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Aug. 23rd, 2020 01:14 amFic-in-a-box letter
General "Gen" likes: cats, aliens, friendship, rivalry, enemies, eerie supernatural stuff, science fiction, spaceships, technology, AI, robots, cyborgs, worldbuilding. Older mature characters.
& ship likes: Loyalty - either one way or mutual, enemies who have a certain understanding, colleagues who rely on each other, colleagues who undermine each other, employee & employer relatioship either with loyalty or with one using the other, parent & child relationships with protectiveness, student & teacher relationships with mutual desire to learn, criminal & victim relationships with complexities, bounty hunter & target relationships where they have to be taken alive (or where the target is just that hard to kill), stranger & potential new friend (but also potential new threat) relationships, allies of convenience. One character noticing things about the other and sharing insights (or not, as their character dictates). Doing something meaningful without being asked. Bickering. Using someone's observed weakness against them. The way only someone close to them can hurt them like that.
/ ship likes: Pining, previous and/or background ships, cheating or adultery, foe yay, equal partnerships, casual consensual D/s elements, different sorts of beings (like AI/human or vampire/human or AI/vampire or alien/different kind of alien, you get the idea) in love. Being able to see what makes that person the one they want. Being perfect for each other but not knowing it yet. Characters struggling to figure out how to show their love. Characters who have good reason to think the person they want isn't right for them but can't help it. Obsessive unhealthy love.
Plotty likes: mpreg or fpreg or xenopreg, intelligent aliens, mystery, ghost stories, adventure stories, coming of age stories, romances, buddy casefic, noir style, pastiche, pastiche of something other than the canon you're actually writing, adopting a pet, silly animal shenanigans mixed with another type of story, silly animal shenanigans as the whole plot (for shorter works).
Smut likes: D/s (with equal amounts of experience or with the submissive person more experienced, I also like couples who switch who is dominant), vampires with sexy blood drinking, aliens with strange genitalia, robots or cyborgs with technological genitalia, older human characters having explicit sex, sex toys, improvised sex toys, edging, honor bondage, orgasm denial. Solving problems in sex (difficulty climaxing, premature ejaculation, injury does not allow for their usual sex, that kind of thing).
Style likes: First person, second person, omniscient narrator, epistolary, unreliable narrator, close third person, out-of-order storytelling, time jumps, dream scenes, surreal or stream-of-consciousness interludes, outsider viewpoint including POV of AI, cats, ghosts, deities, or other unusual being.
General likes in Mushi-shi: the storytelling! The strangeness of the world. The touching nature of the mushi's desire to live their lives, weird though those might be, and go through the natural stages of their supernatural existences.
Mushi prompt ideas: What if a mushi caused amnesia? It could also make some other strange effect, and either the amnesia victim is the only one who notices the strangeness, or they are persuaded that the strangeness isn't strange at all.
What if a mushi got inside a person and started changing their body? What if some of the changes were things they wanted, but others were things they were afraid of? What if there was some way to prevent the changes but it was all or nothing... or it was going to be painful or scary but they had to do it... or it required finding another person to take on the mushi and the changes?
What if a mushi tried to help a person but didn't really understand what that meant? What if the person the mushi was trying to help was sad because someone they loved was gone? What if the mushi either made them hallucinate that person, or made someone else turn into that person, or otherwise tried to give them what it thought they wanted or needed?
Please feel free to use whatever ideas you have if my prompts don't work for you! I'd love anything about the Mushi-shi world.
I'd love it if a character from one of the episodes had a romance (the canon/oc pairing) that involved either something about their mushi experience, or an encounter with an original mushi, or one from a different episode.
Also it would be great to see a story about Ginko from between episodes, or before or after the series. Maybe something giving more of his views on how the world is changing, or how he sees the world differently from others, or how he changed the life of a canon character (human or mushi) from one of the episodes and what happened when they met again.
Or Ginko's encounter with your own invented human and/or mushi characters. It could be like your own extra episode, or maybe it could go in a different direction than a canon episode would, with something that would overturn the status quo in some way, leaving the world or Ginko himself changed permanently.
Feel free to use my prompts or if you have a different idea, please go with what inspires you.
Prompts -
Margaret & David - what if they were both dead and she was helping him return? What if she wanted him to kill her a certain way and he didn't? What happened just before he 'helped' her? (you don't have to remove all sex or whatever in their relationship, just not focus on it)
Michael & Dresden - they could explore a place together. Or one of them could rescue the other from something. Or they can stand together against a common enemy. I think it's very likely Carolyn brought Dresden back - and maybe he didn't want Naga to know...
Steve & Carolyn - missing scenes from canon, or something set after a canon divergence of some kind, or some AU where their interactions go in a different way (from the start?)
