Id Pro Quo 2020 Letter

[straightforwardly]

Table of Contents

General Information
   ★ General Likes
   ★ Smut-Specific Likes
   ★ DNWs

Crossovers
   ★ Haruno Sakura & Any (Any Fantasy Canon)
   ★ Jareth/Sarah Williams & Any (Any Canon)
   ★ Sarah Williams & Any (Any Canon)

The Legend of the Sun Knight
   ★ Lesus Judgment/Grisia Sun
   ★ Grisia Sun & His Twelve Holy Knights
   ★ Grisia Sun & Neo Sun

Original Works - Siblings & Cousin Incest Edition
   ★ Queen Sister/Brother Who Put Her On The Throne
   ★ King Brother/Co-Ruler in All But Name Sister
   ★ Crown Prince Riding Out To War/His Warrior Cousin He's Forbidden To Love
   ★ Sister Who Spent Years In A Portal Fantasy World/Her Brother Who Also Spent Years In That World
   ★ Sorceress Sister/Sorceror Brother
   ★ Sorceress Sister/Her Ghost Brother

Original Works - Enemies To Lovers Edition
   ★ Female Adventurer/Demon Lord
   ★ Dark Mage/Assassin From Enemy Country
   ★ Master Swordsman/Master Swordsman That Won’t Let Anyone Else Kill Each Other

The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System
   ★ Luo Binghe/Shen Qingqiu

General Information [↑]

I didn’t write prompts for all of my requested tags because… that would be a lot, and because there would too many where I all have to say about it is “yes good”, but rest assured that if I requested it, then I want it! Also, any specific prompts are just meant to inspire. If I have a specific prompt for a tag and you have a different idea for it that you think I’d like, then go for it!

AO3: straightforwardly

General Likes [↑]

• blood, blood-drinking, blood kink.
• canon settings.
• canon divergence AUs.
• castles, shrines, abandoned ruins, dark forests, haunted locations, places with a deep sense of atmosphere and/or history.
• crossovers between my requested canons.
• dysfunctional or otherwise complicated relationships, especially if the people involved genuinely care about one another.
• ghosts ghost ghosts GHOSTS.
• hair kink, loving descriptions of long hair, hair brushing, hair petting.
• hand-holding, casual touching, any focus on hands.
• hurt/comfort.
• mutual pining, especially if the characters retain their canon levels of competency.
• trapped together / huddling for warmth scenarios.
• any time-related shenanigans: time travel, time loops, peggy sue, etc.
• unusual formats (e.g., epistolary, interactive fiction, non-linear storytelling, & so on.)
• winter/autumn settings and atmosphere (e.g., snow, autumn leaves, pumpkins, fog, tea, etc.)
• worldbuilding.

Smut-Specific Likes [↑]

• biting, especially on the neck or inner thighs.
• blood and bloodplay.
• fucking against a wall.
• frottage; intercrural; mutual handjobs.
• hair tugging; hair kink.
• hand and finger kink; glove kink.
• oral sex (both cunnilingus and blowjobs); vaginal fingering.
• sex acts other than anal.
• sex pollen; magic made them do it.
• somnophilia.
• tentacles; sentient plants/vines.

Do Not Wants [↑]

• a/b/o & similar AUs based around defined biological roles.
• cannibalism/anything being eaten alive.
• characters who are young in canon growing old and/or dying of old age.
• eye injuries.
• first person POV.
• identity headcanons.
• pregnancy/childbirth/small children/stories about “the next generation”, whether canonical or not.
• serial killers; the main characters kidnapping someone with the intention of murdering them later.
• setting-change/mundane AUs.
• zombies/any of the rotting undead.

Smut-specific DNWs: anal tearing/bleeding, belly kink, come eating, come inflation, daddy/mommy kink, foot kink (exception: boot kink is definitely, definitely allowed!), lactation, rimming, sounding, sex acts involving characters under the age of fifteen (you don’t need to namedrop their age, but don’t refer to them as being younger than that or describe them in ways that would only apply to a child.)

Crossovers [↑]

I… love crossovers… It’s to the point where I’ll regularly read crossovers between two canons that I don’t know at all. Which is to say: when I say any canon in these requests, I mean it. Small fandoms, nonexistent fandoms, large fandoms, canons I know, canons I don't know—I’m here for all of that. Go where your heart leads you! There’s something so incredibly satisfying about seeing how two different worlds mesh together, especially when the author highlights and contrasts the differences in each canon’s worldbuilding and magic systems.

I also deeply love secret reveals, and crossovers are excellent venues for that—I really love watching characters trying to figure the characters from other canons out, with all their abilities/backstories/interesting aspects of their characters and original world being slowly revealed along the way.

If you do a crossover with a video game canon, I’d love it if the game mechanics / fighting system was somehow integrated into the worldbuilding. It’s definitely not necessary—something based on just the plot and characters would also make me very happy—but it is something that I really enjoy if you happen to also be into it.

A request: please avoid plot or character spoilers for Tales of Abyss, Bravely Second (anything from the first game is fair game!), manga spoilers for Akatsuki no Yona (I’ve watched & loved the anime, but haven’t gotten around to reading the manga yet; that being said, character spoilers for the dragons are fine), and 2HA (anything up to where Rynn’s translation is is fine). You can definitely still use those worlds and settings if you want to! It’s just that those are canons that I both haven’t (fully) consumed and have some investment in remaining unspoiled for.

