Id Pro Quo Letter 2020
Dear Id Pro Quo writer,
Thank you for writing for me and having a look at this letter. I've got some general likes and dislikes listed - those are the important parts, really. They're followed by a list of kinks I like, should you feel inclined to write porn. The fandom sections have a general note on my ships and then the tropes I've requested - I've added an explanation when I thought I should specify what I had in mind, but some freeforms are pretty unambiguous imo. This letter is mostly focused on the freeforms I requested, but I've requested most of these fandoms in previous exchanges, just in case you want some more general prompts/ideas, too.
As a general rule, I enjoy all ratings; I like darker, angstier fic and more light-hearted stories, although neither completely conflictless fluff nor completely bleak darkfic without a ray of hope are quite my thing. I'm always happy about porn, but it's not a must. I like shorter fics and plotty longfic. The fandoms are listed alphabetically, and the length/number of requested tags doesn't mean I want some fandoms more than others, just that I had more ideas for some.
I use the same name on AO3 and tumblr as here.
Do Not Wants:
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Things I like to read about:
Kinks I like to read about:
Alex Verus Series - Benedict Jacka
I read these books a couple of months ago and enjoyed the hell out of them, and as usual I fell hardest for the villains. I also really adore the worldbuilding in the series: how different kinds of magic work, wards and relics and artefacts, the politics (both inside the Council and between Light and Dark and independent mages, all the scheming and blackmail and bureaucracy and proxy wars), Dark mage society and customs and rules ... I'd love to read more about all these things, if they somehow fit into your fic.
I love Richard, Morden and Onyx and just want more of them interacting in every combination. I love Richard and Morden as old friends and partners who make a fantastically terrifying team, and I love the complicated, messed up master/apprentice relationship between Morden and Onyx. While I'm just requesting Richard/Morden and Morden/Onyx this time, I'd also love to see Richard and Onyx interact and I'd be very open to a threeway between them, too. When it comes to other ships, I'm definitely on board with fucked up Richard/Verus and I'm also totally fine with any of them nonconning their male or female slaves, up to and including graphic noncon - don't worry about squicking me if you want to include something like that.
Richard Drakh/Morden
Requested tropes:
Morden/Onyx
Requested tropes:
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
Alexios/Brasidas
I mostly have protagonist!Alexios in mind for this. I love his sense of humour, I love how cheerful and arrogant he is at times, I love that he likes to help people but will still tell them they're ridiculous dicks afterwards. I played him as fairly pro-Sparta and genuinely wanting to return home, which I think goes rather well with this ship anyway. I love his banter and his immediate connection with Brasidas (that warehouse fight! *heart eyes*), I love how much they just get each other and trust each other - even though Alexios really has reason enough to mistrust just about anyone he runs into. And since it's absolutely tragic the game didn't let us romance Brasidas, that's clearly what fic is for. :D As for Brasidas, I love how smart and cunning he is, how he thinks outside the box while still being a ruthless fighter when the situation calls for it, and how much he genuinely and openly cares about people who are important to him.
I'm up for setting this at any point during the game - around their first meetings in Korinth, when Alexios is in Sparta, or when they're working together later on - or post-game in a verse in which Brasidas didn't die. Because I'm in denial about that and damn historical accuracy. ;)
While I usually DNW unrequested ships, I'm fine with mentions of 1) Alexios's male canon hookups, 2) Brasidas being married (or widowed) because it's just unlikely that he wouldn't be, although I'd see that more as a practical arrangement than a marriage of love, 3) any erastes/eromenos-style relationships Brasidas might have been in, whether it's him currently having someone under his wing or still being good friends with the guy who, er, "mentored" him years ago. However, I wouldn't want any of those relationships to be more meaningful to them than each other, if that makes sense.
Requested tropes:
Nikolaos/Stentor
Daddy Issues The Ship. :D I'm so here for how not chill and angry and repressed Stentor is about everything, and how loyal and devoted he is to Nikolaos while clearly craving his approval. I also love that they both must have kind of messed up, complicated feelings about each other: Stentor clearly has a chip on his shoulder and he cares so much about being Nikolaos' son that he must angst a lot about also being into him; and Nikolaos lost both his biological kids (and his wife), so adopting someone else must not have been easy for him either. Feel free to play up the incestuous aspect as much or as little as you like - I mean, they do clearly refer to each other as father and son, but I figure that's still a different relationship when Stentor was adopted as a teenager (or maybe even as an adult) than if he spent his whole life as Nikolaos' kid.
I'm 100% here for Stentor having been Nikolaos' eromenos, and Nikolaos eventually adopting him (I don't really care if Stentor basically grew up without parents, or if he was orphaned as a teenager and Nikolaos adopted him then). Underage down to 12ish is totally fine for this ship. Feel free to do whatever with Stentor's current age, as long as he isn't quite as absurdly old as he looks in game. ;)
Should it come up, I prefer Alexios as the elder sibling and protagonist. Totally fine with mentions of background Alexios/Brasidas, and of Nikolaos/Myrrine and Stentor/the wife he definitely has because he's a Good Spartan (TM), although I doubt that's a particularly loving, passionate relationship rather than just him being dutiful and doing what's expected of him.
Requested tropes:
Deus Ex
Adam Jensen/Jim Miller
Note: I've played Human Revolution and Mankind Divided and I've read Black Light. I don't mind spoilers for any of the other games or comics or whatever else there is, but I'd prefer not to get a fic that requires me to be familiar with those parts of canon.
Adam's injuries prior to getting his augs are obviously exempt from my "no permanent injuries" DNW. However, I don't want anyone else to get their limbs ripped off or the like, and I don't want Adam's augs to get permanently disabled or destroyed.
