Smile Edgeworth

Solstice (Moa Cube Visual Novel) Promo Post

2025-05-10T16:05:23Z

Title: Solstice

Medium: Visual novel (for PC)

Approximate length: 4½ hours for the main story according to How Long to Beat, 7½ hours for main + side stories.

This is the kind of visual novel that makes you want to try different routes; however, this is not necessary to write my ship (M/M between a main character and his canon love interest). It's fine if you only finish the main story once! Suggestion: after your first play, you can use CTRL to skip fast the dialogue you already saw; this way you'll be able to see different routes without replaying the entire game. If you have time and you like the story, I'd recommend to do it!

Where to find it: On Steam. There's also a shop on the official site.
A few Let's Plays are available on YouTube.

Brief Description. A mystery story in a dystopian/fantasy setting where a group of characters spend the entire winter in a city inside a dome in the middle of a frozen wasteland. There are two main characters who are trying to solve the mystery and you play as both: Yani (the woman in the first picture) and Galen (the man on the left in the second picture).

Each main character has their own optional love interest, and they're men in both cases, so F/M for Yani and M/M for Galen (the ship in the second picture is the one I request in exchanges). They can also become friends with each other and work together.

There are a lot of choices that will unlock multiple endings. In the same ending, the fate of the characters can also be different depending on other minor choices (for example, a character can survive as single, with their love interest, etc.)

Every character is morally gray in some way. They also all have secrets that you have to find out.

What You Love About the Canon. First of all, the art is stunning! I also love the diverse group of characters and the way they feel real when it comes to their motivations and the way they act in general. They're also all adults with different ages and backgrounds, just the way I like. I love that Galen and Kasiya are gay no matter what you choose to do about their relationship. There are also great female characters and interesting platonic interactions.

What You Love About Your Ship. Well, first of all, I love that Galen/Kasiya is canon! I love that they can kiss on-screen and it's implied they have sex. Both characters have dark secrets and plot twists related to them, so their relationship has so much potential that can be explored in fics! They also have different origins and backstories; Galen is a doctor/magician and Kasiya is a guard/ex mercenary, and it's just good to imagine how they would be in a serious relationship. Also, sometimes they call each other "Doctor" and "Captain", and let's just say that I am very much into that :D

Kinds of Things You Ask For. Missing moments and post-canon! Honestly, this ship is so tiny that I'm not really picky, as long as they have a happy ending together. There are a lot of things we don't know about them, and I'd just love more! I'm fine with any rating, and smut is welcome!

Content Notes. Some general warnings about the canon: characters unsympathetic about mental health issues, hallucinations, self-harm, suicide, (optional) main character getting high on magical drugs.

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Candy Hearts 2024 Letter

2024-01-01T15:49:26Z

Hello! I’m Smile_Edgeworth on AO3 and this is my letter for Candy Hearts exchange. If you'd like to create for me, I hope it will help you to get a good idea!

I'm requesting fic as my main gift, but art and fic treats are both welcome!

For my smaller fandoms, I included in every section information and links to where to find them.

As a general preference, I love canon compliant stories, like post-canon and missing scenes in the canon setting. For my romantic ships, I love seeing more of their canon relationship with the addition of the romance, or more about their romance if it's already present. Smut is very welcome for all my romantic ships, in art too!

About fics, I love both short and long stories, so don’t worry too much about fic length. If some of my prompts/likes inspire you and you include them, there’s no such a thing as “too long” for me!

All my likes and prompts are optional, so if you have an idea based on a couple of my likes only or just part of a prompt, go for it! I know I like a lot of things, but you don't have to include all of them together; on the contrary, I love stories that focus on a few ideas and develop them! Also, some of my requests may have more prompts/thoughts than others, but this is no indication of a preference: I promise I really want every ship I requested!

I have different DNWs for every fandom, so I put them at the end of every fandom section.

If something isn’t clear, please don’t be afraid to ask for clarifications through the mods. I check my email every day and I’m always glad to reply if I can help someone to write.

General Likes

Partners. This is a pretty obvious preference of mine. I usually request ships with characters that are (or were) work partners. I love the ambiguity of the word “partner” and what being partners means for two people; I like seeing what changes when their relationship develops and becomes something more than working as a team. I also love when 2 or more characters talk about their own partner.

Romance mixed with other genres (action, casefic, sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, thriller, mystery, historical, etc).

Romantic comedy and humor.

Angst with a happy ending.

Happy endings in general.

Female scientists.

Friendship between male and female characters.

Loyalty between my requested characters.

One half of my romantic ships trying to rescue or save the other.

Hurt/Comfort, especially where one half of the ship has a temporary injury and the other takes care of them. I like when the focus is on the comfort, or at least 50/50.

Temporary/assumed character death (with a happy ending where they come back).

Misunderstandings cleared up in the end. My requested characters working through their miscommunication issues.

Pining and mutual pining (eventually resolved).

Characters oblivious about their own feelings, acting like someone in love but unaware that they are in love until someone/something makes them realize it.

Characters talking about their current love interest, especially in conversations with other existing characters. Even better if they’re very awkward about it.

Characters in denial about their feelings, flustered and embarrassed characters, characters blushing when they have a crush, characters trying to figure out why they feel a certain way.

Characters being confused about their sexual orientation, for example men thinking they're straight until they realize there's a guy they'd really want to kiss. I like adult characters figuring out for the first time that they like the same gender. I like both characters who don't label their sexuality and characters confident about it, so sentences like "I realized I'm bisexual" or "I know I like you and that's all that matters to me" are both good!

Canon compliant, missing moments, characters doing or saying something based on canon, even when it’s a minor detail (for example, a character eating a certain food because they mentioned once they liked it).

Post-canon.

Friends to lovers.

Rivals to lovers.

Power couples.

Slow burn.

Sexual and romantic tension that is eventually resolved (but it can go on as long as you like before it's resolved!).

Love confessions, first kisses, getting together.

Established relationship, especially when the characters have been close for years.

Fake/pretend relationship, undercover as a couple/married and similar tropes.

"There's only one bed", handcuffed together, trapped together, stranded together and similar tropes. I have a preference for stories where these tropes help the characters to get together, realize their feelings and/or have sex (for example, when there's only one bed and then the characters wake up hugging each other and/or horny).

Huddling for warmth. I love this trope for my romantic ships in any relationship status. I love when it gets sexual too, accidentally or not. It can be a domestic scene in their house or on vacation, but I like huddling for warmth when they're in danger too!

My requested characters bathing together (can be SFW or NSFW). I especially love this as pining with romantic/sexual tension or established relationship. Private baths and bathhouses are both welcome!

Jealousy between my requested ships, as long as the jealous character doesn't commit a crime because of it. In pre-relationship scenarios, I love jealousy as an inner feeling, where a character thinks their love interest likes someone else or will fall for someone else. I also like when the jealous character asks their love interest if they like a certain person or, in general, if there's someone they like. In established relationships, I like the jealous character to keep an eye on other people they see as potentially interested in the person they love (whether it’s true or not), and also confronting them. Jealousy involving misunderstandings eventually cleared up is great in every scenario! Also, I especially love "accidental" jealousy, where nobody is trying to make the character jealous on purpose, but it still happens because of the circumstances.

Family/friends helping my requested characters when they need love advice (for example if they want to ask their crush out or they want to propose to their lover).

My requested characters going on vacation together.

Fade to black between my romantic ships. I love smut, but I equally love every implication that my ships have sex. In established relationships, I especially love couples with an active sex life, even if it's just implied in a T-rated story.

1st or 3rd person. Feel free to write the way you like! If you enjoy 1st person narrator, this is your chance to write it!

3+1 things, 5+1 things, n+1 things in general.

Since it's Candy Hearts, I'd love to get Valentine's Day works or a sci-fi/fantasy equivalent of a similar celebration!

Smut Likes

Heavy making out, stroking the other's (or each other's) hair during a kiss, touching the other’s (or each other’s) butt and chest, with their clothes on or off.

Touching a character’s penis through their clothes until they get hard.

Licking earlobes, neck and nipples.

Biting lips, neck and shoulders (no blood; marks are good).

Frottage, grinding, dry humping, anything where two characters rub their bodies against each other with their clothes on (but if they’re naked it’s good too). I also love it as foreplay when the characters are in bed wearing their pajamas/underwear.

Clothed sex and half-clothed sex.

Handjobs.

Blowjobs.

Anal sex (in m/m ships).

Flavored lube, especially if one or both characters taste it during sex. Any flavor of fruits or sweets is good.

Characters being loud if only their partner can hear them, moaning, saying their partner’s name.

Every position in penetrative sex is fine, but I have a preference for the ones where the characters can look each other in the eye.

Barebacking.

Sex outside (a garden, a forest, a cavern, a beach, etc.) if they’re alone.

Sex in rooms or places that aren’t their bed (the kitchen, the shower, a table, etc.), public places included (library, office, courtroom, hospital, bathhouse, etc.), as long as nothing is recording them and nobody sees them.

Sex pollen, drunk sex or any mutual dub-con situation where both characters would have wanted to have sex with each other (just not like this). I like mutual dub-con in both pre-relationship (where they eventually get together) and established relationship scenarios.

Characters having sex the same day/night they confess because they've been friends/partners for so long they already trust each other and there's a lot of sexual tension between them.

I also opt-in rimming if it's something you enjoy writing! I don't request it as the only focus of a sex scene, but in the middle of other things, it's good.

Crossover Fandom
- Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (AA) & James T. Kirk/Spock (ST: TOS)

Crossover Fandom

First of all, I just wanted to say that for this request I'm fine with crossover fic about 2 characters only (Edgeworth & Spock, Edgeworth & Kirk, Phoenix & Spock or Phoenix & Kirk), as long as Phoenix/Edgeworth and Kirk/Spock are at least implied.

To be honest, I'm not picky: I just want to see the first meeting (or meetings) between my favorite characters from 2 canons I love! Maybe they can also become friends, rivals or anything you can imagine!

I love both crossovers and fusions, so feel free to think about any scenario! I'm fine with the 2 universes being actually the same world, but I'm also fine with premises like "Star Trek characters play Ace Attorney and suddenly the characters from the game come out from the computer", and so on!

Also, any era from the main 6 Ace Attorney games or the 2 Investigations is fine. About TOS, the show is great and I also love the 6 TOS movies, so go wild there too! (Generations movie is fine too, as long as it's a fix-it for Kirk.)

Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (AA) & James T. Kirk/Spock (ST: TOS)

About Phoenix/Edgeworth, I have no preference about their relationship status: they can be pining, at the start of their relationship, a married couple, etc. Anything is good! In fics, if you set the story during the Trilogy or the 7-years gap, I usually prefer them pining (and then getting together during the story), but you have a different idea, that's good too!

About Kirk/Spock, I also have no preference about their relationship status, but if you want to write them already in an established relationship, I'd prefer it to be during TOS movies era. This is just a suggestion, though, because for this request I'd just be excited to see your ideas as well! That said, if you want to know my headcanons, I looove stories where they get together after The Motion Picture, and I looove them as an old married couple in the other movies. Don't be afraid of making them too old; I love middle-aged Kirk/Spock so much! Getting together fic during the 5-year mission is good too for this crossover!

Fandom specific likes/prompts:

Everything about Ace Attorney crossovers just screams "this character they just met is accused of murder!" to me. :D Feel free to have Spock or Kirk arrested (or maybe Bones!); Phoenix defending them and Edgeworth prosecuting would be great! You can re-write or make canon divergence of any trial we see during TOS (movies included), or make up a new trial!

I feel like the Enterprise could definitely find herself in Ace Attorney universe… It wouldn't be the strangest thing ever happened in Star Trek, after all! Edgeworth and Spock have a lot of things in common: they both love chess, they're devoted to logic, they used to hide their feelings (especially for their best friend), they both wanted to please their father figure… I think that their interactions would be very interesting. Throwing Kirk and Phoenix in the middle is also great! They're both good at bluffing, so it'd be fun! (A little note about "pleasing their the father figure": Sarek is one of my favorite Star Trek characters, so while I'm totally fine with acknowledging his flaws, especially early in the series, please don't imply that he's an actual Manfred von Karma.)

Social media, forum posts or Reddit posts where one character asks for love advice (or if he's the asshole) and crossover characters reply! Feel free to include any character you want from both canons!