Haruno Sakura & Any (Any Fantasy Canon)

Requested Tags

• Crossover: Compare/Contrast of Worldbuilding & Magic Systems
• Character Hides/Doesn't Mention Special Abilities; Later Must Reveal Abilities Due to Necessity
• Character Saves A Cat's Life; Cat Later Returns The Favor
• Competence - highly effective teamwork
• Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
• Competence Kink - male character is in awe of female character's confidence/intelligence/etc
• Competency Kink - Fixers & Kingmakers
• Covered In Blood - One Man Gets Sprayed In The Face With Another Man's Blood
• Hurt/Comfort - Character is weak and fatigued but doesn't slow down because they're "just tired"
• Hurt/Comfort - Character is ill but insists on battling on the frontlines anyway
• Hurt/Comfort - Character hides their illness until they faint and everyone panics
• Monster Appoints Self Protector Of A Human And Attacks All Perceived Threats To Them
• Naruto: Sakura Comes From a Non-Ninja Family
• plot plot and more plot
• Stranded - On Another Planet/World With No Way Home
• Worldbuilding

Fandom Specific DNWs: Boruto. The endgame canon pairings. (Mentions of Sakura’s genin crush on Sasuke is fine; her still having romantic feelings for him post-timeskip is not). Sakura betraying Konoha.

I have an intense amount of feelings about Sakura, which can be summed up as: she might actually be my all-time favorite fictional character.

With secondary world fantasy canons like Naruto, I do tend to prefer world hopping crossovers as opposed to “these two canons were set in the same world the whole time”. I don’t need too much set-up for how Sakura gets to the other world—a few sentences about a sealing accident/misfired jutsu/planned use of seals or jutsus/anything along those lines work well enough for me. I’d definitely prefer for the focus of the fic to be about Sakura actually being in and interacting with the other world.

On the off-chance you read my rhapsodizing about long hair in the Original Works section in my letter: Sakura is the only exception to my love of long hair, in that I actually prefer how she looks with short hair.

Monster Appoints Self Protector Of A Human And Attacks All Perceived Threats To Them - Look, if anyone deserves a protective monster companion, it’s definitely Sakura! If you’re crossing this over with a video game/RPG canon, please have fun picking something out from the enemy lists; otherwise, any monster from / monster based on the species shown in the other canon would be excellent. ♥ I do have a preference for more beast-based monsters (as opposed to humanoid).

Naruto: Sakura Comes From a Non-Ninja Family - I love, love, love the Sakura comes from a civilian family headcanon. I’d be good with both it being integrated into the fic or the subject just never coming up, but please don’t contradict it/give Sakura ninja parents.

One Man Gets Sprayed In The Face With Another Man's Blood - It says man, but, to be clear, I meant Sakura. Let Sakura be splattered by someone else’s blood. Especially when the blood comes from an enemy who she’s fighting against. ♥

Jareth/Sarah Williams & Any (Any Canon)
Sarah Williams & Any (Any Canon)

Requested Tags

• Crossover: Compare/Contrast of Worldbuilding & Magic Systems
• Crossover - same-canon ship gets together during adventure in Narnian world
• Character Hides/Doesn't Mention Special Abilities; Later Must Reveal Abilities Due to Necessity
• Character Saves A Cat's Life; Cat Later Returns The Favor
• Competence - highly effective teamwork
• Competence kink - different skills complementing each other
• Covered In Blood - One Man Gets Sprayed In The Face With Another Man's Blood
• Hurt/Comfort - Character is weak and fatigued but doesn't slow down because they're "just tired"
• plot plot and more plot
• Secret Reveal - Figuring it out by gradually putting the pieces together
• Worldbuilding

Fandom-Specific DNWs: Sarah having forgotten about the Labyrinth as she grew up and/or rejecting the friendships she made there. Jareth being Fae.

In general, I’m not much of a fan of Jareth and the Labyrinth being adjusted to fit into the mythology and beliefs about the Fae or another canon’s magic system. I like it best when the magic and worldbuilding around him and the Labyrinth is built off of what we see in the movie!

One exception to that: if you’re doing a Harry Potter crossover, do feel free to play with possible connections between the Gringott goblins and Jareth being the Goblin King. Ditto for any other canon that has goblins in it, especially when they’re set on Earth.

Unlike in my Naruto request, I didn’t specific a canon type here—both fantasy and mundane canons are welcome! With mundane canons, I’m really, really invested in the outsider POV aspect, both with and without an eventual secret reveal—though I do love a good secret reveal.

With fantasy canons set on Earth, I love Sarah discovering this other form of magic and fantasy on earth and how the rules are and aren’t different from her own experience with magic. Alternatively, I also love characters from those other canons discovering her and trying to puzzle out why and how she’s so different from their own experiences with the fantastic.

Time travel to historical canons would also be amazing! Especially if they’re historical fantasy canons. Finally, I tend to prefer world-hopping/dimensional travel when it comes to secondary world fantasy canons. You don’t need to spend a lot of time explaining how or why—honestly, Sarah just stumbling into that world and having no clue herself works just fantastic for me—I’d just want the focus on Sarah actually being in and interacting with the other world.

