Id Pro Quo Letter 2021
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linndechirDear Id Pro Quo 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. The fandom sections have a general note on my ships and then the tropes I've requested - I've added an explanation when I thought I should specify what I had in mind, but some freeforms are pretty unambiguous imo. This letter is mostly focused on the freeforms I requested, but I've requested most of these fandoms in previous exchanges, just in case you want some more general prompts/ideas, too.
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 requested tags doesn't mean I want some ships 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:
* I'm fine with mentions of characters' past relationships with OCs (and obviously with things like random OC couples in casefic or mentioning people's parents). 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.
Canon-specific: I'm fine with mentions of past canon relationships that were (almost) over before canon started (like Joseph/his wife for Far Cry 5). For The Witcher, brief mentions of Geralt's past relationships with Yennefer and Triss (or other people) are fine, as long as he's over them by the time the fic happens. Same goes for Johnny's relationships with Alt or Rogue for Cyberpunk - mentions are fine, but I don't want them to play a huge role or have Johnny pine for them the whole fic. If I've requested several ships in a fandom, I'm fine with them appearing in the same fic.
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Things I like to read about:
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Kinks I like to read about:
Some extra freeforms in the tagset I like a lot and would read for basically any requested ship, even if I didn't specifically ask for them:
Assassin's Creed (Valhalla)
Male Eivor/Sigurd Styrbjornson
Note: I'm fine with Sigurd's arm loss coming up, no need to retcon it (though I also wouldn't mind an AU in which he doesn't get his arm chopped off). But I'd prefer if he learnt how to fight again with his left hand and generally regained his strength, rather than him just feeling helpless and weak forever.
So anyway, this is the part where nobody is surprised that I came out of Valhalla shipping the two brothers who are SUPER INTENSE about each other. They love each other so much - Eivor is so utterly devoted to Sigurd and willing to move mountains for him, and Sigurd trusts Eivor so completely and relies on him and happily leaves him in charge and wants to rule together with him (well, at least until he gets his mind fucked with by Fulke and Basim). They obviously don't care about anyone else in their lives half as much as they do about each other, and it's glorious.
I also just generally really love Eivor - his poetic side, that he's a total badass, that he gets drunk and high all the time, that he's charismatic and could be a leader in his own right but he just really doesn't want to, he wants Sigurd back. I'm quite attached to him being blond, bearded and long-haired - you don't have to mention it in any way, of course, but I'd prefer if you didn't directly contradict it because that might throw me out of the fic for a moment. :) And I love Sigurd's ambition, I love that he's charismatic but also really full of himself, I love that he's kind of a dick, but apparently just immediately adored his new brother.
I don't like Eivor becoming jarl in Sigurd's place in the end. That's the only thing Sigurd ever wanted! So I'd much rather have Eivor refuse if Sigurd offers, or Sigurd doesn't offer, or Eivor initially accepts as a temporary solution, but then makes sure to give the job back to Sigurd once he's feeling better.
I also really don't care for the Isu and the modern storyline. If it gets mentioned, I'll live, but I'd rather not get a fic that focuses much on it. I am totally okay with "Norse mythology is real" AUs in which they just have divine visions or something like that.
I'm happy to read underage for this ship (down to about 15 for Eivor). And they're very much brothers, adopted or not, so I'm all for leaning into the incest angle. I'm totally fine with mentions of any of Eivor's male canon hookups (and of Sigurd having slept with various other people in his life) as long as none of them are particularly romantic. I'm fine with Sigurd and Randvi still being married or not (not like they seem to care all that much about each other) and with Randvi's unrequited thing for Eivor, but I'm not interested in Eivor returning her feelings.
If you want more general prompts, see this letter.
Cyberpunk 2077
Oh God, this game. This game has eaten my brain. I love it so much. I adore the setting - the lore, the feeling of Night City, the politics, the absolute dystopian hellscape it is, the cars and the music and the ads and the media. I love that it manages to be simultaneously depressing and dark, utterly garish and hilarious, and genuinely emotionally touching in so many places. I love how real the characters feel, and I love how beautifully depressing and bittersweet the story is.
I went for Streetkid!V in my first playthrough because it works really well for the story in my opinion, and also for his relationship with Johnny. Ambitious, wanting to make something of himself, kinda trashy and obnoxious (I blame the horrible clothes I put him in for that), but not really a bad guy at heart. But don't feel like you have to write him that way if that doesn't work for you. I think Corpo!V could also be very interesting for Takemura/V (though less so when Johnny is involved). I'm just not particularly into the Nomad background. And in general, for player characters, I'd prefer the characterisation mostly focused on what's actually canon in the game rather than extensive headcanons about their background/past/history.
Other than that, I love Johnny so much - this narcissistic, charismatic, self-centred piece of shit who realised way too late that he actually cares about some people in his life. He's so angry and messed up about the world and just raging helplessly at it. I love that he's not even remotely a good or a nice person. Same with Kerry - he's not a bad guy, but he's kind of a self-centred douchebag, too, and I love him for it. These two just have so many issues and that's what makes them fun. With Takemura, I love that he's quite affable and likeable ... he's just Lawful as fuck and devoted to a horrible system - and I have such a soft spot for the lawful, dutiful types.
Note: Despite my usual "serious illness and character death" DNW, I'm mostly fine with it to a canonical extent here. So mentions (or even detailed explorations) of the fact that V is dying, and all the ways in which the relic is hurting him, are fine. Anything relating to that that I've specifically prompted is fine. The fact that Johnny is technically dead (and that Kerry mourned him for decades) is also fine. I'd just prefer a fic that isn't exclusively focused on death and dying and nothing else (and please no non-canonical deaths or extra illnesses).