Ace Attorney characters writing Kirk/Spock fan-fiction because it's a fictional universe for them, or vice versa Star Trek characters writing Phoenix/Edgeworth fan-fiction. I'd love to see this! What would their reaction be once the characters from both universes meet?

Some jealousy is always great in this scenario: Kirk being jealous of Spock & Edgeworth's closeness (and maybe making wrong assumptions if Kirk/Spock aren't together), Spock being jealous/possessive of Kirk (may or may not involve pon farr), Edgeworth being jealous if Phoenix works with Star Trek characters, etc.

I didn't include smut likes for this signup because the crossover part of this request is platonic, but if you're inspired to create a longer work, Kirk/Spock and Phoenix/Edgeworth sex scenes are both welcome! You can use my smut likes for inspiration, or you can read my older letters for Kirk/Spock if you want to (I still want everything I requested about these ships in the past).

Feel free to include any character you like from both fandoms! In Star Trek I love McCoy; in Ace Attorney I love Simon Blackquill and Kay Faraday. Their other friends are all good too!

Secondary ships that I like (feel free to include/mention them if you like them too): Franziska von Karma/Adrian Andrews, Gumshoe/Maggey, any canon ship from both fandoms. In Star Trek, I especially like Amanda/Sarek.

DNW (Do Not Wants):

Mention of recent real conflicts/political statements, mention of real people from the 20th/21th centuries (unless canon).

Unhappy endings.

Permanent breakups between my requested romantic ships.

Permanent death of my requested characters (temporary/assumed character death is good!)

Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, omegaverse, etc), unrequested crossovers.

My requested characters having non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage, or serious illnesses like cancer or Alzheimer's (scars in places that aren't their faces are okay).

Poly, asexual, aromantic and trans interpretations for Edgeworth, Phoenix, Spock and Kirk.

Infidelity/cheating between my requested romantic ships.

Non-con.

Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, scat, watersports, sounding.

"The Great Ace Attorney" spoilers/characters.

Unrequested non-canon relationships between Ace Attorney characters.

Clones of requested characters.

Abortion and miscarriage (fine with mentions of Miramanee's pregnancy and her death).

The word "rape" used to refer to forced mind-melds (anything else implying violence or a non-consensual action is fine).

Note: I haven't watched Star Trek: Discovery and Strange New Worlds, so I'd prefer no characters/major spoilers from them.

Nimona (2023)
- Ballister Blackheart | Ballister Boldheart/Ambrosius Goldenloin

Nimona (2023)

I love this movie! It's fun, and I love the characters and their dynamics.

This request is for the movie only, but I'm fine with little cameos regarding the worldbuilding or Ballister's love for science taken from the webcomic, if you're familiar with it. However, for everything else please refer to the movie only (especially Ambrosius, the plot and the characters' dynamics, which are very different in the webcomic).

Ballister Boldheart/Ambrosius Goldenloin

I like them so much! I still can't believe that a kids movie has a canon m/m couple between main characters with so many things I love! Friends to lovers to enemies with a happy ending, adult men hoping to work together, and "opposites" (Ballister the street kid, Ambrosius the rich descendant of Gloreth). I also love their opposite looks, Ballister with black clothes and hair and Ambrosius "golden". And I find really sweet that their character design is based on their voice actors!

I'm aware that I have a lot of prompts about this ship, so don't worry! You don't have to read everything it if feels too much. What you need to know is that I'm interested in pre-canon, post-canon and missing scenes, for example from Ambrosius' POV (although, if you write a missing scene during canon, I'd prefer it to end post-canon or on a happy note).

Also, I just wanted to say that I very much welcome smut with them, or literally just them feeling sexual attraction to each other, even in a T-rated work.

Regarding sex scenes, as long as I can assume they're at least 16, I'm fine with explicit content in any moment of the canon. If you make them drink alcohol, I'd prefer them to be at least 18. Also, I'm totally fine with sex/drinking scenes where they're just generically teenagers/adults without mentioning their age.

I should also probably say from the start that I do not see Ballister and Nimona as father and daughter, even more after the screenplay confirmed that Ballister is in his 20s and Nimona in her most common form is 15 (and, as we know, she's actually more than 1000 years old). What is appealing to me about their friendship is that they're a family of choice without being boxed into traditional family labels. It really fits the theme of the movie to me! By the way, the screenplay I linked is veeery interesting to me as a fan (and good material as a fic writer), so if you have time, I'd recommend to check it out!

Likes and prompts (SFW):

So, I know that in the comic they're childhood friends, but I love the idea of movieverse Ballister and Ambrosius getting to know each other when they're a little older (any age between 15 and 20). Maybe they met before, since Ballister was 10 when he was accepted by the queen, but they only interact seriously after starting a new school/class/etc. Do they hate each other? Do they like each other? How do they get together? I'm fine with any interpretation, so tell me more! :D If it helps, something that I found very interesting from the screenplay is that "Boldheart" is the name the Queen gives to Ballister as an adult the night he becomes a knight. That explains why during the entire movie everyone calls him "Mr. Ballister" or just "Ballister". Because of that, I think I'd be interesting to explore Ballister's past as the only cadet without a last name, especially as a contrast to Ambrosius, who has an extremely important one.

Also pre-canon, I'd love fic where Ambrosius' parents want him to marry someone they chose for him! You know the Original Work ship "Fantasy Noble Betrothed To Someone He Doesn't Love/Friend Who Isn't His Betrothed"? Literally that with Ambrosius and Ballister. And Ambrosius eventually breaking up with his betrothed to be with Ballister. I want it. That's all. (Also, in this specific scenario I'm fine with Ambrosius cheating on his betrothed with Ballister, if it's considered cheating the way you write it.)

Social media, forum posts, Reddit posts (or the Kingdom equivalent), gossip, tabloids… I love all of them! The knights are like celebrities, especially Ambrosius. Give me all the right and wrong assumptions people make about his love life! :D In-universe RPF would also be awesome, especially if Ballister and Ambrosius find it! It can be fic/art about Ballister/Ambrosius (maybe fans even have a ship name for them), but it can also be a completely fictional relationship for that universe, for example if they saw Ambrosius with a pretty actress and they don't know he's gay, or they like writing self-inserts. I'd love to see Ballister and Ambrosius' reactions to all of this!

Post-canon, I can't stop thinking about the fact that the Director hit Ambrosius with the same kind of weapon that killed the queen. I'd like to read about Ballister's reaction when he finds out, and his realization that he could have lost both Nimona and Ambrosius the same night. I think that would be a good starting point for making up! And, on the other hand, when Ambrosius saw the Director pointing the cannon to Nimona inside the city, Ballister was right there next to her. Ambrosius in the movie is of course worried for the citizens, but I can imagine him thinking that Bal will be hit too.

Ambrosius' POV and post-canon. The movie is mostly showed from Ballister and Nimona's POV, so I'm very curious to see more about Ambrosius. I apologize in advance for this, because I actually have a lot of thoughts about him (I may or may not have rewatched the scenes with him a lot), so I'm going to ramble a bit. :) Basically, the way I see it, I don't think he never really *wanted* to believe Ballister killed the queen; he's confused the first times he sees Ballister after the incident, he seems to accept to be the Captain of the Guard mostly to stop Todd from hurting Bal, he feels guilty for chopping off Ballister's arm, etc. I believe the two main factors that prevent Ambrosius from fully believing Ballister are his trust on the Director (which would be interesting to explore) and, possibly even more important, Nimona's presence by Ballister's side. Ambrosius is always confused by Nimona: he thought he knew everything about his boyfriend, but now Bal has a new best friend he had never talked about, and that friend brings caos. It gets worse when, from Ambrosius' POV, it turns out that Ballister doesn't want to explain who Nimona is because she's a "monster". I think that Nimona is the key subject when it comes to Ballister and Ambrosius' reconciliation: when they meet at the pub towards the end, Ambrosius tells Bal that he knows he didn't kill the queen, that he's sorry for his arm and he loves him. What is missing between that part and the epilogue is Ambrosius apologizing for what he thought about Nimona. Of course, the arm-chopping part is also important, but personally I believe that Ballister is less hurt (emotionally) because of that action and more hurt because Ambrosius didn't trust him. On the other hand, before the incident with the queen Ambrosius has supported Ballister for so long that I can't imagine Ballister simply forgetting about it.

Post-canon, Ambrosius planning something romantic for Ballister with Nimona's help. Disaster ensues :D It can be the equivalent of Valentine's Day, but I'd also love a marriage proposal with a lot of comedy involved. I'm fine with any kind of dynamic between Ambrosius and Nimona, but I think it'd be especially fun if Nimona still didn't like Ambrosius very much. Ambrosius knows they both care about Ballister, so he tries to convince her to help him to make Bal happy.

A romantic trip outside the wall! It can have Nimona too, but I'd prefer Ballister and Ambrosius to eventually have some time alone. Maybe it's for their anniversary, or anther special occasion. And of course there's only one tent for Ballister and Ambrosius, and things can get as steamy as you want ;)

Something that I find very important about Ballister and Ambrosius' relationship is that before Nimona's appearance, it really looks like they only have each other. After the queen's murder, we see that Ballister hides all alone, makes his own robotic arm, and the only person that he considers asking for help is Ambrosius. On the other hand, when Ambrosius is in a bad mental state, we see him having a meltdown only in his head, while he tells the Director that he's fine. I'd like to see something where their lack of other trusted friends is explored, either pre-canon or post-canon. It doesn't have to end with them finding new friends; I actually love ships where the characters are each other's entire world as well. :) But I think that also explains Ambrosius' reaction to Nimona: the fact that he refers to Bal as both "the man I love, my best friend" separately (I do love this!), and he's jealous that Bal has a new best friend now… Does he learn to accept her easily once she comes back? Can Ballister make Ambrosius understand that he now has two best friends and Nimona is family (just like Ambrosius has his parents/relatives) and she's not replacing Ambrosius in any other way?

Note: feel free to include any character you like! I love external POV on Ballister/Ambrosius too, so you can go wild about this! As long as they're the main focus, you can also write from an OC's POV.
Diego and his celebrity crush on Ballister is adorable.
Also, any character accidentally seeing Ballister and Ambrosius making out is hilarious! :D

Likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

Their first time doing something sexual together, especially if it's handjobs and/or grinding. I like to think that they were each other's first, so I imagine them being a little clumsy, but also really enthusiastic. Blowjobs are welcome too!

Their first time since their reunion, or any other post-canon sex scene. If you write anal sex, I have a preference for top Ambrosius/bottom Ballister, or them switching. However, this isn't a strong preference, so don't worry too much about it. For blowjobs, anything is good!

Handjobs with Ballister's robotic arm. It can be the first time he touches Ambrosius after their separation, or maybe Ballister masturbating during canon because he misses his boyfriend (although, if you choose that route, I'd prefer it to end with a post-canon scene or something happier, because I'm not a fan of angst without a happy ending). Ambrosius also masturbating at the same time when he misses Bal would be good!

I love the idea of them having sex in a place where they shouldn't: maybe they hide in a closet during a boring party full of noble people, they go inside a library during the night, they go to the forest, etc. The risk of getting caught is fine, but I'd prefer them not to actually get caught.

DNW (Do Not Wants):

Mention of recent real conflicts and current politics; mention of real people from the 20th/21th centuries (unless canon).

Unhappy endings.

Permanent breakups between Ballister/Ambrosius (temporary is fine).

Permanent death of Ballister or Ambrosius (temporary/assumed character death is good).

Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, etc), unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers.

Ballister or Ambrosius having sexual/romantic relationships with characters that aren't each other during or after the events of the movie. (Note: this does NOT apply to in-universe fanfiction or speculations: if someone from their universe writes Ambrosius/Original Character fic or anything you can think about, that's cool! Same for a journalist thinking that one of them is dating a celebrity, or any other kind of gossip that is not actually true.)

Infidelity/cheating between Ballister and Ambrosius. (On the contrary, if Ambrosius is in an arranged relationship with someone else pre-canon, I'm fine with him cheating on his partner *with* Ballister.)

Ballister or Ambrosius having non-canon permanent injuries, like losing another arm or permanent brain damage, or serious illnesses like cancer or Alzheimer's (scars in places that aren't their faces are okay; Ballister's canon injuries/scars are also fine).

Poly, asexual, aromantic and trans interpretations for Ballister or Ambrosius.

