- if you want to add him in as a core character, feel free :D If you want to ship him, I'm fine with either of the above characters being the other half (or, well, OT3 time?)

• I love the obsession most of all! I would love more of it, whether the person they're obsessing over is dead or alive.
• Proper meeting while Kougami was still an inspector?
• Or even earlier, before Makishima had fully settled on his goal
• Any Makishima plan to get Kougami's attention!
• AU where Makishima survives
• Roleswap AU
• Anything that would focus on aspects of the worldbuilding
• Kougami fully leaning into the Latent Criminal-ism of it all
• Meeting while undercover?
• One of them ending up in a rehabilitation center?
• Anything else!

This is a dark canon, feel free to lean into that as much as you want!