Dear Chocolate Box Creator

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Thanks so much for creating something for me! I'm originally on AO3 and most other platforms.

I've requested fic or art for all of my fandoms and I'm happy to receive a gift of any rating, including smut and PWP. In terms of format, I'm open to anything. I love all kinds of unusual and experimental stuff if that's your thing, including but not limited to found footage; mixed media; non-linear; vignette forms; epistolary; interactive fiction; and metafiction. I don't expect you to necessarily follow any prompt to the letter; feel free to use bits, or pull prompts apart and put them together in different ways, or just go with general likes and your own ideas.

General trope or narrative likes include:

• loyalty kink
• basically anything that focuses on issues of honour/duty and how those intersect with personal relationships
• mentor/mentee dynamics
• snark and banter
• competence
• hurt/comfort
• bathing/grooming/shaving/dressing or undressing
• brotherhood and (found) family
• pining
• (unresolved) sexual tension
• codependence and 'us against the world'-type dynamics
• bed/tent sharing and huddling for warmth
• stoic/non-demonstrative characters showing affection in their own way
• 'desperate last stand' situations
• 'calm before the storm'-type quiet moments
• friends to lovers
• enemies to lovers
• big, dramatic, angsty betrayals and fallings-out (i.e. lovers to enemies, with or without an eventual reunion)
• lovers on opposite sides of a conflict or antagonistic characters forced to work together for a common cause
• all kinds of time travel stuff/groundhog day/loops and reincarnation
• dimensional travel and the boundaries between worlds
• characters meeting at the wrong time/missed connections (or generally might-have-beens and fics that are wistful in tone)
• identity porn of all kinds
• road trips as a metaphor for coming of age and relationship developments
• outsider POV
• opposites/contrasts (class differences, age differences, themes of life/death, ice/fire, faith/skepticism, permanence/ephemerality etc. etc.)
• ambiguity/grey morality
• mad science and/or transhumanism
• transformation and/or body horror
• religion and ritual
• subterranean horror elements
• madness

My kink/porn likes include:

• bloodplay
• vore
• breathplay
• biting/marking
• comeplay/facials
• rimming/felching
• oral sex of every kind
• hatesex/rough sex
• sex with plenty of kissing
• fingering and fisting
• finger sucking
• non-penetrative sex/frottage, especially intercrural
• strap-ons and sex toys
• cross-dressing
• clothed sex (esp if only one participant is clothed) and related kinks like coming in pants or on clothes
• friends with benefits
• public sex/exhibitionism/voyeurism
• body worship
• praise kink
• BDSM (particularly ropes or other bondage, blindfolds, spanking, sensation play)
• edging and denial
• xeno (including tentacles)

In terms of art likes, I'm so bad at prompting for art but I'm sure if you make something that comes even vaguely in the direction of my general likes, I'll love it. More specific art stuff: I'd be more than happy to receive smutty art if that's your thing. Just like with fic, I'd be happy for you to experiment with format or palette on me (including meta stuff like in-game documents). I like focus on clothing details (and particularly if you wanted to draw someone in clothes from another genre like steampunk or Age of Sail). Portraits for any of my requested characters/pairings would be great, or an action scene from one of my longer prompts.


And finally, please do not include any of the following in my gift:

• mundane/modern/depowered AUs (ie. canon divergence is welcome; coffee shops or high schools are not)
• curtainfic
• A/B/O dynamics
• mpreg
• watersports
• scat
• public humiliation
• "lifestyle" or 24/7 D/s
• infantilisation or age play or use of the word 'daddy' in a sexual context
• wingfic
• graphic depictions of rape (references, or dubcon scenes, are fine)
• graphic depictions of torture (references are fine)
• death of a requested character (I'm okay with deaths of background characters or reactions to canonical deaths)

A Song of Ice and Fire

More specific prompts for each pairing are below, but in general, if you write or draw some kind of hurt/comfort, huddling for warmth, loyalty kink, squiring, sparring, or shaving scene for any of these pairs, I would be delighted. I also like Jon/Ygritte so please don't bash her or the pairing (but feel free to just ignore her completely)

Mance Rayder/Jon Snow
I like the mutual respect that they develop for one another, and their similarities in both being outsiders and Night's Watch oathbreakers who become leaders. However, they also have some interesting differences: stoic, reserved Jon vs Mance the charismatic bard. I'm also a fan of the aesthetics of the North and the Night's Watch and wildling lore and customs if you want to work some of that in. Jon swearing fealty to the King? His compulsion to kneel even though wildlings don't bend the knee? Maybe they have some kind of custom where the King can 'steal' recruits to his bed? I don't know, it can be as handwavey as you like, really. It could be canon divergence AU (e.g. could silver-tongued Mance have convinced Jon to actually turn his cloak? Would they have managed to defeat Stannis' army or would they all have died in a blaze of R'hllor's fire? Would The Ghost or Lord Snow have become a wildling name to conjure with?), or a missing scene during the march from the Frostfangs, or something around the Rattleshirt reveal, or post-Pink Letter. You could also have one or both of them angsting over Qhorin's death.

