Five Figure Fanwork Exchange 2022/Fic in a Box 2022
Hi there!! Thank you so much for looking at my letter, good luck with creating!!
Quick disclaimer that this is all optional details, and you don’t have to stick to anything. Even so, I hope you find something inspiring here!
Also, please don’t wait up for a comment from me. I work full time and want to devote the proper time/energy to your fic! So if it’s been a week (or five) since reveals and I haven’t commented, I promise I don’t hate it, I just haven’t had the time to read it yet. Thank you for understanding!
DNWs: unrequested relationships, NSFW (fade to black/implied is okay), AUs other than canon divergence, cheating/infidelity.
General likes: Worldbuilding, queer characters and queer characters being normalised aka them being queer is not the focus of the fic, fight scenes and fighting banter, case fic, bodyswap, established relationships!!!!!!, daemon AUs, soulmate AUs, pining, outside POV, social media fic, forehead touching, post canon fic, femslash, cuddling for warmth, there was only one bed, childhood friends to lovers, time travel/time loops, wingfic, violence and blood as long as comfort follows the hurt. I really love some plot - doesn’t have to be deep or anything, just a solid storyline is great. Including original characters is also great!
General dislikes: fake dating, marriage of convenience, miscommunication (pining okay), character bashing, unhappy endings. If you’re going to write a trans character please don’t misgender them.
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Fandom likes: Byleth being involved with teaching the other houses, Sothis commenting on everyday life, Jeralt being protective of Byleth, trans guy Felix, reason spells having really a really bad impact on their users (esp dark magic), weird crest headcanons, students looking out for Byleth, really creepy things happening to/about Byleth after Sothis gives them her powers. I love Marianne!! Even if she’s not who we matched on, if you could somehow include her I would be over the moon. Also, please only use they/them pronouns for Byleth!
I’ve finished all routes of FE3H+Ashen Wovles DLC, and I am slowly working my way through FEW3H, and will definitely have finished that when reveals happen, so please feel free to use any spoilers! Also, consider this a blanket opt in for any FE3H requests, to opt in to crossovers with FEH. Tell me how everyone copes with being summoned to Askr!
FE3H ships I like (if you’d like to include any background ships!): Sylvain/Felix, Edelgard/Lysithea, Marianne/Hilda, Dorothea/Petra, Dimitri/Claude, Dimitri/Dedue, Linhardt/Caspar, Hubert/Ferdinand, Catherine/Shamir, Byleth/Sothis, Ashe/Ingrid, Ashe/Marianne, Marianne/Ingrid, Ashe/Marianne/Ingrid, Leonie/Bernadetta, Leonie/Marianne, Jeralt/Sitri. Feel free to include any/none of these!
What is a fandom without a rarepair that only I ship? I got Ashe and Marianne’s ending the first time I played FE3H, and then Ashe and Ingrid’s paired ending on my second route, and liked both ships immensely, but it is only recently that I have had the epiphany that I could just… ship them all together as an OT3! I like to think that Ingrid and Marianne bond over their shared love of horses/pegasus, and since I always make Ingrid a falcon knight, Ashe a wyvern knight, and now that the DLC is out, Marianne a dark flier, they’re all flying together!! It’s very good and positive and if you have thought about it for even a second by reading this then I thank you.
Supports: Between Marianne and Ingrid!! I absolutely love the ashegrid and mariashe support chains, so if you could write something between Marianne and Ingrid that would be amazing. Or maybe even a support chain between all three of them? It’s not something that’s done in game, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do it!
Flying together: as mentioned above, I make all three of them fliers, so if you do something with that then I would be stoked. Maybe they get trapped on a mountain somewhere because they were scouting and a storm blew in? Now they have to build shelter, find food, and make sure their mounts are okay until the storm passes! Oh and maybe they cuddle for warmth too. Honestly any kind of plot where it’s the three of them problem solving would be great, I love to see it.
Getting together/first kiss: how did all three of them wrangle these messy feelings between them? Who confessed first? Did one pair try to get together but then realised they wanted the third as well, but was scared of admitting it? How did they eventually tie things all up? Who else figured it out before them? Who did they confide in when they wanted advice?
Also, if you’re interested, I would love to see Ashe as a trans woman. No pressure if you don’t want to, but just putting it out there!
I think about them and I just go adsfgfdsfgds. I love them. Sylvain being the only one who really understands what Felix is going through, Felix being one of the only ones to see through and call Sylvain out on his bullshit, is just so good! Plus I’m always a sucker for childhood friends, so this ship has like, everything for me.