I love Adam so much: that he's a genuinely good guy who wants to help people, that he's snarky and cheeky and irreverent, that (at least post-augs) he's pretty withdrawn and emotionally unavailable and has all these walls built around himself (and I really want someone to get past them). I like angst and suffering and Adam is a well of suffering, and I enjoy it while simultaneously wanting nice things to happen to him (after lots of beautiful suffering). As for Miller, I love that he has a temper and is impatient and often isn't particularly nice, but underneath that gruffness he cares about doing the right thing and he cares about his men. I also adore Pritchard and ship both Adam/Pritchard and Adam/Pritchard/Miller, so if you feel like including him, go for it. I'd also be happy to see any other TF29 or SI characters appear in the story. I'd especially love to see Sarif and Miller meet.
Requested tropes:
Mass Effect
Male Shepard/Garrus Vakarian, Male Shepard/James Vega
Because I'm very frustrated the games didn't let me romance the characters I wanted to romance most. I adore Shepard's relationship with both Garrus and James so much: that undying loyalty, will-follow-you-to-the-end-of-the-galaxy friendship he has with Garrus, and how much renegade Shepard enables Garrus's darker impulses and how much they just get each other; and that more complicated relationship with James, the fact that James massively hero-worshipped Shepard before meeting him, and then babysat him for six months when Shepard was at his lowest, and then in ME3 he really feels like one of the people who keep Shepard grounded, who are aware that he's human and that this war is taking a toll on him, that his hero is fallible.
I strongly prefer renegade Shepard (who is nicer to his companions/friends) - ruthless and efficient, the end justifies the means, snarky and intimidating, willing to do whatever needs to be done, no matter the cost to himself or to others. Should it come up, I really prefer him sabotaging the genophage cure for that reason because Shepard having to kill two of his friends to do what he thinks is right is such a horrifically great moment in the games. I picked the Spacer/Ruthless backgrounds and vanguard as his class, but I'm not fixated on that, if you want to use something else. Ending-wise, I think for fic a handwavey "the Crucible destroyed the Reapers without destroying the geth, and Shepard is alive" works best. I'd also be super interested in a variation of the Control ending, though, in which Shepard doesn't die while uploading part of himself into a God-AI, simply because the mindfuck of co-existing with an all-powerful AI version of yourself must be incredible. In general, I love stoic and/or angry suffering, so feel free to whump Shepard hard as long as there's a happy-ish ending. Honestly, I think all my requests are "please whump Shepard".
I'm very attached to his default looks and name, so please no custom Shepards. I love pretty much all the other companions and am happy to read about them. My other faves are Zaeed, Legion, Miranda, Jack, Cortez, Mordin, Javik, Joker, Grunt, Samara, Traynor. I'm also open to Shepard/Garrus/James, if you want to throw both ships together.
Requested tropes:
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Canderous Ordo/Male Revan
I strongly prefer Dark Side Revan, although I'm also fine with a more morally grey version of Revan if that's what you want to write, who's not really interested in this whole binary opposition of good and evil, but just does his own thing. Actually even with Dark Side Revan I prefer Pragmatic Evil and ruthless, power-hungry ambition over Ludicrous Evil and "bwahahaha I kick puppies in my free time for the Evulz". Mostly I'm just not interested in redeemed, saintly Light Side Revan. If you want to include any of the other characters, that's fine by me, although I'd rather not read about Bastila. I especially love HK-47 because he's fucking hilarious.
Requested tropes:
Vampyr
Jonathan Reid/Geoffrey McCullum
This ship has so many things I love! Antagonism and profound distrust and grudging respect and so much potential to work together reluctantly and grow closer ... I'm easy. :D I did a Not Even Once playthrough and ended up being incredibly frustrated by the game's morality system, where letting awful people go free or saving their life is apparently always the best choice, and I realised that I much prefer a version of Jonathan who's generally a good person and wants to help others, but who can also be rather ruthless and is very willing to get his hands dirty when he thinks someone deserves it. I love that he and Geoffrey are both stubborn people who tend to think they're always right, and I love how much they'll probably always butt heads even once they're closer.
I didn't enjoy the forced romance, so I'd prefer if we could pretend that Jonathan and Elisabeth were simply friends (and tbh thematically I prefer the ending in which she chooses to die to the one where he saves her with the power of love or somesuch). I'd prefer if Swansea didn't show up (unless it's before his possible in-game death, of course) because I have a hard time justifying turning him in-game. I also prefer Jonathan not turning Geoffrey in-game, simply because I find it more interesting if they have some time to get to know each other better while Geoffrey is still human, but I'm totally up for him turning Geoffrey later on.
Requested tropes:
The Witcher (game verse)
Geralt/Ciri
I've been replaying this game and I'm still not over how much I love these two. Moving heaven and hell to save each other! The fact that Ciri seems completely incapable of talking to Geralt without touching him. The way they LOOK at each other. Mutual protectiveness, lying and killing for each other, fighting together, sparring, Geralt teaching her, witcher!Ciri hitting the road with Geralt (I'm not really into Empress!Ciri).
I'm mostly looking for post-canon fic, when they're witchering together or maybe settled down in Toussaint and just working when they feel like it. Lots of guilty pining and UST and trying to be in denial about it because they shouldn't be into each other, and anyway there's no way the other one feels the same, except it becomes harder and harder to be in denial and eventually all that UST explodes in their faces and they fuck and angst some more but eventually live happily ever after. Obviously you don't have to include all of that in one fic, but that's the general idea of what I want. ;)
For the record, I'm familiar with the show, but haven't read the books; but I'm fine with working in elements from either canon if you want to - I'd just prefer game canon when there are contradictions. As for canon ships, I'd prefer if we could treat all of Geralt's past canon ships as "I guess they happened, but they're over now and he's over them" (especially for Geralt/Yennefer, I just really like the Last Wish side quest ending with him realising that, without the djinn, he just isn't that crazy about her). They can get mentioned, but I'd prefer if they didn't play a huge role.
