Goreswap 2023

[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 You really really don't have to follow any of the prompts (they're just things that came to me in a ten-minute brainstorming session, not ideas I'm married to)! Feel free to mix and match any of the likes, or borrow a prompt for one fandom/pairing for another, or dust off that fic at the bottom of your drawer! Most importantly, I hope you have fun, this letter exists only in case you like more details!

The differences in section length only ever reflect how long I've known the fandom and have had time to think about it, and my general take is that the worst case scenario in all this is that I'll learn something new about my preferences, which is really not a bad scenario at all - if you have an idea, no matter how "safe" or how out-there it is, please go for it



Contents:
Likes

Gore Likes

DNWs/Gore DNWs


Bleach
Captive Prince - C.S. Pacat
Crossover Fandom
Dare Me
DRAMAtical Murder
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Psycho-Pass
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
The Vampire Diaries
Villains Series - V.E. Schwab





Likes:
(alphabetically, not in order of preference):

• action & combat
• adventures
• aged up characters
• ambiguous relationships
• ambition
• angst
• arrogance
• betray them to save them
• blackmail
• body swap
• breaking up & making up
• cannibalism of the raw rather than cooked variety (as in just biting as they are, especially if the characters have regenerative abilities)
• canon divergence
• caring and standing by people who you don't trust
• case fic
• characters being liars and frauds
• characters being deliberately mean/petty/cruel to each other (even if they love each other!)
• characters finding happiness in each other/finding joy in small things/"us against the world" narratives (these don't have to be related)
• clashing worldviews
• class issues/imbalance
• codependency
• competence
• competitions (with extremely low or extremely high stakes both)
• complicated relationships
• compromise
• conflict / fighting (both in the verbal and physical sense) (within the ship or in general)
• corruption
• crack treated seriously
• crossdressing / anything clothes-related
• dancing (argentinian tango? ballet? ballroom? street dance? anything!)
• darkfic
• denial
• details that "nobody" else might care for but the author does (if you know a lot of details about, idk, hornets, I would love to learn as well!)
• developing relationships
• disillusionment
• emotional repression
• enemies/rivals to friends (to lovers) (and the reverse!)
• enemies/friends with benefits to lovers
• established relationships
• estrangement
• extreme sports
• falling for the "wrong" person
• falling in love with the target trope
• faustian bargains
• god complexes
• horror
• horses (and birds! and pegasus!)
• hurt/comfort, hurt without comfort (especially physical!)
• identity porn / mistaken identity
• “if you can’t beat them, join them”
• the illusion of choice
• internalised homophobia
• lack of guilt, even in a situation in which it's the expected emotion
• lost causes
• love turning people more brutal instead of mellowing them out (whatever 'brutal' means to you - in words, in actions, in resolve, anything)
• man VS. monster narratives where the monster wins - and that's not a bad thing (internally or literally or what)
• manipulation / deceit
• masks (both in the literal and figurative sense) / masquerades / carnival
• mind meld
• misaligned love languages
• misplaced trust
• missing scenes
• nature
• non-linear narratives / unusual narrative styles
• obsessive behaviour
• pain (emotional or physical)
• physical touch
• post-canon / futurefic
• power struggles / explorations of power dynamics
• the private VS. the public
• regret of the 'SHOULD have done that' rather than the 'SHOULDN'T have done that' variety
• rituals
• reunions
• role reversals
• rollerblading
• sadomasochism where both parties are into both (very much not necessarily in a smutty sense)
• science-y things
• selfcest
• sports
• the sun - as a motif, just descriptions of it, folklore around it (real or made up), in mythology, a character quite literally Being the sun in some fantasy way, as a tarot card, anything!
• superiority complexes
• time loops/any time or dimension-related trope / mirrorverse
• that line by Ocean Vuong: "I miss you more than I remember you"
• 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"
• transformations (literal or figurative)
• trope subversions
• undercover anything
• willing solitude / being lonely out of choice (because of the setting or emotionally or what)
• worldbuilding (all sorts - small cultural details, beliefs, fantasy politics - especially for crossovers! - , how society changes because of a popular add-on trope like soulmates or omegaverse or whatever else)
• "you can change what you do, but you can't change what you want"

Gore Likes:

• amputation
• bodily fluid A going where bodily fluid B should be
• bone breaking
• both parties going at each other, both enjoying it
• carving words on skin
• character on the receiving end enjoying it, whether reluctantly or happily (but I do also very much like when they don't!)
• complete lack of tools - just someone's hands and teeth and whatever else
• consensual romantic cannibalism (especially if both sides are doing it)
• cutting tendons
• dislocations made worse
• eroticised self-harm
• gore done completely lovingly and romantically from both sides
• gore done in passion - out of extreme love or anger or anything
• gore that's treated as no big deal, something that happens on a weekly basis, especially if there are ways to heal. Like oh yes X took my eye out haha we're going out for lunch later.
• gratuitous bleeding (as far as I'm concerned the human body has, like, 16lt of blood in it :P)
• harm done to faces, necks, clavicles, shoulders
• improper use of gardening tools
• killing someone who just won't! stay! dead!
• makeshift medical attention / battlefield surgery / performing stitches or amputations or anything else on oneself or a loved one out of necessity
• mutilation
• pain, in general
• partial healing used to prolong the harm, or so it can be done again and again
• purposeful burns
• regeneration ft. gore (whether the character has actual regenerative skills, or it's an illusion, or a hallucination, or just mind games, or minutes-long time travel, or whatever other reason!)
• sex in blood (their own, someone else's, whatever else)
• something somehow tearing
• sutures
• the sexual connotations of surgery
• torture in general
• woundfucking
  • wound fingering
• there are probably so very many things I'm forgetting

Things I will never say no to:
- anything crime-related (heist AUs, serial killer AUs, organised crime AUs, thieves, etc)
- any contestants-have-to-fight-each-other AU (death games, gladiators, etc.)
- anything that allows my ships to dissolve the boundary of flesh between them (telepathy, soulbonds that never get resolved, mind melding, literally biting chunks off each other, body swap, sharing a body, etc)

The most general idea of my likes is basically anything that includes sensory details and character flaws. The entire gift could be a description of a character perceiving a waterfall and I'd be in love! If I'm not specifying a preference somewhere just assume I genuinely do not have any.





DNWs:

• pregnancy being a major focus (and subsequently miscarriage or abortion or reproductive rights 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 (fine if aged up for the purpose of the fic) (also fine if nothing gives age away for older book canons or shounen animanga)
• 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, anything that changes the character's appearance for no reason) (body modifications as part of a scifi universe, non-canon long-term disabilities or injuries very welcome)
• AUs in which the characters are parents or kids/de-aging
• detailed descriptions of cooked food or the process of cooking
• for non-mundane canons, AUs that remove every 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)

Gore DNWs:

• (non-canonical) Male perpetrator, female victim (if taking a canon scene a step further it's fine)
• anything that's technically survivable but is going to leave the victim completely helpless and dependent on other people for the rest of their lives (this is fine if there's some in-universe way to still lead a mostly independent life) (also fine if the fic ends and we never have to imagine the consequences of the gore in the future!)
• complete loss of teeth
• childbirth (unless it's like illusion/hallucination/simulation used on a male character)
• anything related to body piercings (the jewellery kind) (facial/on-the-head piercing gore is fine)

Only NSFW like/preference is, if D/s or any dynamic with a power differential exists, that submission be a conscious choice (whether eager or reluctant), as opposed to someone's "default" or how they always are, and when sex is used for character/relationship study purposes. Beyond that, I'm open!


Common dislikes I'm okay with:
- addiction
- bigotry
- body horror, horror in general
- extremely graphic violence / gore / torture
- cheating/adultery (my ships cheating on each other or with each other both)
- OCs as love interests (I do however prefer F/F and M/M to F/M)
- unrequited love/one-sided relationships
- second person POV (1st person also great in any in-universe document)
- fusions (I don't need to know the canon, as long as the fic explains everything relevant or I can wiki it)
- crossovers (between any of the fandoms I've ever requested or with HP, because even if a fandom is very very big the probability that I don't know it is high :') )
- insects
- embarrassment / humiliation / etc
- eating disorders / self-harm / etc
- bodily fluids that aren't faeces (urine, vomit, stomach acid, etc)
- genderswap (whether of the 'always a different sex' variety or of the 'touched/drank something and now whoopsie is all changed' variety or whatever else) (especially if M/M to F/F!)
- A/B/O (especially if A/A or A/B or B/B etc... anything not A/O! especially if there's worldbuilding!)
- asexuality headcanons (although I'd prefer for it to not be articulated as such in the fic, unless it's a canon taking place in the 21st century anglophone world with clearly Online characters)
- any level of consent for M/M (any level up to very dubious for F/F!)
- unhappy endings

If anything I ever say on a signup/letter/etc contradicts a DNW: I just forgot about it. Ignore the DNW.