Sylvain having a bad time: please hurt him!! Sylvain is so whumpable, he would try and wave off his serious injuries and Felix would just be standing there like no!! You are injured!! And Sylvain would be like ;) so ;) are you going to take care of me then ;) and then Felix would say nothing but he would take care of him, and Sylvain would be stunned into quietness, like someone?? Values him and will get dirty and messy and will do things for him that are not pleasant?? Maybe he loves Felix and maybe Felix loves him?? Whether it’s a battle, a kidnap plot, something to do with Sylvain’s family/crest, I would like to see it.
Time loop: related to Byleth’s powers would be good, but that doesn’t have to be the reason for the time loop!! Just, Sylvain or Felix stuck in a time loop trying to save everyone from a horrible death and there is a lot of angst, and maybe they cradle the lifeless body of their boyfriend in their arms, but eventually there is a happy ending and kisses and cuddles to make up for it. Non-permanent character death for angst purposes would be VERY good in this scenario.
BABY: if you would write about sylvix baby for me I would probably lose it because of how much I would love it. Felix getting accidentally pregnant and deciding to keep the baby, Felix being grumbly all throughout the pregnancy, Ingrid being a terrible helicopter friend, Sylvain holding his daughter for the first time, Dimitri literally not knowing about anything until he gets a baby put in his hands and then he questions where it comes from and Ingrid and Sylvain have to stop Felix from killing Dimitri – all very good!! And if you included Marianne as Felix’s midwife my capacity to heart eyes at you would be maxed out!!
MariLeo is SUCH a big heart eyes ship for me, their supports are just adorable and I love how they bounce off of each other. Leonie trying her best to get to know Marianne despite Marianne pushing everyone away is ripe for potential, what did Leonie try, did she ever really give up? And if she did, how did Marianne realise that she actually liked getting interrupted by Leonie, and now she has to somehow apologise and tell her that she wants to be friends?
HORSE GIRLS!!!! They both love horses, I bet they bond over that, is Leonie surprised by Marianne’s sudden passion/strength/conviction when something threatens a horse/other animal? How does she react? Marianne actually has quite the stubborn streak when it comes to animals, so I’d love to see her normally quiet self butting heads with someone over it, and everyone who is watching basically going ‘……….what’
As always I’m down for worldbuilding and delving into Marianne especially since she’s my fav 3H character. Magic practise, how does Leonie help her get past a block? Marianne can talk to animals, how does Leonie find out/react to that? Crest shenanigans, weird things happening to Marianne because of her Crest and Leonie helping her with it would just be SO good.
Leonie taking Marianne to her hometown/Marianne taking Leonie to the Edmund territory has so much potential. Seeing how the other grew up, what people were around them when they were growing up, how that impacted them, what their home lives were like, how that plays into making them the people that they are, how the people in those places react to the new person who has come into their life. Worldbuilding with small town culture for Leonie, and how noble houses are run for Marianne would be super cool!
Genuinely so fond of Byleth and everything that they go through during this crazy game. They try their hardest and are very good at protecting those they’ve chosen to protect! If you write anything about Byleth I will probably like it ngl, but I’ve got a few prompts below to help out if you want some direction. I do love the Golden Deer the most out of the houses, so having Byleth interact with anyone from that house would be great!
Byleth having super spooky god powers after Sothis gifts her powers to them! WHERE is the spooky fic about that, Byleth realising that they’re no longer human, being able to do stuff like really casually affect time in ways that other people can see, coming to terms with the fact that they’re not human anymore. How do the rest of the students react to Byleth’s newfound hair/eyes/powers beyond what we see in game, how does this affect Byleth’s teaching, what weird ways does Byleth use their powers that maybe freaks out everyone who sees it happening? Or if you want to go really spooky – I’m very, very interested in anything body horror relating to Sothis merging with Byleth, it was way too easy in the game and if you have any creepy ideas about how that could have affected Byleth physically, mentally, spiritually, emotionally, go for it!!! I really think that Byleth deserved to go absolutely just batshit feral during the second half of chapter 10 after they inherited Sothis’s power, so blood/gore/crazy sword fighting is really encouraged!!
More general creepiness as well could be the Sword of the Creator gaining some low level of sentience – not speaking or anything like that, but the Sword tugging at Byleth, encouraging them to fight a little more ferally than normal, pushing them over the edge into killing someone (ESPECIALLY if this happens post-merge with Sothis), and just lurking in the back of Byleth’s head, always there and connected by their blood and Sothis’s power is… a Very neat concept if I do say so myself.