Het-specific DNW: please no femdom or pegging, and I'm not super into cunnilingus - mentions are fine, but please no detailed descriptions or having it as the main event in porn.
Requested tropes:
Watchmen (2009 movie)
Eddie Blake/Adrian Veidt
I rewatch this movie every now and then and every time it hits me how amazing these two are. They're both such assholes in their own ways, and they don't like each other, but they also really get each other in ways pretty much nobody else does. Plus JDM's Comedian is possibly the hottest thing that ever happened on screen. So. Yes.
I really love the idea of them having this decades-long on-off fuckbuddy (fuckenemy?) affair, which quite possibly started nonconsensually with Eddie raping Adrian after he beat the shit out of him ... except it turned out Adrian was into it and came back for more. I love it remaining all hatred, but I also love it turning into a bizarre kind of love-hate with complicated feelings and resentment towards the other for making them feel anything at all. I like how they both despise each other and think so little of the other's ideals (or lack thereof), but also have quite a bit of respect for each other. (Also, random little detail, but while I usually don't like pet names, I am 100% here for Eddie calling Adrian all kinds of obnoxious, condescending pet names just to be a prick - sweetheart and princess and whatnot. Because Eddie so would.)
Additionally, I'd definitely be up for an AU in which Adrian decides to let Eddie live after beating him. Maybe he realises he doesn't WANT to kill him. Maybe he wants somebody to know what he did. Maybe he hopes Eddie will think he was right (since Eddie didn't even try to stop him). Either way, lots of very complicated, painful feelings. :) If you stick with canon verse, I'm fine with mentions of Eddie's death, but I'd prefer not to get a fic that's about nothing else.
Requested tropes:
And that's it! I hope you find something in all this that you enjoy writing, dear author, and I'm happy to answer any questions if you want clarification on anything. I'm very much looking forward to whatever you'll write for me, no matter the fandom we matched on!
Thanks!
linndechir
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Thank you for writing for me and having a look at this letter. I've got some general likes and dislikes listed - those are the important parts, really. They're followed by a list of kinks I like, should you feel inclined to write porn. The fandom sections have a general note on my ships and then the tropes I've requested - I've added an explanation when I thought I should specify what I had in mind, but some freeforms are pretty unambiguous imo. This letter is mostly focused on the freeforms I requested, but I've requested most of these fandoms in previous exchanges, just in case you want some more general prompts/ideas, too.
As a general rule, I enjoy all ratings; I like darker, angstier fic and more light-hearted stories, although neither completely conflictless fluff nor completely bleak darkfic without a ray of hope are quite my thing. I'm always happy about porn, but it's not a must. I like shorter fics and plotty longfic. The fandoms are listed alphabetically, and the length/number of requested tags doesn't mean I want some fandoms more than others, just that I had more ideas for some.
I use the same name on AO3 and tumblr as here.
Do Not Wants:
- character death of characters I like (random side characters or antagonists dying is fine)
- serious illnesses, permanent injuries (blood and wounds that will heal again are fine)
- completely tragic/bleak endings
- animal death/cruelty
- genderbend of any kind, mpreg, A/B/O, characters being werewolves/vampires/anything than what they are in canon
- non-canon gender identities/sexual orientations (e.g. writing characters as trans or asexual), except for writing characters as gay or bi
- unrequested ships (including canon ships) *
- unrequested crossovers or fusions
- complete AUs (canon divergence is fine, but no high school AUs, coffee shop AUs, in space AUs, groundhog day AUs etc.)
- permanently unrequited love or permanent breakups for my ships (for a given value of love for the antagonistic ships)
- unnecessary epithets, please use characters' names/pronouns unless their name isn't known to the POV character (or unless the characters think of each other by e.g. their title rather than their name)
- 1st and 2nd person fic
- for porn: detailed kink negotiation, safewords for scenes that don't involve consent play (and even then I'm not really into safewords); scat, watersports, coming in pants, crossdressing, feminisation, body modification, infantilisation (daddy kink and calling characters "boy/girl" is fine); femdom, pegging
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Things I like to read about:
- first time/getting together: slow burn, pining, UST finally getting resolved, but also antagonistic hate sex or casual hookups that are only later followed by feelings (emotional pining while already having sex is great)
- friends with benefits who think the other one can't possibly be in love with them/want a serious relationship
- developing relationships: relationship conflicts after the characters got together, trying to figure out how to make things work, some things maybe not working at first, temporary breakups, basically anything that doesn't assume that first time sex -> perfect relationship
- porn, especially porn with feelings/porn that says something about their relationship (see list below for kinks I like)
- enemies to lovers, partners to lovers
- reluctant allies grudgingly starting to like each other
- non-verbal expressions of affection, unusual romantic gestures that fit the characters
- familiarity, intimacy, characters getting to know each other better (their habits, their hangups etc.)
- pre-canon/background stories, first meetings/first impressions (especially if we didn't see those in canon)
- post-canon fic
- canon divergence
- casefic
- moral dilemmas, characters having to question/go against their principles, situations in which there is no clear right or wrong
- loyalty, devotion, trust, but also trust/commitment issues
- obsessive, codependent, complicated relationships
- unhealthy relationships that should be a trainwreck, but work for the characters involved
- obsessive/intense family relationships
- us-against-the-world
- villains/sociopaths in love, bad guys who would literally burn down the rest of the world for each other
- jealousy, possessiveness
- age differences
- misunderstandings (as long as there's a good reason for them)
- competence, characters being smart and skilled and good at what they do; characters with different skill sets complementing each other
- hurt/comfort (after injuries/exhaustion, not so much with illness)
- angst: self-doubts, guilt, shame, internalised homophobia, nightmares, fears, self-destructive tendencies, alcohol abuse ...
