Letter for Stork Swap
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lemniskathI'm Gammarad on ao3. I love all my requests equally! Fill any one you want. (Requests at the bottom, copied from the form entries pretty much verbatim.)
LIKES:
Character, setting, and theme likes: cats (including cat-like fantasy creatures or spirits), aliens (including cat-like and human-like aliens as well as ones like nothing at all on Earth), friendship, rivalry, enemies, eerie supernatural stuff, unusual settings, ancient history (BCE), science fiction, technology, AI, robots, cyborgs, worldbuilding. Older mature characters.
Gen (& relationship) 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.
Romantic (/ relationship) likes: Pining, previous and/or background ships, cheating or adultery, 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. Complicated relationships with give and take and balance issues. Canon poly.
Plotty likes: intelligent non-humans, learning to get along despite differences, working out misaligned goals. Myth inspired plots or fairy tale retellings, mysteries, ghost stories, adventure stories, coming of age stories, romances, case or mission fic, noir style, pastiche of canon, pastiche of something other than the canon you're actually writing. Happy for now endings, bittersweet endings, knowing what you have won't last forever, getting what they want and realizing it's not what they need, getting what they need even though it wasn't what they thought they wanted, taking what they can get in lieu of what they really need or want.
Smut likes: Older human characters having explicit sex. Saying with physical affection what they can't say out loud. Solving problems in sex (difficulty climaxing, premature ejaculation, injury does not allow for their usual sex, that kind of thing). Sex toys, improvised sex toys, edging, honor bondage, orgasm denial. 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.
Style likes: I like a whole broad variety of styles. First person, second person, omniscient narrator (like a historian or telepath or seer or deity), same as canon, totally different from canon for reasons, carefully preserved realism, blend of realism vs fantastical elements, fourth wall breaking, epistolary, unreliable narrator, close third person, out-of-order storytelling, time jumps, dream scenes, surreal or stream-of-consciousness interludes, main character viewpoint, outsider viewpoint including POV of AI, cats, ghosts, deities, or other unusual being. Reallly, go with whatever best suits your personal style or your chosen story.
General DNWs (may not apply in all cases - please go by request specific DNWs):
-- face claims of real people for original characters (Drawings you made are wonderful and very welcome!)
-- incest (defined as *actual family members* closer than first cousins. Does not apply to 'like a brother' or 'childhood friends' or anything like that). Exception: immortal beings (example: Greek gods), in adult form.
-- explicit underage sex (sometimes exceptions for two teens in the 16-18 range, when requested).
-- noncon of underage victims
-- bulging or inflation kink
-- injury that includes exposed bone
-- serious injury or death of cats or cat-like creatures (exception: ghost cats are fine, and showing how they die and become ghosts is fine; it's also fine when a cat is a requested character and the scenario involves hurt/comfort for the cat)
-- "corrective" noncon of a person of any orientation; victims of noncon or dubcon stating that aggressor is of gender they aren't attracted to
-- feminization of one part of m/m pairing to make it more like het; masculinization of one part of f/f pairing to make it more like het; any discussion of who is "the girl" or "the man" etc in the ship. People who are gender non-conforming, feminine men, masculine women, butch women, etc, are all fine if it doesn't fall into that sort of thing. Exception for it happening canonically.
Requests:
Cytharat/Male Imperial Agent | Cipher Nine & Baby (SWTOR)
Cytharat/Male Sith Warrior & Baby (SWTOR)
Cytharat/Male Sith Inquisitor & Baby (SWTOR)
Fic-Character
Foundling baby taken in by unlikely parents
Accidentally Ending Up with a Baby Clone Version of Yourself
All babies the result of nonsexual magic; characters go on quest to find baby
Character A questions Character B's ability to care for a baby
All babies the result of nonsexual magic; elaborate fake rituals to hide/protect real quest/ritual
Discovering Abandoned Alien Child
Incubating a Found or Stolen Egg
Accidentally Ending Up with a Baby Clone Version of Your Parent
Character on parental leave is SO BORED and keeps sneaking into work
DNW: permanent death of requested characters; underage sex; explicit sex between unrequested characters
I'd love a story about finding a baby or egg and figuring out what to do with it; a story about the complicated process of getting a baby that doesn't involve pregnancy; a story about how much a clone resembles or doesn't resemble the original; a story about avoiding baby care by being very busy with an important job -- and how well or badly that works; a story about who's better at child care and why; or anything else you feel inspired to write for me about these characters.
