Chocolate Box 2020 Letter
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somethingdarkerI will figure out anchors tomorrow. It's bedtime now, and my eyes ache.
My having more words about a fandom or a grouping does not mean that I'm more interested in receiving a story about that fandom and/or those characters. Even when I say very little, I want a story with those characters. I wouldn't have requested them if I wouldn't be pleased to get them.
Chronicles of Amber
Benedict & Eric
Benedict & Oberon - For these two relationships, I want similar things. These are family relationships strained by politics and power differentials. Benedict survived his father disposing of his mother and older brothers. Eric was the first of his (known) younger siblings, and Eric was in a political position potentially as precarious as Benedict's. Benedict has to have had complicated feelings about his family generally and about Oberon and Eric more specifically. How did it all work? Was Benedict simply very pragmatic about survival matters? Was Benedict too young to join his brothers in rebellion, closer in age to Eric maybe?
Benedict/Lintra - Lintra is barely a footnote in the story, and I'd like to know more about how she came into things. Did she set out to seduce Benedict or he her or did it just kind of happen? I wouldn't mind an AU in which she survives but am equally curious about how the war between them went from first meeting to her death.
Dara/Oberon - Dara's canonical behavior makes a lot more sense to me if the two of them have a / relationship. Oberon being terrible is pretty canonical, so he may have encouraged her to fall for him. Then again, he may also have discovered that they were well matched. I'm not sure he'd have found her nearly so easy to get rid of as his earlier wives. I have no strong opinions about how many generations separate Dara and Oberon. She might be his grandchild; there might equally be a dozen 'greats' inserted into the relationship label. If Oberon deliberately cultivated Dara's affection, I'd prefer not to see that part of the timeline because it's squicky to me.
Dara/Sawall - Was this marriage a matter of politics/alliances or of affection? Did it happen before Merlin was born or after? Merlin mentions growing up with his mother's husband and with Mandor. Despil and Jurt seem to be very close in age to Merlin, too. What sort of person was Gramble, Lord Sawall?
Llewella & Moire - I'm okay with deep water for Rebma because it's canonical that people can breathe there. One of these sisters is Queen; the other has power to warp reality. Is that a wedge between them? Are they loyal to each other above all? How old was Moire when Llewella came along? Canon never specifies whether Llewella is Moire's heir or if Martin is or if the heir is someone else altogether. How do the two women deal with Oberon and Amber? Does Llewella take Moire on expeditions into Shadow? Has Moire pushed Llewella to have children so that Rebma has more Pattern users?
Martin & Vialle - Before or after Vialle marries Random, either would be fascinating. Vialle mentions having been fond of Martin when he was a boy. Her wording implies that she was an adult when he was a child, but she might have been being misleading. Or not. I have written Vialle as a secret daughter of Oberon and would not mind seeing that here. Equally, I don't mind her being completely unrelated to any canonical character or being, say, Llewella's daughter or a child of a sibling of Moire's and Llewella's or... Feel free.
Fiona/Mandor - I don't really think that these two are in love. They likely find each other fascinating, challenging, and enjoyable. I just don't know how far either would inconvenience themselves to assist the other. Possibly they see that as a feature rather than a bug.
Martin/Merlin - The Corwin books left me with the impression that Merlin and Martin were friends, but they barely interacted in the Merlin books. I'd like to see something built on their friendship but with the sorts of complications that come from the problems in their families and with having godlike power.
Random/Vialle - There are a lot of gaps in canon as far as these two are concerned. What was their life like in Rebma? In Eric's Amber? After the Unicorn chose Random? Them learning to be King and Queen seems like something that would have taken a lot of work. I have written Vialle as a secret daughter of Oberon and would not mind seeing that here. Equally, I don't mind her being completely unrelated to any canonical character or being, say, Llewella's daughter or a child of a sibling of Moire's and Llewella's or... Feel free.
For these pairings, I would like any sex to be consensual. I don't need explicit sex for any of them and am more interested in character development and emotions in all cases.
I like the complicated family connections and the long term scheming in this canon. I also like that some characters make a genuine connection with each other.