- period-typical attitudes towards sex, sexuality, class, morality, religion etc. (I obviously don't expect 100% historical accuracy, but I like reading about characters from different societies having different values and principles from our own - this also applies to fictional societies)
- infidelity (not between my requested ships, but one half of my ship cheating on their previous partner with the other half of my ship)
- meaningful name uses (e.g. characters who always call each other by their last name or title switching to using first names)
- outside POVs, different POVs than in canon (more "usual" POVs are great, too)
- sleep-related themes: waking each other from nightmares, falling asleep on each other's shoulder etc.
- soulbonds (but no soulmates, please)
- undercover as enemies (undercover as a couple is fun, too, as long as it actually fits the setting/characters, like spies or cops)
- I like darker elements (violence, murder, noncon/dubcon, manipulation, depression, whatever fits your plot and isn't on my DNW list), but I'd prefer a happy or semi-happy ending. Feel free to make me bawl my eyes out, but please cheer me up again afterwards.
Kinks I like to read about:
- anal, blowjobs, fingering, intercrural, frottage, PIV, rimming & felching are all great
- asphyxiation/choking/breathplay (this is my kink holy grail that makes everything else hotter to me; even just throat-touching without choking is great)
- switching
- biting, bruising, marking; possessive sex
- rough/angry sex, hate sex, fighting/sparring leading to sex, adrenaline-fuelled post-battle and "thank fuck we/you're alive" sex
- dressed sex, dressed/naked, clothes kink (suits, uniforms, gloves, boots etc.), neat characters being dishevelled for once, casual characters cleaning up nicely
- D/s (I prefer casually developing kink to minutely negotiated, formalised BDSM; if anything under-negotiated kink is a plus for me)
- kink discovery/exploration
- strength kink; body worship; men's body hair (on chest, arms, thighs, butt; not so much on back and shoulders)
- stubble/beard burn
- hand kink; fisting; finger sucking
- large/thick cocks (not absurdly huge, but bigger than average); size kink
- bondage: leather cuffs, ropes, restraints, chains, collars
- face slapping, spanking, flogging, riding crops
- gun play, knife play, blood play
- consent play
- dirty talk (both the praising and the humiliating/condescending kind), voice/accent kink
- praise kink
- banter, teasing
- hard, desperate kissing with lots of biting
- barebacking (including the ill-advised, unplanned, unnegotiated we-really-shouldn't-have-done-that-but-it-was-so-hot kind - I'm not into serious STD scares, though; if there is an "oh fuck, what did we just do?" aftermath, please have both characters be certain that they're clean)
- come play (licking come off fingers/skin, felching, feeding each other come, kissing after blowjobs/felching ...)
- come as lube, spit as lube (especially the top spitting on the bottom's ass)
- messiness (sweat, come play, dishevelled hair/clothes)
- overstimulation; characters being overwhelmed, begging for more, becoming speechless ...
- shaving (face or body), especially with straight razors/knives
- sex on tables, against walls, on the floor, on a chair, in the shower ... (sex in beds is great, too)
- masturbation/fantasising about the other before getting together
- incest kink (i.e. characters who are related kinking on it)
- competence kink, admiration
- kneeling, hand kissing, physical expressions of loyalty/fealty
- scars and their history
- oral fixation (while smoking, drinking, talking ...)
- sharing cigarettes, clothes, food ...
- shame in sexual desires (whether about being attracted to another man at all, being attracted to this specific person for whatever reason, wanting to bottom, wanting to suck dick, wanting to hurt their partner, wanting to be hurt by their partner ...)
Alex Verus Series - Benedict Jacka
I read these books a couple of months ago and enjoyed the hell out of them, and as usual I fell hardest for the villains. I also really adore the worldbuilding in the series: how different kinds of magic work, wards and relics and artefacts, the politics (both inside the Council and between Light and Dark and independent mages, all the scheming and blackmail and bureaucracy and proxy wars), Dark mage society and customs and rules ... I'd love to read more about all these things, if they somehow fit into your fic.
I love Richard, Morden and Onyx and just want more of them interacting in every combination. I love Richard and Morden as old friends and partners who make a fantastically terrifying team, and I love the complicated, messed up master/apprentice relationship between Morden and Onyx. While I'm just requesting Richard/Morden and Morden/Onyx this time, I'd also love to see Richard and Onyx interact and I'd be very open to a threeway between them, too. When it comes to other ships, I'm definitely on board with fucked up Richard/Verus and I'm also totally fine with any of them nonconning their male or female slaves, up to and including graphic noncon - don't worry about squicking me if you want to include something like that.
Richard Drakh/Morden
Requested tropes:
- Accidental Soulbond - Unsuccessfully trying to fight it: especially if this happens still fairly early pre-canon and they don't trust each other even one bit yet (maybe the soulbond ends up helping with that)
- Bonding through murder/torture/fighting of third party
- Character A Is Scared by How Strongly They Feel About Character B: because Dark mages usually don't get attached to people
- Dangerous Character Willing to Destroy World to Save and Protect One Person: I'm mostly thinking about an AU in which Richard moves heaven and hell to free Morden from prison, but I'd also be up for Morden having to save Richard from his ten-year-trip to wherever the fuck he was
- Dreams - Characters Enter Each Other's Dreams: Elsewhere shenanigans?
- Dreams - characters who don't trust each other have magic dream sex: Elsewhere shenanigans to fuck while not trusting each other enough to fuck in the real world?
- Outsider POV - Everyone's Surprise About the Ship Being Together: because nobody expects two powerful Dark mages to ... like each other? trust each other? be apparently really close? maybe even in love? Verus' POV would be hilarious, but I'd also love Onyx, Vihaela, Cinder, Deleo or just about anyone else for this (except for Anne, I guess)
- Secrecy - A discovers B's biggest secret: when and how did Morden find out Richard is a diviner? just how badly did Richard react?
