RMSE Letter

[linndechir]

Dear RMSE writer,

Thank you for writing for me and having a look at this letter. I've got some general likes and dislikes listed - those are the important parts, really. They're followed by a list of kinks I like, should you feel inclined to write porn, and some fandom-specific prompts, but if those don't work for you - as long as you include a thing or two that I like and don't include my DNWs, I'm sure I will love whatever you write for me. :D

As a general rule, I enjoy all ratings; I like darker, angstier fic and more light-hearted stories, although neither completely conflictless fluff nor completely bleak darkfic without a ray of hope are quite my thing. I'm always happy about porn, but it's not a must. I like shorter fics and plotty longfic. The fandoms are listed alphabetically, and the length/number of prompts doesn't mean I want some fandoms more than others, just that I had more ideas for some.

I use the same name on AO3 and tumblr as here.



Do Not Wants:

• character death of characters I like (random side characters or antagonists dying is fine)
• serious illnesses, permanent injuries (blood and wounds that will heal again are fine)
• completely tragic/bleak endings
• animal death/cruelty
• genderbend of any kind, mpreg, A/B/O, characters being werewolves/vampires/anything than what they are in canon
• non-canon gender identities/sexual orientations (e.g. writing characters as trans or asexual), except for writing characters as gay or bi
• unrequested ships (including canon ships) *
• unrequested crossovers or fusions
• complete AUs (canon divergence is fine, but no high school AUs, coffee shop AUs, in space AUs, groundhog day AUs etc.)
• permanently unrequited love or permanent breakups for my ships (ignore this for my FNV requests)
• unnecessary epithets, please use characters' names/pronouns unless their name isn't known to the POV character (or unless the characters think of each other by e.g. their title rather than their name)
• 1st and 2nd person fic
• for porn: detailed kink negotiation, safewords for scenes that don't involve consent play (and even then I'm not really into safewords); scat, watersports, coming in pants, crossdressing, feminisation, body modification, infantilisation (daddy kink and calling characters "boy/girl" is fine)

* I'm fine with mentions of characters' past relationships with OCs. However, I don't want these ships to play a central role: a character thinking back of how they tried out this kink before with some guy they hooked up with five years ago, or briefly thinking that they used to date this guy who hated it when they did X? Totally fine. A character spending half the fic thinking about or interacting with their ex? Not something I'm interested in. I'm also fine with mentions of past canon relationships that were over before canon started (e.g. Adam/Megan and Jim/Neil for Deus Ex, Nikolaos/Myrrine for Odyssey), but unless otherwise specified I don't want canon relationships that began after canon started (e.g. Jon/Martin for TMA). If I've requested several ships in one fandom, I'm totally fine with those ships co-existing.

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Things I like to read about:

• first time/getting together: slow burn, pining, UST finally getting resolved, but also antagonistic hate sex or casual hookups that are only later followed by feelings (emotional pining while already having sex is great)
• friends with benefits who think the other one can't possibly be in love with them/want a serious relationship
• developing relationships: relationship conflicts after the characters got together, trying to figure out how to make things work, some things maybe not working at first, temporary breakups, basically anything that doesn't assume that first time sex -> perfect relationship
• porn, especially porn with feelings/porn that says something about their relationship (see list below for kinks I like)
• enemies to lovers, partners to lovers
• reluctant allies grudgingly starting to like each other
• non-verbal expressions of affection, unusual romantic gestures that fit the characters
• familiarity, intimacy, characters getting to know each other better (their habits, their hangups etc.)
• pre-canon/background stories, first meetings/first impressions (especially if we didn't see those in canon)
• post-canon fic
• canon divergence
• casefic
• moral dilemmas, characters having to question/go against their principles, situations in which there is no clear right or wrong
• loyalty, devotion, trust, but also trust/commitment issues
• obsessive, codependent, complicated relationships
• unhealthy relationships that should be a trainwreck, but work for the characters involved
• obsessive/intense family relationships
• us-against-the-world
• villains in love, bad guys who would literally burn down the rest of the world for each other, horrible people being sweet to each other and awful to everyone else
• jealousy, possessiveness
• age differences
• misunderstandings (as long as there's a good reason for them)
• competence, characters being smart and skilled and good at what they do; characters with different skill sets complementing each other
• hurt/comfort (after injuries/exhaustion, not so much with illness)
• angst: self-doubts, guilt, shame, internalised homophobia, nightmares, fears, self-destructive tendencies, alcohol abuse ...
• period-typical attitudes towards sex, sexuality, class, morality, religion etc. (I obviously don't expect 100% historical accuracy, but I like reading about characters from different societies having different values and principles from our own - this also applies to fictional societies)
• infidelity (not between my requested ships, but one half of my ship cheating on their previous partner with the other half of my ship)
• meaningful name uses (e.g. characters who always call each other by their last name or title switching to using first names)
• outside POVs, different POVs than in canon (more "usual" POVs are great, too)
• sleep-related themes: waking each other from nightmares, falling asleep on each other's shoulder etc.
• soulbonds (but no soulmates, please)
• undercover as enemies (undercover as a couple is fun, too, as long as it actually fits the setting/characters, like spies or cops)
• I like darker elements (violence, murder, noncon/dubcon, manipulation, depression, whatever fits your plot and isn't on my DNW list), but I'd prefer a happy or semi-happy ending. Feel free to make me bawl my eyes out, but please cheer me up again afterwards.

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Kinks I like to read about:

• anal, blowjobs, fingering, intercrural, frottage, rimming & felching are all great
• asphyxiation/choking/breathplay (this is my kink holy grail that makes everything else hotter to me; even just throat-touching without choking is great)
• switching
• biting, bruising, marking; possessive sex
• rough/angry sex, hate sex, fighting/sparring leading to sex, adrenaline-fuelled post-battle and "thank fuck we/you're alive" sex
• dressed sex, dressed/naked, clothes kink (suits, uniforms, gloves, boots etc.), neat characters being dishevelled for once, casual characters cleaning up nicely
• D/s (I prefer casually developing kink to minutely negotiated, formalised BDSM; if anything under-negotiated kink is a plus for me)
• kink discovery/exploration
• strength kink; body worship; men's body hair (on chest, arms, thighs, butt; not so much on back and shoulders)
• stubble/beard burn
• hand kink; fisting; finger sucking
• large/thick cocks (not absurdly huge, but bigger than average); size kink
• bondage: leather cuffs, ropes, restraints, chains, collars
• face slapping, spanking, flogging, riding crops
• gun play, knife play, blood play
• consent play
• dirty talk (both the praising and the humiliating/condescending kind), voice/accent kink
• praise kink
• banter, teasing
• hard, desperate kissing with lots of biting
• barebacking (including the ill-advised, unplanned, unnegotiated we-really-shouldn't-have-done-that-but-it-was-so-hot kind - I'm not into serious STD scares, though; if there is an "oh fuck, what did we just do?" aftermath, please have both characters be certain that they're clean)
• come play (licking come off fingers/skin, felching, feeding each other come, kissing after blowjobs/felching ...)
• come as lube, spit as lube (especially the top spitting on the bottom's ass)
• messiness (sweat, come play, dishevelled hair/clothes)
• overstimulation; characters being overwhelmed, begging for more, becoming speechless ...
• shaving (face or body), especially with straight razors/knives
• sex on tables, against walls, on the floor, on a chair, in the shower ... (sex in beds is great, too)
• masturbation/fantasising about the other before getting together
• incest kink (i.e. characters who are related kinking on it)
• competence kink, admiration
• kneeling, hand kissing, physical expressions of loyalty/fealty
• scars and their history
• oral fixation (while smoking, drinking, talking ...)
• sharing cigarettes, clothes, food ...
• shame in sexual desires (whether about being attracted to another man at all, being attracted to this specific person for whatever reason, wanting to bottom, wanting to suck dick, wanting to hurt their partner, wanting to be hurt by their partner ...)

Alex Verus Series - Benedict Jacka

I the hell out of these books when I read them a while ago, and as usual I fell hardest for the villains. I also really adore the worldbuilding in the series: how different kinds of magic work, wards and relics and artefacts, the politics (both inside the Council and between Light and Dark and independent mages, all the scheming and blackmail and bureaucracy and proxy wars), Dark mage society and customs and rules ... I'd love to read more about all these things, if they somehow fit into your fic.

