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Pining Exchange letter
May. 28th, 2019 09:59 pmOriginal Work
Crazy Ex Girlfriend
Star Wars: The Old Republic (Video game)
Original Work Section I
* Cryptozoologist who keeps finding injured animals/Female vet she brings them to
* Female Regency Rake/Sweet Ingenue With Hidden Depths
* Queen Trapped In Unhappy Marriage/Her Husband's Mistress
* Sex Shop Owner/Shy Customer
* Sun God/Moon Goddess
*Character A has never been in love before and so doesn't immediately recognize the feeling
*Character A Prefers Pining To Admitting Feelings For Character B
*Pining Character A Deviously Tries to Trick Taken Character B Into Falling In Love
*Pining for someone after bad personal history between them
*They Couldn't Possibly Be Ignorant Of How I Feel So I Assume They Must Not Be Interested
Additional freeforms for some of the pairings (optionally you could decide to use these instead or in addition to one of the official ones):
- Arranged Marriage (for Sun God/Moon Goddess or for Rake/Ingenue)
- Arranged Marriage - mutual pining between spouses (Sun God/Moon Goddess or Rake/Ingenue)
- Arranged Marriage - to other people (arranged marriage for the Queen's Husband's Mistress)
- Pining character A finally makes a move after B almost died (Rake/Ingenue, Queen/Husband's Mistress, Cryptozoologist/vet (both pining) with Cryptozoologist the one who almost died)
- Pining character has to punish their crush (for Queen/Husband's Mistress)
- Character A Admits Feelings Only To Be Rejected (any pairing that isn't "both pining")
- Character thinks they aren't good enough for the object of their pining (sex shop couple, rake/ingenue)
- A isn't used to not getting things they want (Queen/Husband's Mistress, Sun God/Moon Goddess, Rake/Ingenue, Sex shop couple (owner pining)
For the unspecified gender couple (owner/customer) - any genders are fine for them except male owner/female customer. Both female is fine, both male is fine, female owner/male customer is fine, and If you want to make one or both of them nonbinary, that's also very fine! Also if you want to make one of the specified gender characters nonbinary but leaning toward their specified gender, it'd be okay, like for example if the female vet is instead a nonbinary feminine vet? That kind of thing. Genders are flexible for original characters, is what I'm saying here. I'm happy with cis, trans, genderfluid people, all that.
For pining feelings, I like squishy romantic feelings, I like possessive feelings, dominant or controlly feelings, submissive or masochistic feelings, not-wanting-to-want type feelings, conflicted feelings about the person, completely adoring them and just not having a clue how to express it, there's a really broad spectrum. Also I'd be happy if they act on it or not, depending on which freeform and character you matched on. Fantasizing is fine rather than actions taking place in the story. Taking the feelings out on self because it'd be impossible to express them. Trying not to have the feelings and then they just come out inconveniently. Really it'd be hard to miss on this.
Smut is optional. Smut can be masturbation while pining, or fantasies about person being pined for. Be kinky or vanilla as you - and the characters you create - prefer. I'm mostly into whatever sex the character responds to emotionally. I opt in for any BDSM or related things, especially for sex shop stories, except for the deities, who that seems kind of mundane for; I would rather see deities doing some kind of magic or supernatural sexual rituals or the like if they are going to get smutty.
It's okay to do AUs if you want, or canon divergence, or any weird fandom tropes you want to put in (mpreg, a/b/o, whatever) or trans headcanons, any type of narrative viewpoint (first and second and third person, limited or omnisicent).
