Fic in a Box 2023 letter
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allekhaHi, creator! Thanks for making something for me - I'm sure I'll enjoy it!
General likes: Outsider POV; Canon divergence AUs; Slice of life; Spirits, gods, and ghosts; Character exploration, introspection, and backgrounds; Traditional or historical clothing; Clothing kink of most kinds including crossdressing (exception: lingerie on anyone); Playing with gender/expression/gendered expectations; Intense friendships, complicated relationships, and UST; Sharing beds or baths (platonic or otherwise); Floriography; Hanahaki disease (more on the beautiful body horror, less on the 'removal means never loving again' aspects); Sex pollen; Language barriers and cultural differences; Showing care without using words; Food or coffee/tea as affection; Playing with/doing up/brushing/washing hair, particularly long hair; Napes, necks, hands, wrists; Wingfic or wingart of any kind; 4 + 1 or 5 times or similar formats; experimental use of format
For art: I like a lot of things for art, but if it's a colored piece, I'm often weak to splashes of bright color or gold, soft coloring, or vivid colors. If you're up for it, I especially enjoy anime/cartoonish styles, including chibis, ink painting, art nouveau, and woodblock print styles. I always like wings (any kind), magical effects or elements, and flowers (crowns, symbolic, presents, hanahaki, go crazy)
DNWs: Omegaverse, unrequested setting/career change AUs, pregnancy, character death, infidelity, rimming, daddy/mommy kink, confirmed unrequited pining, humiliation, requested ships breaking up*, repeated use of noncanon epithets ('the blonde', 'the girl') between characters who know and use each other's names (occasional use to emphasize something, etc, is fine), in art: large changes to canon skin tone, body type, or height
*Exception for Yuri on Ice: Yakov and Lilia's divorce is fine to include
For art: large changes to canon skin tone, body type, or height
For fanvids (does not apply to the other video opt-ins): lyric typography, dialogue from the source used in audio (sound effects are okay)
Additional DNW for Yuri on Ice: homophobia, father/son dynamics between Yuuri or Victor and Yuri
I'm fine with any tense, POV, or rating. I've written some prompts for the various relationships and opt-ins I've requested, but if you have another idea you think I would like, go for it :)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
If Byleth shows up in a fic for the relationships not involving them, any gender of Byleth is fine. Pre-timeskip relationship is fine for Dimitri, but for Lysithea I would prefer either pre-relationship before the timeskip, or a relationship after the timeskip (or when she's at least 16 in an AU). I am also fine with Byleth using diminutives for Dimitri. Feel free to include any backstory elements from 3Hopes if you would like or to AU Byleth's ruler/archibishop endings to have them to doing something else.
In general, I like the trope of 'Byleth travels back in time to the beginning of the game', so feel free to play with that! Play it straight, write it from another character's POV, have Byleth yank the plot off the rails in some absurd way, have someone else time travel with or instead of them, have at it.
Relationships:
Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd & Bernadetta von Varley
She joins the Blue Lions but is scared to come to class, and as their leader he has to try to help her even if he finds her exhausting (or perhaps Byleth ropes him into it?), he admires her skill at delicate handicrafts, after the war Bernie writes some stories clearly inspired by him
Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd/Male Byleth
Hand-holding, Byleth may not be quite as strong as Dimitri but can still manhandle him some and he likes that, trying to reach out to feral!Dimitri, Byleth experiencing both Dimitri's earnestness and his love of battle, celebrating a victory, training for the White Heron Cup/dancer!Dimitri
Lysithea von Ordelia/Female Byleth
Helping Lysithea figure out what her future looks like once she feels she has one post-Crest removal. H/c when magic goes awry. Byleth meets Lysithea's parents for the first time. Holding hands while walking somewhere at night for safety and definitely not because of any ghost rumors.
Marianne von Edmund & Bernadetta von Varley
Their first 3Hopes support gave me a strong vibe of 'someone shoved these two girls in a room to try to make them talk' - what if Byleth decided the way to help these two be less shy was have them interact with each other? Working with Marianne helps bring out Bernie's riding talent. Marianne takes Bernie on a hike to help her do research for a story and Bernie is impressed with how much she knows about nature. Pressing flowers together.
Opt-ins:
Medium Opt-In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Art - Excerpts from a Character's Sketchbook
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Diary Entry
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Excerpts from a Character's Journal/Notebook
Diary entries, spell instructions, recipes for sweets, notes on horse care or Duscur language or carnivorous plants, snippets of Bernie's writing, outsider POV on any of the relationships - whatever you can come up with, I'd probably enjoy it!
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart
Would love art of any of these relationships!
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives
I don't have any particular ideas for this one, but I like this as a narrative device, so I'd be down for any kind of incident using it. (Note: one of the things I like about the original Rashomon movie is that we never get the 'true story' and that every witness is biased, even the woodsman, so I would also enjoy that in a Rashomon plot story.)
Onmyouji
Relationships:
I would love anything with period details and that evokes the feeling of the period, both in court (the court culture was ridiculous and glorious all at once, I love it) and out of it. I also love all kinds of spirits, ghosts, and goblins, especially tsukumogami, and any use of magic.