With Jareth, I tend to prefer him being genuinely dangerous/having shape edges, but also genuinely having feelings for Sarah.

Character is weak and fatigued but doesn't slow down because they're "just tired" - Please have Sarah be the one who’s stubbornly, determinedly plodding on!

One Man Gets Sprayed In The Face With Another Man's Blood - It says man, but I’m fine with either Jareth or Sarah (or both!) getting blood on their face.

The Legend of the Sun Knight [↑]

Fandom-Specific DNWs: Anything from the 39th generation. (I haven’t read it & don’t intend to.) The second Charlotte. Grisia’s hair being cut short.

This entire novel series is basically my id on a platter—by which I mean the hurt/comfort and loyalty kink portions of my id. ♥ Grisia is a dream of a main character, and I really want to see him suffer more. Also, please feel very free to linger on how very pretty Grisia is. Especially if he’s also bloody and wounded.

That being said: as much as I love Grisia suffering, I also love his reaction when someone he cares about is hurting just as much. After all, that’s basically just Grisia suffering in a different way, right? This is especially true when that someone is Lesus.

Lesus Judgment/Grisia Sun

Requested Tags

• Catching injured character as they faint or lose balance
• Character A Chooses To Die/Risk Death At Character B's Side Rather Than Face Life Without Them
• Hair Stuff - Character Brushes Another Character's Long Hair
• Hair stuff - partner plays with long-haired character's loose (usually-tied) hair
• Hurt/Comfort - Character is weak and fatigued but doesn't slow down because they're "just tired"
• Hurt/Comfort - Character wakes up from a coma and realizes that love interest is near
• Hurt/Comfort - Hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid
• Hurt/Comfort - Hurt/sick character needs to be carried
• Hurt/Comfort - insisting that exhausted character rest
• Hurt/Comfort - Fever sex
• Loyalty - Characters repeatedly choose each other over everyone else
• Loyalty Kink
• Loyalty Kink - Risking Self For Someone
• Pining - pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
• Powers - Character absorbs others' pain
• Self-Sacrifice - of Health/Safety
• Sharing a Bed - There Was Only One Bed
• Sickfic - Feverish character needs to be persuaded to rest
• Time Loop - looping character forced to watch loved one die repeatedly until loop is broken
• Whump - Character takes a lot of damage trying to calm down another character

Look, I have a lot of feelings about these two! I love how well Lesus knows Sun, I love how much they care about one another, I love how they react when the other gets harmed, and I love just how absolute Judgement’s loyalty to Grisia is. I love how they have to pretend to be enemies on the outside despite being so close to one another. I love their secret meetings in the bathroom.

I died (in a good way) when Judgement’s very first reaction to dying and being resurrected was concern for Grisia and what he might have lost. How he’s angry with himself for dying not because he died, but because he put Grisia at risk! I love how he never gives up on Grisia, Demon King or not. That bit in volume 6, where he stabs Grisia with the Divine Sun Sword to bring him back to himself, and then, just, leans his forehead against Grisia’s shoulder while struggling to hold back his tears and self-doubt…? BE STILL MY HEART

Character absorbs others' pain - I feel like you can probably guess where I’m going with this. :D Maybe instead of directly losing a large portion of his holy element, the price of Grisia’s Resurrection is that he feels intense physical pain whenever he uses the holy element? Alternatively: he can no longer heal in the traditional sense, but he can take on the injuries of others instead.

Also, his trying to hide this and Lesus finding out would be amazing. *_*

Character takes a lot of damage trying to calm down another character - GRISIA HURTING ONE OF THE PEOPLE HE LOVES MOST WHILE NOT IN HIS RIGHT MIND AND THEN HAVING TO DEAL WITH THE DELICIOUSLY GUILT-RIDDEN FALLOUT

Also… what if Lesus got hurt badly enough that he’s just… coughing out blood… what if… /eyes emoji

Pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid - Please consider: Grisia. Grisia feverish, drunk, or exhausted. And then: accidental confessions of feelings and/or insecurities (“Does the God of Light really want me to remain as his Sun Knight?”). Alternatively: Lesus’ incredible self-control slipping in a moment of exhaustion or fever.

Grisia Sun & His Twelve Holy Knights
Grisia Sun & Neo Sun

Requested Tags

• Catching injured character as they faint or lose balance
• Hurt/Comfort - Character is weak and fatigued but doesn't slow down because they're "just tired"
• Hurt/Comfort - Character pushes themself too hard before they're fully recovered and relapse
• Hurt/Comfort - Fainting
• Hurt/Comfort - Hurt/sick character isn't quite lucid
• Hurt/Comfort - Hurt/sick character needs to be carried
• Hurt/Comfort - insisting that exhausted character rest
• Loyalty - Characters repeatedly choose each other over everyone else
• Loyalty Kink
• Loyalty Kink - Risking Self For Someone
• Powers - Character absorbs others' pain
• Powers - Ensemble finds out the price of another character's healing/shielding ability
Protectiveness
• Protectiveness - Character is unexpectedly tender and protective of the other
• Self-Sacrifice - of Health/Safety
• Sharing A Bed - Platonic bed-sharing
• Sickfic - Feverish character needs to be persuaded to rest
• Time Loop - Can Only Be Broken When Everyone In The Group Survives To The End
• Time Loop - looping character forced to watch loved one die repeatedly until loop is broken
• Whump - Character takes a lot of damage trying to calm down another character

Grisia & Neo
I just… I love this weird student & teacher duo so much. They’re so insincere about how much they care about each other?? It’s great. I love Grisia constantly going on about how terrified he is of Neo and how he tries to run away from him when they reunite—only to fall right back into caring desperately when Neo’s hurt or when he thinks he needs his help. His reaction when he realizes that Neo lost his arm! HIS REACTION WHEN HE REALIZED THAT HE WAS THE ONE WHO DID IT. I can’t express how delighted I was by that being the revelation that finally tipped Grisia fully over the edge when he was trying to kill himself.