Non-con.

Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, scat, watersports, sounding.

Ballister and Nimona being explicitly "father and daughter", or the narrative referring to them as having a parent-child relationship.

Recreational drugs that aren't alcohol (alcohol is welcome).

Making both Ambrosius' parents explicitly white; whitewashing Ballister and Ambrosius in art. (Ballister and Ambrosius' character designs are based on their voice actors, so Pakistani and Korean respectively. I'm fine with Ambrosius having one white parent, but please make the other East-Asian if it comes up.)

Pentiment (Video Game)
- Mathieu of Neuchâtel/Rüdeger of Bad Tölz

Pentiment (Video Game)

[Info: available for PC (Windows) on Steam, for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S platforms. There are also multiple Let's Play videos on YouTube.]

I love this game! It has great art, interesting characters and a lot of care for accuracy about 16th century history and manuscripts!

The characters I'm requesting are not main characters, so if you get curious about the game just because of them, you may be disappointed. However, you can meet them multiple times in different moments of the story, and they are a canon m/m ship with great potential, so if you pay attention to their interactions, you’ll remember them for sure!

Mathieu of Neuchâtel/Rüdeger of Bad Tölz

How to see the most important scene with them

While you’re investigating the first murder case with the MC Andreas, you can choose to sneak inside the library of the abbey during the night. You must do it! :D After Andreas finds what he’s looking for and tries to leave, he accidentally sees Mathieu and Rüdeger having a tryst in the library. The two monks hold hands, kiss and are very obviously going to do more. While Andreas is hiding, you can choose between three options: 1. wait for them to finish, 2. talk to them, 3. run away. To see more about them, my personal recommendation is to run away (and talk to Mathieu the following day) or talk to them immediately. Waiting is good if you want to make out with a nun the following day, but it’s not an option related to my requested characters. Other than that, just make sure to talk to Mathieu and Rüdeger when you can, and you'll be fine! In Act II, there's also an important scene when you can make Rüdeger sing for everyone, and you can tell Mathieu something like "you really care about him".

Unless you are very mean to them on purpose with Andreas, I love that Mathieu and Rüdeger will be happy! In a world where a lot of characters can die or have a sad life even if you’re trying to help them, this is definitely a lot! And even if you threaten them and Rüdeger runs away, there is still fic potential for good fix-its!

Likes and prompts (SFW):

Their first meeting, their first kiss, their first [romantic/sexual thing together]. What was their first impression of each other? How did they fall in love? How did they find out their feelings were mutual? How did they react at first?

Dealing with internalized homophobia and the conflict between their celibacy vows and their homosexual desires. In the 16th century becoming a monk wasn’t always a choice, but Rüdeger and Mathieu’s Catholic faith looks genuine. They are afraid of getting caught, but that doesn’t stop them from doing something forbidden. It’s interesting to explore their feelings on the matter and the way they may feel guilty about what they’re doing, at least at the start. I can imagine one or both of them in denial or oblivious about the way they feel, and eventually accepting it.

Their reaction to Andreas finding them in the library, or more about Andreas' reaction. Feel free to choose the route you want and the characterization/background you want for Andreas, as long as it has an eventual happy ending for them!

Any missing scene between Act II and Act III, or post-canon! Their relationship lasts at least 25 years if they stay together, so it'd be great to see it. I'd like to see Rüdeger practicing his singing and Mathieu listening to him, Mathieu writing letters while Rüdeger is reading in the same room as we see in Act III, huddling for warmth, sleeping together, hurt/comfort, a love quarrel, one of them getting jealous of a new guy, etc. Honestly, as long as something from my general likes makes sense for this historical setting and their personalities, I'd like to see it!

It's Word-of-God that Mathieu is a fictional character from a real noble family (Faucigny-Saux), and I think that explains his career in the Church. I assume Rüdeger is not rich, so that creates another contrast between them: do they have different expectations from their lives, different ways of seeing things? Can they actually live together when Mathieu becomes the archdeacon of Sion, because nobody will bother him? I like to think that Mathieu can have his own house and Rüdeger can live with him with an excuse (as his main assistant or something similar).

I love interactions between them and other characters! Wojslav and Matilda are especially interesting to see, because they have so much in common with them. It is also sort of implied during the autopsy in Act I that Brother Florian knows about both relationships, and he's minding his own business. How did he find out? :D I'd love to see more about him or the other brothers! External POV on Mathieu/Rüdeger is also welcome!

Speaking of interactions with other characters, I'd like to see Mathieu and Rüdeger meeting someone from Tassing after many years in Sion. Andreas could be a good choice, or maybe they can meet Magdalene! Honestly, any Pentiment character you like can meet them, and you can write from their POV, as long as the focus is on Mathieu/Rüdeger.

Note: I'm not exactly interested in Mathieu and Rüdeger referring to their relationship as a marriage the same way two gay men would do in our century; I do like them portrayed as the 16th century men and Catholic priests they are. However, I'd love to see more domesticity, tender moments and/or banter between them.

Likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

I haven't found Mature/Explicit fan-content with Mathieu and Rüdeger, so I'm not picky! Just give me anything based on my general smut likes and I'll be happy! :D I have no top/bottom preference about them, so if you want to go there, feel free to write them the way you like. About the place and the general atmosphere, it can be something domestic in Mathieu's house as archdeacon, or other trysts in a library or other hidden places (okay, maybe not inside the actual church, but every other room around it is fine).

Their first time doing something sexual together. How did it happen? I'd especially love seeing a lot of pent-up sexual tension that is eventually resolved.

DNW (Do Not Wants):

Mention of recent real conflicts and current politics/political statements.

Unhappy endings.

Permanent breakups between Mathieu/Rüdeger (temporary is fine).

Permanent death of Mathieu or Rüdeger (assumed character death is good!).

Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, etc), unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers.

Mathieu or Rüdeger having sexual/romantic relationships with characters that aren't each other.

Mathieu or Rüdeger having non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage, or serious illnesses like cancer or Alzheimer's (scars in places that aren't their faces are okay).

Poly, asexual, aromantic and trans interpretations for Mathieu or Rüdeger.

Non-con (mentions of Matilda being sexually assaulted are fine).

Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, scat, watersports, sounding.

Solstice (MoaCube - Visual Novel)
- Galen/Kasiya

Solstice (MoaCube)

[Info: available for PC (Windows) on Steam. There's also a shop on the official site. A few Let's Play videos are available on YouTube.]

I love this indie visual novel! The art, the setting and the characters are so good! First of all, I wrote a promo post for this canon, so I'd recommend to read it to understand what I like about it.

Solstice has a lot of possible endings for the characters, depending on your choices. I'm not picky about which ending/route you choose! I'm interested in seeing which one you decide to write about. I prefer canon-compliant stories, so I only ask to please pick an ending where my two requested characters are alive and can be happy, possibly together. Endings where Galen/Kasiya are a couple are welcome, but I'm also interested in fix-it fics about the endings where they go their separate ways (see my prompts for more ideas about this).

Galen/Kasiya

Both characters have dark secrets, and their relationship has so much potential that can be explored in fics! Something I really love about them is that they're always gay, no matter what you choose to do about their romance.

I also really like their friendship with Yakone, as well as Galen's friendship with Yani.

Likes and prompts (SFW):

Anything post-canon! This visual novel has a lot of different endings, but as I said I'm not picky: just choose one where they're both alive, make them eventually happy together and I'll be happy too! If you like missing scenes, the endings are all "told" but not "shown", so I'd really love to read your interpretations about how Galen and Kasiya made up or got closer! What did they say to each other? How did they feel?

Kasiya's POV would be so interesting! We know that he used to be a mercenary and then he tried to be a better person as a guard in a big city, but it didn't work out. I'd like to know more about his past. I think that exploring his sexuality can also be interesting: when did he figure out that he was gay? Has he ever tried to have relationships with women? Did he experience homophobia/internalized homophobia? This is not something we see in the game, but since there is canon misogyny and slavery in that world, I can imagine that it's not exactly a no-homophobia world either, with some good exceptions (the Isles Galen is from, for example, sound very much free from that kind of prejudices). That said, I'm also totally fine with a no-homophobia world or no mention of it, if it's your preference! It can also be interesting to have Kasiya and Galen talk about their different experiences. I'm totally fine with them mentioning OCs as past lovers (just minding my DNWs). I'm also totally fine with light jealousy between them; I can especially picture Kasiya as the jealous type, but jealous Galen would be good too.

I love that sometimes Galen and Kasiya call each other "Captain" and "Doctor"... I am very much into that. It can be because they're trying to be professional in front of other people, but I also like when they do it in private to tease each other. Perhaps it's a kink they have. Any reason is good, really. :D

Galen or Kasiya asking for relationship advice or talking about their relationship to Yani, Yakone or any character you like. This would be great, especially post-canon. I mentioned Yani and Yakone because I like them, but everyone else is fine too!

Prompts with spoilers about the mystery, the plot twists and the endings under the cut

Kasiya's confession when he tells Galen that he was ordered to get close to him is sooo good to explore, because it makes you see their entire relationship from a different perspective! From Kasiya's POV, how did he feel when he met Galen for the first time? How did he feel when he tried to get intimate, knowing the real reason he was doing it? When did he start to catch feelings? I'd love to read your own interpretation!

Galen's plot twist about Lev's murder is so interesting to explore. I tried both options ("It was a mistake"/"It was the only way") and it looks like Galen always planned to eventually use an antidote, so Lev's death was an accident to a certain degree; however, if you pick the latter option, he'll convince himself that he did what he had to do, and he has no regrets. This has a consequence in his relationship with Kasiya too, because (at least in my game), when I picked "It was the only way", I didn't get the option to forgive Kasiya after his confession, so the two of them broke up. I'm interested in both routes regarding Galen's motive when it comes to Lev, and I think they're good character study material.

Speaking of Galen and Kasiya breaking up and going their separate ways, I would love fix-it fic where they meet again after a few years and they get close. There's an ending where Kasiya becomes a mercenary again, he's cold and he only cares about himself. What if Galen can make him change his mind? What if Kasiya never really got over him? Perhaps he had other lovers (or they both did), but they were never like Galen. I'd love fic where they finally make up.

There are endings where Kasiya follows Galen to the Isles, and those are great to explore too! This is just a little idea for some lighthearted hurt/comfort, but I was thinking that Kasiya has the kind of skin that would definitely get badly sunburned the moment there's a little sun, and I guess a certain good doctor can take care of it? :D Perhaps Galen didn't even think about it at first because the Islanders don't have that issue, and Kasiya is either too proud to say anything or doesn't expect it to be so bad. Anyway, this is just a random idea; I'm interested in anything about Kasiya visiting Galen's birth place.

About the other characters: you can do what you want with them! I would prefer if Yani and Yakone are alive and okay post-canon, but that's it. I have no strong feelings about Yani/Sem one way or another, so if you want to mention them, feel free to write their relationship the way you like: together, with a baby, separated, never together from the start, etc.
Same about Yakone: just to mention a few endings I saw, she can stay in the North, join the Faculty, join the Academy, get together with a rich guy… I'm fine with anything you like!
Oh, and if you want to give Laura an OC girlfriend post-canon, that's good too. (If you don't know why I'm saying this, I think the only way to make her talk about the person she likes is putting Galen in jail… which is unfortunate for my request because it cuts Kasiya's revelation, but if you have time to play more than one route, it's worth it to find out more about Laura!)

Likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

So, I know that Galen is canonically kinky and he loves using his drinks/potions for sex, but I was thinking… what if the first time Galen and Kasiya have sex post-canon after making up, they decide to do it in a vanilla way? I think it would make sense to (re)build their trust and just see if they really like each other without "help". Of course, that doesn't mean they will never try anything kinky anymore, but I can see them going slow this time.

There is zero smut about Galen/Kasiya, so I'm not picky! Just give me anything based on my smut likes and I'll be happy! I don't have top/bottom preferences about them, so feel free to write your own preference!

Galen is canonically into roleplay, so things can get interesting in bed. Just to mention what Galen says, Kasiya can pretend to be a patient or Galen can pretend to be interrogated. Perhaps they call each other "Doctor" and "Captain" in bed too?

DNW (Do Not Wants):

Mention of recent real conflicts and politics/political statements; mention of real people from the 20th/21th centuries.

