linndechir | FIAB Letter 2023 - ceci_nest_pas_un

Dear FIAB writer,

I'm signing up twice for this exchange again! This is the letter for my sock ceci_nest_pas_un_lion and includes my requests for Cyberpunk 2077, Far Cry 5, Fast & Furious and Mass Effect. You can find the letter for my other signup (Ghost of Tsushima, Mob City, Vampire the Masquerade: Parliament of Knives and The Witcher 3) here.

So 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. If you do write porn and you want more smut-related prompts, I've requested most of these ships for Smut Swap before.

The fandoms are listed alphabetically. The length of the fandom-specific sections doesn't indicate an order of preference; I just had more ideas and prompts for some of them.

I use the same name on AO3 and tumblr as here. Treats are always welcome. :)

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" is fine, just not characters behaving or being treated like actual kids), small dicks, erectile dysfunction

* 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), but if a relationship happens during canon, I'd rather pretend it never happened (like Tali/Garrus for Mass Effect). Brief mentions of Johnny's relationships with Alt or Rogue for Cyberpunk (or of Johnny and Kerry fucking various other people) are fine, but I don't want those relationships (or thinking about those relationships) to play a huge role in the 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 healthy)
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)
blood play in general, especially for vampire ships
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 ...)

Cyberpunk 2077

Oh God, this game. It's been three years at this point and this game still owns 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 usually go for Streetkid!V 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).

Medium opt-ins (for Johnny/Kerry, Kerry/V, Johnny/V and Johnny/Kerry/V)

Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Magazine Article
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Magazine Spread
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Tabloid Article
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Magazine Article
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Interview
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Tabloid Article
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Advertisement
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Magazine Spread

I love all the articles, books etc. you can find in the game about Johnny and Kerry and Samurai, and all the speculation about whether they were lovers and why the band broke up, and endless arguments about which one of them is the better musician/greater visionary/One True Rockerboy - I would love more of that! Art & writing would of course be absolutely beautiful for this, but of course I'd be equally excited to get just the written article or just the art from a magazine/cover story. I also love the idea of in-universe advertisements like tour posters, and while I forgot to nominate album covers specifically, I'd love to see some of those as well.

If you do art, some things I'd enjoy: ambiguously shippy photos of Johnny and Kerry that might get speculated about in the article if there is one (kissing or almost kissing on stage, always touching each other, Kerry making heart eyes at Johnny during an interview, Johnny's chrome hand on Kerry's chrome throat), Kerry's fancy photoshoots once he's famous, Kerry's various looks/haircuts/cyberware over the decades, paparazzi pics of Kerry (alone, with V or with Johnny), Samurai or Kerry album covers/art, tour posters, ads for Kerry's new tour/album ...

Any time period you like works for me - early Samurai days, the band breakup, Kerry's early solo career, Kerry's later career, or even something set in the present/post-canon about Kerry's relationship with this mysterious mercenary guy or about Johnny's return to life (especially if it's an AU in which he has his own body). Maybe, if Johnny comes back, he and Kerry start making music again together and people have opinions on that. Whether you write trashy tabloid speculation about their private lives or interviews Kerry has given or more or less serious music journalism or reviews of a new album or song, I'd enjoy any and all of it!

One thing I'd enjoy (but this is of course 100% optional) would be a mix of this and regular fic - Johnny reading an article about himself or Kerry and then having Opinions on it, Johnny commenting on Kerry's looks over the decades or on his various albums, V reading an interview and asking Johnny or Kerry if any of that is true, Johnny and Kerry sniping at each other because some review went on about how amazing one of them is and how much the other one sucks, Johnny commenting on Kerry's album art or tour posters, V's friends reading some tabloid article about him dating Kerry Eurodyne and asking him if that's true ...

Medium Opt In: Unique Rules - Typeset of a Recipient's Fanfiction

One of my fics? Looking like a book? That is an amazing idea. :D If I got to choose, I'd absolutely love this for one of the Johnny/Kerry/V fics I wrote for previous years' FIAB: Persuasion of the Undecided or All Within My Hands, because I'm really happy with how both of those fics turned out. But of course I'd be delighted to get this for any of my Cyberpunk fics, so if another one speaks more to you, go for it of course!

Because I've read that this might be useful infos for typesetters: I'm in a place that uses A4, I'm good with both colour and black/white, and I have no specific font preferences besides "readable", I think. Maybe not absolutely minuscule, but anything above font size 10 or so should be fine. I'd be happy to answer specific questions because I'm not really sure what other information might be useful. :)

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, I just imagine it's Complicated a lot of the time). 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 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 great for fic). Or even a AU in which Johnny somehow gets a new body and he and V both get to live.

(Don't feel like you have to, but since canon never gives us their exact ages and Johnny looks a good deal older than Kerry in the flashbacks, I really love the idea of 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) ... I think it really works well for their relationship. But if you prefer writing them as being the same age, that's fine, too.)

how did they meet? heard each other strumming on the street somewhere? jammed a bit together in a guitar shop, stole a guitar, ran from the cops? got in a fight at a bar for some stupid reason (with each other, or fighting someone else together)? one of them heard the other play a gig with his previous band?
they're both such music geeks! jamming together, composing together, arguing about songs they're writing together - I love that for all of Johnny's dickishness towards Kerry, he clearly respects him much more as a musician than he wants to admit. him listening to Kerry play on the yacht for I don't know how long without saying a word? I don't think Johnny is that quiet and still in any other scene in the game - I'd love more of that
Kerry wrote a lot of songs that are (more or less obviously) about Johnny over the years - when Johnny comes back from the dead and finds out, he wants to be a dick about it, but he's also touched (also: Johnny playing one of Kerry's songs about him, or Johnny actually writing a song about Kerry)
related: Johnny has a thing for Kerry's hands/fingers
all the times Kerry shamelessly hit on Johnny and Johnny said no (and maybe the one time he finally said yes?)
all the UST-filled arguments they had over the years they played together in Samurai
Johnny can tell Rogue that the one thing he'd do differently if he had the chance was to fuck Kerry - through *handwave* plot reasons Johnny gets sent back into the past when he and V are separated and finally has a chance to do that, or maybe that conversation simply makes him realise that he now has a second chance to finally give Kerry what he always wanted.
Johnny (says/thinks he) doesn't want to fuck Kerry, but that won't stop him from watching Kerry sleep with other guys while they make very intense eye contact at each other (maybe Johnny even orders the other guy around and tells him how to fuck Kerry)
Johnny used to fuck Kerry (and was maybe even in love with him), but he edited that out of his memories in Mikoshi. cue lots of anger when Kerry realises this, and lots of angst on Johnny's part because how can he even be sure he's still himself if he can't trust his memories? (I'd be up for Johnny eventually regaining the memories.)
Johnny kept Kerry from leaving Samurai several times - maybe Kerry only stayed on the condition that ... Johnny kissed him, fucked him, blew him, anything fun like that (and Johnny pretended he was only doing it to make him stay, but he enjoyed it more than he wants to admit) - I kind of enjoy how much Johnny is like an abusive boyfriend who is a dick to Kerry when he has him, but doesn't let him leave either because he's possessive (really, don't worry about going too hard on just how unhealthy and fucked up their relationship is)
or conversely: when Kerry tries to leave ~~him~~ the band, Johnny decides the best way to make him stay is to finally give him what he wants and fuck him (can be very dubcon-y if Kerry was so furious he wasn't even in the mood, but he should end up enjoying himself)
something set during those years after Samurai broke up, but Johnny and Kerry were still touring together, still in each other's space and never really getting over each other
the reason they never fucked in the past is because Johnny, by himself, really is straight - but he gets stuck in the head of a gay male V and their whole mindmelding business makes him appreciate Kerry in ways he never has before ...
they always argue, sometimes their arguments end with fucking roughly against the nearest surface (maybe this only happens in the present, too, and they realise they get along so much better when they can fuck out their issues with each other)
I love how grabby and shameless and demanding Kerry is in his sex scene with V, even while bottoming - so give me Johnny finding out about this and being super into it
it turns out Johnny wasn't into cute twink!Kerry, but to his surprise he's really into slightly older-looking, more masculine 2077!Kerry with the beard and a bit more muscle ... related: Johnny wasn't into young Kerry trying to be cute at him, but he's really into pushy, grabby Kerry telling men exactly how he expects to get fucked
(past or present) Johnny usually tops when they fuck because that's clearly "less gay" or some nonsense - but over time, maybe once he finds out that Kerry actually likes both topping and bottoming, he can't stop thinking about what it'd be like to let Kerry fuck him, since he already likes Kerry bossing him around ... TLDR: Johnny discovering to his surprise he may have a bit of a subby side and also that there's nothing he doesn't want to try out with Kerry
Kerry has pretty much the most gorgeous cyberware in the entire game, and he didn't have that yet back when Johnny still lived (not even those very blue eyes) - Johny wants to find it ridiculous and stupid, but he's also very, very into it (especially Kerry's absolutely gorgeous throat, because throat kink :D)
speaking of throat kink: Johnny canonically likes getting choked - either Kerry already knew about this before they ever fucked, or Kerry had no idea and Johnny just asks him to do it when they finally fuck (Kerry riding Johnny's dick while choking him? :D)
related: Kerry putting his belt around Johnny's neck to choke him and drag him around a bit by it - Johnny is very surprised by how much he's into something that's basically a leash
soulmate AU (I'm very partial to shared scars) but Johnny despises the idea of soulmates and anybody telling him who he's meant to be with, so he refuses to get together with Kerry. He doesn't realise he actually wants to be with him until during/post-canon - maybe only after he sees that Kerry had the scars or whatever other soulmate mark there is removed and Johnny realises he hates that.
if Johnny lives (whether in V's body or otherwise) - what will he get up to now? how does that fit with his new thing with Kerry? or does he only go to Kerry again to fess up that he maybe changed his mind about them post-canon?
Temperance ending, but Johnny goes to see Kerry instead of leaving Night City ... and maybe Kerry's money or just Kerry kicking Johnny's ass help bring V back somehow (whether in the same or a new body), after giving Johnny and Kerry some time to get closer again. (V doesn't have to appear in person for this, but I'd like there to be at least the possibility of him returning)
Johnny gets control of V's body for one night before he canonically goes to see Rogue and Kerry - he runs into Kerry accidentally (assuming Kerry ever leaves the house, lol), maybe at a bar, and decides to see how he's doing, but without telling him (immediately) that it's him ... and then he can get worried because Kerry is clearly depressed and suicidal. (I'd also take the identity porn version of Johnny sleeping with Kerry without telling him who he is - Kerry will be furious, but that might just snap him out of his apathy)
just in case anyone else ships both Kerry/Johnny and Takemura/V, I'd love to see the hilarious mess of a situation if V and Johnny continue sharing a body while Johnny is sleeping with Kerry and V is sleeping with Takemura - it sounds like it'd be simultaneously funny, messed up and incredibly awkward, especially since Johnny and Takemura can't stand each other