Someone getting hurt/killed and Byleth going Full God Mode and turning back time first, but also then going forth to wreck devastating revenge even though the student is okay now? Outside POV of this one could be done quite well. I’m imagining Byleth with this unnatural wind blowing around them, bright glowing eyes, whipping around the Sword of the Creator and moving unnaturally fast… Everyone is silently freaking out in the background as Byleth proceeds to take out this whole bandit nest by themselves
Byleth hanging out with some students… Byleth laughing for the first time and surprising everyone and then everyone thinking that Byleth has a super cute laugh and trying to get them to laugh again… Claude keeping track of how many times Byleth has smiled and arranging circumstances so that Byleth smiles more often. Byleth discovering neat new hobbies around the monastery that they didn’t know about or could ever do before while they were on the move as a mercenary
Byleth being a nonbinary legend and inspiration for their trans students (cough Felix, Leonie, Ashe, Claude cough) and being really supportive and giving out good advice and teaching them to love themselves <3
Absolutely adore Byleth and Sothis interactions - some cute interactions between them with Byleth only just keeping a straight face as Sothis makes comments as they go through their day? Tbh Byleth’s shocked portrait always makes me laugh, so imagining some students seeing their shocked expression is quite amusing to me.
dfjahsf horse girls. They have so much in common??? Like they obviously love horses, but also they have a crest that they have major issues with, they come from a noble family but have been thrust into the limelight because of their crest, they’re both expected to inherit and marry to carry on their lines, like oh yeah it’s all coming together.
Let them talk! Let them figure out their similarities and differences and everything that goes with that. Let them talk about their crests and their faith and their love of taking care of animals and their joy in riding. This could resemble a support chain or not, but anything of them getting together would be <3
Fic set during the timeskip… yes, delicious. Ingrid and Marianne fighting on different or the same side fo the war and coming across each other unexpectedly - do they team up, knowing that the other is good for their word? If they’re enemies do they make a temporary alliance that blossoms into a real alliance that helps win the war? If they’re both fighting on the same side, do they end up leaving togehter because they work better together than apart?
Post canon fic IS the best and here’s why: you can fully delve into all the issues that canon brought up and never really finalised, you don’t have to worry about canon any more but can draw endless inspiration from it, and you can make your own closure!!! Truly I love it. Something post canon for these two would be very good, whether that’s negotiating a marriage between two noble families, or one of them leaving their house or BOTH of them leaving the nobility bc honestly fuck that - how do they figure out what they want? What do they want? How do they finally, finally, find peace and happiness for themselves?
Fandom likes: Vala and Varl live!!!, Aloy interacting with Old World tech, GAIA Prime being rebuilt, TFW and HFW characters interacting with HZD characters, Aloy being a big lady lover!!!, Vala interacting with other characters (especially those in the Cut), Aloy introducing Varl or Vala to old world tech, striders and just machines in general befriending Aloy when she overrides them, normal people’s reactions to Aloy’s actions, Aloy being a living legend, GAIA riding shotgun with Aloy and commenting on what she’s doing, cross cultural communication/low stakes conflict between tribes, Beta learning about new things on earth
I have finished Horizon: Forbidden West and so you can use anything from the game! There are spoilers in this letter for HFW, so please be mindful of that if you haven’t finished the game!
If you could keep Varl alive if writing post-HFW fic I would love, adore and cherish you <3 (if you feel that someone still had to die at Gemini, I put forth Erend as a replacement LOL) Also, please no mention of Varl/Zo at all, I have a lot of issues with their relationship and would prefer it if they are just friends :)
HZD ships I like (if you’d like to include any background ships!): Aloy/Vala, Aloy/Ikrie, Vala/Ikrie, Aloy/Vala/Ikrie, Aloy/Alva, Vanasha/Nakoa, Vanasha/Talanah, Erend/Kotallo. Feel free to include any/none of these!
These two are such great foils for each other, I love their interactions in canon. Ikrie has such a great character voice, and I love how you meet her after her initial quest and she’s just, hanging around and trying to figure herself out! Yeah, love that for her! Would also love to see her and Aloy building off each other and figuring things out together, leaning on each other and supporting each other <3
Ikrie leaving the Cut: What does she think moving out of Banuk lands for the first time? Culture clash between her and the Carja since there’s normally no mix between the Carja and the Banuk, what clothes does she find that’s more appropriate to wear in the heat of the more southern lands, what does she like to eat, what does she figure out, what does Aloy show her?