Worldbuilding: choose any of the catalogs and tell more about what a person could do with it. What was it like in the third age when Father was young? What is the deal with the iceberg Q-33 North or the Duke or Liesel or Barry O'Shea with the contagious tentacles? Go wild with inventing something about them if you like.
Dara & Benedict
Fiona/Mandor
Florimel & Corwin
Clarissa
Coral
Dalt
Dara
Dworkin
Fiona
Florimel
Ghostwheel
Julia Barnes
Llewella
Quick version of likes for this request: politics, fraught family relationships, worldbuilding, Amber type immortality, Chaos magic, weird creatures, shapeshifting, dubcon, questions of identity, questions of loyalty, trust issues, power-seeking, allies of convenience, assasination attempts, captivity, AIs, protective parent&child relationships, betrayal, revenge.
Please feel free to combine any of the individual requested characters into a story if you want. Also add in any other canon characters. Background or additional / ships are fine too, if you feel they fit the story you choose, as long as one of the requested characters or relationships is the focus of the story.
Prompts: An Amberite has an unexpected meeting in Shadow with a person they haven't seen in a long time. Is it really them or an echo of that person, or a shapeshifter? Did they part as enemies but have forgiven? Did they part as friends but later realized a betrayal?
Some powerful magic macguffin has appeared, and the character(s) need it for a goal. Someone else will be trying to get it first, though. Who can they enlist as an ally? Who will be against them?
Something dark emerges from shadow near where the character is hiding out. They have to decide if it's worth protecting where they are, or should they try to escape it. If they protect the place, how? what happens? If they run, does it follow? If not, do they go back and see what it wreaked on the place they left behind?
Someone is trying to kill the character and they go to someone for help. Who do they go to? Why that person? Will the person help? Who is trying to kill them, anyway?
The character has a strange situation where they're pregnant unexpectedly or have made someone else pregnant. Mpreg, fpreg, magic pregnancy, shapeshiftery stuff, however you want. What happens next?
The character falls into a trap and is captured. Who's taken them captive? Will they manage to escape, or will they make a deal with the captor, or will they have to cope with being trapped indefinitely?
Some of these characters we only meet once they're adults. Maybe when they were younger, they were students learning about their world. What if one of their teachers was secretly a Chaosite?
Ghostwheel might not be the only AI, what if Merlin made more, or someone else made one after seeing what Merlin did? What if that other AI contacts one of the characters?
Please feel free to ignore the prompts and write the story you come up with! My general likes are at the top of this letter. I love Amber's setting and would be happy with any sort of worldbuilding, especially about the shadows that border on Amber, and about the Courts of Chaos. I would also love to know what was going on with the various characters before canon for those who were around then, and what happens after canon for those who survived it.
Akavi & Elu & Enga
Akavi/Elu
Aletheia & Angels of Aletheia
Diamond-Chip & Boater Living Spaceship
The Keres & The Gods
Nemesis & Aletheia
Nemesis & Angels of Nemesis
Original Outside Creature & Creator's Choice of Canon Character
Productivity Hunt/Yasira Shien
Original Outside Creature
Worldbuilding
Yasira Shien & Evianna Talirr
General likes about The Outside: Space opera, extradimensional horrors, AI deities, cyborg angels, obsessive love, teacher & student relationships, loving relationship both parties are unsure they can rebuild but they are sure going to try, aliens, spaceships, partnerships between AIs and humans,possibly almost certainly unscrupulous employee employer relationships.
Prompts: What kind of creature lives Outside? What does it want with the universe when it has such an interesting place, I wonder? Who does it try to contact when it reaches into the universe from Out there, and did it choose that person or they just got (un)lucky?
Tiv and Yasira try to make a go of it again. Both of them do best when hard at work on something important to them. What do they work on together? Or, an alternate timeline or canon divergence where Tiv and Yasira were together for more of the canon, what went differently? Or, what if Tiv went to work for one of the Gods as an angel? How would she and Yasira be together then?
Worldbuilding about the Gods and their opponents, how the angels are organized for Aletheia, how their battles have gone in the past or will go in the future, what the Keres are up to and why they separated? How did the AIs ascend to godhood in the first place?
Akavi and Elu and Enga, either something they did together before the novel, or an alternate way they could have ended up afterward and still be together, whether working for Nemesis still or not. For Akavi/Elu, now that they're stuck together at the end of The Outside, what would happen? Elu is obviously desperately in love with Akavi, who knows it but can't return his feelings the same way. Could he return them in some way that would make Elu happier? or just make him even more miserable just in a different way? So far Elu has resisted forcing any attentions on Akavi. Would he always be able to resist? Does Akavi think it's inevitable he will fail at some point? What does he do about that?