Johnny Silverhand/Male V

This relationship was really the highlight of the game for me, from the antagonistic start to that very quick development towards "I would literally die for you", complete with nonstop banter and complaining about each other, and the forced intimacy of being stuck in one head and sharing all their emotions and memories and not being able to hide anything from each other. It's such an intense, amazingly developed relationship in canon, and I want more of that. I love how Johnny is objectively the worst thing that ever happened to V ... but after losing him, V feels completely lonely and empty and just misses him (and same if Johnny is the one to lose V). /o\ So clearly they belong together forever.

I'd love fic set during canon, whether early on or towards the end, but I'd also be up for any kind of post-canon AU in which they both survive - whether as continued bodysharing or with Johnny in a new body (though I'd prefer him looking/sounding like himself). If you want to involve Kerry in this, I have Johnny/Kerry/V prompts below. I'd also be up for V sleeping with both Takemura and Johnny (who continue to hate each other). I'm less into V hooking up with any other canon characters unless prompted, though V sleeping with random OMCs before he and Johnny get together is of course fine.

weird bodysharing sex! They seem to be able to touch each other to some extent, so how does that work? Or does Johnny just talk dirty to V while V jerks off and make suggestions? Does Johnny enjoy the shared sensations? Do their preferences become more similar? Does Johnny tell V to choke himself a little because obviously he's going to be into that now?
I'm always up for Johnny having a lot of issues with being into a guy (whether he was genuinely straight and it's only mindmelding with V that makes him be into guys, or he was always bi but has a looooot of hangups and internalised homophobia about it) - maybe he tells himself bodysharing sex doesn't count, it's just jerking off! (and what happens in a post-canon verse in which they have separate bodies and Johnny still wants to have sex with V? how is fucking in normal physical bodies different from their mind sex?)
V trying to piss Johnny off by fucking as many guys as possible early on (if you want to combine this with V/Takemura, I'm here for that - Johnny would be so mad) - complete with some voyeurism and Johnny maybe commenting on what's happening
Johnny sabotaging V's attempts at dating any of those guys because he actually wants to keep him to himself, but he's too emotionally constipated to just say that - V eventually snaps at him that he doesn't get to tell V what to do unless they're together, and maybe that's when Johnny confesses that that's what he'd like
V can wear a lot of Johnny's clothes in the game - turns out Johnny is very much into that (also, V in a separate body still dressing like Johnny because it makes him feel closer to him - Johnny is still into that)
if V and Johnny somehow survive in the same body and have to bodyshare for good, how does that work? do they share their time equally? (I'd prefer if V was conscious when Johnny is in charge, too) does Johnny convince him to grow out his hair, while V possibly still keeps it dyed in ridiculous colours? do they just randomly switch who's in control when they feel like it?
if they survive in separate bodies: maybe they're both relieved at first and want to get away from each other ... only to realise that they got so used to being around each other that they can barely stand to be apart. maybe they keep living together in merc legend V's fancy flat, maybe that's when they start touching each other and going from more or less platonic touching to fucking, because that's somehow the most intimacy they can still achieve after sharing a brain. (are they unbearable to be around? do they voice every damn thought they have and finish each other's sentences? do they still bicker nonstop? outside POVs would be fun)
people assume V and Johnny in separate bodies are a couple because they go everywhere together (maybe work together as mercs sometimes?) - V is very okay with that, Johnny seems to hate the idea ... until he realises that there might be some truth to it
maybe they miss sharing a brain so much they find some way to link their minds again - something related to braindance tech or to the tech Panam and V used for the tank - so now they can have ridiculous telepathic conversations again, probably while confusing everyone else around them
all the identity porn: one of them having to pretend to be the other; all the clothes changes when they switch who's in charge; people recognising who's in charge because they're so different ...
I love all those little comfortable moments in canon, just the two of them doing stuff together like the rollercoaster date or finding who's behind Swedenborg-Riviera just because Johnny is excited about the whole thing and wants to know
V smoking for Johnny's sake is great. more of that please. (maybe post-separation, V keeps smoking)
anything dealing with the forced emotional intimacy when Johnny is absolute shit at admitting he cares about people - probably the first time in his life he can't pretend not to care about someone
anything dealing with the age difference! Johnny must have been a good 20 years older than V when he died (I prefer V being 22 to 27)
Johnny and V in separate bodies working together - doing merc work that Johnny doesn't disapprove of, but also doing the occasional bit of anarchist terrorism for Johnny's sake. helping each other, saving each other's life, taking bullets for each other, angsting when the other one gets badly injured, patching each other up, dramatically carrying each other to Vik's clinic ...
but also: Johnny getting back into music (maybe with Kerry?) because he's trying to be less self-destructive while V continues his merc legend life
anything dealing with all the ways in which they become more similar - sudden shared tastes in food, new kinks they acquire from each other, opinions they start sharing, things they're suddenly both angry about ...
Johnny and Takemura have to work together to save V, who got kidnapped/captured. They continue to hate each other, but have to set that aside for V's sake. Could involve Johnny in a suit or Takemura dressing down. Will probably involve V having wild threesome fantasies that Johnny and Takemura are both not up for.
any variation on the canon endings in which one of them is actually dead for a while - Temperance ending and Johnny has to find a way to bring V back to life, of merc legend ending and V's space heist is not just about finding a way to save his own life, but also about procuring a new body for Johnny's engram. feel free to handwave as much plot as you like, but I'd love to see either of them actually having to live with the guilt and shame of surviving and letting the other one die for a few weeks or months, until they find a way to bring the other one back
one of the side effects of his brain slowly turning into Johnny's (and maybe this particular side effect persists even after whatever handwavey solution happens to make them both survive) is that V can't feel/move his left arm anymore because his/Johnny's brain thinks it shouldn't be there, so V eventually has it replaced with a chrome arm - Johnny gets worried and freaks out a bit about it because what if V is still dying somehow? not to mention that losing his arm was kinda traumatic for him, so he might not like the idea of V doing that to himself (feel free to ignore my no-serious-injuries/amputation DNW for this one; body horror very welcome, just as long as V ends up with a functioning chrome arm he's happy with in the end)

