I talk too much! Mostly out of sheer enthusiasm, but please don't worry. I've thrown out a bunch of prompts for each character in each fandom but if none of them speak to you, provided you're not specifically using something I mentioned as a squick/DNW for that fandom, make whatever you want. These are mostly small fandoms that don't see tons of fic, so I'm honestly thrilled that you're considering working on a little trick or treat for any one of them.
I'm requesting fic or art for The Binding of Isaac, Diabolik Lovers, Hatoful Boyfriend and Jooubachi no Oubou, just fic for Fire Emblem Awakening.
On DNWs: In some cases I've listed elements that are present in canon as a DNW. Generally what this means is I don't want it to play a major part, be detailed, or the focus of the fic/art, not that you need to pretend it doesn't exist/never happened (unless for your own reasons you'd like to).
The Binding of Isaac - Isaac and/or Eve and/or Magdalene
I love the atmosphere of this game (the title/menu music on the first version hooked me but I also really enjoy Rebirth fwiw) and how it manages to look and feel so distinctive while being so light on story. That combination of Freudian imagery, body horror and devil/angel dichotomies is so artistically fascinating to me, and I'm always happy to see more done with that and/or the game's Biblical themes. Or seeing Isaac encounter his siblings, or imagining his siblings, or in one of the shops. Seeing as the game itself leaves so much unanswered, I'm definitely not looking for some kind of definitive explanation for all the peculiarities of the Basement, but it would be interesting to explore what's going on in Isaac and/or Eve and/or Maggy's head as they descend. Do any of the power up items change them internally as well as externally? Design wise, Maggy looks like Isaac in a wig, and one of Isaac's dreams in-game has him getting a wig that looks like Maggy's. So… is Maggy another version of Isaac, or is that just a weird coincidence? Or was she a sibling that came before Isaac that Mom liked better/wants Isaac to resemble, or something else entirely? (Or you don't have to dwell on that at all, of course, I'm just spitballing ideas) Do Eve's starting items mean she was cursed before she jumped into the Basement? Why was that, on a human level? And what on earth is up with the Cathedral/what does it mean that Isaac is the boss?
Binding of Isaac DNWs: sex of any kind, too much focus on the poop, total misery porn.
Diabolik Lovers - Komori Yui and/or Sakamaki Cordelia and/or Sakamaki Ayato and/or Sakamaki Kanato and/or Sakamaki Laito and/or Sakamaki Reiji
So yeah, since I figure I have nothing to lose on 'or' matching I requested every character in the tagset except Richter. Both because Richter's the only one I wouldn't want to read a story centered around and because there really isn't a character more appropriate to exclude. But I'm perfectly fine with him appearing alongside any of the requested characters. Before I break down into specific characters and groups, my shipping preferences currently lean towards Yui/Kanato or Yui/Reiji (threesome sounds like a terrible idea and I was a bit disappointed by the Kanato vs Reiji CD but if you want to re imagine a Kanato vs Reiji scenario where Reiji is less... chivalrous... I could be down for that) with weird soft spots for Ayato/Laito and Reiji/Cordelia, but I'm not going to complain if you want to write Ayato/Yui or Laito/Yui, and please feel free to include/reference Cordelia's canon relationships (though I'd rather not… detailed Cordelia POV of Cordelia/Laito…) or write about the Cordelia/Richter trainwreck.
Triplets! I'd love something with Ayato, Laito and Kanato working or playing as a group, or fighting with each other, whatever works. I loved the little glimpses we see of their interactions as kids, and More Blood (both the game and anime, though the game seems... more suggestive) starting with the three of them crowding around Yui. Or just two of them playing off each other/squabbling over ridiculous shit and/or Yui. Or any/all of them bickering with Reiji!
The best at being the worst, Cordelia is just utterly awful to the point where it wraps around and starts being hilariously entertaining. I love that the anime gave us some of the other brothers reacting to Cordelia possessing Yui's body, but I'd always be up for more. Cordelia even by herself is pretty volatile, so there's a lot of possibilities in playing her off the rest of these characters too. I really enjoyed the way she snarked with Reiji when she was possessing Yui on his route, and I kinda wondered what would have happened if they had to deal with each other under different circumstances. I don't think Reiji would ever have allowed himself to become a pawn like Richter, or at the very least would have fought it very interestingly. But they both managed to get under each other's skin pretty effectively, so it's an interesting dynamic. And speaking of getting under the skin, obviously Cordelia left huge horrible marks on all her sons, so there's plenty of depressing history to dig into there. Not to mention Cordelia's weird host relationship with Yui!