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Pregnant Male Sith Warrior & Creator's Choice of Alliance Member(s) (SWTOR)
Pregnant Male Outlander & Lana Beniko (SWTOR)
Fic-Character
Secret pregnancy
Character wakes up pregnant and they don’t know how it happened
Fetus has magical powers and pregnant parent can use them during gestation
Everyone is trying to give pregnant character advice; pregnant character HATES it
Heteropaternal superfecundation: pregnant with multiples but each baby has a different parent
Star Wars: Sometimes The Force Just Impregnates People And This Is Normal
Interspecies pregnancy has unusual side effects
DNW: permanent death of requested characters; underage sex; sibling or parent-child incest
These give you a lot of choices as to who to write about! The Sith Warrior or Outlander's reason for having their pregnancy be secret could be anything from security or status based, to personal or relationship reasons. Wakes up pregnant not knowing how it happened, the story could be about how it happened, or can be combined with the Force just does this sometimes and the story is about the interspecies-caused unusual side effects, or the bad (or good-but-unwanted!) advice and how to stop it or get used to it, or the "magical" powers the fetus is granting. Feel free to write about just one of the freeforms or combine a couple that seem to fit together.
I love all the player characters and companion characters in this game. You can also choose a character of your choice to be the other parent, or leave that mysterious.
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Wanda Maximoff/Pregnant Vision (WandaVision)
Pregnant Wanda Maximoff/Vision (WandaVision)
Fic-Character
Transferring Unborn Baby from Pregnant Parent to Partner
forced separation from newborn baby or pregnant partner
Pregnant character impregnating their partner
Getting Pregnant is Step for Magical Ritual
Impregnated By A Magical Accident
DNW for this request: noncon; explicit sex; sibling or parent/child incest
Ideas/suggestions/prompts: weird magic different from canon weird magic; weird magic like canon weird magic; canon sitcom AUs; alternate sitcom AUs with magic added; like canon but with extra pregnancy; escaping from SWORD together, possibly getting separated in the process; one escapes and the other does not -- rescue attempt ensues; details/worldbuilding/crack-taken-seriously on how Wanda got pregnant in canon, since it was skipped over; Vision got pregnant instead of Wanda, how did that change things?
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Pregnant Darcy Lewis/Pregnant Monica Rambeau/Jimmy Woo (WandaVision)
Pregnant Darcy Lewis/Monica Rambeau/Jimmy Woo (WandaVision)
Darcy Lewis/Pregnant Monica Rambeau/Jimmy Woo (WandaVision)
Darcy Lewis/Monica Rambeau/Pregnant Jimmy Woo (WandaVision)
Fic-Character
Reality Warper Wants Babies; Everyone Who Comes Into Contact Gets Pregnant
Wild Scifi pregnancy complications
Other characters try to keep pregnant character from doing canon-typical perilous activity
Baby Conceived While Parents Were Trapped in a Bunker
A/B/O: omega is pregnant at work/in the field
DNW: parent/child or sibling incest; underage sex
I love the idea of these three characters having a relationship -- arrange it any way you like (poly triad, V any direction, still nebulous and tentative, FWBs, it was just that one time in that bunker -- any way works!)