I love Richard, Morden and Onyx and just want more of them interacting in every combination. I love Richard and Morden as old friends and partners who make a fantastically terrifying team, and I love the complicated, messed up master/apprentice relationship between Morden and Onyx. And I'd love to see Richard and Onyx interact as well and/or throw all three of them together. When it comes to other ships, I'm definitely on board with fucked up Richard/Verus and I'm also totally fine with any of them nonconning their male or female slaves, up to and including graphic noncon - don't worry about squicking me if you want to include something like that.

As for other characters, I also love Cinder, Garrick, Landis and Caldera. I like Verus himself as well and I'm fine with him appearing, but considering that the novels already focus on him and his point of view, I'd prefer to receive fic that focuses on other characters. Verus and Richard's relationship is very interesting to me (gen or shippy), but if you want to include that, I'd prefer seeing it from another point of view than Verus'. The only character I'd rather not read about is Anne - I'm fine with mentions of her being around as Richard's convenient djinn host, but that's about it.

Richard Drakh/Morden

I'm so fascinated by their partnership. They're both incredibly powerful, and yet they seem perfectly happy to work together and share their power with each other in a way that shouldn't even be possible with everything we know about Dark mages - and since I love badass villains in love, I'm here for all of it. I'd also be up for a more ambivalent version of their relationship, though, with them working together but not entirely trusting each other, or things being otherwise more complicated between them.

• I'm desperate for background fic: how long have they known each other? how did they meet? how long have they been working together? to what extent are they genuinely working together or are they just using each other?
• younger Richard and Morden working together back when they weren't yet the two most powerful Dark mages in England (are they even the same age?)
• related: how much does Morden know about what Richard was up to during his ten year absence and at what point did he find out about all that? how did their reunion after Richard's return go? were they already close before Richard left or only since his return?
• does Morden know Richard is a diviner? Richard is so secretive about it, but Morden would probably make damn sure he knows just what his partner-in-world-conquering can do - and if he knows, how did he find out? why did Richard accept Morden knowing his biggest secret instead of trying to kill him for it?
• people in canon keep assuming Morden is working FOR Richard when really nothing indicates that they aren't partners - how do they feel about that? does Morden find it insulting or amusing? do they ever use it for their advantage?
• what the hell was Richard up to during those ten years he was gone? other than getting himself a djinn
• but also, what the fuck Morden is up to: why did he even bother to get on the Council? why did he decide to sit around in a Council prison for a year? I kept waiting for him to do something that required him to be on the Council and in that prison shadow realm, but he never did, so feel free to do something canon-divergent with that
• getting together: it probably took them a long time to trust each other even a little bit, and I imagine that Richard wasn't comfortable sleeping with a death mage for a long time - I'd love some UST and insane mutual attraction while they kind of dance around each other and try to figure each other out, and what eventually leads them to do something about all that tension
• reunion sex! whether after Richard's return or after Morden's prison break
• do Morden and Richard ever commiserate about their apprentices (since Onyx has no mind for politics, Deleo is batshit crazy, Verus discovered pesky morals ...)?
• Elsewhere weirdness - communicating that way while Richard was away, or while Morden was in prison, or weird dream sex before they trusted each other enough for real world sex, or just freaky dream sex that wouldn't be possible in reality
• I'd love behind-the-scenes fic for any of the events in the books, things like Richard asking Morden to save Verus' life because he still needed him, or Richard telling Morden about his plans with the dreamstone and the djinn, or them scheming together about getting Morden on the Council ...

Morden/Onyx

I love both villainous loyalty and mentor/mentee relationships so much. :D I'm open to a lot of different takes on this, but I'd prefer if there was at least some mutual respect and appreciation. Onyx clearly cares a lot about Morden's opinion of him, and Morden had pretty high hopes for Onyx at least at some point, plus Onyx is pretty ridiculously powerful and still loyal to him, which must count for a lot. And the way things end between them in canon breaks my heart, even before Onyx dying the most useless death ever, so I'd love a fix-it fic for that.

I'm totally fine with underage and/or dubcon/grooming, but I'd rather not get straightforward noncon; I want Onyx to be into it.

• more about Onyx' background: how he became Morden's apprentice, if there were other apprentices, how he became his Chosen, how he feels about the fact that he and his master are such incredibly different people with very different approaches to problems ... I'd love to see something that gives him a bit more depth than Verus' understandably very negative view of him. I doubt he would have survived that long if he was a complete idiot.
• we know what Verus' apprenticeship was like - was Onyx' similar or did Morden approach teaching his apprentices differently than Richard did? If you want to take this as an excuse to tell me more about Dark mage society and customs, I'm here for it.
• for porn: D/s, expressions of fealty (kneeling, hand-kissing, shoe-kissing etc.) , Morden's occasional punishments giving Onyx a masochistic streak over the years, Morden topping him sometimes and sometimes topping from the bottom, sparring leading to sex, creative uses of magic in bed, MAGIC CHOKING :DDDD
• while we're talking about porn: first time fic would be great, whether it's Morden creeping on his ridiculously powerful young apprentice or Onyx being all creepily intense and obsessed with his master - or both (random porn idea: Onyx fucking Morden's slaves right after Morden fucked them, and Morden realising he finds that kind of hot)
• if you want to do something tropey with magical soulbonds or telepathic bonds (maybe it's another old Dark mage custom for masters and their favourite apprentices?), I would totally read that - feel free to make it fucked up and creepy, if you like (hell, maybe the reason Onyx isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer is because it turns out spending years with your master poking at your brain through a telepathic bond is not great for your intellectual development)
• Onyx returning to Morden either after the business with the Fateweaver or after the business with Vitus - both situations in which he technically failed to do what Morden ordered him to do. Presumably he got punished, and Onyx canonically felt like he failed him and Morden "never looked at him the same way", but Morden also clearly forgave him - how did that go? I'd also love to read anything about the fact that Morden trusted his powerful Dark Chosen to bring him something as powerful as the Fateweaver, apparently without even worrying for one second that Onyx would want to keep it for himself
• how does Onyx feel about Morden's alliance with Richard and about Richard in general, especially when Richard just showed up?
• fix-it fic because I really need Onyx and Morden to make up and have Onyx regain Morden's favour after his previous fuckups - bring Morden some powerful item or useful intel or kill somebody super powerful for him (Levistus? some other Council member? Vihaela if she ever turns on them?), I just need Onyx to earn back his place.
• related: if you want to write me a version of that fight in which Onyx kicks Verus+Fateweaver's ass and then delivers both plus Verus' dreamstone to Morden and Richard to regain his place ... yes please (it cracked me up that despite the Fateweaver, the author STILL had to go "and Onyx totally slowed down over the past year" because otherwise Onyx would have won that fight, so, please, let him win that fight :D I'm okay with killing Verus off, and equally okay with delivering him gift-wrapped to Richard to do with as he pleases)
• also for this ship: post-prison reunion sex!

Richard Drakh/Onyx

I was really looking forward to Richard and Onyx working together while Morden was in prison and felt a bit cheated by canon when that didn't happen, so I'd love fic about that instead of their mutual hissy fit and Onyx getting basically sidelined from the main plot. Maybe Morden orders Onyx to work for Richard while he's away, or maybe Onyx figures by himself that helping Morden's ally is the best way to regain his favour.