Bleach
General like for this fandom is any role-related canon AU or divergence (canon shinigami is a quincy, the reverse, canon quincy is a hollow, etc.)

If any of the Bleach Brave Souls designs inspire anything for you (AU or not), please feel free! (I don't play the game, I have no idea what goes on in there, but every new design that comes out is very pretty hahah)

Re: names, call Unohana whichever name you want. For Soifon I have no preference between Soifon and Sui-Feng. For Old Man Zangetsu use whatever's easiest for you.



Fandom-specific DNW:

• Kazui or Ichika (just pretend they were never born please)
• non-canonical names or nicknames (please call Zangetsu 'Zangetsu', not Hichi or Shiro or Ogihci or anything else I've forgotten)
• the Kurosakis and Ishidas being actually related (I read the panel of Masaki calling Ryuuken her cousin as just them belonging to the same clan and also needing a reason for why she's growing up in his house) (unless you kink on the (pseudo?) incest in which case feel free to ignore the DNW and go to town)

Bambietta Basterbine/Unohana Retsu
I'm taking Hot Woman A and slamming her together with Hot Woman B. I don't really have further thoughts on this, I just think they'd be sexy! Unohana uses healing to prolong battles in canon, and she doesn't really need her bankai, so Bambietta can't even steal it. Or does she?




Ginjou Kuugo/Kurosaki Ichigo
Ichigo understanding all that Ginjou is and where he's coming from, yet still killing him <3 Ichigo's tears when his Fullbring was taken <3 The sole reason they were ever against each other being that Ichigo will defend those that gave him strength, because power is what he longs for <3 Ginjou acting like the shadiest motherfucker on god's green earth <3 THE EYE SLASHING SCENE <3333 I don't think Ichigo would be the perpetrator here, but he'd suffer prettily!

• Prolonging the training scenes and what it needs for a Fullbring to be completed? *Is* it actually needed?
• Prolonging the final fight?
• Something later, when Ginjou is fully in Soul Society?
• The deputy badge's ability to analyse and manipulate spiritual pressure used for other purposes

Grimmjow Jaegerjaques/Kurosaki Ichigo
The mutual killing intent! (I feel like fandom largely ignores Ichigo's very canonical 'you want to kill me because of how I look at you? I know how you feel', but personally I love it!) The fact that said killing intent is possessive ('that's the price you pay for going after another man's prey'?! Ichigo confronting Askin like 'Grimmjow lost to YOU?!')! The fact that despite all this they saw things in each other that not even their closest people did!

• Romantic hollow-typical cannibalism?
• Non-romantic hollow-typical cannibalism. I know high level hollows don't need to eat others out of necessity but I think they'd do it for sport :P
• Any one of those fights from the lifelong promise to fight each other over and over again
• IDK, I'm easy. The gore being on them or someone else is fine. Canon divergence is fine. AU is fine. Any form is fine (adjuchas, vasto lorde, whatever on earth you call what Ichigo has going on during the times he's full hollow) (I'm open to bestiality) (Is it bestiality? One is quite animal-like and the other is quite unaware... I'm not savvy enough to know where the line is :p). Any level of consent is fine. Fluffy is fine. They have range!

Hollow Ichigo | Zangetsu/Kurosaki Ichigo
My biggest fannish W in history was, after so long seeing people talking about how he needs to defeat the hollow and see reason triumph over killer instinct etc etc and me fundamentally disagreeing, seeing said hollow turn out to be the literal manifestation of Ichigo's soul <3 Like LOL of course the manifestation isn't a wise middle-aged man! Of course it's the loyal-but-insane figure that talks about mangling sinew instead! He just spent SOOO LONGGGG with nobody knowing he's the actual sword spirit. He taught Ichigo without Ichigo even realising it! He protected! I love the contrast between that VS how bloodthirsty he acts. I ultimately view them as one being but love anything with them.