More generally, I like canon divergent AUs. Time travel is fun, but I prefer to avoid the sort in which the characters can't change things (I'm not sure how time travel would work with this canon). I enjoy crack taken seriously, fluff, angst, worldbuilding, shades of gray, conflicting loyalties.
This fandom is an exception to my DNW for incest. Seriously, for most of these folks, being related to whoever they're having sex with is usually the least messed up part of the relationship. (And I'm generally more troubled by the abuse of trust aspect of incest than I am by the genetic side of things.)
DNW: focus on death of requested characters, graphic violence, gore, cancer, child harm or death, underage sex, drowning or deep water, vampires, unicorns, zombies, tragic/hopeless endings, women as victims, setting change AUs, RPF
Crossover Fandom (Leverage with Person of Interest)
Harold Finch & Alec Hardison
Harold Finch & Nathan Ford
Team Machine & Team Leverage
I mostly want to see these canons intersect. Other characters from both canons are welcome. Feel free to tinker with the timelines-- Finch could have had help from the Leverage crew in the early days after Nathan's death. Samaritan might have tried to use the Leverage crew to track down members of Team Machine. Other ideas welcome.
More generally, I like canon divergent AUs. Time travel is fun, but I prefer to avoid the sort in which the characters can't change things. I enjoy crack taken seriously, fluff, angst, worldbuilding, shades of gray, conflicting loyalties.
DNW: focus on death of requested characters, graphic violence, gore, cancer, child harm or death, underage sex, drowning or deep water, vampires, unicorns, zombies, tragic/hopeless endings, women as victims, setting change AUs, RPF
The Librarians (TV 2014)
Cassandra Cillian & Ezekiel Jones & Jake Stone (The Librarians TV)
Cassandra Cillian & Jacob "Jake" Stone (The Librarians (TV 2014))
Cassandra Cillian & Jenkins | Galahad (The Librarians TV)
Eve Baird & Cassandra Cillian & Jenkins & Ezekiel Jones & Jake Stone (The Librarians TV)
Eve Baird & Jenkins | Galahad (The Librarians TV)
Jenkins | Galahad & Ezekiel Jones (The Librarians TV)
Here, I mainly want to see the characters supporting each other. Episode tags, AUs from events in specific episodes, completely new adventures, getting lost inside the Library together. Oddball allusions in naming artifacts is a plus.
More generally, I like canon divergent AUs. Time travel is fun, but I prefer to avoid the sort in which the characters can't change things. I enjoy crack taken seriously, fluff, angst, worldbuilding, shades of gray, conflicting loyalties.
Fandom specific DNW: Flynn/Eve, focus on Flynn, destruction of books
DNW: focus on death of requested characters, graphic violence, gore, cancer, child harm or death, underage sex, drowning or deep water, vampires, unicorns, zombies, tragic/hopeless endings, women as victims, setting change AUs, RPF
Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension
Candace/Jeremy - I'd prefer this post-movie, at the earliest, since Candace wasn't really aware of Jeremy before that. I'm interested in how they interact with each other and in what they perceive as normal. What do they do with themselves now that they have options?
Candace & Isabella - Isabella seemed to be one of Candace's trusted lieutenants. I'm curious about how they achieved that level of trust. I'm curious about how they interacted after the movie, too. 2nd Dimension Isabella seemed to have a different sort of hard edges than 2nd Dimension Candace did. Do they meet up regularly (with or without the other Firestorm Girls) to have ice cream and talk about how weird the world is now or about the challenges of social interactions?
Charlene/Heinz - 2nd Dimension Charlene is fascinating and very different from the 1st Dimension version. Is she the reason her husband ruled the Tri-State Area for so long? How did they meet? Did they have date nights after they started pretending to be divorced? How do they get along while they're on the run after canon?
Ferb & Candace & Phineas - 2nd Dimension Candace's focus on protecting her brothers is kind of heartbreaking. It also kind of stifled them even as it kept them safe. Do the boys understand what Candace was trying to do for them? Do they try to help her recover? Do they try to set her up with a romantic partner? Do all three of them need to work together to help their parents? What's the new normal?