Unhappy endings.

Permanent death of Galen or Kasiya (assumed character death is good!).

Unrequested AUs (like coffee shop, genderbending, etc.), unrequested crossovers.

Permanent breakups between Galen and Kasiya (temporary is fine).

Galen and Kasiya in relationships with other people as endgame (fine if they're not endgame). Galen and Kasiya having past dead lovers (fine if their ex lovers are alive or there's no explicit mention that they died).

Infidelity/cheating between Galen and Kasiya.

Galen or Kasiya having non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage, or non-canon serious illnesses like AIDS, cancer or Alzheimer's. (Scars in places that aren't their face are fine, especially for Kasiya.)

Poly, asexual, aromantic and trans interpretations for Galen or Kasiya.

My requested characters as the aggressors in non-con scenarios.

Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, scat, watersports, sounding.

Galen or Kasiya using recreational drugs for pleasure in the story (I'm fine with Galen using them for his magic in an emergency, as well as mentions of Galen getting high in the past or taking care of his plants).

Whitewashing Galen.

Tesla Note (Anime & Manga)
- Mickey Miller/Oliver Thornton

Tesla Note (Anime & Manga)

[Info: the anime is available with English subs on Crunchyroll and Funimation. Depending on the country you live, it may not be available, or it may be available on other sites.
The manga was released in English digitally by Kodansha. If you open the "Also available on" section at the bottom of the page I linked, you can see links to buy it from digital shops like Amazon Kindle, Bookwalker, Google Play, Kobo, etc.]

Tesla Note is a complete manga series of 7 volumes. It also has a complete anime adaptation of 13 episodes, which unfortunately never got attention because of its bad CGI. However, if you can get past the bad animation, it has an interesting plot, it features great seiyuu (just to mention my requested characters, Mickey is voiced by Junichi Suwabe and Oliver by Hiroshi Kamiya), it has a good soundtrack and especially interesting interactions between the characters! One of the main writers of this manga and anime is Tiger & Bunny main writer Masafumi Nishida, so the banters between the characters and the tropes felt very familiar to me. I had really fun watching the episodes as they aired!

Mickey Miller/Oliver Thornton

I love their dynamics! They're not the protagonists, but I'm sure that if this canon had a fandom, they'd be a pretty obvious ship. When they appear for the first time working as partners, they look very close, but they're also spies, so it's interesting to see what happens to a relationship where they shouldn't completely trust each other… and the plot twist in the second part of the series just makes everything more thrilling between them!

I love the way they always seem to flirt when they talk (especially in the anime, where the voice acting and the background music helps :D), and the way their friendship is so important to each other, even if they might or might not be ready to fight/kill each other if necessary.

Likes and prompts (SFW):

Post-canon, anything where Mickey and Oliver meet again. How did Oliver survive? How does he feel about Mickey now? About this prompt, I just wanted to say that if you read the epilogue of the manga (not included in the anime), I'd really love something about it! Feel free to include or not Oliver's permanent injury; you can also heal it if you want, that's up to you.

Undercover as a couple! It can be in any era, but I'd like to see it post-canon. You can go wild about the reason Mickey and Oliver are working together again, I'm not picky. Just give them an excuse to act like a couple and, if you like it, I would appreciate a good amount of mutual pining. :)

Flirting! I love seeing Mickey saying his usual nonsense things in different languages, and Oliver being fine with that even if he doesn't get it. Maybe they have some drinks together and the flirting becomes more obvious.

I can see Mickey and Oliver having a FWB thing going during canon where they're both pining. And then, after their post-canon reunion, they can finally confess their feelings and eventually get together.

Their first meeting can also be interesting, especially from Oliver's POV. How did he feel about Mickey? What was his first impression of him?

Fake Reddit posts, fake social media threads with them and the other characters, or anything similar. I always love this kind of fan-content! What if Mickey (or Oliver) asked for relationship advice on r/relationship? Or maybe he wanders if he's the asshole? :D In these scenarios, I especially love when the other existing characters post their replies, even if they may or may not recognize each other.

About other ships, I like Elmo/Pino a lot too, so feel free to mention them as a background ship you like it too!

Likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

There is no smut with them, so I'm not picky! I don't really have a top/bottom preference about them, so feel free to write them the way you want! Switching is totally welcome too. I'm interested in anything based on my general smut likes.

Sex scenes while they're undercover as a couple. Maybe they start catching feelings during sex? What do they (not) tell to each other?

DNW (Do Not Wants):

Mention of recent real conflicts/political statements, mention of real people from the 20th/21th centuries (unless canon).

Unhappy endings.

Permanent breakups between Mickey/Oliver (temporary is fine).

Permanent death of Mickey or Oliver (assumed character death is good!).

Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, etc), unrequested canon divergence (fine with "everyone lives" if you write Reddit/social media fic), unrequested crossovers.

Mickey or Oliver having non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage, or serious illnesses like cancer or Alzheimer's (scars in places that aren't their faces are okay; Oliver's canon injury in the manga epilogue is also okay).

Poly, asexual, aromantic and trans interpretations for Mickey and Oliver.

Infidelity/cheating between Mickey and Oliver.

Mickey and Oliver in relationships with other people as endgame (fine if they're not endgame). Mickey and Oliver having past dead lovers (fine if their ex lovers are alive or there's no explicit mention that they died).

Non-con.

Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, scat, watersports, sounding.

Note: not exactly a DNW, but I'd prefer fic that is not "pre-relationship" only, especially in stories longer than 1000 words. I prefer my ship to be or get (eventually) together!

Thank you so much for reading my letter until the end! I hope you’ll have fun during this exchange!

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Yuletide 2023 Letter

2023-10-16T21:57:57Z

Hello! I’m Smile_Edgeworth on AO3 and this is my letter for Yuletide exchange. If you'd like to create for me, I hope it will help you to get a good idea. Treats are enabled and welcome!

I included information and links to where to find the fandoms I'm requesting.

My requested fandoms and characters are:

1. Pentiment (Video Game)
- Mathieu of Neuchâtel
- Rüdeger of Bad Tölz

[Available for PC (Windows) on Steam, for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S platforms. There are also multiple Let's Play videos on YouTube.]

2. Solstice (MoaCube - Visual Novel)
- Galen
- Kasiya

[Available for PC (Windows) on Steam. There's also a shop on the official site. A few Let's Play videos are available on YouTube.]

3. Tesla Note (Anime & Manga)
- Mickey Miller
- Oliver Thornton

[The anime is available with English subs on Crunchyroll and Funimation. Depending on the country you live, it may not be available, or it may be available on other sites.
The manga was released in English digitally by Kodansha. If you open the "Also available on" section at the bottom of the page I linked, you can see links to buy it from digital shops like Amazon Kindle, Bookwalker, Google Play, Kobo, etc.]

For all my requests, I chose "My gift must feature all of my chosen character tags".

I ship my two requested characters in every fandom, so I'd be very happy to get ship fic. It can be romance, smut and/or a different genre where the relationship between the two characters is important, even if it's not the main focus. I'm also open to character studies that explore one character's life before and after they met the other character. If you aren't comfortable with making my ships explicitly romantic, I also love hurt/comfort and forced proximity (see my general likes for more ideas); basically, please don't explicitly sink my ships and it'll be fine. :)

As a general preference for Yuletide, I love canon compliant stories, especially post-canon and missing scenes in the canon setting.

I love both short and long stories, so don’t worry too much about fic length. If some of my prompts/likes inspire you and you include them, there’s no such a thing as “too long” for me!

All my likes and prompts are optional, so if you have an idea based on a couple of my likes only or just part of a prompt, go for it! I know I like a lot of things, but you don't have to include all of them together; on the contrary, I love stories that focus on a few ideas and develop them!

I have different DNWs for every fandom, so I put them at the end of every fandom section.

If something isn’t clear, please don’t be afraid to ask for clarifications through the mods. I check my email every day and I’m always glad to reply if I can help someone to write.

General Likes (SFW):

Partners. This is a pretty obvious preference of mine. I usually request characters I ship that are (or were) work partners. I love the ambiguity of the word “partner” and what being partners means for two people; I like seeing what changes when their relationship develops and becomes something more than working as a team. I also love when 2 or more characters talk about their own partner.

Romance mixed with other genres (action, casefic, sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, thriller, mystery, historical, etc).

Romantic comedy and humor.

Angst with a happy ending.

Happy endings in general.

Female scientists.

Friendship between male and female characters.

Loyalty between my requested characters.

One requested character trying to rescue or save the other character.

Hurt/Comfort, where one requested character has a temporary injury or is in a bad mental state, and the other takes care of them. I like when the focus is on the comfort, or at least 50/50.

Temporary/assumed character death (with a happy ending where they come back).

Misunderstandings cleared up in the end. My requested characters working through their miscommunication issues.

Pining and mutual pining.

Characters oblivious about their own feelings, acting like someone in love but unaware that they are in love until someone/something makes them realize it.

Characters talking about their current love interest, especially in conversations with other existing characters. Even better if they’re very awkward about it.

Characters in denial about their feelings, flustered and embarrassed characters, characters blushing when they have a crush, characters trying to figure out why they feel a certain way.

Characters being confused about their sexual orientation, for example men thinking they're straight until they realize there's a guy they'd really want to kiss. I like adult characters figuring out for the first time that they like the same gender. I like both characters who don't label their sexuality and characters confident about it, so sentences like "I realized I'm bisexual" or "I know I like you and that's all that matters to me" are both good!

Canon compliant, missing moments, characters doing or saying something based on canon, even when it’s a minor detail (for example, a character eating a certain food because they mentioned once they liked it).

Post-canon.

Friends to lovers.

Rivals to lovers.

Power couples.

Slow burn.

Sexual and romantic tension that is eventually resolved.

Love confessions, first kisses, getting together.

Established relationship, especially when the characters have been close for years.

Fake/pretend relationship, undercover as a couple and similar tropes.

"There's only one bed", handcuffed together, trapped together, stranded together and similar tropes. I have a preference for stories where these tropes help the characters to get together, realize their feelings and/or have sex (for example, when there's only one bed and then the characters wake up hugging each other and/or horny).

Huddling for warmth. I love this trope for my requested characters in any relationship status. I love when it gets sexual too, accidentally or not. It can be a domestic scene in their house or on vacation, but I like huddling for warmth when they're in danger too!

My requested characters bathing together (can be SFW or NSFW). I especially love this as pining with romantic/sexual tension or established relationship.

Jealousy, as long as the jealous character doesn’t go as far as committing a serious crime. In pre-relationship scenarios, I love jealousy as an inner feeling, where a character thinks their love interest likes someone else or will fall for someone else. I also like when the jealous character asks their love interest if they like a certain person or, in general, if there's someone they like. In established relationships, I like the jealous character to keep an eye on other people they see as potentially interested in the person they love (whether it’s true or not), and also confronting them. Jealousy involving misunderstandings eventually cleared up is great in every scenario!

Family/friends helping my requested characters when they need love advice (for example if they want to ask their crush out or they want to propose to their lover).

My requested characters going on vacation together.

Fade to black between my romantic ships. I love smut, but I equally love every implication that my ships have sex. In established relationships, I especially love couples with an active sex life, even if it's just implied in a T-rated story.

1st or 3rd person. Feel free to write the way you like! If you enjoy 1st person narrator, this is your chance to write it!

3+1 things, 5+1 things, n+1 things in general.

Since it's Yuletide, I'm open to works where my requested characters celebrate Christmas (if the setting is our world), get ready for winter/solstice, notice the winter/Christmas atmosphere or anything related!

Smut Likes (NSFW):

Heavy making out, stroking the other's (or each other's) hair during a kiss, touching the other’s (or each other’s) butt and chest, with their clothes on or off.

Touching a character’s penis through their clothes until they get hard.

Licking earlobes, neck and nipples.

Biting lips, neck and shoulders (no blood; marks are good).

Frottage, dry humping, anything where two characters rub their bodies against each other with their clothes on (but if they’re naked it’s good too).

Clothed sex and half-clothed sex.

Handjobs.

Blowjobs.

Anal sex (in m/m ships).

Flavored lube, especially if one or both characters taste it during sex. Any flavor of fruits or sweets is good.

Characters being loud if only their partner can hear them, moaning, saying their partner’s name.

Every position in penetrative sex is fine, but I have a preference for the ones where the characters can look each other in the eye.

