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Falling In Love Exchange 2026
[WIP; SMALL THOUGHTS ON THE TAGS I CHOSE FOR SLAY THE PRINCESS WILL BE UP BEFORE 11:59PM EST ON THE 26TH! EVERYTHING ELSE IS DONE 💕]
Hello, potential Falling In Love Exchange creators! Thank you and welcome to my letter post! :P I'm Mal or Mali (malachiical @ AO3 as well); I'll try to keep each individual section of this letter brief, and you should be able to skip to wherever you like with anchor links and/or just expand the parts relevant to you via cut. I hope our ids align and you have a blast writing, because I'm definitely looking forward to whatever you come up with!
SFW Likes
Bugsnax (Video Game)
Floofty Fizzlebean/Snorpy Fizzlebean
[Where you can find full playthrough and extra dialogue videos:
The full game + the Isle of Bigsnax DLC is available with no commentary HERE (19 hours and 17 minutes long)
All of the characters' death lines are HERE (first is what they say when they're close to getting killed, then are the lines where they're actually dying)
Bad end lines from the base game HERE (includes Chandlo if Snorpy dies, and Snorpy if Chandlo dies)
And finally, bad end lines added in the DLC HERE (includes Floofty if Snorpy dies, and Snorpy if Floofty dies)]
They start off the canon bitterly estranged! They disparage each other but still deeply respect each other and care so much! Snorpy rushes in to keep Floofty dying to their own research, which prompts another fight where Snorpy wants them to value their life and they insult him over it! Then they have to admit more privately that they didn't mean any insult they said and they're a coward! They're both gutted if the other dies, with Floofty specifically having to wrench themself away from being pretty much suicidal over it and Snorpy mourning about how they were never able to finish mending their relationship and wanting to try to continue their research... Also just as an aside, pretty sure it's implied that Snorpy's at least tried to put a tracker on them, lmao. Yes they are weird goofy Muppet people but good lord do I want so many fanworks for them.
DNWs
Crossover Fandom (Eyeshield 21/Ouran High School Host Club)
Hiruma Youichi/Ootori Kyouya
This ship strikes me as fascinating and with a ton of potential for fun stuff! Hiruma and Kyouya are incredibly different people, but also alike in a lot of ways that I think could both make them respect one another, be impressed by one another, see the value in one another, and also sometimes grate on each others' nerves like hell. They are both likely to know way too much about each other, and about each others' clubmates/teammates, and I could easily see them being on mostly equal footing.
I'm betting both would have a hard time actually pulling off blackmailing the other (or people close enough to the other to have any of their protection) or really getting one over on the other, with maybe one or two moments on either side where they get the upper hand for a VERY short period before the other manages to get things back under control. This would usually leave them having to approach each other in other ways, either more subtle manipulation (that they're both probably aware of and also aware that they're both aware of) or flat-out making deals with each other for mutual benefit. Which is great because they'd also make a scary good team when and if they did come together, so I could also see them both being savvy enough to seek the other out as a useful contact to get and to uphold.
Basically, with these two I especially like the idea of them being basically evenly matched, and them being drawn to each other specifically because of that. Neither of them actually being able to have the upper hand over the other or really intimidate the other is a key part of why I'm interested in them!
(I would also like to mention that while Hiruma resembles Kyouya waaaay more than he resembles Tamaki, still, Jesus, blond boys who are super passionate about a thing are going to be the death of Kyouya seriously. I am also fine with some minor former or current one-sided Kyouya->Tamaki feelings, and it's cool if Hiruma has some one-sided feelings for someone, I don't really have Feelings Preferences there. Just assume that he and Mamori aren't together, feelings can have happened but whether it's one-sided or a handwavey breakup or just something they decided wouldn't work is fine, I imagine they're still on fine terms.)
DNWs
Crossover Fandom (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!/Ouran High School Host Club)
Kanamori Sayaka/Ootori Kyouya
This ship strikes me as fascinating and with a ton of potential for fun stuff! Kanamori and Kyouya are incredibly different people, but also have enough similarities that I can easily see them getting each other (at least on some level), quickly getting on each others' radar, and both quickly ending up respecting one another, being impressed by one another, and/or seeing the value in one another... And also being both similar and different enough that they're each able to throw the other off balance. I feel like if they came into each others' orbit they'd both quickly decide they need to find out what they can about each other, and about each others' clubs. I can also easily see them being on mostly equal footing -- though I have a preference for Kanamori having the upper hand more often if there is a bit of an imbalance! And I feel like they'd make a scary good team if and when they did come together, so I could also see them both being savvy enough to seek the other out as a useful contact to get and to uphold...
Plus there's just the general club dynamics. Kyouya and the Host Club getting dragged into Film Club shenanigans? Kanamori and the Film Club finding themselves involved in Host Club madness? ABSOLUTELY YES.
...But seriously. Two calculating glasses-wearers (well, sort of) who basically run their clubs from the wings, try to corral their more excitable members, and have a penchant for blackmail? This could make for a really fun dynamic where they might butt heads at first, but could quickly come to realize the other is a maybe dangerous but also potentially very useful ally to have. Kanamori making sure that she and the other Film Club members are basically un-blackmail-able while Kyouya is often able to call her bluffs in turn could be very fun. The both of them separately organizing things to make sure their club gets a real solid benefit out of any interactions they have, help they give, or deals they make could be a really fun dynamic! As well as eventually actively working together to make sure they both benefit... Feel free to change details, of course, but that's basically the vibes I'm imagining here.
DNWs
How to Survive Camping (Fainting--Goat)
Kate/The Man With The Skull Cup
[Where you can find the stories free online: Here! (A table of contents; most links are via the Wayback Machine.)]
AKA Kate/Beau! These characters have such a wild relationship with one another; I have not been able to get over it since I first read these stories, and a re-read brought all of that back not just full force but redoubled.
She hates him and is afraid of him, and she loves him like she loves the barn cat with the kinked tail or the plant her uncle gave her. She irritates him, and a lot of things about being near her and interacting with her outright hurts him, and he'll miss her. She was willing to give her life for him and she will fight him to the actual death and the very thought of him dying scares and pains her. He has a claim on her life and wants to use her to become something more instead and is willing to die for just the chance that she will do as he hopes. They have stabbed each other and saved one another's lives. She knows people ship them online and she trolls the shippers and him about it; he trolls her too just for kicks, often in the same apparently irritated deadpan as ever. He has made terrifying enemies because he chose her. She refilled his skull cup and basically soulbonded them together and he accepted that and tied his life to hers. She gave him a name and an identity. The people who read her stories love him because they see him through her eyes...
All this to say, this messy, messy relationship that is in its own way full of love and the effort, through fear and pain, to love, in their own ways, just absolutely fills and shatters my heart. I love how much they are there for each other and how much they are willing to do for each other when it comes down to it, while also being pretty brutal with each other at times and, when it comes down to it, being both willing to sacrifice themself for the other but also willing to harm or kill the other. And Kate is so, so human and Beau is so inhuman but in some unexpected ways they do meet each other in the middle, even if neither really wants to admit it, which I adore.
(I also love the weird gender stuff going on with Beau; it feels very relatable while also feeling very inhuman in ways I enjoy! I think it makes sense to interpret Beau as basically nonbinary or arguably the equivalent of a trans man, given how he looks different to everyone, including different genders, until his "self" starts to solidify due to Kate's stories describing him and her getting him a name. And I also adore that -- how entwined she is in his forming identity, how she gives him a name and does in fact start to solidify and change who he is, and how despite saying he can't change he still does start to change around her and go against his own nature even when it hurts!)
DNWs
Katekyou Hitman Reborn!
Belphegor/Gokudera Hayato
[Where you can find the series free online: Fanfox.net for the manga; Yomi.to for the anime!
In the manga, Belphegor is mostly in the Varia Arc (chapters 82-135), but also shows up in a reasonably semi-major way in parts of the Future Arc (chapters 136-282) and the Inheritance Ceremony Arc and The Curse of the Rainbow Arc (chapters 283-409). In the anime, they never did those final two arcs; Belphegor is mostly in the Varia Arc still (episodes 34-65) and also part of the anime-only Arcobaleno Trials Arc (episodes 141-153), and shows up in a reasonably semi-major way in parts of the larger Future Arc (episodes 74-203).
...Gokudera plays a major role in pretty much every arc in both the manga and anime, though.]
(I am familiar with both the manga and the anime; feel free to mix and match from both! I'm not familiar with the stage shows, unfortunately. I am familiar with the character songs and some of the drama CD and other extra stuff like Haru's interviews, so feel free to pull from that stuff if you like!)
I've just adored these two for ages! They're literal counterparts, both having fought to be the Storm Guardian specifically, and I've always wanted to see what would happen if they got paired up more often after that whole debacle! I love how different they are, with Gokudera taking everything so, so seriously but being so soft and good deep down, and Belphegor being so amused and playful a lot of the time and being an absolute nightmare of a person in a lot of ways! But they both have surprising loyalty to them (well, surprising in Belphegor's case) and they both fight with long-distance thrown weapons, they're both absolute geniuses and that's not always obvious, and Gokudera might be the one out of Tsuna's Guardians (well, maybe alongside Mukuro) who knows exactly how serious and deadly being part of the Mafia is. Especially with the Ten Years Later arc revealing the Varia's loyalty and seeming to show that they're closer to the Vongola, I am so intrigued by how these two might click (maybe with some... or, well, a Lot of difficulty) if they had to work and fight together more!
DNWs
The Last Halloween (Webcomic)
Doctor Fugue/Robert
[Where you can find the comic: Here!
Book 1 is by far the most pertinent; that's 7 chapters/about 114 pages.]
For Doctor Fugue/Robert, this takes a little bit of explaining, since their interactions are minor and not particularly significant. But the more I thought about them individually, I liked what their slight interplay does say about them and how the shapes of their arcs kinda work together.
Doctor Fugue is undead, a doctor and supernatural (mad) scientist, a Victorian-ish ghost. One who haunts the church and can't leave. He employs what he thinks of as a little group of undead children to help him graverob bodies for his raising-the-dead experiments (as well as upgrading/replacing Jangles's various bits). He's a big faker; Robert flat-out says he's not a good doctor, which is proven very correct when Mona comes back. He not only hands a ten year old a magic weapon he knows nothing about and sends her and the other "kids" out with completely incorrect information, he's apparently sent multiple "group[s] of untrained misfits to their deaths without actually nowing what was going on," to the point that Charon's chewed him out about it at least once before. Fugue shoves a magic sickle into Mona's hands and pushes her out the door with a few undead "child" chaperones during the Apocalypse so that she can go take care of it; this is a whole bunch of terrible decisions all in a clump, made worse by him not understanding the situation and actually sending them on a wild goose chase in the end. Mona has to chop up and even kill multiple monsters, nearly dying more than once and actually losing an arm to the ordeal, something she makes clear to Fugue that she'll never forgive him for (which he finds fair). His whole arc seems to involve him getting a huge dose of guilt for once in his unlife, realizing just how badly he fucked this little group up, seeming to have a change of heart about the "playing Dr. Frankenstein" thing and trying in some small ways to start to make amends.
Robert, on the other hand, is posing as an undead, a doll cursed to life by voodoo. Until he tells Mona and Shirley, literally no one in the group including Fugue knows that he's a monster, not undead at all, and is also immortal (or what they call immortal) due to killing his human several decades prior; he claims to be an undead to avoid the attention of the Phagocyte. He's around 117 years old, if not a bit older, and he's often the closest thing the group has to a straight-man; he keeps his own secrets, even when it would be really helpful to share, because he rarely feels invested in others, and he doesn't tend to personally lend much of a hand, especially not to save people. He's calm and soft-spoken, good with normal human adults, and very calmly makes threats when called for as well (and sometimes even commits violence against his undead "friends," such as sewing Ringley's mouth shut, though they don't seem to mind). He, and let me state this again, killed his own human, Gene, decades before the canon starts, and tells the story at one point about how they had been one another's dearest friends and Robert had ruined Gene's entire life thoroughly until Gene had asked Robert to kill him. He says that it was and is his nature. He shows that this may not be as true as he thought.