Ideas/prompts/suggestions: What if watching Wanda's pregnancy show caused pregnancy in Darcy or Jimmy? What if being with her before or during Wanda's pregnancy caused Monica's? What kind of weird pregnancy complications might happen due to the Hex? How dangerous is what they were doing and should they stop while pregnant? What if they were trapped together for a day or three and it sparked feelings / or they were trapped *and influenced* by a sex-pollen-like spell or effect, and that led to pregnancy?
Note: if you want to go with the omegaverse freeform, one of each would be nice, or two omegas is okay, or two alphas, or two betas, could all work? your choice which is alpha, which beta, and which omega - make whichever one is pregnant an omega, and if two are pregnant the other pregnant one can be alpha or beta even. How omegaverse dynamics affect the setting could be explored in detail or just skimmed over.
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Pregnant Nine Forton/Melissa Podebrat/Yuri Elizabeth (BotV)
Fic-Character
Male character in M/F or M/F/F relationship volunteers to be the one impregnanted
Surrogate pines for couple whose baby they're carrying
Helping and caring for pregnant love interest leads to get together
Feral Behavior During Labor/Birth
DNW: Peacock (at all); noncon between requested characters (past noncon with other characters is fine); underage sex
Ideas/prompts/suggestions: What if Melissa/Yuri is established and Nine wants to carry their baby for Reasons (to protect them both probably) and that leads to them getting together with him -- or they're established and Nine just shows up pregnant one day, perhaps by another werewolf, and caring for him leads to getting together? What if they're already all together and after Nine's impregnated, he becomes more feral - they might worry it was a mistake to let him?
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Male Hacker/pregnant Male Android With Artificial Womb (Original Work)
Male Alien Bar Owner/pregnant Male Human Mercenary (Original Work)
pregnant Male Alien Bar Owner/Male Human Mercenary (Original Work)
Fic-Character
Emergency maintenance on artificial womb
Was raped and knocked up with half-alien offspring(s); accepting love interest’s help afterwards
A previously had a falling out with B; complicated emotions ensue when A learns B is pregnant
Celebrate Conquest of Earth With Conceiving Baby
Helping give birth in a non-hospital setting
Robot/Human Hybrid Children
Hybrid Pregnancy - It's Unknown What Ways The Baby Will Resemble Either Parent
DNW: underage warning; parent/child or sibling incest; faceclaims of real people (even links).
I love sci fi so much that I think anything you do with these pairings and freeforms would be great. More ideas later if I think of them?
See general likes above!
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Female Vampire/Pregnant Female Vampire Hunter (Original Work)
Female Psychic/Her Wife Pregnant With Ghost Baby Seeking Reincarnation (Original Work)
Fic-Character
Pregnancy Through Demonic Possession
Finding a Way Around Supernatural Laws to Have Baby
All babies the result of nonsexual magic; heir is whoever can be impregnated by the family ritual
Pregnancy as a side effect of a Healing/Resurrection Spell (Target Pregnant)
A previously had a falling out with B; complicated emotions ensue when A learns B is pregnant
DNW: underage sex; blood relative incest; medieval setting; faceclaims of real people (even links).
Suggestions/prompts/ideas: urban fantasy setting would be great, or futuristic even; historical time period modeled after either renaissance or more recent history, or ancient world, would also be wonderful. A secondary-world fantasy setting based on any of those would be lovely, I adore worldbuilding.
How did the pregnant character get pregnant? Do they know, or is it mysterious and they need to find out for reasons? What supernatural laws apply to pregnancies? How did the ghost baby do it, was the pregnancy a side effect or the intended goal of the magic? How do vampires work in this setting and can they make people pregnant, or did the pregnancy happen and then the vampire hunter needed help? There's so many possibilities with these magic-supernatural-related freeforms.
If you go with the 'previously had a falling out' freeform -- The falling out could be about money, about different magic styles, a disagreement about a third party (who got killed, maybe by one of them? or who came between the partners romantically?) Maybe one of the partners cheated. Maybe they told a secret they weren't supposed to. Maybe they fell out because of arguments over having children? The psychic and woman pregnant-with-ghost-baby are married, but maybe it's a trial separation or something before the pregnancy is discovered.