Date night in Meridian… stargazing, meeting people, eating new foods, getting into a little trouble maybe?? Just two rowdy girls having fun!!
Ikrie and Aloy solving a mystery together! How do each of them contribute to figuring it out, how do they celebrate when everything has wrapped up?
Maybe 🥺 Ikrie mention in HFW? Does she travel near and far to explore the world away from the Banuk since she left the tribe? Maybe she joins up with Talanah while Talanah is out searching, and when Aloy gets there the three of them kick ass?
Banuk culture vs Carja/Nora/Tenakth/Utaru/Oseram - what’s similar/different? What clashes, what makes things easier? Maybe Aloy is having a problem with some societal norm that she doesn’t get being raised in the wilds, and Ikrie knows what’s up, and thus can teach Aloy/show her what needs to be done, and Aloy learns more about Ikrie along the way?
Aloy and Vala are two characters that I love very much, and if you write something about them for me I will be very, very grateful!! Vala didn’t get a lot of characterisation in canon, so anything you’d like to go with would be fine with me.
Daemon AU: What do daemons look like post-post-apocalypse? Are there daemons that look like animals that no one has ever seen, but that’s just because they’re extinct? Or are there only daemons from animals that are currently running around in the world? I’m always down for daemon touching, accidental or not accidental, and how daemons act compared to their humans. Just, valaloy daemons!!
Worldbuilding with the Nora, what are their marriage ceremonies like, their getting together rituals, what do they do for courting/dates. The Nora are matrilineal, so what would they do when two girls want to date?
Vala in the Cut!! Vala and Varga interacting, Vala and Ikrie interacting, Vala and Aloy taking down new machines, Vala and Aloy finding out new things and discovering mysterious things and figuring it out together! Also cuddling for warmth. Cuddling for warmth is very important.
What if we got Vala as a companion for Forbidden West… how would things change/stay the same? What’s Vala’s opinion on everything, and how does she and Aloy work together to overcome the challenges of the Forbidden West?
Vala getting taken from the game so early was a literal crime and one of my only gripes with this game. Fix it fic where she lives, please!
Vala and Varl probably competed for their mother’s attention when they were growing up, what with her role as leader of the braves taking up most of her time. Did they bond over that or was it a point of contention between them? As adults, how to Varl and Vala interact with each other? I’m a big sucker for protective sibling relationships!
What does Vala think about Aloy’s involvement with old world tech. Yeah she’s Nora, but I’d like to think that since she’s close with Aloy, she’s not too uncomfortable with it
Have Vala leave the Embrace! Have her explore other lands, make new friends, and learn things about each other and themselves! Especially if she’s going north to the Cut, there are so many great characters there that she could interact with.
Vala and Varl busting it up together in the Forbidden West, keeping track of Aloy and basically being awesome - how/where does she help Aloy’s journey, and what does Vala discover by herself along the way?
Ohhhh my god okay Alva has so much spicy worldbuilding going on for her. Anything about exploring her tribe, what her role was, how she got there, what she had to do early in her training, and what type of information that she found that shaped her world views and how she thinks/feels, and how she sees Aloy would be very awesome!
I think Alva would like to travel via air - little romantic flight on a sunwing for the two of them? Aloy shows her somewhere that has a super awesome view and they have a cute date?
Maybe while Alva and half her expedition is still stuck in the Forbidden West, she gets a directive to go east and meet with the Carja/any tribe they can find? Or Aloy takes her to meet CYAN? I think that a trip back to the Cut so that CYAN can be reassured that GAIA is safe and they can make contact with each other would be a nice roadtrip for Aloy to go on, and an awesome way for Alva to see more of the continent and where Aloy has spent her life.
Fandom likes: trans Riku, Roxas or Xion or Ven or Van lurking in the background/influencing Sora’s actions while they’re still in his heart, Sora crying, drive forms, keyblades!!, Van remembering KHUX events, SORIKAI, Nobodies being treated like the really fucking scary/dead things that they are, Roxas being OP, the Oathkeeper and Oblivion (the keyblades and their symbolism). I love Roxas a lot. If you could include him, I would really be over the moon.
PLEASE if you’re doing post canon kh3 fic, can you please have Sora, Kairi and Vanitas alive and awake (or just don’t mention them so I can pretend they are). Feel free to just completely ignore the canon ending, Re:Mind, and KH MoM!! You absolutely do not have to explain it if you don’t want to, just have them all there and I will 100% accept it!
Also you know how I said I don’t like character bashing?? Well if it comes up, feel free to character bash Ansem the Wise all you want. He did nothing right and deserves to be shit talked!!!