• Onyx and Richard kicking ass together, because there's no bonding like bonding over killing a bunch of people together :)
• bonding over how much they both like and respect Morden, up to and including fucking each other while talking about Morden
• Onyx learning some things from Richard; Richard maybe being a good influence on him and teaching him how to use his brain a bit more
• Richard being somewhat jealous of how loyal to Morden Onyx is, because his favourite apprentice turned out to be a treacherous little weasel (I say that with a lot of fondness ;))
• Richard and Onyx breaking Morden out of prison together instead of Anne doing it - this would also be fun in a verse in which, like in canon, Richard and Onyx didn't get along and then still decide to work together to save Morden (maybe something didn't go to plan and Morden is actually in danger of getting executed if they don't get him out)
• rough sex? post-battle sex? lots of dirty talk because Richard canonically has the hottest voice ever? I can see Onyx not really having been interested in many people other than Morden (sure, he fucks slaves because it's convenient, but that's different), so maybe being with Richard is very different experience for him? or maybe Richard is usually too paranoid to fuck other mages?
• Onyx spent years obsessing over one diviner - I'd be very amused if he figures out that Richard is one as well after seeing him fight once

Richard Drakh/Morden/Onyx

Basically just throw all the above together. :D This would work for me in a canon divergent verse in which Morden and Onyx didn't have their falling out to begin with, or a verse in which he regained Morden's favour but by then Morden totally rekindled his thing with Richard and eventually they all end up in bed together, or hell, even Richard seducing Onyx while Morden was in prison, or Morden pimping Onyx out to Richard as a bit of a punishment and it turns out they both really enjoyed it, I'm open to a lot of scenarios here, including fucked up ones, but I would generally enjoy it if all three of them were more or less happy with the situation, at least eventually.

I don't have a lot of specific prompts for this. I'd love to see all three of them working together, fighting together, scheming together (well, Morden and Richard scheming and Onyx being their weapon of mass destruction), and I'm always here fo a good Villains Win AU.


Assassin's Creed: Odyssey

Nikolaos/Stentor

Daddy Issues The Ship. :D I'm so here for how not chill and angry and repressed Stentor is about everything, and how loyal and devoted he is to Nikolaos while clearly craving his approval. I also love that they both must have kind of messed up, complicated feelings about each other: Stentor clearly has a chip on his shoulder and he cares so much about being Nikolaos' son that he must angst a lot about also being into him; and Nikolaos lost both his biological kids (and his wife), so adopting someone else must not have been easy for him either. Feel free to play up the incestuous aspect as much or as little as you like - I mean, they do clearly refer to each other as father and son, but I figure that's still a different relationship when Stentor was adopted as a teenager (or maybe even as an adult) than if he spent his whole life as Nikolaos' kid.

I'm 100% here for Stentor having been Nikolaos' eromenos, and Nikolaos eventually adopting him (I don't really care if Stentor basically grew up without parents, or if he was orphaned as a teenager and Nikolaos adopted him then). Underage down to 12ish is totally fine for this ship. Feel free to do whatever with Stentor's age, as long as he isn't quite as absurdly old as he looks in game. ;)

Should it come up, I prefer Alexios as the elder sibling and protagonist. Totally fine with mentions of background Alexios/Brasidas (and Brasidas being alive is always A+), and of Nikolaos/Myrrine and Stentor/the wife he definitely has because he's a Good Spartan (TM), although I doubt that's a particularly loving, passionate relationship rather than just him being dutiful and doing what's expected of him.

• I'm totally up for pre-canon fic: what's Stentor's background? does he have any living family left? what did he do as a teenager to get Nikolaos' attention and become his eromenos (Nikolaos is kind of a big deal, he wouldn't have taken any random kid under his wing)? did Stentor actively try to get his attention and pursue him while Nikolaos was a bit reluctant, or was Stentor surprised that someone as important as Nikolaos was interested in him? at what age did Nikolaos actually adopt him? how long was this after Nikolaos lost his own kids?
• both of them trying to pretend the sex is all about Bonding and Teaching when Stentor is a teenager, and both guiltily enjoying it far more than they think they should
• they think they should stop sleeping with each other when Stentor gets "too old" for it (and maybe he's officially Nikolaos' son by then), but they don't want to ...
• or conversely: they do stop sleeping with each other and only start again years later - maybe after Stentor finds out Nikolaos isn't dead and jumps even though he really really shouldn't? bonus if they end up a lot more passionate about it than they ever allowed themselves to be when Stentor was younger
• both of them angsting to hell and back about how Nikolaos must be disappointed in Stentor for still wanting this, or how Nikolaos must clearly disrespect Stentor if he still treats him like a boy in bed ... feel free to heap as much shame and guilt as possible on them ;D
• they're both very repressed and proper and serious and probably suck at talking about their feelings, so give me all the misunderstandings - Stentor desperately trying to make Nikolaos proud and not knowing that Nikolaos is proud of him, neither of them being entirely aware just how much the other one loves him because they'd never ever talk about it ... maybe physical affection is the only thing they manage?
• Stentor's angst about whether Nikolaos will ever love him as much as the children he lost - especially once Alexios is back in Nikolaos' life and he's a stronger fighter than anyone else and he's charming and handsome and everybody loves him and how the hell is Stentor supposed to compare to that?
• related: Stentor worrying that Nikolaos doesn't really want/need him around anymore once he has his "real" family back and trying to stay away - maybe that can lead to Nikolaos actually telling him he cares about him, even if he has Alexios (and Kassandra) back
• sparring, fighting together, more sparring, hunting together, patching each other up after fights, steamy rough sex after fighting together, saving each other's life on the battlefield ...
• Stentor being far less of a dick to Nikolaos than to everyone else (including, like, his friends and comrades and his wife)
• as repressed and serious as they are, they probably have a really hard time relaxing and having fun, so I just really want some porn for them to see how that goes :D

Alexios/Deimos!Alexios

I love this idea, specifically as a verse in which Alexios had a younger brother rather than a younger sister who was raised by the Cult (I'm fine with Kassandra existing as the third sibling - maybe she actually grew up with Myrrine or Nikolaos after her two brothers were thrown off Mount Taygetos?). Or, what I'd find even more fascinating, if they were twins and actually have some memories of growing up together - I feel like that would make their reunion even more interesting, and also make Deimos feel like it was even more unfair that Alexios got, compared to him, a halfway decent life.

Name-wise, feel free to do whatever - you can call Deimos!Alexios Kassandros if Kassandra doesn't exist, or give him another name, or just have him insist on going by Deimos even post-canon if you want to ignore the name issue. I love family feelings for this canon, too, so you can definitely include Nikolaos, Myrrine and Stentor (and Kassandra) as well, if you want to. Same for Brasidas - I'm all for complicated feelings about Deimos almost killing Alexios' friend (lover?), or Brasidas living and he and Deimos trying to get along somehow post-canon ... If you want to go in a threesome direction, I'm open to that! (I still love Alexios/Brasidas, I'm just requesting some rarer ships this time that I haven't received (much or any) fic for yet. :))

• post-canon fic: Deimos coming home to Sparta with the family, trying to adjust to a life away from the Cult, growing close (again) to his brother, or maybe Alexios and Deimos travelling together because Deimos doesn't like staying in Sparta all the time ...
• related: Deimos post-canon trying his best to fit in somehow, and he's pretty sure wanting to fuck your brother is not considered normal, so he tries his best to repress it - cue lots of UST and pining and almost-kisses (meanwhile Alexios is pretty sure he's misinterpreting things because Deimos is kind of weird, that doesn't mean Deimos wants to fuck him, right?)
• angry, resentful hate sex, whether during canon or after - especially once Deimos catches on that the Cult is just using him, he's just angry that he really got the short end of the stick compared to his brother
• Deimos capturing Alexios at some point during canon ... but he doesn't want to kill him - does he creep on him a bit to freak him out, but it turns out Alexios is into it? do they talk a lot and there's UST? do Cult guards threaten Alexios and Deimos keeps him safe, while pretending that's not what he's doing?
• identity porn - does either of them ever pretend to be the other? does the other one catch them at it? does it lead to sexy fighting and/or fighty sex?
• kinking on their similarities, comparing their bodies, retracing each other's scars because those are the only thing different about them ... Deimos cutting new scars into himself and Alexios so they can look more alike? :DDD
• like I said above, I'm 100% here for Alexios/Deimos/Brasidas - are Alexios/Brasidas a thing when Deimos comes back? does Brasidas think Alexios won't really need him around now that he has his brother/twin back? did Alexios and Brasidas just have UST and now Deimos is terribly jealous? do Deimos and Brasidas' attempts at getting along lead to a steamy affair and Alexios is jealous because he wants them both and apparently they don't want him?? except they do

Blitz (2011)
Tom Brant/Porter Nash

I adore the relationship between Nash and Brant, the banter and dickishness, but there's also a lot of respect and trust, and it's there pretty much from the start (I love how Brant just shows up at Nash's door to tell him about all his problems basically a day after they met). I'd love to see anything that explores how their relationship develops further after the movie or something exploring what was going on between them during the movie.