Robert goes along on the save-the-world quest to keep everyone on track and give them even a tiny chance, but he saves Mona's life once and then tells her he'll never do it again so she'd better learn to save herself. Mona does learn, however, despite him keeping a lot of information back and outright lying at times, and he becomes more attached and invested in the outcome of their mission. It even gets to the point that he eventually fully opens up, becomes somewhat more reassuring (and even open to affectionate touch, which was Not a thing for him at first), sort of steps into a mentor role to Mona, and promptly sacrifices his own life to give her a fighting chance. His own arc involves him actually becoming attached to the situation and its people for once, to the point of purposefully sacrificing his life to give Mona a chance to survive and succeed (on what is, unbeknownst to them, a fool's errand), even admitting his own origins and past and coming face-to-face with the fact, for the first time, that maybe his nature as a monster is something he can choose to act counter to.
...So Fugue sends Mona, Robert, and the others off on a pointless quest that gets one of them killed and nearly kills two more of them, and is having to live with that fuck-up (figuratively speaking). He's obviously hit pretty hard by Robert's death and Mona's hatred of him, and comes to regret his choices and the results they had on the others, actually swearing off using corpses to make more undead for a while as he decides to use one of the fresh corpses to save Shirley's life instead. And by the end of Book One Fugue still hasn't even been made aware that Robert was a monster the whole time and has sort of... fused with the magic sickle that's supernaturally bonded to Mona. Overall, the canon, or at least Book 1, is a very interesting set of characters and relationships who are all affected and shaken badly by the general situation but also by the lies told and secrets kept, primarily by Fugue but also arguably by Robert, and the idea of two of them together really intrigues me.
DNWs
Slay the Princess (Visual Novel)
Voice of the Cold/Voice of the Paranoid
[If you don't actually own the game, you can find the following videos on YouTube:
• BAI GAMING Video #1 - Pertinent parts are at 50:50-58:35 (The Razor, starting at the point where all the voices start coming in) and 2:12:52-2:56:12 (The Nightmare, with Voice of the Paranoid, and The Moment of Clarity with everyone)
• BAI GAMING Video #2 - Pertinent parts are at 57:46-1:06:59 (The Apotheosis, with Voice of the Paranoid) and 1:39:37-2:53:04 (The Spectre and The Wraith, with Voice of the Cold)
• Slay the Princess - The Spectre & The Wraith - Pertinent part is at 31:00-48:28 (The Wraith variation, with Voice of the Cold and Voice of the Paranoid)
• BAI GAMING Video #3 - Pertinent part is at 2:53:14-3:09:25 (The Wild, with Voice of the Paranoid)
• BAI GAMING Video #4 - Pertinent parts are at 26:22-46:40 (The Burned Grey, with Voice of the Cold), 1:30:29-1:49:54 (The Drowned Grey, with Voice of the Cold), and 1:53:08-2:41:07 (The Nightmare variations, with way more from Voice of the Paranoid)
• Slay the Princess - All Endings - Potentially pertinent part is at 26:15-28:09 (A New Dawn ending)
PRISTINE CUT ADDITIONS:
• Apotheosis Fight + Unravelled/Grace Endings (Paranoid) [Slay The Princess - The Pristine Cut] - About 40 minutes, with Voice of the Paranoid.
• The Cage Route in Slay the Princess - Playthrough and Route Endings - Pertinent part is at 27:49-48:57 (with Voice of the Paranoid).
• Adversarial Fury - Contrarian/Broken/Cold [Slay The Princess - The Pristine Cut] - Pertinent part is 1:08:59-1:42:38 (with Voice of the Cold).
• Fury - Quantum Beak (you can respawn) [Slay The Princess - The Pristine Cut] - Pertinent part is 22:39-39:10 (with Voice of the Cold).
• Happily Ever After Route in Slay the Princess - Playthrough and Route Endings - 37:39 minutes, with Voice of the Paranoid. (It isn't possible to get Paranoid in this route anymore, for the record! All of this is Skeptic now. But I still think what was there is interesting...)
• The Princess and the Dragon Route in Slay the Princess - Playthrough and Route Endings - About 51 minutes, with Voice of the Cold.
Watching all of the above pertinent parts would take about 7 and a half hours, but you can easily knock it down to about 2 hours and 5 minutes by just watching their main routes: The Nightmare in the first video (2:12:52-2:40:21), The Spectre in the second video (1:39:37-2:28:30) and the Princess and the Dragon video, and The Wraith variation with both of them (31:00-48:28). Or watch whatever bits of whatever playthroughs you like...
Or, of course, play it yourself; just go with whatever works for you! :D]
These two really, really intrigue me. They don't get to interact that much, but they're quite interesting in The Wraith route, and also have moments in some of the other routes -- and some similarities and general qualities -- that make me think that they could really catch the other's attention if given more opportunity.
For one thing, they are both very aware of and surprisingly in control of their bodies. (Well, their shared body. The protagonist's body. Let's just say "their bodies" for simplicity.) Voice of the Cold constantly talks about choosing to just stop feeling things, both emotions and any negative physical sensations; their back-and-forth of "Do we have to explain to you why pain is bad?" "You have to explain to yourself why it isn't," is VERY cool. But despite Voice of the Paranoid being obviously high-strung, he also has an immense amount of steel to him, not only manually running the body's autonomic nervous system during The Nightmare route, but also showing up specifically to keep Voice of the Broken in check during The Apotheosis route after Broken let The Tower into their mind which led to their death.
There are also little details, such as the fact that Cold usually shows up after you kill the Princess in cold blood and then yourself, and Paranoid also encourages killing yourself if you become trapped in The Nightmare route due to killing her. This actually leads to Cold showing up... And interestingly, before that, if the protagonist says to the Hero and the Paranoid that it'd be fine to be stuck in the void forever because they're the best company, Paranoid says, "Oh, you could do better than us," and that's right before Cold comes into the picture. In The Wraith route, he and Cold and Hero and the protagonist have to all work together to toss their body into the void with The Wraith in it, if they choose that route, and the "everyone on the count of three" moment Paranoid takes charge of is just neat.
And in a general sense, I really think they could... see something interesting in each other. Paranoid is nervy and definitely hasn't shut off his emotions at all, but he also has that aforementioned steel and sharp control over himself/his body/The Body, that might be even more intriguing and impressive based on how unexpected it is. And Cold is a dangerous person, yes, but is actually less dangerous to the other voices than someone like the Broken or even the Smitten, and might also be easier to predict than someone like the Opportunist or even the Hunted -- you know exactly what his danger is, if he's going to be dangerous. And at the same time, Paranoid seems to trust the other voices in a way he doesn't trust anyone "other," and Cold seems to want to help the other voices, often trying to give them advice on how to get through situations without breaking down. There's an automatic sort of rapport there that makes it more likely they'd get close to each other than if they were just ordinary people with their same personalities.
Also, speaking of that, I do love the bodysharing and would be super into that if you want to roll with it, but I also love a theoretical post-canon situation where maybe the voices are all getting their own bodies. You don't even have to get into how and why they have different bodies if you want to do that; just handwaving it would be fine!
DNWs
Hello, potential Falling In Love Exchange creators! Thank you and welcome to my letter post! :P I'm Mal or Mali (malachiical @ AO3 as well); I'll try to keep each individual section of this letter brief, and you should be able to skip to wherever you like with anchor links and/or just expand the parts relevant to you via cut. I hope our ids align and you have a blast writing, because I'm definitely looking forward to whatever you come up with!
- General Likes
- - SFW Likes
- - Smut Likes
- Bugsnax (Video Game) - Floofty Fizzlebean/Snorpy Fizzlebean
- - DNWs
- - Opt-Ins
- - Canon-Specific Likes
- - Requested Tags & Details
- Crossover Fandom (Eyeshield 21/Ouran High School Host Club) - Hiruma Youichi/Ootori Kyouya
- - DNWs
- - Opt-Ins
- - Canon-Specific Likes
- - Requested Tags & Details
- Crossover Fandom (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!/Ouran High School Host Club) - Kanamori Sayaka/Ootori Kyouya
- - DNWs
- - Opt-Ins
- - Canon-Specific Likes
- - Requested Tags & Details
- How to Survive Camping (Fainting--Goat) - Kate/The Man With The Skull Cup
- - DNWs
- - Opt-Ins
- - Canon-Specific Likes
- - Requested Tags & Details
- Katekyou Hitman Reborn! - Belphegor/Gokudera Hayato
- - DNWs
- - Opt-Ins
- - Canon-Specific Likes
- - Requested Tags & Details
- The Last Halloween (Webcomic) - Doctor Fugue/Robert
- - DNWs
- - Opt-Ins
- - Canon-Specific Likes
- - Requested Tags & Details
- Slay the Princess (Visual Novel) - Voice of the Cold/Voice of the Paranoid
- - DNWs
- - Opt-Ins
- - Canon-Specific Likes
- - Requested Tags & Details
SFW Likes
- Descriptions of making out tbh
- Pining and culmination of pining: getting together, kissing, romantic tension/UST being resolved, mutual pining or initially one-sided pining, pining that lasts for weeks or even years
- Flirting, confident or awkward or just fuckin disastrous
- Extreme loyalty
- TRUST
- Intense relationships and general intensity
- One character carrying or helping physically support the other!
- Hurt/comfort! Fics with a balance on both or ones that lean towards more comfort than hurt are faves; feel free to get deep in the hurt but I love a sizeable focus on the comfort!
- Happy or at least hopeful/somewhat upbeat endings
- Fluff, snapshot moments of what's going on in their lives
- Canon divergent AUs, change one thing about a canon and maybe other things happen differently
- Trans headcanons where it's not A Thing in the fic: No coming out or explanations necessary, or it's just accepted and not super dwelled on, no Having To Deal With Bigotry or issuefic or anything, just character(s) happen(s) to be trans
- First times and milestones (sexual and/or romantic)
- Frot, scissoring, intercrural, grinding against ass, basically all that stuff
- Handjobs, fingering, oral
- Clothed sex, partially clothed sex, and clothing kink
- Inexperience, awkward, clumsy but eager and enjoyable sex
- BDSM, either just vibes, trappings/tones, or more formal
- Praise kink and instructions/requests/begging flavors of dirty talk
- Orgasm delay (though not total denial), edging
- XENO. Xeno xeno xeno I am so into xeno; play around with any nonhuman characters not having normal human genitalia and I am here for it; tentacles, cloacas, both sets of genitalia at the same time, genitals resembling flowers or wet pinecone dick, nothing there but touching can still get them off, even freakier (positive) things like possession being sexual somehow, legit whatever you can think of just g o f o r i t ~
- Strap-on sex in general, and also when it's treated like a dick (including handjobs/blowjobs)
- Manhandling, hair pulling, love bites and scratches, rough but not outright painful (or only pleasantly painful) sex
- Multiple orgasms, "forced" orgasms that are still enjoyable
- E n t h u s i a s m and detailed descriptions of sex, just go for it
- In general, I prefer the terms: penis, cock, dick, length; vagina, vulva, cunt, or pussy; nipples, ass, and testicles/balls can just be called those things; come or cum are both fine spellings (just not "cumming")
- PIV in trans smut (if applicable) is fine; oral and PIA sex super welcome; alternatives are also loved
Bugsnax (Video Game)
Floofty Fizzlebean/Snorpy Fizzlebean
[Where you can find full playthrough and extra dialogue videos:
The full game + the Isle of Bigsnax DLC is available with no commentary HERE (19 hours and 17 minutes long)
All of the characters' death lines are HERE (first is what they say when they're close to getting killed, then are the lines where they're actually dying)
Bad end lines from the base game HERE (includes Chandlo if Snorpy dies, and Snorpy if Chandlo dies)
And finally, bad end lines added in the DLC HERE (includes Floofty if Snorpy dies, and Snorpy if Floofty dies)]
They start off the canon bitterly estranged! They disparage each other but still deeply respect each other and care so much! Snorpy rushes in to keep Floofty dying to their own research, which prompts another fight where Snorpy wants them to value their life and they insult him over it! Then they have to admit more privately that they didn't mean any insult they said and they're a coward! They're both gutted if the other dies, with Floofty specifically having to wrench themself away from being pretty much suicidal over it and Snorpy mourning about how they were never able to finish mending their relationship and wanting to try to continue their research... Also just as an aside, pretty sure it's implied that Snorpy's at least tried to put a tracker on them, lmao. Yes they are weird goofy Muppet people but good lord do I want so many fanworks for them.