Love these three so much!! Destiny trio is my favourite trio in KH, they all just love each other and support each other so much.
Wedding: Sorikai wedding… all of them promising to love each other forever… each of them acting as an officiant for the other two! Maybe it’s even spontaneous and on the beach and just the three of them? Maybe they invite their friends and have a surprise wedding? Maybe Vanitas starts shit by wearing crocs and upsetting Riku’s carefully planned dinner placements? Maybe their friends all give them lovely and cute wedding gifts? Maybe they all have matching rings? Maybe their Keyblades change slightly to incorporate their new wife/husbands? Maybe Sora cries and I also cry?
Sorikai going and having an adventure and finding things out about each other that they didn’t know before, how they fight and how they work and how Sora complains about the cold and how great it is to cuddle for warmth together! Solving mysteries, going to new worlds, making new friends, fighting alongside each other. If you include a sorikai limit attack, or even just a rikai limit attack, I will be VERY grateful.
Delving into trauma hell yeah!! Sora crying is Always good, I bet he suffers from nightmares post DDD. Riku having weird dreameater aftereffects that he doesn’t like to talk about (I have a give Riku wings agenda), Kairi being shattered and remade after KH3, they should all have messy emotions and they should all hold each other, that’s what I think. If you include them sharing a bed I might implode.
These two are my fav out of the sorikai trio, and there just isn’t enough content of them interacting! I like them together since I headcanon that they get together first before including Sora in their relationship, and I think they deserve some screentime outside of Sora being around so they get some focus.
Confessing: I think that Kairi would have to confess her feelings first, since Riku seems like the type to repress everything tbh. How does she corner him, what do they say, what’s Riku’s reaction, what’s their first kiss like? What accessory does Kairi make for him to show off, to signify the start of their dating life?
In between Chain of Memories and KH2 when Kairi is on the islands and can’t remember Sora, maybe Riku comes to visit? And there is a lot of drama, and a lot of tearful reunions and then Kairi gets mad at him when he says he can’t stay and won’t explain why, and Riku keeps coming back and they maybe realise they have feelings for each other and both of them are confused because Kairi can’t remember Sora but she can remember SOMETHING and Riku is guilty because he feels like he doesn’t deserve Kairi’s attention instead of Sora getting it but also he wants her attention… and then he doesn’t come back (after getting Ansem’d) and Kairi runs into the dark portal, KH2 happens ect, and after everything Kairi and Riku have this whole big heart to heart about what went on between them and they come out the other side with a way better relationship!
Riku being protective, maybe getting hurt trying to protect Kairi, and there is some sweet, sweet hurt/comfort and Kairi chastises him about being reckless but Riku can’t regret it because it meant that she’s safe, and then Kairi whoops his ass and Riku maybe realises that she can hold her own now, and then they kiss! Also a rikai limit attack would be VERY good, would love that for them.
Honestly I wish that these two got more development together – KH2 had some GREAT scenes but then in all the games after that, their relationship is really sidelined. Something that explores how they feel about each other, with a bunch of complicated and messy emotions on both sides, would be excellent.
I would LOVE fic set either during KH2 or during Days, with either Sora or Roxas trying to figure out WTF is going on. Sora having WEIRD emotions is kinda shown onscreen during KH2, but mostly only in Twilight Town – where else did that happen? Roxas spent so much time in Agrabah that surely he’d have emotions about that too, right? Do other things ring a bell? Or what about the other way around, Sora went to Agrabah before Roxas ever did, and Sora already knew the Beast, what does Roxas feel about that? Basically anything dealing with their weird crossover during that time period would delight me.
My favourite Keyblades in KH are Oathkeeper and Oblivion, so anything to do with Keyblade lore, how Roxas came to possess them, how Sora feels about them, what Sora does in Final Form with them, how they change hands from Sora to Roxas to Sora to Roxas, how each Keyblade interacts differently with each of them would be great. I really like Oblivion’s function in re:coded, where it using it damages you, and I like to think that using Oathkeeper passively heals you, so how does Roxas/Sora use those Keyblades? Basically go wild here.
Sora and Roxas bonding post KH3 and trying to figure out how to act around each other now that they’re both alive, and Roxas not wanting to see Sora but also wanting to see Sora all the time, and Sora just wanting to be friends and not really getting What is going on with Roxas, and they have a big yelling fight where they yell about their Big Emotions about each other and Sora is like bro I’m also messed up from everything that has happened and Roxas is like… bro… and then they hug and also Sora cries. And then they’re friends for real!! That would be Very good.