DNWs for above: under 21 customers in the sex shop. Viscerally described injuries to/suffering of the animals for the veterinarian. Deities participating in BDSM (yes for humans, no for gods). Noncon for these requests (dubcon is fine if it fits the story... noncon is ok for the queen/mistress one because that pairing's also in the other section)
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Original Work Section II
* Arrogant Empress in Exile/Her Female Secretary
* Fire God/The Human About to Be Sacrificed To Him
* Foppish Nobleman/Scarred Male Ex-Soldier he seduces because of a dare
* Queen Trapped In Unhappy Marriage/Her Husband's Mistress
* Reanimated Corpse/Necromancer Who Didn't Read the Fine Print
- Character is forced to kill the one they're pining for
- Pining character A finally makes a move after B almost died
- Pining character expects to be killed by their crush
- Pining character finally makes a move after they almost died
- Pining for someone who died before feelings could be revealed
The really sad (or gruesome, or violent) pining stuff is in this request. Feel free to also use any of the other freeforms from my other requests, but get some death or murder (or both!) along with the pining in this one.
For the necromancer, I'm thinking not "almost" died but actually died, right? But do it however you can get it to work. They had a crush, the person died, they reanimated the corpse? Or maybe they didn't even realize they were pining till the object of the pining died or they were killing them ritually?
For the Fire God, pining after a person about to be sacrificed to him could be him thinking this person shouldn't die after all, but should be sacrificed in some way that keeps them alive, but maybe the Fire God's religion up to this point doesn't have that as an option? It might be embarrassing to try to explain it to his priests. Or flip it around and the human is the one who tries to kill the Fire God so as not to be sacrificed.
For the Queen and Empress, I feel like any of the tags could work multiple ways. The Queen could be pressured to kill her Husband's Mistress to prove her power to restless nobles. Or the Husband's Mistress could try to kill the Queen so she can take her place, with the King marrying her and she becomes Queen. The Empress in Exile could survive an assassination attempt and then the Secretary could declare her feelings or the Empress could, prompted by the thought of the death. Or the Secretary could get in the way of the assassination attempt and it could be her who almost died (or she could actually die).
For the Foppish Nobleman/Male Ex-Soldier pairing, if you can work in the "pining for someone after bad personal history between them" with the one you chose here I'd be extra happy. I mean I like the idea of the two of them having had some really unfortunate past experience together in this seduction because of a dare. It sounds like it has a lot of potential to have gone wrong. See how wrong you can make it have gone. Then one of them could kill the other for revenge, or almost and then realize their feelings, or get confessed to at sword's length? I'm sure it could be worked out.
You can get really angsty here!
For characters with unspecified genders, I'm good with any choice, male, female, nonbinary of any sort. For specified gender character feel free to make them cis or trans as you prefer. You can also make specified-gender characters somewhat nonbinary if that's what you like (like making a Foppish Nobleman be a masculine leaning nonbinary noble, for example). I am entirely happy with any gender. Just make them cis male or cis female too if that's what you find works best for you as a writer.
Smut likes for this is either a lot of physical longing that simply can't be acted on, or some masochistic tendencies, or both? You can put any kinks in that you like, possibly self-inflicted (or they could go looking for someone to hurt them to distract from the pain of pining), or just keep it very vanilla sexual neediness where even touching the person they're pining for would be overwhelming and also it's impossible, can't happen, they'd die right there, you get the idea. Yeah. I also have a thing for 'object insertion' but don't force it into the story 😅.
Noncon is okay for this story (I'm not going to say it's a like, but it's OK for this specific set of requests).
DNW: er? I don't want really grossout stuff, especially for the Necromancer. No maggots or excessive rotting of the reanimated corpse. No underage sex or deaths of people under 18 by anything but natural causes, no death threats against children. (like, it's fine if a character lost a child in their backstory, or a medic is treating a sick child who then dies, just don't have them going around murdering younglings like Anakin Skywalker or something).
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
* Rebecca Bunch/Nathaniel Plimpton (Nathaniel pining)
Arranged Marriage
Character A pines over amnesiac Character B
Reincarnation - Pining in Every Lifetime
Soulmate AU - pining for someone who isn't their soulmate
I just want the most ridiculous over the top kind of things for this. So I tried to pick freeforms that worked with that. You don't have to match one exactly, just get the flavor of it. Canon divergence not required but good luck working those freeforms into the canon. But it's a pretty out there canon so maybe you can! 🤣
AUs of all sorts are fine other than the type mentioned in the DNW. Any narrative viewpoint (1st/2nd/3rd person are all fine). Use any additional characters from canon that you want, in any way you want - poly relationships, ones that would have to break up for the pairing, ones to cheat with, it's all good.