General prompts:
Any kind of casefic would be great; maybe one where Hiromasa is the one to save the day - perhaps Seimei has managed to get himself incapacitated or in trouble despite all of his magical knowledge, or perhaps knowing music (or the latest court gossip) is the key to smoothing everything over. Inheriting Lady Aone's spirit had unexpected side effects; maybe Hiromasa simply gets an expanded lifespan like hers (in which case, fic set in the future at any point could be fun), or maybe it's something more interesting/scary than that. Telling too many ghost stories is a bad idea and Hiromasa and Seimei have to deal with the consequences. Use of fans (for hiding, for a canvas or to write on, for magic). AU where Seimei isn't the only one with unusual heritage. Something in Seimei's past (or Hiromasa's?) comes back to haunt them, perhaps literally. What's it like living in this terrifying Heian world where demons are around every corner and onmyouji are a threat, for the rich or the poor?
Opt-ins:
Medium Opt-In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Bureaucratic Paperwork
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Academic Publication
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Diary Entry
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Excerpts from a Character's Journal/Notebook
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Academic Publication
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Personal Documents
What kind of paperwork does the Bureau of Divination demand from Seimei? Was there any paperwork to be done after the events of either movie, or any of their other adventures? Does either of them keep a diary? Or perhaps it's the diary of someone who needs their help or observes them at court? What do later academics make of the legends of Seimei and Hiromasa, or what conclusions do they draw from records of the movies' events? Do contemporary onmyouji have anything to say about Seimei's methods?
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe RPF
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe RPF
Someone whiles away the long hours of nothing to do by imagining more adventures for the duo that saved the capital - or perhaps imagines a more domestic and romantic adventure for them. (Bonus points for a Heian-style shocking reveal of someone seeing something they shouldn't - maybe one of them sees the other without his hat?!) How close or far is it from their actual personalities and abilities?
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic
I'd love any kind of fanart for this fandom :D You can find my Onmyouji fic here if you'd like to use that as inspiration, but I'd also love to see anything inspired by my general likes or the above prompts.
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3
I think either a casefic-style IF or a 'make choices in a day in the life of (Hiromasa, Seimei, Mitsumushi, a shikigami, etc?)' would be fun! Maybe Hiromasa has a lot of choices to make in his attempt to woo Seimei, or Seimei needs to interpret some ambiguous star-signs?
Medium Opt-In: Video - Fanvid
Atmospheric horror would work well for this canon, although I wouldn't say no to a romance fanvid or even comedy with intentionally jarring music, either. I think setting one to older traditional music would be fun, or something that's a mix of influences like Yoshida Brothers, but feel free to use modern music from anywhere as well.
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Creepypasta
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives
Heian era + creepypasta sounds like a fun mix of styles. Or maybe spooks and demons are still bothering people (and running into Hiromasa and Seimei) in modern Japan. Rashomon narratives would work really well for any kind of supernatural incident - or maybe on that only seems supernatural? (Note: one of the things I like about the original Rashomon movie is that we never get the 'true story' and that every witness is biased, even the woodsman, so I would also enjoy that in a Rashomon plot story.)
Morose Mononokean
I'm fine with using either she or they for Aoi (or changing pronouns depending on the form shapeshifted into).
Relationships:
Abeno Haruitsuki/Ashiya Hanae
I liked seeing that slow build of trust between them throughout the manga - would that continue until they fall in love, or would love come on more suddenly? With them being raised in such different ways, would they have different ideas about romance? What is their relationship going to look like when they're older, or how will they divide their time between worlds? The Mononokean designs their wedding. They have to mediate a client's romantic relationship, and it makes them thing more about their own relationship. Magical effects from a client force them to spend a lot of time together/give them sex pollen/whatever your imagination provides.
Abeno Haruitsuki/The Executive
How might their dynamic change post-canon with Itsuki finishing growing up, Aoi back in at least some form, and Hanae mostly out of the picture for the moment? Perhaps without Hanae around, Itsuki ends up overworking himself, and the workaholic Executive spots it? Or perhaps Itsuki starts having nightmares (of giant flaming Aoi pinning him down? Hanae almost getting killed by the Executive? possessed!Hanae choking him? all of the above?) and the Executive gets involved when it's clear he's exhausted. The Executive has a Chinese motif, so perhaps he would be useful to consult and spend time with if the Mononokean receives a request from a Chinese youkai or something related to China? Concerned rumors started to spread that the Mononokean's new master is a human, and what better way to prove that there's nothing to worry about by spreading the news that the human-hating Executive is in a relationship with him?
Aoi & Abeno Haruitsuki
There are still so many unanswered questions about their past together. What exactly was the incident that led to Aoi taking him on, and how did they become so close afterward? Itsuki's parents are alive and well, according to the official fanbook, so, like, did Aoi pretend to be a distant relative or kind neighbor or something to cover up for taking him to the Underworld all the time, or what? How is their relationship going to be different once Aoi returns to their normal self and relieves the Princess, and what does Aoi think of everything Itsuki did to bring them back? Would also be down for any kind of pre-canon adventure or few with the two of them with bb!Itsuki learning the ropes of how to deal with clients at every stage of a request.
Ashiya Nara & Ashiya Hanae
The fanbook says that Hanae did tell his family about what happened with Sakae. Did Nara have any inklings that something was happening before that? How did Hanae break the news to her? What's her reaction to this revelation, and how does she feel about Hanae being involved in this new world going forward? How does it make her look back on her time with Sakae? Were there hints Hanae could see youkai before he met Fuzzy or any strange parallels that she saw with Sakae's behavior? Maybe her floral knowledge is helpful for a client? Symbolic gardening together.