Evianna has more things to teach Yasira and she has a lot of possible ways to go about it. How does she attempt to get Yasira to learn the next thing she has to learn? Or, what if things had gone differently and the Outside had taken Yasira on the power station? And Evianna rescued her? Or maybe a canon divergence story of their initial working together and Yasira realizing earlier what Evianna was up to and reporting her to the Angels. And Evianna had to escape them and took Yasira with her to try to win her back.
Vette/Jaesa Willsaam
Shae Vizla/Female Bounty Hunter
Kaliyo Djannis/Cipher Nine
Cytharat/Male Smuggler
Male Jedi Consular/Zenith
Female Sith Inquisitor/Darth Zash
Lana Beniko/Female Smuggler
Lt. Pierce/Male Sith Warrior
Vector Hyllus/Eckard Lokin
Female Jedi Knight/Lord Scourge
Cipher Nine/Theron Shan
Male Republic Trooper/Theron Shan
I'm very multi-ship on this game and I love all these pairings (and lots more). I've written fics about both m Cipher/Theron and f Cipher/Theron - I've written a fic about m Consular/Zenith - and one (two, actually) about f Knight/Scourge - and about Vector/Lokin. So those are all available for art and recursive if you want, and really you can make a recursive story about any of my SWTOR be about one of these pairings (Lana's in a lot of them, in some she's even paired with the Smuggler, for example, and Vette's in several of my Warrior fics and could have a thing with Jaesa in that).
But I'd love to see your work regardless of if you want to remix anything!
I feel like I missed out not being able to sign up for the Flash Fuck Around, so if you want to write me a story where any of these pairings are an established couple and one of them cheats (or both of them cheat!) or where one's in a different relationship and it's this pairing that cheats together, go for it. I'm open to unhappy endings where the pairing breaks up, if that is what works for your story; of course, happy endings are always good. I'm also open to them deciding to be poly to resolve the cheating? Really anything that explores the character dynamic and their emotions will be great.
Here's some individualized prompts for these pairings:
Jaesa /Vette - getting together, either with some kind of sex pollen or after some one-sided pining or mutual pining? Maybe they bond over both having a fling with the warrior and it not working out when the Warrior gets with someone else (Lana or Theron maybe, or Cytharat, or Pierce?) Or maybe they totally hate each other for a while and can't get along (Vette being too light side for dark Jaesa and too amoral for light Jaesa, perhaps, and Vette finding either version of Jaesa way too judgmental) and then something happens to change that. Or bonding over the failed attempt to save the Warrior from the Eternal Empire. Alternatively, they are in an established relationship and they need to pull off some kind of heist or rescue mission or sabotage mission?
Shae/Bounty Hunter - after their fight on Rishi, there's some kind of time for them to hook up, and neither of them can quite forget how well that went. One of them tracks the other down and it's tense till they realize what the real reason was. Or maybe they meet earlier, when Ceta Farr introduces them on Dromund Kaas, and go drinking together, which leads to... Or maybe they're hunting the same target and they make a bet to see who'll get to take the target down.
Kaliyo/Agent - I feel like I'd love anything for this pairing, so feel free to run wild with it after checking my likes. They could both be trying to get a lie past the other, and get mutually caught. They could have a fling, try to brush it off, and not quite be able to let it go, till everyone else on the team is dying for them to just get over themselves and admit their feelings. Or they could have a really bad experience together and it's super awkward and everyone's tiptoeing around trying not to set either of them off. Or they're the one real thing the other has, in the middle of a bleak universe of people who can't wait to try to control them or kill them or use them for their own purpose.
Cytharat/Smuggler - The smuggler has a thing for Cytharat and it's mutual, but there's really no chance to act on it. Then they meet again and maybe there's a misunderstanding about some cargo, who it really belongs to, and Cytharat helps the smuggler out despite knowing he's not on the level. Or maybe the smuggler finds Cytharat having been trapped by Jedi and fast talks him out of there. Or maybe they have a thing where they meet up at a certain date every year. Except this year one of them's late and why?
Consular/Zenith - Balmorra politics are always trouble and fun too, there's tension between them but they're both too serious and busy people to do anything about it till something (sex pollen? a mission gone wrong leaves them stuck together in a confined space? one of them nearly dies?) makes the truth come out about their feelings. Also they can be an established couple expecting their first (or second?) child, or Zenith can be trying to rescue the Consular from the Eternal Empire, or be about to meet up again with the Alliance
Inquisitor/Zash - Inquisitor is in love and Zash is just using her? Or Zash is in love and the Inquisitor spurns her and that's why she tries the body stealing? Or they get stuck together in the same body and have to share and work it out, or try to seduce each other? Open to good or bad endings for either of them. What if they try making each other jealous with a third person (any unrelated adult)?