Jaime Lannister/Brynden Tully
In AFFC, Jaime spends a deal of time thinking about how much he has always admired the Blackfish, to the point where, as a young man, he ignored his prospective bride Lysa Tully in favour of listening to Blackfish's stories. At the same time, the Blackfish is quite clearly the old-fashioned euphemistic sort of 'confirmed bachelor'; though his sexuality is never explicitly stated, I think we have enough hints about his refusal to marry and his rift with Hoster to speculate in a fairly educated way that he is not interested in women.

For this pairing I would love it if you focused on that knightly admiration and borderline hero-worship that Jaime has going on, and Brynden's reaction to it. If you wanted to write something set in the past, either some UST or a near miss or straight-up smut with a young and golden and eager Jaime and a reserved but flattered Blackfish showing him the ropes, that would be lovely. Or you could have present-day Jaime reflecting on his complicated feelings and how they're tangled up with his sense of his own worthlessness (shit for honour, lost sword hand) compared to the Blackfish, that shining paragon of knightliness.

At some point Jaime suggests he will treat with the Blackfish and kill him if he will not yield, and Genna Lannister responds, scornfully, "how, with your tongue?"; I'd like to hear the story where he tries some unconventional negotiation methods.

Stannis Baratheon/Jon Snow
The thing I love about Stannis and Jon is that they have so much mutual respect and they're so similar in many ways. They're both quiet and reserved, both skeptics, both value duty above almost everything else - but Jon values his honour higher, and that's the cause of some very interesting conflict canonically. Even though they have a large age difference, Jon is a leader and that gives him some leverage and power in his interactions. It's also clear that he's one of the few people that Stannis hears out when it comes to tactics, something that Melisandre makes a note of.

I'm open to anything that explores their interactions whilst Stannis' army are at the Wall: their conflicts and discussions, missing scenes of one of them observing the other, etc. Ratchet up the UST levels. If you want to go porny, I'm definitely open to an argument that goes too far turning into borderline-hatesex. Otherwise, give me future fic or canon divergences: Jon in the Kingsguard, for example, gives ample opportunity for loyalty kink, or a role reversal with Jon as King/Stannis as Lord Commander of the Night's Watch could explore power dynamics.

Deus Ex

Adam Jensen/Talos Rucker
I'm really fascinated by Rucker as a character but he was only in the game for such a short time. I'd like to know more about life in ARC, the politics of aug activism, the others he met along the way. How does he feel about his own augs (which, like Adam, seem to have been a matter of life or death)? I'd like to see an AU where had more time to develop a relationship with Rucker--either where Adam succeeds in stopping Rucker's death, or where Adam had to infiltrate ARC more deeply at an earlier point, or even one where he joins ARC in earnest (is there something that could make him do that?). Where would they agree or disagree?

Viktor Marchenko/Talos Rucker
I really love the double agent aspect of this, and I think the fact that Marchenko will inevitably participate in Rucker's assassination makes any potential exploration of their relationship particularly charged and interesting. How far is Marchenko willing to go to maintain his cover? Was there any point where Rucker could have actually turned him to his side? I think some kind of one-sided dubcon hatesex where Rucker is oblivious to Marchenko's true feelings would be perfect for this pairing.

David Sarif/Hugh Darrow
I love mentorship dynamics when it comes to ships and this is a really interesting one. I'd love to see something from their early time working together. Did they ever clash over their different backgrounds? What about Hugh's reaction to David's augmentations - jealousy? Lust? Both? Something set either immediately before or after Panchaea could be interesting, exploring Darrow's rejection of their ideals.

David Sarif/Vaclav Koller(/Adam Jensen, if you want!)
So, I just think this could be a really fun ship. Koller is super into Adam's SI tech so would that transfer to the man himself? How would David deal with Koller's, er, level of enthusiasm? Or would they maybe clash, since Koller doesn't seem to share David's idealist transhumanist politics?

David Sarif/Jim Miller/Adam Jensen
I feel like this would be the snarkiest threesome ever. I don't even know how they would end up in the same place - maybe after the London mission, or Sarif's help is needed on a TF29 thing somehow, or Jim just calls him up to complain about Adam after Adam does his insubordinate thing one to many times. I don't even care how much you have to handwave to get them together, because I'm mostly interested in the dynamics between them. Possessiveness over Adam would be particularly amazing, and Adam kind of long-sufferingly having to mediate.

Dishonored

Emily Kaldwin/Billie Lurk
I think identity porn would be perfect for this pairing. Could be a one night stand or something more long term, but I'd like to see them get together in the Dishonored 2 timeline, before Emily knows who Billie is. What happens when she finds out? Would Billie still tell her eventually? Could they ever reconcile who Billie was with what was between them?

Something where they both have to work together for a common cause after Billie gets powers could be fun too. Would their ways of working be compatible? Would they be able to put their differences aside?

Stuff that I particularly love about this canon includes: the steampunk aesthetic with the blending of magic and technology, the cult-worship of a trickster god, the grey-morality and ethical dilemmas, and the assassin stuff just generally but particularly the stealth aspects. Focus on any of these in a work for me would be A+.