Solo: Aoi
What was Aoi doing before they (met, made?) the Mononokean? Did they use to be something else before they were a youkai? Have they been involved with humans before? What other faces have they worn as a shapeshifter? Is there a reason they're so good at shapeshifting or so powerful? What is their history with the Powers like? If they're a shapeshifter, do they have to buy clothes, or can they just design a new kimono and whatnot every time they want one?
WB: Any
WB: Underworld history
WB: Youkai-human relations
What is the history of the Mononokean like? How did the whole Underworld setup get started? Did it start out as something impromptu that became more structured over time, or did the Powers deliberately plan the whole endeavor, seek out someone to protect it from the parasites, etc? What about other humans who still believe in youkai, even if they can't see them, or youkai who are attached to humans and don't want to go live in the Underworld? How has the uneasy history between the groups gone in this universe, especially considering the existence of e.g. onmyouji, families that supposedly made deals with kitsune, etc?
Opt-ins
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Advertisement
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - In-Universe Advertisement
I'd love to see more of the Mononokean's design work - is it advertising a new employee opening, the Ashiya flower shop, a wedding? Does the Mononokean have any ads going up besides the one we see for a new employee, and if so, do they look different, or are they also covered in adorable little ghosts?
Medium Opt-In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Bureaucratic Paperwork
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Medium Opt-In: Writing - Bureaucratic Paperwork
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Excerpts from a Character's Journal/Notebook
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Academic Publication
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe Personal Documents
We get to see a glimpse of Aoi's reports of the Mononokean's activity - what would more of that look like? How about Itsuki's reports? Maybe Hanae starts to write them eventually? Does someone keep a diary? What are the youkai academics writing about their history or the humans - or are any human academics hitting upon real youkai history?
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic
I'd love any kind of fanart for this fandom :D You can find my Mononokean fic here if you'd like to use that as inspiration, but I'd also love to see anything inspired by my general likes or the above prompts.
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3
My first thought was IF where you have to choose flowers for Hanae or Nara - or perhaps even Abeno? - as they construct an arrangement with various possible meanings. Or perhaps choosing guises for Aoi as they interact with little Itsuki? If you think one of the other prompts here could work as IF as well, please feel free to go with that!
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Creepypasta
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives
Are there any weird legends hanging around about a shapeshifting cat or mysterious tea shop that could be creepypastafied? Maybe a Mononokean request involves multiple youkai with multiple points of view on an argument that needs to be solved before they're exorcised. Or perhaps nobody quite agrees on some aspects of youkai history. (Note: one of the things I like about the original Rashomon movie is that we never get the 'true story' and that every witness is biased, even the woodsman, so I would also enjoy that in a Rashomon plot story.)
Yuri on Ice
Things I especially like in this fandom: Canon divergence AU. Dancing or skating together. Magical elements in the canon setting. Crying. Time travel or time loops. Skating as seduction or to send a message. Use of social media. The balance between rivalry and friendly or intimate relationships. Interesting costume and makeup choices and flexibility. Mirrors.
For non-Victuuri ships that include Victor or Yuuri, I am okay with something set pre-canon, an AU where they didn't get together, some kind of poly situation, or an off-screen breakup.
Relationships
Katsuki Yuuri & Okukawa Minako
Lilia Baranovskaya & Katsuki Yuuri
Lilia Baranovskaya & Victor Nikiforov
Lilia Baranovskaya & Yuri Plisetsky
Yakov Feltsman & Georgi Popovich
Yakov Feltsman & Katsuki Yuuri
Yakov Feltsman & Mila Babicheva
Yakov Feltsman & Victor Nikiforov
Disastrous competitions and how to deal with them. What drew them to working with each other? Wunderkinds, late bloomers, and hidden talents that just need the right coaching and polishing to draw them out. Troublesome teenagers and stressed coaches. Bonding off the ice. Dealing with injuries at inopportune times. For once the coach is in need of assistance. Changing relationships as the skater grows up into an adult. Long waits during transit to competitions. Parallels between the mentor's career and the students, or things they were never able to do that their student accomplishes. Changes since their days in ballet/skating. Student watches video of their coach's old performances.
Christophe Giacometti/Victor Nikiforov
Chris goes to train in St. Petersburg - either for a summer, or perhaps it's an AU where he trains with Yakov instead of Josef - and he and Victor spend a lot of time together. Alternatively, Victor spends a summer in Switzerland and perhaps accidentally lets on about his loneliness. In an AU with no banquet (or video, etc), how might Victor have connected with Chris instead? Chris's transformation from cute to sexy. Victor runs into Chris a little later when they first meet and gives him a kiss to go with the flower. Exploring sex and relationships together when they were younger. Creative possibilities for a long-distance relationship or FWBship.
Christophe Giacometti/Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov
They discover that they both had past relationships/FWB arrangements with Chris and decide they'd like to do him together. Victor choreographs a sexy duo number for Chris and Yuuri. Established trio tries to figure out where they want to live together. Chris and Victor have a running joke about rewards for the winner, and then Yuuri goes and wins a big comp. AU where Chris gets Yuuri to meet Victor properly earlier than in canon, whether at an earlier Worlds or an ice show or even on vacation together.
Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov
Summer of Mutual Pining and Romantic Walks on the Beach. Give me all the practice for their Stammi Vicino duet or making new duet programs. Redecorating Victor's apartment after they move to Russia. After they retire, Victor wants to return to Hasetsu and Yuuri wants to stay in Russia - what to do? Rough moments in the life of the coach/student also the rival also the boyfriend. Yuuri is into Victor crying and Victor is into Yuuri being into that. Victor keeps trying to get Yuuri to wear his old costumes.
Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov/Yuri Plisetsky
Yuri thought he got over his childish crush on Victor years ago and his slightly less childish crush on Yuuri more recently, but without realizing, the feelings creep up on him again. Yuuri and Victor try to get Yuri to join them but still have their communication issues, so he doesn't get it at first. Victor and Yuuri coach Yuri after retirement, and, well, dating the rival-turned-coach worked out for Yuuri, or Victor has more time to get involved with Yuri after his own retirement while Yuuri is still competing. H/C after Yuri pushes himself too hard and hurts himself, or around the aches and pains that build up in a professional athlete.
Katsuki Yuuri & Yuri Plisetsky
We see the Katsudon Piroshki of Friendship - what else might they exchange? What does Yuuri give Yuri for his birthday? They have the same name; what else is similar between them? Yuuri watching Yuri or Yuri watching Yuuri before they met in person. Yuuri asked Yuri to help with his quad salchow, but what might Yuri ask Yuuri to help him with skating-wise in the future? Either Victor makes a Yuri² exhibition for them or the two of them make one themselves.
Lilia Baranovskaya/Yakov Feltsman
How did they meet? Do they fall in love a second time? (Maybe they've been married more than once??) First time or last time. Ups and downs of living together and sharing a space again (plus one grumpy teenager, even). Maybe post-divorce, they have a hook-up at the GPF (or some other competition), whether or not that turns out to be a good idea. (Maybe it happens more than once.) A dance together. Going skating for funsies together somewhere romantic, outside, and far away from their students.
Phichit Chulanont/Katsuki Yuuri
How did they meet and get together? The obvious answer is 'training together in Detroit', but what other possibilities are there? Met at Four Continents? Phichit trained in Japan for a bit or did some kind of high school study abroad program to Kinki Daigaku Yuuri's first summer there? Yuuri got dragged along on a trip to help develop skating in Thailand? Alternatively, what if Yuuri had stayed in Detroit after all, or gone to Bangkok with Phichit and Celestino? Staying up late to play games and make out together. 'Shall We Skate?': the Duet version.
Opt-ins
Medium Opt-In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Advertisement
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Magazine Spread
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe Social Media
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The show included social media so naturally, and it's only become a bigger part of an athlete's 'brand' since then, so I'd love any more exploration of that, whether it's the social media of the skaters or of the fans! It would also be interesting to see more of their interactions with traditional media and how they're portrayed there. How are relationships revealed or speculated upon? What are the characters saying in interviews? Are the advertisements for their competitions, for Hasetsu or somewhere else, or the usual blades/boots/athlete wear - or something a bit stranger? Who's making competition travel vlogs for their fans? Or a video could be part of a Come Visit Hasetsu campaign. (Maybe even a fan's competition vlog?)
Medium Opt-In: Art - Costume Design
I just love figure skating (and ballet) costumes. I know this one might be hard to make shippy - something like matching/themed costumes would also be just fine :) Please feel free to go wild, though if you do want some inspiration, here are a few costumes I love:
Zhenya, Zhenya, Zhenyaaaa, Yuzu, Yuzu, Mae, Ivett, Kazuki, Misha, Satton
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart
Medium Opt-In: Art - Fanart Cover/Illustration of Recipient's Fic
I'd love any kind of fanart for this fandom :D You can find my YOI fic here if you'd like to use that as inspiration, but I'd also love to see anything inspired by my general likes or the above prompts.
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - In-Universe AO3 Based Fanfic Exchange & Related Posts/Messages
Imagine: Yakov the coach with unruly students is now Yakov the exchange moderator :D Or maybe it's Phichit running a King and the Skater exchange! Other ideas that came to mind are someone getting their crush as a recip and trying to tailor the perfect gift, roping in the subject matter expert, oh no I got two gifts from clearly different authors how will I satisfy them both with my comments, attempting to divine who the anonymous author who gave them the gift of a lifetime is, last-minute drunk treating (write drunk, post drunk, freak out in the morning after reveals sober?).
Medium Opt-In: Video - Fanvid
I realize an AMV for some of these relationships might be difficult due to lack of footage, but if you want to try it, I'd be happy to see it :) Otherwise, I'm down for anything sweet, happy, angsty, anything that celebrates the skating, character studies, parallels/comparisons between characters, or AU AMVs.
(Note - I can tolerate quick cuts or zooms, but I'm not a fan of light leak effects.)
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe RPF
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe RPF
Again, I'd love any sort of in-universe work, whether by the characters or by the fans. Silly conspiratorial works would be great, but so would more serious works based on their public personas/info. (Or maybe the skaters are writing self-insert RPF of themselves?)