Lana/Smuggler - Smuggler is very leery of Sith and Lana tries to win her over and succeeds better than expected? Or Lana is skeptical if this mess of a person can even help them but Smuggler sets out to prove her worth? Maybe they've been working together a while and the tension is growing and then they stumble into a bad situation where they're taken captive together? What if somehow one of them gets pregnant and the other helps out?
Pierce/Warrior - Pierce never gets enough attention, I'd love if the story focuses on him or his viewpoint or why the Warrior is into him. Maybe he's off on a mission and has to make a tough call, and the Warrior may be able to help but he wants to be independent. Maybe he comes to the Warrior's rescue somehow? Or they had a fling but Pierce isn't ready to be in a relationship so he leaves, and the Warrior tries to win him back? Or the other way around, maybe the Warrior is flirting with everyone and Pierce focuses on getting all that attention just for himself. Or they could be an established thing and just very focused on fighting the enemy working together - and come up against something unexpected.
Vector/Lokin - Ahh I just picked up this ship to write for LBD and now I would like more of it (there isn't much). What about something where Vector is off on a Killik mission and Lokin figures out someone's planning to sabotage it and has to get word to Vector? Also maybe some bits about their revenge against the people who experimented on Vector without his knowledge? Maybe something about the Killiks starting to accept Lokin as Vector's partner or mate or whatever the hive would think of their relationship? Maybe other Joiners share the feelings Vector has while having sex with Lokin and want to join in? or the bug shape ones do, what would they even do, it could be interesting...
Knight/Scourge - Jedi Knight and Scourge have a special relationship that is very intense but maybe not obviously romantic. They could fuck, though. Maybe one or the other one of them starts noticing there is more attachment than their Jedi discipline (Knight) or lack of feelings (Scourge, at least in the early part of the timeline) would normally allow? Or maybe something very weird is happening to them both and they're emotional and it's obviously something being done to them but it's not that bad actually? or it's terrifying actually! Could go either way.
Agent/Theron - Ah I think I've prompted this dozens of times, I had some good ideas in IPQ I think... yep (cut n pasted): They can sincerely not like each other even though they have to work together - grudging respect though, and then sex pollen! or trauma! or something that makes one of them unable to know what's real and what isn't. Or they can have a really close, intense bond and then amnesia! or one of them develops force powers thought impossible or would never happen. Or trauma or unreality as above. Or one of them is wary and untrusting and the other is obsessed or infatuated, and creeps on them or tries to nobly not flirt until their feelings are revealed by situation.
Trooper/Theron - this is a new ship for me, well. I had thoughts that there would be issues for Theron about his father who was military? Or maybe he's just relieved to be dealing with a straightforward person at last, who's not a spy and not a Force user. Could be nice. Theron doesn't get much of that. Trooper could actually be pretty complicated of a person or could really be as simple as he puts on, either way. He could be fascinated with Theron's superficial charm covering all that fucked up backstory or he could instead find Theron unappealing at first and it takes getting to know each other before his interest starts to show itself. Maybe Theron is undercover as an enemy but Trooper recognizes him and holds his fire at the last moment. Maybe Theron rescues Trooper and his unit with some quick thinking and Trooper takes him out for a drink to thank him and their hands touch and they have a moment. Or their hands touch and one of them gets the wrong idea that the other's making a pass.
General "Gen" likes: cats, aliens, friendship, rivalry, enemies, eerie supernatural stuff, science fiction, spaceships, technology, AI, robots, cyborgs, worldbuilding. Older mature characters.
& ship likes: Loyalty - either one way or mutual, enemies who have a certain understanding, colleagues who rely on each other, colleagues who undermine each other, employee & employer relatioship either with loyalty or with one using the other, parent & child relationships with protectiveness, student & teacher relationships with mutual desire to learn, criminal & victim relationships with complexities, bounty hunter & target relationships where they have to be taken alive (or where the target is just that hard to kill), stranger & potential new friend (but also potential new threat) relationships, allies of convenience. One character noticing things about the other and sharing insights (or not, as their character dictates). Doing something meaningful without being asked. Bickering. Using someone's observed weakness against them. The way only someone close to them can hurt them like that.
/ ship likes: Pining, previous and/or background ships, cheating or adultery, foe yay, equal partnerships, casual consensual D/s elements, different sorts of beings (like AI/human or vampire/human or AI/vampire or alien/different kind of alien, you get the idea) in love. Being able to see what makes that person the one they want. Being perfect for each other but not knowing it yet. Characters struggling to figure out how to show their love. Characters who have good reason to think the person they want isn't right for them but can't help it. Obsessive unhealthy love.
Plotty likes: mpreg or fpreg or xenopreg, intelligent aliens, mystery, ghost stories, adventure stories, coming of age stories, romances, buddy casefic, noir style, pastiche, pastiche of something other than the canon you're actually writing, adopting a pet, silly animal shenanigans mixed with another type of story, silly animal shenanigans as the whole plot (for shorter works).