And Neo knew! He knew that he couldn’t tell Grisia the truth—that Grisia would react… really poorly, to put it mildly! He understands him so well, and I just have too many feelings about these two.

Grisia & The Twelve Holy Knights
Look, it’s the loyalty kink. I am all here for the loyalty kink. I love, love, love how protective Grisia is of “his” holy knights, and I adore how they all return that loyalty to him absolutely—even the ones he doesn’t know as well (Metal) or doesn’t get along with (Earth)!

Character absorbs others' pain // Ensemble finds out the price of another character's healing/shielding ability - I feel like you can probably guess where I’m going with this. :D Maybe instead of directly losing a large portion of his holy element, the price of Grisia’s Resurrection is that he feels intense physical pain whenever he uses the holy element? Alternatively: he can no longer heal in the traditional sense, but he can take on the injuries of others instead. And then, Grisia being Grisia, he of course tries to hide it. And everyone else being who they are, they of course find out. :D

Character takes a lot of damage trying to calm down another character - GRISIA HURTING THE PEOPLE HE LOVES MOST WHILE NOT IN HIS RIGHT MIND AND THEN HAVING TO DEAL WITH THE DELICIOUSLY GUILT-RIDDEN FALLOUT

Time Loop - Can Only Be Broken When Everyone In The Group Survives To The End - Oh, look, it’s my love of time loops, temporary character death, and Grisia’s reaction when any of his knights get hurt all combined into one tag!

Original Works - Siblings & Cousin Incest Edition [↑]

Important information for character creation: I love, love, love long hair on both men and women. Tall, gorgeous, elegant, long-haired characters is basically the recipe for my id, especially when we’re talking about royalty, sorcery, or swordsmanship. No beards, please. I also tend to prefer dark hair over light (unless you want to go with anime-style silver/white hair, in which case, please feel very free to do so. ♥)

I didn’t have the space to fit these tags into all of my requests in this category, but please feel free to work any of these scenarios into anything written for these relationships:

• Kisses - Back of hand
• Kisses - Finger Kisses
• Kisses - Neck Kisses
• Kisses - Palm Kisses
• Kisses - Wrist Kisses
• Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle

Queen Sister/Brother Who Put Her On The Throne
King Brother/Co-Ruler in All But Name Sister

Requested Tags

• Competence - highly effective teamwork
• Codependency
• Hair Stuff - Character Brushes Another Character's Long Hair
• Hurt/Comfort - Character is weak and fatigued but doesn't slow down because they're "just tired"
• Incest - Incestuous siblings feel nobody else loves them as much as they do each other
• Incest - platonic touching slowly turning less platonic
• Kisses - Back of hand
• Kisses - Finger Kisses
• Kisses - Neck Kisses
• Kisses - Palm Kisses
• Kisses - Wrist Kisses
• Kissing After Falling on/Straddling Another Person
• Long Slow Foreplay Ramping Desperation Before + Pillow Talk After
• Loyalty - Characters repeatedly choose each other over everyone else
• Pining - Character pines for someone who thinks nothing of undressing casually in front of them
• Pining - Mutual Pining
• Possessiveness - marking partner physically
• Sickfic - Feverish character needs to be persuaded to rest
• Smut - kneeling for cunnilingus and then needing to support her legs as they buckle
• Washing Off The Blood Of Your Enemies In A Sexy Way

I am basically always here for codependent, us-against-the-world siblings, but I am especially here for that when they’re royalty. I really love the idea of the both of them viewing themselves as a single unit who see their fates, ambitions, and power as being intrinsically combined with one another, regardless of who is “officially” the ruler.

For King Brother/Co-Ruler in All But Name Sister, I’m mostly interested in post-coronation fic (and preferably something set when they’ve already settled into ruling), but I’d be interested in both post-coronation and/or backstory for Queen Sister/Brother Who Put Her On The Throne.

It’s just such an interesting set-up! How does he manage it in the first place? My first thought was militarily/by force, as the above prompts might suggest, but maybe he goes the diplomatic/manipulative route? Is the Queen Sister the rightful heir or were there people he had to get out of the way first? Did he have his own claim to the throne that he waived away? I would love it if his dedication to the cause was something out of the ordinary and no one can quite understand why he fights so hard on her behalf. Maybe they’re a part of a horde of siblings or a family that has a long history of treachery and backstabbing—which makes their ironclad loyalty to one another all the more unexpected?

Also, this mental image never fails to delight me: The brother kneeling to her, hand-kissing, returning to her blood-splattered and victorious, crowning her (with a blood-stained crown).