Kerry Eurodyne/Male V

I still can't believe we got so incredibly lucky with the canon romance in this game. :D The massive age difference! The fact that Kerry is such a delightful disaster of a person with all his messy, fucked up issues! Just how much fun he and V have together, how much they clearly like each other from the start and just enjoy spending time with each other - how happy they end up making each other. And of course there are lots of issues there - V dying, Kerry being kinda suicidal and a mess, both of them being messed up about Johnny in different ways - and I enjoy all the angst potential of that, too, but the fact remains that they both clearly fall for each other so fast and just love being with each other, and that makes me incredibly happy. :D

My only complaint would be how little content they got, so I'd love to see anything that fills in the blanks and shows us more of how their relationship develops, how they get from the initial "you're hot and fun to be around" to being deeply in love with each other in the Sun epilogue. I'm also always here for post-canon fix-its so they can actually be happy together (I prefer the Sun ending if you go post-canon). And of course Johnny - whether he's actually present or just a ghost - is so hugely important to both of them and I'd love that coming up in some ways; I wouldn't want them both to just be happily over him and never think about him. I'm always here for Johnny/Kerry/V, too, and I have prompts for that below that you could combine with all this.

their first dates: what happens after the yacht thing? Do they immediately keep seeing each other? Does one of them think it was just a one-time hookup, but then the other one calls? What else do they get up to and how often do they see each other before Mikoshi?
Kerry keeps calling V with "jobs" that are increasingly obvious excuses to see him/spend time with him - eventually V tells him he doesn't need to hire him for that
early on: Kerry comes by V's little megabuilding apartment - maybe V is a bit embarrassed or tries very hard to be a good host or just happily shows him his cat and his gun/clothes collections
the six months between Mikoshi and the Sun epilogue: V comes back without Johnny, devastated and feeling empty and still dying, and presumably at this point he and Kerry haven't been dating for that long yet (if they've been dating at all and didn't just fuck a few times) - does he go to Kerry? Does Kerry check up on him? I'd love it if V didn't expect Kerry to stick around and stay with him through his last dying months, but Kerry actually wants to be there for him. I'd love the bittersweetness of V still dying and feeling guilty for Johnny's death mixed with him and Kerry falling in love and feeling like they'd actually have a future together, if only ... And all that ahappens while they both mourn Johnny and miss him (I'd love if there was at least the option of V finding a cure, though it doesn't have to be explicitly addressed in the fic; I just don't want him to definitely 100% die at the end)
post-Sun fix-it: V (possibly after falling in love with Kerry while dying for months) finds a way to save his life (and maybe bring Johnny back, too) ... cue happy reunions, maybe some angst because V isn't sure Kerry didn't just stick around out of guilt, but isn't actually interested in a long-term relationship, maybe some fun because V can just go tour with Kerry for a while now or enjoy being rich or whatnot
Kerry has been in a LOT of relationships over his life and most of them probably didn't last long/end well - how is V different? I'd love a look into his head about all his feelings re: V and that whole complicated V-Johnny-entanglement
Kerry has been in a LOT of relationships over his life and probably got dumped a lot because he's moody and difficult and not always the best input - he expects V to grow tired of him once the novelty of screwing a famous rockstar has worn off, but V wants to stick around
Kerry has been in a LOT of relationships over his life and going by his type, some of his ex-boyfriends were probably huge assholes (maybe just unpleasant, maybe actually abusive) - what happens if one of them shows up to make trouble? (protective V would be great; Kerry being into protective V would be even better)
in general: Kerry being in some kind of danger and V protecting/saving him (Kerry using all his money or calling in favours to save V is also good, though)
V has probably not been in a lot of serious relationships, maybe none at all - what's it like for him to be actually seriously in love with someone (and maybe worry that Kerry isn't as serious about him)? (I love the idea that V was a lot less passionate pre-Johnny, but of course you don't have to use that)
generally anything related to the fact that Kerry is 70 years older than V - I'm all for playing up the age difference and the imbalance in life experience (and I love V making Kerry want to live again)
reverse of one prompt above: V thinks Kerry will dump him once he grows bored of the inappropriately young merc who happens to have Johnny in his head, especially if Johnny told V that Kerry's relationships never lasted long - but Kerry wants to keep seeing him
misunderstandings or temporary breakups of the "stopped calling because he thought the other one was breaking up with him anyway" or "being distant to make it hurt less when he gets dumped" kind would be enjoyable because they're both idiots
rockerboys are all about sex, drugs and rock'n'roll and Johnny has told V plenty about how much of a cheating, horny bastard Kerry was back in the day; V has no idea how to ask/tell Kerry he wants them to be exclusive (turns out Kerry wants that, too, and hasn't even been sleeping around)
anything related to Johnny being (or having been) in V's head and rubbing off on V - V wondering if he's falling so hard for Kerry because Johnny cares about Kerry, Kerry wondering if he's so drawn to V because in some ways, V reminds him of Johnny ... I'm totally fine with Johnny being the reason they initially are interested in each other, but I'd like it to end with them actually caring about each other (though continued messy, confused emotions are great)
V occasionally getting confused, talking about Johnny's feelings/memories/thoughts like they're his own, even after Johnny is gone - Kerry worrying about him (maybe also Kerry reassuring him that he really wants to be with V, not with Johnny)
the game is severely lacking in more detailed reactions from Johnny to V hooking up with his best friend (and/or his lover, if you want to go there) - how does he feel about it? Is he maybe worried about one of them breaking the other's heart? Is he happy for them?
other people's reactions to V dating Kerry Eurodyne would also be great: Vik, Misty, River, Judy, Takemura, Saul, Rogue, Mama Welles ... Them actually meeting Kerry would also be fun (is anyone a fan? does anyone think he is a total douchebag and not good enough for V?)
the media are bound to be interested in who Kerry Eurodyne's new flame is (especially if Kerry takes V to some event as his official Plus One) and V probably doesn't want the entire world to know about his actual job and connect his face to that, so he comes up with some cover identity (considering that I liked putting V into the truly most atrocious clothes I could find, I'd be 100% for V as the Cyberpunk!Instagram fashion influencer, he'd probably love having that as a dayjob while shooting people at night)
related: shopping together, Kerry maybe being fondly exasperated by V's style, Kerry suggesting they buy him some more rockerboy-ish clothes (could be cute, could be hot, could be angsty if V ends up thinking Kerry wants him to be more like Johnny)
Kerry really enjoying being the arm candy of Big Bad Merc V when he's hanging out at the Afterlife
Kerry was clearly suicidal when they met, but maybe V didn't realise this (since he wasn't in charge of his body at the time) - I'd love his reaction when he finds out eventually, especially since he also considered suicide while dying (and how does he find out? does Johnny mention it? does Kerry eventually write a song about it and V gets worried even though Kerry is clearly doing better by then?)
for all that they love each other, Kerry is clearly not always an easy person to be around - kind of a diva, kind of a dick, often self-centred and expecting people to drop everything for him, trying to be in denial about V dying because he hates talking about it ... I'd love to see the messier sides of their relationship, too, arguments or disagreements or things they have to figure out to make their relationship work
more dates! grand gestures like Kerry booking a whole expensive restaurant! V taking Kerry to the rollercoaster in Pacifica! driving fast cars through Night City together! doing sweet and cheesy things! staying in together to watch trashy TV! but also driving out into the Badlands because Kerry wants to shoot a bazooka, or hang out in the most dangerous parts of Night City without any bodyguards because V will protect him! making out in cars, on rooftops, ducked into filthy alleys, in dingy clubs where nobody recognises them ... (sometimes more than making out, maybe, semi-public sex with V hacking any nearby cameras to make sure nobody will see would be hot)
V gets hurt on a job (could be post-canon when he's not dying anymore and Kerry thinks he doesn't have to worry as much anymore), Kerry is worried and/or angry; maybe Kerry goes and hires someone to kill whoever hurt V
Kerry writing songs about V; V maybe not knowing anything about music, but still being all heart eyes over this
the game never goes anywhere with the fake dating setup of "Kerry claiming V is his new input at the Samurai reunion", so ... more of that would be nice
V wearing Kerry's clothes (V maybe wearing clothes that look like they could be Kerry's clothes until Kerry borrows him his own <.<)
Johnny's choking kink rubbed off on V so ... Kerry choking V (whether or not Kerry knows that Johnny is into this, and how he feels about that, is up to you)
cyberware kink, like Kerry's gorgeous chrome or maybe V having some implants that make him Very Strong and able to manhandle Kerry easily
Kerry clearly has some Meaningful Tattoos - at some point he gets one for V, and the only other person he ever got a tattoo for was Johnny, so ... complicated feelings again! (could be while V is still dying for the extra angst of Kerry thinking he'll soon have another dead lover/friend inked on his skin)
similar prompt as above: one of the side effects of his brain slowly turning into Johnny's (and maybe this particular side effect persists even after whatever handwavey solution happens to make them both survive) is that V can't feel/move his left arm anymore because his/Johnny's brain thinks it shouldn't be there, so V eventually has it replaced with a chrome arm - in this case, Kerry gets worried and freaks out about it because what if V is still dying somehow? especially since Kerry probably knows all about how traumatic losing his arm was for Johnny (feel free to ignore my no-serious-injuries/amputation DNW for this one; body horror very welcome, just as long as V ends up with a functioning chrome arm he's happy with in the end)