Vanessa/Monty
Vanessa/Stacy - No explicit sex for these pairings, please. They can be doing whatever off screen, but I don't want to read about it. These two are kind of oddball because Monty and Stacy don't appear in the 2nd Dimension canon. I'm curious about how the pairings might happen before the movie and/or after the movie. Up through the end of the movie, the relationship would need to be secret from Vanessa's parents and would be dangerous for not-Vanessa people involved. That might be a thing to play with. I prefer that the relationships be consensual. Possibly Monty was Vanessa's bodyguard at some point? Her parents might not have realized that they were involved. Monty may have wanted to rescue his father and met Vanessa that way. Or Vanessa might try to chat up Monty after canon in hopes of getting information on the new OWCA. As to Stacy, she's good at finding loopholes and managing difficult people. I could see her working as Vanessa's companion or maid (lady in waiting?) at some point before the movie and the two of them falling for each other. I could also see them having a meet cute after canon without Stacy recognizing Vanessa as a Doofenshmirtz. It might have to happen outside the Tri-State Area, but there's no reason Stacy couldn't leave and go to college. (Ginger's part of the Firestorm Girls group, so the family has to have still been there during the movie.)
I'm specifically looking for the 2nd Dimension versions of these characters. Monty and Stacy don't appear in either the movie or the associated episode, but the divergence point between the universes is late enough that I assume they exist.
I like parts of the 2nd Dimension sequel episode quite a bit, particularly getting to see Charlene and Vanessa. I'm not as into Candace having waited to get to know Jeremy, but I think that might be because I wrote them together right after the movie (before the episode came out). Do as you wish with the episode canon.
Gentle humor is important to me in this fandom.
More generally, I like canon divergent AUs. Time travel is fun, but I prefer to avoid the sort in which the characters can't change things. I enjoy crack taken seriously, fluff, angst, worldbuilding, shades of gray, conflicting loyalties.
Fandom specific DNW: focus on 1st Dimension versions of the characters, explicit sex
DNW: incest, death of requested characters, graphic violence, gore, cancer, child harm or death, explicit underage sex, drowning or deep water, vampires, unicorns, zombies, tragic/hopeless endings, women as victims, setting change AUs, RPF
Sky High
Barron Battle & Warren Peace - Does Warren write to his father? Do they have good memories from before Barron went to prison? Is Barron proud of his son or putting pressure on him to live up to some standard? Do they disagree about Warren's future? Did Warren ever try to help his father escape?
Barron Battle/Ms. Peace - Consensual, please. Secret identity shenanigans are fine if neither of them knows, but I'd rather not have betrayal in the relationship at the beginning. How did they meet? How did it end? Did they get married? Was Ms. Peace really a hero? Was Barron Battle really a villain? What powers did they have?
Jonathan Boy & Josie Stronghold - Mr Boy clearly has complicated feelings about the Strongholds. He's also apparently crushed by the way his life has gone. I'm wondering about how he and Josie interacted before the Strongholds married. Alternatively, how do they interact after they meet again at Homecoming? I'd prefer that Mr Boy not go into Nice Guy territory, and I really don't want infidelity here.
Magenta & Josie Stronghold & Layla Williams - Mentoring, here, mostly. Give me women supporting each other. Please omit discussion of romantic partners (unless it's Magenta/Layla). An adventure or a case to solve would be grand, too. Appearances by other female characters welcome.
Magenta/Layla Williams - No explicit sex unless they're both over 18, but please don't make a big deal of the age as a milestone for that. I don't think the characters would. I'd like the superpowers to figure into the story in a way that makes them integral parts of who the characters are and how they relate to each other. I'm not very interested in how they got together and would prefer an established relationship. This can be fluffy or skew darker, but I'd like the relationship to be solid and good for both of them. Kitten acquisition to surviving the apocalypse. Whatever.
Warren Peace/Will Stronghold/Layla Williams - Established relationship, please. I'm not interested in how they get together or in relationship balance angst. I'd like to see how they function together to achieve goals. From kitten acquisition to surviving the apocalypse. Whatever. I'd like to see how they decide to deal with a world that assumes monogamy. Do they play games with their identities? No explicit sex unless they're all over 18, but please don't make a big deal of the age as a milestone for that. I don't think the characters would.
