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Bottom Kepler prompts 2026

4th – 10th May

Here they are!

This year, we've included three bonus prompts, for inspiration or extra spice on any given day – or on their own, if that's what tickles your imagination most. We welcome any pairings, AUs, genderbends, whatever you feel like, as long as Kepler bottoms in it ^^

Remember to tag us (@bottomkeplerweek) as well as tagging your submissions with #bottomkeplerweek and/or #bottomkeplerweek2026. Feel free to reach out via ask or DM if you have any questions.

Have fun! 🎉

Prompts in plain text

Day one: In the closet | Competency kink | Begging

Day two: Simulation | Mind control | First time/last time

Day three: Sharing a bed | Reversed expectations | Sex pollen

Day four (Kepler's birthday 🎂) : Praise kink | Overstimulation | Aftercare

Day five: Secret | Omegaverse | Honesty

Day six: Alien clones | Need to know | Interrogation 

Day seven: Humiliation | Hate sex | Makeup sex

Bonus prompts: Gunplay | Size kink | Trans

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[nammikisulora]

In precanon times, who's slept with who in the SI-5?

Kepler and Jacobi

Kepler and Maxwell

Maxwell and Jacobi

Kepcobiwell forever <3

None of them, they're too professional for that (despite wanting to)

They've never even thought about it

Secret options I forgot

Voting ended onAug 24, 2024

I'm sure this has been done, but why not a repeat! Has the SI-5 ever had sex with each other?

Please do elaborate your hcs in the tags ^^

[bananawanis]

i think the relationship between maxwell and kepler in every single one of its forms is criminally underexplored and here are my reasonings ? arguments ?? as to why as well as my own opinions

(spoilers: i like them a lot and think they deserve better, maxwell especially, cause she gets done so dirty)

before anything else - before looking at how any sort of romantic relationship between the two would work, considering the dynamic between kepler and maxwell as it is in the canon given to us by the show is the more important thing.

kepler and maxwell are presented to listeners as the leader and almost “baby” of si5 (despite the fact she is in her late 20s, largely because she is younger than the other two members of her team), respectively, and are therefore introduced as antagonist figures. while there is plenty to consider between the two during the events of the podcast itself, most of my focus here will be on the exchanges we see between the two in the mini-episodes set before the events of the podcast, language mapping, kansas and happy holidays most of all, as well as things that break other things and the script from the kickstarter for unseen, courtesy of @shinraco

si5 are introduced and, from the off, it’s clear that there is a strong connection between the three of them that, for the most part, goes unspoken and unaddressed. all three of them have been working together for a good amount of time before the events of the podcast - jacobi having been on the team since 2011 (four years) and maxwell since 2013 (two) - and as such have that trust squarely in place, as well as a strong sense of respect for each other.

this trust is demonstrated several times: when kepler has an unquestioned faith in jacobi that he will be able to do the job he has been told to do (overture).

and when he is more than happy to acquiesce to maxwell’s authority as an expert on a subject compared to his relative lack of knowledge on a topic (limbo, regarding working on hera).

the kickstarter script also brings this point up (as well as maxwell referring to her position as an “expert” further on):

this on its own goes against many of the expectations fans seem to have regarding a figure like kepler in that he gets angry when he isn’t the absolute authority on a subject, and that he will snap when things don’t go his way. in fact, the only times he really seems to “snap” in the podcast is when he’s lied to and has his personal belongings lost in space (a matter of perspective) or during the mutiny, which is an understandable reaction (desperate times/desperate measures).

so - there is an implicit trust between the members of si5 that, here, goes unquestioned. of course the events of the season 3 finale and season 4 go on to challenge this, but the focus of this block of text is to be on the relationship between kepler and maxwell, not on si5 as a whole, no matter how much i like them.

as a character, maxwell is often subject to almost a sort of sidelining, where she is brushed aside or her existence largely ignored in order for the focus of a piece to be on kepler and jacobi. other times, when she is included, it is to serve as a kind of “token” female character, or purely to further the plot of kepler and jacobi’s relationship. this comes as no surprise to anyone who has been involved in any fandom for any period of time - the tendency of fans seems to be focusing on the most obvious pairing between two men, at the expense of female characters - and for the most part fans of wolf 359 is no different, but nonetheless is disappointing.

when maxwell does get a focus in fanworks it tends to only be when she's alongside either jacobi or hera (and largely only to further the storylines for the two of them) and rarely if ever with kepler - which is ignoring one of her most important connections with another character in the entire show.

i’ve seen people say maxwell is underdeveloped as a character and that she has no real backstory or depth, when in fact the reverse is true. maxwell’s backstory is laid out to a listener in language mapping, by kepler, a fact she is unimpressed by.

what bothers me a lot about fandom portrayals of maxwell - a topic i didn’t entirely mean to get onto during the writing of this but, hey, here we are, i’m going to roll with it - is that they seem to relegate her just to the role of “smart girl” or “nerd”, rather than paying any attention to how she is actually developed as a character. language mapping shows her as someone willing to get into conflict with others regarding what she cares about and believes in. alana maxwell is someone willing to fight for the things that she wants. alana maxwell is willing to push, bully, and fight her way forward for progress.