• casefic, especially if they use somewhat unconventional methods again
• slow burn getting together fic in which they work together for ages and neither of them wants to make the first step (Nash because he knows better than to hit on his apparently straight macho coworker, Brant because he's very uncomfortable and in denial about his feelings/attraction)
• or conversely: rough hookups they never talk about and pretend didn't happen, because they just work together, it's not like there are any feelings involved, right?
• internalised homophobia and masculinity issues on Brant's part, especially contrasted with how comfortable Nash is with his sexuality (I'm fine both with Brant being so completely in denial he's never slept with a man before, or just deeply closeted and hooking up with men in secret and horrified by the very idea of anyone who knows him ever finding out he's gay)
• jealousy: maybe Nash starts seeing someone and that's the kick in the ass Brant needs (either to finally make the first step, or to admit that their hookups meant more than he liked to admit); I'd also love to see the other side of this - Nash maybe wondering why he'd much rather have his alcoholic repressed asshole coworker than a perfectly nice, respectable, out boyfriend
• anything dealing with how fucked up they both are: Brant's alcoholism, his blackouts, both their violent streaks ...
• more about their past: are they still in touch with their families? any nice, friendly exes of Nash's who might show up on his doorstep and wonder what the hell he's doing with this macho asshole? any unsolved old cases being re-opened? old enemies wanting revenge?
• for porn: I'm open to anything, but one idea I'd love to see would be Nash as a dominant bottom who loves telling Brant exactly how to fuck him. If you want to go kinkier with this - Brant getting off on Nash ordering him around, humiliating dirty talk about how Brant is just a dumb brute who's not good for anything but fucking Nash, Nash putting a collar on him ... But, again, totally optional, if you want to write fluffier, gentler sex, I have no objections to that. :)

Deus Ex
Adam Jensen/Jim Miller, Adam Jensen/Jim Miller/Francis Pritchard

Note: I've played Human Revolution and Mankind Divided and I've read Black Light. I don't mind spoilers for any of the other games or comics or whatever else there is, but I'd prefer not to get a fic that requires me to be familiar with those parts of canon.

Adam's injuries prior to getting his augs are obviously exempt from my "no permanent injuries" DNW. However, I don't want anyone else to get their limbs ripped off or the like, and I don't want Adam's augs to get permanently disabled or destroyed.

I love Adam so much: that he's a genuinely good guy who wants to help people, that he's snarky and cheeky and irreverent, that (at least post-augs) he's pretty withdrawn and emotionally unavailable and has all these walls built around himself (and I really want someone to get past them). I like angst and suffering and Adam is a well of suffering, and I enjoy it while simultaneously wanting nice things to happen to him (after lots of beautiful suffering). As for Miller, I love that he has a temper and is impatient and often isn't particularly nice, but underneath that gruffness he cares about doing the right thing and he cares about his men. Similar with Pritchard: he's such a prickly jerk, but at the same time he's always ready to drop anything to help Adam. I'd also be happy to see any other TF29 or SI characters appear in the story. I'd especially love to see Sarif and Miller meet.

Adam Jensen/Jim Miller

• the direct aftermath of London: I was disappointed that there wasn't another conversation between them at the end of the game, but that's what fic is for. Miller wanting to know how Adam got the antidote, demanding a justification for disobeying his orders, maybe some desperate you're-not-dead sex or just a sharp increase in UST they're both trying to ignore ...
• generally a lot of things happen in game that aren't talked about that I'd love for them to have a conversation about some day: like the time Adam broke into Miller's place, or how Adam got his augs (to what extent does Miller know what happened and just how involuntary that was?)
• I love there being some tension and arguments and disagreements between them even once they do trust each other, simply because they're not the easiest people to get along with and horribly stubborn
• the aftermath of however and whenever they hook up for the first time (and of course the first time itself!): does Miller try to put a stop to it because he's Adam's boss? does Adam because he thinks he's not good (enough) for Miller? do they hook up regularly after missions and never talk about it? do they slowly fall in love while thinking all they can have is this friends with benefits arrangement?
• casefic, working together either for TF29 or Adam's saving-the-world schemes: making plans, Miller as sniper support while Adam sneaks in somewhere, rescuing each other, patching each other up, stuck in difficult situations together ...
• fun with CASIE! Maybe Miller wants Adam to use it on him so he knows what it feels like (and can stop being paranoid about it, or worrying that another Aug could use it on him without him noticing), and it has some ... side effects. Maybe Miller enjoys getting pheromone-dosed until his brain short-circuits while they have sex.
• touch-starved Adam who thinks nobody could ever want him the way he is (except maybe someone with an Aug fetish, and he doesn't want to be someone's shiny Aug sex toy); Adam just melting when someone touches him; Adam who doesn't enjoy jerking off anymore with his new hands and is very blue-balled
• *handwave* there's totally something about that Sentinel health aug that does away with that pesky refractory period, right?
• give me all the angst, the nightmares, the PTSD, the trust issues - for both of them. All the issues Adam still has with his body and with what was done to him, all the conflicted feelings he has about that and refuses to deal with. The fact that pretty much his entire life from before (friends, job, dog :((, girlfriend etc.) is gone for good. But I'm also here for some angst for Jim: he almost died, he found out there's a big evil conspiracy, he went through a nasty divorce after a decade of marriage, his daughter is very sick ... I like them hurting, and I like them trying in their own, possibly awkward, ways to be there for each other.
• porn! Whether it's an ill-advised hookup early on, or finally fucking after ages of UST and denial, or even trying out something new in an established relationship ... I am incredibly into subby Adam and Miller taking charge. Adam being eager to please, Adam desperately wanting someone to touch his actual skin (and much preferring to blow people than to jerk them off). Maybe Miller expected him to be repressed about guys and is surprised when Adam isn't? Or maybe Adam actually has fairly little experience with men, that works for me too.
• tropey tropes I like for them: undercover as a couple (whether they're infiltrating some skeevy place for sugar daddies with Aug hookers/sex slaves or a pro-Aug organisation and are posing as a happily married couple) or marriage of convenience (maybe some new anti-Aug law is passed and a non-Aug spouse is one of the only ways to avoid the new rules and harassment, so Miller offers just to keep Adam safe and then they have to live together and it's terribly awkward because they're both in denial about how into each other they are)
• stealing this verbatim from someone else's letter (I really hope that person doesn't mind), but it's perfect and I want it, too: someone being dehumanizing to Adam in front of Miller, either in a situation where Miller can actually do something about it or one where they both just have to take it. People talking about and treating Adam like an object, being objectifying, stuff like that.
• anything involving Miller's family: they talk about his daughter, or Adam somehow meets the kids and/or the ex, or there's a threat to Miller's family and he sends Adam to save/protect them ... I'm very here for Miller trusting Adam with his family and for Adam interacting with Neil and the kids.
• infidelity! what if Jim's marriage wasn't in complete shambles yet (but slowly getting there) by the time MD happens, but he still ends up falling in love with Adam? Guilty pining and Adam being sure he and Jim are never happening (and anyway he shouldn't want Jim to leave his family, that's selfish) and UST eventually leading to spectacular bad idea sex they both feel awful about afterwards. :D
• I'd be very interested in an AU in which the Incident didn't happen and the political situation in MD is more similar to what we saw in HR, simply because I find that far more interesting in terms of worldbuilding: maybe Adam still works for TF29 because he quit his job at SI once he'd found Megan (and in this verse stopped the Incident from happening?), but in this AU his augs pretty much make him the golden boy, which would make for very different conflicts with e.g. Mac, or maybe people like Mac and Miller are getting pressured into getting augs to become better at their jobs etc. Or maybe this Adam doesn't work for TF29 and meets Miller under different circumstances (but still doesn't know for the longest time if he can trust him).