More generally, I like canon divergent AUs. Time travel is fun, but I prefer to avoid the sort in which the characters can't change things. I enjoy crack taken seriously, fluff, angst, worldbuilding, shades of gray, conflicting loyalties.
Fandom specific DNWs: Marvel or DC crossovers (allusions are fine), uncritical endorsement of the hero/sidekick system
DNW: incest, death of requested characters, graphic violence, gore, cancer, child harm or death, underage sex, drowning or deep water, vampires, unicorns, zombies, tragic/hopeless endings, women as victims, setting change AUs, RPF
Weiss Kreuz
Brad Crawford/Fujimiya "Aya" Ran/Schuldig - Aya's role in this can be as consensual or as much not as you wish. A lot depends on how you choose to read Aya. There are indications in canon that he's capable of abandoning everything for one goal and that he doesn't consider himself one of the Good Guys. Crawford and Schuldig make sense as people who're capable of attaching strongly, so they could actually value Aya as a partner. They could also just be two terrible people in love who like doing terrible things together and are doing them to an Aya who would rather not.This is also fine at any rating.
Brad Crawford/Hidaka Ken - Fine at any rating and with any degree of consent. They might be terrible people doing terrible things together. They might be using each other. They might be fluffy in some nonstandard way. Or one or the other of them has control of the other. I'm used to seeing Crawford in control in such situations (which is fine), but I wonder how on earth it could happen that Ken might have power over an unwilling Crawford.
Brad Crawford/Schuldig - I prefer this consensual and committed. The degree to which it's also fucked up is completely up to the writer. I'm open to the idea that they need each other in order to control their powers; I'd just prefer that they not loathe each other because they need each other. If that makes sense? They might be fluffy in some nonstandard way. And maybe they really do want to take over the world? Or, if they don't, it's only because ruling the world cuts into the time available for things that are actually fun. Fine at any rating.
Fujimiya Aya-chan/Tomoe Sakura - I would prefer that this relationship skew happy. The circumstances around them can be crappy, but I'd like them to love each other and not have that undermined during the story. I would prefer that anything explicit (if there is anything) occur after they're both over 18. I'd kind of like to see them dealing with fallout from all of the bullshit in canon. Maybe they have powers now? Maybe they both have problems with demons or with groups that think that Aya-chan is still a great potential host? I don't mind having the male characters in the background, but I'd like the focus on how these two interact with each other. Fine at any rating.
Kudou Yohji/Naoe Nagi - I wrote this pairing once upon a time (the fic is long and unfinished, possibly permanently. If you haven't already read it, ignore it, please). I'm curious how someone else would write it. Please set it after Nagi's 18. Please don't bash Tot or Asuka (bashing Neu is fine). Any level of consent is fine. I'd also be okay with something between Nagi and post-Gluhen Yohji as long as the story recognizes that Yohji not recognizing Nagi and knowing their history makes it seriously messed up (if you want to do a fix-it for the amnesia, be my guest, but I don't mind if you don't). I just want to see someone else play with the idea of these two.
I prefer that Crawford and Schuldig not be made Good. They can be loving and loyal (or not), but they're villains and, at best, amoral. I'm okay with the idea of Nagi developing ethics as he gets older, but that feels wrong to me for Crawford or Schuldig. And Nagi not developing ethics would also work given who he's working for in Gluhen.
I don't mind ignoring Gluhen, but I also don't mind keeping it. I tend to ignore it when writing because some of the plot/character developments are inconvenient for my story ideas. Too many closed doors, if that makes sense.
I like stories that play around with the psychic powers (feel free to give psychic powers to those who don't have them in canon). I also like the sense, in canon, that there are things most people don't notice in terms of psychics, magic/mad science (summonings, shapeshifting, people coming back from the dead), and conspiracies.
I like canon divergent AUs. Time travel is fun, but I prefer to avoid the sort in which the characters can't change things. I enjoy crack taken seriously, fluff, angst, worldbuilding, shades of gray, conflicting loyalties.
Fandom specific DNW: Farfarello, Side B (I haven't read it), heavy reliance on drama CD canon.