Johnny Silverhand/Kerry Eurodyne
Aaaaaah, they're so messed up about each other! I love that it's been fifty years and Kerry is still not over Johnny. Fifty years and he still wonders what Johnny would think of him, fifty years and his eyes still light up like that when he realises that Johnny is back. Fifty years and he immediately recognises Johnny playing the guitar, and he's so angry at him, but he also missed him so much. And I love that their relationship isn't really as one-sided as it appears at first - Johnny doesn't like admitting he cares about anyone, but he clearly does care about Kerry. In the present, but also in the past - considering he tried to stop him from leaving the band several times. He wanted Kerry around, for all his bitching about Kerry just being the "second fiddle" in his life and not as amazing as him and whatnot.
I love how completely messed up their relationship is - it's very "can't live with you, can't live without you". They're crazy about each other, but also awful to each other half the time. I'm mostly looking for a messy amour fou sort of thing, rather than for something fluffy (though I don't mind them being happy together, at least at times). I love them being kind of obsessive about each other and horrible to anyone else the other one sleeps with and manipulative and half the time they argue and half the time they adore each other. Give me all the fucked up rockerboy love.
I would happily read fic set in the past as well as fic set during the game when Johnny is stuck in male V's body and V occasionally lets Johnny out to play. I'm also good with some kind of handwavey post-canon AU in which Johnny and V continue to share a body, just without dying (I love the endings being what they are, but continued bodysharing is my favourite scenario for fic, tbh). Or hell, even a handwavey AU in which Johnny somehow gets a new body and he and V both get to live.
If you want more general prompts, see this letter.
Johnny Silverhand/V, Johnny Silverhand/Kerry Eurodyne/Male V
Putting these two ships together since I'm basically asking for the same tags for them (obviously the threesome/poly ones don't really work for Johnny/V alone).
I adore Johnny and V's relationship - how antagonistic it starts, how they slowly grow closer (and become more similar to each other), that amazing forced intimacy of sharing a body and sharing all their memories and thoughts and emotions. The fact that they become so close, to the point of being willing to sacrifie themselves for each other. For this request, I'd prefer if they were in the same body - whether it's set during canon or in a handwavey AU long-term solution where Johnny and V have to share a body forever and they're sleeping with each other (possibly while also dating Kerry, both of them) and it's messy and complicated, but still works somehow.
For Johnny/Kerry/V - all the things I mentioned above for Johnny/Kerry, but now with V involved as more than just Johnny's vessel. ;) I love V's relationship with both of them - the intimacy with Johnny, and also how V and Kerry's relationship starts with Kerry just seeing V as a way to see Johnny again, but then actually growing to like V himself, too. It makes for a fascinating triangle where all three characters are, in one way or another, really into each other. And I imagine they'd all have their insecurities about the other two - V about all that history Johnny and Kerry share, Kerry about the fact that V and Johnny literally share a brain and body and it doesn't get much more intimate than that, Johnny about the fact that Kerry and V actually have something resembling a functional, happy relationship. It's just beautifully messed up, but actually works?
If you want more general prompts, see this letter (Johnny/Kerry/V only, I didn't request Johnny/V by themselves before).
Goro Takemura/Male V
Oh, Takemura. How is he so hot? And so weirdly adorable? You know, for a lawful neutral/evil corpo loyalist who's devoted to an evil bastard? I really love how he has both moments of being perfectly formal and polite, and moments of being a rude, angry dick (especially at V). I love his constant complaints about Night City and food. I love him talking about cats, I love that he cooks, and I really love how quickly his relationship with V goes from genuine disdain to much more light-hearted, friendly banter. They form such a great connection with each other so very quickly.
Like I said above, I like Streetkid!V and I like that it makes them both come from very similar backgrounds that they both were driven and determined to escape, but they went about it in very, very different ways and ended up with very different worldviews. It makes for really fascinating contrasts and conflicts between them - lawful, serious corpo bodyguard and trashy streetkid with no taste is just a fun dynamic. But I'd also be up for a Corpo!V who shares Takemura's worldview at least in part, and they're both in the same position of having been cast out by the corporation they dedicated their lives to (and maybe they'd both like to find a way to go back). I guess those two would have a happier ending, since I don't really see Streetkid!V not picking one of the endings that make Takemura very, very mad at you. ;)
But for this, too, I'm very happy with AUs for the ending in which not everything goes for shit - as much as I like that for canon, I like happier scenarios for fic. I'd also love for V and Takemura to reconcile after their, er, breakup, to put it mildly - maybe Takemura gets kicked out by Arasaka post-canon and doesn't really have anywhere else to go. I requested quite a few "enemy" freeforms for which I had something set post-canon in mind - Takemura is angry at V for fucking with Arasaka, maybe even wants to kill him, but for whatever reasons they have to work together or figure out their differences. I also love Johnny still being around (possibly still in V's body for good), if you want to include him.
I really enjoy the big age difference between them - V who's still fairly young and just starting out in life with all these big dreams and plans (before he started dying, that is), whereas Takemura has pretty much achieved everything he wanted to achieve, he had success and respect before his life went to shit.
While I never really object to switching, I'm very much into Takemura topping V. They can mix things up sometimes! I just don't want exclusively bottom!Takemura because him topping V is just too hot.
If you want more general prompts, see this letter.
Far Cry 5
Joseph Seed/Jacob Seed/John Seed (and every combination of them)
Just to be clear: I absolutely ship all three of them together, but I'd be just as happy to read about just two of them with the third one either not appearing at all or not appearing in a shippy way. I'd just ask that you didn't go out of your way to explicitly tell me that they're totally not into the third brother, because I like to imagine that all three of them being together is at least a possibility. :)
I love everything about these three evil bastards. Villainous loyalty kink, devotion, each having their own personal brand of evilness, fucked up tragic backstories, religious weirdness, starting a cult together, murdering and torturing people together, those very different relationships they have with each other - these three really have it all. It's like someone tailor-made them for me. And I love how absolutely batshit insane all three of them are in their own way, completely obsessive and ruthless about it, and I'd really love to see how they all feel about each other's respective batshit insanity, I mean, er, dedication to doing the right thing. ;)
If you want more general prompts, see this letter.
