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riverbanksHi, and thank you for checking out this letter! To start, the prompts here are just general ideas and starting points, you don't have to strictly follow them if you have something else in mind.
I tried to talk a little bit about why I like the characters requested and throw in some ideas of what I'd like to see, so if these help inspire you, great! But if you have other ideas of where you'd like to go with your fic, that's great too! Go with your instinct -I love these canons and characters dearly, and I'll look forward to reading whatever you go with!
▸Personal Info: I'm also found as riverbanks on: AO3 Profile | tumblr.
▸General Likes: I love romance (intimacy, hand-holding, cute domestic scenarios); angst (trauma, suffering, pining, horrible tragic scenarios); smut (loving and quiet, angry and rough, sad and desperate); gen (worldbuilding, character studies, strong friendships, loyalty, family/chosen family bonds)... the whole package. I love a lot of different things in different fics, so do your own thing. If you're wondering "would they like...?" the answer is probably yes -I love fluff and drama and porn and happiness and daaarkness, it's all good. (and they don't necessarily all have to happen at the same time, but if a few conflicting ideas bite you: why not 💁🏻)
▸General Dislikes/DNWs: first/second person POV, gender/sexuality headcanons, ND headcanons, non-canonical character deaths, cheating/infidelity/breaking of canonical relationships. On code-switching: although both Victor and Rictor do canonically code-switch in some comics, I find that super distracting to read in fic, so random Spanish words/sentences would be a DNW, please.
▸Smut and Kinks: if you like to write smut, I'd be happy to received porn of any of my requests. I like both sweet kinks (intimacy, loyalty, praise, body worship) and rougher ones (breath or blood play, rough sex, submission, power play, restraints, marking/branding), so feel free to do your thing. The only kinks I don't like are spanking and scat play, and for these ships I'd prefer no degradation talk or dub/noncon between the characters requested.
▸AUs and Crossovers: I like AUs and fusions of all sorts, except for high school/college/Hogwarts AUs. If you want to kick canon to the curb and write the biker gang AU of your dreams, go ahead. ;V Crossovers or cameos between the requested comics canons are fine; I'd prefer no crossovers for the video game canons.
Onto it, then!
I tried to talk a little bit about why I like the characters requested and throw in some ideas of what I'd like to see, so if these help inspire you, great! But if you have other ideas of where you'd like to go with your fic, that's great too! Go with your instinct -I love these canons and characters dearly, and I'll look forward to reading whatever you go with!
▸Personal Info: I'm also found as riverbanks on: AO3 Profile | tumblr.
▸General Likes: I love romance (intimacy, hand-holding, cute domestic scenarios); angst (trauma, suffering, pining, horrible tragic scenarios); smut (loving and quiet, angry and rough, sad and desperate); gen (worldbuilding, character studies, strong friendships, loyalty, family/chosen family bonds)... the whole package. I love a lot of different things in different fics, so do your own thing. If you're wondering "would they like...?" the answer is probably yes -I love fluff and drama and porn and happiness and daaarkness, it's all good. (and they don't necessarily all have to happen at the same time, but if a few conflicting ideas bite you: why not 💁🏻)
▸General Dislikes/DNWs: first/second person POV, gender/sexuality headcanons, ND headcanons, non-canonical character deaths, cheating/infidelity/breaking of canonical relationships. On code-switching: although both Victor and Rictor do canonically code-switch in some comics, I find that super distracting to read in fic, so random Spanish words/sentences would be a DNW, please.
▸Smut and Kinks: if you like to write smut, I'd be happy to received porn of any of my requests. I like both sweet kinks (intimacy, loyalty, praise, body worship) and rougher ones (breath or blood play, rough sex, submission, power play, restraints, marking/branding), so feel free to do your thing. The only kinks I don't like are spanking and scat play, and for these ships I'd prefer no degradation talk or dub/noncon between the characters requested.
▸AUs and Crossovers: I like AUs and fusions of all sorts, except for high school/college/Hogwarts AUs. If you want to kick canon to the curb and write the biker gang AU of your dreams, go ahead. ;V Crossovers or cameos between the requested comics canons are fine; I'd prefer no crossovers for the video game canons.
Onto it, then!
The Authority
▸Requested Characters: Any (Apollo, Midnighter, Angela, Jack)
The "Any" request here is deliberate -these four are my favorite characters in the Authority comics, and I requested Any because I would genuinely be happy to receive fic centered on any of these characters -ship fic, friendship pieces, character studies, etc.