- Villains Falling in Love
Morden/Onyx
Requested tropes:
- Abuse of Authority: I'm not into complete noncon for these two, but Morden merrily grooming his (possibly underage) apprentice is something I'm 100% here for
- Alternate Universe - Bad Guy(s) Win: bad guys being both of them, please let Onyx do something awesome so his master takes him back please
- Dangerous Character Willing to Destroy World to Save and Protect One Person: as above, Onyx doing his damnedest to get Morden out of prison? possibly together with Richard?
- Devotion
- Hair Stuff - One character shaves another's face with a straight razor: because it's hot. Maybe Force blades are involved.
- Inexperienced character is eager but doesn't know what they want: I love younger Onyx being aggressively into Morden and not really knowing what he wants to do about that (and Morden then showing him EXACTLY what he wants)
- Mentor/mentee - mentee aggressively initiates it
- Soulbond - as part of a mentor/mentee relationship
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
Alexios/Brasidas
I mostly have protagonist!Alexios in mind for this. I love his sense of humour, I love how cheerful and arrogant he is at times, I love that he likes to help people but will still tell them they're ridiculous dicks afterwards. I played him as fairly pro-Sparta and genuinely wanting to return home, which I think goes rather well with this ship anyway. I love his banter and his immediate connection with Brasidas (that warehouse fight! *heart eyes*), I love how much they just get each other and trust each other - even though Alexios really has reason enough to mistrust just about anyone he runs into. And since it's absolutely tragic the game didn't let us romance Brasidas, that's clearly what fic is for. :D As for Brasidas, I love how smart and cunning he is, how he thinks outside the box while still being a ruthless fighter when the situation calls for it, and how much he genuinely and openly cares about people who are important to him.
I'm up for setting this at any point during the game - around their first meetings in Korinth, when Alexios is in Sparta, or when they're working together later on - or post-game in a verse in which Brasidas didn't die. Because I'm in denial about that and damn historical accuracy. ;)
While I usually DNW unrequested ships, I'm fine with mentions of 1) Alexios's male canon hookups, 2) Brasidas being married (or widowed) because it's just unlikely that he wouldn't be, although I'd see that more as a practical arrangement than a marriage of love, 3) any erastes/eromenos-style relationships Brasidas might have been in, whether it's him currently having someone under his wing or still being good friends with the guy who, er, "mentored" him years ago. However, I wouldn't want any of those relationships to be more meaningful to them than each other, if that makes sense.
Requested tropes:
- Assassin's Creed: Odyssey main character's father is a literal Greek god: because Alexios should be Zeus' son, okay, the game clearly let me down on that ;) Feel free to include any and all Greek mythology weirdness you enjoy for this.
- Character A thinks they're just character B's rebound but they're not
- Character A tilting character B's chin up with the tip of a sword
- Competence kink - mutual admiration
- Fighting - One character gets off on watching the other one fight
- Friendly sparring session leads to sex
- Hair Stuff - One character shaves another's face with a straight razor
- Hurt/Comfort - Loneliness
- Jealousy - jealousy while being friends with benefits
- Kink - Breathplay using hands on throat
- Mutual Pining - characters are having sex but still pining
- Pining - Character A incorrectly assumes that Character B knows that A is pining for them
- Pining - Character fucks people who look like their crush (until they get together): I especially like Alexios fucking his way through Greece while pining for Brasidas (not that Brasidas needs to be celibate, mind you)
- Pining - Characters are convinced they don't deserve each other: because Brasidas is a famous, honoured Spartan general and clearly too good for a simple misthios ... and Alexios is Leonidas' grandson and quite possibly a demi-god, clearly he's too good for a simple soldier.
- Resurrection - leads to accidental soul bond
- Resurrection - One character rescues the other from the underworld/afterlife: preferably the actual Greek underworld, not the DLC weirdness
- Scars - Exchanging stories about scars
- Sharing a Bed - There Was Only One Bed
- Soulbond - Forced Soulbond: caused by some artefact or a curse or by the Greek gods thinking it'll be absolutely HILARIOUS
Nikolaos/Stentor
Daddy Issues The Ship. :D I'm so here for how not chill and angry and repressed Stentor is about everything, and how loyal and devoted he is to Nikolaos while clearly craving his approval. I also love that they both must have kind of messed up, complicated feelings about each other: Stentor clearly has a chip on his shoulder and he cares so much about being Nikolaos' son that he must angst a lot about also being into him; and Nikolaos lost both his biological kids (and his wife), so adopting someone else must not have been easy for him either. Feel free to play up the incestuous aspect as much or as little as you like - I mean, they do clearly refer to each other as father and son, but I figure that's still a different relationship when Stentor was adopted as a teenager (or maybe even as an adult) than if he spent his whole life as Nikolaos' kid.
I'm 100% here for Stentor having been Nikolaos' eromenos, and Nikolaos eventually adopting him (I don't really care if Stentor basically grew up without parents, or if he was orphaned as a teenager and Nikolaos adopted him then). Underage down to 12ish is totally fine for this ship. Feel free to do whatever with Stentor's current age, as long as he isn't quite as absurdly old as he looks in game. ;)
Should it come up, I prefer Alexios as the elder sibling and protagonist. Totally fine with mentions of background Alexios/Brasidas, and of Nikolaos/Myrrine and Stentor/the wife he definitely has because he's a Good Spartan (TM), although I doubt that's a particularly loving, passionate relationship rather than just him being dutiful and doing what's expected of him.
Requested tropes:
- Character A tilting character B's chin up with the tip of a sword
- Daddy Issues
- Friendly sparring session leads to sex
- Mentor/Mentee Dynamics In Bed
- Pederasty - relationship continues after younger character is "too old" for it: either continuing, or they did stop when they were supposed to stop, then pined for years, and then get back to it (possibly post-canon)
- Pining - Pining and In Denial (With a Happy Ending): clearly they can't fuck anymore now that Stentor is all grown up! Nikolaos certainly doesn't want him anymore, noooo, he respects him too much. And Stentor is a Good Spartan (TM), of course he doesn't want to get fucked by his daddy erastes anymore like he's still a boy.