Mass Effect
Male Shepard/Garrus Vakarian
I'm still frustrated the games didn't let me romance the characters I wanted to romance most. I adore Shepard's relationship with Garrus so much: that undying loyalty, will-follow-you-to-the-end-of-the-galaxy friendship he has with him, and how much renegade Shepard enables Garrus's darker impulses and how much they just get each other. That Garrus is one of the few people who occasionally gets to see some kind of weakness and vulnerability from Shepard because he needs to lean on someone.
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. Porn-wise, I am shallow and love Shepard getting fucked hard (switching is totally fine, I just want him to get fucked hard at least part of the time).
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 Vega, Zaeed, Legion, Miranda, Jack, Cortez, Mordin, Joker, Grunt, Samara, Traynor, Javik.
If you want more general prompts, see this letter.
The Witcher (game verse)
Geralt/Ciri
I'll never be over how much I love these two. Moving heaven and hell to save each other! The fact that Ciri seems completely incapable of talking to Geralt without touching him. The way they LOOK at each other. Mutual protectiveness, lying and killing for each other, fighting together, witcher!Ciri hitting the road with Geralt (I'm not really into Empress!Ciri).
For the record, I'm familiar with the show, but haven't read the books; but I'm fine with working in elements from either canon if you want to - I'd just prefer game canon when there are contradictions. As for canon ships, I'd prefer if we could treat all of Geralt's past canon ships as "I guess they happened, but they're over now and he's over them" (especially for Geralt/Yennefer, I really like the Last Wish side quest ending with him realising that, without the djinn, he just isn't that crazy about her). They can get mentioned, but I'd prefer if they didn't play a huge role.
Het-specific DNW: please no femdom or pegging. I also don't particularly enjoy reading about cunnilingus - brief mentions of it happening are fine, but I'd rather not have it be the main event or described in lengthy detail. And I hate the word "folds". Most of my prompts are for post (or during) canon fic, but should you have a great idea for something set earlier, go ahead - underage is perfectly fine down to about 15.
If you want more general prompts, see this letter.
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
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. The fandom sections have a general note on my ships and then the tropes I've requested - I've added an explanation when I thought I should specify what I had in mind, but some freeforms are pretty unambiguous imo. This letter is mostly focused on the freeforms I requested, but I've requested most of these fandoms in previous exchanges, just in case you want some more general prompts/ideas, too.
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 requested tags doesn't mean I want some ships 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.)
- 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, infantilisation (daddy kink and calling characters "boy/girl" is fine); for het: femdom, pegging, focus on cunnilingus
* I'm fine with mentions of characters' past relationships with OCs (and obviously with things like random OC couples in casefic or mentioning people's parents). 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.
Canon-specific: I'm fine with mentions of past canon relationships that were (almost) over before canon started (like Joseph/his wife for Far Cry 5). For The Witcher, brief mentions of Geralt's past relationships with Yennefer and Triss (or other people) are fine, as long as he's over them by the time the fic happens. Same goes for Johnny's relationships with Alt or Rogue for Cyberpunk - mentions are fine, but I don't want them to play a huge role or have Johnny pine for them the whole fic. If I've requested several ships in a fandom, I'm fine with them appearing in the same fic.
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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)
- 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 (or undercover as a couple) - as long as the set-up fits the setting/characters
- 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, PIV for het, 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; shirt with rolled up sleeves + waistcoat 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 (including the top spitting on the bottom's ass), blood as lube (preferably blood from battle wounds or knifeplay cuts or the like)
- 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 - calling each other father/brother/son etc. in bed, fucking in front of mirrors because they get off on their physical similarities ...)
- 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 ...)
Some extra freeforms in the tagset I like a lot and would read for basically any requested ship, even if I didn't specifically ask for them:
- Accidentally hurting partner more than intended during consensual rough sex
- Arguments leading to sex
- Can't Stop Thinking About It - A Accidentally Sees B Naked
- Character A does morally questionable things to save B; doesn't think B will forgive them
- characters understand each other so well they barely need to speak in times of crisis
- Clothed Dom/Naked Sub
- D/s - under-negotiated or unnegotiated but mutually enjoyed dynamic
- Fighting/Sparring as Foreplay
- Held down and fucked hard
- Jealousy - jealousy before getting together
- Jealousy leads to possessive sex
- Kink - Breathplay using hands on throat
- Loyalty - Characters repeatedly choose each other over everyone else
- Murdering Others as Seduction of Love Interest
- Possessiveness - marking partner physically
- Protectiveness - Character being protected isn't used to being cared about
- Receiver pets/strokes/pulls/otherwise touches giver’s hair during oral sex
- Rough Sex - Lots of Scratching and Biting and Hair-Grabbing/Pulling and Holding Partner(s) Down
- rough sex turns unexpectedly tender and/or emotional
- Scars - Exchanging stories about scars
- Sex in the blood of our enemies
Assassin's Creed (Valhalla)
Male Eivor/Sigurd Styrbjornson
Note: I'm fine with Sigurd's arm loss coming up, no need to retcon it (though I also wouldn't mind an AU in which he doesn't get his arm chopped off). But I'd prefer if he learnt how to fight again with his left hand and generally regained his strength, rather than him just feeling helpless and weak forever.
So anyway, this is the part where nobody is surprised that I came out of Valhalla shipping the two brothers who are SUPER INTENSE about each other. They love each other so much - Eivor is so utterly devoted to Sigurd and willing to move mountains for him, and Sigurd trusts Eivor so completely and relies on him and happily leaves him in charge and wants to rule together with him (well, at least until he gets his mind fucked with by Fulke and Basim). They obviously don't care about anyone else in their lives half as much as they do about each other, and it's glorious.