Johnny Silverhand/Kerry Eurodyne/Male V

Now with all three of them! Feel free to use any of the prompts/ideas listed above for Johnny/Kerry and Johnny/V and Kerry/V. :) I love V's relationship with both of them - how antagonistic he and Johnny start out and then slowly grow closer (while also becoming more similar to each other), 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.

As with the previous requests, I'd be up for fic set during canon or, especially for this ship, an AU long-term solution where Johnny and V either have to share a body forever and they're both kind of dating Kerry (and possibly also sleeping with each other when Kerry isn't around) and it's messy and complicated, but still works somehow, or an AU in which Johnny somehow gets himself a new body that looks like him.

as above, Johnny was always convinced he's straight ... until he was in the passenger seat in V's head while V was fucking Kerry and suddenly he looks at Kerry very differently (and it probably takes him a while to admit that he's interested)
Kerry asking V if Johnny is watching while they fuck, if Johnny can hear them, if Johnny can feel what V feels - Kerry going out of his way to give V the night of his life because he wants to show Johnny everything he's been missing out on
I mean, this is just canon, but: Kerry starting to sleep with V because he's not over Johnny, but actually falling in love with V along the way
Johnny telling V how to fuck Kerry/running commentary while V fucks him (either because Johnny and Kerry used to fuck in the past and Johnny knows what Kerry likes, or because Johnny just has Opinions on how he'd fuck Kerry if he had the chance)
I have a lot of feelings about V and Johnny's relationship and also about that whole mindmelding/turning into one person thing they've got going on - so maybe Johnny tries to be halfway supportive (read: not horrible) when V starts hooking up with his best friend, but he realises sooner or later that he's jealous and wants in on that, and he's not even sure if those are his feelings or V's (maybe V also isn't sure if his feelings for Kerry are his own or Johnny's long repressed attraction/affection for him)
sometimes Johnny and V switch who's in control while in bed with Kerry - Kerry always notices immediately, of course, and loves it. I'd love some contrasts between them, maybe Johnny is a lot rougher than V is, a lot more dominant and demanding, maybe there are some differences in what they like or don't like
V can feel Johnny touching him, right? certainly looks like it in some scenes - so, Johnny fucking V while V fucks Kerry, and Kerry can't see Johnny, but he can see V reacting to Johnny ...
during V and Judy's braindance experiment, Judy can hear some of Johnny's thoughts - maybe V and Kerry try out something similar so Kerry can actually interact with Johnny more directly
if you give Johnny a new body somehow, I also wouldn't say no to a more "conventional" threesome (and Johnny having to admit that he actually wants to do this even without the excuse that he only wants this because he's stuck in V's head and V is into Kerry)
Johnny and V in separate bodies are still inseparable - this makes Kerry and V dating somewhat awkward ... cue Johnny being literally in the same room while they fuck. Kerry is eventually fed up with this nonsense and demands that Johnny either leave or join. He expects Johnny to leave, but Johnny joins them instead ...
Johnny usually tops with both Kerry and V, but he gets curious about what it feels like because they both clearly love it so much (and if Johnny is still sharing a body with V, he can literally feel what it's like to get fucked by Kerry) - sooner or later he wants to try it out. maybe Kerry and V can gang up on him or seduce him together?
Kerry suggests introducing V to people as his new input before the concert in canon - I'd love some weird fake-dating stuff while Johnny is along for the ride, Kerry flirting with V and V being way too into it but thinking Kerry doesn't really mean it, Johnny making fun of V or maybe trying to encourage him to go for it ...
V and Kerry have a more loving, tender relationship, Johnny and Kerry argue more and then fuck hard on tables - but sometimes they each want what the other usually gets, so V and Johnny kind of roleplay each other with Kerry (who's well aware of what's going on, but finds it kind of charming and still hot - and maybe he can give them some advice on better roleplaying for next time). maybe eventually Kerry decides this is really silly and they both just need to admit to what they want
Johnny and Kerry used to fuck, but Johnny was extremely weird about it and didn't talk about it - now he tries to play matchmaker for V, telling him what Kerry likes, maybe pretending he doesn't want to be with Kerry anymore but being very bad at it ..
Temperance ending, but Johnny goes to see Kerry instead of leaving Night City ... and maybe Kerry's money or just Kerry kicking Johnny's ass help bring V back somehow (whether in the same or a new body), after giving Johnny and Kerry some time to get closer again.
Johnny is actually happy for Kerry and V, they're good for each other, he wants them to be happy. It's fine! He's not at all jealous about Kerry being in love with someone who's not him nor about V spending so much time with somebody else. (He is absolutely jealous and just needs to realise he wants to be part of what they have.)
or: Johnny is incredibly jealous because he used to sleep with Kerry and now Kerry seems actually over him and happily in love with V??? that hurts his feelings and his ego, but he's probably incredibly bad at communicating that he wants in on their relationship
Kerry and V are dating; Johnny and V have weird bodysharing sex, which Kerry doesn't know about. he's hurt when he finds out because that seems like cheating no matter how much Johnny claims it's "just like jerking off". cue some drama and maybe a temporary breakup, until all three of them figure out that what they really want is for all three of them to be together.
Johnny insists he's not interested in Kerry and V's typical boyfriend stuff like watching TV together while cuddling ... except he and Kerry probably did live together at some point in the past and did domestic things, and he does want those, he just has no idea how to ask for them - maybe V helps him figure it out?
same prompt as above: one of the side effects of his brain slowly turning into Johnny's (and maybe this particular side effect persists even after whatever handwavey solution happens to make them both survive) is that V can't feel/move his left arm anymore because his/Johnny's brain thinks it shouldn't be there, so V eventually has it replaced with a chrome arm - Johnny and Kerry both get worried and freak out a bit about it because what if V is still dying somehow? not to mention that losing his arm was kinda traumatic for Johnny, so he might not like the idea of V doing that to himself (feel free to ignore my no-serious-injuries/amputation DNW for this one; body horror very welcome, just as long as V ends up with a functioning chrome arm he's happy with in the end)

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 don't mind happier scenarios for fic. I'd also love for V and Takemura to reconcile after their, er, breakup, to put it mildly.