I really adore this pairing because I love ships where they’re intrinsically drawn to one another and they try to fight it, only to realise that they have to get along, and in acting upon that, realising that the other person isn’t so bad after all. Don’t be afraid to lean into Vanitas’s softer side or Ven’s brattier side, as well as their prevailing personality traits.
Anything regarding soulmates/duality of light and dark/opposite energy would be a great idea to play on. Bodysharing between the two of them, weird things happening because of how they’re tied together, Ventus interacting with the Unversed, Vanitas feeling Ven’s emotions – all very good ideas!
Exploring a new Disney world together (or a new original world, if you’re into that) would be great! Who do they make friends with, what are their reactions to everything, do they have to change clothes to blend in more, what’s the deal that’s going on with this world, why did they go there? Feel free to bring along other characters if you’d like (especially Xion and/or Roxas). Some possible worlds: Moana, the Jungle Book, Atlantis, the Incredibles, Coco.
I also would be very interested in an AU where Vanitas came with Ventus to live at the land of departure before the start of BBS… much to consider, Vanitas knowing more than he lets on, Eraqus being suspicious of him, Aqua and Terra learning that the darkness isn’t all that bad even though Eraqus says it is, because Vanitas is right there being a bit of a brat but he still helps out with chores more than Ven does!
Fandom likes: politics in insomnia, fic set between Noctis and Prompto leaving HS and the start of the game, Noctis with chronic pain due to his old injuries, worldbuilding around the crystal and kingsglaive/crownsguard magic, assassination attempts, trans man Noctis, any type of hurt/comfort with hurt!Noctis, Luna and Noctis exchanging letters quite frequently and being good friends.
Noctis (& other characters)
I picked all the & Noctis tags because I love him and I would like to see any of their relationships with him explored! I’ve listed a whole bunch of prompts below that covers a lot of different people, so feel free to mix&match, pick out your favourites, ect. Have fun with it!
Okay so obviously Noctis Goes Through Some Shit during ffxv, but! I would like to see him going through more shit, please. I’m really interested in the time between when he graduated from high school and when the bros left for their roadtrip - that’s two years of time filled with potential! We get pretty much no canon around here, so feel free to play with it as you like.
I really like the crownsguard/kingsglaive dynamics that were in the Kingsglaive movie, and would like to see them interacting with Noctis! Feel free to use Nyx and crew (I do like Nyx) or OCs as you please, but just tell me about - what they do re: training with their magic, esp how Noctis factors into that. Like, do they train him in warping? Does he help them with magic, or vice versa? When Prompto gets into the crownsguard (tell me more about that decision!!) what does he have to do to get access to the armiger? Can other kingsglaive/crownsguard access the armiger, or is it restricted to certain people only? Why? What’s Noctis’s role in it all? Tell me those nitty gritty worldbuilding details and I’ll love it.
The crystal!!!! Like, seriously, what is up with it. Explore how Noctis feels about it, like he has to be at least a bit bitter for what it’s doing to Regis (and eventually will do to him too). Plus with his injuries from the Marilith attack (chronic pain Noctis!) pretty much always giving him trouble, does he dread the extra weight of the crystal on top of that? Does the whole city know about the cost, or just the inner royal circle? Also anything about the Ring, or the Wall, and Noctis being just, Always aware of the magic because it’s inherently connected to him, would be very good, especially if you tie it in to the kingsglaive/Noctis’s other injuries/Prompto not knowing about the cost of the crystal, in some way.
Does Noctis have to do something to ‘officially’ get recognised as the crown prince, worthy of taking over as king? A trial, a set of trials, can he have help, what are they, does everyone in the city know about it or just the inner royal circle? Do the kings/queens of old get a say in deciding or is it up to Regis, or the council, or someone else? Or tell me about the religious practises of Insomnia like their gods are literally summonable and are right there, how does that impact them? Do people still not believe in them, even when Noctis has to gain their approval to become king?
Assassination attempts on Noctis or Regis!!! Politics!!! Drama and angst!!! I am looking!!! Protecting each other, one of them falling, the angst of the other one, there is so much potential here, anti-crown, anti-magic politics, just go wild! This would be a great place to have social media fic too, like how does the populace of Insomnia react when a video of Noctis killing his assassins goes viral? How does the PR department of the royals handle it? OCs as always are very welcome!
