Rarepair Exchange Letter 2023

[firstroad]

First of all, thank you so much for writing for me! I'm bloodmoney on AO3 & 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 something from 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.

I don't particularly have specific dynamics in mind or ways I want to see anything portrayed and love getting surprised! 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 & DNWs | Common dislikes I'm okay with | The 100 | Bleach | Captive Prince | Crossover Fandom | Dare Me | DRAMAtical Murder | Psycho-Pass | Raven Cycle | Attack on Titan | Yellowjackets

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

• action & combat
• adapting to new situations (new places, new disabilities, new roles) & the consequences of the new situation
• adventures
• aged up characters
• ambiguous relationships
• ambition (as a good thing or as something leading to downfall)
• amnesia, especially if it's either "used to be close but fell out and the amnesiac person still thinks they're close" or "used to be enemies but grew close and amnesiac character doesn't remember getting close"
• angst
• 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)
• arrogance (whether the character is self-aware about it or not)
• traditional astrology
• AUs:
  • crime-related (heists, thieves, bonnie & clyde, organised crime, rival pirates)
  • bloodsport-related (death games, gladiators, anything else) (willingly, for fun, coerced into it, whatever!)
  • pop idol ones (the personas! the hating your coworkers but having to be gay4pay to entice the fans! losing who you were in pursuit of an image!) (so, relatedly, any AU that allows those themes)
  • canon-typical plot but in space!
  • ones that look like fantasy but are actually scifi
  • cyberpunk / futuristic-setting ones
  • worldbuilding-y tacked-on-top-of-canon ones (soulmates, A/B/O, regular soulbonds, canon but ft. androids, where the existence of the new element changes society)
• being disposable & aware of it
• benevolent monsters (interpret 'monsters' however you want!)
• betray them to save them
• biting (playful or mean or feral-adjacent or to eat or anything else)
• bittersweetness
• blackmail
• body swap
• bodies!! Just, the experience of having a body. (it changing with the passage of time, wanted or unwanted medical surgeries, wanted or unwanted cosmetic surgeries, only ever using your higher register to appear cute™, soreness or damage from [repeated action, mundane or not])
• breaking up & making up (actually the making up is optional)
• canon divergence
• canon setting but [big key difference]
• captivity
• (genuinely) caring for 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)
• characters not seeing/being oblivious to their selfishness/glaring flaws/how what they're seeking is bad for them/changing their motive to what they think they want rather than what they actually want
• characters unpreoccupied with getting comfort/reassurance/love (they can get it or they can not, they can deserve it or not, they can want it after getting it or not, but I love when they don't seek it out)
• characters with weird/not-the-best morals but that nobody tries to change (or even adopts)
• clashing worldviews
• class issues/imbalance
• codependency
• communication that's about anything but what needs to get talked about
• 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
• crew as crew - more complicated than friends or family
• crossdressing (especially if treated as something casual/unsexual) / anything clothes-related
• crying (sad or happy or from frustration or from pain or from cutting onions)
• culture clash
• dancing (argentinian tango? ballet? ballroom? street dance? anything!)
• dark fluff
• darkfic in general
• 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
• (otherwise cute) domestic acts as self-harm (being there for someone each time they call, bedsharing, fixing up their apartment, etc.)
• domesticity but where the characters are Freaking Out about said domesticity, for whatever reason
• dysfunctional relationships (or ones that are objectively dysfunctional but look, they WORK for the people involved in it, okay!)
• earnest attempts at affection being perceived as smothering
• emotional repression
• enemies/rivals to friends (to lovers) (and the reverse!)
• enemies to still enemies who now have complicated feelings
• enemies/friends with benefits to lovers
• established relationships
• estrangement
• experiments! whether that means the characters trying new things or lab experiments or medical experiments or having any of those done to them (interpret this very happily or very darkly)
• extreme sports
• falling for the "wrong" person
• falling in love with the target trope
• fantasy politics
• faustian bargains
• fix-it's that end up breaking something else (or straight up make-it-worse's)
• forced intimacy; fake/pretend relationships not born out of 100% willing eager choice
• gender expression-adjacent things with absolutely zero gender introspection