I also just generally really love Eivor - his poetic side, that he's a total badass, that he gets drunk and high all the time, that he's charismatic and could be a leader in his own right but he just really doesn't want to, he wants Sigurd back. I'm quite attached to him being blond, bearded and long-haired - you don't have to mention it in any way, of course, but I'd prefer if you didn't directly contradict it because that might throw me out of the fic for a moment. :) And I love Sigurd's ambition, I love that he's charismatic but also really full of himself, I love that he's kind of a dick, but apparently just immediately adored his new brother.
I don't like Eivor becoming jarl in Sigurd's place in the end. That's the only thing Sigurd ever wanted! So I'd much rather have Eivor refuse if Sigurd offers, or Sigurd doesn't offer, or Eivor initially accepts as a temporary solution, but then makes sure to give the job back to Sigurd once he's feeling better.
I also really don't care for the Isu and the modern storyline. If it gets mentioned, I'll live, but I'd rather not get a fic that focuses much on it. I am totally okay with "Norse mythology is real" AUs in which they just have divine visions or something like that.
I'm happy to read underage for this ship (down to about 15 for Eivor). And they're very much brothers, adopted or not, so I'm all for leaning into the incest angle. I'm totally fine with mentions of any of Eivor's male canon hookups (and of Sigurd having slept with various other people in his life) as long as none of them are particularly romantic. I'm fine with Sigurd and Randvi still being married or not (not like they seem to care all that much about each other) and with Randvi's unrequited thing for Eivor, but I'm not interested in Eivor returning her feelings.
If you want more general prompts, see this letter.
- Arranged Marriage: because that intro scene feels so much like an engagement (but maybe nobody expects them to consummate the marriage since they can't have children, it's just a formal alliance, they basically grow up as brothers anyway ... but then as they grow older, they really want to consummate it)
- bathing together: especially if it includes hair-washing/bathing
- Characters pretend that it’s not actually sex if it doesn’t involve penetration
- Dreams - Sharing Dreams
- Getting Together - but involving increasingly elaborate seduction attempts: especially if Eivor is the one doing the seducing
- A goes on rampage of revenge for B then finds out they're still alive
- Incest - discovered by others
- Incest - platonic touching slowly turning less platonic
- increasingly transparent attempts to deny that platonic sex-tutoring is actually just sex: Sigurd is totally just teaching his younger brother about sex, like a good big brother! it's totally normal! ;)
- Jealousy leads to possessive sex: especially Sigurd being jealous (and maybe Eivor sleeps around on purpose to make him jealous)
- Loyalty - Characters repeatedly choose each other over everyone else
- matching tattoos
- Nobody is sure if incestuous brothers are lovers or related: confused new arrivals in Ravensthorpe do not understand those two, and maybe wonder if this is Cultural (except none of the other Norse siblings in town are that weird)
- Pining - Character fucks people who look like their crush (until they get together): Eivor and his thing for tall, bearded, possibly ginger men
- Performative Fealty - kneeling/kissing back of hand/deference before others: Eivor wanting to make it very clear, possibly in public, that his brother continues to be in charge and he has no intention to usurp his place
- Pining codependent brothers think their relationship is normal till they meet actual normal brothers
- Reconciliation Sex - rediscovering each other's bodies after long estrangement
- Risky Public Sex - Almost Caught
- Sex under the influence of drugs causes intense sensations: considering that Eivor is constantly high, maybe he can get Sigurd into mushrooms, too
- Sharing a bed while mutually pining: possibly because Sigurd lets Randvi keep their room when they separate
Cyberpunk 2077
Oh God, this game. This game has eaten my brain. I love it so much. I adore the setting - the lore, the feeling of Night City, the politics, the absolute dystopian hellscape it is, the cars and the music and the ads and the media. I love that it manages to be simultaneously depressing and dark, utterly garish and hilarious, and genuinely emotionally touching in so many places. I love how real the characters feel, and I love how beautifully depressing and bittersweet the story is.
I went for Streetkid!V in my first playthrough because it works really well for the story in my opinion, and also for his relationship with Johnny. Ambitious, wanting to make something of himself, kinda trashy and obnoxious (I blame the horrible clothes I put him in for that), but not really a bad guy at heart. But don't feel like you have to write him that way if that doesn't work for you. I think Corpo!V could also be very interesting for Takemura/V (though less so when Johnny is involved). I'm just not particularly into the Nomad background. And in general, for player characters, I'd prefer the characterisation mostly focused on what's actually canon in the game rather than extensive headcanons about their background/past/history.
Other than that, I love Johnny so much - this narcissistic, charismatic, self-centred piece of shit who realised way too late that he actually cares about some people in his life. He's so angry and messed up about the world and just raging helplessly at it. I love that he's not even remotely a good or a nice person. Same with Kerry - he's not a bad guy, but he's kind of a self-centred douchebag, too, and I love him for it. These two just have so many issues and that's what makes them fun. With Takemura, I love that he's quite affable and likeable ... he's just Lawful as fuck and devoted to a horrible system - and I have such a soft spot for the lawful, dutiful types.
Note: Despite my usual "serious illness and character death" DNW, I'm mostly fine with it to a canonical extent here. So mentions (or even detailed explorations) of the fact that V is dying, and all the ways in which the relic is hurting him, are fine. Anything relating to that that I've specifically prompted is fine. The fact that Johnny is technically dead (and that Kerry mourned him for decades) is also fine. I'd just prefer a fic that isn't exclusively focused on death and dying and nothing else (and please no non-canonical deaths or extra illnesses).