Ayato: Has there ever been a time when all the studying Cordelia made him do came in handy? How does he/did he initially feel about Shuu and Reiji, considering Cordelia obviously thought of them as competition for Ayato? Heck, how does he feel about Subaru? If there were previous brides, how did Ayato get along with them? I like Yui's dynamic with Ayato a bit better in the game than in the anime (him stealing her notebook and her yelling HEY BOOBS and stealing it back!) but it's still fun seeing him try to hog the spotlight.
Laito: I often feel I can't quite get a firm read on Laito, and that's probably appropriate since in some ways he seems like the Sakamaki who's the most likely to define himself by the people around him. Does he have any core sense of self? What kind of kid was he before Cordelia started molesting him? What kind of life would he choose for himself if he didn't have to live with his brothers and go to night school?
Kanato: !!! Ahem. I love Kanato dearly, so I'd be interested in just about anything with him. Kanato's average day? Kanato selecting prey? Kanato's terrible sportsmanship? Kanato as seen by his human classmates? Kanato and vampires who are not his immediate family? Kanato and his "dolls"? Kanato and Teddy? Kanato talking to himself in the mirror? No really, though. If you are down for it, I'd just as much love to see more Kanato/Yui as a couple who cannot possibly do normal couple things because they're both so thoroughly fucked in the head. Emotionally unhealthy creepy dependence, controlling behavior, dubcon (vanilla sex that's nevertheless sinister is more than okay BUT should you be interested in depicting kinky sex/kinky prelude to sex, knives are good, choking is good, dress-up is good, restraints are good, mind control is good, biting and scratching is good, hair-pulling and general rough usage is good, gags are good, sensory deprivation is good, mirrors are good, humiliation is good though specifically around other vampires since it edges into DNW when classmates are around for some reason, and yeah, vampire stuff) and I mean, anything that is present in Kanato's anime scenes or first game route is A-OK basically.
Yui: I honestly adore Yui. She's a die hard survivor and I love how hard she fights to hold onto her humanity and compassion even when no one shows any compassion to her. And it's super satisfying whenever she stands up for herself or gets the upper hand. I'd be curious what her life was like before the Sakamakis. It's hinted a few times that Yui can see ghosts and possibly other supernatural phenomena, was that scary/upsetting for her or just something it took her a while to realize didn't happen to everybody? Yui's religion is mostly shown as a positive force in her life, and yet this is the same church that regularly sent sacrificial brides to the Sakamakis and dumped her at their mansion without explanation. Were there ever moments growing up when she doubted the church's teachings at all or found herself in trouble? Did Cordelia ever attempt to manifest when she was younger? Otherwise, I'm especially fond of her dynamic with Kanato and Reiji, and anything with Yui dealing with the brothers is good!
Reiji: I find it interesting that Reiji is more or less the de facto head of their household but he apparently has no interest in inheriting Karl Heinz's position as leader. If one of the others took over and he no longer had to live with them, where would he go, if he went at all? Alternately, potions Reiji has accidentally created in the process of trying to create something else? Younger Reiji learning to dance/cook/other things? Reiji in class? Or you know, Reiji 'training' Yui is always welcome. Nonsexually or sexually, whichever. Or Yui training Reiji, because I absolutely love the ending where she's made him (possibly the others as well?) a slave to her blood.
Diabolik Lovers DNWs: the triplets somehow being at fault for the abuse they suffered, Cordelia being punished in a way that's focused on her femininity rather than her being a terrible person period, Kanato dying, totally uncreepy vampire romance, Yui's stuff/room being destroyed to punish her, specifically public humiliation on the street/in front of classmates or humans and I'd rather not have heights brought into it unless everyone involved can fly.
Fire Emblem: Awakening -Tharja
Spooky dark mage stuff! I'm happy for something with her magic, or something with her cursing somebody she doesn't like or planning to curse somebody but deciding not to. I'd also be interested in family fic with her and Noire-- does she become a better mother in the better future? For Noire's other parent, I like Stahl, Gaius, Libra or Gregor best. Or you could write something about her unrequited obsession with Avatar/Robin of either gender (I mostly prefer it unrequited but I could be down for it being briefly requited providing this didn't make Robin Noire's parent since I don't buy Robin could ever be the totally cowed parent Noire describes) though I'd probably prefer that either on the silly side or on the mutually weird obsession side. One thing I like about Tharja's supports is that most of them show she's not so secretly a big softie, so yeah, I'd rather she be weird but ultimately harmless than like... willing to actually kill innocent people she sees as obstacles to Robin.