• gestures of love (whether normal ones like 'I saw this keychain in your favourite colour so I got it for you!' or extreme ones like 'this person bothered you, so I killed them')
• god complexes
• otherwise good people with sadistic streaks
• successfully hiding things from loved ones (whether it's for a good reason or not)
• "history repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce"
• horror
• horses (and birds! and pegasus!)
• hurt/comfort (especially physical), hurt without comfort (physical or emotional) (deliberate or accidental)
• "I'm not doing this for you"
• identity porn / mistaken identity
• “if you can’t beat them, join them”
• ignoring naysayers leading to ignoring valid concerns
• the illusion of choice
• impulse decisions leading to getting stuck in multi-year [whatever]
• in-universe documents
• internalised homophobia
• lack of guilt, even in a situation in which it's the expected emotion (unless it's incest, in which case 'ALL the guilt' is loved)
• lost causes
• love turning people more brutal instead of mellowing them out (whatever 'brutal' means to you - in words, in actions, in resolve, anything)
• loving [objectively terrible thing or setting or action] (and the realisation that you might be the only one who feels that way)
• m/m to f/f genderswap (whether of the 'always a different sex' variety or of the 'touched/drank something and now whoopsie is all changed' variety or dimension travel to a place where they're like that or whatever else)
• 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 persona-related sense) / masquerades / carnival
• mind games
• mind meld
• mirrorverse / alternate dimensions where events of canon went differently
• misaligned love languages
• misplaced trust
• missing scenes
• mourning your past self
• murder games
• nature!
• "nobody knows you like I do"
• non-linear narratives / unusual narrative styles
• not knowing where character X ends and character Y begins
• obsessive behaviour (mutual; yandere-like; yandere but where the victim develops their own extreme obsession back; all of it!)
• on the run
• pain (emotional or physical)
• physical touch
• post-canon / futurefic
• power struggles / explorations of power dynamics
• pride (as a good thing, as a flaw, as a reason for downfall, as a reason for breakup, as anything)
• the private VS. the public
• psychological horror
• regret of the 'SHOULD have done that' rather than of the 'SHOULDN'T have done that' variety
• religious themes & motifs, of any real-world or made up religion, including as just window dressing
• resentment
• rituals
• reunions
• role reversals
• rollerblading
• sacrifice (willing or not, religious, of the character, of things they love, of their past... any kind!) (whether it is portrayed as positive or as a bad decision!) (if self-sacrifice, bonus points if it IS objectively the best course of action)
• sadomasochism where both parties are into both (very much not necessarily in a smutty sense)
• scenery porn
• science-y things
• selfcest
• short term sacrifices for the sake of a long-term cause/delayed gratification (whether that gratification comes or not)
• sparring
• sports
• small glimmers of hope in otherwise extremely bleak situations
• staying in a situation/setting/occupation/whatever they don't like because of stubbornness, even if they know exactly what else they'd rather be doing
• very strong person/their favourite (possibly also very strong person)
• 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
• talent vs. hard work narratives from the POV of the talent; favourite / golden child vs. derided child narratives from the POV of the favoured one / Being The Favourite in general POV (whether they feel like they earned it or they think they deserve it by virtue of [whatever] or they don't even notice/realise)
• time loops/any time- or dimension-traveling-related trope
• 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"
• "there was no other way for this to go"
• transformations (literal or figurative)
• trope subversions
• any undercover trope ever
• seemingly unconnected things being connected
• unequal levels of investment; X loves Y but Y likes X (or the complete opposite: they're so invested in each other they miss what's going on in the entire rest of the world)
• unreliable narrators
• willing solitude / being lonely out of choice (because of the setting or emotionally or what) (out of perceived obligation or happily or temporarily or whatever else)
• worldbuilding (all sorts - small cultural details, beliefs, fantasy politics - especially for crossovers! - , mundane usages of the magical system, frankly anything, I'm nr.1 worldbuilding fan. it is always okay to disregard all my requests to focus on worldbuilding)
• "you can change what you do, but you can't change what you want"

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! Also, if I'm not specifying a preference somewhere just assume I genuinely do not have any.