• Any inner world training scene
• Any *future* training scene, what does it take to unstick the Hollow-Quincy balance inside him? How can he let the hollow side out at will?
• Frankly my brain is blank because I can't come up with any way I *wouldn't* like this.

Hollow Ichigo | Zangetsu/Kurosaki Ichigo/Old Man Zangetsu | Quincy Zangetsu
See above, basically :p But also I really can't stop thinking of the 'fight' during those three months of trying to unlock the secrets to the final getsuga -- the whole "what you want to protect is not what I want to protect [..] What I wanted to protect was you, Ichigo" thing. And Yhwach/Old man Zangetsu/IDK whatever you want to call him was honestly a pretty tough teacher in general, even if kinder than Zangetsu-Zangetsu. They both want to get through to him and he's a little bit um. Stubborn? Dumb as hell? Willfully obtuse?

• I'd love to see anything, frankly.
• Inner world training, post-The Blade Is Me? Getting used to dual-wielding? Or post-The Blade, because word of god says he still *can* break it in two and dual wield... but how did he find that out?
• The inner world changes based on Ichigo's level of will/ambition - does it ever become a small village instead of towering skyscrapers? Why?

Ishida Uryuu/Kurosaki Ichigo

Here's my 7k essay on how the narrative only ever treats Uryuu as the proper moral heroic figure,

More seriously I am extremely obsessed with the contrast of 'prince of light' VS. 'my son, born in the dark', Uryuu's "we're here to save Inoue-san not fight the Espada" during Hueco Mundo Arc VS. Ichigo's "you were right, I came here to fight you" directed at an Espada, the end of the volume poem “we are drawn to each other like drops of water, like the planets / we repulse each other like magnets, like the color of our skin.”! Being the successor of the almighty VS. being the one to cut him down! Being the other 'A' up there with god VS. cutting down the Soul King and bringing destruction through your own hands! Sometimes using religious things as aesthetic is fine actually, because their christ vs. antichrist positioning is sexy (to be clear this is mostly a joke, I do think faith deserves respect)

• Anything at all!
• Post-canon Quincy training? AU where Ichigo had also been raised as a Quincy from the start?
• Bleach uses rain to signal despair pretty often, and it rains when Ichigo finds out about Uryuu's betrayal - can we take it a step further? Or any scene from when Uryuu was with the Sternritters. Does he have to convincingly torture?
• You know how Uryuu is like I won't become a doctor because a job that requires you to cut up your wife's body is awful and then goes on to become a doctor? I think his nightmare should come true :3

Inoue Orihime/Kuchiki Rukia
Ohhhhhhhhh, them <333 That scene were Ukitake was looking at them training and was like 'Rukia is so closed off but she made a friend' gets me emotional every time :') Orihime banging on the wall trying to get out when Rukia's spiritual pressure disappears! (and this might be just me having femslash goggles on tight, but I can't help but compare that moment to when Ulquiorra and Ichigo started fighting and Orihime took long enough to even try to protect him that Ulquiorra commented on it - like, the contrast! the difference in her reaction!)

• More from the time when Orihime went to Soul Society to train with Rukia! Both training and non-training things!
• Anything with Rukia's bankai - she goes so so so low. Can Orihime survive it? Can Rukia? Will she push herself?
• Darker takes on them both
• Orihime can see Rukia's fight with Aaroniero
• Look, anything. I love them deeply

Juhabach | Yhwach/Kurosaki Ichigo
Aizen had told him there was no hatred in his heart when fighting him -- and it was true, Ichigo had no hatred for Aizen, and the narrative damned him for it. So finally when we get a villain that *did* make it personal it was just win win win for me! Yhwach going to decapitate him only to be stopped via Blut Vene was also win win win for me. Ichigo's Quincy blood being strong enough to call him to cut up the Soul King was win win win for me. Yhwach's name being pretty much the tetragrammaton, the entire aesthetic being some extremely butchered abrahamic mix (leaning a little more towards christianity?) is also an interesting base to go off!