DNWs
- Noncon/dubcon
- Hatesex
- Halves of a ship not being romantically or sexually compatible/into each other
- Halves of a ship not really liking or caring about each other at all
- Characters hating their bodies or having shame about being trans
- Unhappy endings
- Unrequested AUs (canon divergence is always fine)
- Unrequested noncanon ships, unrequested noncanon poly (background between OCs is fine)
- Anyone in the ship being/getting pregnant
- THE FOLLOWING KINKS: Feederism, weight gain, inflation, pregnancy (breeding kink without any possibility of pregnancy is great, though!), scat, watersports, vomit kink (someone throwing up not in a kink context is fine!), vore, bestiality, mommy- or daddy-kink, 24/7 D/s
- Normalized incest (it's fine if someone knows about it and still supports them but incest being societally Fine and Normalized, being something people treat as just reasonable and like it'd be weird to not be okay about it, that's what I'd like to avoid here)
- Their relationship being presented as more unhealthy for them than not; despite everything, I'd love for it to be overall positive and make them happy in the end
- Snorpy cheating on Chandlo with Floofty (see opt-ins below for various alternatives)
- Villainizing Floofty; any implication that they'd experiment on people without their full knowledge and consent
- Using any pronouns for Floofty other than their canon they/them ones (unless done by an antagonist)
- Treats in general, and also art treats!
- Longfic!
- Third person or first person POV; past or present tense.
- Non-linear storytelling.
- Anything that might deserve the "Graphic Depictions Of Violence" warning, so long as that isn't done by one half of the ship to the other.
- Any of the other characters having died on Snaktooth Island during that ending sequence they can canonically die in (other than Filbo, Eggabell, and Lizbert, who can't die there).
- Floofty or Snorpy having died during that sequence so long as they get brought back somehow! (See likes section.)
- The following ways to avoid infidelity in this ship: a V relationship where Chandlo knows about and is at least tentatively okay with Floofty/Snorpy; full-on OT3 so long as the focus of the fic is on Floofty/Snorpy; an AU where Chandlo/Snorpy never got together; something set after a "Bad End" variant where Chandlo died on Snaktooth.
- I am open to the following background ships: Any of the canon ones (Chandlo/Snorpy, Eggabell/Lizbert, Gramble/Wiggle, Triffany/Wambus), Alegander/Clumby, Beffica/Filbo, Cromdo/Shelda, Filbo/Gramble, Journalist/basically anybody, OC/OC.
- Any of the following tags (I didn't request them, but I'd still be down for them!):
CUT FOR LENGTH
- Accidental arousal while cuddling for warmth
- Amusement Parks
- Angst with a Happy Ending
- Back to School
- Baking a Pie
- Banter turns into character(s) hinting at feelings towards one another
- camping under the stars
- Caretaking / Acts of Service
- caught in a thunderstorm
- Character A gets sick because of the cold Character B nurses them back to health
- Character A wraps Character B up in their coat
- Character Study
- Cock Warming
- cozy horror
- Cuddling up by a warm fire
- Curtain Fic
- Drying each other off after a Rainstorm
- Falling leaf gets stuck in A's hair; B plucks it out
- Family Bonding
- Feelings Realization While Doing Something Dangerous Together
- Fireplace Conversations
- First Date
- First Date (Realizing/Deciding It's A Date Partway Through)
- First Dates
- First Time
- Fluff
- Fluff and Smut
- Food/Cooking as a Metaphor for Love
- Forbidden Love
- Getting together after a traumatic event
- Halloween
- Halloween Costumes
- halloween party
- Harvest Festival
- Harvest Moon Viewing
- Haunted House
- Haunted House outings as a subtle 'date'.
- Haunted Houses
- Hot Chocolate
- Huddling For Warmth
- Hurt/Comfort - Reliving Trauma
- Jumping in the deep end together (figuratively)
- Kissing in the Rain
- making them laugh just to try to see their eyes/face light up
- Mystery
- Picnics
- Roasting Marshmallows Together
- Seasonal Change as Metaphor
- Sharing a blanket while sitting under the falling leaves
- sharing a scarf
- Sharing an umbrella
- Sharing Interests with One Another
- Smut
- Spending a Fall Day In the Big City
- Sudden Protective Feelings when Character shivers with Cold
- Surviving the Horrors Together
- Taking A Stroll Under Falling Leaves
- Taking shelter overnight in a cosy cabin that only has one bed
- Terrible Events Lead To Bonding
- Things are heading for disaster but you're by my side
- Title from a Song
- Trapped together by Severe Weather Event
- Walking Home Together
- Watching a scary movie together
- A wraps B up with a big cosy scarf
- Floofty's love of puns and dark humor, including about them autocannibalizing their own leg
- How much Floofty and all the other characters grow by the end of the game (at least, in their good ends)
- The fact that they became a Biology 101 professor! (At New Grump University?)
- Snorpy working on improving himself and becoming happier
- Alternatively, Floofty trying to help Snorpy as he starts spiraling...
- The entire concept of gastroentomology
- That Filbo became a real mayor after the events of canon!
- Lizbert and Eggabell's survival
- Things taking place on Snaktooth Island could be fun!
- Things with the Snakolytes post-canon could be silly, dangerous, very creepy, or anything in-between
- The idea of something set post-an ending in which Chandlo died during the escape from Snaktooth Island, with Floofty trying to help Snorpy hold it together and the two growing closer again and then too close
- Stories where either Floofty or Snorpy died on the island and the other desperately uses science to successfully figure out a way to get them back!!
- Their complicated history together, them trying to fix their relationship, them still having difficulty communicating but both trying to make it work anyway
- Them properly working together on something again!
- I kind of love the idea of Snorpy being the one to make the first move in this mutual-pining-and-not-wanting-to-be situation
- I could also love a fic where Chandlo/Snorpy is a thing and Floofty becomes involved in an odd way, either just with Snorpy or in an OT3 situation
- The names characters call one another! Floofty usually seems to call Snorpy by his full name, Snorpington, but sometimes does call him Snorpy; Snorpy always calls Floofty just by Floofty... does Floofty have a longer name he sometimes busts out? Neither seems the type to use pet names or endearments for various reasons (Floofty is a bit too stiff and Snorpy seems too hesitant to use them AND to just fall apart if they're used for him)... Have they ever called one another dear(est) sibling/brother or anything like that? If in or heading towards an illicit sort of relationship, are they more or less likely to call one another sibling/brother?
- Trans headcanons; I want Floofty to stay nonbinary and they/them like in canon, but I am open to Snorpy being a trans man, a trans woman, or some kind of nonbinary himself! I'm also open to trans headcanons for the other characters! Feel free to do whatever. And of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
- Character A is ill or injured and is nursed back to health by character B
- Character A knocking on B's door "I don't have anywhere else to go"
- Dancing together
- Feelings Realization
- First Kiss
- First Time Sex is Non-Penetrative
- Hurt/Comfort
- Mutual Pining
- Not Actually Unrequited Love
- Porn with Feelings
- Pumpkin Carving
- Reconnecting and becoming closer
- Romantic Inexperience
- Secret Relationship
- Slow Recovery From A Bad Situation - Together
- Soaked in the rain
- Suddenly Weak In the Knees
- Teaching Them How To Do Something By Placing Hands On Them
- We Didn't Realize Until We Were Kissing
- Wrapping Character in Blanket
Crossover Fandom (Eyeshield 21/Ouran High School Host Club)
Hiruma Youichi/Ootori Kyouya
This ship strikes me as fascinating and with a ton of potential for fun stuff! Hiruma and Kyouya are incredibly different people, but also alike in a lot of ways that I think could both make them respect one another, be impressed by one another, see the value in one another, and also sometimes grate on each others' nerves like hell. They are both likely to know way too much about each other, and about each others' clubmates/teammates, and I could easily see them being on mostly equal footing.
I'm betting both would have a hard time actually pulling off blackmailing the other (or people close enough to the other to have any of their protection) or really getting one over on the other, with maybe one or two moments on either side where they get the upper hand for a VERY short period before the other manages to get things back under control. This would usually leave them having to approach each other in other ways, either more subtle manipulation (that they're both probably aware of and also aware that they're both aware of) or flat-out making deals with each other for mutual benefit. Which is great because they'd also make a scary good team when and if they did come together, so I could also see them both being savvy enough to seek the other out as a useful contact to get and to uphold.
Basically, with these two I especially like the idea of them being basically evenly matched, and them being drawn to each other specifically because of that. Neither of them actually being able to have the upper hand over the other or really intimidate the other is a key part of why I'm interested in them!
(I would also like to mention that while Hiruma resembles Kyouya waaaay more than he resembles Tamaki, still, Jesus, blond boys who are super passionate about a thing are going to be the death of Kyouya seriously. I am also fine with some minor former or current one-sided Kyouya->Tamaki feelings, and it's cool if Hiruma has some one-sided feelings for someone, I don't really have Feelings Preferences there. Just assume that he and Mamori aren't together, feelings can have happened but whether it's one-sided or a handwavey breakup or just something they decided wouldn't work is fine, I imagine they're still on fine terms.)
DNWs
- Noncon/dubcon
- Hatesex
- Halves of a ship not being romantically or sexually compatible/into each other
- Halves of a ship not really liking or caring about each other at all
- Characters hating their bodies or having shame about being trans
- Unhappy endings
- Unrequested AUs (canon divergence is fine)
- Unrequested noncanon ships, unrequested noncanon poly (background between OCs is fine)
- Anyone in the ship being/getting pregnant
- THE FOLLOWING KINKS: Feederism, weight gain, inflation, pregnancy (breeding kink without any possibility of pregnancy is great, though!), scat, watersports, vomit kink (someone throwing up not in a kink context is fine!), vore, bestiality, mommy- or daddy-kink, 24/7 D/s
- Treats in general, and also art treats!
- Longfic!
- Third person or first person POV; past or present tense.
- Non-linear storytelling.
- I am open to the following background ships: Sena/Monta, Sena/Suzuna, Mamori/Suzuna, Musashi/Kurita, Jumonji/Kuroki/Togano, Natsuhiko/Ishimaru, basically any from the other teams, Hikaru/Kaoru, Honey/Mori, Nekozawa/Tamaki, Kasanoda/Tetsuya, Haruhi/Renge, Haruhi/basically any of the other hosts singularly or together, OC/OC.
- I'm also open to past (or even lingering) one-sided Kyouya->Tamaki, Hiruma->Mamori, and/or Hiruma->Sena, and/or Hiruma/Musashi.