I also 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.

how/when do they hook up for the first time? early on because they both need to distract themselves from their life going to shit? not until they become friendlier? not until right before the finale? not until post-finale? I'm good with anything
Takemura is beat up, bruised, and dirty, so V offers to take him home and let him use his shower - things go from there
Takemura really likes long, hot baths (the one luxury he ever had time for), V of course has no bathtub, so he calls in a favour from Kerry to use his fancy bathroom at his villa for an evening - things go from there (maybe V has a thing for Takemura's hair, just saying)
V is a filthy little thief with no manners who clearly needs to get slapped around some more and also spanked, right? :)
but also: Takemura's hair is gorgeous and V should pull on it while fucking his throat; and the power thrill from having Takemura on his knees might just make V's head explode; anyway, my point is: hair kink
Takemura's clothes in canon are all so gorgeous, the black suit, the white suit, that black leather jacket over the open white shirt ... sooooo V naked while Takemura is perfectly dressed would be very hot
Johnny's choking kink rubs off on V and V asks Takemura to choke him in bed (extra fun if Johnny hates that it's turning him on, too) - or maybe Takemura is the one who grabs V's throat and V is surprised by how into this he suddenly is
patching each other up, possibly after V saved Takemura's life
Takemura must feel pretty lost - to go from spending probably 18+ hours every day trailing Saburo to just being out on his own ... anything exploring that would be interesting (also, I don't even want to know what kind of withdrawal the guy is going through, with the amount of performance enhancing drugs corporates are usually on - by which I mean, I do want to know, feel free to write that, up to and including V getting him some other drugs to help with the pain or distract him)
feel free to bring Johnny into this - how grossed out he is by V fucking River is probably nothing compared to how grossed out he'd be by V fucking this "Saka scum". I'd totally read Johnny constantly complaining while V is trying to get laid with Takemura - I'd also enjoy Johnny and Takemura actually interacting directly, if they ever meet while Johnny is in charge of the body
what do they get up to post-canon (again, feel free to handwave or do however much plotting you like for some canon divergence, or just stick with canon): Takemura and Afterlife legend!V meeting again when V still only has six months to live and Takemura is utterly furious at him, but still wants to see him again before he dies? or the same, but V isn't dying anymore for reasons? Takemura making good on that promise to show V Tokyo? Takemura and V on the run together for some reason? Takemura being there when corpo!V who took the deal somehow gets a new body and gets pulled out of Mikoshi, and they finally get a chance to spend some more time together then?
one specific thing I'd really love: Takemura who gets burnt by Araska again (maybe Hanako sees casting him out as a fitting punishment for failing to protect her father, knowing that killing him would be kinder) and now he's all alone and lost and doesn't know what to do with his life, so he turns to V? or he doesn't turn to V because he's still furious at him, but V comes to find/save him
related: Takemura decides to kill V before planning to kill himself, as punishment for 1) fucking with Arasaka, 2) basically killing Saburo a second time (if Takemura found out about the construct from Hanako and said construct was destroyed in Mikoshi) - give me all the stalking, sexy angry fighting, and eventual realising that he doesn't want to kill V (or maybe V defeats Takemura when they fight, but instead of killing him, he decides to nurse him back to health)
outside POVs, or just other people finding out about them, would be fun, whether that's V's other friends (Judy? Rogue? Viktor?) finding out he's screwing Saburo Arasaka's (ex-)bodyguard or people in Takemura's life (Oda? any other friends or family he might have?) finding out about him having a really weird, but apparently quite happy affair with this much younger mercenary
speaking of, anything emphasising the considerable age difference between them is very welcome
on a shallow note: just how much of Takemura's body is mechanical? just how into that is V? :D
just in case anyone else ships both Kerry/Johnny and Takemura/V, I'd love to see the hilarious mess of a situation if V and Johnny continue sharing a body while Johnny is sleeping with Kerry and V is sleeping with Takemura - it sounds like it'd be simultaneously funny, messed up and incredibly awkward, especially since Johnny and Takemura can't stand each other
Johnny and Takemura have to work together to save V, who got kidnapped/captured. They continue to hate each other, but have to set that aside for V's sake. Could involve Johnny in a suit or Takemura dressing down. Will probably involve V having wild threesome fantasies that Johnny and Takemura are both not up for.

Saul Bright/Male V

Okay, this is just here because it'd be fun and hot. I'm not looking for a serious long-term romance for this ship, but for hookups or a friends with benefits situation. What can I say, I kind of ship V with every hot older-than-him guy he interacts with for more than two minutes. The poor guy is dying and should get railed by every hot older guy he wants, he deserves some happiness in his life. And Saul's life is pretty stressful, too, all that responsibility and the problems his clan faces, so a nice little affair with a much younger merc might be fun for him, too.

I'm not a big fan of Panam and I played V as being kind of exasperated/annoyed by her and her reckless blow-everything-up plans, so that'd give him and Saul something to bond over. V probably wouldn't agree with all of Saul's decisions either, but hey, he's not an Aldecaldo, so it's really not his problem. Mostly both Saul and V could probably use having a nice night or five with a hot guy they want to fuck, who won't make trouble or give them shit or cause drama. Let them have something nice. :D

I'm not into the nomad origin or the nomad ending for this, though. I'd just like them to hook up, once or a a few times when the Aldecaldos are near the city, or maybe V stays briefly with the Aldecaldos for some mission, but I don't want him riding off into the sunset with them.

Saul shows up to save V's ass, V wants to say thank you :)
V saves Saul's life, Saul wants to say thank you :)
V shows up post-rescue with that cigar and booze Saul wanted ... just without lady companions, but he's very happy to keep Saul company instead; Saul is very much into that suggestion (cigar sharing and flirtatious smoking? :D)
V tells Saul about Panam's half-cocked Basilisk plan; they work together to think of something better
Saul briefly wonders if V and Panam are together because she's the one who introduced him to the clan; V makes it very clear that 1) she isn't his type, 2) he is
V offering Saul help with the Aldecaldos' Wraiths problem (possibly just by killing them all because V is a person of mass destruction)
according to Panam's stories, Saul is or at least was in his younger days kind of a badass who was up for the occasional cool stunt - maybe he and V actually work together on a mission to deal with some Wraiths or solve some other problem; fighting back to back, patching each other up afterwards, adrenaline-fuelled post-mission sex ...
merc legend V in the Sun ending gets into fixer work; maybe after the Aldecaldos' whole Biotechnica contract is over, he can send some non-corpo work their way (maybe Saul could actually come to Night City and be very fish out of water)
Saul being in Night City for any other reason, possibly staying at V's place for a night, enjoying his shower ... things can go from there (whether this is V's old apartment or the big nice apartment in the Sun ending)
generally the contrast between Saul being a nomad to the core and Streetkid!V being the most Night City Boy ever could be fun to explore; same with the age difference
maybe Saul doesn't like fucking people under his command, so V is an excellent opportunity for a no-strings-attached hookup
size kink - Saul looks pretty damn huge and V probably likes having a big guy manhandle him and maybe fuck him against things (or on cars)
choking - Johnny's kink probably rubbed off on V and V is probably not shy about asking those hot strong guys he screws to choke him out :)
Johnny being smug about V hooking up with a big, strong, somewhat older guy with long black hair, and is V trying to tell him something? (actual Johnny/V flirting and UST or V/Saul leading to Johnny/V later or even an actual V/Saul/Johnny threesome if Johnny gets his own body again would be great, but Johnny just teasing V a little is also fun)

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. ;)

Also, after writing these prompts, I realised they were basically all variations of "oh god I want everything I love them" - I'm sorry? I hope this is still somewhat helpful. But I'm so starved for fic about them that I do, in fact, want everything