Barebacking.

Sex outside (a garden, a forest, a cavern, a beach, etc.) if they’re alone.

Sex in rooms or places that aren’t their bed (the kitchen, the shower, a table, etc.), public places included (library, office, courtroom, hospital, etc.), as long as nothing is recording them and they're alone.

Sex pollen, drunk sex or any mutual dub-con situation where both characters would have wanted to have sex with each other (just not like this). I like mutual dub-con in both pre-relationship (where they eventually get together) and established relationship scenarios.

Characters having sex the same day/night they confess because they've been friends/partners for so long they already trust each other and there's a lot of sexual tension between them.

I also opt-in rimming if it's something you enjoy writing! I don't request it as the only focus of a sex scene, but in the middle of other things, it's good.

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Pentiment (Video Game)

I love this game! It has great art, interesting characters and a lot of care for accuracy about 16th century history and manuscripts!

The characters I'm requesting are not main characters, so if you get curious about the game just because of them, you may be disappointed. However, you can meet them multiple times in different moments of the story, and they are a canon m/m ship with great potential, so if you pay attention to their interactions, you’ll remember them for sure!

Mathieu of Neuchâtel and Rüdeger of Bad Tölz

How to see the most important scene with them

Anyway, unless you are very mean to them on purpose with Andreas, I love that Mathieu and Rüdeger will be happy! In a world where a lot of characters can die or have a sad life even if you’re trying to help them, this is definitely a lot! And even if you threaten them and Rüdeger runs away, there is still fic potential for good fix-its!

Likes and prompts (SFW):

Their first meeting, their first kiss, their first [romantic/sexual thing together]. What was their first impression of each other? How did they fall in love? How did they find out their feelings were mutual? How did they react at first?

Dealing with internalized homophobia and the conflict between their celibacy vows and their homosexual desires. In the 16th century becoming a monk wasn’t always a choice, but Rüdeger and Mathieu’s Catholic faith looks genuine. They are afraid of getting caught, but that doesn’t stop them from doing something forbidden. It’s interesting to explore their feelings on the matter and the way they may feel guilty about what they’re doing, at least at the start. I can imagine one or both of them in denial or oblivious about the way they feel, and eventually accepting it.

Their reaction to Andreas finding them in the library, or more about Andreas' reaction. Feel free to choose the route you want and the characterization/background you want for Andreas, as long as it has an eventual happy ending for them!

Any missing scene between Act II and Act III, or post-canon! I haven't seen any fic with them in an established relationship in this era, even if their relationship lasts at least 25 years if they stay together, so it'd be great to see it. I'd like to see Rüdeger practicing his singing and Mathieu listening to him, Mathieu writing letters while Rüdeger is reading in the same room as we see in Act III, them getting ready together for Christmas or another celebration, huddling for warmth, sleeping together, hurt/comfort, a love quarrel, one of them getting jealous of a new guy, etc. Honestly, as long as something from my general likes makes sense for this historical setting and their personalities, I'd like to see it!

It's Word-of-God that Mathieu is a fictional character from a real noble family (Faucigny-Saux), and I think that explains his career in the Church. I assume Rüdeger is not rich, so that creates another contrast between them: do they have different expectations from their lives, different ways of seeing things? Can they actually live together when Mathieu becomes the archdeacon of Sion, because nobody will bother him? I like to think that Mathieu can have his own house and Rüdeger can live with him with an excuse (as his main assistant or something similar).

I love interactions between them and other characters! Wojslav and Matilda would be especially interesting to see, because they have so much in common with them. They also had a secret relationship in the same abbey, and I like to think that the four of them knew about the others. It is also sort of implied during the autopsy in Act I that Brother Florian knows about both relationships, and he's minding his own business. How did he find out? :D

Speaking of interactions with other characters, I'd like to see Mathieu and Rüdeger meeting someone from Tassing after many years in Sion. Andreas could be a good choice, or maybe they can meet Magdalene! Honestly, any Pentiment character you like can meet them, as long as the focus is on Mathieu and Rüdeger (and possibly their relationship).

Likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

I haven't found Mature/Explicit fan-content with Mathieu and Rüdeger, so I'm not picky! Just give me anything based on my general smut likes and I'll be happy! :D I have no top/bottom preference about them, so if you want to go there, feel free to write them the way you like. About the place and the general atmosphere, it can be something domestic in Mathieu's house as archdeacon, or other trysts in a library or other hidden places (okay, maybe not inside the actual church, but every other room around it is fine).

Their first time doing something sexual together. How did it happen? I'd especially love seeing a lot of pent-up sexual tension that is eventually resolved.

DNW (Do Not Wants):

Mention of recent real conflicts and current politics/political statements.

Unhappy endings.

Permanent breakups between Mathieu/Rüdeger (temporary is fine).

The narrative explicitly shutting down Mathieu and Rüdeger's romantic/sexual attraction to each other. You don't have to write about it, but please don't explicitly deny their canon attraction.

Permanent death of Mathieu or Rüdeger (assumed character death is good!).

Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, etc), unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers.

Mathieu or Rüdeger having sexual/romantic relationships with characters that aren't each other.

Mathieu or Rüdeger having non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage, or serious illnesses like cancer or Alzheimer's (scars in places that aren't their faces are okay).

Poly, asexual, aromantic and trans interpretations for Mathieu or Rüdeger.

Non-con (mentions of Matilda being sexually assaulted are fine).

Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, scat, watersports, sounding.

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Solstice (MoaCube)

I love this indie visual novel! The art, the setting and the characters are so good! First of all, I wrote a promo post for this canon, so I'd recommend to read it to understand what I like about it.

Solstice has a lot of possible endings for the characters, depending on your choices. I'm not picky about which ending/route you choose! I'm interested in seeing which one you decide to write about. I only ask to please pick an ending where my two requested characters are alive and can be happy, possibly together. Endings where Galen/Kasiya are a couple are welcome, but I'm also interested in fix-it fics about the endings where they go their separate ways (see my prompts for more ideas about this).

Galen and Kasiya

Both characters have dark secrets, and their relationship has so much potential that can be explored in fics! Something I really love about them is that they're always gay, no matter what you choose to do about their romance. That said, I admit that for this request I would especially love something based on their romantic route, even if it's not the main focus.
I also really like their friendship with Yakone, as well as Galen's friendship with Yani.

Likes and prompts (SFW):

Anything post-canon! This visual novel has a lot of different endings, but as I said I'm not picky: just choose one where they're both alive, make them eventually happy together and I'll be happy too! If you like missing scenes, the endings are all "told" but not "shown", so I'd really love to read your interpretations about how Galen and Kasiya made up or got closer! What did they say to each other? How did they feel?

Kasiya's POV would be so interesting! We know that he used to be a mercenary and then he tried to be a better person as a guard in a big city, but it didn't work out. I'd like to know more about his past. I think that exploring his sexuality can also be interesting: when did he figure out that he was gay? Has he ever tried to have relationships with women? Did he experience homophobia/internalized homophobia? This is not something we see in the game, but since there is canon misogyny and slavery in that world, I can imagine that it's not exactly a no-homophobia world either, with some good exceptions (the Isles Galen is from, for example, sound very much free from that kind of prejudices). That said, I'm also totally fine with a no-homophobia world or no mention of it, if it's your preference! It can also be interesting to have Kasiya and Galen talk about their different experiences. I'm totally fine with them mentioning OCs as past lovers (just minding my DNWs). I'm also totally fine with light jealousy between them; I can especially picture Kasiya as the jealous type, but jealous Galen would be good too.

I love that sometimes Galen and Kasiya call each other "Captain" and "Doctor"... I am very much into that. It can be because they're trying to be professional in front of other people, but I also like when they do it in private to tease each other. Perhaps it's a kink they have. Any reason is good, really. :D

Galen or Kasiya asking for relationship advice or talking about their relationship to Yani, Yakone or any character you like. This would be great, especially post-canon. I mentioned Yani and Yakone because I like them, but everyone else is fine too!

Prompts with spoilers about the mystery, the plot twists and the endings under the cut

Kasiya's confession when he tells Galen that he was ordered to get close to him is sooo good to explore, because it makes you see their entire relationship from a different perspective! From Kasiya's POV, how did he feel when he met Galen for the first time? How did he feel when he tried to get intimate, knowing the real reason he was doing it? When did he start to catch feelings? I'd love to read your own interpretation!

Galen's plot twist about Lev's murder is so interesting to explore. I tried both options ("It was a mistake"/"It was the only way") and it looks like Galen always planned to eventually use an antidote, so Lev's death was an accident to a certain degree; however, if you pick the latter option, he'll convince himself that he did what he had to do, and he has no regrets. This has a consequence in his relationship with Kasiya too, because (at least in my game), when I picked "It was the only way", I didn't get the option to forgive Kasiya after his confession, so the two of them broke up. I'm interested in both routes regarding Galen's motive when it comes to Lev, and I think they're good character study material.

Speaking of Galen and Kasiya breaking up and going their separate ways, I would love fix-it fic where they meet again after a few years and they get close. There's an ending where Kasiya becomes a mercenary again, he's cold and he only cares about himself. What if Galen can make him change his mind? What if Kasiya never really got over him? Perhaps he had other lovers (or they both did), but they were never like Galen. I'd love fic where they finally make up.

There are endings where Kasiya follows Galen to the Isles, and those are great to explore too! This is just a little idea for some lighthearted hurt/comfort, but I was thinking that Kasiya has the kind of skin that would definitely get badly sunburned the moment there's a little sun, and I guess a certain good doctor can take care of it? :D Perhaps Galen didn't even think about it at first because the Islanders don't have that issue, and Kasiya is either too proud to say anything or doesn't expect it to be so bad. Anyway, this is just a random idea; I'm interested in anything about Kasiya visiting Galen's birth place.

Likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

So, I know that Galen is canonically kinky and he loves using his drinks/potions for sex, but I was thinking… what if the first time Galen and Kasiya have sex post-canon after making up, they decide to do it in a vanilla way? I think it would make sense to (re)build their trust and just see if they really like each other without "help". Of course, that doesn't mean they will never try anything kinky anymore, but I can see them going slow this time.

There is zero smut about Galen/Kasiya, so I'm not picky! Just give me anything based on my smut likes and I'll be happy! I don't have top/bottom preferences about them, so feel free to write your own preference!

Galen is canonically into roleplay, so things can get interesting in bed. Just to mention what Galen says, Kasiya can pretend to be a patient or Galen can pretend to be interrogated. Perhaps they call each other "Doctor" and "Captain" in bed too?

DNW (Do Not Wants):

Mention of recent real conflicts and politics/political statements; mention of real people from the 20th/21th centuries.

Unhappy endings.

Permanent death of Galen or Kasiya (assumed character death is good!).

Unrequested AUs (like coffee shop, genderbending, etc.), unrequested crossovers, unrequested canon divergence. (Note: as long as what you want to write can happen in one of the routes and it doesn't hit my other DNWs, it's good!)

Permanent breakups between Galen and Kasiya (temporary is fine).

The narrative explicitly shutting down Galen and Kasiya's romantic/sexual attraction to each other. You don't have to write about it, but please don't explicitly deny their attraction.

Galen and Kasiya in relationships with other people as endgame (fine if they're not endgame). Galen and Kasiya having past dead lovers they were in love with (fine if they're alive or they weren't in love).

Infidelity/cheating between Galen and Kasiya.

Galen or Kasiya having non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage, or non-canon serious illnesses like AIDS, cancer or Alzheimer's. (Scars in places that aren't their face are fine, especially for Kasiya.)

Poly, asexual, aromantic and trans interpretations for Galen or Kasiya.

My requested characters as the aggressors in non-con scenarios.

Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, scat, watersports, sounding.

Galen or Kasiya using recreational drugs for pleasure in the story (I'm fine with Galen using them for his magic in an emergency, as well as mentions of Galen getting high in the past or taking care of his plants).

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Tesla Note (Anime & Manga)

Tesla Note is a complete manga series of 7 volumes. It also has a complete anime adaptation of 13 episodes, which unfortunately never got attention because of its bad CGI. However, if you can get past the bad animation, it has an interesting plot, it features great seiyuu (just to mention my requested characters, Mickey is voiced by Junichi Suwabe and Oliver by Hiroshi Kamiya), it has a good soundtrack and especially interesting interactions between the characters! One of the main writers of this manga and anime is Tiger & Bunny main writer Masafumi Nishida, so the banters between the characters and the tropes felt very familiar to me. I had really fun watching the episodes as they aired!