DNW: For this request, don't go anywhere near the general trope of '50 shades of gray'. That's just - no. Otherwise do whatever.
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Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game)
*Lana Beniko/Female Sith Warrior
*Lana Beniko/Female Smuggler
* A isn't used to not getting things they want
* Character A pines while Character B Thinks They're Already Dating
* Character A pining after brief fling years ago while Character B has moved on
* Character pines for someone who thinks nothing of undressing casually in front of them
* Pining character A finally makes a move after B almost died
* Pining for character in a relationship leads to OT3
* Revealed Feelings While Mortally Injured/No Hope but Whoops! They Were Rescued Now It's Awkward
The freeforms are prompts enough, I hope.
For the "OT3" one, it's your choice of other person in the relationship. I'd be fine with any of the companions of either the Warrior or the Smuggler except Broonmark, or with any of the Outlander companions, or probably most other NPCs from the game that you can make work in your story. I have a special fondness for Corso, Quinn, Vette, Risha, and Akaavi.
Feel free to go to a poly relationship even if you choose a different freeform, but don't feel obligated; I'm very happy with monogamously pining Lana / Smuggler or Lana / Warrior. It's all what works for you the author because they all work for me (or I wouldn't have requested them).
As for pining feelings, I like squishy romantic feelings, I like possessive feelings, dominant or controlly feelings, submissive or masochistic feelings, not-wanting-to-want type feelings, conflicted feelings about the person, completely adoring them and just not having a clue how to express it, there's a really broad spectrum. Also I'd be happy if they act on it or not, depending on which freeform and character you matched on. Fantasizing is fine rather than actions taking place in the story. Taking the feelings out on themself because it'd be impossible to express them. Trying not to have the feelings and then they just come out inconveniently. Really it'd be hard to miss on this.
It's okay to do AUs if you want, or canon divergence, or any weird fandom tropes you want to put in (mpreg, a/b/o, whatever) or trans headcanons, any type of narrative viewpoint (first and second and third person, limited or omnisicent).
DNW: Sex or romance with Broonmark. Focus on the physical aspects of sex and ignoring the pining part.
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Andronikos Revel/Male Sith Inquisitor
A Pining for B also Starts Pining for B's Partner C
A pining for B while wanting them to be happy with someone else
A wants polyamory but thinks B only wants a monogamous relationship
Character C pines for Characters A & B who are in a relationship/married
Group pining for Character A works together to help Character A
Yes this is kind of a weird set because I'm basically asking for one of them to already be in a relationship when this pining occurs. Feel free to use any of the other Inquisitor companions for the other partner (it might be easiest with Ashara since she's the canon romantic interest for Male Sith Inquisitor... Talos might also be a good choice. Or Xalek if you like him? Even Khem Val if you really like him, why not). You can also choose to use any of the later-arriving romance option characters. Or an NPC from the game who you always wished was romanceable. Who did you (or the Inquisitor you played) like?
Because it's the Inquisitor, and all those ghosts, you can have the C character be one of the ghosts, too! Maybe Revel thinks the Inquisitor is in love with one of the ghosts. Maybe he even really is!
You are welcome to make it totally canon compliant or just slightly divergent, that is how I always do it... But AUs are also fine, as long as you think you can keep the characters recognizable. Feel free to have soulmates, coffee shops, put them in Star Trek instead of Star Wars, whatever. Time travel is OK too.