- Any of the following tags (I didn't request them, but I'd still be down for them!):
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- Amusement Parks
- Back to School
- caught in a thunderstorm
- Chance Meetings
- Character A gets sick because of the cold Character B nurses them back to health
- Character A is ill or injured and is nursed back to health by character B
- Character A wraps Character B up in their coat
- Character Study
- Characters who normally hide their emotions being vulnerable
- Cock Warming
- Fake Dating Turns Into Real Feelings
- Falling leaf gets stuck in A's hair; B plucks it out
- Feelings Realization Seeing Them In A Fake Relationship With Someone Else
- Feelings Realization While Doing Something Dangerous Together
- Fireplace Conversations
- First Date
- First Dates
- First Time
- Food/Cooking as a Metaphor for Love
- Giving Them A Ride Home
- Halloween
- halloween party
- Halloween party games leads to making out
- Harvest Moon Viewing
- Haunted House
- Haunted House outings as a subtle 'date'.
- Haunted Houses
- Hot Springs & Onsen
- Huddling For Warmth
- Jumping in the deep end together (literally)
- Kidnapping
- Kissing in the Rain
- Literally Falling In Love - Falling into Water Together
- Meet-Cute
- Mutual Pining
- Oh No They're Hot
- Picnics
- Pining - Mutual Pining - Everyone Knows Except Them
- Pining - Mutual Pining While Dating/Having Sex and Reluctant to Address the Relationship
- Pumpkin Carving
- Roommates to Lovers
- Seasonal Change as Metaphor
- Secret Relationship
- Sharing a blanket while sitting under the falling leaves
- sharing a scarf
- Sharing an umbrella
- Sharing Clothes
- Sharing Interests with One Another
- Slow Recovery From A Bad Situation - Together
- Smut
- Spending a Fall Day In the Big City
- Stalking
- Stuck in a Romantic Hay Loft Together Overnight
- Taking A Stroll Under Falling Leaves
- Things are heading for disaster but you're by my side
- the thrill of first love
- Title from a Song
- Trapped together by Severe Weather Event
- Visiting a Bath House/Turkish Bath on a Cold Day
- Visiting some hot springs on a cold day
- Watching a scary movie together
- Wrapping Character in Blanket
- You Understand Me Better Than Myself
- Two canons just taking place in the same universe and playing around with what that might mean
- Slight canon AUs to make crossovers work
- Hiruma and Kyouya being evenly matched/on equal footing
- AUs I'm into: slight canon AUs to make crossovers work; soulmates AU; AU where soulbonding is a thing; arranged marriage AU; hanahaki AU; genderswap AU (either or both of them!)
- NAMING CONVENTIONS. Hiruma usually comes up with somewhat dismissive/insulting/abrasive things to call people, so what about if/when he uses Kyouya's name? Is Kyouya on a first or last name basis with him? Feel free to include honorifics if you like as well, extrapolating from the characters' usage of them in canon.
- Trans headcanons: Transmasc Hiruma would be great; transfem or nonbinary for either or both of them would also be great! Trans headcanons for any other characters that show up are also 100% good; if Haruhi shows up or is mentioned I also have a slight preference for her as nonbinary, but trans boy is fine -- just not trans girl, please. And of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
- Banter turns into character(s) hinting at feelings towards one another
- Dancing together
- Feelings Realization
- First Date (Realizing/Deciding It's A Date Partway Through)
- First Kiss
- First Time Sex is Non-Penetrative
- Halloween Costumes
- Hurt/Comfort
- Jumping in the deep end together (figuratively)
- making them laugh just to try to see their eyes/face light up
- Marriage Proposal
- Porn with Feelings
- Soaked in the rain
- Something Clicks the Moment They Meet
- Starting Out As A Mutually Beneficial Platonic Arrangement
- Suddenly Weak In the Knees
- Taking shelter overnight in a cosy cabin that only has one bed
- Teaching Them How To Do Something By Placing Hands On Them
- Undressing after clothes got soaked in the rain
- We Didn't Realize Until We Were Kissing
Crossover Fandom (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!/Ouran High School Host Club)
Kanamori Sayaka/Ootori Kyouya
This ship strikes me as fascinating and with a ton of potential for fun stuff! Kanamori and Kyouya are incredibly different people, but also have enough similarities that I can easily see them getting each other (at least on some level), quickly getting on each others' radar, and both quickly ending up respecting one another, being impressed by one another, and/or seeing the value in one another... And also being both similar and different enough that they're each able to throw the other off balance. I feel like if they came into each others' orbit they'd both quickly decide they need to find out what they can about each other, and about each others' clubs. I can also easily see them being on mostly equal footing -- though I have a preference for Kanamori having the upper hand more often if there is a bit of an imbalance! And I feel like they'd make a scary good team if and when they did come together, so I could also see them both being savvy enough to seek the other out as a useful contact to get and to uphold...
Plus there's just the general club dynamics. Kyouya and the Host Club getting dragged into Film Club shenanigans? Kanamori and the Film Club finding themselves involved in Host Club madness? ABSOLUTELY YES.
...But seriously. Two calculating glasses-wearers (well, sort of) who basically run their clubs from the wings, try to corral their more excitable members, and have a penchant for blackmail? This could make for a really fun dynamic where they might butt heads at first, but could quickly come to realize the other is a maybe dangerous but also potentially very useful ally to have. Kanamori making sure that she and the other Film Club members are basically un-blackmail-able while Kyouya is often able to call her bluffs in turn could be very fun. The both of them separately organizing things to make sure their club gets a real solid benefit out of any interactions they have, help they give, or deals they make could be a really fun dynamic! As well as eventually actively working together to make sure they both benefit... Feel free to change details, of course, but that's basically the vibes I'm imagining here.
DNWs
- Noncon/dubcon
- Hatesex
- Halves of a ship not being romantically or sexually compatible/into each other
- Halves of a ship not really liking or caring about each other at all
- Characters hating their bodies or having shame about being trans
- Unhappy endings
- Unrequested AUs (canon divergence is fine)
- Unrequested noncanon ships, unrequested noncanon poly (background between OCs is fine)
- Anyone in the ship being/getting pregnant
- THE FOLLOWING KINKS: Feederism, weight gain, inflation, pregnancy (breeding kink without any possibility of pregnancy is great, though!), scat, watersports, vomit kink (someone throwing up not in a kink context is fine!), vore, bestiality, mommy- or daddy-kink, 24/7 D/s
- Treats in general, and also art treats!
- Longfic!
- Third person or first person POV; past or present tense.
- Anything that might deserve the "Graphic Depictions Of Violence" warning, so long as that isn't between my requested characters.
- Genderswapping any or all of the Host Club boys (including writing F/F!).
- I am open to the following background ships: Haruhi/Tamaki, Kasanoda/Tetsuya, Asakusa/Mizusaki, Doumeki/Hikaru and/or Kaoru, OC/OC, and obviously things like parents existing.
- I'm also open to past (or even lingering) one-sided Kyouya->Tamaki, Kanamori->Asakusa, and/or Kanamori->Mizusaki.
- Various ways of facilitating the crossover! Both canons always having taken place in the same universe at the same time (whether it's handwaving Eizouken into the past or Ouran into the 2050s)? Both canons taking place in the same world but at different times, with Kanamori/the Film Club getting sent back in time or Kyouya/the Host Club getting sent forward? One character or group getting sent into the other's universe? (Is it an isekai where some of the Film Club members have even watched the Ouran anime?) Doing a crossover AU to shunt them both into the same other canon? Feel free to have fun with this or just handwave it all!
- Taking place while they're all in high school or while they're all in college.
- General AUs: Aged up, genderswap (see above), cyberpunk, steampunk, urban fantasy, ghost hunters, bounty hunters.
- Any of the following tags (I didn't request them, but I'd still be down for them!):
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- Amusement Parks
- camping under the stars
- Caretaking / Acts of Service
- Character A gets sick because of the cold Character B nurses them back to health
- Character A is ill or injured and is nursed back to health by character B
- Character Study
- Characters who normally hide their emotions being vulnerable
- Dancing together
- Drying each other off after a Rainstorm
- Fake Dating Turns Into Real Feelings
- Falling leaf gets stuck in A's hair; B plucks it out
- Feelings Realization Seeing Them In A Fake Relationship With Someone Else
- Feelings Realization While Doing Something Dangerous Together
- Fireplace Conversations
- First Dates
- First Time
- Giving Them A Ride Home
- Halloween
- halloween party
- Harvest Moon Viewing
- Haunted House
- Haunted Houses
- Hot Chocolate
- Huddling For Warmth
- Hurt/Comfort
- Kissing in the Rain
- Literally Falling In Love - Falling into Water Together
- making them laugh just to try to see their eyes/face light up
- Meet-Cute
- Mutual Pining
- Mystery
- Oh No They're Hot
- Picnics
- Pumpkin Carving
- Romantic Inexperience
- Seasonal Change as Metaphor
- Sharing a blanket while sitting under the falling leaves
- sharing a scarf
- Sharing Clothes
- Slow Recovery From A Bad Situation - Together
- Smut
- Soaked in the rain
- Spending a Fall Day In the Big City
- Stalking
- Taking A Stroll Under Falling Leaves
- Taking shelter overnight in a cosy cabin that only has one bed
- Teaching Them How To Do Something By Placing Hands On Them
- Things are heading for disaster but you're by my side
- the thrill of first love
- Title from a Song
- Trapped together by Severe Weather Event
- Visiting a Bath House/Turkish Bath on a Cold Day
- Visiting some hot springs on a cold day
- Watching a scary movie together
- Wrapping Character in Blanket
- You Understand Me Better Than Myself
- How bonkers both the Host Club and the Film Club really are! And the idea of what their combined energy might be.
- The weirdnesses of the Film Club members, especially in the manga: The implication that they can actually bring others into their shared imagination space to "really" experience it, Doumeki's legit super-hearing, Sakurada's ability to completely change her voice to sound any age or gender or even almost 100% like a specific other person...
- Kanamori and Kyouya being completely evenly matched, or Kanamori having a slight edge.
- Kanamori and Kyouya joining forces rather than being at odds.
- How much Kanamori obviously cares underneath her "we're not friends" and apparent money-grubbing; how much Kyouya blatantly cares underneath his own icy and calculating act.
- All the stealth "20 minutes into the future" soft sci-fi of Eizouken: It taking place in the 2050s, the little mentions about the war, how parts of the city are flooded and influence the weird architecture...
- I love everything about the Den of Evil in the Eizouken manga; there is so much to play with there!
- NAMING CONVENTIONS. I love how the Film Club members almost always call each other and other peers [Surname]-shi, and how when she's not being called "Kanamori-shi" she's being called "Kanamori-kun." Would she call the Host Club members by their surnames and with -shi as well; would she call Kyouya "Ootori-shi"? And would Kyouya call her Sayaka, or stick with Kanamori like everyone else calls her? And what might it take for one of them to call the other something else for a change?
- Trans headcanons; I really love both Kanamori and Kyouya as trans girls, but anything except Kyouya as a trans boy works for me! I am also open to trans headcanons for any other characters; I especially like x-gender for Haruhi and Doumeki and trans man Watabiki, and I don't want trans girl Haruhi, but other than that feel free to do whatever! And of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
- Back to School
- caught in a thunderstorm
- Chance Meetings
- Feelings Realization
- First Date
- First Date (Realizing/Deciding It's A Date Partway Through)
- First Kiss
- First Time Sex is Non-Penetrative
- Halloween Costumes
- Hot Springs & Onsen
- Jumping in the deep end together (figuratively)
- Jumping in the deep end together (literally)
- Marriage Proposal
- Porn with Feelings
- Sharing an umbrella
- Sharing Interests with One Another
- Something Clicks the Moment They Meet
- Starting Out As A Mutually Beneficial Platonic Arrangement
- Suddenly Weak In the Knees
- We Didn't Realize Until We Were Kissing
How to Survive Camping (Fainting--Goat)
Kate/The Man With The Skull Cup
[Where you can find the stories free online: Here! (A table of contents; most links are via the Wayback Machine.)]