• I'm endlessly fascinated by the "I came here to stop you" "The fact that you cannot say kill against the man who killed your mother is your weakness, Ichigo" exchange, because Ichigo has never had an issue with that before, even with people who deserved it far less. So, what does that mean? Does he agree with Yhwach deep down? Would he do terrible things for him? Is the shared blood actually brainwashy?
• I will always wonder whether his final getsuga form with black hair and red eyes and Yhwach's design being black hair and red eyes were done on purpose. Fucking with the future. Showing someone else a future. Creating confusion?
• Just any normal battle gone gorier

Kuchiki Byakuya/Kurosaki Ichigo
I love how Byakuya brings out Ichigo's cocky side more often <3 I loved how Ichigo was the last person Byakuya spoke to and the person he entrusted (even if Ichigo didn't respond to what he thought was a dying man... LMFAO), and how Byakuya was the first person he stopped to see properly after breaking out of Quilge's cage <3 I loveddddd how Tsukishima stabbed him he was all 'I owe my life to you, I am grateful, but you are Kurosaki Ichigo's enemy. Therefore no matter whose life you've saved I will not hesitate to kill you' like ummm okay!! That's a love confession as far as I'm concerned.

• I'm so not picky. Early canon antagonism is great. Even pre-soul chain cutting. Soul Society arc is great. Canon divergence is great. During TYBW is great. Post-canon is great. AU is great. This ship + gore is pretty much a winning combination for me.

Kurosaki Ichigo & Kurosaki Karin & Kurosaki Yuzu

THE SIBLINGS <3333 Love them. Sometimes I think about the twins sleeping literally next to his bed while he was recovering (insert the emoji that's holding back tears, because that's me), or the tiny bits about Karin trying to take up the spirit-related things at the start of Lost Agent arc. Yuzu always wanting his praise (not showing him her uniform until first day of school!). They're just sooooooo lovely to me I want them to suffer ❤️ Or make others suffer?

• Technically the twins are also shinigami-quincy hybrids (are they hollow too? Does the bite pass down to every child or is it like a normal gene thing where there's a chance but it's not certain???) - would love to see if they developed anything. If they haven't, are they in for some rude surprise?

(if the gore is happening to one of the requested characters here I'd prefer it to be Ichigo or Karin and not Yuzu, if possible :') )



Kurosaki Ichigo/Any Male Quincy
Look, I'm easy: whether he gets stabby or he gets stabbed I'll love it. Stabbed being shorthand for literally anything. Faced with As Nodt's fear? Captured as they try to take his bankai? That fight with Askin that we never got to see on-page? Some AU where he grew up as a Quincy first and foremost, whether because his mum decided it or because he was taken to Wandenreich after Masaki's death and grows up to be a Sternritter? If the male quincy is Ryuuken, I'd love to see surgery involved! Or frankly any of Ryuuken's questionable ways to help someone.




Saito Furofushi/Unohana Retsu

Yes this is based on one illustration and Furofushi's 3 seconds of non-speaking screentime in the anime :'D

Them just being happy bloodthirsty criminals <3

• Moments from the first war against the quincies
• Reuniting with each other in hell! Is there history?
• I honestly just want them both being absolutely terrible. Is there camaraderie, is there betrayal, is there reluctant or eager respect?
• This isn't a prompt but the recent illustration Kubo posted with Unohana wearing a leather jacket... I don't know, I just think she looks hot like that. Human world missions before they became the 13th Division's duty?