NSFW likes:
- if D/s or any dynamic with a power differential exists, I'd like to ask that submission be a conscious internal choice (whether eager or reluctant), as opposed to someone's "default" or how they always are
- sex being used for character/relationship study purposes

- beyond that, I'm open!

- violence & gore (elaborated below)

Gore likes (toggleable in case you don't want to see these)

• 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

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)
• permanent character death of requested characters (character death for timeloops, or to be turned into a vampire or whatever is all OK)
• terminal illness
• 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)

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 / suicide attempts / etc
- bodily fluids that aren't faeces (urine, vomit, stomach acid, etc)
- incest, including cross-generational incest, including AUs where two unrelated characters are now adoptive siblings/step siblings/related somehow/whatever else
- 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
- background canon or non-canon ships
- physical disability headcanons/events leading to physical disability in the fic


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

The 100

I love every part of this show and all of its characters SO much! :D They keep making hard and awful decisions. Early canon, late canon, divergences... it's all very welcome!

Bellamy Blake/Lincoln (The 100)
I fell for this when Lincoln accepted getting drugged again to get Bellamy into that mountain, but there's so much to work with with them in general! Either earnestly or with their feelings of affection towards Octavia or anything else.

• How do they move on from Bellamy having tortured and locked him up in separate occasions?


• Would Lincoln retaliate?


• Any kind of Skaikru - Trikru politicking.


• AU where it's them that stay behind when Praimfaya comes (let's assume they're nightbloods somehow)?


• Any Lincoln survives AU and his feelings towards any later actions.

Octavia Blake/Clarke Griffin/Lexa (The 100)
I like it because they're all leaders with different ways of going about it!

• Agreement between 2 of them and 1 disagrees? Maybe Octavia and Lexa are far more eager to go for revenge.


• Maybe it wasn't Indra who took Octavia as her second?


• Lexa survives AU -- would somehow everyone else not know, letting events up to Praimfaya happen much the same? Would she be more effective in combating A.L.I.E.?


• The betrayal scene and the following events - how would it/they change?


• Honestly, anything. I love the world, I love them as characters.

Octavia Blake/Echo (The 100)
Well, I just like hatred and tension :D

• Echo stays in the bunker AU?


• Echo does manages to help Roan win the Conclave?


• Season 7 expanded scenes when they're in that prison in Bardo?


• Anything that forces them to see things from each other's POV


• On the opposite side, them never seeing things from the other's POV and just continuing to be horrible!

Octavia Blake/Indra (The 100)
I love them! I'll take anything at all for this, I have no thoughts for what happens or how it does because I want it all. Octavia's stubbornness, Indra's slow recognition of her, standing as her second later... :')

• Earlier seasons Octavia wanting to be trained & something going horribly wrong?


• Any scenes from Blodreina era - Indra trying to help with the burden of the horrible decisions made? Advising?


• Anything at all during the later seasons! I'm sad they didn't interact as much! Octavia helping with Sheidheda?


• Post-canon! How do they survive when they're some of the only people left alive?

Thelonious Jaha/Marcus Kane (The 100)
I shipped it the most during season one, I admit :') Thelonious' later being A.L.I.E.'s doll-ing made it a little hard, but I'd love anything here!

• How do they progress in the bunker, if Thelonious hadn't died?


• Anything pre-canon! Life on the Ark!


• Did Kane have times of envying his position as Chancellor?


• Their time being locked together and having to kill the other going differently?

Bleach

Arisawa Tatsuki/Inoue Orihime/Kuchiki Rukia (Bleach)
Tatsuki clearly cares for Orihime a lot (she always knows where she is!) and she's been the only person Orihime has truly shown a desire for vindication (or revenge?) for, and for Rukia Orihime has been one of the few people she has genuinely let in (and happily trained with! To the point Ukitake remarks on it!), I think they'd make the perfect mix of hard/semi-hard/soft :D

• Early canon when Rukia is pretending to be a normal human?