backstory! I especially want to know all about Joseph finding Jacob and/or John when they were at their lowest and saving them - what did he tell them? how did they react to Joseph showing up? did it take Joseph time to convince them and pull them out of their depressed buzz or were they immediately happy to follow him?
related, I'd love to see more about the early days of the cult - in the game they've already taken over and aren't playing nice anymore, but I'd love to see the earlier recruitment stuff, the preaching and the propaganda and convincing people to join, John's political and legal scheming to acquire all that land, Joseph and John's preaching, the beginnings of Jacob's little army ... also, the songs! how did those (frankly fantastic) propaganda folk songs start? when did Joseph write his Word of Joseph? at what point did John go full torture-dungeon on people when converting them?
I love Joseph's and John's over-the-top religiousness - how does that play into any incestuous inclinations? does John just say yes to everything his brothers suggest? do they angst about it? does Joseph come up with a convenient reason why this is totally okay? or do they think for a while that it's a horrible sin they need to atone for? what about Jacob - less religious fervour there, but does he feel bad for wanting the brothers he's supposed to protect, or does he think they're all above such petty moral concerns?
Joseph/Jacob: I love their dynamics of the older brother being the follower, and how that balances things out between them a little, with Jacob being the only person who isn't afraid of Joseph - does Joseph sometimes still put him in his place (or try to) or does he talk to Jacob when he wants to hear an honest opinion (does he ever want to hear an honest opinion)? do they argue a lot (what with that "he fought me" line in the eulogy)? how does Joseph feel about Jacob's lack of religious fervour - accept it or try to convert him still? and does Joseph ever manage to offer Jacob some comfort for his Tragic Past (TM) despite that?
Joseph/John: I love that John both worships Joseph and is terrified of him, I love his eagerness to please and fucked up parental issues that he projects onto Joseph (I generally love how much of a fucking MESS John is, he's broken in so many fascinating ways), and Joseph loves him but is clearly not above manipulating him (possibly while telling himself it's for John's own good/to rein in his worst impulses) - and also, Joseph likes to criticise John's sadism at times, but also enables it, so how does that work in his mind? I also like them bonding over their whole religious rapture thing; oh, and I'd love John guiltily confessing that he wants Joseph (and Jacob) because he's all about exposing his horrible sins and atoning for them and being punished ... and then Joseph gives him what he wants instead of punishing him
Jacob/John: I'd love to see them interact since that's not really something canon gave us - I could see some jealousy on John's side about Jacob being, in a way, a rival for Joseph's love (and also much more of Joseph's equal), but at the same time they might well have a more normal brotherly relationship (minus the whole Father and Messiah thing John has with Joseph) - I like Jacob being protective of him, and I like John trying to make him see the light (or maybe enjoying that Jacob isn't really his responsibility to guide and to convert); I like them bonding over their devotion to Joseph even as it comes from very different places, and maybe also bonding over their very inappropriate attraction to him (especially if they think Joseph doesn't feel that way about them); I'd also be up for John starting some very fucked up attempts at finally making Jacob find his faith (even if it means hurting him? or trying to?) - or conversely Jacob deciding to take John on a hunting&survival trip to toughen him up, and maybe ending up quite impressed with how much John can take?; I'd love to see them find common ground once they're reunited despite having lived such extremely different lives
and if you throw all three of them together, how does that go? is John jealous of what Jacob and Joseph have? how does Jacob feel about Joseph pretty shamelessly manipulating John? how does Joseph feel about his brothers maybe turning to each other for comfort about this whole incestuous attraction business rather than to him?
throw as much religious stuff over all this as you like - sexy confessions, sexy punishments, begging for forgiveness, kneeling, their whole scarification and tattoo kink (does Jacob have any of those, hidden under his clothes? did John or Joseph insist? did Jacob want them, for his own reasons?), guilt and lots of talk about shameful sins, but also convoluted justifications for why it's totally fine for them to love each other that way ...
porn-wise: lots of kneeling, cutting and blood/knifeplay, Joseph having a Thing for being called Father, D/s and ordering each other around (I'm up for any switching or top/bottom constellation you like), one of them watching the other two (and maybe commenting on it/telling them what to do), John's sadism and his masochism, Jacob manhandling them, weird religious talk in bed ...
bunker/post-apocalyptic fic, in an AU in which John and Jacob don't die obviously

Fast and the Furious series
Deckard Shaw/Owen Shaw

Fandom-specific DNW: the new characters and characterisation from F&F 8/9 and Hobbs and Shaw - I'd like fic about the murderous, us-against-the-world bastards the Shaws were in 6 and 7, not the watered down version where they're not actually bad guys and have random other relatives and care about babies and were just manipulated.

Anyway, here's another fandom for slightly sociopathic, incestuous villains who would do anything for each other. I love how much of a scheming, sadistic bastard Owen is, who probably enjoys manipulating even Deckard (who knows it and just doesn't care). I love Deckard being an overprotective One Man Army who will burn down the world for his little brother. I love that they care about absolutely nothing in the world but each other. I love that they're so devoted to each other, but they don't actually seem to spend all their time working together, so I'd love to see some exploration of why that is (and maybe see them find a way to be closer again post-F7).

Deckard is 8 years older than Owen, so Owen was still a kid when Deckard joined the military: how did that go? Was there any resentment on Owen's side? Did he just have a big case of hero worship, since he followed his brother's example as soon as he could? Did Deckard threaten/kill their father when he left to keep Owen safe in his absence?
at what point did they go from big brother/little brother to equals? Was there maybe a mission they worked on together in the SAS that made Deckard realise that his little brother had grown into a proper badass, too?
anything exploring Deckard's attempts to teach Owen not to get himself killed because he picked the wrong enemies, teaching him how to fight, teaching him how to channel his manipulative, sadistic urges in directions that won't get him in trouble ...
how did they both manage to get kicked out of the military? Did they fuck up? Did one of them fuck up and the other followed him into exile, so to speak? Did they get blamed for someone else's mistake? Did they get greedy and start making money on the side? Or anything about that time the military sent a ton of Special Forces guys to kill Deckard and they failed
post-F7 fic: either Deckard breaking out of prison and being there while Owen recovers, or Owen waking up from his coma and getting back on his feet and breaking his brother out of prison (I'd prefer if Owen didn't have any permanent health issues from his coma; it's an action movie, people can survive horrific injuries with not much more than a few scars, right?). Roaring rampage of revenge y/y? (While I like the protagonists of the F&F movies, I'm not so emotionally attached to them that I wouldn't happily read about the Shaw brothers killing them.)
neither of them is the angsty type, but I'd love to see one or both of them dealing at least with some issues from almost dying/getting locked up in a deep dark hole
when did the incestuous obsession with each other start? When they were still pretty young? Did teenage Owen manipulate his big brother into giving him what he wants? I'm fine with underage as long as Owen is at least 15ish by the time they actually sleep with each other, and I'm cool with Owen fantasising about his brother/being all around inappropriate towards him even when he's younger (and while I don't think Deckard would angst about it exactly, I could see him having some complicated feelings about wanting to fuck his little brother and maybe thinking he shouldn't (yet) or that there are certain things he shouldn't be doing with him).
any kind of first time fic: Does it first happen when Owen is still a teenager? Or did they only fuck when they were in the military together and Deckard saw Owen more as an equal than as his little brother? Or only after they got kicked out of the military?
Owen talks about how his devotion to his family makes Dom predictable and vulnerable - is that why he doesn't seem to work with Deckard in canon? Does he worry about people seeing how close he is to his brother and using that against him, so he forces himself to stay away?
conversely: is Deckard the one who stays away because he thinks Owen should stand on his own feet/because he doesn't want to support Owen's mad schemes/because he knows he'd do anything for Owen when he's around him?
either way, I'd love to see them decide to spend more time around each other post-F7 because they've both realised they're stronger together than apart (and they also just don't want to be apart)
I'd also love any kind of fic about all the times they've seen each other through the years with long periods of pining in between - when Deckard joined the army, but Owen was still a kid; when they were stationed in different places of the world; when they worked their own post-army jobs ...
I love obsessive pining and voyeurism before they get together (i.e. watching each other screw other people, esp. people who look like their brother), possessiveness/jealousy ("I will kill you if you ever let anyone else fuck you" and the like), rough sex, completely obsessive incestuous codependency, being horrible people to everyone but each other, delighting in each other's horribleness, delighting in each other's badassery, sweaty rough sparring, gun/knife play, kinking on being brothers and on how wrong everybody else would find this while it feels perfectly right to them ...
after having to hide their relationship their whole life, Owen gets off on people seeing them together - whether in places where nobody knows them and that they're brothers, or around people who simply can't do anything about the Shaws being incestuous weirdos, or plausible deniability around people who aren't sure if they're brothers or not (they have the same last name, but maybe that's a coincidence? are they married? very distant relatives? who knows?)
undercover as a couple if they ever have to play at being spies
undercover as enemies where they're pretending to be working against each other (maybe even roughing each other up a bit to sell it?), but really it's all part of one of Owen's elaborate plans
they end up on opposite sides of some conflict (maybe Deckard gets hired to fuck with one of Owen's operations without knowing Owen is involved) and Deckard of course immediately joins Owen's side and helps him eliminate the people who sent him
related: someone hires Deckard to kill Owen; Deckard doesn't, of course (but maybe he tries to scare Owen a little to make him tighten up his security? I never say no to them doing some impromptu nighttime fighting-turning-into-fucking)
anything about them working together, competence kink, Owen getting off on Deckard working for him/doing what he tells him to, working on their plans together, saving each other's ass, patching each other up ...
while I didn't like what F&F8 did with them otherwise, Cypher was a cool villain, so if you wanted to write a plotty, action-y fic in which the Shaw brothers go after Cypher together (not for ~corrupting~ Owen, but maybe simply because she fucked them over at some point), that would work for me.
I'm always here for F&F/Expendables crossovers, whether it's just the Shaws and the Expendables working together, or the Shaws and Lee having history from their time in the SAS, or Owen banging Lee because he looks like Deckard ...

Mass Effect

I replayed the whole trilogy not too long ago and was frustrated again that 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, where-were-you-all-my-life friendship he has with Garrus, 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. There's a lot of interesting layers to explore there.