DNW: incest, death of requested characters, graphic violence, gore, cancer, child harm or death, underage sex, drowning or deep water, vampires, unicorns, zombies, tragic/hopeless endings, women as victims, setting change AUs, RPF
My having more words about a fandom or a grouping does not mean that I'm more interested in receiving a story about that fandom and/or those characters. Even when I say very little, I want a story with those characters. I wouldn't have requested them if I wouldn't be pleased to get them.
Chronicles of Amber
Benedict & Eric
Benedict & Oberon - For these two relationships, I want similar things. These are family relationships strained by politics and power differentials. Benedict survived his father disposing of his mother and older brothers. Eric was the first of his (known) younger siblings, and Eric was in a political position potentially as precarious as Benedict's. Benedict has to have had complicated feelings about his family generally and about Oberon and Eric more specifically. How did it all work? Was Benedict simply very pragmatic about survival matters? Was Benedict too young to join his brothers in rebellion, closer in age to Eric maybe?
Benedict/Lintra - Lintra is barely a footnote in the story, and I'd like to know more about how she came into things. Did she set out to seduce Benedict or he her or did it just kind of happen? I wouldn't mind an AU in which she survives but am equally curious about how the war between them went from first meeting to her death.
Dara/Oberon - Dara's canonical behavior makes a lot more sense to me if the two of them have a / relationship. Oberon being terrible is pretty canonical, so he may have encouraged her to fall for him. Then again, he may also have discovered that they were well matched. I'm not sure he'd have found her nearly so easy to get rid of as his earlier wives. I have no strong opinions about how many generations separate Dara and Oberon. She might be his grandchild; there might equally be a dozen 'greats' inserted into the relationship label. If Oberon deliberately cultivated Dara's affection, I'd prefer not to see that part of the timeline because it's squicky to me.
Dara/Sawall - Was this marriage a matter of politics/alliances or of affection? Did it happen before Merlin was born or after? Merlin mentions growing up with his mother's husband and with Mandor. Despil and Jurt seem to be very close in age to Merlin, too. What sort of person was Gramble, Lord Sawall?
Llewella & Moire - I'm okay with deep water for Rebma because it's canonical that people can breathe there. One of these sisters is Queen; the other has power to warp reality. Is that a wedge between them? Are they loyal to each other above all? How old was Moire when Llewella came along? Canon never specifies whether Llewella is Moire's heir or if Martin is or if the heir is someone else altogether. How do the two women deal with Oberon and Amber? Does Llewella take Moire on expeditions into Shadow? Has Moire pushed Llewella to have children so that Rebma has more Pattern users?
Martin & Vialle - Before or after Vialle marries Random, either would be fascinating. Vialle mentions having been fond of Martin when he was a boy. Her wording implies that she was an adult when he was a child, but she might have been being misleading. Or not. I have written Vialle as a secret daughter of Oberon and would not mind seeing that here. Equally, I don't mind her being completely unrelated to any canonical character or being, say, Llewella's daughter or a child of a sibling of Moire's and Llewella's or... Feel free.
Fiona/Mandor - I don't really think that these two are in love. They likely find each other fascinating, challenging, and enjoyable. I just don't know how far either would inconvenience themselves to assist the other. Possibly they see that as a feature rather than a bug.
Martin/Merlin - The Corwin books left me with the impression that Merlin and Martin were friends, but they barely interacted in the Merlin books. I'd like to see something built on their friendship but with the sorts of complications that come from the problems in their families and with having godlike power.
Random/Vialle - There are a lot of gaps in canon as far as these two are concerned. What was their life like in Rebma? In Eric's Amber? After the Unicorn chose Random? Them learning to be King and Queen seems like something that would have taken a lot of work. I have written Vialle as a secret daughter of Oberon and would not mind seeing that here. Equally, I don't mind her being completely unrelated to any canonical character or being, say, Llewella's daughter or a child of a sibling of Moire's and Llewella's or... Feel free.
For these pairings, I would like any sex to be consensual. I don't need explicit sex for any of them and am more interested in character development and emotions in all cases.
I like the complicated family connections and the long term scheming in this canon. I also like that some characters make a genuine connection with each other.
More generally, I like canon divergent AUs. Time travel is fun, but I prefer to avoid the sort in which the characters can't change things (I'm not sure how time travel would work with this canon). I enjoy crack taken seriously, fluff, angst, worldbuilding, shades of gray, conflicting loyalties.