LIKES:
Character, setting, and theme likes: cats (including cat-like fantasy creatures or spirits), aliens (including cat-like and human-like aliens as well as ones like nothing at all on Earth), friendship, rivalry, enemies, eerie supernatural stuff, unusual settings, ancient history (BCE), science fiction, technology, AI, robots, cyborgs, worldbuilding. Older mature characters.
Gen (& relationship) 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.
Romantic (/ relationship) likes: Pining, previous and/or background ships, cheating or adultery, 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. Complicated relationships with give and take and balance issues. Canon poly.
Plotty likes: intelligent non-humans, learning to get along despite differences, working out misaligned goals. Myth inspired plots or fairy tale retellings, mysteries, ghost stories, adventure stories, coming of age stories, romances, case or mission fic, noir style, pastiche of canon, pastiche of something other than the canon you're actually writing. Happy for now endings, bittersweet endings, knowing what you have won't last forever, getting what they want and realizing it's not what they need, getting what they need even though it wasn't what they thought they wanted, taking what they can get in lieu of what they really need or want.
Smut likes: Older human characters having explicit sex. Saying with physical affection what they can't say out loud. Solving problems in sex (difficulty climaxing, premature ejaculation, injury does not allow for their usual sex, that kind of thing). Sex toys, improvised sex toys, edging, honor bondage, orgasm denial. 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.
Style likes: I like a whole broad variety of styles. First person, second person, omniscient narrator (like a historian or telepath or seer or deity), same as canon, totally different from canon for reasons, carefully preserved realism, blend of realism vs fantastical elements, fourth wall breaking, epistolary, unreliable narrator, close third person, out-of-order storytelling, time jumps, dream scenes, surreal or stream-of-consciousness interludes, main character viewpoint, outsider viewpoint including POV of AI, cats, ghosts, deities, or other unusual being. Reallly, go with whatever best suits your personal style or your chosen story.
General DNWs (may not apply in all cases - please go by request specific DNWs):
-- face claims of real people for original characters (Drawings you made are wonderful and very welcome!)
-- incest (defined as *actual family members* closer than first cousins. Does not apply to 'like a brother' or 'childhood friends' or anything like that). Exception: immortal beings (example: Greek gods), in adult form.
-- explicit underage sex (sometimes exceptions for two teens in the 16-18 range, when requested).
-- noncon of underage victims
-- bulging or inflation kink
-- injury that includes exposed bone
-- serious injury or death of cats or cat-like creatures (exception: ghost cats are fine, and showing how they die and become ghosts is fine; it's also fine when a cat is a requested character and the scenario involves hurt/comfort for the cat)
-- "corrective" noncon of a person of any orientation; victims of noncon or dubcon stating that aggressor is of gender they aren't attracted to
-- feminization of one part of m/m pairing to make it more like het; masculinization of one part of f/f pairing to make it more like het; any discussion of who is "the girl" or "the man" etc in the ship. People who are gender non-conforming, feminine men, masculine women, butch women, etc, are all fine if it doesn't fall into that sort of thing. Exception for it happening canonically.
Requests:
SWTOR
Cytharat/Male Imperial Agent | Cipher Nine & Baby (SWTOR)
Cytharat/Male Sith Warrior & Baby (SWTOR)
Cytharat/Male Sith Inquisitor & Baby (SWTOR)
Fic-Character
Foundling baby taken in by unlikely parents
Accidentally Ending Up with a Baby Clone Version of Yourself
All babies the result of nonsexual magic; characters go on quest to find baby
Character A questions Character B's ability to care for a baby
All babies the result of nonsexual magic; elaborate fake rituals to hide/protect real quest/ritual
Discovering Abandoned Alien Child
Incubating a Found or Stolen Egg
Accidentally Ending Up with a Baby Clone Version of Your Parent
Character on parental leave is SO BORED and keeps sneaking into work
DNW: permanent death of requested characters; underage sex; explicit sex between unrequested characters
I'd love a story about finding a baby or egg and figuring out what to do with it; a story about the complicated process of getting a baby that doesn't involve pregnancy; a story about how much a clone resembles or doesn't resemble the original; a story about avoiding baby care by being very busy with an important job -- and how well or badly that works; a story about who's better at child care and why; or anything else you feel inspired to write for me about these characters.