Solo: Inoue Orihime

Unpopular take but hear me out: the manga is a condemnation of Orihime's current character. What I mean by that is, Bleach just constantly hammers it into our head that admiration is the furthest thing from understanding - it is, after all, the reason the villain that took up the majority of the narrative became what he is, and the contempt it holds shows when he chooses to have Momo stabbed while doing his illusion things. It still however allows Momo to move on and stay as a character and stand up to things, something it never gives to Orihime - so I simply have to assume it is deliberate. Orihime's blindness due to her admiration of Ichigo is underlined so many times: when they were hurt in the desert and Ichigo had to tell her to heal Nel, THE CHILD!, first! The entirety of the Lust arc, when she's begging someone who is about to die for help (and she's aware of it!). During Lost Agent arc, when the admiration is shifted to Tsukishima, she is unable to see past it, while a character with far fewer ties than her to Ichigo does. Her ending not being one of the five careers she wanted to pursue, but... nothing?! For a supposedly happy couple they're not drawn looking at each other even once. (My other unpopular take is that the ending of the manga is a very deliberate horror ending :p No writer hates *all* of their characters this much.) (To clarify because I feel like this is coming off too mean: I have nothing against Ichigo/Orihime as a pairing, but she doesn't understand him and he outright ignores or abandons her - to fight Grimmjow, after killing Ulquiorra and injuring both her and Uryuu, when she apologises to him for something that was no fault of her own and he goes to fight Yhwach - and the numerous opportunities to drive them closer are not only abandoned but given to other characters, so I can't help but think their fucked dynamic is there on purpose.)

All this was to say: please let her break free of the admiration illusion and of her need to be seen as loveable and good at all times. Loly calling her a monster after she healed them - more of that! Whether because something happens to her or because she does something (let her snap!) or she just stops focusing on being loveable for once and gets a little mean with her powers which rival god and yet are tied to her resolve -- I'll eat it up. I'll ask for seconds and thirds. Or canon divergence when her powers got revealed: what does she grow to be, when not fixated on a person she doesn't even understand?
To be more specific on the gore: Does she use Tsubaki on herself? Does Tsubaki decide on his own? Or any other of the Shun Shun Rikka spirits. AU where it was Orihime who turned into a hollow instead of her brother? (Since fullbring powers seem to still work in Soul Society, would her powers work still if she was a hollow?) Anything post-canon. The fact that she would make an excellent yandere. I am honestly very open to anything, I just want to see her explored in a different way and I think gore opens her up (ha) to that!

Solo: Kurosaki Ichigo
What can I say here? I love him lots. His core motivation being a search for power is infinitely interesting to me. I think he's pretty when he's hurting. I love how even by the end he pretty much only gets involved in things when it gets personal, but is willing to go to the shadiest people he knows (Urahara during the beginning, XCution later) and go through anything for a close friend. Love how even towards the end he's still inexperienced with his powers (needing a nudge for the balance to shift and the form to appear in the horn of salvation chapter!) and learning. I love his constant desire for fights and battles. I believe that if he didn't have powers he'd just get some octagon rings and organise underground fights, LOL. To copy from above, I'd just love to see him get stabby or get stabbed! I also just find it very funny that he canonically has the whole 'clothes are tied to how much power he has' thing. I love when stupid fanservice rules are used on male characters.





Solo: Nelliel Tu Oderschvank
That end of volume poem "If you were to give me wings, I would fly for you even if this entire land were to sink underwater / If you were to give me a sword, I would stand up and fight for you, even if this entire sky were to pierce you with its light" got me so badly :') Nel is just so wonderful: so bright and happy around people she loves, so collected and ready to fight if she must, so cold to people who deserve it. She's so powerful and created to be so knight-like <3 Fighting people, fighting for people, flashbacks from how she evolved, I want anything and everything! Hueco Mundo is a cruel world. She somehow became mature and reasonable. Is it a carry-over from her human life? Did she have people who helped or people who hurt her?




Solo: Unohana Retsu
I love Unohana very deeply! She's my favourite type of healer character - one who uses healing just to keep the battle going. I think she deserves to show off all those 8000 sword styles to someone! Let her heal herself, heal the other person, go at it again and again. I just want anything with her, set before giving up the 11th to others or present timeline where she somehow survives or present day but where she is in hell. I just adore her.
(I use Unohana out of habit, feel free to use whichever name in narration)




Shihouin Yoruichi/Sui-Feng | Soifon
They're canon as far as I'm concerned! Sui-Feng's admiration, being left, their reunion fight, the 'why didn't you take me with you?'... it all breaks my heart in the best way! I just want so much of them and for them.