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe Reddit Post On Any Subreddit (Post + Replies)
"Dear r/relationships, Help, I flew to another country to meet someone who invited me and now they're rejecting me, what do??" "Dear r/amitheasshole, I ditched my brother to go meet my girlfriend in another country and now I feel bad about it, AMA?" "Dear r/ballet, check out this ballet-inspired figure skating program!" "Dear r/figureskating, Yakov Feltsman has a new interview out!" - anywhere from thinly veiled posts by the skaters to stuff about them would be great :D
General likes: Outsider POV; Canon divergence AUs; Slice of life; Spirits, gods, and ghosts; Character exploration, introspection, and backgrounds; Traditional or historical clothing; Clothing kink of most kinds including crossdressing (exception: lingerie on anyone); Playing with gender/expression/gendered expectations; Intense friendships, complicated relationships, and UST; Sharing beds or baths (platonic or otherwise); Floriography; Hanahaki disease (more on the beautiful body horror, less on the 'removal means never loving again' aspects); Sex pollen; Language barriers and cultural differences; Showing care without using words; Food or coffee/tea as affection; Playing with/doing up/brushing/washing hair, particularly long hair; Napes, necks, hands, wrists; Wingfic or wingart of any kind; 4 + 1 or 5 times or similar formats; experimental use of format
For art: I like a lot of things for art, but if it's a colored piece, I'm often weak to splashes of bright color or gold, soft coloring, or vivid colors. If you're up for it, I especially enjoy anime/cartoonish styles, including chibis, ink painting, art nouveau, and woodblock print styles. I always like wings (any kind), magical effects or elements, and flowers (crowns, symbolic, presents, hanahaki, go crazy)
DNWs: Omegaverse, unrequested setting/career change AUs, pregnancy, character death, infidelity, rimming, daddy/mommy kink, confirmed unrequited pining, humiliation, requested ships breaking up*, repeated use of noncanon epithets ('the blonde', 'the girl') between characters who know and use each other's names (occasional use to emphasize something, etc, is fine), in art: large changes to canon skin tone, body type, or height
*Exception for Yuri on Ice: Yakov and Lilia's divorce is fine to include
For art: large changes to canon skin tone, body type, or height
For fanvids (does not apply to the other video opt-ins): lyric typography, dialogue from the source used in audio (sound effects are okay)
Additional DNW for Yuri on Ice: homophobia, father/son dynamics between Yuuri or Victor and Yuri
I'm fine with any tense, POV, or rating. I've written some prompts for the various relationships and opt-ins I've requested, but if you have another idea you think I would like, go for it :)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses
If Byleth shows up in a fic for the relationships not involving them, any gender of Byleth is fine. Pre-timeskip relationship is fine for Dimitri, but for Lysithea I would prefer either pre-relationship before the timeskip, or a relationship after the timeskip (or when she's at least 16 in an AU). I am also fine with Byleth using diminutives for Dimitri. Feel free to include any backstory elements from 3Hopes if you would like or to AU Byleth's ruler/archibishop endings to have them to doing something else.
In general, I like the trope of 'Byleth travels back in time to the beginning of the game', so feel free to play with that! Play it straight, write it from another character's POV, have Byleth yank the plot off the rails in some absurd way, have someone else time travel with or instead of them, have at it.
Relationships:
Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd & Bernadetta von Varley
She joins the Blue Lions but is scared to come to class, and as their leader he has to try to help her even if he finds her exhausting (or perhaps Byleth ropes him into it?), he admires her skill at delicate handicrafts, after the war Bernie writes some stories clearly inspired by him
Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd/Male Byleth
Hand-holding, Byleth may not be quite as strong as Dimitri but can still manhandle him some and he likes that, trying to reach out to feral!Dimitri, Byleth experiencing both Dimitri's earnestness and his love of battle, celebrating a victory, training for the White Heron Cup/dancer!Dimitri
Lysithea von Ordelia/Female Byleth
Helping Lysithea figure out what her future looks like once she feels she has one post-Crest removal. H/c when magic goes awry. Byleth meets Lysithea's parents for the first time. Holding hands while walking somewhere at night for safety and definitely not because of any ghost rumors.
Marianne von Edmund & Bernadetta von Varley
Their first 3Hopes support gave me a strong vibe of 'someone shoved these two girls in a room to try to make them talk' - what if Byleth decided the way to help these two be less shy was have them interact with each other? Working with Marianne helps bring out Bernie's riding talent. Marianne takes Bernie on a hike to help her do research for a story and Bernie is impressed with how much she knows about nature. Pressing flowers together.
Opt-ins:
Medium Opt-In: Any - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Any In-Universe Documents That Fit the Canon Setting
Medium Opt-In: Art - Excerpts from a Character's Sketchbook
Medium Opt-In: Illustrated Text (Art & Writing) - Excerpts from a Journal/Notebook/Sketchbook
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Diary entries, spell instructions, recipes for sweets, notes on horse care or Duscur language or carnivorous plants, snippets of Bernie's writing, outsider POV on any of the relationships - whatever you can come up with, I'd probably enjoy it!
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Would love art of any of these relationships!
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives
I don't have any particular ideas for this one, but I like this as a narrative device, so I'd be down for any kind of incident using it. (Note: one of the things I like about the original Rashomon movie is that we never get the 'true story' and that every witness is biased, even the woodsman, so I would also enjoy that in a Rashomon plot story.)
Onmyouji
Relationships:
- Abe no Seimei/Minamoto no Hiromasa
- Abe no Seimei & Minamoto no Hiromasa
- WB: Any
I would love anything with period details and that evokes the feeling of the period, both in court (the court culture was ridiculous and glorious all at once, I love it) and out of it. I also love all kinds of spirits, ghosts, and goblins, especially tsukumogami, and any use of magic.