- Praise Kink: someone tell Stentor he's a good boy please
- Scars - Exchanging stories about scars: maybe they both gained a few in the time Nikolaos was thought to be dead
Deus Ex
Adam Jensen/Jim Miller
Note: I've played Human Revolution and Mankind Divided and I've read Black Light. I don't mind spoilers for any of the other games or comics or whatever else there is, but I'd prefer not to get a fic that requires me to be familiar with those parts of canon.
Adam's injuries prior to getting his augs are obviously exempt from my "no permanent injuries" DNW. However, I don't want anyone else to get their limbs ripped off or the like, and I don't want Adam's augs to get permanently disabled or destroyed.
I love Adam so much: that he's a genuinely good guy who wants to help people, that he's snarky and cheeky and irreverent, that (at least post-augs) he's pretty withdrawn and emotionally unavailable and has all these walls built around himself (and I really want someone to get past them). I like angst and suffering and Adam is a well of suffering, and I enjoy it while simultaneously wanting nice things to happen to him (after lots of beautiful suffering). As for Miller, I love that he has a temper and is impatient and often isn't particularly nice, but underneath that gruffness he cares about doing the right thing and he cares about his men. I also adore Pritchard and ship both Adam/Pritchard and Adam/Pritchard/Miller, so if you feel like including him, go for it. I'd also be happy to see any other TF29 or SI characters appear in the story. I'd especially love to see Sarif and Miller meet.
Requested tropes:
- Barebacking: let's thank the porn gods for the Sentinel - I especially love it feeling particularly intimate to them because they both only ever did that with serious partners before
- Character A thinks they're just character B's rebound but they're not: clearly Jim just needs a hot affair after his divorce, right? he's clearly not in love with Adam, nooooooo ...
- Competence kink - different skills complementing each other: mission fic! Jim as sniper support for Adam!
- Fighting - One character gets off on watching the other one fight
- Hurt/Comfort - Loneliness
- Infidelity - Cheating to Be Together: in an AU in which Jim is still trying to make things work with his husband, but that doesn't stop him from falling in love with Adam
- Pining - mistakenly thinks other character is not attracted to their gender: Jim knows there's an ex-girlfriend in Adam's past, so clearly he's straight and Jim is just imagining the way Adam looks at him sometimes ...
- Touch-Starved
- Stoic Character Falling Apart Under Someone's Touch
- Undercover - Forced to have sex to keep their cover: undercover as Rich Mob Boss and his Scary Aug Bodyguard he obviously fucks, or as Evil Rich Guy and his Sexy Aug Slave he obviously fucks ...
- Violating Moral Principles For A Loved One: could be infidelity, could be Jim fudging things at work to cover for Adam, could be either of them murdering other people for each other ...
Mass Effect
Male Shepard/Garrus Vakarian, Male Shepard/James Vega
Because I'm very frustrated the games didn't let me romance the characters I wanted to romance most. I adore Shepard's relationship with both Garrus and James so much: that undying loyalty, will-follow-you-to-the-end-of-the-galaxy friendship he has with Garrus, and how much renegade Shepard enables Garrus's darker impulses and how much they just get each other; and that more complicated relationship with James, the fact that James massively hero-worshipped Shepard before meeting him, and then babysat him for six months when Shepard was at his lowest, and then in ME3 he really feels like one of the people who keep Shepard grounded, who are aware that he's human and that this war is taking a toll on him, that his hero is fallible.
I strongly prefer renegade Shepard (who is nicer to his companions/friends) - ruthless and efficient, the end justifies the means, snarky and intimidating, willing to do whatever needs to be done, no matter the cost to himself or to others. Should it come up, I really prefer him sabotaging the genophage cure for that reason because Shepard having to kill two of his friends to do what he thinks is right is such a horrifically great moment in the games. I picked the Spacer/Ruthless backgrounds and vanguard as his class, but I'm not fixated on that, if you want to use something else. Ending-wise, I think for fic a handwavey "the Crucible destroyed the Reapers without destroying the geth, and Shepard is alive" works best. I'd also be super interested in a variation of the Control ending, though, in which Shepard doesn't die while uploading part of himself into a God-AI, simply because the mindfuck of co-existing with an all-powerful AI version of yourself must be incredible. In general, I love stoic and/or angry suffering, so feel free to whump Shepard hard as long as there's a happy-ish ending. Honestly, I think all my requests are "please whump Shepard".
I'm very attached to his default looks and name, so please no custom Shepards. I love pretty much all the other companions and am happy to read about them. My other faves are Zaeed, Legion, Miranda, Jack, Cortez, Mordin, Javik, Joker, Grunt, Samara, Traynor. I'm also open to Shepard/Garrus/James, if you want to throw both ships together.
Requested tropes:
- Angst - Character thinks nothing matters except the Cause: Shepard is clearly very ... single-minded, let's say, and might occasionally forget that he's also a person with needs
- Catching injured character as they faint or lose balance: did I say whump Shepard? Whump Shepard :D
- Character goes bad to save the world and enjoys it more than expected: not that I think renegade!Shepard was every a particularly nice person to begin with, but I love him being mildly horrified at himself sometimes and the lengths he goes to to do what he thinks is right ... but also really enjoying being a ruthless, uncompromising asshole who simply bullies and threatens people into doing what he wants
- Character Hides/Doesn't Mention Tragic Backstory; The Truth Later Comes Out: would go great with some Tragic Rape Backstory (TM), because I have a thing for Shepard getting raped as part of some military training (N7 or Spectre) in the past and being fucked up over it
- Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
- Fighting - One character gets off on watching the other one fight
- First Time Together
- Friendly sparring session leads to sex
- FWB both pining to be Lovers
- Grief/Mourning For What Ends Up Being A Temporary Character Death: maybe everyone thinks Shepard didn't survive the ME3 finale until they find his half-dead body a bit later, barely held together by his cybernetics
- Hero's Canon-Typical Actions Are Terrifying To An Ordinary Person's Outsider POV: I love how terrifying renegade!Shepard is, and Garrus and Vega aren't exactly NOT scary either (I mean, ARCHANGEL and a brickhouse of a guy N7 soldier), so outside POV fic could be really interesting
- Hurt/Comfort - Rape Recovery: Whump Shep! :D whether it's rape as part of military training or rape by random bad guys of the week (I'll be extra happy if Shepard "lets" them rape him to protect his friends/loved ones) ... give me all the stoic suffering and Shepard insisting he's Totally Fine while clearly not being fine
- Jealousy - jealousy before getting together: Garrus and/or Vega watching Shepard fuck his way through the Citadel on every leave (bonus if Shepard has a Thing for turians)
- Love Confessions - A thinks they're about to die and voices their feelings for B;but oops A survives: maybe pre ME3-finale?