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Pregnant Male Sith Warrior & Creator's Choice of Alliance Member(s) (SWTOR)
Pregnant Male Outlander & Lana Beniko (SWTOR)
Fic-Character
Secret pregnancy
Character wakes up pregnant and they don’t know how it happened
Fetus has magical powers and pregnant parent can use them during gestation
Everyone is trying to give pregnant character advice; pregnant character HATES it
Heteropaternal superfecundation: pregnant with multiples but each baby has a different parent
Star Wars: Sometimes The Force Just Impregnates People And This Is Normal
Interspecies pregnancy has unusual side effects
DNW: permanent death of requested characters; underage sex; sibling or parent-child incest
These give you a lot of choices as to who to write about! The Sith Warrior or Outlander's reason for having their pregnancy be secret could be anything from security or status based, to personal or relationship reasons. Wakes up pregnant not knowing how it happened, the story could be about how it happened, or can be combined with the Force just does this sometimes and the story is about the interspecies-caused unusual side effects, or the bad (or good-but-unwanted!) advice and how to stop it or get used to it, or the "magical" powers the fetus is granting. Feel free to write about just one of the freeforms or combine a couple that seem to fit together.
I love all the player characters and companion characters in this game. You can also choose a character of your choice to be the other parent, or leave that mysterious.
---
WandaVision
Wanda Maximoff/Pregnant Vision (WandaVision)
Pregnant Wanda Maximoff/Vision (WandaVision)
Fic-Character
Transferring Unborn Baby from Pregnant Parent to Partner
forced separation from newborn baby or pregnant partner
Pregnant character impregnating their partner
Getting Pregnant is Step for Magical Ritual
Impregnated By A Magical Accident
DNW for this request: noncon; explicit sex; sibling or parent/child incest
Ideas/suggestions/prompts: weird magic different from canon weird magic; weird magic like canon weird magic; canon sitcom AUs; alternate sitcom AUs with magic added; like canon but with extra pregnancy; escaping from SWORD together, possibly getting separated in the process; one escapes and the other does not -- rescue attempt ensues; details/worldbuilding/crack-taken-seriously on how Wanda got pregnant in canon, since it was skipped over; Vision got pregnant instead of Wanda, how did that change things?
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Pregnant Darcy Lewis/Pregnant Monica Rambeau/Jimmy Woo (WandaVision)
Pregnant Darcy Lewis/Monica Rambeau/Jimmy Woo (WandaVision)
Darcy Lewis/Pregnant Monica Rambeau/Jimmy Woo (WandaVision)
Darcy Lewis/Monica Rambeau/Pregnant Jimmy Woo (WandaVision)
Fic-Character
Reality Warper Wants Babies; Everyone Who Comes Into Contact Gets Pregnant
Wild Scifi pregnancy complications
Other characters try to keep pregnant character from doing canon-typical perilous activity
Baby Conceived While Parents Were Trapped in a Bunker
A/B/O: omega is pregnant at work/in the field
DNW: parent/child or sibling incest; underage sex
I love the idea of these three characters having a relationship -- arrange it any way you like (poly triad, V any direction, still nebulous and tentative, FWBs, it was just that one time in that bunker -- any way works!)
Ideas/prompts/suggestions: What if watching Wanda's pregnancy show caused pregnancy in Darcy or Jimmy? What if being with her before or during Wanda's pregnancy caused Monica's? What kind of weird pregnancy complications might happen due to the Hex? How dangerous is what they were doing and should they stop while pregnant? What if they were trapped together for a day or three and it sparked feelings / or they were trapped *and influenced* by a sex-pollen-like spell or effect, and that led to pregnancy?