Mickey Miller and Oliver Thornton

I love their dynamics! They're not the protagonists, but I'm sure that if this canon had a fandom, they'd be a pretty obvious ship. When they appear for the first time working as partners, they look very close, but they're also spies, so it's interesting to see what happens to a relationship where they shouldn't completely trust each other… and the plot twist in the second part of the series just makes everything more thrilling between them!

I love the way they always seem to flirt when they talk (especially in the anime, where the voice acting and the background music helps :D), and the way their friendship is so important to each other, even if they might or might not be ready to fight/kill each other if necessary.

Likes and prompts (SFW):

Post-canon, anything where Mickey and Oliver meet again. How did Oliver survive? How does he feel about Mickey now? About this prompt, I just wanted to say that if you read the epilogue of the manga (not included in the anime), I'd really love something about it! Feel free to include or not Oliver's permanent injury; you can also heal it if you want, that's up to you.

Undercover as a couple! It can be in any era, but I'd like to see it post-canon. You can go wild about the reason Mickey and Oliver are working together again, I'm not picky. Just give them an excuse to act like a couple and, if you like it, I would appreciate a good amount of mutual pining. :)

Flirting! I love seeing Mickey saying his usual nonsense things in different languages, and Oliver being fine with that even if he doesn't get it. Maybe they have some drinks together and the flirting becomes more obvious.

I can see Mickey and Oliver having a FWB thing going during canon where they're both pining. And then, after their post-canon reunion, they can finally confess their feelings and eventually get together.

Their first meeting can also be interesting, especially from Oliver's POV. How did he feel about Mickey? What was his first impression of him?

Fake Reddit posts, fake social media threads with them and the other characters, or anything similar. I always love this kind of fan-content! What if Mickey (or Oliver) asked for relationship advice on r/relationship? Or maybe he wanders if he's the asshole? :D In these scenarios, I especially love when the other existing characters post their replies, even if they may or may not recognize each other.

There is no smut with them, so I'm not picky! I don't really have a top/bottom preference about them, so feel free to write them the way you want! Switching is totally welcome too. I'm interested in anything based on my general smut likes.

Sex scenes while they're undercover as a couple. Maybe they start catching feelings during sex? What do they (not) tell to each other?

DNW (Do Not Wants):

Mention of recent real conflicts/political statements, mention of real people from the 20th/21th centuries (unless canon).

Unhappy endings.

Permanent breakups between Mickey/Oliver (temporary is fine).

Permanent death of Mickey or Oliver (assumed character death is good!).

Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, etc), unrequested canon divergence (fine with "everyone lives" if you write Reddit/social media fic), unrequested crossovers.

Mickey or Oliver having non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage, or serious illnesses like cancer or Alzheimer's (scars in places that aren't their faces are okay; Oliver's canon injury in the manga epilogue is also okay).

The narrative explicitly shutting down the possibility of Mickey and Oliver being romantically/sexually attracted to each other. You don't have to write about it, but please don't explicitly deny the possibility (like making them explicitly straight).

Poly, asexual, aromantic and trans interpretations for Mickey and Oliver.

Infidelity/cheating between Mickey and Oliver.

Mickey and Oliver in relationships with other people as endgame (fine if they're not endgame). Mickey and Oliver having past dead lovers they were in love with (fine if they're alive or they weren't in love).

Non-con.

Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, scat, watersports, sounding.

Thank you so much for reading my letter until the end! I hope you’ll have fun during this exchange!

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Trick or Treat 2023 - Letter

2023-09-15T16:23:56Z

Hello! I’m Smile_Edgeworth on AO3 and this is my letter for Trick or Treat exchange. If you'd like to create for me, I hope this letter will help you to get a good idea! As a general preference, for this exchange I'm looking for "canon compliant" works and missing scenes in the canon setting. For my non-canon romantic ships, I have a preference for scenes that could technically have happened off-screen, between two installments or post-canon. For my crossovers, I like characters from different fandoms interacting in a way that fits their personality/background.

I'm not picky about the definition of "treat" in Trick or Treat: as long as your work has an eventual happy/positive/optimistic vibe, that's good!

Some of my likes/prompts are more focused on written stories because I'm requesting fic as my main gift. However, a lot of them can work for art too. I'm open to both art and fic treats!

My requested fandoms are:

Pentiment (Video Game)
- Mathieu of Neuchâtel/Rüdeger of Bad Tölz

Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)
- James T. Kirk/Spock

Tesla Note (Anime & Manga)
- Mickey Miller/Oliver Thornton

Crossover Fandom
- Barnaby Brooks Jr. (Tiger&Bunny) & Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) & Ryo MacLean (FAKE manga)
- Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) & Ryo MacLean (FAKE manga)

- Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) & Spock (Star Trek: The Original Series)

All my likes and prompts are optional, so if you have an idea based on one of my likes only or just part of a prompt, go for it!

I love both short and long stories, so don’t worry too much about fic length. If some of my prompts/likes inspire you and you include them, there’s no such a thing as “too long” for me!

I have different DNWs for every fandom, so I put them at the end of every fandom section.

If something isn’t clear, please don’t be afraid to ask for clarifications through the mods. I check my email every day and I’m always glad to reply if I can help someone to write or draw.

General Likes (SFW):

Partners. This is a pretty obvious preference of mine. I usually request ships that are (or were) work partners. I love the ambiguity of the word “partner” and what being partners means for two people; I like seeing what changes when their relationship develops and becomes something more than working as a team. I also love when 2 or more characters talk about their own partner.

Romance mixed with other genres (action, casefic, sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, thriller, mystery, etc).

Romantic comedy and humor.

Angst with a happy ending.

Happy endings in general.

Female scientists.

Loyalty between characters in my romantic ships.

Characters trying to rescue or save the person they love.

Temporary/assumed character death (with a happy ending where they come back).

Temporary amnesia (only if the character eventually gets their memory back).

Misunderstandings cleared up in the end.

Pining and mutual pining.

Characters oblivious about their own feelings, acting like someone in love but unaware that they are in love until someone/something makes them realize it.

Characters talking about their current love interest, especially in conversations with other existing characters. Even better if they’re very awkward about it.

Characters being confused about their sexual orientation, for example men thinking they're straight until they realize there's a guy they'd really want to kiss. I like adult characters figuring out for the first time that they like the same gender. I like both characters who don't label their sexuality and characters confident about it, so sentences like "I realized I'm bisexual" or "I know I like you and that's all that matters to me" are both good!

Canon compliant, missing moments, characters doing or saying something based on canon, even when it’s a minor detail (for example, a character eating a certain food because they mentioned once they liked it).

Post-canon.

Friends to lovers.

Rivals to lovers.

Power couples.

Slow burn.

Sexual and romantic tension, especially if it's eventually resolved.

Characters in denial about their feelings, flustered and embarrassed characters, characters blushing when they have a crush, characters trying to figure out why they feel a certain way.

Love confessions, first kisses, getting together.

Established relationship, especially when the characters have been close for years.

Fake/pretend relationship, undercover as a couple and similar tropes.

"There's only one bed", handcuffed together, trapped together, stranded together and similar tropes. In fics, I have a preference for stories where these tropes help the characters to get together, realize their feelings and/or have sex (for example, when there's only one bed and then the characters wake up hugging each other and/or horny).

Huddling for warmth. I love this trope for my romantic ships in any relationship status (when they're still pining, when they just got together or in established relationships). I love when it gets sexual too, accidentally or not. It can be a domestic scene in their house or on vacation, but I like huddling for warmth when they're in danger too!

For my romantic ships, bathing together (can be SFW or NSFW). I love this both as pining with romantic/sexual tension or established relationship!

Jealousy, as long as the jealous character doesn’t go as far as committing a serious crime. In pre-relationship scenarios, I love jealousy as an inner feeling, where a character thinks their love interest likes someone else or will fall for someone else. I also like when the jealous character asks their love interest if they like a certain person or, in general, if there's someone they like. In established relationships, I like the jealous character to keep an eye on other people they see as potentially interested in the person they love (whether it’s true or not), and also confronting them. Jealousy involving misunderstandings eventually cleared up is great in every scenario!

Family/friends helping a member of my requested ship when they need love advice (for example if they want to ask their crush out or they want to propose to their lover).

Characters going on vacation. For my romantic ships, it can work well for honeymoon tropes and anniversaries, but I also like when two characters go on vacation as friends and then they get together. For my platonic ships, I love the idea of two/three characters meeting for the first time when they're on vacation on their own.

Fade to black between my romantic ships. I love smut, but I equally love every implication that my OTPs have sex. In established relationships, I especially love couples with an active sex life, even if it's just implied in a T-rated story.

Characters using social media, apps, chats, Reddit or other websites to ask for relationship advice, anonymously or not, especially when other existing characters reply. Depending on the site, I love when they don't know or recognize each other.

1st or 3rd person. Feel free to write the way you like! If you enjoy 1st person narrator, this is your chance to write it!

POV outsider, single POV from a character in my requested ship or multiple POVs from different characters (in my requested ship or not). I love when a third character talks about my OTP. It can be someone who knows them, but I also like reading about OCs trying to figure out what's going on between A and B. The classic "OC has an unrequited crush on A and they eventually realize that A loves B" is also welcome, jealousy from every side included.

3+1 things, 5+1 things, n+1 things in general.

Smut Likes (NSFW):

Heavy making out, stroking the other's (or each other's) hair during a kiss, touching the other’s (or each other’s) butt and chest, with their clothes on or off.

Touching a character’s penis through their pants/underwear until they get hard.

Licking earlobes, neck and nipples.

Biting lips, neck and shoulders (no blood; marks are good).

Frottage, dry humping, anything where two characters rub their bodies against each other with their clothes on (but if they’re naked it’s good too).

Clothed sex and half-clothed sex.

Handjobs.

Blowjobs.

Anal sex (in m/m ships).

Flavored lube, especially if one or both characters taste it during sex. Any flavor of fruits or sweets is good.

Characters being loud if only their partner can hear them, moaning, saying their partner’s name.

Every position in penetrative sex is fine, but I have a preference for the ones where the characters can look each other in the eye.

Barebacking.

Sex outside (a garden, a forest, a cavern, a beach, etc.) if they’re alone.

Sex in rooms or places that aren’t their bed (the kitchen, the shower, a table, etc.), public places included (library, office, courtroom, hospital, etc.), as long as nothing is recording them and they're alone. Sex in their workplace is definitely welcome if they lock the door or they know they're alone.

Sex pollen, drunk sex or any mutual dub-con situation where both characters would have wanted to have sex with each other (just not like this). I like mutual dub-con in both pre-relationship (where they eventually get together) and established relationship scenarios.

Characters having sex the same day/night they confess because they've been friends/partners for so long they already trust each other and there's a lot of sexual tension between them.

I also opt-in rimming if it's something you enjoy writing! I don't request it as the only focus of a sex scene, but in the middle of other things, it's good.

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Pentiment (Video Game)

I love this game! It has great art, interesting characters and a lot of care for accuracy about 16th century history and manuscripts!

This fandom is so tiny I'm not really picky about fan-content, I just want more of my gay monks. :D

In case you're not familiar with it, Pentiment is available for PC (Windows) on Steam, for Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S platforms. There are also multiple Let's Play videos on YouTube, in case you prefer to watch it.

Mathieu of Neuchâtel/Rüdeger of Bad Tölz

First of all, I wrote a fandom/ship promo post about Pentiment here, so feel free to check it out to know more about why I like the game, what I like about Mathieu/Rüdeger specifically and how to see the most important scenes with them.

I am interested in any canon compliant missing scene with them! It can be how they fell in love and kissed for the first time, or something about their secret relationship (at least 25 years and more in the good ending for them!) :D I'm not exactly looking for them acknowledging their relationship as a marriage the same way two gay men would do in our century; I do like them portrayed as the 16th century men and Catholic priests they are. However, I'd love to see more domesticity, tender moments and/or banter between them.

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Their first meeting, their first kiss, their first [romantic/sexual thing together]. How did they fall in love? How did they find out their feelings were mutual? How did they react at first?