• The same as above but this time just moments of her failing to be human


• Fake Karakura Town time but this time Orihime and Rukia are there to see Tatsuki make fast decisions when knowing nothing? :D


• Post-canon get together?


• Frankly anything at all.

Dokugamine Riruka/Inoue Orihime (Bleach)
Given how little we saw of them interacting my love might be disproportionate but I adore this ship! I love how Riruka is prepared to dislike Orihime -- and then very much doesn't! But in true trope fashion she also can't just admit she likes her. I'd love anything that forces them to spend some more time together!

• Any get together trope


• How does Riruka's love for cute things extend to Orihime? Introspective admiration, makeovers/playing dressup (my kingdom for Orihime to wear something that's not a long skirt), anything else


• Orihime rarely shows her backbone (which she very much does have! I can't see her as a pacifist), but Fullbring arc has quite a few of those moments where her determination is in text rather than in the background - would love to see how that extends when they meet inside the garganta later. What if Riruka did go with them? What if Orihime stayed back?


• Orihime is meant to be a Fullbringer too -- training together?

Dokugamine Riruka/Inoue Orihime/Kuchiki Rukia (Bleach)
We get a fight scene that's not even a real fight scene and that was enough for me to ship the Riruka/Rukia branch of this <3

• They all understand being on the outside looking in -- confessional moments of backstories?


• Rukia discovers Riruka and Orihime in Soul Society during Thousand Year Blood War arc


• The same as above but post-canon, where Riruka is maybe just visiting to see Ginjou?


• I'm not sure how fake dating can work with them in canon, but I know I'd love it

Ginjou Kuugo/Kurosaki Ichigo (Bleach)
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

• Prolonging the training scenes and what it needs for a Fullbring to be completed? Is it actually needed?


• Just missing moments from that arc, how trust came to be built up just to get shattered.


• Something later, when Ginjou is fully in Soul Society?


• The deputy badge's ability to analyse and manipulate spiritual pressure... No idea where I'm going with this, I just think it's a fun thing

Inoue Orihime/Nelliel Tu Oderschvank (Bleach)
Zero specific thoughts, I just find Orihime's jealousy fascinating and misplaced and want to see them interact on their own <3 I think they'd be a very fun ship!

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?


• Have they ever dealt with the fact that, uh, Ichigo put a whole sword through Uryuu's middle


• Uryuu had said that he hates the kind of job that would need you to cut up your own wife's dead body for a week straight - so what did make him become a doctor after all?

Kotetsu Isane/Unohana Retsu (Bleach)
Why yes I do tear up when I think of the fact that the only person Unohana left a letter for when she knew she was going to die was Isane! I'm also fairly sure that Isane is the only person to see her with her hair down/her scar showing in canon. She knows all there is to know about Unohana and she knows how she used to be (using more official things as a pretext to fight and kill souls in Rukongai?!) and respects and loves her so much still!

• The moment Isane made vice-captain!


• Anything exploring their vastly different motivations for learning healing


• We know Unohana is in hell after her death - do they meet again, somehow?


• AU where she doesn't die during her battle with Zaraki: how do they deal with the fact that they both expected her to?


• Anything <3

Kuchiki Byakuya/Kurosaki Ichigo (Bleach)
Part of me ships this because of how much Byakuya seems to trust Ichigo after their confrontation - even after Tsukishima cut him, he didn't waver at all! Ichigo got to hear his 'final' words (even if he didn't end up dying after all)! The other part of me ships this simply because I think it'd be very funny and awkward if Ichigo were to get together with one of his best friends' brother. I can't think of any prompts for this, have fun!

Shihouin Yoruichi/Soifon (Bleach)
They're SO delicious! Soifon's obsession turning to hatred turning to understanding. The respect never leaving, even though she tried. The desire to surpass Yoruichi!

• More of their past while Yoruichi was still in Soul Society


• Honestly any interaction during later canon - has Yoruichi ever seen Soifon's bankai? On the inverse, does Yoruichi even have a zanpakutou or is she like the Ise?