I strongly prefer renegade Shepard (who is nicer to his companions/friends) because he's just 100% tailored to my character preferences - ruthless and efficient, the end justifies the means, snarky and intimidating, a dutiful hardass who's 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'm generally fine with a lot of the other more "save as many people as possible" paragon decisions, but I like renegade Shepard a lot more personality-wise - I like that he's the biggest asshole you'll ever meet who also happens to be on the side of the good guys and uses his ridiculous dickishness and competence to help people by yelling, threatening, bullying and murdering his way through the galaxy).

I picked the Spacer/Ruthless backgrounds and vanguard as his class, but I'm not fixated on that, if you want to write something else. I prefer Shepard written as gay rather than bi. 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 - so if that's something you'd like to explore, go for it! 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 (though I don't expect anyone besides his mother to actually call Shepard by his first name anyway). I like pretty much all the other companions and am happy to read about them. My other faves are Zaeed, Legion, Miranda, Jack, Tali, Cortez, Mordin, Joker, Grunt, Samara, Traynor, Javik, EDI. I also like Aria, Anderson and Hackett a lot, as well as spacer!Shepard's relationship with his mother.

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) - whether it's hooking up to blow off steam and then wondering for ages if the other one is even interested in a serious relationship, or pining for ages while thinking their friend doesn't want anything more than friendship
they only sleep with each other right before the final assault on Earth because they both know they might die ... and then Shepard does almost die and Garrus maybe has to go back to Palaven while he recovers, so they can pine some more while not seeing each other for a while
or maybe it's only after Shepard almost died at the end of the game that he manages to think about something other than defeating the Reapers and realises how much he would have regretted dying (again) without telling Garrus what he really wants
maybe they spend all of the third game fucking each other's brains out to have one good thing in their lives, but they never actually talk about any of it (partly because Shepard doesn't expect to survive the war, so he doesn't want to make any plans for the future) - so what happens after the war is over and they do actually both survive?
or they hooked up once just before the suicide mission and then were immediately separated for six months - how does it go when they meet again in 3 and the world is ending? maybe neither of them is sure if the other one is interested in continuing where they left things last time
Garrus being confused by his attraction to a human - whereas Shepard is maybe more chill about being into a turian. I'd be 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 ...)
cue Garrus and Shepard having awkward conversations about Shepard sleeping with other turians: maybe Garrus is curious about what draws Shepard to them, maybe he wonders if Shepard just has some kind of turian fetish, maybe Shepard keeps sleeping with guys turians would consider ugly and Garrus really wants to have a word with him about his bad taste (which might lead to discussions about whether or not Garrus is considered attractive by turian standards ...)
Garrus asking Shepard how eactly he picks up those turians he hooks up with and Shepard giving him a demonstration - it was supposed to be funny, but oops, turns out Garrus is really into it
Garrus runs into a turian acquaintance who's slept with Shepard in the past - and who maybe assumes Garrus and Shepard are together now or that Garrus is interested and starts telling Garrus all kinds of things about how good Shepard is in bed; leading to Garrus unable to stop thinking about the fact that Shepard apparently really knows how to make a turian happy ...
Shepard sleeps with Primarch Victus while he's on the Normandy because, well, it's war, they're both hurting and stressed out and could use a distraction - he doesn't expect Garrus to be kind of jealous and possibly also a bit insecure because he can't exactly compete with the primarch
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 in the whole series). More of that, always, especially Shepard having to make more awful decisions that weigh on him, and he bottles it all up and refuses to talk about it and Garrus is there for him (and cheers him up with snark and shooting competitions and possibly sex).
by ME3 at the latest Shepard sleeps like shit - so give me all the sleepless nights spent together, maybe drinking together, or Shepard wandering the ship and ending up with Garrus who also can't sleep, Garrus trying to talk Shepard into getitng some rest, Shepard being so exhausted he actually asks Garrus to stay with him for a night because, who knows, maybe not being alone will help him sleep (and then they wake up together in the morning, actually rested and also almost naked in bed together)
Shepard getting captured by someone (Cerberus agents? batarian slavers? friends of some bad guys he killed?) and tortured or raped or otherwise hurt - maybe Garrus (and the rest of the crew) saves him, maybe he escapes by himself, but either way he's very visibly Not Okay afterwards, hurting and traumatised and hating himself for having been helpless and trying his damnedest to bury all those emotions because he needs to keep fighting
related: post-noncon bad idea sex to prove to himself that he's totally fine? yes please - maybe it goes well because he trusts Garrus so much and it does make him feel better, maybe it goes incredibly wrong and Shepard feels even worse afterwards and Garrus thinks he did something wrong /o\
also related: Shepard and Garrus are both captured and the bad guys force one of them to rape the other - Shepard insists Garrus should fuck him (because, well, he likes getting fucked anyway, he'll be fiiiine, but he doesn't want to hurt Garrus) ... and afterwards they can both feel awful for maybe enjoying it a bit too much, and avoid each other to give them space (while thinking the other one can't bear to be around them anymore) ... or maybe this leads to the brilliant idea of fucking again on their own terms to cope with what happened
more light-hearted: Garrus clearly has an awkward romantic streak and Shepard ... not so much (I wouldn't be surprised if Shepard has never actually been in a remotely serious relationship). I'm all for the hilarity that may ensue from that. Maybe Garrus does things turians consider romantic or does some research on what a perfect date looks like in human societies (I'd enjoy this both when they're actually together or maybe sleeping with each other but still figuring out the whole relationship part, and before they get together because Garrus is trying very hard to show Shepard he's interested.)
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 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. Also, what's Garrus up to? Did he go back to Palaven after the war? I'd love for there to be more pining and missing each other until they find a way to be reunited again (maybe Garrus does finally become a Spectre, too, and they work together?)
I love turians in general and am super interested in more worldbuilding for them: relationship traditions/expectations, meeting Garrus's family, possible issues with an interspecies relationship, possible issues with Garrus dating someone who's 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 ...)
during or post-canon they go on some mission for the turians and for Reasons, Garrus is officially in command during that mission - I'd love the role reversal of this, Shepard being supportive and actually doing as he's told, Garrus being badass in his own right ... and maybe they get back and Shepard suggests he keep following Garrus' orders for the rest of the night <.<
Garrus joking about marriage proposals on the Citadel made me think: Garrus pointing out that from a turian POV, Shepard would be one hell of a catch as a partner (successful military career, dutiful, self-sacrificing, devoted to the cause) - I'm less interested in actual marriage fic than in them teasing each other about this, maybe leading to Shepard pointing out that if he could be any turian's trophy husband, Garrus may have some convincing to do that he should be his ;)
in general, I adore their banter and them teasing each other - whether it's during firefights or in other rough situations or while hanging out at a bar, and maybe their teasing escalates to being more and more flirtatious over time
fun with bets! probably about who kills more husks/pirates/whatnot on a mission - maybe with slowly escalating sexual favours for the winner?
outside POVs: they're so obviously, visibly close that I love people assuming they're a couple before they get together (and this assumption making them consider that, maybe, their pining isn't as unrequited as they think <.< could also involve some cultural misunderstandings, so, idk, Victus thinking it's very obvious that Garrus and Shepard are together and Shepard wonders what signals they're sending that make a turian so certain, or one of the human crewmates assuming that and Garrus wondering if Shepard is actually doing things that humans consider unambiguous signs of interest)
what does Shepard's mother think of Garrus? Shepard clearly had zero friends pre-ME1, she's probably used to him being a misanthropic dick, and now he's best friends with this turian who's a lot like him? Maybe Garrus contacts her to get a message to Shepard between 2 and 3, or they meet at some point during 3 on the Citadel, and she asks one or both of them if they're together ...
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 go wild with barbed or ridged dicks or two dicks or very long tongues and the sharp teeth 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).
speaking of sparring: maybe Garrus hears about Shepard sparring with James and wonders why they've never done any hand-to-hand sparring! maybe they also need to go a few rounds and then hold a tiebreaker in Shepard's cabin ;)
Shepard usually likes it really rough and Garrus is happy to oblige (bruises? bruises please), but after a while Shepard realises to his surprise he'd actually also like to try something slower and more tender with Garrus? and maybe he's a lot less certain how to ask for that
scars! they both have such hot scars. they should touch each other's scars (in Shepard's case, Garrus might well worry about his glowy scars getting worse and worse during 2 and then again during 3 after they'd healed up in the meantime)
post-war living together (sometimes) on the Citadel - maybe they both have some kind of important positions that require a lot of travel to the Citadel and Shepard offers to let Garrus stay with him at Anderson's apartment, so when they're both there, there's plenty of potential for seeing the other come out of the shower naked, having breakfast together, just being happy to be around each other, Garrus walking in on Shepard with another turian who kinda looks like him ...
post-war, Garrus finally becomes a Spectre and they work as a team; or maybe Garrus and Shepard head up some turian-human military cooperation, or maybe Garrus permanently becomes the turian liaison officer on the Normandy or really just anything else that allows them to keep working together long-term (I'd also enjoy outside POV things where new crew members maybe wonder about the commander and his turian second-in-command who's with him basically all the time)