- Noncon - Mind-controlled Into Raping Loved One
- Pining - Character A incorrectly assumes that Character B knows that A is pining for them
- Pining - mistakenly thinks other character is not attracted to their species: Garrus and Shepard thinking the other isn't into turians/humans; maybe Vega assuming Shepard just has a xeno kink and isn't into humans anymore
- Xeno - human and nonhuman trying to make a relationship work
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
Canderous Ordo/Male Revan
I strongly prefer Dark Side Revan, although I'm also fine with a more morally grey version of Revan if that's what you want to write, who's not really interested in this whole binary opposition of good and evil, but just does his own thing. Actually even with Dark Side Revan I prefer Pragmatic Evil and ruthless, power-hungry ambition over Ludicrous Evil and "bwahahaha I kick puppies in my free time for the Evulz". Mostly I'm just not interested in redeemed, saintly Light Side Revan. If you want to include any of the other characters, that's fine by me, although I'd rather not read about Bastila. I especially love HK-47 because he's fucking hilarious.
Requested tropes:
- BDSM - Rough sex leaves bruises and bite marks
- Bonding through murder/torture/fighting of third party
- Fighting - One character gets off on watching the other one fight: since Canderous canonically has a whole thing for Revan being the greatest warrior ever etc. etc.
- Friendly sparring session leads to sex
- Kink - Breathplay using hands on throat
- Noncon - Rape as bonding activity for rapists: I'm super into the victim being Carth, but I'm also open to it being any other random guy
- Possessiveness - marking partner physically
- Sparring as foreplay
- Telepathy - Consensual Mind Reading: Revan spending a lot of time lingering in Canderous' mind, talking to him, suggesting things, sometimes maybe even making him do things ... and Canderous not minding at all because he's Revan's anyway
- Using Superpowers During Sex: inappropriate uses of the Force! especially Force choking <3
Vampyr
Jonathan Reid/Geoffrey McCullum
This ship has so many things I love! Antagonism and profound distrust and grudging respect and so much potential to work together reluctantly and grow closer ... I'm easy. :D I did a Not Even Once playthrough and ended up being incredibly frustrated by the game's morality system, where letting awful people go free or saving their life is apparently always the best choice, and I realised that I much prefer a version of Jonathan who's generally a good person and wants to help others, but who can also be rather ruthless and is very willing to get his hands dirty when he thinks someone deserves it. I love that he and Geoffrey are both stubborn people who tend to think they're always right, and I love how much they'll probably always butt heads even once they're closer.
I didn't enjoy the forced romance, so I'd prefer if we could pretend that Jonathan and Elisabeth were simply friends (and tbh thematically I prefer the ending in which she chooses to die to the one where he saves her with the power of love or somesuch). I'd prefer if Swansea didn't show up (unless it's before his possible in-game death, of course) because I have a hard time justifying turning him in-game. I also prefer Jonathan not turning Geoffrey in-game, simply because I find it more interesting if they have some time to get to know each other better while Geoffrey is still human, but I'm totally up for him turning Geoffrey later on.
Requested tropes:
- Character's Attempts At Flirting Are So Bad They Are Constantly Mistaken For Attempted Murder
- Class Differences
- Enemies to Lovers - A flirts by killing B's enemies: McCullum hunting down some other Ekon who has a problem with that young upstart? Jonathan murdering a bunch of other vampires who are planning to kill the leader of Priwen?
- Enemies to Lovers - Accidental soulbond between enemies: they would be so mad :DDD
- Fighting - One character gets off on watching the other one fight
- Hair Stuff - One character shaves another's face with a straight razor
- Hurt/Comfort - Actually managing to injure arch-foe and realize you don’t actually want to hurt them: for whatever reason there's a rematch, and this time McCullum does somehow gain the upper hand ...
- Identity Porn - flirting while in disguise
- Pining - A interprets B’s internalized homophobia as lack of interest (before porny happy ending)
- Pining - Characters try to resist due to religious guilt but still end up together: for both of these, I'd prefer McCullum as the more repressed & religious one
- Possessiveness - marking partner physically
- Reluctant attraction - sexual attraction to someone they (should) dislike
- Sparring as foreplay
- Undercover - Character is undercover and their enemy unexpectedly plays along
- Vampires - Human character gets off on watching vampire drink their blood
- Vampires - Human grudgingly feeds vampire to save their life
- Vampires - turning mortal loved one to save their life
The Witcher (game verse)
Geralt/Ciri
I've been replaying this game and I'm still not over how much I love these two. Moving heaven and hell to save each other! The fact that Ciri seems completely incapable of talking to Geralt without touching him. The way they LOOK at each other. Mutual protectiveness, lying and killing for each other, fighting together, sparring, Geralt teaching her, witcher!Ciri hitting the road with Geralt (I'm not really into Empress!Ciri).