Adam Jensen/Jim Miller/Francis Pritchard

I mostly see this happening post-MD, maybe because Adam calls Pritchard for help with something. A lot of set-ups for the eventual OT3/threesome could be interesting: maybe Adam has slept with them both once or twice and it's awkward because he wants them both and can't decide and feels greedy. Maybe Adam and Jim got together post-MD and Adam feels bad that he wants someone else even though he's happy with Jim (whether or not he's slept with Pritchard before). Maybe Adam and Jim were on the verge of getting together, but then Pritchard shows up and there's clearly some History there and suddenly Jim isn't so sure anymore if Adam really wants to be with him or not. Maybe Adam has always had UST with both of them, but nothing ever happened, and it eventually explodes in a steaming hot threesome.

• I see this starting out as a V constellation - Jim and Frank are both into Adam, Adam is into both of them, and they're willing to put up with each other for his sake. But long term I'd like them to actually start caring about each other, too - I'd love to see how that happens.
• any getting together scenario (see my rambling above - TLDR: I'd love any possible version of events)
• first impressions - I can see Jim and Frank being a bit wary of each other at first and wondering why Adam trusts this guy so much, but I also think they could grow to respect each other.
• all the angst! Adam having feelings for them both and thinking it'd be dishonest to get with either of them while also pining for the other, Jim and/or Frank thinking that Adam clearly wants/loves the other guy more/is more serious about him and they're just the third wheel, any of them thinking that their threeway arrangement can't possibly last and sooner or later someone is getting dumped ... (note: I'm not into ~healthy poly discussions~; all three of them are fairly emotionally unavailable guys who aren't great at talking about their feelings, and I prefer small gestures, quiet moments of realisation, half-spoken sentences that carry a lot of meaning, slowly figuring things out etc. over them sitting down and having a long conversation to negotiate their relationship, because I don't enjoy reading that)
• Jim and Frank getting closer: bonding over video games or some other shared interest or over Adam being a reckless pain in the ass; stuck in a dangerous situation together without Adam around; working together to save Adam from a dangerous situation; something domestic while Adam is busy elsewhere and they realise that they've grown used to having each other around and enjoy it; the first time they have sex without Adam there (or even just the first time all three of them have sex and Jim and Frank actually do something with each other beyond briefly touching while they're both more focused on Adam) - I'd love to see this growing from a V arrangement mostly for Adam's sake to an actual OT3 where they all actually enjoy being together and wouldn't want it any different
• porn would be excellent, whether first time or established relationship. I like Jim and Frank topping Adam together (mostly because I really enjoy subby Adam) and taking care of him - whether they're working together or are trying to one-up each other. I see Frank as pretty switchy, so if you want to write something like Jim-fucking-Adam-fucking-Frank, I'd be so on board with that. I'd love to see any kinds of firsts, especially firsts between Jim and Frank (that could be fun from Adam's POV, if he's worried they don't actually like each other, and sees them slowly growing closer - first time he sees them kiss, or one blow the other, or shower together ...). Spitroasting, DP, one of them holding Adam down/holding his mouth open while the other fucks him, one of them fucking him after the other did and commenting on how wet and messy he is ... knock yourself out with all the beautiful things threesome porn can include. :D
• anything I've mentioned in the Jim/Adam section above is also welcome to show up here, btw. Including fun with CASIE, touch-starved Adam, tropey undercover adventures, meeting Jim's family (Frank would probably the biggest dick ever to Neil, but maybe surprisingly good with the kids) ...

Fallout: New Vegas

I've had such a craving for Legion fic for such a long time - because the game leaves so many questions open about them and so many gaps to be filled. That and I find characters who are horrible people entertaining. Feel free to go dark and fucked up with these assholes, that's what they're there for, although I'd enjoy it if there was a bit more to them than just doing everything for the evulz. We do get a good look at what goes on in Caesar's head in the game, but the same can hardly be said for Lucius or Vulpes, so I'd enjoy fic that gives them a bit more depth. (I really don't like secretly-not-so-bad Vulpes, though. I know that seems to be a thing in fandom, but it's not my kind of thing. Let him be horrid and evil. I do like not-necessarily-a-horrible-person-at-heart-just-devoted-to-a-horrible-system!Lucius, but not going-to-desert-the-Legion-first-chance-he-gets!Lucius.)

I'd also enjoy the hell out of some Legion worldbuilding. I'd love to see more about growing up in the Legion, what life is like back in the Eastern territories, what everyday life is like, what the Mojave would look like if the Legion wins at the end of the game (Caesar wants his Rome - let him have it and show me what he does with it), expanding on worldviews, political/military discussions among the Legion higher-ups, to what extent people like Lucius or Vulpes believe all that Son of Mars stuff, things like education and language use (I'm always here for language geekery like which things they use Latin for and if maybe Latin becomes increasingly a lingua franca when you assimilate a bunch of tribes that speak different English dialects ...)

These prompts obviously stray darker than what I usually prefer and I'm totally fine with that, no happy ending required (and I certainly don't expect anyone to be in love for these ships). However, I'd still prefer if there was more to the fic than just unrelenting misery, and most of my DNWs like no character death and no mutilation etc. still apply - I don't want to read about Arcade's canon death, for example. Am totally okay with killing off Caesar, though, as long as you somehow get Lanius out of the way first so someone slightly less batshit like Lucius takes over.

I didn't request it this time, but I'm definitely up for mentions of Caesar/Lucius or Caesar/Vulpes as well, and I generally love Vulpes and am always happy for him to show up. Delightful creepy asshole that he is. :D

Caesar/Arcade Gannon

• intellectual discussions slave!Arcade lets himself get drawn into because he can't resist an argument (and he does seem to have a kind of grudging, horrified respect for Caesar while also disapproving of him in every possible way) - Arcade occasionally enjoying their discussions and hating himself for it
• I find it fascinating that Caesar likes Arcade despite the fact that he seems to despise it whenever anyone disagrees with him, so I'd love to see how that happened
• moral dilemmas: some kind of character study about how Arcade feels about his choice to survive (instead of letting Caesar die even if it means his own death), to technically help the Legion etc.
• I have a thing for enemies forced to work together, so what if there was some kind of bigger threat that's even worse than the Legion, just to put Arcade in the awful situation of wanting to help them?
• anything explicit would have to be noncon, I think, because no way would Arcade agree to sleeping with Caesar - whether it's Caesar just taking what he wants, or raping Arcade to punish him, or convincing himself that Arcade totally wants him back and just doesn't admit it ...

Lucius/Arcade Gannon

• stuck in the Mojave together: maybe Lucius has to escort Caesar's favourite slave somewhere and *handwave* things go wrong and it ends up being just them, having to work together to survive; even funnier if Lucius finds Arcade irritating as fuck (but also surprisingly useful)
• Lucius seems like a semi-decent guy for a Legionary, so I'd like to see moments of him being nice in some way to Arcade and Arcade not having it because he's not accepting shit from these bastards (or maybe eventually accepting it because he's miserable and lonely and it's been so long since he's had anything nice)
• rape by proxy :D Caesar doesn't want to fuck Arcade himself, but he has Lucius do it - either as a "reward" for his favourite pet slave (because, hey, Arcade is gay, surely he'll like getting banged by a hot guy! /s) or as a punishment because Arcade pissed him off. I'd find it especially interesting if Lucius didn't really want to do it, but it doesn't even occur to him to disobey - and maybe he gets into it over time
• grudging, confused attraction! grudging on Arcade's part, maybe confused on Lucius's if he's never/rarely ever been into a guy. I'd be totally okay with just lots of UST neither of them wants to do anything about, but a resolution would also be awesome
• so here for Lucius-becomes-Caesar future fic - what would that mean for Arcade, if he's still around by then? what would it mean for the Legion? would Lucius listen to Arcade's advice in some regards, while still generally holding on to Legion principles and frustrating Arcade horribly?