Smut likes: D/s (with equal amounts of experience or with the submissive person more experienced, I also like couples who switch who is dominant), vampires with sexy blood drinking, aliens with strange genitalia, robots or cyborgs with technological genitalia, older human characters having explicit sex, sex toys, improvised sex toys, edging, honor bondage, orgasm denial. Solving problems in sex (difficulty climaxing, premature ejaculation, injury does not allow for their usual sex, that kind of thing).
Style likes: First person, second person, omniscient narrator, epistolary, unreliable narrator, close third person, out-of-order storytelling, time jumps, dream scenes, surreal or stream-of-consciousness interludes, outsider viewpoint including POV of AI, cats, ghosts, deities, or other unusual being.
DNWs:
sex or romance between a person and their blood relative who is a sibling, parent, (great)grandparent, (great)aunt or (great)uncle, unless all parties are immortal/unaging adults (such as Amberites or deities from for example Greek pantheon). Sex between an adult and an underage person when the underage person is four years or more younger. Explicit sex with anyone under 17. Any sex acts with individuals under 15 (or equivalent near-maturity for their kind). Harm to cats or cat-like animals (temporary or minor damage is okay if it is clear they will recover). Bulging or inflation kink. Noncon or dubcon where the victim has an exclusive sexual orientation to persons of gender(s) other than the aggressor's.- Mushi-Shi
- The Library at Mount Char
- Amber Chronicles - Zelazny
- The Outside - Hoffmann
- Solaris
- Star Wars The Old Republic
- A Memory Called Empire
Mushi-Shi
- Creator's Choice of Adult Canon Character/Original Unrelated Adult Character
- Ginko & Creator's Choice of Canon Character
- Ginko & Original Character(s)
- Ginko & Original Mushi Character(s)
- Solo: Ginko
- Solo: Original Mushi Characters
- Solo: Worldbuilding
General likes in Mushi-shi: the storytelling! The strangeness of the world. The touching nature of the mushi's desire to live their lives, weird though those might be, and go through the natural stages of their supernatural existences.
Mushi prompt ideas: What if a mushi caused amnesia? It could also make some other strange effect, and either the amnesia victim is the only one who notices the strangeness, or they are persuaded that the strangeness isn't strange at all.
What if a mushi got inside a person and started changing their body? What if some of the changes were things they wanted, but others were things they were afraid of? What if there was some way to prevent the changes but it was all or nothing... or it was going to be painful or scary but they had to do it... or it required finding another person to take on the mushi and the changes?
What if a mushi tried to help a person but didn't really understand what that meant? What if the person the mushi was trying to help was sad because someone they loved was gone? What if the mushi either made them hallucinate that person, or made someone else turn into that person, or otherwise tried to give them what it thought they wanted or needed?
Please feel free to use whatever ideas you have if my prompts don't work for you! I'd love anything about the Mushi-shi world.
I'd love it if a character from one of the episodes had a romance (the canon/oc pairing) that involved either something about their mushi experience, or an encounter with an original mushi, or one from a different episode.
Also it would be great to see a story about Ginko from between episodes, or before or after the series. Maybe something giving more of his views on how the world is changing, or how he sees the world differently from others, or how he changed the life of a canon character (human or mushi) from one of the episodes and what happened when they met again.
Or Ginko's encounter with your own invented human and/or mushi characters. It could be like your own extra episode, or maybe it could go in a different direction than a canon episode would, with something that would overturn the status quo in some way, leaving the world or Ginko himself changed permanently.
The Library at Mount Char
- Margaret & David
- Michael & Dresden
- Solo: Worldbuilding
- Steve Hodgson & Carolyn Sopaski
Feel free to use my prompts or if you have a different idea, please go with what inspires you.
Prompts -
Margaret & David - what if they were both dead and she was helping him return? What if she wanted him to kill her a certain way and he didn't? What happened just before he 'helped' her? (you don't have to remove all sex or whatever in their relationship, just not focus on it)
Michael & Dresden - they could explore a place together. Or one of them could rescue the other from something. Or they can stand together against a common enemy. I think it's very likely Carolyn brought Dresden back - and maybe he didn't want Naga to know...
Steve & Carolyn - missing scenes from canon, or something set after a canon divergence of some kind, or some AU where their interactions go in a different way (from the start?)
Worldbuilding: choose any of the catalogs and tell more about what a person could do with it. What was it like in the third age when Father was young? What is the deal with the iceberg Q-33 North or the Duke or Liesel or Barry O'Shea with the contagious tentacles? Go wild with inventing something about them if you like.