• Shunko training?


• What made Yoruichi initially choose her?


• Post-canon glimpse


• Honestly anything else!!!

Ulquiorra Cifer/Kurosaki Ichigo (Bleach)
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


• Ulquiorra wants to understand the heart - how would he better go about it?


• Any relationship study


• Anything else!

Captive Prince

Auguste/Damen (Captive Prince)
Is this a semi-crackship? Yep. Am I still very into the idea? Hell yes!

• Damen becoming a slave in Vere earlier, before he killed Auguste?


• Time loop during the day of the murder/the Marlas battle?


• Everything is the same, except Auguste survives


• The battle at Marlas going differently

Crossover Fandom

Georgia Miller (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!)

Dare Me

Beth Cassidy/Addy Hanlon (Dare Me)

• I love how deep their relationship goes and I love how they just keep running from their feelings. Love Addy's ambition, love Beth's meanness, how she behaves the way you'd expect the best person in the team to behave, and 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


• Anything about cheer - trying to get better


• Anything post-canon!


• Going their different ways for college and then reconnecting?

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

DRAMAtical Murder

Koujaku/Noiz (DRAMAtical Murder)
I'm the most ProtagonistLuvr9000 person I know, so imagine my surprise when I come out of this VN shipping this. :D I love the antagonism! Whether this uses any good or bad end, or goes fully canon-divergent, or Koujaku's tattoos making him go nuts and Noiz having to deal with it, or anything regarding the yakuza, or literally anything else, I'll love it. Having to spend time together and being mad about it?

Psycho-Pass

Ginoza Nobuchika/Kougami Shinya (Psycho-Pass)
Oh, this just has the potential to be so much fun. Their dynamic during pre-canon, season 1, season 2 & the movies, and season 3 can manifest in such different ways and all of them are something I'm interested in! Moving from equals to power differential to equals again... And through it all they just know each other!

• Pre-canon?


• Any normal investigative work going wrong?


• New trial meds to make latent criminals' Psycho-Passes go down?


• Exploration of their relationship and its changes across time.


• Their paths actually properly cross during anything happening in any of the movies


• I'm very into anything, happy or sad or melancholic or straight-up dark.

Kougami Shinya/Makishima Shougo (Psycho-Pass)
Oh, to find someone to kill who can quote literature at you! Who is very much like you, and that includes all the ugly parts. Romance goals and all that!

• 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


• 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


• Anything else!

Raven Cycle

Joseph Kavinsky/Adam Parrish (Raven Cycle)

• Kavinsky knows how to get to people... would love to see how he'd manage with Adam


• Kavinsky finding ways to get at Ronan through his friends?


• Canon divergence AU where Adam didn't meet Gansey and Ronan first, but Kavinsky & co?

Attack on Titan

Eren Yeager/Zeke Yeager (Attack on Titan)
Okay, let's pretend they can touch for this one.

I was having the time of my life with their dynamic -- Zeke was extremely dedicated to his 'I can fix him!!!' till the end ('When I save the world, it'll be with you' )! He entered this thinking he had a little brother who had the same experience as he did, the same internal wounds, the same guilt -- and then Eren was just Like That on his own, despite receiving all the parental love Zeke never did. I have no specific prompts, they just make me giggle and twirl my hair like a schoolgirl with her first crush.

Levi Ackerman/Jean Kirstein/Eren Yeager (Attack on Titan)
I love all of them so much :D

• Early canon titan expedition scenes


• Levi and Jean dealing with post-basement Eren; literally or their thoughts on it


• A different person is a shifter AU


• Exploration of the Underground


• And anything else!

Pieck Finger/Annie Leonhart (Attack on Titan)

• If I understood correctly, the 13 year window has disappeared after the Rumbling and the events that follow - how do they cope with the sudden fact that their lives will go on for far longer than initially anticipated? (If I've understood wrongly then, uh, just treat this as a canon divergent prompt)


• The crystal never happened AU


• They retrieved Annie earlier AU


• Being captured together?