• Shunko makes most clothes not on the torso disappear... now this + being stuck somewhere very very cold :)
• Sui-Feng's arm getting cut off as soon as Barragan's power hit it - she's prepared to do that! Of course she is. Something like that?
• Pre-canon, while Yoruichi was still in Soul Society?
• Look, anything. I love love love them

Ulquiorra Cifer/Kurosaki Ichigo
I am so obsessed with the Lust Arc it's kind of embarrassing, actually. The small parts of foreshadowing before that full-hollow form in e.g. Ichigo choosing to fight when he finally had Orihime where he could save her. The process of Ichigo becoming more and more monstrous as Ulquiorra becomes more and more human! Ulquiorra being the reason Ichigo didn't, you know, literally kill his friends. Ulquiorra's obsession with only things he can physically see existing, yet his desperation in making everyone else feel as empty as he does. The fact that their hollow holes are in the exact same spot!

• Since the hollow is Ichigo's soul and part of his shinigami powers, in theory Ulquiorra died via soul reaper sword, right? So in theory he should have ended up somewhere in Soul Society since he got cleansed. So in theory they could meet again
• During those 17 months of depowerment - taking advantage of the fact that Ichigo can't see him. He can examine the heart as closely as he wants, now.
• I don't know, anything!

Unohana Retsu/Any Female Arrancar
To repeat myself, Unohana is my favourite type of healer character - one who uses healing just to keep the battle going, and she deserves to show off all those 8000 sword styles ! Pick anyone you want, have it be happy or awful or anything else, I'll be all over it!







Captive Prince

Damen/Kastor:
Went into this canon expecting very little and getting a whole lot! Damen is infinitely interesting to me as a character; Akielos is infinitely interesting to me as a place; all the possible fantasy political maneuvres are infinitely interesting to me. So many fascinating things that can happen here! I want all of them.

• Kastor doesn't send Damen to Vere AU
• Damen is the bastard son AU
• I don't know, anything that allows Damen to get hurt! I'm having a hard time coming up with specifics

Crossover Fandom

Fa Mulan | Hua Mulan (Disney)/Marina (Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas)
I am very interested in this because of how both of them push against what a woman where they are can be and can do. I'm not really sure how Marina can land in Mulan's world (even as historically inaccurate as it is), so my only thought as of writing this is the reverse? Pirate or sailor Mulan would be very interesting! Meeting at the seas! Mutinies? If you want to make up fantasy creatures for this I'd be interested.




Georgia (Ginny & Georgia)/Love Quinn (You TV)
They're both murderous if they need to be! I just think they deserve a partner who is equally happily murderous! Does one of them have to move? Did Love somehow escape during the finale of S3? Did they meet pre-canon for one or both canons then later reunite? Are we ignoring their relationships to Paul and Joe respectively and pretending they've been married for ages? I don't know, I'm into absolutely everything :D

I'll very happily read Joe getting killed, but I'd prefer for Paul to be out of the picture in a more neutral way (open relationship? Amicable breakup? They just never even met? It all works!)




Hei (Darker Than Black)/Kurosaki Ichigo (Bleach)

I was just throwing morally questionable fave A to generally questionable fave B TBH. Whether this is a proper crossover with a character from one world ending in another (or both worlds existing at the same time somehow?), or a fusion - I have no preference. Whether this is antagonistic or established or anything, I have no preference. Hei is willing to torture people, Ichigo's soul manifestation goes around saying things like "An insatiable hunger for battle! [..] The will to rip off skin! To gouge flesh! To crush bone and mangle sinew!" so like I thought slamming them together in this exchange would be funny.

Dare Me
Beth Cassidy/Addy Hanlon
I adore both book canon and show canon! I'm requesting the TV show but I have read the book, so either being the base is fine by me!

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. Addy keeps wanting to pretend and she's so :') I just love them. The scene from the show where Beth tells her "This isn't about me, this is about you. The things you never admit. What you do, what you want." it just gets me - it's something that's always certain to get me to ship something, calling out what a person willingly ignores about themselves.

Underage DNW waived for this, but please nothing below their canon ages.

• One of them getting murderous, calling the other for help before the person dies, the other enabling them.
• The pressure cheer puts on your body manifested as horrors.
• Switching the canon so it's urban fantasy instead
• Look, anything. I adore them so so so much!