For Apollo/Midnighter, I have a weakness for stories about those pre-Authority years, when they were alone and vulnerable, hiding from Bendix. Those years of street-living, their initial feelings developing and their relationship starting -these first steps into their life together could be as natural and sweet or as stilted and complicated as you want. I'm also weak for angst, on the other hand, so if you'd like to expand on that ending plotline when they can't be together because Apollo can't stay on Earth, feel free to twist that knife. I also enjoy slices of their married life, be it domestic just being husbands, or smutty just enjoying each other, or some good old cracking skulls and ripping spines together for a good time.
For Jack/Angela, I do love how dysfunctional their relationship is, how they pretend to not care when they really do, how they never get a chance to develop a healthy relationship in the end because the end of the world is always getting in the way. So I'd enjoy seeing any part of their relationship - how they start, how they work, how they stop working, how they end, or even what ifs/fix-its/canon divergence where they actually get a chance to work out.
In more genenal terms, I'd also enjoy: something showing the different friendship and trust dynamics between them, specially between Apollo and Angela or Jack and Midnighter; or worldbuilding and character pieces about Jack's and/or Angela's abilities and how they relate to the world through them (the Jack solo about how he resonates with different cities in different ways was one of my favorite stories in the series, for example).
For the record, I know this is a pretty graphic canon, and I love that about it, so I'm okay with any level of canon-typical violence -maimings, dismemberment, cosmic horror, it's all good. Whumping these characters for hurt/comfort is alrighty, but for Reasons I'd prefer no sexual violence against Apollo. Jack and Middie are fair game for anything, though(destroy them).
The "Any" request here is deliberate -these four are my favorite characters in the Authority comics, and I requested Any because I would genuinely be happy to receive fic centered on any of these characters -ship fic, friendship pieces, character studies, etc.
For Apollo/Midnighter, I have a weakness for stories about those pre-Authority years, when they were alone and vulnerable, hiding from Bendix. Those years of street-living, their initial feelings developing and their relationship starting -these first steps into their life together could be as natural and sweet or as stilted and complicated as you want. I'm also weak for angst, on the other hand, so if you'd like to expand on that ending plotline when they can't be together because Apollo can't stay on Earth, feel free to twist that knife. I also enjoy slices of their married life, be it domestic just being husbands, or smutty just enjoying each other, or some good old cracking skulls and ripping spines together for a good time.
For Jack/Angela, I do love how dysfunctional their relationship is, how they pretend to not care when they really do, how they never get a chance to develop a healthy relationship in the end because the end of the world is always getting in the way. So I'd enjoy seeing any part of their relationship - how they start, how they work, how they stop working, how they end, or even what ifs/fix-its/canon divergence where they actually get a chance to work out.
In more genenal terms, I'd also enjoy: something showing the different friendship and trust dynamics between them, specially between Apollo and Angela or Jack and Midnighter; or worldbuilding and character pieces about Jack's and/or Angela's abilities and how they relate to the world through them (the Jack solo about how he resonates with different cities in different ways was one of my favorite stories in the series, for example).
For the record, I know this is a pretty graphic canon, and I love that about it, so I'm okay with any level of canon-typical violence -maimings, dismemberment, cosmic horror, it's all good. Whumping these characters for hurt/comfort is alrighty, but for Reasons I'd prefer no sexual violence against Apollo. Jack and Middie are fair game for anything, though
Runaways
▸Requested Characters: Victor Mancha
Victor is my favorite of the Runaways roster, and I've requested him as a single character here because I'd really love to see any fic with him as the centerpiece character, be it gen, or shippy, or character-driven.
I ship both Victor/Chase and Victor/Nico, so either of those would be great. With Nico, I really enjoyed the brief relationship they had early on, so I'd like either little missing scenes of their time together, or a get-back-together fic after the years they've been split up. With Chase, I love the friends-to-lovers dynamic, with both of them having been through so much together, learning to trust each other. I love the idea of this friendship evolving into more romantic feelings between them, this trust they've developed in each other becoming a deeper connection, both of them realizing they've gone and fallen in love with that guy, of all people.
I also like both of those relationships as friendships, so if you don't like either ship, a gen/friendship piece between these characters with would be great too. I'd also like anything about Victor's friendship with Klara, or something from Victor's point of view about those years the Runaways spent missing in action after the trade hiatus, or even some bonding between Victor and Pym during the beginnings of the Avengers AI storyline.
⚠️ Vague spoilers for Vision #11: this came out pretty recently, and thoroughly broke my heart with that... stuff. I'm still pretty raw about what happened there, so for this match I'd prefer something happier or more light-hearted, not so heavy on the angst. If you want to write Victor a few years post-Runaways and need to go canon-divergent, do a fix-it for this or just ignore it entirely, please go ahead, I'd like to pretend it never happened too.