This fandom is an exception to my DNW for incest. Seriously, for most of these folks, being related to whoever they're having sex with is usually the least messed up part of the relationship. (And I'm generally more troubled by the abuse of trust aspect of incest than I am by the genetic side of things.)
DNW: focus on death of requested characters, graphic violence, gore, cancer, child harm or death, underage sex, drowning or deep water, vampires, unicorns, zombies, tragic/hopeless endings, women as victims, setting change AUs, RPF
Crossover Fandom (Leverage with Person of Interest)
Harold Finch & Alec Hardison
Harold Finch & Nathan Ford
Team Machine & Team Leverage
I mostly want to see these canons intersect. Other characters from both canons are welcome. Feel free to tinker with the timelines-- Finch could have had help from the Leverage crew in the early days after Nathan's death. Samaritan might have tried to use the Leverage crew to track down members of Team Machine. Other ideas welcome.
More generally, I like canon divergent AUs. Time travel is fun, but I prefer to avoid the sort in which the characters can't change things. I enjoy crack taken seriously, fluff, angst, worldbuilding, shades of gray, conflicting loyalties.
DNW: focus on death of requested characters, graphic violence, gore, cancer, child harm or death, underage sex, drowning or deep water, vampires, unicorns, zombies, tragic/hopeless endings, women as victims, setting change AUs, RPF
The Librarians (TV 2014)
Cassandra Cillian & Ezekiel Jones & Jake Stone (The Librarians TV)
Cassandra Cillian & Jacob "Jake" Stone (The Librarians (TV 2014))
Cassandra Cillian & Jenkins | Galahad (The Librarians TV)
Eve Baird & Cassandra Cillian & Jenkins & Ezekiel Jones & Jake Stone (The Librarians TV)
Eve Baird & Jenkins | Galahad (The Librarians TV)
Jenkins | Galahad & Ezekiel Jones (The Librarians TV)
Here, I mainly want to see the characters supporting each other. Episode tags, AUs from events in specific episodes, completely new adventures, getting lost inside the Library together. Oddball allusions in naming artifacts is a plus.
More generally, I like canon divergent AUs. Time travel is fun, but I prefer to avoid the sort in which the characters can't change things. I enjoy crack taken seriously, fluff, angst, worldbuilding, shades of gray, conflicting loyalties.
Fandom specific DNW: Flynn/Eve, focus on Flynn, destruction of books
DNW: focus on death of requested characters, graphic violence, gore, cancer, child harm or death, underage sex, drowning or deep water, vampires, unicorns, zombies, tragic/hopeless endings, women as victims, setting change AUs, RPF
Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension
Candace/Jeremy - I'd prefer this post-movie, at the earliest, since Candace wasn't really aware of Jeremy before that. I'm interested in how they interact with each other and in what they perceive as normal. What do they do with themselves now that they have options?
Candace & Isabella - Isabella seemed to be one of Candace's trusted lieutenants. I'm curious about how they achieved that level of trust. I'm curious about how they interacted after the movie, too. 2nd Dimension Isabella seemed to have a different sort of hard edges than 2nd Dimension Candace did. Do they meet up regularly (with or without the other Firestorm Girls) to have ice cream and talk about how weird the world is now or about the challenges of social interactions?
Charlene/Heinz - 2nd Dimension Charlene is fascinating and very different from the 1st Dimension version. Is she the reason her husband ruled the Tri-State Area for so long? How did they meet? Did they have date nights after they started pretending to be divorced? How do they get along while they're on the run after canon?
Ferb & Candace & Phineas - 2nd Dimension Candace's focus on protecting her brothers is kind of heartbreaking. It also kind of stifled them even as it kept them safe. Do the boys understand what Candace was trying to do for them? Do they try to help her recover? Do they try to set her up with a romantic partner? Do all three of them need to work together to help their parents? What's the new normal?