Killing Eve

Carolyn Martens/Eve Polastri
I love their slightly weird mentorship dynamic. Eve teases Elena for her crush but I thought it was pretty clear that she had some hero worship going on as well. I think it could be really interesting to explore, and especially to think about how they might move from that to sex. It must be pretty lonely in the job Carolyn's in and her personal life is clearly a disaster. I'd be equally happy with something where they try hard and make it work or something where they fail. I also liked how straightforward Carolyn was about the idea of other spies trying to honeypot her. If Eve tried to seduce her, would she think the same? Would she go along with it anyway?

Something that delved into Carolyn's shady spy activities (past or present) would be great (I haven't read the books so I'm not sure what the actual story is going to be, but speculation is fun). I'd especially love some cat-and-mouse as Eve investigates her but tries not to let on.

Something where Eve asks Carolyn for her memories of Bill could be really interesting for this pairing. More generally, I'd enjoy something addressing Eve's grief and anger over his loss.

Sunless Sea

I love everything about this world: the vast unfolding story, the Lovecraftian/cosmic horror and monsters lurking in the darkness, the motifs of life and death, the steampunk Victoriana and machinery and weird science. I got captivated by Zubmariner's ambition and the story of Lorenzo in particular, as it seems to bring together a bunch of these favourite things. I've played Fallen London although not so much recently; you're welcome to bring in any lore that's not in Sunless Sea, or not, as you see fit.

Aurelian/Lorenzo
Individually, both characters are fascinating. I'm interested in Lorenzo's surface explorer past and how it led him to the Neath, chasing immortality--is becoming the moth life enough? Or world building around tomb colonists and moths. What exactly makes this particular moth the Most Moth?

Conversely, the Aurelian: his scientific curiosity, his ambition and what seems to be a ruthless streak in pursuing that Victorian obsession with categorising and cataloguing everything. What else has he seen? How far did he "serve" in the name of science? There are certainly some indications that the Aurelian is not all that fond of Lorenzo; is he in this only for what he can learn?

I think it could be interesting to look at the soft parts and hard edges of their relationship and find the line between caring/studying/loving--and does that shift with the moth transformation? Or, let's be honest here, I would love it if you created straight-up xeno porn.

Arik/Lorenzo
Something from their past: romance in the heat of battle, the bright flame of revolutionaries for the cause. Did they expect to spend their immortality together? What of their age and cultural differences? Or something from their present: their correspondence, their regrets, their longing. Something focusing on the Seven more generally could be good too. Why are they among the few people in the Neath who use names? Is it a deliberate defiance of convention, are they immune to whatever 'true name' magic might exist? I'd also enjoy a story that made more of the Greek/Roman myth elements here (the Seven Against Thebes, the Aeneid, Cumae and the underworld?), or even Stone's outsider POV on their quest.

The Technomancer

Andrew Mancer/Zachariah Mancer
The dynamic between these two is so great. Childhood friends who reconnect after years apart, but with power differentials and mentorship aspects? Yes please. The scene where Zach initiates Andrew was brilliant and I'd love something that played with these issues some more. Andrew's intense desire for a technomancer master and his borderline hero-worship of Zach as 'someone I want to be like', and Zach's new dual role as both mentor and lover. How do they negotiate that, in the field and in the bedroom? And particularly after Zach becomes Great Master? How do Andrew's daddy issues intersect with Zach's? How do they deal with conflicts that arise, like if Zach makes the secrecy choice against Andrew's advice? Or adjusting to their new self-conception and societal role as mutants rather than humans? For Andrew specifically, I would love something with him readjusting to life with his rediscovered technomancy. It must be a big adjustment to make, suddenly having things that he lost and grieved and got used to being without: his arm, his powers, membership of a brotherhood, a master. Are there downsides?

Sean Mancer/Zachariah Mancer
So I'm definitely here for the mentorship, the mildly-incestuous brotherhood aspects, and maybe a splash of daddy kink (though, please, without the actual word 'daddy'). Zach says that Sean was a rebel; how did he balance teaching Zach the rules while dealing with his own doubts about what they were being asked to do? Did he choose to take on Zach as an apprentice or was he assigned? Did he know about Scott's experiments? Was there something about Zachariah Rogue that appealed to that rebelliousness? Something tropey here could also work well, e.g. huddling for warmth? I'm always here for shaving or squiring or bathing kink. Or sparring that leads to sex? If you want to do something set in the future timeline, maybe Zach finds Sean miraculously alive (handwave it however you need to) and they have to deal with that reunion and all it entails?

Zachariah Mancer/Anton Rogue
Anton Rogue is just so amazingly sleazy. The relationship between him and Zach is super interesting, with that mixture of paternal and antagonistic aspects. When people like Alan say 'Zachariah Rogue', it's clearly meant as a put down, but somehow 'Zach Rogue Mancer' feels more like... a reminder? Like he's laying claim? I think there's a lot to work with there. Similarly with the other great lines of dialogue between them, like Anton saying "I'll be dreaming of that lost handshake". I'd love hatesex for these two (or hatesex-turned-inconvenient-feelings).