Note: if you want to go with the omegaverse freeform, one of each would be nice, or two omegas is okay, or two alphas, or two betas, could all work? your choice which is alpha, which beta, and which omega - make whichever one is pregnant an omega, and if two are pregnant the other pregnant one can be alpha or beta even. How omegaverse dynamics affect the setting could be explored in detail or just skimmed over.
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Beware of the Villainess
Pregnant Nine Forton/Melissa Podebrat/Yuri Elizabeth (BotV)
Fic-Character
Male character in M/F or M/F/F relationship volunteers to be the one impregnanted
Surrogate pines for couple whose baby they're carrying
Helping and caring for pregnant love interest leads to get together
Feral Behavior During Labor/Birth
DNW: Peacock (at all); noncon between requested characters (past noncon with other characters is fine); underage sex
Ideas/prompts/suggestions: What if Melissa/Yuri is established and Nine wants to carry their baby for Reasons (to protect them both probably) and that leads to them getting together with him -- or they're established and Nine just shows up pregnant one day, perhaps by another werewolf, and caring for him leads to getting together? What if they're already all together and after Nine's impregnated, he becomes more feral - they might worry it was a mistake to let him?
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Original Work
Male Hacker/pregnant Male Android With Artificial Womb (Original Work)
Male Alien Bar Owner/pregnant Male Human Mercenary (Original Work)
pregnant Male Alien Bar Owner/Male Human Mercenary (Original Work)
Fic-Character
Emergency maintenance on artificial womb
Was raped and knocked up with half-alien offspring(s); accepting love interest’s help afterwards
A previously had a falling out with B; complicated emotions ensue when A learns B is pregnant
Celebrate Conquest of Earth With Conceiving Baby
Helping give birth in a non-hospital setting
Robot/Human Hybrid Children
Hybrid Pregnancy - It's Unknown What Ways The Baby Will Resemble Either Parent
DNW: underage warning; parent/child or sibling incest; faceclaims of real people (even links).
I love sci fi so much that I think anything you do with these pairings and freeforms would be great. More ideas later if I think of them?
See general likes above!
---
Female Vampire/Pregnant Female Vampire Hunter (Original Work)
Female Psychic/Her Wife Pregnant With Ghost Baby Seeking Reincarnation (Original Work)
Fic-Character
Pregnancy Through Demonic Possession
Finding a Way Around Supernatural Laws to Have Baby
All babies the result of nonsexual magic; heir is whoever can be impregnated by the family ritual
Pregnancy as a side effect of a Healing/Resurrection Spell (Target Pregnant)
A previously had a falling out with B; complicated emotions ensue when A learns B is pregnant
DNW: underage sex; blood relative incest; medieval setting; faceclaims of real people (even links).
Suggestions/prompts/ideas: urban fantasy setting would be great, or futuristic even; historical time period modeled after either renaissance or more recent history, or ancient world, would also be wonderful. A secondary-world fantasy setting based on any of those would be lovely, I adore worldbuilding.
How did the pregnant character get pregnant? Do they know, or is it mysterious and they need to find out for reasons? What supernatural laws apply to pregnancies? How did the ghost baby do it, was the pregnancy a side effect or the intended goal of the magic? How do vampires work in this setting and can they make people pregnant, or did the pregnancy happen and then the vampire hunter needed help? There's so many possibilities with these magic-supernatural-related freeforms.
If you go with the 'previously had a falling out' freeform -- The falling out could be about money, about different magic styles, a disagreement about a third party (who got killed, maybe by one of them? or who came between the partners romantically?) Maybe one of the partners cheated. Maybe they told a secret they weren't supposed to. Maybe they fell out because of arguments over having children? The psychic and woman pregnant-with-ghost-baby are married, but maybe it's a trial separation or something before the pregnancy is discovered.