Beyond that, I would love anything with one or more of: (mutual) pining (especially if it’s eventually resolved), heaps of sexual tension, intense competency on both their parts (particularly in the realm of politics), fantasy politics, loyalty kink, hard work to the point of exhaustion, and/or codependency. I do love get-together fic, but established relationships are also excellent!

Washing Off The Blood Of Your Enemies In A Sexy Way - I was initially thinking about this in the context of a failed assassination attempt, but it could also work really well with the Brother Who Put Her On The Throne having just finished doing exactly what his title says for his newly- or about-to-be-crowned Queen Sister.

Crown Prince Riding Out To War/His Warrior Cousin He's Forbidden To Love

Requested Tags

• Character A Chooses To Die/Risk Death At Character B's Side Rather Than Face Life Without Them
• Competence - highly effective teamwork
• Grief/Mourning For What Ends Up Being A Temporary Character Death
• Hair stuff - partner plays with long-haired character's loose (usually-tied) hair
• Hurt/Comfort - Character is weak and fatigued but doesn't slow down because they're "just tired"
• Hurt/Comfort - Mutual emotional comfort after witnessing multiple deaths
• Hurt/Comfort - desperate CPR/kiss of life to resuscitate love interest
• Hurt/Comfort - Loneliness
• Hurt/Comfort - Character doesn't care about own well-being
• Incest - platonic touching slowly turning less platonic
• Kisses - Back of hand
• Kisses - Finger Kisses
• Kisses - Palm Kisses
• Kisses - Wrist Kisses
• Kissing After Falling on/Straddling Another Person
• Loyalty - Characters repeatedly choose each other over everyone else
• Pining - Character pines for someone who thinks nothing of undressing casually in front of them
• Pining - Mutual Pining
• Pining - pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
• Washing Off The Blood Of Your Enemies In A Sexy Way

Cousins usually don’t do it for me, but there’s something about this pairing that just hit me straight in the id when I saw it in the tagset. It just seems absolutely soaked with longing, and I'm very much here for it.

Why is the prince forbidden to love his cousin? Is it just because he's his cousin (valid) or is there another reason for it? Perhaps the cousin's parents are executed traitors to the throne? I'd love something where the cousin is repressed and serious and very, very aware of the uncertain nature of his position, especially if he's also absolutely loyal to his country and determined to do his part—both in the war and in resisting his feelings for the crown prince.

On that note: yes, I'd love mutual pining! On the cousin's side, I'd love both him being unaware of the prince returning his feelings and his being aware but refusing to act on them because of outside circumstances. In the latter situation, I'd love it if the prince didn't realize that his feelings were mutual and had just been hopelessly pining.

Character doesn't care about own well-being - The cousin, please! Especially if you combine it with the exhaustion-related tags.

Character A Chooses To Die/Risk Death At Character B's Side Rather Than Face Life Without Them - Either of them doing this would be great, but I'd especially love it if it was the prince! Especially if the cousin points out that he's the heir/that his life is more valuable than his, but the prince still absolutely refuses to abandon him. ♥

Loneliness - Maybe the Crown Prince has lived an incredibly isolated life (in the emotional sense; I’m not referring to being locked up in a tower) due to his position (plus maybe emotionally distant parents who are more ruler than parent?), with the cousin being one of the only bright points in his life? Both that sort of scenario on its own and/or the agony of he feels when losing that connection due he, his cousin, or both of them deciding to futilely try to keep their distance from one another would be amazing. If you go with the “cousin’s parents were executed traitors” route, any isolation he feels from the uncertainty of his position in the court would also be amazing.

In general, when it comes to loneliness, I love it when it’s something that the characters feel deeply, but hide from the outside world. I love the idea of the prince as a well-educated, well-raised, and well-regarded heir who is just secretly drowning in his loneliness, as well as the thought of the cousin as serious, talented, thoughtful, and repressed—maybe even the sort of person who the prince thinks doesn’t have any weaknesses—who nonetheless is struggling with feelings of isolation and longing for genuine human connection.

Grief/Mourning For What Ends Up Being A Temporary Character Death // desperate CPR/kiss of life to resuscitate love interest // Mutual emotional comfort after witnessing multiple deaths - Something needs to push these two into getting together, right? What I like about these scenarios is that they're the kind of dramatic or emotional situations that could get them to look past or stop caring about the "forbidden" aspect of their love—or, if not stop caring entirely, then at least realizing they'd regret not trying to be together more than they fear the consequences if their feelings become widely known.

With the temporary character death, please, please feel free to make me cry from the strength of the surviving character’s grief and regret and longing before the eventual resurrection. Bad emotional coping mechanisms are also always appreciated. I’d love to have my heart broken and then stitched back together.