Male Shepard/James Vega

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; but maybe then the war is over and they both live and sooner or later they might have to deal with the fact that this has grown beyond casual sex)
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 ...
maybe they slept with each other during those six months Vega had to babysit Shepard because, well, they were bored and into each other and Shepard was relieved of duty anyway - but then the war starts, he's Vega's CO and everything is suddenly a lot more complicated
related: in Vancouver, they had a fun sparring-leading-to-sex fling and Shepard loved letting Vega manhandle him - maybe Vega actually assumed he could handle Shepard until he sees him in action and realises Shepard could wipe the floor with him, he just wanted to get held down and shoved around
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 (note: I don't want him to be actually straight, just in denial). Nooo, he's totally not attracted to men; it's perfectly normal to jerk off with a buddy, right? Or appreciate the muscles of 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 like the Citadel DLC hookup of "get him drunk so he does things he wouldn't do otherwise".)
Shepard (who can't sleep) walking in on Vega jerking off in the cargo bay in the middle of the night because he thought he'd have some privacy there - leading to intense eye contact while Shepard watches him, or maybe Shepard joining him, or maybe Shepard coming by to watch him jerk off becomes a regular thing that escalates over time ...
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 ...
since I love the whole Butcher of Torfan thing for Shepard, maybe they can have some conversations about getting your entire team killed ... being willing to make that sacrifice, but maybe also something related to Shepard these days having a team he genuinely cares about and tries much harder to save (while also knowing that he might not always be able to)
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 him to talk about some things while he's at it.
related: post-noncon bad idea sex to prove to himself that he's totally fine? yes please - maybe it goes well because he trusts James and it does make him feel better, maybe it goes incredibly wrong and Shepard feels even worse afterwards and James thinks he did something wrong /o\
also related: Shepard and Vega are both captured and the bad guys force one of them to rape the other - Shepard insists Vega should fuck him (because, well, he likes getting fucked anyway, he'll be fiiiine, but he doesn't want to put his totally straight subordinate through that) ... and afterwards they can both feel awful for maybe enjoying it a bit too much, and avoid each other to give them space (while thinking the other one can't bear to be around them anymore) ... or maybe this leads to the brilliant idea of fucking again on their own terms to cope with what happened
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.
tbh anything from James' POV about how he sees Shepard would be interesting - what it's like to meet someone he's admired from afar, to get to know him in such a weird personal situation, and then that switch to suddenly seeing Shepard in action and in charge (which must be quite different from a Shepard who's stuck doing nothing), being impressed by him all over again while also seeing the toll the war is taking on 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 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. Did James get transferred to a different ship in the meantime or maybe even his own command? Does it maybe take some time until they meet again and Shepard isn't even sure if James wants to come back and serve under him again on the Normandy?
I like how surprisingly sweet James can be? 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 because he's always been one for casual sex rather than actual relationships.
James meeting Shepard's mother - who's probably used to her son being a misanthropic dick with no friends (who probably also never had any serious relationships, least of all ones he introduced to his mother), so him actually 1) being serious about someone, 2) screwing his subordinate might be ... unusual
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, including the condescending/humiliating kind. No way James doesn't have a filthy mouth in bed (and maybe Shepard isn't used to anyone talking like that to him these days, but he's really into it).
I love their absolutely shameless flirting in canon and the fact that Shepard actually instigates it just as much as James - like that scene in the bar (the whole "you think I don't like getting dirty?" bit). I'd love for their flirting to go even further, maybe all the way to downright dirty talk, until Shepard tells James to either man up and do something about it or stop so Shepard can go get laid with someone else
related: maybe one of those times, Shepard does go and hit on some (equally big, muscular) guy at the club after flirting with James and James is very, very aware fo what he's doing ... Maybe he goes and interrupts them to fuck Shepard himself, maybe he catches a fucked out Shepard later on the way back to the Normandy and fucks him then (did I mention dirty talk? that feels like a great opportunity for some sloppy-seconds-related dirty talk)
James runs into a marine buddy who's slept with Shepard before and maybe trash-talks Shepard a bit for liking to get roughed up and railed hard - James gets into a fight with the guy to defend Shepard's honour and Shepard needs to bail him out of C-Sec later (and probably demands to know what that fight was about, so now on top of having to think about what Shepard supposedly likes, James might just hear from Shepard that it's true and Shepard is into all those things)
James has some very nice scars and tattoos, Shepard is maybe very into them; and maybe James wants to touch those weird glowy cybernetics scars of Shepard's, too
Shepard loses a bet or owes James a favour and says James gets to pick what he wants - James jokes about how everybody would want a night with the great Commander Shepard without expecting Shepard to pay up, but he does.

Male Shepard/Garrus Vakarian/James Vega

Basically just throw the two requests above together? I'd love to see any of the things I've requested above for all three of them together - whumping Shepard, post-canon fic, weird cultural differences, some conflicts about wanting a human/turian/man ... This would probably start 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 either start being into each other as well or they're just very okay with being good friends who share their lover with each other; both options work for me, though I don't really see Garrus and Vega ever being madly in love with each other. I'm good with pretty much any set-up of how they all get together, so I've got prompts for just about anything, whichever works best for you. :D

Shepard and Vega start sleeping with each other either just before or during ME3 - when Garrus joins the Normandy again, he thinks he missed his chance (because he and Shepard never actually figured out the attraction was mutual) and maybe Shepard is happier dating another human anyway ... turns out Shepard is still pining for Garrus, too
Garrus finding out Shepard and Vega are sleeping with each other and maybe snarking that he clearly got the short straw because all he ever gets to do with Shepard is suicidal missions, not sex - leading to Shepard telling Garrus that he can have whatever he wants from him, all he had to do was ask ...
Shepard and Garrus hooked up some time before the suicide mission; when they meet again in 3, things get awkward - maybe Garrus thinks Shepard moved on because there's obviously some attraction between Vega and Shepard, maybe Vega thinks Shepard wants to get back with the guy he's known for much longer (meanwhile Shepard just wants both of them)
I'd even be here for Garrus and James bonding over their pining for Shepard (because they assume Shepard isn't interested or at least that Shepard already has too much on his plate to deal with), and Shepard wonders what the hell happened that the two guys he wants want each other more than him??
maybe Garrus and James are initially not sure about this whole "sharing Shepard" thing, but fine, there's a war going on and they might all die tomorrow, this isn't the time for jealousy and figuring out long-term solutions ... except over time, they realise the whole thing actually works out pretty well! maybe Shepard is a two-man job, maybe they really love their threesomes, maybe they genuinely enjoy spending time together as well.
I do like all the angst while they figure things out, possibly post-canon - maybe James and Shepard keep serving together on a ship while Garrus is back on Palaven for a while and Garrus thinks that will be the end of it, or Garrus and Shepard go on some secret Spectre-style mission while James has a different assignment for a while and thinks they won't want him back ...
post-canon fic: I'm all for Shepard being badly hurt/in a coma and nobody knowing if he'll live for a while - maybe Garrus and James bond while worrying about him and thinking he'll die, or maybe they both try to be there for him when he's pretty messed up and lost even one he's back on his feet
I love how 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 or drive him crazier with dirty talk or actually make him stop being demanding and beg for it ...
all the threeway porn (including any of the things I've requested for the ships separately): them ganging up on Shepard, spitroasting, DP, one of them manhandling Shepard and putting him on the other's cock, the two of them working together to wear him out so he actually gets some rest afterwards ... Shepard being really into the fact that they're both bigger than him <.< (also, for all that I love Shepard bottoming, I never object to switching, so I'm also here for things like one of them fucking Shepard into the other)
Garrus and James actually discovering they're also into each other or putting on a show for Shepard's benefit (and Shepard enjoying the view or making some suggestions about what they should do with each other) would also be hot
and the obligatory "please whump Shepard" prompt! Shepard getting captured and tortured/raped/hurt in some way; James and Garrus teaming up to rescue him (and then also to help him get over the whole thing while he's trying to be all "I'm fiiine" about it - maybe it does take two people to get him to admit he's not okay and might need help in some way)

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

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