AKA Kate/Beau! These characters have such a wild relationship with one another; I have not been able to get over it since I first read these stories, and a re-read brought all of that back not just full force but redoubled.
She hates him and is afraid of him, and she loves him like she loves the barn cat with the kinked tail or the plant her uncle gave her. She irritates him, and a lot of things about being near her and interacting with her outright hurts him, and he'll miss her. She was willing to give her life for him and she will fight him to the actual death and the very thought of him dying scares and pains her. He has a claim on her life and wants to use her to become something more instead and is willing to die for just the chance that she will do as he hopes. They have stabbed each other and saved one another's lives. She knows people ship them online and she trolls the shippers and him about it; he trolls her too just for kicks, often in the same apparently irritated deadpan as ever. He has made terrifying enemies because he chose her. She refilled his skull cup and basically soulbonded them together and he accepted that and tied his life to hers. She gave him a name and an identity. The people who read her stories love him because they see him through her eyes...
All this to say, this messy, messy relationship that is in its own way full of love and the effort, through fear and pain, to love, in their own ways, just absolutely fills and shatters my heart. I love how much they are there for each other and how much they are willing to do for each other when it comes down to it, while also being pretty brutal with each other at times and, when it comes down to it, being both willing to sacrifice themself for the other but also willing to harm or kill the other. And Kate is so, so human and Beau is so inhuman but in some unexpected ways they do meet each other in the middle, even if neither really wants to admit it, which I adore.
(I also love the weird gender stuff going on with Beau; it feels very relatable while also feeling very inhuman in ways I enjoy! I think it makes sense to interpret Beau as basically nonbinary or arguably the equivalent of a trans man, given how he looks different to everyone, including different genders, until his "self" starts to solidify due to Kate's stories describing him and her getting him a name. And I also adore that -- how entwined she is in his forming identity, how she gives him a name and does in fact start to solidify and change who he is, and how despite saying he can't change he still does start to change around her and go against his own nature even when it hurts!)
DNWs
- Noncon/dubcon
- Hatesex
- Halves of a ship not being romantically or sexually compatible/into each other
- Halves of a ship not really liking or caring about each other at all
- Characters hating their bodies or having shame about being trans
- Unhappy endings
- Unrequested AUs (canon divergence is fine)
- Unrequested noncanon ships, unrequested noncanon poly (background between OCs is fine)
- Anyone in the ship being/getting pregnant
- THE FOLLOWING KINKS: Feederism, weight gain, inflation, pregnancy (breeding kink without any possibility of pregnancy is great, though!), scat, watersports, vomit kink (someone throwing up not in a kink context is fine!), vore, bestiality, mommy- or daddy-kink, 24/7 D/s
- The Lady of Stories written into the fic as Kate's permanent end state, or focus on Kate as her. Setting things during canon and just not touching on that whole thing at all, canon divergence so it never happens, or "fix it" where the Lady becomes more Kate again somehow are all acceptable! But I consider them separate characters, and see Kate becoming her as character death.
- Kate being a submissive if you write sex! (Kate as dom and Beau as sub works; both of them being more inclined towards domming works; no dom/sub dynamic works.)
- Writing Kate as not aroace. I ship them and am into the idea of smut with them, so I don't mean that; just don't write her as identifying as another sexuality, or have her POV saying things like she knows what she likes during sex or recounting a noncanonical romantic/sexual history, etc.
- Treats in general, and also art treats!
- Longfic!
- Third person or first person POV; past or present tense.
- Pastiche/fic written in the style of Kate's Reddit posts, or not!
- Anything that might deserve the "Graphic Depictions Of Violence" warning.
- Genderswapping Beau so that either from the very start Kate saw her as the lady with the skull cup, or somehow she just ends up taking that form and is equally fine with it. (I am into F/F if you do this!)
- Any canon background ships (Kate's parents, Tyler and his wife, the old sheriff and his wife, Bryan/the Fairy) and/or OC ships.
- General AUs: Everyone Lives, genderswap (see above), college, apocalypse or post-apocalypse stuff (including but not limited to zombies), fairy tale, urban fantasy, ghost hunters, monster hunters. (PLEASE keep Beau nonhuman in any case, though!)
- More specific AUs: Kate getting restored from being the Lady of Stories somehow; AU where Beau becomes more human, too, and meets Kate somewhere in the middle so they both stay mostly themselves.
- Crossover AUs/Fusions: How to Survive College, Annihilation, Changeling: The Lost, Home Safety Hotline, Scarlet Hollow, Silent Hill series.
- Also, feel free to take any of the above AUs and make them not quite AU: Have the apocalypse hit during canon, or have a dark fairy tale thing pop up at the campground, or have them stay at a haunted inn somehow, or have part of the campground or town "spirited away," but set it all in the canon world!
- Any of the following tags (I didn't request them, but I'd still be down for them!):
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- “There’s a thin gray line between love and hate.”
- Accidental arousal while cuddling for warmth
- Angst with a Happy Ending
- Caretaking / Acts of Service
- caught in a thunderstorm
- Cemetery
- Character A gets sick because of the cold Character B nurses them back to health
- Character A wraps Character B up in their coat
- Character Study
- Characters who normally hide their emotions being vulnerable
- Cock Warming
- Falling leaf gets stuck in A's hair; B plucks it out
- Fascination With A Wound You Left On Another Person
- Feelings Realization Seeing Them In A Fake Relationship With Someone Else
- fighting as flirting
- Fireplace Conversations
- First Date
- First Date (Realizing/Deciding It's A Date Partway Through)
- First Dates
- First Time
- Food/Cooking as a Metaphor for Love
- Getting together after a traumatic event
- Giving Them A Ride Home
- Halloween Costumes
- halloween party
- Harvest Festival
- Harvest Moon Viewing
- Haunted House
- Haunted Houses
- Hot Chocolate
- Hurt/Comfort - Reliving Trauma
- Kissing in the Rain
- Love Potion/Spell
- making them laugh just to try to see their eyes/face light up
- Oh No They're Hot
- Paranormal Investigators
- Picnics
- Porn with Feelings
- Pumpkin Carving
- Romantic Inexperience
- Smut
- Stuck in a Romantic Hay Loft Together Overnight
- Sudden Protective Feelings when Character shivers with Cold
- Suddenly Weak In the Knees
- Supernatural Elements
- Taking A Stroll Under Falling Leaves
- Taking shelter overnight in a cosy cabin that only has one bed
- Title from a Song
- Trick or Treating
- Undressing after clothes got soaked in the rain
- Walking Home Together
- Watching a scary movie together
- A wears B's big cosy sweater
- Wrapping Character in Blanket
- You Understand Me Better Than Myself
- You're the Only One Who Can Understand Me
- These two being not even just each other's "exceptions," with whatever they have being abnormal and nonstandard and weird even for them!
- Canon-typical stuff, whether that's the horror, the humor, or the fantasy/folklore/mythology/fairy tale stuff!
- Fic set during the events of canon, including but not limited to canon divergence AUs
- Specifically a canon-divergence AU where instead of Kate becoming more inhuman, Beau becomes more human... (Or maybe they meet each other halfway but in a more limited capacity, on Kate's side, than in canon?)
- All their dichotomies, their difficult and cruel/ruthless/callous parts, alongside their compassion and care and striving, and how it makes them similar in some ways despite being so different.
- The mutual life-saving! How it's instinctive sometimes and at other times fully thought-out and self-sacrificial!
- The knife fighting and stabbings and things too :)
- THE BANTER.
- How some things HURT BEAU and he'll still do them for Kate! (Masochist.)
- Beau's friendships with the harvesters and with the lead dancer.
- Also the funny dynamic he has with the old sheriff; that convo where the old sheriff basically shovel talked him and then Beau immediately sold Kate out on letting him murder people was so funny to me.
- Kate's relationship with her brother, her relationships with the other inhuman beings, with the old sheriff and his wife, with Bryan...
- NAME STUFF! It feels especially meaningful in this canon! (Kate gave him a name...) I love how canonically Kate went from calling him and thinking of him as "the man with the skull cup" to calling him Beau consistently; I love how Beau calls Kate by name except for when he seems particularly annoyed with her in which case he switches over to "campground manager" like most of the other inhuman things LOL. Anything that plays with their fun dynamic and push-and-pull with names would be great!
- Trans headcanons: I particularly love various takes on Beau's whole gender thing. Does he not connect with human concepts of gender at all, even now? Was he basically "born genderless" but now after getting a name and his appearance solidifying for people, is he sort of like a trans man? If somehow she becomes seen by Kate and everyone else as "the lady with the skull cup," would she be a trans woman? I am open to any of that! I am also not opposed to nonbinary or transmasc Kate (I can see her as basically the "i have a job so idrc about that rn" tweet), and trans woman Kate would be 100% cool as well; go with whatever! And of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
- camping under the stars
- Chance Meetings
- Character A is ill or injured and is nursed back to health by character B
- Character A knocking on B's door "I don't have anywhere else to go"
- cozy horror
- Dancing together
- Fake Dating Turns Into Real Feelings
- Feelings Realization
- Feelings Realization While Doing Something Dangerous Together
- First Kiss
- First Time - One Partner is Ace-Spec
- First Time Sex is Non-Penetrative
- Ghosts
- Halloween
- Haunting
- Huddling For Warmth
- Hurt/Comfort
- Jumping in the deep end together (figuratively)
- Jumping in the deep end together (literally)
- Literally Falling In Love - Falling into Water Together
- Marriage Proposal
- Mystery
- Reconnecting and becoming closer
- Seasonal Change as Metaphor
- Sharing Clothes
- Slow Recovery From A Bad Situation - Together
- Soaked in the rain
- Spending a Fall Day In the Big City
- Starting Out As A Mutually Beneficial Platonic Arrangement
- Surviving the Horrors Together
- Teaching Them How To Do Something By Placing Hands On Them
- Terrible Events Lead To Bonding
- Things are heading for disaster but you're by my side
- Trapped together by Severe Weather Event
- Unexpected Soulmates in Life and After Death
- We Didn't Realize Until We Were Kissing
Katekyou Hitman Reborn!
Belphegor/Gokudera Hayato
[Where you can find the series free online: Fanfox.net for the manga; Yomi.to for the anime!
In the manga, Belphegor is mostly in the Varia Arc (chapters 82-135), but also shows up in a reasonably semi-major way in parts of the Future Arc (chapters 136-282) and the Inheritance Ceremony Arc and The Curse of the Rainbow Arc (chapters 283-409). In the anime, they never did those final two arcs; Belphegor is mostly in the Varia Arc still (episodes 34-65) and also part of the anime-only Arcobaleno Trials Arc (episodes 141-153), and shows up in a reasonably semi-major way in parts of the larger Future Arc (episodes 74-203).
...Gokudera plays a major role in pretty much every arc in both the manga and anime, though.]
(I am familiar with both the manga and the anime; feel free to mix and match from both! I'm not familiar with the stage shows, unfortunately. I am familiar with the character songs and some of the drama CD and other extra stuff like Haru's interviews, so feel free to pull from that stuff if you like!)