Sister Who Spent Years In A Portal Fantasy World/Her Brother Who Also Spent Years In That World

Requested Tags

• Competence - highly effective teamwork
• Competency Kink - Fixers & Kingmakers
• Grief/Mourning For What Ends Up Being A Temporary Character Death
• Hurt/Comfort - Mutual emotional comfort after witnessing multiple deaths
• Hurt/Comfort - desperate CPR/kiss of life to resuscitate love interest
• Incest - characters insist each time is the last time but it keeps happening
• Incest - Incestuous siblings feel nobody else loves them as much as they do each other
• Incest - platonic touching slowly turning less platonic
• Kisses - Back of hand
• Kisses - Finger Kisses
• Kisses - Neck Kisses
• Kisses - Palm Kisses
• Kisses - Wrist Kisses
• Kissing After Falling on/Straddling Another Person
• Long Slow Foreplay Ramping Desperation Before + Pillow Talk After
• Loyalty - Characters repeatedly choose each other over everyone else
• Pining - Mutual Pining
• Pining - pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
• Possessiveness - marking partner physically
• Washing Off The Blood Of Your Enemies In A Sexy Way

I did my nominations at the proverbial last minute and didn’t think of it in time, but, for the record, I would be just as into the sister/sister variation of this tag as the sister/brother version!

This is definitely inspired by Narnia, but I decided to go with an OW nom for the broader access it gives to character types, relationship dynamics, and fantasy worldbuilding. And despite my name-dropping Narnia, they definitely don’t have to end up being royalty! That is, if you have an interesting plot that involves that, go for it, but what I’m personally most invested in seeing is them becoming competent as warriors/sorcerors/something along those lines and getting to the point where they’re powerful enough to have some sort of say in the world. The idea of them starting off from a position of weakness and growing powerful enough to be fixers and kingmakers is honestly just so delightful for my id.

Most of my tags are aimed towards what happens while they’re in the fantasy world, but dealing with the fallout of what happens when they come home would also be interesting! You can have it in the modern world, but I’d also be into them originally being from a historical setting. I’d want them to be longing for and missing this world they came of age in, with all of its differing norms, and struggling to adapt back to a world that they no longer fit into. I do definitely want them to be able to go home to that fantasy world in the end, though.

I’d also love a story centered around that return! The feelings of relief, the contrast between the oppression and constraint they felt in the mundane with the lifting of that weight when they come back… yeah, I’m very here for that. Especially if they celebrate by fucking against the first available surface (against a tree? a wall in an empty hallway?) the moment they have privacy—and especially if they also spent their time in the mundane world trying to resist being together.

As for their original time in the secondary fantasy world… I’d love to see them coming to this world together: growing, changing, suffering, struggling, and becoming stronger together while growing closer and closer all the while. I love the idea of their relationship turning more and more codependent because of the things they live through and how no one else can understand their situation like the other does. I definitely do want the incestuous feelings to only start after they’ve come to this world, and preferably after they’ve already been in this world for some time.

I’d also really love something where they came to this world separately (or maybe were separated from one another at some point) and where, when they do reunite, they find themselves on opposite sides of a conflict. In that second scenario, I’d really love something where they do genuinely care about one another, but are also genuinely loyal to their side and care about the people and ideology that they’re fighting for. Reluctant enemies to lovers! Enemies who love each other but still have to fight! Enemies who fight but don’t want to actually hurt one another! Please give me all of the messy emotional complications, please. ♥

Mutual emotional comfort after witnessing multiple deaths - I’d be into so many different takes on this scenario, but one that comes to mind is this happening in a scenario where they’re on opposite sides, all or many of the people they’ve come to care about end up killing each other, and the two of them come together in the ashes of the conflict to seek comfort for their mutual grief.

Sorceress Sister/Sorceror Brother
Sorceress Sister/Her Ghost Brother

Requested Tags

• Competence - highly effective teamwork
• Competency Kink - Fixers & Kingmakers
• Dangerous Character Willing to Destroy World to Save and Protect One Person
• Ghost Haunts The Person Who Meant Everything To Them In Life
• Ghosts - A is a ghost only B can see and interact with
• Hair Stuff - Character Brushes Another Character's Long Hair
• Hair Stuff - pulling
• Incest - Incestuous siblings feel nobody else loves them as much as they do each other
• Incest - platonic touching slowly turning less platonic
• Kisses - Back of hand
• Kisses - Finger Kisses
• Kisses - Neck Kisses
• Kisses - Palm Kisses
• Kisses - Wrist Kisses
• Long Slow Foreplay Ramping Desperation Before + Pillow Talk After
• Loyalty - Characters repeatedly choose each other over everyone else
• Pining - Character pines for someone who thinks nothing of undressing casually in front of them
• Pining - Mutual Pining
• Pining - pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
• Possessiveness - marking partner physically

Sorceress Sister/Sorceror Brother
As always, I am very much here for codependent/us-against-the-world vibes in my sibling incest, but in this scenario I’m also very into the idea of them being bitter rivals in the arena of magic but who will still do absolutely anything for one another when push comes to shove. Especially if the rest of the world (including any potential enemies) take their rivalry at face value without realizing or recognizing the deep bond hidden beneath the outward bitterness—and especially if an enemy make a move against one of them while under the assumption that the other won’t defend them or care. Or maybe the enemy even attempts to get one of them to join in on the plot against their sibling and lives to regret it!

But, of course, a straightforward us-against-the-world, codependent set of a siblings is also always, always a delight for me.

I also didn’t request the “Grief/Mourning For What Ends Up Being A Temporary Character Death” tag in this section because I wouldn’t be interested in seeing the ghost brother being revived, but, for the record, I would be into either the sister or brother dying and seeing the surviving sibling wracked by grief before eventually resorting to dangerous magic rituals to bring their sibling back.