Fire Emblem Awakening DNWs: Rape/non-con, intense child abuse, marital infidelity.
Hatoful Boyfriend - Higure Anghel and/or Iwamine Shuu
I hear that Anghel's fantasy world has its own manga spinoff, but I haven't checked that out at this point so don't feel like you have to incorporate canon from that if you're focusing on Anghel! But yeah, I would totally like to see more about the adventures there, or Anghel and Hiyoko trying to live them out in the bird world (but maybe not so much the Bad Boys Love world because that's... pretty depressing for him) or hell, a totally different AU where Anghel nevertheless is full of mad love and passion and determination to overthrow his evil archnemesis! Or for that matter, Shuu's perspective in the fantasy world or an alternate universe. Or Anghel's typical holiday from school/typical day in general, or what Anghel and Hiyoko's relationship looks like to an outsider. For art, maybe Anghel crashing through a window/in the middle of some over the top action? Or Anghel posing with bird-appropriate weapons? Or Anghel's fantasy image of himself?
As for Shuu, he is terrible and I love him and can never get too much of him. A day in the life of Shuu? Rejected experiments of Shuu? Theories on behavior of resident weird human girl? All human AU where he's just as macabre and menacing but to an entirely different purpose? How would his romance ("romance"?) play out with Hiyoko if they were both human, anyway? Kinky sex in that case very much an option but not a requirement. For art, where does Shuu sleep? Is it hilariously mundane or does he nest in feathers ripped off murdered birds? What does a ninja doctor partridge look like doing science/paperwork anyway, let alone with a cleaver in his wing?
Hatoful Boyfriend DNWs: Bird/bird sex, bird/human sex, rape/non-con (all human AU dub-con involving the bad Doctor is fine)
女王蜂の王房 | Jooubachi no Oubou - Kaguya and/or Menou and/or Rin and/or Utsuro
Haha, last year I said Diabolik Lovers was my guiltiest pleasure. Haha. So naturally this year I had to go and find out about the existence of beefuck rapeworld and every...thing... that came with it. The chances of us matching on this are slim to none (the free trials of Menou-hen and Kaguya-hen have I think been translated into English and some people have painstakingly written up translations of most of the CDs but the full games not so much) but just in case you are reading this all YES, FINALLY, MY TIME HAS COME, here are my prompts.
BEE WORLDBUILDING? No really. NO, REALLY. I want to know more about how this society works! Is three drones to a princess the usual number or on average are there more/less? Is there a reason why lower class drones aren't allowed clothes? If I understand this correctly below the Queen and princesses there are bee... senators? So a bee Senate? How does this work? Are there humans native to flying bee world or do bees fly down and transport humans back up to eat? How many mad scientists are there on this floating rock anyway?
Alternatively, it is widely agreed that the lack of lesbian yuri route is a tragedy because Menou and Kaguya so clearly want to go there, so please feel free to go there if that is indeed where you would like to go. Particularly if you want to go all obsessive but dub con heat encounter when Menou believes Kaguya is out to get her/is imprisoned by Kaguya. But if that is not where you'd like to go, I'm totally happy with a character study/illustration of Kaguya or Menou, or a tense but gen encounter between the two of them.
I decided ultimately Utsuro and Rin are the drones I'm most interested by at the present time even if not all their stuff is exactly to my taste (to put it mildly) though I would be shamefully okay with freaky sex stuff involving all the nominated characters tbh. Ruby and Rin just happen to be the ones I'd be down for gen with. Kaguya and Rin's childhood friends backstory is so inappropriately sweet in the midst of the whole... larger context of literally everything else! "Who are you nice random drone and why are you always naked? OH WELL LET'S BE FRIENDS." So I'd be happy to see art or fic with that. Or with more of Rin's delicious suffering. Or, even better, more of Rin taking control/Rin's dark side.
As for Utsuro, obviously he's got his whole being shunned deal though I'm more interested in the practical ways he puts his insect minions to use than wallowing in angst, unless it's Kaguya related angst. Kaguya dominating him/taking out her frustration in him is a-ok.
Jooubachi no Oubou DNWs: Piercing/needles focus, vore, violent stuff involving eyes and fingers, pregnancy, extreme underage/ageplay.