Johnny Silverhand/Kerry Eurodyne
Aaaaaah, they're so messed up about each other! I love that it's been fifty years and Kerry is still not over Johnny. Fifty years and he still wonders what Johnny would think of him, fifty years and his eyes still light up like that when he realises that Johnny is back. Fifty years and he immediately recognises Johnny playing the guitar, and he's so angry at him, but he also missed him so much. And I love that their relationship isn't really as one-sided as it appears at first - Johnny doesn't like admitting he cares about anyone, but he clearly does care about Kerry. In the present, but also in the past - considering he tried to stop him from leaving the band several times. He wanted Kerry around, for all his bitching about Kerry just being the "second fiddle" in his life and not as amazing as him and whatnot.
I love how completely messed up their relationship is - it's very "can't live with you, can't live without you". They're crazy about each other, but also awful to each other half the time. I'm mostly looking for a messy amour fou sort of thing, rather than for something fluffy (though I don't mind them being happy together, at least at times). I love them being kind of obsessive about each other and horrible to anyone else the other one sleeps with and manipulative and half the time they argue and half the time they adore each other. Give me all the fucked up rockerboy love.
I would happily read fic set in the past as well as fic set during the game when Johnny is stuck in male V's body and V occasionally lets Johnny out to play. I'm also good with some kind of handwavey post-canon AU in which Johnny and V continue to share a body, just without dying (I love the endings being what they are, but continued bodysharing is my favourite scenario for fic, tbh). Or hell, even a handwavey AU in which Johnny somehow gets a new body and he and V both get to live.
If you want more general prompts, see this letter.
- Accidentally hurting partner more than intended during consensual rough sex
- Age Gap - Both Partners Are Into It: canon doesn't give us their ages, but Johnny looks older than Kerry - I'd be so into them meeting when Kerry is 16-18 and Johnny is in his late 20s (underage is totally fine), and Kerry crushes hard on this cool, slightly older guy and Johnny enjoys the hell out of the attention (while also falling for him)
- Angst - characters know exactly how to hurt each other emotionally
- Antagonism - characters don't like each other but nobody else understands them this well
- Arguments leading to sex
- bets & wagers but make it sexy ;)
- Body Worship as Possessiveness
- Breathplay - top/dom likes getting choked: since it's canon that Johnny likes to get choked
- Bribery - sex used as bribe: when Kerry threatens to leave Samurai, Johnny bribes him with sex to make him stay
- Codependency - Actively Encouraging Each Other's Self-Destructive Tendencies
- Character A resents how much they love Character B
- Characters pretend that it’s not actually sex if it doesn’t involve penetration: Johnny and his whole "I'm not gay" thing pretending that they're not really fucking as long as they don' do anal
- Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go": either post-canon or in those years after the band breakup when Johnny was getting into all kinds of merc/terrorism shit while Kerry started his solo career
- Fake/Pretend Relationship: at any point, including the past, but I was mostly thinking about canon and Kerry introducing Johnny!V as his new input for the concert
- Finger kisses in a scene that wasn't sexual up to that point: mainly while jamming together (I love Johnny having a thing for Kerry's fingers)
- First Time - first time with partner of the same gender: Johnny who's never been with a guy before
- First Time - Pretending it's for Reasons Other Than Desire: Johnny pretending he's just making Kerry stay in the band/keeping Kerry away from his shitty new boyfriend/whatever other convoluted reason he can come up with
- Hair-pulling
- Hand & Finger Kink
- A has a big dick; B is a size queen who really wants that big dick
- Jealousy - jealousy before getting together: Johnny tells himself he doesn't want to fuck Kerry, but he gets furious every time Kerry shows up with a new input
- Jealousy leads to possessive sex
- Mutual emotional abuse
- mutual obsession
- Pining - Within a close friendship & due to incompatible sexual orientations: whether it stays pining and UST or whether Johnny eventually realises he's a bit more bi than he thought
- Praise Kink: they're awful to each other so often that it's extra special when they say something nice
- Pining characters get meaningful matching tattoos
- Possessiveness - marking partner physically
- Possessiveness - No One Is Allowed to Hurt You Except Me: Johnny beating the shit out of Kerry's input if he treats him badly (because nobody else gets to hurt Kerry); Kerry maybe dating shitty guys on purpose because he loves making Johnny protective
- Possessiveness - ruining character's other relationships so they don't have anyone else
- Reconciliation Sex - rediscovering each other's bodies after long estrangement: mostly 2077!Johnny exploring Kerry's body
- A refuses to be exclusive with B but gets possessive when B sleeps with someone else: in either direction - they fuck, they pretend they're totally not in a relationship, they both get angry when the other one also sleeps around (can end with them eventually deciding to be exclusive after all)
- Risky Public Sex - Almost Caught
- rough sex turns unexpectedly tender and/or emotional
- Sex under the influence of drugs causes intense sensations
- Sharing clothes - both get off on it: Johnny in Kerry's shirts that are too tight for him, Kerry in Johnny's jackets (or trousers, canonically ;))
- Shotgunning
- Unhealthy disaster relationship neither of them can quit
- Voyeurism: Johnny watching Kerry with other guys (and maybe joining in?)
- Walking in on someone fingering themselves - and offering to help out
Johnny Silverhand/V, Johnny Silverhand/Kerry Eurodyne/Male V
Putting these two ships together since I'm basically asking for the same tags for them (obviously the threesome/poly ones don't really work for Johnny/V alone).
I adore Johnny and V's relationship - how antagonistic it starts, how they slowly grow closer (and become more similar to each other), that amazing forced intimacy of sharing a body and sharing all their memories and thoughts and emotions. The fact that they become so close, to the point of being willing to sacrifie themselves for each other. For this request, I'd prefer if they were in the same body - whether it's set during canon or in a handwavey AU long-term solution where Johnny and V have to share a body forever and they're sleeping with each other (possibly while also dating Kerry, both of them) and it's messy and complicated, but still works somehow.