I've just adored these two for ages! They're literal counterparts, both having fought to be the Storm Guardian specifically, and I've always wanted to see what would happen if they got paired up more often after that whole debacle! I love how different they are, with Gokudera taking everything so, so seriously but being so soft and good deep down, and Belphegor being so amused and playful a lot of the time and being an absolute nightmare of a person in a lot of ways! But they both have surprising loyalty to them (well, surprising in Belphegor's case) and they both fight with long-distance thrown weapons, they're both absolute geniuses and that's not always obvious, and Gokudera might be the one out of Tsuna's Guardians (well, maybe alongside Mukuro) who knows exactly how serious and deadly being part of the Mafia is. Especially with the Ten Years Later arc revealing the Varia's loyalty and seeming to show that they're closer to the Vongola, I am so intrigued by how these two might click (maybe with some... or, well, a Lot of difficulty) if they had to work and fight together more!
DNWs
- Noncon/dubcon
- Hatesex
- Halves of a ship not being romantically or sexually compatible/into each other
- Halves of a ship not really liking or caring about each other at all
- Characters hating their bodies or having shame about being trans
- Unhappy endings
- Unrequested AUs (canon divergence is fine)
- Unrequested noncanon ships, unrequested noncanon poly (background between OCs is fine)
- Anyone in the ship being/getting pregnant
- THE FOLLOWING KINKS: Feederism, weight gain, inflation, pregnancy (breeding kink without any possibility of pregnancy is great, though!), scat, watersports, vomit kink (someone throwing up not in a kink context is fine!), vore, bestiality, mommy- or daddy-kink, 24/7 D/s
- Treats in general, and also art treats!
- Longfic!
- Third person or first person POV; past or present tense.
- Anything that might deserve the "Graphic Depictions Of Violence" warning, as long as it's not between my two requested characters. (More minor violence between them, please! LOL)
- Genderswapping either or both characters; if just one, I'm kind of more interested in Belphegor being a girl and still a prince, TBH! (And maybe still looking basically the exact same...)
- Any canon background ships (Tsuna/Kyoko and Colonello/Lal Mirch especially) and/or OC ships.
- Noncanon background ships I'm open to: Kyoko/Haru, Squalo/Yamamoto, Hibari/Ryohei, Colonello/Mammon(/Lal Mirch), Fon/Verde.
- General AUs: Genderswap (see above), the mafia taken a bit more seriously.
- More specific AUs: Belphegor and Gokudera meet each others' older/younger selves from the TYL swap. After the Varia Arc, the Varia are assigned to work with and/or protect their Vongola counterparts due to brewing trouble.
- Any of the following tags (I didn't request them, but I'd still be down for them!):
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- Accidental arousal while cuddling for warmth
- Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting
- Amusement Parks
- Back to School
- Banter turns into character(s) hinting at feelings towards one another
- Caretaking / Acts of Service
- Cemetery
- Chance Meetings
- Character A is ill or injured and is nursed back to health by character B
- Character A wraps Character B up in their coat
- Character Study
- Characters who normally hide their emotions being vulnerable
- Characters Who Shouldn't Like Each Other Horrified At Own Feelings
- Cock Warming
- Cuddling up by a warm fire
- Dancing in the Rain
- Drying each other off after a Rainstorm
- Fake Dating Turns Into Real Feelings
- Falling In Love while Undercover
- Falling leaf gets stuck in A's hair; B plucks it out
- Family Bonding
- Feelings Realization Seeing Them In A Fake Relationship With Someone Else
- Fireplace Conversations
- First Date
- First Dates
- First Time
- Food/Cooking as a Metaphor for Love
- Halloween
- Halloween Costumes
- halloween party
- Halloween party games leads to making out
- Harvest Festival
- Harvest Moon Viewing
- Haunted House
- Haunted Houses
- Hot Chocolate
- Hot Springs & Onsen
- Huddling For Warmth
- Hurt/Comfort - Reliving Trauma
- Jumping into a Pile of Leaves Together
- Kissing in the Rain
- Literally Falling In Love - Falling into Water Together
- Marriage Proposal
- Mutual Pining
- Mystery
- Oh No They're Hot
- Pining - Mutual Pining - Everyone Knows Except Them
- Pining - Mutual Pining While Dating/Having Sex and Reluctant to Address the Relationship
- Porn with Feelings
- Seasonal Change as Metaphor
- Sharing Clothes
- Sharing Interests with One Another
- Slow Recovery From A Bad Situation - Together
- Smut
- Soaked in the rain
- Starting Out As A Mutually Beneficial Platonic Arrangement
- Sudden Protective Feelings when Character shivers with Cold
- Supernatural Elements
- Surviving the Horrors Together
- Taking A Stroll Under Falling Leaves
- Teaching Them How To Do Something By Placing Hands On Them
- Terrible Events Lead To Bonding
- the thrill of first love
- Title from a Song
- Trapped together by Severe Weather Event
- Undressing after clothes got soaked in the rain
- Visiting a Bath House/Turkish Bath on a Cold Day
- Visiting some hot springs on a cold day
- Walking Home Together
- Watching a scary movie together
- Wrapping Character in Blanket
- You Understand Me Better Than Myself
- The action in this series works even better for me than the humor, frankly, but I love there being a silliness that creeps in constantly because none of these weirdos can help themselves!
- The Varia start off feeling like they'd sell each other out in an instant and then all end up coming across as a weird little family Ten Years Later, I LOVE that shift and would love to know more!
- I love Tsuna's ability to accidentally win everyone over to his side... eventually...
- I love Gokudera's absolute obsession with "the Tenth" that lives in his head and how he absolutely never notices that Tsuna is, uh, very not that.
- I adore Gokudera's platonic relationships with Tsuna and Yamamoto especially, and wish we could have seen more positive aspects of his relationship with Bianchi; I also adore Belphegor's platonic relationships with the entire rest of the Varia, but especially Mammon and Squalo -- and I loved Himeko's weird little friendship with Kyoko!
- Bel can be such a brat, LOL. Sing-songy and difficult and violent for no goddamn reason.
- I love how much of a genius both of them are underneath everything, though! I know I already said that but DAMN.
- NAME STUFF! This series does a lot with name stuff, since it takes place mostly in Japan... Gokudera seems to call Belphegor by disparaging non-names a fair amount, "knife brat" etc., Belphegor doesn't seem to mind returning like with like but is more open to using names? I am most interested in what could make them shift to calling each other by name, though! What would make Gokudera call him Belphegor -- or even Bel? When would Belphegor start calling him Gokudera, or maybe Hayato, to actually indicate closeness or even just for kicks?
- Trans headcanons: I particularly love Belphegor being a trans girl/transfem or nonbinary (maybe bigender?), particularly if taking the anime and the whole Hariyama Himeko thing as canon! If you aren't canonizing that, though/are going with just the manga instead, I am also totally open to Belpegor being a trans boy. I'm totally open to anything for Gokudera, too. Feel free to go with trans headcanons for the other characters if you want, too; all I ask is that if you make Lussuria trans, stick with transfem/trans woman and have the narrative be on her side about it. And of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
- caught in a thunderstorm
- Dancing together
- Enemies to Lovers
- Fascination With A Wound You Left On Another Person
- Feelings Realization
- Feelings Realization While Doing Something Dangerous Together
- fighting as flirting
- First Date (Realizing/Deciding It's A Date Partway Through)
- First Kiss
- First Time Sex is Non-Penetrative
- Hurt/Comfort
- Jumping in the deep end together (figuratively)
- Jumping in the deep end together (literally)
- making them laugh just to try to see their eyes/face light up
- Pumpkin Carving
- Romantic Inexperience
- Suddenly Weak In the Knees
- Taking shelter overnight in a cosy cabin that only has one bed
- Things are heading for disaster but you're by my side
- We Didn't Realize Until We Were Kissing
The Last Halloween (Webcomic)
Doctor Fugue/Robert
[Where you can find the comic: Here!
Book 1 is by far the most pertinent; that's 7 chapters/about 114 pages.]
For Doctor Fugue/Robert, this takes a little bit of explaining, since their interactions are minor and not particularly significant. But the more I thought about them individually, I liked what their slight interplay does say about them and how the shapes of their arcs kinda work together.
Doctor Fugue is undead, a doctor and supernatural (mad) scientist, a Victorian-ish ghost. One who haunts the church and can't leave. He employs what he thinks of as a little group of undead children to help him graverob bodies for his raising-the-dead experiments (as well as upgrading/replacing Jangles's various bits). He's a big faker; Robert flat-out says he's not a good doctor, which is proven very correct when Mona comes back. He not only hands a ten year old a magic weapon he knows nothing about and sends her and the other "kids" out with completely incorrect information, he's apparently sent multiple "group[s] of untrained misfits to their deaths without actually nowing what was going on," to the point that Charon's chewed him out about it at least once before. Fugue shoves a magic sickle into Mona's hands and pushes her out the door with a few undead "child" chaperones during the Apocalypse so that she can go take care of it; this is a whole bunch of terrible decisions all in a clump, made worse by him not understanding the situation and actually sending them on a wild goose chase in the end. Mona has to chop up and even kill multiple monsters, nearly dying more than once and actually losing an arm to the ordeal, something she makes clear to Fugue that she'll never forgive him for (which he finds fair). His whole arc seems to involve him getting a huge dose of guilt for once in his unlife, realizing just how badly he fucked this little group up, seeming to have a change of heart about the "playing Dr. Frankenstein" thing and trying in some small ways to start to make amends.
Robert, on the other hand, is posing as an undead, a doll cursed to life by voodoo. Until he tells Mona and Shirley, literally no one in the group including Fugue knows that he's a monster, not undead at all, and is also immortal (or what they call immortal) due to killing his human several decades prior; he claims to be an undead to avoid the attention of the Phagocyte. He's around 117 years old, if not a bit older, and he's often the closest thing the group has to a straight-man; he keeps his own secrets, even when it would be really helpful to share, because he rarely feels invested in others, and he doesn't tend to personally lend much of a hand, especially not to save people. He's calm and soft-spoken, good with normal human adults, and very calmly makes threats when called for as well (and sometimes even commits violence against his undead "friends," such as sewing Ringley's mouth shut, though they don't seem to mind). He, and let me state this again, killed his own human, Gene, decades before the canon starts, and tells the story at one point about how they had been one another's dearest friends and Robert had ruined Gene's entire life thoroughly until Gene had asked Robert to kill him. He says that it was and is his nature. He shows that this may not be as true as he thought.
Robert goes along on the save-the-world quest to keep everyone on track and give them even a tiny chance, but he saves Mona's life once and then tells her he'll never do it again so she'd better learn to save herself. Mona does learn, however, despite him keeping a lot of information back and outright lying at times, and he becomes more attached and invested in the outcome of their mission. It even gets to the point that he eventually fully opens up, becomes somewhat more reassuring (and even open to affectionate touch, which was Not a thing for him at first), sort of steps into a mentor role to Mona, and promptly sacrifices his own life to give her a fighting chance. His own arc involves him actually becoming attached to the situation and its people for once, to the point of purposefully sacrificing his life to give Mona a chance to survive and succeed (on what is, unbeknownst to them, a fool's errand), even admitting his own origins and past and coming face-to-face with the fact, for the first time, that maybe his nature as a monster is something he can choose to act counter to.
...So Fugue sends Mona, Robert, and the others off on a pointless quest that gets one of them killed and nearly kills two more of them, and is having to live with that fuck-up (figuratively speaking). He's obviously hit pretty hard by Robert's death and Mona's hatred of him, and comes to regret his choices and the results they had on the others, actually swearing off using corpses to make more undead for a while as he decides to use one of the fresh corpses to save Shirley's life instead. And by the end of Book One Fugue still hasn't even been made aware that Robert was a monster the whole time and has sort of... fused with the magic sickle that's supernaturally bonded to Mona. Overall, the canon, or at least Book 1, is a very interesting set of characters and relationships who are all affected and shaken badly by the general situation but also by the lies told and secrets kept, primarily by Fugue but also arguably by Robert, and the idea of two of them together really intrigues me.