DNW: A/B/O (for this request only). "Reader" as the existing relationship. Anything that would require noncon or underage archive warnings. (questionably dubcon is okay, just don't put unmistakable noncon for this request)
Crazy Ex Girlfriend
Star Wars: The Old Republic (Video game)
Original Work Section I
* Cryptozoologist who keeps finding injured animals/Female vet she brings them to
* Female Regency Rake/Sweet Ingenue With Hidden Depths
* Queen Trapped In Unhappy Marriage/Her Husband's Mistress
* Sex Shop Owner/Shy Customer
* Sun God/Moon Goddess
*Character A has never been in love before and so doesn't immediately recognize the feeling
*Character A Prefers Pining To Admitting Feelings For Character B
*Pining Character A Deviously Tries to Trick Taken Character B Into Falling In Love
*Pining for someone after bad personal history between them
*They Couldn't Possibly Be Ignorant Of How I Feel So I Assume They Must Not Be Interested
Additional freeforms for some of the pairings (optionally you could decide to use these instead or in addition to one of the official ones):
- Arranged Marriage (for Sun God/Moon Goddess or for Rake/Ingenue)
- Arranged Marriage - mutual pining between spouses (Sun God/Moon Goddess or Rake/Ingenue)
- Arranged Marriage - to other people (arranged marriage for the Queen's Husband's Mistress)
- Pining character A finally makes a move after B almost died (Rake/Ingenue, Queen/Husband's Mistress, Cryptozoologist/vet (both pining) with Cryptozoologist the one who almost died)
- Pining character has to punish their crush (for Queen/Husband's Mistress)
- Character A Admits Feelings Only To Be Rejected (any pairing that isn't "both pining")
- Character thinks they aren't good enough for the object of their pining (sex shop couple, rake/ingenue)
- A isn't used to not getting things they want (Queen/Husband's Mistress, Sun God/Moon Goddess, Rake/Ingenue, Sex shop couple (owner pining)
For the unspecified gender couple (owner/customer) - any genders are fine for them except male owner/female customer. Both female is fine, both male is fine, female owner/male customer is fine, and If you want to make one or both of them nonbinary, that's also very fine! Also if you want to make one of the specified gender characters nonbinary but leaning toward their specified gender, it'd be okay, like for example if the female vet is instead a nonbinary feminine vet? That kind of thing. Genders are flexible for original characters, is what I'm saying here. I'm happy with cis, trans, genderfluid people, all that.
For pining feelings, I like squishy romantic feelings, I like possessive feelings, dominant or controlly feelings, submissive or masochistic feelings, not-wanting-to-want type feelings, conflicted feelings about the person, completely adoring them and just not having a clue how to express it, there's a really broad spectrum. Also I'd be happy if they act on it or not, depending on which freeform and character you matched on. Fantasizing is fine rather than actions taking place in the story. Taking the feelings out on self because it'd be impossible to express them. Trying not to have the feelings and then they just come out inconveniently. Really it'd be hard to miss on this.
Smut is optional. Smut can be masturbation while pining, or fantasies about person being pined for. Be kinky or vanilla as you - and the characters you create - prefer. I'm mostly into whatever sex the character responds to emotionally. I opt in for any BDSM or related things, especially for sex shop stories, except for the deities, who that seems kind of mundane for; I would rather see deities doing some kind of magic or supernatural sexual rituals or the like if they are going to get smutty.
It's okay to do AUs if you want, or canon divergence, or any weird fandom tropes you want to put in (mpreg, a/b/o, whatever) or trans headcanons, any type of narrative viewpoint (first and second and third person, limited or omnisicent).