Pieck Finger/Hange Zoë (Attack on Titan)
Strangers to lovers-isms :3 Initially on different sides but working together!

• I think Hange deserves to take a peek (a pieck?) (I think I'm funny :D) at a quadruple titan!


• Weird Girl Pieck and Weird Person Hange bonding... Okay Pieck's weird-isms are limited to walking on all fours, but STILL.


• Neither of them have an explored backstory in canon, give them one! Or two! Are they similar? Way different?

Pieck Finger/Yelena (Attack on Titan)
They have such "No, we didn’t date. Technically he wasn’t an ex-boyfriend. But he was an ex-something, an ex-maybe. An ex-almost." energy. Or actual exes energy?

• When did Yelena fully decide on her views? Was Pieck there?


• Why had Pieck noticed her the first time?


• Actually, anything leaning on the differences in views -- the shared past and shared animosity towards Marley vs. their different futures!


• Scenes from Marley, during any time. During missions, them just being out and about, anything


• Anything else!

Reiner Braun/Jean Kirstein (Attack on Titan)
Jean wanted to spare his life! They both played a role in killing someone extremely important to the other!

• Does Reiner even remember the fact that he didn't die because of Jean?


• More reasons as to why Jean would be so lenient -- them having a past relationship?


• Post-canon! Anything post-canon!


• Differences in their home lives highlighted - Jean seems to have a loving family and Reiner... well.

Yellowjackets

Simone/Taissa Turner/Vanessa Palmer (Yellowjackets)
I knew I was in love with Simone/Taissa the moment Taissa said Simone never made her feel "it". I LOVE practical relationships, entering something with your eyes wide open out of choice and zero impulse, love as a constant decision. On the opposite side I love how grand Taissa and Van's love feels, to the point there's still fondness and affection decades later.

• Van's personality seems to be suited for playing mediator - bridging the current issues between Simone and Taissa?


• Somehow Simone gets involved in the whole The Wilderness Is Calling thing.


• On the inverse, somehow Van gets involved in the darker side of politics.

Simone/Taissa Turner (Yellowjackets)
See above :D : I knew I was in love with Simone/Taissa the moment Taissa said Simone never made her feel "it". I LOVE practical relationships, entering something with your eyes wide open out of choice and zero impulse, love as a constant decision.

• Anything with Other Taissa - maybe Simone seeing small signs earlier and just dismissing them?


• For some reason Simone drives up to where they all are at Lottie's wellness centre.


• Their initial decision to get together! Or anything else.


• Is Other Taissa and the Wilderness supernatural after all? Does it haunt them?

Lottie Matthews/Shauna Shipman (Yellowjackets)
Mysticism and trusting the universe versus constant practicality :D They're both quite soft-spoken at first impression but Shauna has so much restrained violence and Lottie is so ready to accept everything if she thinks there's a higher purpose to it.

• The hunt actually happening.


• Them growing closer together in Javi's discovered tree thing now that they don't have shelter? Finding out who did it - was it actually coach?


• Alternatively, it being Lottie who set fire to their cabin.


• Look - anything at all, I'm bad at coming up with prompts :D

Shauna Shipman/Taissa Turner (Yellowjackets)
Focusing on family and failing at it lady vs. focusing on career and seemingly succeeding at both it and family lady -- until she no longer does.

• Shauna actually doing what she was dreaming of at Brown!


• Their wilderness-time understanding, their more practical selves in focus.


• Conversations about where they went wrong, trying to go right this time - with each other?

Laura Lee/Lottie Matthews (Yellowjackets)
I was so surprised by how much I loved Laura Lee! Ultrareligious but determined girl playing a full back at football, showing someone else how to accept being a vessel for messages -- on top of being a person or instead of being a person?

• Laura Lee's rescue mission still failing, but falling somewhere further rather than exploding - does she make her way back or does she seek help? Can she and Lottie somehow ~feel the other's presence?


• Hallucinatory Laura Lee still guiding Lottie later.


• Wilderness moments pre-death.


• Laura Lee survives AU. What is she like in the present?