DRAMAtical Murder

Koujaku/Noiz
I'm the most ProtagonistLuvr9000 person I know, so imagine my surprise when I come out of this VN shipping this. What can I say, antagonism is like catnip to me! Whether this uses any bad end, or Koujaku's tattoos making him go nuts, or more forced tattooing (except worse), or any outside influence (yakuza?) I'll love it. One request is no focus on Noiz's piercings, if possible (mentioning them etc is fine)



Koujaku/Seragaki Aoba
For this, I'm mostly interested in the bad ending. Mindless beast of a man Koujaku who just wants to bite Aoba, Aoba who is pretty high up there hierarchically and treating Koujaku as a pet. Or alternatively Sly Blue era Aoba using Scrap. Or yakuza make them harm each other. I just enjoy Aoba's darker side!




Fullmetal Alchemist

Lan Fan/Winry Rockbell
I adore Lan Fan's stubbornness and skill, how Winry always is capable of finding some way to make things work. They're very interesting characters to me, individually and as a ship!

• Working with nerve endings! Automail just gives so much to work with
• The original automail surgery
• Dimension travel or AU where the roles are switched (Xing automail mechanic Lan Fan?)
• Winry travels to Xing and something terrible happens on the way there or after she's arrived
• And anything else!

Olivier Mira Armstrong/Lust
Based on nothing but vibes, but I like the idea of them

• What if Lust was supervising the tunnel Sloth was digging? Do they discover her at Briggs?
• Lust not dying when she did and appearing when Roy etc were hiding a whole battalion in the Armstrong place
• Lust pulling the Solaris trick on Olivier - does Olivier pretend to buy it and go along with it? Does she actually buy it? Does she cut it short?
• Olivier-is-an-alchemist AU where she is a sacrifice candidate
• Anything else!

Olivier Mira Armstrong/Riza Hawkeye
I'm very interested in this pairing! For all the hatred Olivier has for Roy, she seems to very much respect Riza, and I would love to see either how that was originally developed or something post-canon.

• An AU where Bradley sent her up to Briggs instead of keeping her close - but sent her wholly unprepared for the extreme cold? Does Olivier find her?
• Post-canon, training drills gone wrong.
• Extreme nightmares or hallucinations of the other hurting them?
• Frankly, anything else! I have a hard time thinking up something, but I am very interested!

Roy Mustang/Scar
How do you deal with having the same vision going forward, when one person has harmed so much of what the other holds dear? Scar's understanding during the scene with Envy got to me - I find them both endlessly fascinating. Tag-teaming someone? Something just after the Promised Day and the wounds Roy has from Wrath's swords? Something in the Xerxesian ruins? The only request I have is that it's not Ishvalan war Roy~>Scar gore.





Psycho-Pass

Kougami Shinya/Makishima Shougo

• 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. Would this change anything?
• AU where Makishima survives - are those hallucinations during the movies *actually* hallucinations?
• Moments of thinking of the other; replaying scenes; dedicating pretentious literature to the other as they torture them
• Anything else!

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas

Eris/Marina (Sinbad)
I adored this movie when I was younger < 3 I love the characters, I love the adventure, I love the moving away from what one is meant to do, and of course THE SEA!
Eris can make people unravel so easily... I'd just like to see it! I'd also be interested in a more sadistic Marina and Eris getting a taste of her own medicine (chaos). Honestly very open to anything - future travels at sea and Eris just having fun? Retcon whichever part of the movie you want.

Solo: Marina
Well, lots of things can happen at sea! By other people on the ship, by creatures, by arriving at land... Interested in everything!





Vampire Diaries

Alaric Saltzman/Damon Salvatore (TVD)
No one understands how hard 15 year old me was shipping this. I still find them infinitely interesting - finding friends in unlikely places, developing from below nothing to something, how Damon was after Alaric's death :' ), even if the later ummmmm developments? Were certainly something. I'd love everything! Some sexy vampire blood drinking, out of desire or necessity? an AU where the Dr. Whittemore expertiments never stopped (or happened during a different time, or whatever so the timeline aligns? IDK, time travel?)? Getting creative with killing their enemies? Humanity on or off? Captivity? Earlier canon with some attempts to kill each other? That time Alaric got framed for murders but this time he did actually commit them? Darkness-controlled Alaric coming to play?





Villains Series - V. E. Schwab
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?


• What if only one of them ended up becoming an EO after all? How would he use it against the other?


• And literally anything else!