Kraken - China Miéville
Dane Parnell/Billy Harrow

I love Dane and Billy's relationship: how quickly they start trusting each other, how well they work together despite being such different people, Dane teaching Billy about the world of magic and weird shit, saving each other's life, and of course the size kink is a bonus. I find the worldbuilding and the general weirdness of this book fascinating and would love more of that, and I'm also really interested in Dane's whole kraken faith. (I'm much less into body horror than Miéville is, though, so I'd appreciate fic that goes less hard on that. Feel free to break out the tentacles for porn, but I don't need detailed descriptions of people being turned into radios or having their teeth slammed into their throats.)

Unfortunately I wasn't a big fan of how the book ended, so my main request is really just "please to change the ending". Specifically, I'd like for 1) Dane to live, 2) Billy not to be Billy 2.0 after beaming, but just Billy, 3) people not to forget half the plot of the book because that's one of my least favourite tropes. How you make these things happen, or if you just handwave all of it, is totally up to you.

• getting together fic is always A+, no matter what or when or how
• Dane Not Dying: being krakenbit gave Dane some more serious juice in the fight against Grisamentum, being krakenbit makes him survive what Grisamentum did to him/makes him come back from the dead a few hours/days later, Billy manages to do something to save his life (again), Dane does die but somehow comes back to life (thanks, God Kraken!), Dane comes back but maybe a little wrong ...
• I like the idea of Dane incorporating all that ink from the Kraken library, mostly because I was so sure that's where that scene was going: Dane rebuilding his church, Dane being overwhelmed/changed in some ways by all that knowledge that was suddenly crammed into his brain (but still mostly being himself), Dane getting some snazzy new powers from all that knowledge, Billy being kind of in awe of this new Dane, Billy helping Dane adjust ...
• Dane's faith and upbringing in general fascinate me, so more about that would be great
• ritual sex/sex magic to save the world: tentacles optional but totally okay. Pining afterwards and stupidly assuming the other wouldn't actually want to have sex with them except to save the world is excellent.
• for this fandom, I'm super happy to read various tropey stuff: sex pollen/something made them do it, pretending to be a couple while on the run, accidental/forced soulbond caused by magic or whatever - everything with a heavy dose of pining :D
• I have no good prompts for it, I'm totally up for freaky magic stuff happening - another end of the world, supernatural bad guys coming after them, some magical problem they have to deal with ...
• Billy getting Dane back from the Kraken-y underworld because he doesn't want to lose him just yet

The Magnus Archives

My most recent obsession. :D I really love so many of the villains in this canon, and I love them being cheerfully villainous and having fun being evil and getting away with all the horrible things they get up to. Peter, Elias, Jonah and Mordechai all just make me so happy with how happily evil they are. I also like terrible people who only care about each other. As for Jon, I am a big fan of him going darker and more monstrous over time, but I also love his angst and guilt, and I love prickly, grumpy early season Jon who just wants to do his job and be left alone, too.

As for other characters and ships: I'm fond of Jon/Tim, even if I didn't request it - I'd definitely enjoy mentions of past attraction or even hookups or a relationship, if that's something you'd want to include. I'm fine with mentions of Martin's crush on Jon, but please no requited Jon/Martin. I'm on board with Jonah sleeping with basically all his friends (Fanshawe, Smirke, Barnabas Bennett, everyone else) and Mordechai fucking other people as well, just as long as they don't love anyone else. Peter and Elias can also fuck other people, I don't need Peter/Elias to be exclusive. With Jon/Elias, I'd prefer if they didn't sleep with other people once they get together, unless it's in threesomes.

I'd prefer if Jon wasn't written as asexual - repressed is fine, low libido is fine, inexperienced is fine, even virginal is fine, but I'd like him to be at least somewhat into sex and attracted to other people (mostly Elias, I want him to be into Elias). I'm good with both Jonah!Elias and Elias just being himself (or anything in between like him being a mix of Jonah and OG!Elias).

For all of these requests, feel free to bring as much creepy supernatural stuff into it as you like - Jonah's/Elias' telepathic abilities, Jon Knowing things, Jon growing however many extra eyes as you like, Peter or Mordechai throwing people into the Lonely ...

Elias Bouchard/Jonathan Sims

Oh God, these two. :D Elias' obsession with his Archivist, the manipulation and the mindgames! Jon being drawn to him and wanting answers from him and being frustrated by him (and slowly becoming a bit more like him). Those hints of pre-canon!Jon's crush on Elias. Jon's whole descent into monstrous darkness that I really want to go way further than it does in canon (so far), because they'd make such a delightful Beholding power couple. I'm good with anything from fully consensual to messed up, manipulative dubcon, though for this exchange I'd prefer no noncon. I'd also like it if, no matter how fraught things are, Jon is at least somewhat drawn and attracted to Elias, even if his feelings are very complicated.

• pre-canon/early season: Jon having a bit of a crush on his handsome, serious boss and wanting to impress him, Elias maybe taking a bit advantage of that to get to know his new Archivist better
• spanking! or other disciplinary action for s1/2 Jon - for being rude to statement givers, for stalking and otherwise bothering his assistants ... spanking escalating to ill-advised office sex that Jon can feel very bad about
• compulsion training/exercises/kink - never enough of that, set whenever :D
• any season 4 canon divergence in which they interact more: phone calls, telepathic conversations, dream conversations (dream sex?), visits in prison, Elias mentoring and manipulating Jon a bit more directly just like he did in season 3
• twisted and fluffy feelings! Elias worshipping his perfect Archivist who gave him everything he ever wanted, Jon being drawn to the only man who truly understands him the way he is now (and accepts him that way), being tender with each other while drinking up everyone else's fear, feedback loops between their respective Knowing/telepathic powers ... I love Jon finding some kind of (guilty) happiness with Elias at the end of it all
• Elias feeding him statements, especially if Jon is all weak and starved (I love some hurt/comfort there)
• Elias and monster!Jon nonconning an OMC, maybe a statement giver they want to fuck before or after Jon yanked a statement out of him. or Elias and monster!Jon nonconning Tim (who didn't die in s3 for the purpose of this) - if you're interested in this stuff, I have some more detailed prompts for those scenarios in my Nonconathon letter
• so far I'm not really sold on the way the apocalypse is going in season 5, so I'm open to all kinds of canon divergences on what exactly happens after the season 4 finale - does the apocalypse happen more slowly, gradually? does the world largely remain the way it is, just with more fear? I'd just like it if Jon kept compelling statements out of people and giving them creepy nightmares and working at the institute and all that. or just handwave how exactly the apocalypse goes and write me Elias finding Jon after the season 4 finale and taking him in and taking care of him while they enjoy this new fear world together.
• outsider POV! Martin or Tim would be especially interesting - Martin for his jealousy, early season Tim being amused and maybe turned on by his boring boss sleeping with his other boring boss, later season Tim being disgusted that Jon would sleep with Elias after everything Elias has done (but maybe still incapable of looking away)
• porn porn porn - compulsion, desk sex, spanking or flogging, Elias petting little extra eyes on Jon's body, suit kink, Elias blowing Jon's mind if Jon's sex life up until then has been somewhat mediocre, lots of fingering, fisting (I'd love Jon fisting Elias, but either way would be great) ...
• Jon reading a naughty statement and getting all worked up, and Elias helping him with that :) bonus if the statement was from/to Jonah Magnus
• very specific little headcanon, but if you want to explore it: I love the idea that Jon is physically blind post-Dark Sun and sees through his powers - maybe he doesn't realise right away because he compensates so well through Knowing things, until the next time he starves himself? would work well with Elias feeding a starved, weak Jon some statements.

Elias Bouchard/Peter Lukas

I really love them as friends-with-benefits who've known each other for decades and like working together, scheming together, occasionally scheming against each other but generally more or less on the same side. I love how utterly hilarious Peter is, I love how well they clearly get along (most of the time), and I just generally love them being cheerfully terrible together. :D (Since it's such a thing in fandom, I should probably mention that I'm not into them being literally married. Or divorced.)

I usually don't have particular top/bottom preferences, but I'm not all that much into Peter getting fucked. Elias domming him is fine, though.