DNWs for above: under 21 customers in the sex shop. Viscerally described injuries to/suffering of the animals for the veterinarian. Deities participating in BDSM (yes for humans, no for gods). Noncon for these requests (dubcon is fine if it fits the story... noncon is ok for the queen/mistress one because that pairing's also in the other section)
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Original Work Section II
* Arrogant Empress in Exile/Her Female Secretary
* Fire God/The Human About to Be Sacrificed To Him
* Foppish Nobleman/Scarred Male Ex-Soldier he seduces because of a dare
* Queen Trapped In Unhappy Marriage/Her Husband's Mistress
* Reanimated Corpse/Necromancer Who Didn't Read the Fine Print
- Character is forced to kill the one they're pining for
- Pining character A finally makes a move after B almost died
- Pining character expects to be killed by their crush
- Pining character finally makes a move after they almost died
- Pining for someone who died before feelings could be revealed
The really sad (or gruesome, or violent) pining stuff is in this request. Feel free to also use any of the other freeforms from my other requests, but get some death or murder (or both!) along with the pining in this one.
For the necromancer, I'm thinking not "almost" died but actually died, right? But do it however you can get it to work. They had a crush, the person died, they reanimated the corpse? Or maybe they didn't even realize they were pining till the object of the pining died or they were killing them ritually?
For the Fire God, pining after a person about to be sacrificed to him could be him thinking this person shouldn't die after all, but should be sacrificed in some way that keeps them alive, but maybe the Fire God's religion up to this point doesn't have that as an option? It might be embarrassing to try to explain it to his priests. Or flip it around and the human is the one who tries to kill the Fire God so as not to be sacrificed.
For the Queen and Empress, I feel like any of the tags could work multiple ways. The Queen could be pressured to kill her Husband's Mistress to prove her power to restless nobles. Or the Husband's Mistress could try to kill the Queen so she can take her place, with the King marrying her and she becomes Queen. The Empress in Exile could survive an assassination attempt and then the Secretary could declare her feelings or the Empress could, prompted by the thought of the death. Or the Secretary could get in the way of the assassination attempt and it could be her who almost died (or she could actually die).
For the Foppish Nobleman/Male Ex-Soldier pairing, if you can work in the "pining for someone after bad personal history between them" with the one you chose here I'd be extra happy. I mean I like the idea of the two of them having had some really unfortunate past experience together in this seduction because of a dare. It sounds like it has a lot of potential to have gone wrong. See how wrong you can make it have gone. Then one of them could kill the other for revenge, or almost and then realize their feelings, or get confessed to at sword's length? I'm sure it could be worked out.
You can get really angsty here!
For characters with unspecified genders, I'm good with any choice, male, female, nonbinary of any sort. For specified gender character feel free to make them cis or trans as you prefer. You can also make specified-gender characters somewhat nonbinary if that's what you like (like making a Foppish Nobleman be a masculine leaning nonbinary noble, for example). I am entirely happy with any gender. Just make them cis male or cis female too if that's what you find works best for you as a writer.
Smut likes for this is either a lot of physical longing that simply can't be acted on, or some masochistic tendencies, or both? You can put any kinks in that you like, possibly self-inflicted (or they could go looking for someone to hurt them to distract from the pain of pining), or just keep it very vanilla sexual neediness where even touching the person they're pining for would be overwhelming and also it's impossible, can't happen, they'd die right there, you get the idea. Yeah. I also have a thing for 'object insertion' but don't force it into the story 😅.
Noncon is okay for this story (I'm not going to say it's a like, but it's OK for this specific set of requests).
DNW: er? I don't want really grossout stuff, especially for the Necromancer. No maggots or excessive rotting of the reanimated corpse. No underage sex or deaths of people under 18 by anything but natural causes, no death threats against children. (like, it's fine if a character lost a child in their backstory, or a medic is treating a sick child who then dies, just don't have them going around murdering younglings like Anakin Skywalker or something).
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Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
* Rebecca Bunch/Nathaniel Plimpton (Nathaniel pining)
Arranged Marriage
Character A pines over amnesiac Character B
Reincarnation - Pining in Every Lifetime
Soulmate AU - pining for someone who isn't their soulmate
I just want the most ridiculous over the top kind of things for this. So I tried to pick freeforms that worked with that. You don't have to match one exactly, just get the flavor of it. Canon divergence not required but good luck working those freeforms into the canon. But it's a pretty out there canon so maybe you can! 🤣
AUs of all sorts are fine other than the type mentioned in the DNW. Any narrative viewpoint (1st/2nd/3rd person are all fine). Use any additional characters from canon that you want, in any way you want - poly relationships, ones that would have to break up for the pairing, ones to cheat with, it's all good.