Their reaction to Andreas finding them, or more about Andreas' reaction. Feel free to choose the route you want and the characterization/background you want for Andreas, as long as it has an eventual happy ending for them!

Any missing scene between Act II and Act III, or post-canon! I haven't seen any fic with them in an established relationship in this era, so it'd be great to see it. I'd like to see Rüdeger practicing his singing and Mathieu listening to him, Mathieu writing letters while Rüdeger is reading in the same room as we see in Act III, them getting ready together for Christmas or another celebration, huddling for warmth, sleeping together, hurt/comfort, a love quarrel, one of them getting jealous of a new guy, etc. Honestly, as long as something from my general likes makes sense for this historical setting and their personalities, I'd like to see it!

It's Word-of-God that Mathieu is a fictional character from a real noble family (Faucigny-Saux), and I think that explains his career in the Church. I assume Rüdeger is not rich, so that creates another contrast between them: do they have different expectations from their lives, different ways of seeing things? Can they actually live together when Mathieu becomes the archdeacon of Sion, because nobody will bother him? I like to think that Mathieu can have his own house and Rüdeger can live with him with an excuse (as his main assistant or something similar).

I love interactions between them and other characters! Wojslav and Matilda would be especially interesting to see, because they have so much in common with them. They also had a secret relationship at the same abbey, and I like to think that the four of them knew about the others. It is also sort of implied during the autopsy in Act I that Brother Florian knows about both relationships, and he's minding his own business. How did he find out? :D

Speaking of interactions with other characters, I'd like to see them meeting someone from Tassing after many years in Sion. Andreas could be a good choice, or maybe they can meet Magdalene! As I said in my general likes, I love outsider POV, and it works especially well for them because we do find out about their relationship from Andreas' POV. Honestly, any Pentiment character you like can meet them.

Ship specific likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

I haven't found Mature/Explicit fan-content with them, so I'm not picky! Just give me anything based on my general smut likes and I'll be happy! :D I have no top/bottom preference about them, so if you want to go there, feel free to write or draw them the way you like. About the place and the general atmosphere, it can be something domestic in Mathieu's house as archdeacon, or other trysts in a library or other hidden places (okay, maybe not inside the actual church, but every other room around it is fine).

Their first time doing something sexual together. How did it happen? I'd especially love seeing a lot of pent-up sexual tension that is eventually resolved.

DNW (Do Not Wants):

Mention of recent real conflicts and current politics/political statements.

Unhappy endings.

Permanent breakups between Mathieu/Rüdeger (temporary is fine).

Permanent death of Mathieu or Rüdeger (assumed character death is good!).

Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, etc), unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers.

Mathieu or Rüdeger having sexual/romantic relationships with characters that aren't each other.

Mathieu or Rüdeger having non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage, or serious illnesses like cancer or Alzheimer's (scars in places that aren't their faces are okay).

Poly, asexual, aromantic and trans interpretations for Mathieu or Rüdeger.

Non-con (mentions of Matilda being sexually assaulted are fine).

Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, scat, watersports, sounding.

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Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)

I like all TOS movies and I'm always looking for more works about them! It's great to see that after an episodic series, Star Trek got several movies connected together with all the main characters getting older. I'm very fond of The Original Series, so every reference or flashback about the TV episodes is welcome. However, for this exchange I'm specifically asking for works with a main focus on the movies era.

James T. Kirk/Spock

There's something so good in seeing Kirk and Spock's closeness in the movies after years of working together, in the way they know each other and need each other more than anyone else in the universe. I love both getting together and established relationship stories with them.

My headcanon for Kirk/Spock is "pre-relationship" during their five-year mission in the TV series (with them being oblivious, pining or a mix of both), "getting together" and married after The Motion Picture (it can be right after the movie or any time you want!) and "established relationship" in the other movies. I'm not interested in them getting together during the five-year mission; on the contrary, I'm open to them still be pining in the later movies if you have an idea about it!

Since Kirk/Spock is very popular, for this exchange I decided to leave prompts about specific things that I've never seen or I haven't seen enough (what can I say, I'm trying :D). However, if none of them inspires you, I'd also be happy to get middle-aged Kirk/Spock bathing together, huddling for warmth or anything else based on my general likes!

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

About post-The Motion Picture getting together fics, I'd love to read a fic where Spock temporarily turns into a cat! I think it'd be great comedy and fluff material, with Kirk taking care of him and the two of them getting more affectionate with each other. Perhaps this is how they'll finally be able to talk about "this simple feeling", once Spock is Vulcan-human again. :D

According to Kirk's bio on Star Trek official site there are about 14 years between The Motion Picture and The Wrath of Khan. I'd love to see something taking place during that gap: there can be a second five-year mission, Kirk and Spock as married teachers for Starfleet Academy, marriage proposals, TOS-typical episode but with them older and married, etc. (Note about the bio I linked: Antonia was invented in Generations, so feel free to ignore her).

In-universe rumors, gossip, social media, Roddenberry's footnote, students/cadets wondering "Are they lovers or…?", outsider POV, Kirk and/or Spock finding in-universe RPF fics about them, interviews where they get asked about their love life… I love all of this both in pre-relationship and established relationship scenarios and I can't get enough.

I love that after The Voyage Home, Kirk and Spock are both captains. I can imagine some comedy behind it, or maybe something kinky. Perhaps they call each other "Captain" on purpose to hide their marriage or make it less obvious. Honestly, I just love fic that points out that they have the same rank, even if Spock probably still thinks of Kirk as his superior officer (and that's okay :D).

Any missing scene from The Final Frontier! There is never enough fan-content about that movie, so I'd love so see anything you think I'd like! A few examples: Kirk finally having a shower (and Spock joining him), anything after "Please, Captain, not in front of the Klingons" where the Klingons aren't there, camping together, etc. I'd also love fix-it fics where Sybok doesn't die and he has a chance to talk properly to his brother and his brother-in-law. Or, alternatively, Sybok dies but he still gets to know Kirk and Spock. Sybok's POV could be interesting: when did he realize his brother and Captain Kirk were married/together? What does he think? Kirk's POV would be great too! During the movie, it looks like he's afraid of losing Spock when Sybok appears. At first Kirk only knows Sybok is someone from Spock's past, so it's easy to imagine a misunderstanding about it. Maybe Kirk thinks that Sybok and Spock were lovers, so he's jealous! And when he finds out the truth, he's still not sure Spock will choose him; after all, Spock hid Sybok's existence from him. I think it'd be nice to explore Kirk's feelings during and/or after the movie, with Spock eventually telling him (and showing him) that he will always stay by his side.

In The Undiscovered Country, we see Martia (the shape-shifter) kissing Kirk in Rura Penthe. I don't think Kirk could really refuse her in that circumstance, because she had just offered to help Kirk and Bones to get outside. So I'd like to read Old Married Kirk/Spock where that kiss comes up in a later conversation. It could be Bones who brings it up (when he's drunk, or maybe not), Kirk who tells Spock because he feels guilty, or Spock who finds out during a mind-meld (though Kirk wasn't planning to hide it from him). Maybe Kirk expects Spock to get mad, but Spock surprises him when he says that in that specific situation, kissing Martia back was the logical thing to do. Of course, Spock still hopes there won't be another situation where Kirk is forced to kiss someone else, and he's going to make sure Kirk gets the best kisses from him. :D

Opt-ins: in fics, if it comes up during the story, I'm totally fine with mentions of Kirk or Spock's past canon love interests (included the less popular ones and Lori Ciana from The Motion Picture novelization), as long as Kirk and Spock don't still have romantic feelings for them. I'm also fine with them having relationships or assumed relationships with OCs, as long as they're not endgame. About canon divergence opt-ins, I'm fine with anything that ignores or fixes Generations movie, as well as "Sybok lives" and everything I mentioned in my The Final Frontier prompt.

As a general like, I enjoy any platonic interaction between Kirk/Spock and other characters. I like all the old crew and Amanda/Sarek, but I'm also really interested in interactions with characters from the movies. I've already mentioned Sybok, but I like Saavik, David and Gillian too! In shorter fics, I also find interesting the idea of an unexpected POV, like Admiral Morrow from The Search for Spock (the guy who gets to hear Kirk saying that Spock's soul is his responsibility "as surely as if it were my very own"). I can see a lot of people being confused about Kirk and Spock's relationship, especially if they're not completely open about it.

Ship specific likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

I'm fine with some popular headcanons about Spock's dick: I especially like to see it as a shade of green and/or self-lubricating. Double-ridges are okay too! I like to think that it's a little bigger than the average human dick, but you're free to be vague about it.

I have basic taste about smut for this ship: I usually like top Spock more. However, I do believe they switch sometimes, so if you feel more inspired about top Kirk, go wild! Note: when I say "top Spock", I mean it in the most literal sense of "I like when Spock's dick goes inside Kirk's ass"; I don't associate characterization or different sexual acts to top/bottom preferences. Basically, just portray them the way you believe is in character, and if you want to write/draw a blowjob, anything is good! Kirk riding Spock is also very welcome!

Kirk getting chubby as he ages and Spock still being very much attracted to him is always a welcome trope. I like to think that they have a pretty active sex life even as they get older.

DNW (Do Not Wants):

Mention of recent real conflicts and politics/political statements, mention of real people from the 20th/21th centuries (unless canon).

Unhappy endings.

Permanent death of Kirk or Spock (temporary/assumed character death is good!).

Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, etc), unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers.

Kirk/Spock or Sarek/Amanda breaking up (about Spock leaving for Gol, I like it as a friendship or pre-relationship breakup; just please don't write it as a romantic relationship breakup).
Infidelity/cheating between Kirk and Spock.
Non-canon relationships between Kirk or Spock and other characters with a name in canon; Kirk or Spock in relationships with OCs as endgame (fine if they're not endgame).

Kirk or Spock having non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage, or non-canon serious illnesses like AIDS, cancer or Alzheimer's.

Poly, asexual, aromantic and trans interpretations for Kirk or Spock.

My requested characters as the aggressors in non-con scenarios.

Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, scat, watersports, sounding.
Abortion and miscarriage (totally fine with mentions of Miramanee's pregnancy and her death).
Sarek and Kirk disliking each other in TOS movies era.
Clones of my requested characters (exception: Kirk's clone from TOS episode "What are little girls made of?" is fine).
The word "rape" used to refer to forced mind-melds (anything else implying violence/non-consensual actions is fine).

Note 1: unfortunately, I haven't watched Discovery, SNW and the TNG episodes where Spock appears. Since I am planning to watch them in the future, I'd prefer no major spoilers from them.

Note 2: not exactly a DNW, but I'd prefer fic that is not "pre-relationship" only, especially in stories longer than 1000 words. I prefer my ship to be or get (eventually) together!

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Tesla Note (Anime & Manga)

I'll be honest: there is almost no fan-content about this fandom, so I'm not picky. I just want more about my favorite characters!

Tesla Note is a complete manga series of 7 volumes. It also has a complete anime adaptation of 13 episodes, which unfortunately never got attention because of its bad CGI. However, if you can get past the bad animation, it has an interesting plot, it features great seiyuu (just to mention my requested characters, Mickey is voiced by Junichi Suwabe and Oliver by Hiroshi Kamiya), it has a good soundtrack and especially interesting interactions between the characters! One of the main writers of this manga and anime is Tiger & Bunny main writer Masafumi Nishida, so the banters between the characters and the tropes felt very familiar to me. I had really fun watching the episodes as they aired!

The anime is available on Crunchyroll.

The manga was released in English digitally by Kodansha. If you open the "Also available on" section at the bottom of the page I linked, you can see links to buy it from digital shops like Amazon Kindle, Bookwalker, Google Play, Kobo, etc. Even if I like the voices and the music of the anime, I think that overall a lot of scenes are better in the manga and there is also a short epilogue missing in the anime, so it's definitely recommended!

Mickey Miller/Oliver Thornton

I love this pairing so much! They're not the protagonists, but I'm sure that if this canon had a fandom, they'd be a pretty obvious ship. When they appear for the first time working as partners, they look very close, but they're also spies, so it's interesting to see what happens to a relationship where they shouldn't completely trust each other… and the plot twist in the second part of the series just makes everything more thrilling between them!

I love the way they always seem to flirt when they talk (especially in the anime, where the voice acting and the background music helps :D), and the way their friendship is so important to each other, even if they might or might not be ready to fight/kill each other if necessary.