And that's it! Thank you for reading through this, and if you need more information or clarification on anything, or want to ask any questions, please feel free to contact me through the Yuletide mods at any point. I can't wait to see what you come up with! (・∀・)ノ
Victor is my favorite of the Runaways roster, and I've requested him as a single character here because I'd really love to see any fic with him as the centerpiece character, be it gen, or shippy, or character-driven.
I ship both Victor/Chase and Victor/Nico, so either of those would be great. With Nico, I really enjoyed the brief relationship they had early on, so I'd like either little missing scenes of their time together, or a get-back-together fic after the years they've been split up. With Chase, I love the friends-to-lovers dynamic, with both of them having been through so much together, learning to trust each other. I love the idea of this friendship evolving into more romantic feelings between them, this trust they've developed in each other becoming a deeper connection, both of them realizing they've gone and fallen in love with that guy, of all people.
I also like both of those relationships as friendships, so if you don't like either ship, a gen/friendship piece between these characters with would be great too. I'd also like anything about Victor's friendship with Klara, or something from Victor's point of view about those years the Runaways spent missing in action after the trade hiatus, or even some bonding between Victor and Pym during the beginnings of the Avengers AI storyline.
⚠️ Vague spoilers for Vision #11: this came out pretty recently, and thoroughly broke my heart with that... stuff. I'm still pretty raw about what happened there, so for this match I'd prefer something happier or more light-hearted, not so heavy on the angst. If you want to write Victor a few years post-Runaways and need to go canon-divergent, do a fix-it for this or just ignore it entirely, please go ahead, I'd like to pretend it never happened too.
X-Factor
▸Requested Characters: Julio Richter, Shatterstar
My Marvel OTP of 20 years going is still lost out there in space and time... ( ﾟ,_ゝﾟ)
I would love to know where they are or what they're doing now - are they still in Mojoworld or have they made it back to Earth? Can they come back, and do they even want to? Some Mojo adventures I think would be fun would be seeing the two of them take baby 'Star to wherever they need to drop him, or going back to Arize and the rebels and deciding if they want to stay and help fight or if they need to go for timey-wimey reasons. Or: time travel adventures, where they just say "fuck it" to going back home and go around hoping through time and dimensions instead, just because they can.
I'd also like to see their relationship getting back on track -since they were on a weird and sort of distant place before getting sent to Mojoworld, and spent some time apart there while Ric was on the arena and Star was getting brainwashed, I'd like to see them being really in love again, protective of each other as they always are.
Case fic set during the X-Factor Investigations years would be fun too, and this could go in any direction: noir and crimey, or horroresque with demons, spirits or werewolves, or adventure with aliens and tentacle monsters. Rolling back to the classic X-Factor timeline, one thing I'd love to see explored is the time Star spent with Rictor in Mexico -I love the idea that their relationship actually started during this time, with confused and awkward feelings, tentative false starts, etc. (Or, you know, smut. Smut is great too.)
My Marvel OTP of 20 years going is still lost out there in space and time... ( ﾟ,_ゝﾟ)
I would love to know where they are or what they're doing now - are they still in Mojoworld or have they made it back to Earth? Can they come back, and do they even want to? Some Mojo adventures I think would be fun would be seeing the two of them take baby 'Star to wherever they need to drop him, or going back to Arize and the rebels and deciding if they want to stay and help fight or if they need to go for timey-wimey reasons. Or: time travel adventures, where they just say "fuck it" to going back home and go around hoping through time and dimensions instead, just because they can.
I'd also like to see their relationship getting back on track -since they were on a weird and sort of distant place before getting sent to Mojoworld, and spent some time apart there while Ric was on the arena and Star was getting brainwashed, I'd like to see them being really in love again, protective of each other as they always are.
Case fic set during the X-Factor Investigations years would be fun too, and this could go in any direction: noir and crimey, or horroresque with demons, spirits or werewolves, or adventure with aliens and tentacle monsters. Rolling back to the classic X-Factor timeline, one thing I'd love to see explored is the time Star spent with Rictor in Mexico -I love the idea that their relationship actually started during this time, with confused and awkward feelings, tentative false starts, etc. (Or, you know, smut. Smut is great too.)
Tomb Raider
Requested Characters: Lara Croft, Samantha Nishimura
I love the relationship between these two so much. Their loyalty and love for each other, Sam's tenderness with Lara even though she's not an easy person to handle, Lara's fierce protectiveness over Sam, how she's willing to go any lengths to get Sam back. They kill me.