DNW: For this request, don't go anywhere near the general trope of '50 shades of gray'. That's just - no. Otherwise do whatever.
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Star Wars Legends: The Old Republic (Video Game)
*Lana Beniko/Female Sith Warrior
*Lana Beniko/Female Smuggler
* A isn't used to not getting things they want
* Character A pines while Character B Thinks They're Already Dating
* Character A pining after brief fling years ago while Character B has moved on
* Character pines for someone who thinks nothing of undressing casually in front of them
* Pining character A finally makes a move after B almost died
* Pining for character in a relationship leads to OT3
* Revealed Feelings While Mortally Injured/No Hope but Whoops! They Were Rescued Now It's Awkward
The freeforms are prompts enough, I hope.
For the "OT3" one, it's your choice of other person in the relationship. I'd be fine with any of the companions of either the Warrior or the Smuggler except Broonmark, or with any of the Outlander companions, or probably most other NPCs from the game that you can make work in your story. I have a special fondness for Corso, Quinn, Vette, Risha, and Akaavi.
Feel free to go to a poly relationship even if you choose a different freeform, but don't feel obligated; I'm very happy with monogamously pining Lana / Smuggler or Lana / Warrior. It's all what works for you the author because they all work for me (or I wouldn't have requested them).
As for pining feelings, I like squishy romantic feelings, I like possessive feelings, dominant or controlly feelings, submissive or masochistic feelings, not-wanting-to-want type feelings, conflicted feelings about the person, completely adoring them and just not having a clue how to express it, there's a really broad spectrum. Also I'd be happy if they act on it or not, depending on which freeform and character you matched on. Fantasizing is fine rather than actions taking place in the story. Taking the feelings out on themself because it'd be impossible to express them. Trying not to have the feelings and then they just come out inconveniently. Really it'd be hard to miss on this.
It's okay to do AUs if you want, or canon divergence, or any weird fandom tropes you want to put in (mpreg, a/b/o, whatever) or trans headcanons, any type of narrative viewpoint (first and second and third person, limited or omnisicent).
DNW: Sex or romance with Broonmark. Focus on the physical aspects of sex and ignoring the pining part.
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Andronikos Revel/Male Sith Inquisitor
A Pining for B also Starts Pining for B's Partner C
A pining for B while wanting them to be happy with someone else
A wants polyamory but thinks B only wants a monogamous relationship
Character C pines for Characters A & B who are in a relationship/married
Group pining for Character A works together to help Character A
Yes this is kind of a weird set because I'm basically asking for one of them to already be in a relationship when this pining occurs. Feel free to use any of the other Inquisitor companions for the other partner (it might be easiest with Ashara since she's the canon romantic interest for Male Sith Inquisitor... Talos might also be a good choice. Or Xalek if you like him? Even Khem Val if you really like him, why not). You can also choose to use any of the later-arriving romance option characters. Or an NPC from the game who you always wished was romanceable. Who did you (or the Inquisitor you played) like?
Because it's the Inquisitor, and all those ghosts, you can have the C character be one of the ghosts, too! Maybe Revel thinks the Inquisitor is in love with one of the ghosts. Maybe he even really is!
You are welcome to make it totally canon compliant or just slightly divergent, that is how I always do it... But AUs are also fine, as long as you think you can keep the characters recognizable. Feel free to have soulmates, coffee shops, put them in Star Trek instead of Star Wars, whatever. Time travel is OK too.
DNW: A/B/O (for this request only). "Reader" as the existing relationship. Anything that would require noncon or underage archive warnings. (questionably dubcon is okay, just don't put unmistakable noncon for this request)