General prompts:
Any kind of casefic would be great; maybe one where Hiromasa is the one to save the day - perhaps Seimei has managed to get himself incapacitated or in trouble despite all of his magical knowledge, or perhaps knowing music (or the latest court gossip) is the key to smoothing everything over. Inheriting Lady Aone's spirit had unexpected side effects; maybe Hiromasa simply gets an expanded lifespan like hers (in which case, fic set in the future at any point could be fun), or maybe it's something more interesting/scary than that. Telling too many ghost stories is a bad idea and Hiromasa and Seimei have to deal with the consequences. Use of fans (for hiding, for a canvas or to write on, for magic). AU where Seimei isn't the only one with unusual heritage. Something in Seimei's past (or Hiromasa's?) comes back to haunt them, perhaps literally. What's it like living in this terrifying Heian world where demons are around every corner and onmyouji are a threat, for the rich or the poor?
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What kind of paperwork does the Bureau of Divination demand from Seimei? Was there any paperwork to be done after the events of either movie, or any of their other adventures? Does either of them keep a diary? Or perhaps it's the diary of someone who needs their help or observes them at court? What do later academics make of the legends of Seimei and Hiromasa, or what conclusions do they draw from records of the movies' events? Do contemporary onmyouji have anything to say about Seimei's methods?
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe RPF
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Someone whiles away the long hours of nothing to do by imagining more adventures for the duo that saved the capital - or perhaps imagines a more domestic and romantic adventure for them. (Bonus points for a Heian-style shocking reveal of someone seeing something they shouldn't - maybe one of them sees the other without his hat?!) How close or far is it from their actual personalities and abilities?
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I'd love any kind of fanart for this fandom :D You can find my Onmyouji fic here if you'd like to use that as inspiration, but I'd also love to see anything inspired by my general likes or the above prompts.
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3
I think either a casefic-style IF or a 'make choices in a day in the life of (Hiromasa, Seimei, Mitsumushi, a shikigami, etc?)' would be fun! Maybe Hiromasa has a lot of choices to make in his attempt to woo Seimei, or Seimei needs to interpret some ambiguous star-signs?
Medium Opt-In: Video - Fanvid
Atmospheric horror would work well for this canon, although I wouldn't say no to a romance fanvid or even comedy with intentionally jarring music, either. I think setting one to older traditional music would be fun, or something that's a mix of influences like Yoshida Brothers, but feel free to use modern music from anywhere as well.
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Creepypasta
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives
Heian era + creepypasta sounds like a fun mix of styles. Or maybe spooks and demons are still bothering people (and running into Hiromasa and Seimei) in modern Japan. Rashomon narratives would work really well for any kind of supernatural incident - or maybe on that only seems supernatural? (Note: one of the things I like about the original Rashomon movie is that we never get the 'true story' and that every witness is biased, even the woodsman, so I would also enjoy that in a Rashomon plot story.)
Morose Mononokean
I'm fine with using either she or they for Aoi (or changing pronouns depending on the form shapeshifted into).
Relationships:
Abeno Haruitsuki/Ashiya Hanae
I liked seeing that slow build of trust between them throughout the manga - would that continue until they fall in love, or would love come on more suddenly? With them being raised in such different ways, would they have different ideas about romance? What is their relationship going to look like when they're older, or how will they divide their time between worlds? The Mononokean designs their wedding. They have to mediate a client's romantic relationship, and it makes them thing more about their own relationship. Magical effects from a client force them to spend a lot of time together/give them sex pollen/whatever your imagination provides.
Abeno Haruitsuki/The Executive
How might their dynamic change post-canon with Itsuki finishing growing up, Aoi back in at least some form, and Hanae mostly out of the picture for the moment? Perhaps without Hanae around, Itsuki ends up overworking himself, and the workaholic Executive spots it? Or perhaps Itsuki starts having nightmares (of giant flaming Aoi pinning him down? Hanae almost getting killed by the Executive? possessed!Hanae choking him? all of the above?) and the Executive gets involved when it's clear he's exhausted. The Executive has a Chinese motif, so perhaps he would be useful to consult and spend time with if the Mononokean receives a request from a Chinese youkai or something related to China? Concerned rumors started to spread that the Mononokean's new master is a human, and what better way to prove that there's nothing to worry about by spreading the news that the human-hating Executive is in a relationship with him?
Aoi & Abeno Haruitsuki
There are still so many unanswered questions about their past together. What exactly was the incident that led to Aoi taking him on, and how did they become so close afterward? Itsuki's parents are alive and well, according to the official fanbook, so, like, did Aoi pretend to be a distant relative or kind neighbor or something to cover up for taking him to the Underworld all the time, or what? How is their relationship going to be different once Aoi returns to their normal self and relieves the Princess, and what does Aoi think of everything Itsuki did to bring them back? Would also be down for any kind of pre-canon adventure or few with the two of them with bb!Itsuki learning the ropes of how to deal with clients at every stage of a request.
Ashiya Nara & Ashiya Hanae
The fanbook says that Hanae did tell his family about what happened with Sakae. Did Nara have any inklings that something was happening before that? How did Hanae break the news to her? What's her reaction to this revelation, and how does she feel about Hanae being involved in this new world going forward? How does it make her look back on her time with Sakae? Were there hints Hanae could see youkai before he met Fuzzy or any strange parallels that she saw with Sakae's behavior? Maybe her floral knowledge is helpful for a client? Symbolic gardening together.
