Dear Wintersend Author
Hello! I'm so excited about this exchange - I love the female characters of Dragon Age so much :)
(I've copied a fair amount of this from my letter last year, because requests are hard. I've at least expanded on the things I copied, though!)
My tumblr is here, my AO3 is here.
Likes:
- Kidfic. If you give me something about a ship ending up with a baby somehow - pregnancy, adoption, 'whoops this kid's parents just got killed by bandits and there's no one else around to take it', whatever - I will be delighted. I love stuff about characters parenting.
- Makeouts. Someone being pinned against a wall by their partner for makeouts. (Someone being pinned against a wall by the throat for makeouts.)
- Flirting. Flirting that causes one or both parties to blush. Flirting that is enthusiastically returned in kind.
- BREATHPLAY.
- Smoking, if you're writing/drawing a character that might be the type to smoke. (cough Isabela cough)
- Art: Flower crowns! Kissing! Pretty clothes! OR blood and death and murder!
- Smut is welcome but not necessary!
Dislikes:
- People angsting about being queer. No sexuality crises or homophobia, please.
- Coming out stories.
- Dubcon/noncon for these pairings.
- Embarassment/humiliation. (Blushing, however, more than fine.)
- Drugs/alcohol. (I know DA fandom likes to get everyone drunk, but please don't.)
- Setting AUs, especially modern. (Canon divergence AU is fine, just keep it in Thedas, please.)
Requests:
Dagna/Lace Harding
I love the idea of Dagna and Scout Harding together. Dwarf girlfriends! They are both adorable and I love them both, so the two of them together is even better. There's a lot of room to play around with them, with cultural differences between lifelong surface dwarf and someone originally from Orzammar. And Dagna's overwhelming enthusiasm is just so much FUN. Harding being dispatched to find materials for Dagna also has a lot of potential mileage! Dagna crafting armor for Harding? Harding giving Dagna presents of things she found out on patrol? Giving each other flowers?
Avexis
Avexis!!! There is so much potential for where you can go with her character after or during or before the events of Dawn of the Seeker. She can talk to animals! I can just see her with a daisy garland in her hair and a lap full of fennecs and rabbits and birds. And then there's the horrible parts where she was forced to drink blood and control dragons. Did Galyan look after her after everything came to an end? Was she sent to another Circle where she met some other characters? (Minaeve! I am totally up for Avexis/Minaeve. I have no idea whether they're actually the same age but I'm willing to pretend if you are!) Was she looked after by Leliana or Justinia? Mothered by Wynne? Befriend Bethany in the Kirkwall Circle? *flings confetti* ANYTHING GOES, I love Avexis and I love Dawn of the Seeker and I want DA fandom to pay more attention to it. I am even up for something unbearably tragic where she's made Tranquil because her talents are seen to be too dangerous. (Which could really tie in with Avexis/Minaeve, since Minaeve puts so much effort into taking care of the Tranquil...)
Isabela/Josephine Montilyet
I love this ship, it is delightful. Isabela is such a charming rogue and she would be so much fun charming the pants off of Josie - she'd probably expect her to be somewhat buttoned up, but judging by the games of Wicked Grace, Josie can give as good as she gets. I would be so down for a highly competitive game of Wicked Grace that culminates in hot makeouts/going to bed together. I would also be down for Josie hiring Bela for some legitimate family trade business and getting relentlessly flirted with. Negotiations for the Inquisition to use Isabela's ships for transport? Briefings for Isabela doing some work for the Inquisition? (Like in DAI Multiplayer, where she can go out in groups to do war table-y tasks.) Isabela sending Josephine frilly underthings by runner?
Tallis/Sera
OKAY JUST LISTEN OKAY. I think this ship has so much potential. They're both super good at getting into and out of places they're not supposed to be, and they both care about helping people, and they could meet accidentally while on various 'jobs', and I think the Qun could appeal to Sera under the right (probably pregame) circumstances - the way Tallis talks about it, somewhere to fit, to know where you belong and the sense of rightness that she's searching for? I think that could appeal to Sera a lot. Not to mention that the Qunari don't have nobles. ALTERNATIVELY, Tallis is clearly struggling with the Qun in Mark Of The Assassin, and I believe there's some canon that says she gets demoted for her actions in MotA and generally punished by the Qun for being an imperfect Viddathari, so Sera convincing her to leave the Qun would also be interesting. (I think there are some papers in Trespasser that refer to Tallis, which could be used as a hook to get Sera's attention on her, especially if she'd heard Hawke mention the hot redhead before?) Or they could just happen to cooperate on a Red Jenny operation! And then FLIRTING and MAKEOUTS. Maybe Tallis ends up with something shiny she has no need for and she gives it to Sera. Maybe things go totally AU and Tallis goes to the Jennies for help with the Heart of the Many and Sera goes through MOTA with her.
Shokrakar
THE VALO-KAS. I love the Valo-Kas so much and I would have killed to get to see them in-game instead of just War Table missions. So, Shokrakar! I am down with any f/f ship for her - Shokrakar/F!Adaar, Shokrakar/Sera, Shokrakar/Harding, Josie, Bela, Dagna, anyone! I would love a backstory kind of thing about one of the operations Adaar can tell Josie about, or the story of why she owed Shokrakar for a broken blade. Or something after Adaar was gone, when they get to fight demons! Or Shokrakar coping with Kaariss's poetry. The Valo-Kas meeting and working with the Bull's Chargers? (Shokrakar/Dalish and/or Skinner?) Shokrakar killing demon like a BADASS.
Or hey if you want to combine prompts, Shokrakar being hired to protect Avexis for some reason and being inundated with flower crowns and baby bunnies. (Shokrakar/Avexis!) (My crackshipping heart can never be stopped.)