dear chocolatier 2019

[pearwaldorf]

Hey there. Thanks for doing this. The fact that people are even willing to consider things I want in stories is enough, so I’m sure I’ll love whatever you create. If you have an idea in mind already, great! But if you need something a little more concrete to work with (as I do), please look below.

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Things I love in fic:

• Female-centric (although as long as your characterization feels true I honestly won’t care who you focus on)
• Friendship/genuine regard between characters, especially if they’ve clashed in the past
• People who like/love each other hanging out
• Characters finding their way/their place in the world, especially after something bad/significant has happened
• Found families
• Deep worldbuilding (give me specific details of the nerd-ass thing you’ve always wanted to explore about the work!)
• Mutually oblivious pining, especially if everybody else around them notices it
• Allllll the silly romcom/fanfic tropes (ONLY ONE BED WHAT DO, huddling for warmth, undercover as couple, fakeout makeout)
• Fake relationships/forced intimacy, especially if feelings make it awkward
• Comedies of errors/farce

I really love attempts at connection and understanding, both of self and other characters, especially when they succeed.

I am agnostic on explicit sex/porn. Don’t write it if it makes you uncomfortable, but I’m certainly not going to be sad if it’s there.

Do not want

• Rape/non-con (dub-con is fine)
• Unhappy endings (if things get bad/dark but are resolved by the end that’s fine)
• Non-canonical character death
• Character bashing/sidelining to further ships (especially if they’re female)
• Jealousy/possessiveness/general relationship creepiness as a good thing
• Non-canonical AUs
• Soulmate/soulmark anything
• A/B/O anything
• Mpreg

Fandoms

The Dragon Prince
Season one is all about establishing relationships between the kids, and that’s fine. What I’m most curious about is the relationships that have already been formed: between Harrow and Viren; Amaya and Gren. There is History between these pairs, and I want to know some of it.

Amaya/Gren, Amaya & Gren
What an intimate thing it is, to be somebody's literal voice. I'd love to see a story about how Amaya and Gren found each other, and what the circumstances were around Gren becoming her interpreter. She obviously trusts him a great deal, and I am very curious to see how he earned it. Platonic or shippy, I don't care. Just give me that good good backstory.Amaya & Sarai
We know so little about Sarai, but we feel her influence as well as absence everywhere in Katolis. Tell me about the relationship between the two sisters, maybe about how it changes when they meet Harrow and/or Viren.

Harrow/Viren
What I thought of when I saw Viren and Harrow interacting in the first episode was Maric and Loghain’s dynamic in The Stolen Throne, a Dragon Age tie-in novel. It's very liege and vassal, with all the attendant power dynamics and a nice layer of UST. Maybe a story from the previous conflict, how Harrow and Viren met and started working together? How they became friends (and perhaps more)?
 
 The Arcana

My Apprentice is female; her name is Vina. Feel free to use her or not. I am all caught up on everybody's paths through The Sun.

Apprentice/Asra, Apprentice/Nadia, Apprentice/Portia Devorak
I lumped these all together mostly because the things I appreciate about Asra and Nadia's relationships with the Apprentice would also apply to Portia too. With Nadia and Asra, I feel like they and the Apprentice are working together to discover answers. Obviously there are things that only one person can do, but the other is there to support and cheerlead. Those relationships feel like true partnerships, where they complement and support each other to the best of their ability. I would be interested to see what that looks like with Portia, if that's a direction you want to take it. I would also be delighted with silly tropey whatever for any of these pairings.

Apprentice/Asra/Nadia
It's interesting to me that Asra and Nadia definitely had a close relationship (platonic or romantic) at some point, but it's not something Asra has pushed on in either his or Nadia's path. Why is that? Is Asra being his usual avoidant/too overwhelmed to deal with his feelings self, or are there more specific reasons (like, idk, a sekrit crush on the Apprentice or Nadia or both)? Who figures it out and lays it on the table?

Portia Devorak/Nadia
The relationship between these two is obviously more than master and servant, but to what degree it is I'm not sure even they know. Feel free to lean in as hard as you want on all the tropes (may I suggest oblivious mutual pining, one/both in peril and the other realizing how much they care for each other). Bonus for Julian, Asra, or Apprentice swanning in at some point and going "Oh my god you two finally figured it out!"