• background fic:I really, really want to know how they got to know each other and got closer - young Peter not liking James Wright but eventually changing his mind, their first bets, how they first ended up in bed together (did Elias seduce him or how did that happen?) ...
• bets, specifically sex-related bets or bets with sex forfeits: maybe that's how they start fucking, or maybe they just use bets to try out various new kinks they're interested in
• I'd love to get a good look at Peter's feelings about Elias - since he clearly doesn't do very intense feelings, at least not comfortably so, but he seems attached enough to Elias
• never over the fact that Elias must have told Peter about all his Super Secret Worldending Plans - how did that conversation go? wasn't Elias worried about telling him?
• siiiiiize kink - I do so love fanon!Peter being huge and beefy and bearded, and I like to think that Elias is very much into that
• I'm in denial about Peter's death, he's clearly just chilling in the Lonely to recover from all that Being Known - I'd love for him to come back eventually, post-apocalypse, and find Elias (who had no idea Peter was alive because he can't see into the Lonely)
• if you want to write not-Jonah!Elias: Peter seducing the guy James Wright selected as his next host would be fun; more plotty, I'd love to see an AU in which Elias figures out what Wright is planning and tries to find a way to survive it/steal his place (and maybe Peter helps him just out of pettiness because he thinks Jonah|Wright is a dick?)

Elias Bouchard/Peter Lukas/Jonathan Sims

Throwing the above two ships together because I think it'd be fun! :D I'd mostly imagine this happening if Elias is already sleeping with both of them and things go from there. Like with Elias/Jon, I'm open to fully consensual or manipulative, messed up dubcon, but I'd prefer no outright noncon for this exchange. I want Jon to agree to it, however much they pressured him into it or however much Jon knows it's a terrible idea.

• Elias loses a bet and Peter wants to have some fun with Elias' cherished Archivist, but Elias insists on being there (and convinces Jon to agree)
• I love how lost and lonely Jon is in season 4, so maybe Peter takes advantage of that to seduce or tease him ... cue threesome once Elias is back somehow (I'm fine with some Peter/Jon by themselves leading up to that)
• Elias or Jon liking to watch the other get fucked by Peter, Peter loving how wrapped up in each other Jon and Elias are so they're pretty much ignoring him while he fucks them, Elias showing Jon off to Peter and showing him all the things he taught him ...
• see above, Peter-is-not-dead fix-it AU: Peter showing up post-apocalypse as Elias and Jon are doing their monster couple thing, Elias is delighted to have him back, Jon ... less so

Mordechai Lukas/Jonah Magnus

Victorian Eldritch Bastards in love! :D They're my OTP for each other and I love the idea of them genuinely caring about each other while being utterly dreadful to everybody else. I'd love to read literally anything about them, from first meetings to when they've been together for decades, from porn to evil scheming to sweet tender fluffy moments (possibly while scheming somebody else's horrible death and suffering). For this request, I'm fine with mentions of Mordechai dying eventually and Jonah mourning and missing him, but I'd prefer not to get a fic that's only focused on that. I'd like them both to be alive for most of the fic.

• first meetings/impressions, and how things went from there - they probably met at Smirke's or someone's ~occult soirées~. how did that go? was Jonah initially interested in Mordechai's money and hoping to manipulate him? when did they realise they actually liked/respected each other?
• Mordechai funding Jonah's research etc., but also spoiling him with lavish gifts - paying for his clothes, his house, his furniture, having Jonah painted, bringing him expensive imported flowers or fruit ... maybe even before they ever start sleeping together, as some long elaborate courting process while they flirt a lot. bonus if it's mixed with possessiveness: making sure Jonah's clothes match his own as a way of staking a claim, that sort of thing
• flirting, UST, Jonah being increasingly shameless and Mordechai making him work and wait for it until they eventually fuck (possibly in somebody's library)
• shared curiosity, collecting statements together, sharing research ...
• mutual adoration and admiration as they both get in deeper with their respective patrons and develop their own powers; being massively turned on by the other's powers (e.g. Jonah by watching Mordechai throw someone into the Lonely); sex uses of powers (Mordechai making them invisible so they can fuck in public?)
• the contrast between their genuine love for each other and how ruthlessly they use and fuck with everyone else
• Jonah's Very Scientific Sex Orgies (they're for research! that's why he needs all his eldritch friends to gangbang him) - and Mordechai watching, or being the last person to fuck Jonah, or taking him to bed afterwards and being the only one who stays with him for the night
• I don't see Mordechai as very jealous, but I'd definitely enjoy playful/fake jealousy and possessiveness for the sake of wild, passionate "you're mine" sex
• I love them nonconning some poor unsuspecting (male) bastard - a rentboy (underage is fine), someone from their social circle they're displeased with (Fanshawe would be a good option), potential candidates for Jonah's new body ... (see also my Nonconathon letter)
• speaking of: I'd love them trying out new hosts together and taking a while to settle on one - Mordechai didn't enjoy fucking this one, Jonah didn't think that other body was sensitive enough for his taste ... but also: the first time they fuck when Jonah is in his new, young, gorgeous body he picked specifically for Mordechai's (and his own) pleasure
• like I said above, I'd enjoy some bittersweet stuff about Mordechai's eventual death, or Jonah worrying about losing him eventually - maybe he stays in the Lonely for longer and longer, maybe he refuses to pursue a similar life-prolonging method as Jonah ... just not 100% deathfic from start to finish please

Mass Effect

Because I'm very frustrated the games didn't let me romance the characters I wanted to romance most. I adore Shepard's relationship with both Garrus and James so much: that undying loyalty, will-follow-you-to-the-end-of-the-galaxy friendship he has with Garrus, and how much renegade Shepard enables Garrus's darker impulses and how much they just get each other; and that more complicated relationship with James, the fact that James massively hero-worshipped Shepard before meeting him, and then babysat him for six months when Shepard was at his lowest, and then in ME3 he really feels like one of the people who keep Shepard grounded, who are aware that he's human and that this war is taking a toll on him, that his hero is fallible.

I strongly prefer renegade Shepard (who is nicer to his companions/friends) - ruthless and efficient, the end justifies the means, snarky and intimidating, willing to do whatever needs to be done, no matter the cost to himself or to others. Should it come up, I really prefer him sabotaging the genophage cure for that reason because Shepard having to kill two of his friends to do what he thinks is right is such a horrifically great moment in the games. I picked the Spacer/Ruthless backgrounds and vanguard as his class, but I'm not fixated on that, if you want to use something else. Ending-wise, I think for fic a handwavey "the Crucible destroyed the Reapers without destroying the geth, and Shepard is alive" works best. I'd also be super interested in a variation of the Control ending, though, in which Shepard doesn't die while uploading part of himself into a God-AI, simply because the mindfuck of co-existing with an all-powerful AI version of yourself must be incredible. In general, I love stoic and/or angry suffering, so feel free to whump Shepard hard as long as there's a happy-ish ending.

I'm very attached to his default looks and name, so please no custom Shepards. I love pretty much all the other companions and am happy to read about them. My other faves are Zaeed, Legion, Miranda, Jack, Cortez, Mordin, Joker, Grunt, Samara, Traynor.