Vanessa/Monty
Vanessa/Stacy - No explicit sex for these pairings, please. They can be doing whatever off screen, but I don't want to read about it. These two are kind of oddball because Monty and Stacy don't appear in the 2nd Dimension canon. I'm curious about how the pairings might happen before the movie and/or after the movie. Up through the end of the movie, the relationship would need to be secret from Vanessa's parents and would be dangerous for not-Vanessa people involved. That might be a thing to play with. I prefer that the relationships be consensual. Possibly Monty was Vanessa's bodyguard at some point? Her parents might not have realized that they were involved. Monty may have wanted to rescue his father and met Vanessa that way. Or Vanessa might try to chat up Monty after canon in hopes of getting information on the new OWCA. As to Stacy, she's good at finding loopholes and managing difficult people. I could see her working as Vanessa's companion or maid (lady in waiting?) at some point before the movie and the two of them falling for each other. I could also see them having a meet cute after canon without Stacy recognizing Vanessa as a Doofenshmirtz. It might have to happen outside the Tri-State Area, but there's no reason Stacy couldn't leave and go to college. (Ginger's part of the Firestorm Girls group, so the family has to have still been there during the movie.)
I'm specifically looking for the 2nd Dimension versions of these characters. Monty and Stacy don't appear in either the movie or the associated episode, but the divergence point between the universes is late enough that I assume they exist.
I like parts of the 2nd Dimension sequel episode quite a bit, particularly getting to see Charlene and Vanessa. I'm not as into Candace having waited to get to know Jeremy, but I think that might be because I wrote them together right after the movie (before the episode came out). Do as you wish with the episode canon.
Gentle humor is important to me in this fandom.
More generally, I like canon divergent AUs. Time travel is fun, but I prefer to avoid the sort in which the characters can't change things. I enjoy crack taken seriously, fluff, angst, worldbuilding, shades of gray, conflicting loyalties.
Fandom specific DNW: focus on 1st Dimension versions of the characters, explicit sex
DNW: incest, death of requested characters, graphic violence, gore, cancer, child harm or death, explicit underage sex, drowning or deep water, vampires, unicorns, zombies, tragic/hopeless endings, women as victims, setting change AUs, RPF
Sky High
Barron Battle & Warren Peace - Does Warren write to his father? Do they have good memories from before Barron went to prison? Is Barron proud of his son or putting pressure on him to live up to some standard? Do they disagree about Warren's future? Did Warren ever try to help his father escape?
Barron Battle/Ms. Peace - Consensual, please. Secret identity shenanigans are fine if neither of them knows, but I'd rather not have betrayal in the relationship at the beginning. How did they meet? How did it end? Did they get married? Was Ms. Peace really a hero? Was Barron Battle really a villain? What powers did they have?
Jonathan Boy & Josie Stronghold - Mr Boy clearly has complicated feelings about the Strongholds. He's also apparently crushed by the way his life has gone. I'm wondering about how he and Josie interacted before the Strongholds married. Alternatively, how do they interact after they meet again at Homecoming? I'd prefer that Mr Boy not go into Nice Guy territory, and I really don't want infidelity here.
Magenta & Josie Stronghold & Layla Williams - Mentoring, here, mostly. Give me women supporting each other. Please omit discussion of romantic partners (unless it's Magenta/Layla). An adventure or a case to solve would be grand, too. Appearances by other female characters welcome.
Magenta/Layla Williams - No explicit sex unless they're both over 18, but please don't make a big deal of the age as a milestone for that. I don't think the characters would. I'd like the superpowers to figure into the story in a way that makes them integral parts of who the characters are and how they relate to each other. I'm not very interested in how they got together and would prefer an established relationship. This can be fluffy or skew darker, but I'd like the relationship to be solid and good for both of them. Kitten acquisition to surviving the apocalypse. Whatever.
Warren Peace/Will Stronghold/Layla Williams - Established relationship, please. I'm not interested in how they get together or in relationship balance angst. I'd like to see how they function together to achieve goals. From kitten acquisition to surviving the apocalypse. Whatever. I'd like to see how they decide to deal with a world that assumes monogamy. Do they play games with their identities? No explicit sex unless they're all over 18, but please don't make a big deal of the age as a milestone for that. I don't think the characters would.
More generally, I like canon divergent AUs. Time travel is fun, but I prefer to avoid the sort in which the characters can't change things. I enjoy crack taken seriously, fluff, angst, worldbuilding, shades of gray, conflicting loyalties.