Amber series
Quick version of likes for this request: politics, fraught family relationships, worldbuilding, Amber type immortality, Chaos magic, weird creatures, shapeshifting, dubcon, questions of identity, questions of loyalty, trust issues, power-seeking, allies of convenience, assasination attempts, captivity, AIs, protective parent&child relationships, betrayal, revenge.
Please feel free to combine any of the individual requested characters into a story if you want. Also add in any other canon characters. Background or additional / ships are fine too, if you feel they fit the story you choose, as long as one of the requested characters or relationships is the focus of the story.
Prompts: An Amberite has an unexpected meeting in Shadow with a person they haven't seen in a long time. Is it really them or an echo of that person, or a shapeshifter? Did they part as enemies but have forgiven? Did they part as friends but later realized a betrayal?
Some powerful magic macguffin has appeared, and the character(s) need it for a goal. Someone else will be trying to get it first, though. Who can they enlist as an ally? Who will be against them?
Something dark emerges from shadow near where the character is hiding out. They have to decide if it's worth protecting where they are, or should they try to escape it. If they protect the place, how? what happens? If they run, does it follow? If not, do they go back and see what it wreaked on the place they left behind?
Someone is trying to kill the character and they go to someone for help. Who do they go to? Why that person? Will the person help? Who is trying to kill them, anyway?
The character has a strange situation where they're pregnant unexpectedly or have made someone else pregnant. Mpreg, fpreg, magic pregnancy, shapeshiftery stuff, however you want. What happens next?
The character falls into a trap and is captured. Who's taken them captive? Will they manage to escape, or will they make a deal with the captor, or will they have to cope with being trapped indefinitely?
Some of these characters we only meet once they're adults. Maybe when they were younger, they were students learning about their world. What if one of their teachers was secretly a Chaosite?
Ghostwheel might not be the only AI, what if Merlin made more, or someone else made one after seeing what Merlin did? What if that other AI contacts one of the characters?
Please feel free to ignore the prompts and write the story you come up with! My general likes are at the top of this letter. I love Amber's setting and would be happy with any sort of worldbuilding, especially about the shadows that border on Amber, and about the Courts of Chaos. I would also love to know what was going on with the various characters before canon for those who were around then, and what happens after canon for those who survived it.
The Outside - Hoffmann
General likes about The Outside: Space opera, extradimensional horrors, AI deities, cyborg angels, obsessive love, teacher & student relationships, loving relationship both parties are unsure they can rebuild but they are sure going to try, aliens, spaceships, partnerships between AIs and humans,
Prompts: What kind of creature lives Outside? What does it want with the universe when it has such an interesting place, I wonder? Who does it try to contact when it reaches into the universe from Out there, and did it choose that person or they just got (un)lucky?
Tiv and Yasira try to make a go of it again. Both of them do best when hard at work on something important to them. What do they work on together? Or, an alternate timeline or canon divergence where Tiv and Yasira were together for more of the canon, what went differently? Or, what if Tiv went to work for one of the Gods as an angel? How would she and Yasira be together then?
Worldbuilding about the Gods and their opponents, how the angels are organized for Aletheia, how their battles have gone in the past or will go in the future, what the Keres are up to and why they separated? How did the AIs ascend to godhood in the first place?
Akavi and Elu and Enga, either something they did together before the novel, or an alternate way they could have ended up afterward and still be together, whether working for Nemesis still or not. For Akavi/Elu, now that they're stuck together at the end of The Outside, what would happen? Elu is obviously desperately in love with Akavi, who knows it but can't return his feelings the same way. Could he return them in some way that would make Elu happier? or just make him even more miserable just in a different way? So far Elu has resisted forcing any attentions on Akavi. Would he always be able to resist? Does Akavi think it's inevitable he will fail at some point? What does he do about that?
Evianna has more things to teach Yasira and she has a lot of possible ways to go about it. How does she attempt to get Yasira to learn the next thing she has to learn? Or, what if things had gone differently and the Outside had taken Yasira on the power station? And Evianna rescued her? Or maybe a canon divergence story of their initial working together and Yasira realizing earlier what Evianna was up to and reporting her to the Angels. And Evianna had to escape them and took Yasira with her to try to win her back.
Star Wars: The Old Republic
Vette/Jaesa Willsaam
Shae Vizla/Female Bounty Hunter
Kaliyo Djannis/Cipher Nine
Cytharat/Male Smuggler
Male Jedi Consular/Zenith
Female Sith Inquisitor/Darth Zash
Lana Beniko/Female Smuggler
Lt. Pierce/Male Sith Warrior
Vector Hyllus/Eckard Lokin
Female Jedi Knight/Lord Scourge
Cipher Nine/Theron Shan
Male Republic Trooper/Theron Shan
I'm very multi-ship on this game and I love all these pairings (and lots more). I've written fics about both m Cipher/Theron and f Cipher/Theron - I've written a fic about m Consular/Zenith - and one (two, actually) about f Knight/Scourge - and about Vector/Lokin. So those are all available for art and recursive if you want, and really you can make a recursive story about any of my SWTOR be about one of these pairings (Lana's in a lot of them, in some she's even paired with the Smuggler, for example, and Vette's in several of my Warrior fics and could have a thing with Jaesa in that).