Bonus prompts for if you don’t want to write pre-canon stuff: Noctis suffering from sleeping rough during their roadtrip! Running low on funds and not having proper medication sometime important! Any extrapolation on canon events that are just, Noctis somehow having an even worse time than we see on screen (bonus points for using the Ring of the Lucii for angst)! Give me hurt!Noctis, or Luna and Noctis actually meeting somehow, and I’ll be thriving. I’m also Looking at wingfic for ffxv, like does Noctis have wings because he’s of the royal line? Or is it a Lucis thing and only Prompto doesn’t have them? Can Noctis hide his, were they damaged in the attack when he was young, how does having them change/not change canon, ect, please play with this as much as you’d like. Also Weird Shit happening to him after he gets Titan/Ramuh’s blessings, like his red eyes that were nixed in production, or brands/scars/physical markings of the ‘blessing’ from the gods, and Noctis being Not Very Happy about another things happening to him that’s out of his control.
Also chocobos, I absolutely love the chocobos, I think they are the cutest things ever. Gushing over chocobos is very relatable and I would like to see it.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
Majority of the time I’m not super interested in reading smut in fics but this pairing DESERVES IT. Like I swear, most of the fics for codywan are like *pines and never acts on it* like come on, their lives are shit enough, let them fuck at least! Though of course happy with no smut too, or just fade to black. All of the following is good: canon compliant post o66 fic, where Cody is controlled and wakes up (or doesn’t, F) or fic where o66 never happened and governmental reform through the Senate is possible/necessary, with the slow detangling of the Jedi from the Republic! Or how Obi-Wan tries to cling to the Jedi and the Republic in the harsh Tatooine desert!! AUs where Cody somehow joins Obi-Wan on Tatooine are like <3 my absolute beloved, if you write that for me I will adore you. Basically, if you write something for me about this pairing, I will eat it all up!!
Fandom likes: Cody finding/picking up/rescuing/using Obi-Wan’s lightsaber, Obi-Wan being friends with other Jedi from his age group, clone trooper culture, Cody having a praise kink, trans man Obi-Wan, Master and Padawan bonding, weird Force worldbuilding, clones interacting with new things/people/cultures/animals, the military structure of the GAR actually making sense somehow (its unrealistic I know but I like to dream)
Tatooine AU my beloved: oh fuck Cody finds Obi-Wan on Tatooine and then they heal and recover together… yes I am crying. Genuinely do not even know what my favourite set up for this is, there are so many excellent choices! Obi-Wan finding him by accident and Cody is still under the Empire’s control, or a chance meeting between them with rebel!Cody, or the two of them dreaming about each other and coming together through Force shenanigans… yes, yes to them all. If you have any niche ideas that involve them being together on Tatooine literally I am begging you to go for it, I want to see what you’ve come up with!! Also if you have tiny baby Luke in there somehow I will be 🥺
Time travel: yes time travel has been done to death in this fandom, do I care? No. Do I want more? Yes. Very few time travel fics have both Cody and Obi-Wan going back to the past, and landing the two of them in the middle of the Clone Wars after they’ve been out for 10 years or so is VERY underutilised, so go wild with it. Or time of your choice! I just want the two of them to cling to each other as the only familiar things while fucking the timeline up together
Daemon AU my beloved. What daemons would the clones have? I’m sure the Kaminoans would want them to settle as the same animal, but would that be feasible? Something small that can be hidden away in an armour compartment, that makes other sentients even more uneasy around them because they don’t have visible daemons? If they’re all, say, beetles or similar, there are still lots and lots of variations that could happen – maybe the Kaminoans don’t care what it is as long as it can fit within the dimensions of their daemon carrying box. Or maybe they don’t have them at all, because all of them undergo intercision before they leave Kamino? Pile the angst on, I love it. Plus what role would a Jedi’s daemon have in it all, like can they use the Force too? How do the clones and Jedi interact with each other and each other’s daemons?
Hiding! Injuries! From! Each! Other! You know they’re stupid enough to do it, especially if it’s only ‘small’ like a bruise.
Force ghosts? Ghost stories? Grieving rituals of the clones? Weird Jedi/Sith temples where everyone’s hallucinating their dead loved ones?
Handcuffed Together – mission gone wrong somehow. I’m sensing a comedy of errors that somehow ends with the two of them running away from multiple explosions and people trying to shoot them while handcuffed to each other, and yet they still work devastatingly well with each other, to like an extent where other onlookers are like ‘wow maybe we should drop the General and the Commander in as an experimental weapon in tough engagements.’ Obi-Wan finds this hilarious. Cody does not.