this, here, is where the biggest parallel between her and kepler can be seen.

what maxwell works for, what she wants, the reason she still works where she does before goddard - is explicitly stated to be because she is the one willing to push them for progress. she brings up how ai being developed to the level of full-minded intelligence is an inevitability in the universe of wolf 359, and how there’s no point avoiding it out of fear.

there are similarities in how they speak here, with how they refer to the people they work with as “scared” and as a “coward”, as well as later in each respective mini-episode, when both are faced with something that completely changes their perspective on what they are doing. the main similarity here, and the one i want to focus on as it says the most about their characters (not just how they react to situations) focus they both have on working towards something more. in maxwell’s case she explicitly refers to the goal she strives towards whereas kepler’s is something vaguer, about working to always be improving.

of course, kansas has a much darker tone to it over all than language mapping, by merit of the characters involved (i’m sure the inclusion of cutter in maxwell’s recruitment would have made everything that bit more sinister and uncomfortable), but the similarities between the actions of the two characters are striking.

kepler and maxwell are both logical characters. they both value the logical answer above others - compared specifically to jacobi, whose primary concern skews more towards “what will get me and the people i care about out of this situation” - which has them stand out against the majority of the other characters. out of the two maxwell is more emotionally driven (kepler makes a point of having to remind her they are on the hephaestus for their job above all else) but, when it comes down to it, her core is logical.

the similarities between the two make the relationship between them fascinating to look at and recontextualise, to peer at through a different lens and wonder how that would change their interactions with one another. i think that there are various avenues worth considering with the two of them, mainly two branching paths of something platonic or more romantically driven, which are both relatively unexplored in wolf 359 fanworks.

as i mentioned earlier on, maxwell is frequently pushed aside in fics for the purpose of working on kepler and jacobi’s relationship. occasionally this is not the case and she is part of it but cast in a meeker role fulfilling many stereotypes of the “nerd” role often seen in fiction when in reality all that does is flatten her character. while she very much is a nerd - i’m not going to deny that, she’s a prodigy, she went to MIT at 16 - she is also driven and working towards her goal, something kepler respects in her.

i think that maxwell and kepler should kiss, is what i’m saying, and it’s hard to think of how to word why exactly without just sort of shrugging it off as them being two of my favourite characters in the show. probably one of the main draws of their relationship being romantic, to me personally, is the similarities i already mentioned and how they compliment each other, how each of them have their own goals and drive to reach them. i think that their mutual respect for one another, and the unspoken trust forged by merit of working in si5 also turns into this aspect of a relationship much easier than might be expected. i think that kepler values competency and people who are good at what they do, which maxwell is a perfect example of.

plus, he likes her. he respects her, he knows she’s smarter than him (at least in specific areas). i think kepler and maxwell is a relationship that’s interesting no matter the way you spin it, but a romantic interpretation isn’t one that should be off the table.

[callrings]

jacobi and maxwell snooped and found kepler's old pictures you wanna commission me soo bad

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Hi, it's been a while!

First of all we, @vanilla-phantoms and @nammikisulora, want to thank everyone who participated in last year's Bottom Kepler Week. It was an amazing ride to organize, and y'all created so many wonderful fanworks for it, both fic and art. We raised the amount of tagged Bottompler works from nearly none to enough for AO3 to canonize the tag (Bottom Warren Kepler)! Amazing work <3

Since it was such a success the first time, we are happy to announce that we will run a Bottom Kepler Week 2026 too!

Once again it will coincide with the week of Kepler's birthday, placing it between May 4th and 10th. However, this time we want to open up for a little more collaboration on the prompt front. We do have some ideas we plan to use, but we have also opened up a google form for prompt suggestions, and are holding a vote about a few old favourites that *might* make it in.*

We hope you're as excited as we are to do this again! :D Keep your eyes peeled and the form will drop sometime in the next few days, as will a fresh version of the rules and FAQ.

//Nammi & Van

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Prompts in plain text:

Day 1: Praise kink | Bloody | Mission

Day 2: Hands | Pillow princess | Fireworks

Day 3: Zero g | Bondage | Alien clones

Day 4: Honeypot | Pegging  | Undercover

Day 5: In the office | Marking | Manipulation

Day 6: Dom/sub | Threesome | Daydream

Day 7: Crying | Sex toys | Alternate universe

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Hi, and welcome to the first ever Bottom Kepler Week!

We, @vanilla-phantoms and @nammikisulora, saw a sad dearth of Kepler bottoming out in the wild. So we decided to take matters into our own hands and, besides creating the content we want to see, try to inspire others to do the same!

With 21 different prompts running over the course of 1 week (5th – 11th May 2025), we hope to provide some fun ideas for y’all to play around with.

The prompts will be posted soon, as will the rules and the guide for submitting (links will be added to this post).

Until the start of the event we will promote already existing bottompler works, and happily spread your propaganda and headcanons. Just send us an ask or tag us in your post!

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