But I'd love to see your work regardless of if you want to remix anything!
I feel like I missed out not being able to sign up for the Flash Fuck Around, so if you want to write me a story where any of these pairings are an established couple and one of them cheats (or both of them cheat!) or where one's in a different relationship and it's this pairing that cheats together, go for it. I'm open to unhappy endings where the pairing breaks up, if that is what works for your story; of course, happy endings are always good. I'm also open to them deciding to be poly to resolve the cheating? Really anything that explores the character dynamic and their emotions will be great.
Here's some individualized prompts for these pairings:
Jaesa /Vette - getting together, either with some kind of sex pollen or after some one-sided pining or mutual pining? Maybe they bond over both having a fling with the warrior and it not working out when the Warrior gets with someone else (Lana or Theron maybe, or Cytharat, or Pierce?) Or maybe they totally hate each other for a while and can't get along (Vette being too light side for dark Jaesa and too amoral for light Jaesa, perhaps, and Vette finding either version of Jaesa way too judgmental) and then something happens to change that. Or bonding over the failed attempt to save the Warrior from the Eternal Empire. Alternatively, they are in an established relationship and they need to pull off some kind of heist or rescue mission or sabotage mission?
Shae/Bounty Hunter - after their fight on Rishi, there's some kind of time for them to hook up, and neither of them can quite forget how well that went. One of them tracks the other down and it's tense till they realize what the real reason was. Or maybe they meet earlier, when Ceta Farr introduces them on Dromund Kaas, and go drinking together, which leads to... Or maybe they're hunting the same target and they make a bet to see who'll get to take the target down.
Kaliyo/Agent - I feel like I'd love anything for this pairing, so feel free to run wild with it after checking my likes. They could both be trying to get a lie past the other, and get mutually caught. They could have a fling, try to brush it off, and not quite be able to let it go, till everyone else on the team is dying for them to just get over themselves and admit their feelings. Or they could have a really bad experience together and it's super awkward and everyone's tiptoeing around trying not to set either of them off. Or they're the one real thing the other has, in the middle of a bleak universe of people who can't wait to try to control them or kill them or use them for their own purpose.
Cytharat/Smuggler - The smuggler has a thing for Cytharat and it's mutual, but there's really no chance to act on it. Then they meet again and maybe there's a misunderstanding about some cargo, who it really belongs to, and Cytharat helps the smuggler out despite knowing he's not on the level. Or maybe the smuggler finds Cytharat having been trapped by Jedi and fast talks him out of there. Or maybe they have a thing where they meet up at a certain date every year. Except this year one of them's late and why?
Consular/Zenith - Balmorra politics are always trouble and fun too, there's tension between them but they're both too serious and busy people to do anything about it till something (sex pollen? a mission gone wrong leaves them stuck together in a confined space? one of them nearly dies?) makes the truth come out about their feelings. Also they can be an established couple expecting their first (or second?) child, or Zenith can be trying to rescue the Consular from the Eternal Empire, or be about to meet up again with the Alliance
Inquisitor/Zash - Inquisitor is in love and Zash is just using her? Or Zash is in love and the Inquisitor spurns her and that's why she tries the body stealing? Or they get stuck together in the same body and have to share and work it out, or try to seduce each other? Open to good or bad endings for either of them. What if they try making each other jealous with a third person (any unrelated adult)?
Lana/Smuggler - Smuggler is very leery of Sith and Lana tries to win her over and succeeds better than expected? Or Lana is skeptical if this mess of a person can even help them but Smuggler sets out to prove her worth? Maybe they've been working together a while and the tension is growing and then they stumble into a bad situation where they're taken captive together? What if somehow one of them gets pregnant and the other helps out?
Pierce/Warrior - Pierce never gets enough attention, I'd love if the story focuses on him or his viewpoint or why the Warrior is into him. Maybe he's off on a mission and has to make a tough call, and the Warrior may be able to help but he wants to be independent. Maybe he comes to the Warrior's rescue somehow? Or they had a fling but Pierce isn't ready to be in a relationship so he leaves, and the Warrior tries to win him back? Or the other way around, maybe the Warrior is flirting with everyone and Pierce focuses on getting all that attention just for himself. Or they could be an established thing and just very focused on fighting the enemy working together - and come up against something unexpected.