Solo: Aoi
What was Aoi doing before they (met, made?) the Mononokean? Did they use to be something else before they were a youkai? Have they been involved with humans before? What other faces have they worn as a shapeshifter? Is there a reason they're so good at shapeshifting or so powerful? What is their history with the Powers like? If they're a shapeshifter, do they have to buy clothes, or can they just design a new kimono and whatnot every time they want one?
WB: Any
WB: Underworld history
WB: Youkai-human relations
What is the history of the Mononokean like? How did the whole Underworld setup get started? Did it start out as something impromptu that became more structured over time, or did the Powers deliberately plan the whole endeavor, seek out someone to protect it from the parasites, etc? What about other humans who still believe in youkai, even if they can't see them, or youkai who are attached to humans and don't want to go live in the Underworld? How has the uneasy history between the groups gone in this universe, especially considering the existence of e.g. onmyouji, families that supposedly made deals with kitsune, etc?
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I'd love to see more of the Mononokean's design work - is it advertising a new employee opening, the Ashiya flower shop, a wedding? Does the Mononokean have any ads going up besides the one we see for a new employee, and if so, do they look different, or are they also covered in adorable little ghosts?
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We get to see a glimpse of Aoi's reports of the Mononokean's activity - what would more of that look like? How about Itsuki's reports? Maybe Hanae starts to write them eventually? Does someone keep a diary? What are the youkai academics writing about their history or the humans - or are any human academics hitting upon real youkai history?
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I'd love any kind of fanart for this fandom :D You can find my Mononokean fic here if you'd like to use that as inspiration, but I'd also love to see anything inspired by my general likes or the above prompts.
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - Interactive Fiction - Web-based choice-based IF not hosted on AO3
My first thought was IF where you have to choose flowers for Hanae or Nara - or perhaps even Abeno? - as they construct an arrangement with various possible meanings. Or perhaps choosing guises for Aoi as they interact with little Itsuki? If you think one of the other prompts here could work as IF as well, please feel free to go with that!
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Medium Opt-In: Writing - Rashomon (1950)-style Conflicting Narratives
Are there any weird legends hanging around about a shapeshifting cat or mysterious tea shop that could be creepypastafied? Maybe a Mononokean request involves multiple youkai with multiple points of view on an argument that needs to be solved before they're exorcised. Or perhaps nobody quite agrees on some aspects of youkai history. (Note: one of the things I like about the original Rashomon movie is that we never get the 'true story' and that every witness is biased, even the woodsman, so I would also enjoy that in a Rashomon plot story.)
Yuri on Ice
Things I especially like in this fandom: Canon divergence AU. Dancing or skating together. Magical elements in the canon setting. Crying. Time travel or time loops. Skating as seduction or to send a message. Use of social media. The balance between rivalry and friendly or intimate relationships. Interesting costume and makeup choices and flexibility. Mirrors.
For non-Victuuri ships that include Victor or Yuuri, I am okay with something set pre-canon, an AU where they didn't get together, some kind of poly situation, or an off-screen breakup.
Relationships
Katsuki Yuuri & Okukawa Minako
Lilia Baranovskaya & Katsuki Yuuri
Lilia Baranovskaya & Victor Nikiforov
Lilia Baranovskaya & Yuri Plisetsky
Yakov Feltsman & Georgi Popovich
Yakov Feltsman & Katsuki Yuuri
Yakov Feltsman & Mila Babicheva
Yakov Feltsman & Victor Nikiforov
Disastrous competitions and how to deal with them. What drew them to working with each other? Wunderkinds, late bloomers, and hidden talents that just need the right coaching and polishing to draw them out. Troublesome teenagers and stressed coaches. Bonding off the ice. Dealing with injuries at inopportune times. For once the coach is in need of assistance. Changing relationships as the skater grows up into an adult. Long waits during transit to competitions. Parallels between the mentor's career and the students, or things they were never able to do that their student accomplishes. Changes since their days in ballet/skating. Student watches video of their coach's old performances.
Christophe Giacometti/Victor Nikiforov
Chris goes to train in St. Petersburg - either for a summer, or perhaps it's an AU where he trains with Yakov instead of Josef - and he and Victor spend a lot of time together. Alternatively, Victor spends a summer in Switzerland and perhaps accidentally lets on about his loneliness. In an AU with no banquet (or video, etc), how might Victor have connected with Chris instead? Chris's transformation from cute to sexy. Victor runs into Chris a little later when they first meet and gives him a kiss to go with the flower. Exploring sex and relationships together when they were younger. Creative possibilities for a long-distance relationship or FWBship.
Christophe Giacometti/Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov
They discover that they both had past relationships/FWB arrangements with Chris and decide they'd like to do him together. Victor choreographs a sexy duo number for Chris and Yuuri. Established trio tries to figure out where they want to live together. Chris and Victor have a running joke about rewards for the winner, and then Yuuri goes and wins a big comp. AU where Chris gets Yuuri to meet Victor properly earlier than in canon, whether at an earlier Worlds or an ice show or even on vacation together.
Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov
Summer of Mutual Pining and Romantic Walks on the Beach. Give me all the practice for their Stammi Vicino duet or making new duet programs. Redecorating Victor's apartment after they move to Russia. After they retire, Victor wants to return to Hasetsu and Yuuri wants to stay in Russia - what to do? Rough moments in the life of the coach/student also the rival also the boyfriend. Yuuri is into Victor crying and Victor is into Yuuri being into that. Victor keeps trying to get Yuuri to wear his old costumes.
Katsuki Yuuri/Victor Nikiforov/Yuri Plisetsky
Yuri thought he got over his childish crush on Victor years ago and his slightly less childish crush on Yuuri more recently, but without realizing, the feelings creep up on him again. Yuuri and Victor try to get Yuri to join them but still have their communication issues, so he doesn't get it at first. Victor and Yuuri coach Yuri after retirement, and, well, dating the rival-turned-coach worked out for Yuuri, or Victor has more time to get involved with Yuri after his own retirement while Yuuri is still competing. H/C after Yuri pushes himself too hard and hurts himself, or around the aches and pains that build up in a professional athlete.
Katsuki Yuuri & Yuri Plisetsky
We see the Katsudon Piroshki of Friendship - what else might they exchange? What does Yuuri give Yuri for his birthday? They have the same name; what else is similar between them? Yuuri watching Yuri or Yuri watching Yuuri before they met in person. Yuuri asked Yuri to help with his quad salchow, but what might Yuri ask Yuuri to help him with skating-wise in the future? Either Victor makes a Yuri² exhibition for them or the two of them make one themselves.
Lilia Baranovskaya/Yakov Feltsman
How did they meet? Do they fall in love a second time? (Maybe they've been married more than once??) First time or last time. Ups and downs of living together and sharing a space again (plus one grumpy teenager, even). Maybe post-divorce, they have a hook-up at the GPF (or some other competition), whether or not that turns out to be a good idea. (Maybe it happens more than once.) A dance together. Going skating for funsies together somewhere romantic, outside, and far away from their students.
Phichit Chulanont/Katsuki Yuuri
How did they meet and get together? The obvious answer is 'training together in Detroit', but what other possibilities are there? Met at Four Continents? Phichit trained in Japan for a bit or did some kind of high school study abroad program to Kinki Daigaku Yuuri's first summer there? Yuuri got dragged along on a trip to help develop skating in Thailand? Alternatively, what if Yuuri had stayed in Detroit after all, or gone to Bangkok with Phichit and Celestino? Staying up late to play games and make out together. 'Shall We Skate?': the Duet version.
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The show included social media so naturally, and it's only become a bigger part of an athlete's 'brand' since then, so I'd love any more exploration of that, whether it's the social media of the skaters or of the fans! It would also be interesting to see more of their interactions with traditional media and how they're portrayed there. How are relationships revealed or speculated upon? What are the characters saying in interviews? Are the advertisements for their competitions, for Hasetsu or somewhere else, or the usual blades/boots/athlete wear - or something a bit stranger? Who's making competition travel vlogs for their fans? Or a video could be part of a Come Visit Hasetsu campaign. (Maybe even a fan's competition vlog?)
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I just love figure skating (and ballet) costumes. I know this one might be hard to make shippy - something like matching/themed costumes would also be just fine :) Please feel free to go wild, though if you do want some inspiration, here are a few costumes I love:
Zhenya, Zhenya, Zhenyaaaa, Yuzu, Yuzu, Mae, Ivett, Kazuki, Misha, Satton
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I'd love any kind of fanart for this fandom :D You can find my YOI fic here if you'd like to use that as inspiration, but I'd also love to see anything inspired by my general likes or the above prompts.
Medium Opt-In: Unique Rules - In-Universe AO3 Based Fanfic Exchange & Related Posts/Messages
Imagine: Yakov the coach with unruly students is now Yakov the exchange moderator :D Or maybe it's Phichit running a King and the Skater exchange! Other ideas that came to mind are someone getting their crush as a recip and trying to tailor the perfect gift, roping in the subject matter expert, oh no I got two gifts from clearly different authors how will I satisfy them both with my comments, attempting to divine who the anonymous author who gave them the gift of a lifetime is, last-minute drunk treating (write drunk, post drunk, freak out in the morning after reveals sober?).
Medium Opt-In: Video - Fanvid
I realize an AMV for some of these relationships might be difficult due to lack of footage, but if you want to try it, I'd be happy to see it :) Otherwise, I'm down for anything sweet, happy, angsty, anything that celebrates the skating, character studies, parallels/comparisons between characters, or AU AMVs.
(Note - I can tolerate quick cuts or zooms, but I'm not a fan of light leak effects.)
Medium Opt-In: Art - In-Universe RPF
Medium Opt-In: Writing - In-Universe RPF
Again, I'd love any sort of in-universe work, whether by the characters or by the fans. Silly conspiratorial works would be great, but so would more serious works based on their public personas/info. (Or maybe the skaters are writing self-insert RPF of themselves?)
Medium Opt-In: Writing - Reddit: In-Universe Reddit Post On Any Subreddit (Post + Replies)
"Dear r/relationships, Help, I flew to another country to meet someone who invited me and now they're rejecting me, what do??" "Dear r/amitheasshole, I ditched my brother to go meet my girlfriend in another country and now I feel bad about it, AMA?" "Dear r/ballet, check out this ballet-inspired figure skating program!" "Dear r/figureskating, Yakov Feltsman has a new interview out!" - anywhere from thinly veiled posts by the skaters to stuff about them would be great :D
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