For Johnny/Kerry/V - all the things I mentioned above for Johnny/Kerry, but now with V involved as more than just Johnny's vessel. ;) I love V's relationship with both of them - the intimacy with Johnny, and also how V and Kerry's relationship starts with Kerry just seeing V as a way to see Johnny again, but then actually growing to like V himself, too. It makes for a fascinating triangle where all three characters are, in one way or another, really into each other. And I imagine they'd all have their insecurities about the other two - V about all that history Johnny and Kerry share, Kerry about the fact that V and Johnny literally share a brain and body and it doesn't get much more intimate than that, Johnny about the fact that Kerry and V actually have something resembling a functional, happy relationship. It's just beautifully messed up, but actually works?
If you want more general prompts, see this letter (Johnny/Kerry/V only, I didn't request Johnny/V by themselves before).
- Age Gap - Both Partners Are Into It: or all three :D V is a lot younger than both of them, after all
- Bodysharing - characters bodysharing start sharing each other's kinks/preferences: 1) V sharing Johnny's kink for getting choked, 2) Johnny who really didn't use to be into men (much) changing his mind because he's stuck in a gay V's head
- Bodysharing - one of them commenting/giving orders while the other fucks a third party
- Bodysharing - one of them commenting/giving orders while the other jerks off
- Bodysharing - two people in one body fucking a third party together
- Bodysharing - two people in one body fucking each other
- Breathplay - top/dom likes getting choked
- First Time - first time with partner of the same gender: Johnny who's never slept with a guy until V (with or without Kerry involved)
- A has a big dick; B is a size queen who really wants that big dick: I was thinking about V wanting hologram!Johnny's dick, but I'm also on board with V having a huge dick, too
- intensely heated verbal fight leads to sex
- Jealousy - partner shares some things with third party they can't share with anyone else: like I said above, I love that every single one of them has something to be jealous about between the other two
- Polyamory: Character A slowly discovers that they love both Character B and Character C: any of them, though I was mostly thinking of Kerry realising that he genuinely wants to be with them both (not just with V and he's putting up with Johnny, not just with Johnny and V is his way of getting him)
- Praise Kink
- rough sex turns unexpectedly tender and/or emotional
- Third Partner in Poly Relationship Mistakenly Believes They're Just the Dirty Little Secret: Johnny thinking that? V thinking that? Kerry probably wouldn't have reason to think that
- Touch-Starved: hologram!Johnny probably feels that way
Goro Takemura/Male V
Oh, Takemura. How is he so hot? And so weirdly adorable? You know, for a lawful neutral/evil corpo loyalist who's devoted to an evil bastard? I really love how he has both moments of being perfectly formal and polite, and moments of being a rude, angry dick (especially at V). I love his constant complaints about Night City and food. I love him talking about cats, I love that he cooks, and I really love how quickly his relationship with V goes from genuine disdain to much more light-hearted, friendly banter. They form such a great connection with each other so very quickly.
Like I said above, I like Streetkid!V and I like that it makes them both come from very similar backgrounds that they both were driven and determined to escape, but they went about it in very, very different ways and ended up with very different worldviews. It makes for really fascinating contrasts and conflicts between them - lawful, serious corpo bodyguard and trashy streetkid with no taste is just a fun dynamic. But I'd also be up for a Corpo!V who shares Takemura's worldview at least in part, and they're both in the same position of having been cast out by the corporation they dedicated their lives to (and maybe they'd both like to find a way to go back). I guess those two would have a happier ending, since I don't really see Streetkid!V not picking one of the endings that make Takemura very, very mad at you. ;)
But for this, too, I'm very happy with AUs for the ending in which not everything goes for shit - as much as I like that for canon, I like happier scenarios for fic. I'd also love for V and Takemura to reconcile after their, er, breakup, to put it mildly - maybe Takemura gets kicked out by Arasaka post-canon and doesn't really have anywhere else to go. I requested quite a few "enemy" freeforms for which I had something set post-canon in mind - Takemura is angry at V for fucking with Arasaka, maybe even wants to kill him, but for whatever reasons they have to work together or figure out their differences. I also love Johnny still being around (possibly still in V's body for good), if you want to include him.
I really enjoy the big age difference between them - V who's still fairly young and just starting out in life with all these big dreams and plans (before he started dying, that is), whereas Takemura has pretty much achieved everything he wanted to achieve, he had success and respect before his life went to shit.
While I never really object to switching, I'm very much into Takemura topping V. They can mix things up sometimes! I just don't want exclusively bottom!Takemura because him topping V is just too hot.
If you want more general prompts, see this letter.
- Age Gap - Both Partners Are Into It
- Age gap: older partner is mistaken for younger partner's sugar daddy/mommy: especially with the way Goro dresses and the possibly awful way V dresses - I imagine V would find it funny and Goro weird, but maybe they'll get into it?
- bathing together
- Bodysharing - characters bodysharing start sharing each other's kinks/preferences: this is just here so V can share Johnny's choking kink ;)
- Both Captured - Forced to Work Together to Escape
- Character A nurses character B back to health after B nearly killed A: Takemura coming after V post-canon - V wins, but refuses to kill him and instead patches him up
- Character allowing themselves to be used as a tool to relieve sexual tension while hiding feelings: Takemura is just not used to being treated like a person
- Character expected to die but didn't and now has no idea how to live anymore: both of them, but I was mostly thinking post-canon Takemura who seriously considered killing himself
- Character loses everything and can only turn to enemy for help: Takemura after getting kicked out by Arasaka?