I'm mostly looking for post-canon fic, when they're witchering together or maybe settled down in Toussaint and just working when they feel like it. Lots of guilty pining and UST and trying to be in denial about it because they shouldn't be into each other, and anyway there's no way the other one feels the same, except it becomes harder and harder to be in denial and eventually all that UST explodes in their faces and they fuck and angst some more but eventually live happily ever after. Obviously you don't have to include all of that in one fic, but that's the general idea of what I want. ;)
For the record, I'm familiar with the show, but haven't read the books; but I'm fine with working in elements from either canon if you want to - I'd just prefer game canon when there are contradictions. As for canon ships, I'd prefer if we could treat all of Geralt's past canon ships as "I guess they happened, but they're over now and he's over them" (especially for Geralt/Yennefer, I just really like the Last Wish side quest ending with him realising that, without the djinn, he just isn't that crazy about her). They can get mentioned, but I'd prefer if they didn't play a huge role.
Het-specific DNW: please no femdom or pegging, and I'm not super into cunnilingus - mentions are fine, but please no detailed descriptions or having it as the main event in porn.
Requested tropes:
- Grief/Mourning For What Ends Up Being A Temporary Character Death: what if Ciri doesn't come back immediately after the finale and Geralt assumes she died? he tries to move on, maybe goes to Toussaint and tries to start anew there, but he's absolutely devastated ... and then it turns out there was just some portal wonkiness and Ciri is back
- Incest - "Oh No They're Hot" Moment After Time Spent Forcibly Apart: mostly thinking Geralt here, having a moment of "oh no, she grew up and is hot now", but I'd also be up for grown-up Ciri only realising now that her father figure is hot as fuck when they meet again
- Incest - parent ashamed of desiring their child
- Incest - platonic touching slowly turning less platonic: they're SO touchy-feely in canon - I'd love that leading to more and more lingering touches with less and less deniability
- Kink - Breathplay using hands on throat
- Lookalikes - Characters are intrigued/attracted by how similar they look: especially since they aren't biologically related, but the game went really strong on the physical resemblance anyway (the white hair, the scar ...)
- Pining - mistakenly thinks other character is not attracted to their gender: maybe Ciri mentioned her past lover, maybe she expresses attraction to women every now and then but never to men, so Geralt assumes she isn't into men at all
- Pining - Mutual Pining
- Pining - pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
- Scars - Exchanging stories about scars
- size difference where the bottom can be picked up: this and the next one is just me having very simple likes when it comes to het porn - give me a big strong dude fucking a smaller woman, hard and rough against whatever surface is available, and her absolutely loving it.
- Size Kink - One character has a big cock; the other has a tight hole
- Wooing - Younger character pursues older character: because Geralt would just pine stoically and never do anything, Ciri has to get him to break somehow (can be something sweeter and fluffier, can be her shamelessly teasing him until he breaks)
Watchmen (2009 movie)
Eddie Blake/Adrian Veidt
I rewatch this movie every now and then and every time it hits me how amazing these two are. They're both such assholes in their own ways, and they don't like each other, but they also really get each other in ways pretty much nobody else does. Plus JDM's Comedian is possibly the hottest thing that ever happened on screen. So. Yes.
I really love the idea of them having this decades-long on-off fuckbuddy (fuckenemy?) affair, which quite possibly started nonconsensually with Eddie raping Adrian after he beat the shit out of him ... except it turned out Adrian was into it and came back for more. I love it remaining all hatred, but I also love it turning into a bizarre kind of love-hate with complicated feelings and resentment towards the other for making them feel anything at all. I like how they both despise each other and think so little of the other's ideals (or lack thereof), but also have quite a bit of respect for each other. (Also, random little detail, but while I usually don't like pet names, I am 100% here for Eddie calling Adrian all kinds of obnoxious, condescending pet names just to be a prick - sweetheart and princess and whatnot. Because Eddie so would.)
Additionally, I'd definitely be up for an AU in which Adrian decides to let Eddie live after beating him. Maybe he realises he doesn't WANT to kill him. Maybe he wants somebody to know what he did. Maybe he hopes Eddie will think he was right (since Eddie didn't even try to stop him). Either way, lots of very complicated, painful feelings. :) If you stick with canon verse, I'm fine with mentions of Eddie's death, but I'd prefer not to get a fic that's about nothing else.
Requested tropes:
- Antagonism - characters don't like each other but nobody else understands them this well
- Barebacking: with a side of possessiveness and marking and extra humiliation
- BDSM - Rough sex leaves bruises and bite marks
- Character expected to die but didn't and now has no idea how to live anymore: Eddie is so resigned when Adrian shows up to kill him, I feel like it'd really mess him up if he didn't die after that
- Character is ashamed of their kinks: Adrian hating that he's into Eddie's everything is one of the main appeals of this ship for me, just heap on the shame and humiliation
- D/s - Ordering someone into things they want but would never admit to
- Enemies to Lovers - A has conflicting feelings while B tenderly treats his/her injuries: especially if it's Eddie patching Adrian up, but I'll also take Adrian patching Eddie up in an AU in which he doesn't kill him
- Enemies to Lovers - Accidental soulbond between enemies: I absolutely don't care how it happens, I just want them to be incredibly mad about it
- Enemies to Lovers - Forced to rely on the enemy
- Hurt/Comfort - Actually managing to injure arch-foe and realize you don’t actually want to hurt them
- Kink - Breathplay using hands on throat
- Noncon - Victim Feels Shame Over Unwanted Arousal
- Possessiveness - marking partner physically
- Power dynamics - struggling for the upper hand in and out of the bedroom
- Reluctant attraction - sexual attraction to someone they (should) dislike
And that's it! I hope you find something in all this that you enjoy writing, dear author, and I'm happy to answer any questions if you want clarification on anything. I'm very much looking forward to whatever you'll write for me, no matter the fandom we matched on!
Thanks!
linndechir
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