Sorceress Sister/Her Ghost Brother
The same as the above, except now starring my love of ghosts and character death! Though, the brother doesn’t have to be a sorceror in this scenario—maybe he’s an assassin or warrior or bard, or whatever other job class strikes your fancy. As long as he had some sort of combat capabilities and was competent in his field, I’d be up for it.

With this tag, I have this mental image of a sorceress high in her tower, surrounded by her books and magical implements, haunted by the ghost of her brother—and willingly so. I love the idea of a bond so intense that neither of them are willing to give it up, even after death. Maybe his death turned them even more codependent than they were before, with the sorceress isolating herself, unwilling to relinquish her brother and her brother’s company, while the brother is (potentially) unable to be seen by anyone else and only has her to depend on for company. Or maybe they originally had a loving, but still relatively normal relationship (though maybe still with flashes of repressed incestuous desire?), which his death and haunting transfoms into intense codependency a la the above.

Original Works - Enemies To Lovers Edition [↑]

Female Adventurer/Demon Lord
Dark Mage/Assassin From Enemy Country
Master Swordsman/Master Swordsman That Won’t Let Anyone Else Kill Each Other

Requested Tags

• Antagonism - characters don't like each other but nobody else understands them this well
• Antagonistic Sex - 'Make Me'
• Enemies - No one is allowed to kill you but me
• Enemies Forced To Work Together
• Enemies to Lovers - A flirts by killing B's enemies
• Enemies to Lovers - A gets in trouble or injured protecting B; which makes B see A in a new light
• Enemies to Lovers - A has conflicting feelings while B tenderly treats his/her injuries
• Enemies to Lovers - A is in danger and needs to be rescued; prompting B to realize their feelings
• Enemies to Lovers - An enemy tenderly treats character's injuries that the enemy inflicted
• Enemies to Lovers - Forced to rely on the enemy
• Enemies to Lovers - Villain saves character's life
• Enemies to Lovers - working together to save somebody they both care about
• Enemy openly admits to being in love with the hero; hero doesn't know how they feel about this
• Hate Sex - Characters having hate sex gradually catch feelings
• Hurt/Comfort - Actually managing to injure arch-foe and realize you don’t actually want to hurt them
• Hurt/Comfort - Comforter is the One Who Hurt Them
• Immortality - Immortal enemy is the last familiar person still around. Leads to Enemies to Lovers.
• Undercover - Character is undercover and their enemy unexpectedly plays along
• Undercover - Enemies have to corroborate each other's cover
• Undercover - Enemies/rivals have to pretend they're lovers

Important information for character creation: I love, love, love long hair on both men and women. Tall, gorgeous, elegant, long-haired characters is basically the recipe for my id, especially when we’re talking about royalty, sorcery, or swordsmanship. (Though, adventurers don’t have to be elegant. They can be! But they don’t have to be.) No beards, please. I also tend to prefer dark hair over light (unless you want to go with anime-style silver/white hair, in which case, please feel very free to do so. ♥)

For the relationships where gender is undefined, please feel free to write M/M, F/F, or M/F as you see fit. All I ask is on that note is for them all to all be allowed to be more-or-less equally competent in their own area of expertise, regardless of gender.

Enemies to lovers is just… honestly, I have to resist the urge to make embarrassing noises every time I think about it, and these delicious, delicious tags don’t make it any easier. I love all sorts of enemy relationships, from genuine bitter antagonism that grows into love over time to enemies who have respect for the other and their abilities, but have fundamentally opposed ideologies that set them on opposing sides. Please do make them actual enemies, though—rivals don’t really do it for me.

I love it when circumstances force them to work together, leading them to see the other in a new light. I love them slowly falling for one another at the same time, but I also love it when one of them falls first and ends up startling or confusing the other by not acting as antagonistically as they might have expected (e.g., like in the “Character is undercover and their enemy unexpectedly plays along” or “A gets in trouble or injured protecting B” tags). I love them being in love without realizing it, at least not until something happens—like one of them getting seriously hurt, perhaps even at the other’s hand—to force them into that realization.

Female Adventurer/Demon Lord
I have special weakness for villain/hero ships, and this tag is meant to the be embodiment of the kind of dynamic that makes me want to put my face in my hands and make embarrassing delighted sounds. This is one case where I don’t mind the Demon Lord being notably more powerful than the Adventurer, as long as the Adventurer is still very competent in a “she’s very good when compared to other humans/elves/most monsters/whatever; it’s not her fault that a Demon Lord is in another weight class entirely” sort of way. I’m picturing her as a warrior—I love swords—with the Demon Lord being more focused on magic, but any combat-oriented class would be great for her! I also really like rogues, for instance. (Poisoned daggers! ♥)

If you go with a “one enemy starts falling for the other one first” scenario with this relationship, I’d prefer it to be the Demon Lord who’s interested first.

I don’t have too much to say specifically about the Dark Mage/Assassin From Enemy Country and Master Swordsman/Master Swordsman That Won’t Let Anyone Else Kill Each Other relationships—mostly, they just struck me as very good set-ups for enemy/enemy relationships within the context of a fantasy setting and that are between character who are relatively equal to one another.