- Character lost everything else and gets obsessive about the one person they have left
- Class Differences: they come from a similar background, but Takemura has had years, if not decades, to get used to the good life and turn into a proper snob
- Clothed Dom/Naked Sub: mostly thinking dom!Takemura here
- Clothes kink - character A kinks on seeing character B in formal/traditional clothes: Takemura in those nice suits of his? Takemura in a kimono? V being absolutely ridiculous about how into him he is?
- Competence Porn
- D/s - under-negotiated or unnegotiated but mutually enjoyed dynamic
- Enemies Forced to Work Together; Caustic Banter Ensues
- Estranged Characters - Injured A shows Up on B's doorstep Saying "I didn't know where else to go": Takemura after getting kicked out by Arasaka, possibly with people hunting him down again
- Fighting - One character gets off on watching the other one fight
- Fighting/Sparring as Foreplay
- Hair Stuff - Longhaired character wearing their hair differently leads to Oh No They're Hot: the manbun is great, but I'm sure V would appreciate seeing Takemura with his hair untied, too
- Hair Washing
- Handcuffs: that's what you do with little thieves, right? put them in handcuffs :)
- A has conflicting feelings while B tenderly treats his/her injuries: also thinking of the Takemura-trying-to-kill-V-scenario here
- Honour Bondage: I bet Takemura is great at holding still
- Loyal character loses object of their devotion and fixates on someone new
- Loyalty Kink: Call off your dog: maybe Afterlife legend!V and Takemura as his bodyguard?
- Loyalty Kink: Mildly Transgressive Public Displays of Ownership: I'm not sure what these could be, but feel free to surprise me :D bonus if Takemura absolutely loves the feeling of being owned again
- on surface A’s everything B hates & vice versa but they come to respect&understand each other deeply
- Protectiveness - Character being protected isn't used to being cared about
- Receiver pets/strokes/pulls/otherwise touches giver’s hair during oral sex: Takemura's hair is made for this
- Spanking: I have simple needs and they're Takemura putting V over his knee for being a brat
- Touch-Starved
Far Cry 5
Joseph Seed/Jacob Seed/John Seed (and every combination of them)
Just to be clear: I absolutely ship all three of them together, but I'd be just as happy to read about just two of them with the third one either not appearing at all or not appearing in a shippy way. I'd just ask that you didn't go out of your way to explicitly tell me that they're totally not into the third brother, because I like to imagine that all three of them being together is at least a possibility. :)
I love everything about these three evil bastards. Villainous loyalty kink, devotion, each having their own personal brand of evilness, fucked up tragic backstories, religious weirdness, starting a cult together, murdering and torturing people together, those very different relationships they have with each other - these three really have it all. It's like someone tailor-made them for me. And I love how absolutely batshit insane all three of them are in their own way, completely obsessive and ruthless about it, and I'd really love to see how they all feel about each other's respective batshit insanity, I mean, er, dedication to doing the right thing. ;)
If you want more general prompts, see this letter.
- Addict uses unsafe and inadvisable sex as a way to manage addiction: mostly thinking John here, considering he was addicted to pretty much everything under the sun before Joseph found him again
- Blood Play
- Can't Stop Thinking About It - A Accidentally Sees B Naked
- Character is ashamed of their kinks: probably also John, but I could see it for any of them
- Characters pretend that it’s not actually sex if it doesn’t involve penetration
- Clothed Dom/Naked Sub
- Competence Porn
- Daddy Kink: by which I mean there's no way Joseph doesn't get off on being called "Father" in bed
- Fighting - One character gets off on watching the other one fight: John and/or Joseph watching Jacob kill people for them?
- Finger kisses in a scene that wasn't sexual up to that point: during praying, or tattooing/cutting each other, or hunting with Jacob ...
- Gun Kink
- Honour Bondage
- Hurt/Comfort - Character isn't used to being loved and shown tenderness/affection: probably true for all three of them
- Incest - discovered by others: I'd love to see how they'd deal with anyone from their congregation finding out - murder them to keep it secret? Joseph coming up with a Very Official Religious Explanation for why it's okay for them to fuck?
- Incest - platonic touching slowly turning less platonic
- Knifeplay
- Loyalty Kink: Call off your dog: the dog being Jacob, in all likelihood
- Loyalty Kink: Declaring Oneself Someone Else's Weapon: also sounds like something Jacob would do
- Performative Fealty - kneeling/kissing back of hand/deference before others
- Pining - Mutual pining that both characters think is unrequited pining
- Pining - Unwilling to admit pining for fear of ruining existing relationship
- Possessiveness - marking partner physically: whether temporary bruises or permanent marks like tattoos/scars
- Praise Kink
- Religion - confessions of sins: basically go wild on all the religious confession, forgiveness, atonement and sin stuff, especially with John and Joseph
- Religion - convoluted justifications for inappropriate desires: Jacob probably doesn't care, but John and Joseph would probably be great at coming up with reasons why this is Totally Acceptable and not sinful
- Scarification
- Sex pollen - pining victims each think the other is horrified but eventually work things out later: what if there was a slightly different batch of Bliss?
- Sharing clothes - both get off on it: I especially like John or Joseph in Jacob's uniform jacket, but anything is good
- Spanking: John clearly needs it
- Teaching a beginner how to fight unexpectedly effective as foreplay: Jacob deciding his brothers should know how to defend themselves at least a little bit?
- Touch-Starved: probably all three of them are
- Walking in on someone fingering themselves - and offering to help out
Mass Effect
Male Shepard/Garrus Vakarian
I'm still frustrated the games didn't let me romance the characters I wanted to romance most. I adore Shepard's relationship with Garrus so much: that undying loyalty, will-follow-you-to-the-end-of-the-galaxy friendship he has with him, and how much renegade Shepard enables Garrus's darker impulses and how much they just get each other. That Garrus is one of the few people who occasionally gets to see some kind of weakness and vulnerability from Shepard because he needs to lean on someone.