Fandom specific DNWs: Marvel or DC crossovers (allusions are fine), uncritical endorsement of the hero/sidekick system
DNW: incest, death of requested characters, graphic violence, gore, cancer, child harm or death, underage sex, drowning or deep water, vampires, unicorns, zombies, tragic/hopeless endings, women as victims, setting change AUs, RPF
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Brad Crawford/Fujimiya "Aya" Ran/Schuldig - Aya's role in this can be as consensual or as much not as you wish. A lot depends on how you choose to read Aya. There are indications in canon that he's capable of abandoning everything for one goal and that he doesn't consider himself one of the Good Guys. Crawford and Schuldig make sense as people who're capable of attaching strongly, so they could actually value Aya as a partner. They could also just be two terrible people in love who like doing terrible things together and are doing them to an Aya who would rather not.This is also fine at any rating.
Brad Crawford/Hidaka Ken - Fine at any rating and with any degree of consent. They might be terrible people doing terrible things together. They might be using each other. They might be fluffy in some nonstandard way. Or one or the other of them has control of the other. I'm used to seeing Crawford in control in such situations (which is fine), but I wonder how on earth it could happen that Ken might have power over an unwilling Crawford.
Brad Crawford/Schuldig - I prefer this consensual and committed. The degree to which it's also fucked up is completely up to the writer. I'm open to the idea that they need each other in order to control their powers; I'd just prefer that they not loathe each other because they need each other. If that makes sense? They might be fluffy in some nonstandard way. And maybe they really do want to take over the world? Or, if they don't, it's only because ruling the world cuts into the time available for things that are actually fun. Fine at any rating.
Fujimiya Aya-chan/Tomoe Sakura - I would prefer that this relationship skew happy. The circumstances around them can be crappy, but I'd like them to love each other and not have that undermined during the story. I would prefer that anything explicit (if there is anything) occur after they're both over 18. I'd kind of like to see them dealing with fallout from all of the bullshit in canon. Maybe they have powers now? Maybe they both have problems with demons or with groups that think that Aya-chan is still a great potential host? I don't mind having the male characters in the background, but I'd like the focus on how these two interact with each other. Fine at any rating.
Kudou Yohji/Naoe Nagi - I wrote this pairing once upon a time (the fic is long and unfinished, possibly permanently. If you haven't already read it, ignore it, please). I'm curious how someone else would write it. Please set it after Nagi's 18. Please don't bash Tot or Asuka (bashing Neu is fine). Any level of consent is fine. I'd also be okay with something between Nagi and post-Gluhen Yohji as long as the story recognizes that Yohji not recognizing Nagi and knowing their history makes it seriously messed up (if you want to do a fix-it for the amnesia, be my guest, but I don't mind if you don't). I just want to see someone else play with the idea of these two.
I prefer that Crawford and Schuldig not be made Good. They can be loving and loyal (or not), but they're villains and, at best, amoral. I'm okay with the idea of Nagi developing ethics as he gets older, but that feels wrong to me for Crawford or Schuldig. And Nagi not developing ethics would also work given who he's working for in Gluhen.
I don't mind ignoring Gluhen, but I also don't mind keeping it. I tend to ignore it when writing because some of the plot/character developments are inconvenient for my story ideas. Too many closed doors, if that makes sense.
I like stories that play around with the psychic powers (feel free to give psychic powers to those who don't have them in canon). I also like the sense, in canon, that there are things most people don't notice in terms of psychics, magic/mad science (summonings, shapeshifting, people coming back from the dead), and conspiracies.
I like canon divergent AUs. Time travel is fun, but I prefer to avoid the sort in which the characters can't change things. I enjoy crack taken seriously, fluff, angst, worldbuilding, shades of gray, conflicting loyalties.
Fandom specific DNW: Farfarello, Side B (I haven't read it), heavy reliance on drama CD canon.
DNW: incest, death of requested characters, graphic violence, gore, cancer, child harm or death, underage sex, drowning or deep water, vampires, unicorns, zombies, tragic/hopeless endings, women as victims, setting change AUs, RPF