Also, if, for any reason, you want to include a fight scene where one of the characters strikes an enemy (whether canon fodder or The Enemy) and having their blood be artistically splattered across their face, I am definitely not dissuading you from including that. >_>

The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System [↑]

Fandom-Specific DNWs: SJ being referred to as “A-Jiu”, the Shen twins headcanon / Shen Jiu and Shen Yuan being family in any way, LBH referring to SQQ with any variation of the name “Shen Yuan”, unhappy endings for Bingqiu.

Luo Binghe/Shen Qingqiu

Requested Tags

• Case/mission fic ultimately resulting in ship's realization of feelings for each other
• First Kisses - Accidental First Kiss
• Grief/Mourning For What Ends Up Being A Temporary Character Death
• Hurt/Comfort - Actually managing to injure arch-foe and realize you don’t actually want to hurt them
• Love Confessions - A thinks they're about to die and voices their feelings for B;but oops A survives
• Pining - Character pines for someone who thinks nothing of undressing casually in front of them
• Pining - A thinks their pining is unrequited; B thinks they're in a relationship already
• Pining - Character A incorrectly assumes that Character B knows that A is pining for them
• Pining - Character thinks they aren't good enough for the object of their pining
• Pining - pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.)
• Pining - Pining characters unknowingly share sex dreams (but figure it out in the end)
• Resurrection - came back wrong in a painful for the resurectee way
• Sex pollen - pining victims each think the other is horrified but eventually work things out later
• Undercover - Character is undercover and their enemy unexpectedly plays along

Hopefully I was careful enough when picking my requested tags so that this doesn’t come as an unpleasant surprise to anyone, but for this request, I’m not looking for an established relationship fic! I love these two more than words can say, but while I do adore this ship in all of its forms, what I find iddiest are canon divergence AUs, alternate getting-together scenarios, SQQ finding out about Binghe’s feelings in a different way, and Luo Binghe’s hopelessly pining.

In general, if a tag only refers to one character pining, then I want that character to be Binghe. Relatedly, I do love SQQ’s intense obliviousness to his own feelings/sexuality, and am into seeing any way in which he might be forced to confront his own feelings.

Character pines for someone who thinks nothing of undressing casually in front of them - I was thinking about this in the context of Binghe’s teenaged pining, but if you have another idea, go for it!

Character A incorrectly assumes that Character B knows that A is pining for them - Binghe thinking that his Shizun obviously must know what his feelings are!

Character is undercover and their enemy unexpectedly plays along - Or “enemy”, as the case may be. Or, in other words:

LBH: A chance to be helpful and prove myself to Shizun!
SQQ: shit, shit, shit, this is definitely part of a ploy to kill me, I am so doomed

I have no idea why a peak lord might have to go undercover, but I am open to everything!

Grief/Mourning For What Ends Up Being A Temporary Character Death - Binghe during that five year period after SQQ’s self-destruction.

Hurt/Comfort - Actually managing to injure arch-foe and realize you don’t actually want to hurt them - Or “arch-foe”. I love the idea of SQQ accidentally managing to seriously injure Binghe during that period where he’s convinced that Binghe’s out to hunt him down—especially if his first reaction is to help Binghe. Honestly, any scenario where Binghe, convinced that his Shizun hates him, gets to see SQQ worrying and/or caring for him just makes me melt.

Love Confessions - A thinks they're about to die and voices their feelings for B;but oops A survives // Pining - pining character reveals their feelings while not quite lucid (hurt/drunk/etc.) - Look, I have a need, and that need is SQQ getting a 404 error via Binghe unexpectedly confessing his feelings to him.

Pining - A thinks their pining is unrequited; B thinks they're in a relationship already - I would love this in an adjusted post-canon / near-the-end-of-canon divergence where SQQ assumes that they’re in a relationship now, Binghe has no idea that SQQ returns his feelings/is still struggling with his pining and all the emotional issues that come with it, and SQQ’s inability to properly communicate makes things much more complicated than it really needs to be. ♥

Pining - Pining characters unknowingly share sex dreams (but figure it out in the end) - Please don’t have the dreams start until after Binghe’s fallen into the Endless Abyss / has gotten a chance to grow up a little more! Also, please note the “unknowingly” part—I want LBH to be just as convinced that these are dreams as SQQ is.

As for why this happens—maybe a power-up Binghe has at some point makes his dream powers go haywire? Or whatever you can think of! I’m just so into seeing how SQQ would struggle to conceptualize regularly dreaming about banging the incredibly hot protagonist that he’s so afraid of, as well as all of the intense yearning on Binghe’s part.

Resurrection - came back wrong in a painful for the resurectee way - SQQ as the resurrected character! Maybe something goes wrong with the Moon and Flower Seed body? Or maybe Binghe manages to resurrect SQQ without the Moon and Flower Seed body getting in the way, but something goes wrong.

(I do, ultimately, prefer SQQ to be inhabiting SJ’s body. If you’re writing about him in the plant body, I don’t need him to go back to SJ’s body within the fic or for the possibility to even be mentioned, but please don’t have SJ’s body being destroyed / otherwise making it clear that it’d be impossible for SQQ to ever return to that body.)

Sex pollen - pining victims each think the other is horrified but eventually work things out later - If SQQ only realized his own feelings for the first time during the sex pollen, so much the better! Especially if he’s half-convinced that Binghe is going to kill him for this.