Male Shepard/Garrus Vakarian

• all the awkward getting together scenarios, whether it's something similar to the canon romance for femShep or something completely different (though I wouldn't want a simple retelling of the canon romance just with mShep, please). I'd love them hooking up to blow off steam, but I'd also be really interested in a fic in which they pine and pine for ages while thinking their friend doesn't want anything more than friendship - maybe they only sleep with each other just before the final assault on Earth because they both know they might die, or maybe it's only after Shepard almost died at the end of the game that they do something about all that attraction
• I love Garrus being confused by his attraction to a human - whereas Shepard is maybe more chill about being into a turian. I'd be definitely here for Garrus seeing Shepard hook up with turians when they're on the Citadel and having very complicated feelings about it (jealousy? but why would he be jealous, shouldn't he be glad his friend is getting laid? relief? but why would he be relieved that Shepard is clearly into turians when Garrus is tooootally not interested in him that way ...)
• Shepard hurting and Garrus being (almost) the only one who catches on and sees through his "I'm totally fine" facade is like catnip to me (that scene when Garrus figures out Shepard sabotaged the genophage cure and killed Mordin is one of my favourites). More of that, always. Shepard getting captured by someone and tortured or raped or otherwise hurt, or he has to make more awful decisions that weigh on him, and he bottles it all up and refuses to talk about it and Garrus is just quietly there for him (and cheers him up with snark and shooting competitions).
• so, mhm, Garrus clearly has an awkward romantic streak and Shepard ... not so much. I'm all for the hilarity that may ensue from that.
• post-canon fic: I'm all for Shepard being badly hurt/in a coma and nobody knowing if he'll live for a while. I'm also here for post-war Shepard having lots of trouble readjusting to a normal life (well, what counts as normal for him, he's still a soldier - I'm not interested in him retiring). How do you even have a normal life if you're the fucking saviour of the galaxy? I can see him running away from all that to his usual marine duties and chasing the next battle and refusing to deal with how weirdly numb and empty he feels without death constantly looming.
• I love turians in general and am super interested in more worldbuilding for them: relationship traditions/expectations, meeting Garrus's family, stuff like grooming, possible issues with an interspecies relationship, possible issues with Garrus dating someone who's in essence his commanding officer as long as he serves on the Normandy (is that acceptable for turians or not?) ... I'm always interested in cultural differences and misunderstandings (also ye goode olde trope of one of them doing something innocuous the other misunderstands as a romantic overture, or conversely doing something romantic the other misunderstands as friendly or even insulting ...)
• porn is always good. I like Shepard bottoming (and being demanding about it); I like desperate we-might-die/you-almost-died sex; I like sparring leading to sex; I like xeno weirdness (I'd like turians to have a dick and an ass, but beyond that feel free to include lots of xeno weirdness liked barbed or ridged dicks or whatever, just spare me the word cloaca please) and kinking on each other's differences (Shepard loving the scratch of Garrus's talons, Garrus getting off on how soft Shepard's skin is, things like that).

Male Shepard/James Vega

• I'd really love casual hooking up during the war while they slowly develop feelings they're trying to ignore because this is so not the time (I like Shepard especially refusing to think about what might happen post-war, because he doesn't really expect to survive it)
• related: pining while sleeping with each other, especially on James's side - wondering if there's more to this or if the Commander is just blowing off steam, wondering if they'll keep doing this after the war, wondering if he's being stupid for wanting more ...
• Vega's constant insistence that he's totally straight sounds so much like protesting too much that I'd love to see some repression/denial from him. Nooo, he's totally not attracted to men; it's perfectly normal to jerk off with a buddy, right? Or appreciate the muscles on another guy at the gym? That's not gay. And then Shepard just kind of ... steamrolls over him because they might die any day, he's either getting laid or not, none of that "jerking off together" nonsense. Or maybe they do start with things like that and Shepard keeps escalating it to more and Vega is way more into it than he ever thought he'd be. (I would like James to be very enthusiastic about it all, though, please nothing as uncomfortably creepy as the Citadel DLC hookup of "get him drunk so he does things he wouldn't do otherwise".)
• conflicts about the whole fraternisation/banging your superior/subordinate thing. Trying to stop because they really shouldn't be doing this but it keeps happening; sneaking around because they don't want people to know ...
• whump Shep! idek why I want that so much. capture/hurt/torture/rape him a bit, have him be all "I'm totally fine" about it afterwards, and well, James knows that Shepard is just human. Maybe he can coax him into sparring fights to get past all his mental defences too.
• I also love that despite his admiration, James is never afraid to speak up and disagree with Shepard, so anything with that would be fun. I love Shepard bulldozing over people, but I also love that some people don't let him.
• post-canon fic: I'm all for Shepard being badly hurt/in a coma and nobody knowing if he'll live for a while. I'm also here for post-war Shepard having lots of trouble readjusting to a normal life (well, what counts as normal for him, he's still a soldier - not really interested in him retiring). How do you even have a normal life if you're the fucking saviour of the galaxy? I can see him running away from all that to his usual marine duties and chasing the next battle and refusing to deal with how weirdly numb and empty he feels without death constantly looming.
• I like how surprisingly sweet James is? I'd like to see more of that, once he becomes more comfortable around Shepard, and Shepard maybe not quite knowing what to do with it.
• porn! I like Shepard bottoming (and being very demanding about it), I like them using sparring as foreplay, I LOVE the size difference between them, Shepard getting off on how big James is, wall sex, manhandling, James having a huge cock and Shepard loving it, muscle worship, adrenaline-fuelled hookups only slowly becoming more tender over time (and neither of them knowing what to make of that), Shepard being utterly shameless in bed and James being super into it. Also, dirty talk. No way James doesn't have a filthy mouth in bed.

Male Shepard/Garrus Vakarian/James Vega

Basically just throw the two requests above together? I mostly see this starting as a V - they both want Shepard, Shepard wants them both, it leads to a mildly awkward threeway arrangement, and over time Garrus and Vega actually start being into each other as well. They're already buddies who love a good snark and clearly like each other, so that's a good start.

I don't have specific prompts as such; I'd love to see any of the things I've requested above just for all three of them together. Whumping Shepard, post-canon fic, weird cultural differences, some conflicts about wanting a human/turian/dude, lots of porn (double-teaming Shepard y/y?). I love how ridiculously competitive Garrus and James are, and I'd love to see that extend to sex and ridiculous competitions like who can make Shepard come faster, or fuck him for longer, anything like that.

Any set-up for this is good. Whether you start with Shepard/Garrus and James joins them somehow, or Shepard/James getting together and Garrus thinks he missed his chance (but he didn't), or Shepard having mad UST with both of them and maybe eventually deciding he wants them both, or hell, even Garrus and James hooking up over their pining for Shepard and Shepard wondering why the hell he wasn't invited. ;)


Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Canderous Ordo/Male Revan

I strongly prefer Dark Side Revan, although I'm also fine with a more morally grey version of Revan if that's what you want to write, who's not really interested in this whole binary opposition of good and evil, but just does his own thing. Actually even with Dark Side Revan I prefer Pragmatic Evil and ruthless, power-hungry ambition over Ludicrous Evil and "bwahahaha I kick puppies in my free time for the Evulz". Mostly I'm just not interested in redeemed, saintly Light Side Revan. If you want to include any of the other characters, that's fine by me, although I'd rather not read about Bastila. I especially love HK-47 because he's fucking hilarious.

• loyalty kink, because Canderous canonically just about worships the ground Revan walks on, so I'd love to see anything that expands on that - kneeling and hand-kissing and "loyal dog" rhetoric, including things liks Revan calling Canderous his dog in bed
• violent post-battle sex: Canderous loves a good fight and he considers Revan the greatest warrior who ever lived, so I bet they get up to a lot of blood-soaked fun after fights
• DS!Revan ruling the galaxy post-canon with Canderous as his general
• I'd also like to see disagreements between them, whether it's because you write a less unequivocally cruel and power-hungry Revan or simply because Revan and Canderous sometimes disagree on how to rule the galaxy or how to treat defeated enemies or whatever; I'd love to see Revan both respecting Canderous' opinion, and putting his foot down and reminding Canderous of his place when he's done arguing
• inappropriate uses of the Force: Force-choking, Force-bondage, rough pain play combined with Force-healing, inappropriate uses of telepathy - making Canderous hallucinate, making him feel Revan's presence in his mind, Revan controlling his body while letting Canderous be aware of what he's doing (I'm fine with dubcon, although I'd prefer if the relationship in itself was consensual/if Canderous basically considered it Revan's right to do whatever he likes with him) ... did I mention Force-choking? ;D
• mind bonds are generally a lot of fun to play around with: Revan staying in touch that way when they're apart, invading Canderous' dreams, commenting on Canderous' actions or thoughts, whispering into his brain when Canderous is jerking off or fucking someone else
• I'd prefer if Revan, no matter how DS, was at least somewhat emotionally attached to Canderous and didn't only consider him a useful tool; I also love the whole villains in love trope - Revan loving Canderous with all that mad, possessive Dark Side passion ...

And that's it! I hope that something in this letter works for you, a prompt you find interesting or a trope you enjoy writing. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with, no matter which fandom we matched on! :D

Thank you!
linndechir