DNWs
- Noncon/dubcon
- Hatesex
- Halves of a ship not being romantically or sexually compatible/into each other
- Halves of a ship not really liking or caring about each other at all
- Characters hating their bodies or having shame about being trans
- Unhappy endings
- Unrequested AUs (canon divergence is fine)
- Unrequested noncanon ships, unrequested noncanon poly (background between OCs is fine)
- Anyone in the ship being/getting pregnant
- THE FOLLOWING KINKS: Feederism, weight gain, inflation, pregnancy (breeding kink without any possibility of pregnancy is great, though!), scat, watersports, vomit kink (someone throwing up not in a kink context is fine!), vore, bestiality, mommy- or daddy-kink, 24/7 D/s
- A strong focus on Fugue's sexism. (I'd prefer for him to be capable of at least a bit of growth there; bringing it up somewhat in the context of internalized homophobia or internalized transphobia is fine.)
- Fugue being entirely unrepentant post Book 1, actually
- Mona easily and completely forgiving Fugue unless otherwise requested
- Implications that Robert and Gene never loved each other, especially that Robert never loved Gene, if that character comes up (doesn't have to be implied to be romantic love or anything)
- Treats in general, and also art treats!
- Longfic!
- Third person or first person POV; past or present tense.
- Anything that might deserve the "Graphic Depictions Of Violence" warning, as long as the characters aren't doing it to each other!
- Genderswapping, especially for the male characters! Just keep Mona's parent and Mickey nonbinary.
- I opt into certain background ships: Mona's parent/Ringley's dad, Slugger/Splitter, Mickey/Yona, OC/OC, and of course any canonical parents.
- General AUs: Genderswap, Everybody Lives (well, with the undead still being undead), alternate apocalypse or post-apocalypse stuff (including but not limited to zombies), magical girls.
- More specific AUs: AU where the monster apocalypse didn't happen; AU where Robert didn't die to Ba'al or was/is able to be brought back somehow; AU where Fugue is the monster and Robert actually is the undead one (a haunted/cursed doll); AU where Robert is Mona's monster or was Fugue's monster; AUs where time travel, time loops, hanahaki, and/or soulbonding are a thing.
- Crossover AUs: Annihilation, Silent Hill series, Fatal Frame series.
- For all of the above AUs, please keep all non-human characters non-human! :D
- Also, feel free to take any of the above AUs and make them not quite AU: Have a totally separate apocalypse hit alongside the Monster Influx, or after that one's settled down so humans and undead and monsters all have to deal with zombies or whatever; have the undead squad have prevented a different kind of apocalypse in the past; have the characters needing to travel cross-country for whatever reason and they wind up in Silent Hill; have the characters become magical girls to save the world, why not?
- Any of the following tags (I didn't request them, but I'd still be down for them!):
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- Angst with a Happy Ending
- Banter turns into character(s) hinting at feelings towards one another
- camping under the stars
- Caretaking / Acts of Service
- caught in a thunderstorm
- Cemetery
- Character Study
- Characters who normally hide their emotions being vulnerable
- Dancing together
- Fireplace Conversations
- First Date
- First Date (Realizing/Deciding It's A Date Partway Through)
- First Dates
- First Kiss
- First Time
- Fluff
- Fluff and Smut
- Getting together after a traumatic event
- Ghosts
- Halloween
- Halloween Costumes
- halloween party
- Harvest Moon Viewing
- Haunted House
- Haunted Houses
- Haunting
- Hurt/Comfort - Reliving Trauma
- Jumping in the deep end together (literally)
- Jumping into a Pile of Leaves Together
- Mutual Pining
- Mystery
- Not Actually Unrequited Love
- Pumpkin Carving
- Romantic Inexperience
- Roommates to Lovers
- Smut
- Soaked in the rain
- Spending a Fall Day In the Big City
- Starting Out As A Mutually Beneficial Platonic Arrangement
- Supernatural Elements
- Taking A Stroll Under Falling Leaves
- Teaching Them How To Do Something By Placing Hands On Them
- Title from a Song
- Trapped together by Severe Weather Event
- Trick or Treating
- Unexpected Soulmates in Life and After Death
- Walking Home Together
- Watching a scary movie together
- We Didn't Realize Until We Were Kissing
- Wrapping Character in Blanket
- You Understand Me Better Than Myself
- Canon-typical tones, both the horror and also the humor.
- The Halloween and general spooky stuff along with the horror!
- Fugue helping Mona resurrect Robert (probably partly out of guilt).
- AUs where time travel, soulbonding, and similar are just A Thing.
- Forgiveness, second chances, trying again somehow...
- Fugue being invisible under his clothes and bandages.
- Post-Book 1 stuff bringing Robert back to life or back as a ghost himself.
- Post-canon (or post-Book 1) fic in general.
- Pre-canon stuff, or fic where the events of canon didn't happen, with Fugue, Robert, Shirley, and Ringley! (And Mona?) The implied history those four have with each other! (Minus Mona.)
- Robert still being alive in Mona's sickle and being able to be brought back and/or show up as a ghost that way.
- The sickle thing, if that idea is used, meaning that Mona is now immortal and also not aging (oops), and potentially exploring her feelings around that.
- Fugue finding out super belatedly that Robert is a monster!
- Protectiveness of either or both towards the other tbh...
- Fugue eventually being forgiven, at least mostly, at least by most of the characters.
- Alternatively, if she's in the fic, Mona softening a bit on Fugue but still not forgiving him -- like noticing he's trying hard and maybe feeling sorry for him, maybe he makes her feel more tired than angry now, that sort of thing.
- Robert and Shirley's friendship especially, out of the initial group, and the way Robert bonded with Mona.
- Fugue's intriguing relationship with Marta! And his thoughts on these weird undead "children" who work for him? (If he does learn that Robert is a monster, does he think of him any differently, respect him more, etc.?)
- Possession, bodysharing, body swapping!
- Nicknames! Pet names! Names in general! The characters all just call everyone by name, and I don't think Robert at least would accept a nickname (from anyone but maybe Gene... or Mona, and/or Shirley?), but maybe? Also as a note, Robert seems to call Fugue "Doctor Fugue" pretty constantly; what might make him shorten that to just Fugue? Or does Fugue have a first name, or can he not recall? And finally... Robert was given Eugene Otto's first name. How does he even feel about that, especially now?
- Robert potentially being stronger than he seems, and definitely more durable (outside of other immortal monsters, of course).
- Nonhuman characters, particularly monsters, being ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ about gender.
- Trans headcanons: I especially love the idea of either Robert not having anything like a human view of gender (as above) or him basically being transmasc (taking on name and gender due to Gene), but I am also open to any trans interpretations of any of the characters! Just keep Mona's parent and Mickey nonbinary and I'll love anything else you do.
- ...Finally I also just want to note that I love invisible people. (Or, well... ghosts, as Robert points out, but Fugue's still invisible besides his clothes and bandages!) And also Fugue's all leg. Legs for days. I like these things.
- Chance Meetings
- Character A is ill or injured and is nursed back to health by character B
- Character A knocking on B's door "I don't have anywhere else to go"
- cozy horror
- Feelings Realization
- Feelings Realization While Doing Something Dangerous Together
- First Time Sex is Non-Penetrative
- Hurt/Comfort
- The Intimacy of Bodysharing
- Jumping in the deep end together (figuratively)
- Oh No They're Hot
- Porn with Feelings
- Reconnecting and becoming closer
- Seasonal Change as Metaphor
- Sharing Interests with One Another
- Slow Recovery From A Bad Situation - Together
- Suddenly Weak In the Knees
- Surviving the Horrors Together
- Terrible Events Lead To Bonding
- Things are heading for disaster but you're by my side
Slay the Princess (Visual Novel)
Voice of the Cold/Voice of the Paranoid
[If you don't actually own the game, you can find the following videos on YouTube:
• BAI GAMING Video #1 - Pertinent parts are at 50:50-58:35 (The Razor, starting at the point where all the voices start coming in) and 2:12:52-2:56:12 (The Nightmare, with Voice of the Paranoid, and The Moment of Clarity with everyone)
• BAI GAMING Video #2 - Pertinent parts are at 57:46-1:06:59 (The Apotheosis, with Voice of the Paranoid) and 1:39:37-2:53:04 (The Spectre and The Wraith, with Voice of the Cold)
• Slay the Princess - The Spectre & The Wraith - Pertinent part is at 31:00-48:28 (The Wraith variation, with Voice of the Cold and Voice of the Paranoid)
• BAI GAMING Video #3 - Pertinent part is at 2:53:14-3:09:25 (The Wild, with Voice of the Paranoid)
• BAI GAMING Video #4 - Pertinent parts are at 26:22-46:40 (The Burned Grey, with Voice of the Cold), 1:30:29-1:49:54 (The Drowned Grey, with Voice of the Cold), and 1:53:08-2:41:07 (The Nightmare variations, with way more from Voice of the Paranoid)
• Slay the Princess - All Endings - Potentially pertinent part is at 26:15-28:09 (A New Dawn ending)
PRISTINE CUT ADDITIONS:
• Apotheosis Fight + Unravelled/Grace Endings (Paranoid) [Slay The Princess - The Pristine Cut] - About 40 minutes, with Voice of the Paranoid.
• The Cage Route in Slay the Princess - Playthrough and Route Endings - Pertinent part is at 27:49-48:57 (with Voice of the Paranoid).
• Adversarial Fury - Contrarian/Broken/Cold [Slay The Princess - The Pristine Cut] - Pertinent part is 1:08:59-1:42:38 (with Voice of the Cold).
• Fury - Quantum Beak (you can respawn) [Slay The Princess - The Pristine Cut] - Pertinent part is 22:39-39:10 (with Voice of the Cold).
• Happily Ever After Route in Slay the Princess - Playthrough and Route Endings - 37:39 minutes, with Voice of the Paranoid. (It isn't possible to get Paranoid in this route anymore, for the record! All of this is Skeptic now. But I still think what was there is interesting...)
• The Princess and the Dragon Route in Slay the Princess - Playthrough and Route Endings - About 51 minutes, with Voice of the Cold.
Watching all of the above pertinent parts would take about 7 and a half hours, but you can easily knock it down to about 2 hours and 5 minutes by just watching their main routes: The Nightmare in the first video (2:12:52-2:40:21), The Spectre in the second video (1:39:37-2:28:30) and the Princess and the Dragon video, and The Wraith variation with both of them (31:00-48:28). Or watch whatever bits of whatever playthroughs you like...
Or, of course, play it yourself; just go with whatever works for you! :D]
These two really, really intrigue me. They don't get to interact that much, but they're quite interesting in The Wraith route, and also have moments in some of the other routes -- and some similarities and general qualities -- that make me think that they could really catch the other's attention if given more opportunity.
For one thing, they are both very aware of and surprisingly in control of their bodies. (Well, their shared body. The protagonist's body. Let's just say "their bodies" for simplicity.) Voice of the Cold constantly talks about choosing to just stop feeling things, both emotions and any negative physical sensations; their back-and-forth of "Do we have to explain to you why pain is bad?" "You have to explain to yourself why it isn't," is VERY cool. But despite Voice of the Paranoid being obviously high-strung, he also has an immense amount of steel to him, not only manually running the body's autonomic nervous system during The Nightmare route, but also showing up specifically to keep Voice of the Broken in check during The Apotheosis route after Broken let The Tower into their mind which led to their death.