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. Porn-wise, I am shallow and love Shepard getting fucked hard (switching is totally fine, I just want him to get fucked hard at least part of the time).
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 Vega, Zaeed, Legion, Miranda, Jack, Cortez, Mordin, Joker, Grunt, Samara, Traynor, Javik.
If you want more general prompts, see this letter.
- Accidentally hurting partner more than intended during consensual rough sex: maybe because Garrus forgets how fragile human skin is?
- Angst - Character thinks nothing matters except the Cause
- Breathplay
- Can't Stop Thinking About It - A Accidentally Sees B Naked: maybe they didn't think of each other that way before, but now they do?
- Catching injured character as they faint or lose balance: did I mention I love whumping Shepard? :D
- Character expected to die but didn't and now has no idea how to live anymore: post-canon, Shepard who didn't expect surviving the Reaper War and feels weirdly lost without the world ending
- Character goes bad to save the world and enjoys it more than expected: I don't think renegade!Shepard was ever a good person, but he probably got even worse over the war and enjoys it maybe a bit too much - the power, the complete disregard for rules and orders, the fear he inspires
- Competence Porn
- Emotionally constipated character realizes they are in love: Shepard especially, I could see him never really having had time for relationships and love before
- Fighting - One character gets off on watching the other one fight
- Fighting/Sparring as Foreplay
- A goes on rampage of revenge for B then finds out they're still alive: either way works!
- Held down and fucked hard
- Hero crosses moral lines for the sake of their righteous ideals
- Hero's Canon-Typical Actions Are Terrifying To An Ordinary Person's Outsider POV: applies to both Shepard and Garrus, so I'd love some outsider POV who's vaguely horrified by them
- Jealousy - jealousy before getting together: bonus if Shepard likes hooking up with turians on the Citadel and Garrus piiiines and is a little pissed off that Shepard is apparently more likely to sleep with any turian guy in the galaxy before he'll sleep with him
- Pining - Character A incorrectly assumes that Character B knows that A is pining for them
- Pining - mistakenly thinks other character is not attracted to their species: especially Shepard assuming Garrus isn't into humans
- Possessiveness - marking partner physically
- Rape Recovery: more Shepard whump! whether he was raped years ago as part of his military training (N7 or Spectre ~interrogation resistance~?) or more recently by whatever bad guys managed to get their hands on him (possibly by making him cooperate so his crew wouldn't get hurt), but either way it messed him up good - focus on the recovery would be great, but flashbacks/on-page depictions of the rape itself are fine, too, no worries about squicking me
The Witcher (game verse)
Geralt/Ciri
I'll never be over how much I love these two. Moving heaven and hell to save each other! The fact that Ciri seems completely incapable of talking to Geralt without touching him. The way they LOOK at each other. Mutual protectiveness, lying and killing for each other, fighting together, witcher!Ciri hitting the road with Geralt (I'm not really into Empress!Ciri).
For the record, I'm familiar with the show, but haven't read the books; but I'm fine with working in elements from either canon if you want to - I'd just prefer game canon when there are contradictions. As for canon ships, I'd prefer if we could treat all of Geralt's past canon ships as "I guess they happened, but they're over now and he's over them" (especially for Geralt/Yennefer, I really like the Last Wish side quest ending with him realising that, without the djinn, he just isn't that crazy about her). They can get mentioned, but I'd prefer if they didn't play a huge role.
Het-specific DNW: please no femdom or pegging. I also don't particularly enjoy reading about cunnilingus - brief mentions of it happening are fine, but I'd rather not have it be the main event or described in lengthy detail. And I hate the word "folds". Most of my prompts are for post (or during) canon fic, but should you have a great idea for something set earlier, go ahead - underage is perfectly fine down to about 15.
If you want more general prompts, see this letter.
- bets & wagers but make it sexy: related to hunting monsters (who killed more drowners)? to Gwent matches? horse racing? other things?
- Can't Stop Thinking About It - A Accidentally Sees B Naked
- Characters pretend that it’s not actually sex if it doesn’t involve penetration: mostly Geralt desperately clinging to some sort of line he won't cross with her (and of course failing eventually)
- D/s - under-negotiated or unnegotiated but mutually enjoyed dynamic: with Geralt topping please
- Fake/Pretend Relationship: someone in Toussaint assumes the young woman who moved in with Geralt is his new wife - Ciri confirms this before Geralt can correct them, and proceeds to milk this fake marriage they have now for all it's worth
- Fighting/Sparring as Foreplay
- Finger kisses in a scene that wasn't sexual up to that point
- First Time - first time with partner of the same gender: Ciri who's never actually slept with a man before (maybe didn't particularly want to until Geralt)
- Getting Together - but involving increasingly elaborate seduction attempts: Geralt being stubborn, Ciri being very determined
- Grief/Mourning For What Ends Up Being A Temporary Character Death: through some portal/dimension wonkiness, Ciri doesn't return immediately after the finale and Geralt assumes she died - so he mourns her, maybe moves to Toussaint and tries to start fresh while being devastated ... and then months or a year later, Ciri comes back
- Guilt over Age Gap Relationship
- Incest - characters insist each time is the last time but it keeps happening: mostly Geralt insisting, probably
- Incest - platonic touching slowly turning less platonic
- Just the tip turns into more than just the tip
- Masked Ball As An Excuse for Inadvisable Sex: I bet they do masked balls in Toussaint
- Pining - mistakenly thinks other character is not attracted to their gender: Ciri has never talked about any men she finds hot, only women, so Geralt assumes she just isn't into men at all (turns out she just isn't into most men, but very much into Geralt)
- Risky Public Sex - Almost Caught
- Ritual soulbond
- Size Kink
- Sudden Realization - Oh No They're Hot: whether it's Geralt being a bit shocked when he sees grown-up Ciri or Ciri only realising now that her father figure is really hot
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