I'd love fic for them that expands on their relationship, their devotion to each other, and this could go either before or after the game. If before, it could be a curtainfic/slice of life during their college years, or something romantic showing how their relationship developed from friends to lovers, or almost lovers before the expedition. If after the game, it could be showing how they recover after the island -how do they get out of there, how do they come out of what happened, how does it affect their relationship? If they're not together yet, is it those events that make them realize how they feel? Or: Lara is in a pretty bad place at the start of the next game, so what happened between them during that time? Where was Sam? Did they help each other cope, or were both of them too caught up in their own mess to help each other? Is Sam there for her when Lara comes back from Kitezh? Are they in a better place now?
Hurt/comfort is good, and the canon-typical level of violence and whump is okay, though I'd prefer no sexual violence towards either of the girls, and no dead lesbians tropes, please. I'd prefer a happier or more hopeful ending for this one, or at least a not completely bad ending for them, but I'm game for any level of angst and dark tropes inbetween (dealing with trauma, unhealthy coping mechanisms, relationship strains, etc, that's all fine).
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I love the relationship between these two so much. Their loyalty and love for each other, Sam's tenderness with Lara even though she's not an easy person to handle, Lara's fierce protectiveness over Sam, how she's willing to go any lengths to get Sam back. They kill me.
I'd love fic for them that expands on their relationship, their devotion to each other, and this could go either before or after the game. If before, it could be a curtainfic/slice of life during their college years, or something romantic showing how their relationship developed from friends to lovers, or almost lovers before the expedition. If after the game, it could be showing how they recover after the island -how do they get out of there, how do they come out of what happened, how does it affect their relationship? If they're not together yet, is it those events that make them realize how they feel? Or: Lara is in a pretty bad place at the start of the next game, so what happened between them during that time? Where was Sam? Did they help each other cope, or were both of them too caught up in their own mess to help each other? Is Sam there for her when Lara comes back from Kitezh? Are they in a better place now?
Hurt/comfort is good, and the canon-typical level of violence and whump is okay, though I'd prefer no sexual violence towards either of the girls, and no dead lesbians tropes, please. I'd prefer a happier or more hopeful ending for this one, or at least a not completely bad ending for them, but I'm game for any level of angst and dark tropes inbetween (dealing with trauma, unhealthy coping mechanisms, relationship strains, etc, that's all fine).
art credit: eemamminy
Fallout 3
Requested Characters: Sarah Lyons, Arthur Maxson
This is mostly a gen request, since Arthur is very young in FO3. I'm fascinated by the glimpses of Arthur's hero crush on Sarah that we find on his journals, so I would love a fic that explored this relationship -what Sarah meant to him, what impressed him about her, how she helped him settle and find something like a home in the Citadel after being sent away, how she showed him to kill a man by stabbing him in the kidneys. Glimpses into their friendship during those five-ish years Arthur spent in the the Citadel until Sarah's death; or how Arthur felt about Sarah becoming Elder, how he dealt with her death.
If you want to go canon-divergent and retcon Sarah's death away to explore their friendship into adulthood, or explore an AU where Sarah remained Elder and Arthur became her right hand, feel free to. I'm still mad that they fridged her offscreen between games, so fix-its are more than welcome.
⚠️ That said, although I'm primarily asking for gen and friendship between these two, I'm absolutely fine with Sarah/Arthur as an adult/future ship too, so if the muse strikes for a shippy or porny fic instead, feel free to age Arthur up, retcon Sarah's death away, and just go for it. Loyalty kink here with Arthur worshipping the ground Sarah steps on would be fantastic between these too, shippy or gen.
This is mostly a gen request, since Arthur is very young in FO3. I'm fascinated by the glimpses of Arthur's hero crush on Sarah that we find on his journals, so I would love a fic that explored this relationship -what Sarah meant to him, what impressed him about her, how she helped him settle and find something like a home in the Citadel after being sent away, how she showed him to kill a man by stabbing him in the kidneys. Glimpses into their friendship during those five-ish years Arthur spent in the the Citadel until Sarah's death; or how Arthur felt about Sarah becoming Elder, how he dealt with her death.
If you want to go canon-divergent and retcon Sarah's death away to explore their friendship into adulthood, or explore an AU where Sarah remained Elder and Arthur became her right hand, feel free to. I'm still mad that they fridged her offscreen between games, so fix-its are more than welcome.
⚠️ That said, although I'm primarily asking for gen and friendship between these two, I'm absolutely fine with Sarah/Arthur as an adult/future ship too, so if the muse strikes for a shippy or porny fic instead, feel free to age Arthur up, retcon Sarah's death away, and just go for it. Loyalty kink here with Arthur worshipping the ground Sarah steps on would be fantastic between these too, shippy or gen.
And that's it! Thank you for reading through this, and if you need more information or clarification on anything, or want to ask any questions, please feel free to contact me through the Yuletide mods at any point. I can't wait to see what you come up with! (・∀・)ノ
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