Julian Devorak & Nazali Satrinava
We only get hints of the relationship between these two in the game, and I would love to see more. Nazali obviously knows Julian well, and is well-versed in his, ah, personality and quirks. Maybe something about Julian's time in Prakra, training under Nazali? Nazali in Vesuvia during the plague, watching her protege work? Or Nazali and Julian after all the business with Lucio is tied up, reflecting upon their experiences?
 
 Horizon: Zero Dawn

I love the way the game shows you the world as it is, and then peels it back, layer by layer, to show you how it was. And in doing so, it has a lot to say about hope, survival, cultural memory, and legacy; in some cases, literal seeds of a garden you’ll never get to see. I love Aloy: her determination and focus, her incredible strength (physical and otherwise), and the way she smirks when she knows she's going to whack something into the ground.

Aloy/Petra, Aloy/Talanah, Aloy/Varl, Aloy & Varl
I'm curious to see what Aloy does after the end of the game. Does she wander the world, visiting the friends she's made (and bang all the ladies)? Or does she find a place and settle down, perhaps with one of the nice ladies she’s met? Does she go back to the Nora to help rebuild, and find there's still something there for her?

Aloy/Avad
I haven’t read an Aloy/Avad story that’s really scratched the itch properly. I have a lot of Thoughts on how both she and Ersa are probably the only people who Avad can relate to as a person, as opposed to a king, and what that does for him. Somebody else in their Yuletide letter also thought it would be interesting to have Avad mentor Aloy through the whole being a person/object of high regard thing, and I like that idea too. I would also not be opposed to an arranged marriage scenario, where they get hitched for political reasons and find it actually works out better  when they acknowledge they have feelings for each other.

Rogue One, Star Wars OT

Pardon me for smooshing these two fandoms together because there's so much overlap. Please feel free to ignore the canon in Rogue One, although I would prefer no out of world AUs.

Bail Organa & Leia Organa, Jyn Erso & Leia Organa
These relationships fall into what I guess I would call the ugly business of revolution. Saw Gerrera and Bail Organa both train their adopted daughters to fight for the cause, albeit in very different ways. I imagine there are complex feelings on both sides, but the daughters are the ones who survive to speak about it. 

Han Solo/Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker
I feel like we get a pretty good idea of the relationship between Han/Leia and Luke and Leia, but not really the three of them as a unit. Do they need to figure out how to balance the relationship between all three of them? Do Han or Luke ever get jealous or resentful of the other for taking up Leia's time?

Leia Organa/Han Solo/Luke Skywalker, Han Solo/Luke Skywalker
I would request that this remain a V relationship, as I find this particular sibling incest pairing squicky. I do dearly love the "I want you both but I don't know if it would be proper" trope when it comes to triads, and you cannot convince me that Han isn't over the moon for both the twins. Make him as pining and as miserable about it as you want. Or maybe one of the twins notices, and nudges the other. Just get them together, and make it fun. Or tell me what it's like when they've figured it out.

Bodhi Rook/Galen Erso
Anything you want to do with these two is fine by me. Emotional tender sex where they cry a lot about the people they've lost and find solace in each other? Really intense hardcore BDSM where both of them get hurt and like it? Really intense hardcore BDSM where Galen gets hurt and Bodhi finds he likes doing it? Quiet pining (on either side) where one finally screws up the courage to talk to the other? Galen gives Bodhi the courage to do the right thing with the power of his dick? Go wild.

Cassian Andor/Bodhi Rook, Jyn Erso/Bodhi Rook, Cassian Andor/Jyn Erso
(Separately or as a triad is fine by me.)
The thing that distresses the most about these ships is in canon, they don't get a chance at all. What would it look like if they had the opportunity to think about the connections they've made, and act upon them?

Cassian Andor/K2SO, Cassian Andor & K2SO
Cassian's best friend is a droid he liberated from the Empire. I feel like that says volumes about him and his damage. I am interested to see what exactly gets stirred up when Cassian teaches Kay about how to be a Rebel, and what that says about his view of humanity (in general, his own, whatever).