Holidays – on a rare break between engagements, maybe Obi-Wan arranges for everyone to have some shore leave while a holiday festival or the like is going on? Steal a holiday from real life or make one up, your choice. Or maybe it’s just a holiday from their work, Cody and Obi-Wan are trapped somehow away from their datapads and *gasp* have leisure time to sleep for more than three hours straight.
Huddling For Warmth – trapped on a lonely mountainside due to a mission gone wrong? Or maybe something hit their ship and power has to be turned off to conserve energy and the heating is the first thing to go. Or maybe Cody invites Obi-Wan to a cuddle pile with a bunch of other clones and they all get some actual sleep for once.
Just HOW far is Cody willing to go for his General? Obi-Wan being held hostage somewhere and Cody pulls out all the stops to rescue him, even when most rational people would have stopped? Or demonstrating his loyalty in small ways around their ship, deferring to Obi-Wan over other Jedi, taking care of his lightsaber, and basically being The Best Commander Ever? Or Obi-Wan showing his own loyalty in his own way – promoting Cody until he can’t anymore, showing his devotion to the troops and Cody, doing outrageous things for the clones that have them in a tizzy because SURELY the General shouldn’t care that much about them.
I think Cody deserves a little murder, as a treat. Mostly they’re fighting against droids, but what if something goes wrong and they’re fighting people and then Cody kills someone to protect Obi-Wan (accidentally or on purpose, both are good) and then Obi-Wan is there to help him through the aftermath.
Soulmate-Identifying Marks – soulmate AUs my beloved <3 angst around the clones having/not having soulmate marks, how the Kaminoans deal with them, if the clones hide them, how the Jedi culturally regard soulmates since they’re not supposed to put themselves above the greater good - tell me what you think!
Fandom likes: music being a healing and positive force, Apollo having weird surges of power at random times, Meg having other demigod friends, interaction between CHB and Camp Jupiter, obscure Greek/Roman legends/lore, Apollo having traces of his godhood show up even when he's mortal, Camp Jupiter worldbuilding, Apollo interacting with his kids, 1st person Apollo POV
I am rotating him in my mind like he’s a carnival hot dog... SO MUCH to think about!
This guy istg. Bisexual disaster energy really is off the charts. I do enjoy a good bit of Apollo whump, so feel free to delve into that as much as you’re comfortable with!
Apollo cabin interactions - where/how/when has Apollo interceded in his kids lives? Canon or OC Apollo children are both good! One thing that I felt was a missed opportunity was that there was no call out of Apollo children in Camp Jupiter, which I did want to see! How would they react to their dad suddenly being here without any type of warning, and how would their reactions be similar/different to their CHB siblings? Apollo is in a bit of a strange place with both his Greek and Roman sides being the same, how does that play into his kids and how each pantheon views him?
More diving into Apollo’s realms of influence - music, poetry, foresight, medicine, archery - and how Apollo relates to them as a god and as a mortal, and how that change in perspective helps/hinders/influences his opinions of them and how he interacts with those parts of himself
The contrast between god and mortal and how that manifests in Apollo is such a point of tension in these books, and I’d really love to see that explored - at the start of book 1, Apollo is stumbling around, saying that he’s lost his senses and abilities. What does that mean, really? How does he feel about being in one place 100% of the time, instead of split across multiple places at all times? How does he feel about the sun still setting and rising without his influence? How does he cope with the differences in priorities of a mortal and a god, and his awareness that who he is as a mortal is definitely different to who he is as a god?
The dynamic duo! I really did enjoy the more limited cast in the ToA books, but would definitely still be interested in more of the two of these two.
The 2 month fanfiction gap between TTT and TON... please tell me about it. Who did they run into on the way? What monsters did they fight? What other demigods did they run into, and what problems did they solve, all the while staring down the fact that after they reach their goal and defeat Nero, they might never see each other again?
Post-canon: does Apollo ever drop by? Does Meg stay away from CHB, or does she and her siblings head there for the summer and then return home during the year? I’d love to see Meg interacting with the Apollo cabin, and maybe all of them being mournful/wistful over Apollo and how they don’t see him anymore, but still being grateful for the time that they had with him, and Meg coming to terms with the fact that she really is friends with a god and what that means for her.
Meg and Apollo bonding over music - music is portrayed as such a healing and positive force in these books, which I’m really in love with. Does Meg remember any music from before Nero took her? Does Apollo ever give her those piano lessons? During their journey, did Apollo sing for Meg? What does Meg think of Apollo’s songs and how do they shape her opinion of him?