There are also little details, such as the fact that Cold usually shows up after you kill the Princess in cold blood and then yourself, and Paranoid also encourages killing yourself if you become trapped in The Nightmare route due to killing her. This actually leads to Cold showing up... And interestingly, before that, if the protagonist says to the Hero and the Paranoid that it'd be fine to be stuck in the void forever because they're the best company, Paranoid says, "Oh, you could do better than us," and that's right before Cold comes into the picture. In The Wraith route, he and Cold and Hero and the protagonist have to all work together to toss their body into the void with The Wraith in it, if they choose that route, and the "everyone on the count of three" moment Paranoid takes charge of is just neat.
And in a general sense, I really think they could... see something interesting in each other. Paranoid is nervy and definitely hasn't shut off his emotions at all, but he also has that aforementioned steel and sharp control over himself/his body/The Body, that might be even more intriguing and impressive based on how unexpected it is. And Cold is a dangerous person, yes, but is actually less dangerous to the other voices than someone like the Broken or even the Smitten, and might also be easier to predict than someone like the Opportunist or even the Hunted -- you know exactly what his danger is, if he's going to be dangerous. And at the same time, Paranoid seems to trust the other voices in a way he doesn't trust anyone "other," and Cold seems to want to help the other voices, often trying to give them advice on how to get through situations without breaking down. There's an automatic sort of rapport there that makes it more likely they'd get close to each other than if they were just ordinary people with their same personalities.
Also, speaking of that, I do love the bodysharing and would be super into that if you want to roll with it, but I also love a theoretical post-canon situation where maybe the voices are all getting their own bodies. You don't even have to get into how and why they have different bodies if you want to do that; just handwaving it would be fine!
DNWs
- Noncon/dubcon
- Hatesex
- Halves of a ship not being romantically or sexually compatible/into each other
- Halves of a ship not really liking or caring about each other at all
- Characters hating their bodies or having shame about being trans
- Unhappy endings
- Unrequested AUs (canon divergence is fine)
- Unrequested noncanon ships, unrequested noncanon poly (background between OCs is fine)
- Anyone in the ship being/getting pregnant
- THE FOLLOWING KINKS: Feederism, weight gain, inflation, pregnancy (breeding kink without any possibility of pregnancy is great, though!), scat, watersports, vomit kink (someone throwing up not in a kink context is fine!), vore, bestiality, mommy- or daddy-kink, 24/7 D/s
- Any implication that the characters will cease existing after the end of the game/any time soon
- Either character bodysharing with the protagonist or any of the other voices (except each other!) by the time porn is happening, if it happens, unless otherwise requested!
- Treats in general, and also art treats!
- Longfic!
- Third person or first person POV; past or present tense.
- Script style like the game itself uses!
- Speaking of which, Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA)-style fic.
- Anything that might deserve the "Graphic Depictions Of Violence" warning, as long as my requested characters aren't maliciously doing it to each other.
- Genderswapping; I am open to both F/F and M/F for them if you genderswap one or both of them!
- It/its pronouns for Cold or Hunted specifically if you go with trans headcanons for them (see likes below).
- Turning the voices human, giving the voices human-looking forms, giving them human forms but with wings and maybe claws, giving them full-on bird person forms, giving them forms that look more like... whatever that was in The Princess and the Dragon...
- The voices all having their own bodies, being formless, or sharing a body (all of them or just these two in one body!).
- I opt into certain background ships: Adversary/Stubborn, Broken/Cage, Broken/Fury, Cheated/Thorn, Contrarian/Stranger (or Contrarian/Hero/Stranger), Damsel/Smitten, Den/Hunted, Hunted/Wounded Wild, Opportunist/Wraith, Prisoner/Skeptic; ANY vessel/vessel ships (poly included); ANY voice/voice ships (poly included) that don't include Cold or Paranoid.
- General AUs: Genderswap, apocalypse or post-apocalypse stuff (including but not limited to zombies), hanahaki, urban fantasy, "one or both characters are ghosts," ghost hunters... Honestly, I'm even down for modern mundane AUs, or lite fantasy versions of the same (mundane AUs taking place in a fantasy world? modern mostly-mundane but urban fantasy setting? modern mundane AU but they're all still bird people? whatever!).
- More specific AUs: The Long Quiet and the Shifting Mound's heart keep looping the Constant so much that it starts to break down; alternate voice combinations in chapters they wouldn't usually be found in (so getting Paranoid in The Princess and the Dragon, or Cold in The Wild, or getting Paranoid first in The Damsel instead of Smitten and then Cold in Happily Ever After, etc.)
- Crossover AUs: Annihilation, Night in the Woods, Scarlet Hollow, Dead By Daylight, Silent Hill series, Fatal Frame series, Returnal, NaissancE, BLAME!, The Last Halloween.
- Also, feel free to take any of the above AUs and make them not quite AU: I especially love when the characters leave the Construct post-game and the world outside is just like that (whatever "that" is!).
- Any of the following tags (I didn't request them, but I'd still be down for them!):
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- "I can't let you leave in this weather"
- Accidental arousal while cuddling for warmth
- Amusement Parks
- Angst with a Happy Ending
- Baking a Pie
- Banter turns into character(s) hinting at feelings towards one another
- camping under the stars
- Chance Meetings
- Character A gets sick because of the cold Character B nurses them back to health
- Character A knocking on B's door "I don't have anywhere else to go"
- Character A wraps Character B up in their coat
- Character Study
- Cock Warming
- Codependency
- Cuddling up by a warm fire
- Curtain Fic
- Dancing in the Rain
- Fake Dating Turns Into Real Feelings
- Falling In Love while Undercover
- Falling leaf gets stuck in A's hair; B plucks it out
- Family Bonding
- Fascination With A Wound You Left On Another Person
- Feelings Realization Seeing Them In A Fake Relationship With Someone Else
- Fireplace Conversations
- First Dates
- First Time
- Fluff
- Fluff and Smut
- Getting together after a traumatic event
- Ghosts
- Giving Them A Ride Home
- Halloween
- Halloween Costumes
- halloween party
- Halloween party games leads to making out
- Harvest Festival
- Harvest Moon Viewing
- Haunted House
- Haunted House outings as a subtle 'date'.
- Haunted Houses
- Haunting
- Hot Chocolate
- Jumping into a Pile of Leaves Together
- Kissing in the Rain
- Literally Falling In Love - Falling into Water Together
- Male character rescues female character from a bad/dangerous date with someone else
- Marriage Proposal
- Meet-Cute
- Mystery
- Not Actually Unrequited Love
- Oh No They're Hot
- Picnics
- Pining - Mutual Pining While Dating/Having Sex and Reluctant to Address the Relationship
- Roommates to Lovers
- sharing a scarf
- Sharing an umbrella
- Sharing Clothes
- Smut
- Soaked in the rain
- Spending a Fall Day In the Big City
- Starting Out As A Mutually Beneficial Platonic Arrangement
- Sudden Protective Feelings when Character shivers with Cold
- Supernatural Elements
- Taking A Stroll Under Falling Leaves
- Terrible Events Lead To Bonding
- Title from a Song
- Trapped together by Severe Weather Event
- Trick or Treating
- Undressing after clothes got soaked in the rain
- Walking Home Together
- A wears B's big cosy sweater
- Wrapping Character in Blanket
- A wraps B up with a big cosy scarf
- You Understand Me Better Than Myself
- The sheer amount of control these two both seem to have over themselves...
- ...and, alternately, the idea that each might actually be able to make the other come apart. Maybe more than anyone else could manage. Maybe in part because they might just let it happen.
- The "And? What happens next?" ending and the strong hints that the voices will continue to exist and find one another again even after the protagonist and the Princess leave.
- Fic set while in the Construct, maybe even during the events of the game, somehow!
- The "A New and Unending Dawn" ending (whether everyone hates you or not) and the idea of the voices figuring out existence after that.
- Come to that, the strong hints that the voices are actually developing beyond their named traits and becoming their own more rounded individual people: Contrarian in The Stranger version of the "And? What happens next?" ending, Hero protesting being just "a shard of broken glass," Paranoid apologizing for his "fear response" in Razor, all of them wanting to avoid individual death and continue existing...
- The idea of the voices surviving even in the new "Your New World" ending, just being separated completely and irreversibly from the new god that is the Long Quiet, and having to deal with this new world now.
- The voices somehow clawing themselves back into existence after the "Oblivion" ending...
- How Paranoid sometimes seems to be able to get Cold's whole deal, like in the Apotheosis chapter during the tearing sequence.
- On the other side of the coin, Cold's apparent desire to feel things sometimes (most notably in both Grey chapters), as well as his surprising moments of feeling and empathy during the Adversary!Fury chapter.
- How both of them seem to be able to tell the truth of the Construct/the Long Quiet sometimes!
- Mutual fascination with real fondness underneath, even if there's exasperation there too.
- INTENSITY!
- TBH the idea of either or both of these characters being kind of a mess in any sort of normal life/post-Construct scenario. Cold not having any survival instinct and not protecting himself in fights, going long stretches without eating or sleeping (or preening if they still have feathers) because he finds it boring, having trouble feeling or identifying or expressing his own emotions; Paranoid having Issues With Food and/or all kinds of sleep-related problems, having major trust issues, having hallucinations, overpreening if they still have feathers, his increased snappishness when freaked out... And so on.
- That said, character growth, making each other better, protecting each other, and balancing each other out are also loved! As well as Taking Chances and going outside of their comfort zones with each other they might not otherwise!
- I love both characters' friendship with Hero; the idea of Cold being friends with Contrarian, Hunted, and Skeptic; and the idea of Paranoid being friends with (post-Apotheosis) Broken, Hunted, and Opportunist.
- NAME STUFF. Names in general! Nicknames and pet names if you can make it work for them! None of the voices really refer to one another by name or even by description in canon; do they still think of each other as "Voice of the Cold," or just "the Paranoid," or just "Cold," or something like "the paranoid one" or even (as in canon) things like "the jumpy one"? Do they choose names when out of the Construct, either in general or if they're pretending to be human? How might these two come to refer to one another, think about one another? (I like the nickname Para, tbh, even if Cold doesn't use it himself!)
- Trans headcanons: I especially love genderless Cold (any pronouns) and trans woman Paranoid, or both of them being transfem, but I'm open to anything with either them! I'm also down for trans headcanons for any other characters. And of course trans headcanons aren't obligatory!
- Caretaking / Acts of Service
- caught in a thunderstorm
- Character A is ill or injured and is nursed back to health by character B
- Characters who normally hide their emotions being vulnerable
- cozy horror
- Dancing together
- Drying each other off after a Rainstorm
- Feelings Realization
- Feelings Realization While Doing Something Dangerous Together
- First Date
- First Date (Realizing/Deciding It's A Date Partway Through)
- First Kiss
- First Time Sex is Non-Penetrative
- Food/Cooking as a Metaphor for Love
- Huddling For Warmth
- Hurt/Comfort
- Hurt/Comfort - Reliving Trauma
- The Intimacy of Bodysharing
- Jumping in the deep end together (figuratively)
- Jumping in the deep end together (literally)
- making them laugh just to try to see their eyes/face light up
- Mutual Pining
- Paranormal Investigators
- Pining - Mutual Pining - Everyone Knows Except Them
- Porn with Feelings
- Pumpkin Carving
- Reconnecting and becoming closer
- Romantic Inexperience
- Seasonal Change as Metaphor
- Sharing Interests with One Another
- Slow Recovery From A Bad Situation - Together
- Suddenly Weak In the Knees
- Surviving the Horrors Together
- Taking shelter overnight in a cosy cabin that only has one bed
- Teaching Them How To Do Something By Placing Hands On Them
- Things are heading for disaster but you're by my side
- Watching a scary movie together
- We Didn't Realize Until We Were Kissing