Vector/Lokin - Ahh I just picked up this ship to write for LBD and now I would like more of it (there isn't much). What about something where Vector is off on a Killik mission and Lokin figures out someone's planning to sabotage it and has to get word to Vector? Also maybe some bits about their revenge against the people who experimented on Vector without his knowledge? Maybe something about the Killiks starting to accept Lokin as Vector's partner or mate or whatever the hive would think of their relationship? Maybe other Joiners share the feelings Vector has while having sex with Lokin and want to join in? or the bug shape ones do, what would they even do, it could be interesting...
Knight/Scourge - Jedi Knight and Scourge have a special relationship that is very intense but maybe not obviously romantic. They could fuck, though. Maybe one or the other one of them starts noticing there is more attachment than their Jedi discipline (Knight) or lack of feelings (Scourge, at least in the early part of the timeline) would normally allow? Or maybe something very weird is happening to them both and they're emotional and it's obviously something being done to them but it's not that bad actually? or it's terrifying actually! Could go either way.
Agent/Theron - Ah I think I've prompted this dozens of times, I had some good ideas in IPQ I think... yep (cut n pasted): They can sincerely not like each other even though they have to work together - grudging respect though, and then sex pollen! or trauma! or something that makes one of them unable to know what's real and what isn't. Or they can have a really close, intense bond and then amnesia! or one of them develops force powers thought impossible or would never happen. Or trauma or unreality as above. Or one of them is wary and untrusting and the other is obsessed or infatuated, and creeps on them or tries to nobly not flirt until their feelings are revealed by situation.
Trooper/Theron - this is a new ship for me, well. I had thoughts that there would be issues for Theron about his father who was military? Or maybe he's just relieved to be dealing with a straightforward person at last, who's not a spy and not a Force user. Could be nice. Theron doesn't get much of that. Trooper could actually be pretty complicated of a person or could really be as simple as he puts on, either way. He could be fascinated with Theron's superficial charm covering all that fucked up backstory or he could instead find Theron unappealing at first and it takes getting to know each other before his interest starts to show itself. Maybe Theron is undercover as an enemy but Trooper recognizes him and holds his fire at the last moment. Maybe Theron rescues Trooper and his unit with some quick thinking and Trooper takes him out for a drink to thank him and their hands touch and they have a moment. Or their hands touch and one of them gets the wrong idea that the other's making a pass.
Solaris
- Solaris the planet
- Worldbuilding
- Solaris/Original Adult Character
- Solaris & Original Character
- Solaris & Kelvin
- Kelvin/Hari | Harey | Rheya
- Sartorius & visitor
- Kelvin & Snow & Gordon
- Gibarian
- Original Space Program Participant
- Yskandr Aghavn/Six Direction
- Yskandr Aghavn/Nineteen Adze/Six Direction
- Mahit Dzmare/Three Seagrass
- Author's Choice OC or Canon Lsel Character & Their Imago
- Worldbuilding
What I like about Solaris: I like the idea of a sentient shapeshifter planet that can read thoughts but still doesn't understand the thoughts it's reading. It can sense that people relate best to other people, so it sends part of itself to turn into someone they relate to intensely to try to learn about them. This can go hilariously or horrifyingly wrong or lead to murder attempts, and it can also lead to tenderness between Solaris and the human. Murder attempts mistaken for flirtation? I love the exploration of incomprehensibility and also the continued attempts to overcome it; I love the care and fear combined when Solaris is appearing as a dead loved one. Came back wrong? There's so much potential. I am fascinated with the variety of characterizations that each movie and the book has for each character. They're so different from one another and also there's so much overlap.
I'm happy to see any of the three versions, or some combination as you choose.
A Memory Called Empire
What I love about A Memory Called Empire: I love the setting, both Lsel and Teixcalaan, and even the little bit we get of the alien opponents they're going to be meeting soon. I love the characters, especially Mahit and Yskandr and Nineteen Adze and Three Seagrass -- but really all of them.
I'd love to see a fic exploring Yskandr's relationships with Six Direction or Nineteen Adze or both -- from any of their POV or alternating -- in the past of the novel, and I'd love to see a story exploring Three Seagrass and Mahit's potential relationship, and I'd love some kind of social media AU of them, which can include poetry if you want (in-universe documents include poetry in Teixcalaan), I'd adore any interactive fic, and also I really feel like if you want to write meta or a ship manifesto it could help me get more fic in the future and I'd enjoy it for its own self too.
When it comes to a Lsel character & their imago, I find the whole concept of a person communicating with a partner inside their head like that very iddy, and I'd really enjoy something about how a more typical pair works through establishing their partnership on Lsel, or about another disastrous or exceptional one like Mahit and Yskandr, or about Mahit and Yskandr themselves -- parts that were left out or an alternate way things could have gone.