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Post-canon, anything where Mickey and Oliver meet again. How did Oliver survive? How does he feel about Mickey now? About this prompt, I just wanted to say that if you read the epilogue of the manga (not included in the anime), I'd really love something about it! Feel free to include or not Oliver's permanent injury; you can also heal it if you want, that's up to you.

Undercover as a couple! It can be in any era, but I'd like to see it post-canon. You can go wild about the reason Mickey and Oliver are working together again, I'm not picky. Just give them an excuse to act like a couple with a lot of mutual pining and I'll be happy. :D

Flirting! I love seeing Mickey saying his usual nonsense things in different languages, and Oliver being fine with that even if he doesn't get it. Maybe they have some drinks together and the flirting becomes more obvious.

I can see Mickey and Oliver having a FWB thing going during canon where they're both pining. And then, after their post-canon reunion, they can finally confess their feelings and eventually get together.

I'm interested in both comedy and angst between them, so feel free to create what you like the most, as long as it has a happy ending. Also, in fics feel free to write about any other existing character meeting them as well, it can be fun!

About other ships, I like Elmo/Pino a lot too, so feel free to mention them as a background ship you like it too!

Ship specific likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

I don't really have a top/bottom preference about them, so feel free to write/draw them the way you want! Switching is totally welcome too! I'm interested in anything based on my general NSFW likes.

Sex scenes while they're undercover as a couple. Maybe they start catching feelings during sex? What do they (not) tell to each other?

DNW (Do Not Wants):

Mention of recent real conflicts/political statements, mention of real people from the 20th/21th centuries (unless canon).

Unhappy endings.

Permanent breakups between Mickey/Oliver (temporary is fine).

Permanent death of Mickey or Oliver (assumed character death is good!).

Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, etc), unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers.

Mickey or Oliver having non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage, or serious illnesses like cancer or Alzheimer's (scars in places that aren't their faces are okay; Oliver's canon injury in the manga epilogue is also okay).

Poly, asexual, aromantic and trans interpretations for Mickey and Oliver.

Infidelity/cheating between Mickey and Oliver.

Mickey and Oliver in relationships with other people as endgame (fine if they're not endgame). Mickey and Oliver having past dead lovers they were in love with (fine if they're alive or they weren't in love).

Non-con.

Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, scat, watersports, sounding.

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Crossover Fandom

I'm not picky about this request; I'd just love to see some of my favorite characters meeting! All the tags have characters with something in common, so I hope they'll be inspiring.

I love both crossovers and fusions, so feel free to think about any scenario! I'm fine with 2 or 3 fandoms being actually the same world, but I'm also fine with premises like "Tiger & Bunny is a popular anime in New York, and Dee and Ryo suddenly find themselves inside the show", "Star Trek characters play Ace Attorney and suddenly the characters from the game come out from the computer", and so on!

In fics, feel free to add any other character from my requested fandoms you like! As long as my requested characters are the focus of the story, I'd love to see more crossover interactions!

- Barnaby Brooks Jr. (Tiger&Bunny) & Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) & Ryo MacLean (FAKE manga)

- Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) & Ryo MacLean (FAKE manga)

- Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) & Spock (Star Trek: The Original Series)

Fandom specific likes/prompts:

Everything about Ace Attorney crossovers just screams "this character they just met is accused of murder!" to me. :D Feel free to have Barnaby, Spock or Ryo accused of murder (or maybe Kotetsu, Dee or Kirk!); Phoenix defending them and Edgeworth prosecuting would be great! If you write a Star Trek crossover, feel free to re-write or make canon divergence of any trial we see during TOS (movies included), or make up a new trial!

Barnaby, Ryo and Edgeworth have pretty similar backstories. They all had their parents suddenly killed around Christmas (Christmas Eve specifically for Barnaby and Ryo, and Edgeworth also had a bad meeting on Christmas Eve 15 years later). Barnaby and Edgeworth were both raised and manipulated by the real murderer, and they both had recurring nightmares about the day of the murder. The three of them all started feeling better thanks to their (work) partners who cared a lot about them. I would like to see them becoming friends: they can attend the same group therapy, or meet online in places where one of them was asking for help. Maybe they can meet during an investigation. Anything is fine!

I feel like the Enterprise could definitely find herself in Ace Attorney universe… It wouldn't be the strangest thing ever happened in Star Trek, after all! Edgeworth and Spock have a lot of things in common: they both love chess, they're devoted to logic, they used to hide their feelings (especially for their best friend), they both wanted to please their father figure… I think that their interactions would be very interesting. Throwing Kirk and Phoenix in the middle is also great! They're both good at bluffing, so it'd be fun! (A little note about "pleasing their the father figure": Sarek is one of my favorite Star Trek characters, so while I'm totally fine with acknowledging his flaws, especially early in the series, please don't imply that he's an actual Manfred von Karma.)

I mentioned it in my general likes, but for this request I'd be especially happy to get social media, Reddit posts or similar between crossover characters! You can choose any canon event you like and have one of them asking if they're the asshole in that situation, or anyone asking for love advice (see my ship preferences below).

I ship Kotetsu/Barnaby, Dee/Ryo, Phoenix/Edgeworth and Kirk/Spock. You don't have to include or mention these ships, but I'll be delighted if you do, even as background or implied relationships. :)

DNW (Do Not Wants):

Mention of recent real conflicts/political statements, mention of real people from the 20th/21th centuries (unless canon).

Unhappy endings.

Permanent breakups between canon ships, unless they break up in canon.
Permanent death of my requested characters and the characters I ship them with (assumed/temporary character death is good!)
Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, etc), unrequested crossovers.

My requested characters and their friends having non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage, or serious illnesses like cancer or Alzheimer's (scars in places that aren't their faces are okay).
Poly, asexual, aromantic and trans interpretations for Barnaby, Kotetsu, Ryo, Dee, Edgeworth, Phoenix, Spock and Kirk.
Infidelity/cheating between my requested characters and their romantic partners.
Unrequested non-canon relationships (exception: relationships between OCs are fine, as well as OCs having unrequited feelings for existing characters).
Non-con.
Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, scat, watersports, sounding.
Making explicit that romantic relationships between Phoenix/Edgeworth, Kotetsu/Barnaby or Kirk/Spock could never happen (for example making them explicitly straight, claiming that their friendship is 100% platonic, etc). Gen is totally fine, but please don't sink my ships.

Ace Attorney DNW: The Great Ace Attorney spoilers/characters.

FAKE DNW: Bikky being called or described as a monkey (included ape, baboon and any kind of monkey) or a r*tard. | Dee hitting criminals after they've been arrested (actual justified self-defense is fine).

Tiger & Bunny DNW: Kotetsu wearing two wedding/engagement rings at the same time (I'd prefer no mention of his ring in fic.)

Star Trek DNW: Clones.| Abortion and miscarriage (fine with mentions of Miramanee's pregnancy and her death).| The word "rape" to refer to forced mind-melds (anything else implying violence or a non-consensual action is fine).

Thank you so much for reading my letter until the end! I hope you’ll have fun during this exchange!

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Just Married 2023 - Letter

2023-06-18T22:34:04Z

Hello! I’m Smile_Edgeworth on AO3 and this is my letter for Just Married exchange. If you'd like to create for me, I hope this letter will help you to get a good idea! Some of my likes/prompts are more focused on written stories because I'm only requesting fic, but I'm open to both art and fic treats!

My requested fandoms are:

Pentiment (Video Game)
- Mathieu of Neuchâtel/Rüdeger of Bad Tölz

Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)
- James T. Kirk/Spock

Tesla Note (Anime & Manga)
- Mickey Miller/Oliver Thornton

Just a little heads-up: I'm aware that my fandom sections in this letter have different lengths, but this is just because there's one ship I've written a lot lately, so I had more occasions to think about it. However, I promise that I will be very happy to get any of my requested ships! Also, I got a few lovely gifts that followed some of my prompts in the past, and if I'm requesting them again it just means I always want more cake. I did love the fics I got! I just want more of the same tropes. :D

All my likes and prompts are optional, so if you have an idea for one of my freeform tags based on my likes only, just part of a prompt or no prompts at all, that's totally good! Feel free to combine multiple prompts and likes if you feel inspired as well, I love being surprised with the way you can mix the different "ingredients".

I love both short and long stories, so don’t worry too much about fic length. If some of my freeform tags/prompts/likes inspire you and you include them, there’s no such a thing as “too long” for me!

I have different DNWs for every fandom, so I put them at the end of every fandom section.

If something isn’t clear, please don’t be afraid to ask for clarifications through the mods. I check my email every day and I’m always glad to reply if I can help someone to write or draw.

General Likes (SFW):

Partners. This is a pretty obvious preference of mine, I usually request ships that are (or were) work partners. I love the ambiguity of the word “partner” and what being partners means for two people; I like seeing what changes when their relationship develops and becomes something more than working as a team. I also love when 2 or more characters talk about their own partner.

Romance mixed with other genres (action, casefic, sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, thriller, mystery, etc).

Romantic comedy and humor.

Angst with a happy ending.

Happy endings in general.

Female scientists.

Loyalty between characters in my romantic ships.

Characters trying to rescue or save the person they love.

Temporary/assumed character death (with a happy ending where they come back).

Temporary amnesia (only if the character eventually gets their memory back).

Misunderstandings cleared up in the end, my requested ships working through their miscommunication issues.

Pining and mutual pining.

Characters oblivious about their own feelings, acting like someone in love but unaware that they are in love until someone/something makes them realize it.

Characters talking about their current love interest, especially in conversations with other existing characters. Even better if they’re very awkward about it.

Characters being confused about their sexual orientation, for example men thinking they're straight until they realize there's a guy they'd really want to kiss. I like adult characters figuring out for the first time that they like the same gender. I like both characters who don't label their sexuality and characters confident about their label, so sentences like "I realized I'm bisexual" or "I know I like you and that's all that matters to me" are both good!

Canon compliant, missing moments, characters doing or saying something based on canon, even when it’s a minor detail (for example, a character eating a certain food because they mentioned once they liked it).

Post-canon.

Friends to lovers.

Rivals to lovers.

Power couples.

Slow burn.

Sexual and romantic tension.

Characters in denial about their feelings, flustered and embarrassed characters, characters blushing when they have a crush, characters trying to figure out why they feel a certain way.

Love confessions, first kisses, getting together.

Established relationship, especially when the characters have been close for years.

Fake dating, "there's only one bed", handcuffed together, trapped together, huddling for warmth, undercover as married and similar tropes.

My requested ships bathing together (can be SFW or NSFW).

Jealousy, as long as the jealous character doesn’t go as far as committing a serious crime. In pre-relationship scenarios, I love jealousy as an inner feeling, where a character thinks their love interest likes someone else or will fall for someone else. I also like when the jealous character asks their love interest if they like a certain person or, in general, if there's someone they like. In established relationships, I like the jealous character to keep an eye on other people they see as potentially interested in the person they love (whether it’s true or not), and also confronting them. Jealousy involving misunderstandings eventually cleared up is great in every scenario!

Family/friends helping a member of my requested ship when they need love advice (for example if they want to ask their crush out or they want to propose to their lover).

Characters going on vacation together. It can work well for honeymoon tropes and anniversaries!

Fade to black between my requested ships. I love smut, but I equally love every implication that my OTPs have sex. In established relationships, I especially love couples with an active sex life, even if it's just implied in a T-rated story.

Characters using social media, apps, chats, Reddit or other websites to ask for relationship advice, anonymously or not, especially when other existing characters reply. Depending on the site, I love when they don't know or recognize each other.

1st or 3rd person. Feel free to write the way you like! If you enjoy 1st person narrator, this is your chance to write it!

POV outsider, single POV from a character in my requested ship or multiple POVs from different characters (in my requested ship or not). I love when a third character talks about my OTP. It can be someone who knows them, but I also like reading about OCs trying to figure out what's going on between A and B. The classic "OC has an unrequited crush on A and they eventually realize that A loves B" is also welcome, jealousy from every side included.

Smut Likes (NSFW):

Heavy making out, stroking the other's (or each other's) hair during a kiss, touching the other’s (or each other’s) butt and chest, with their clothes on or off.

Touching a character’s penis through their pants/underwear until they get hard.

Licking earlobes, neck and nipples.

Biting lips, neck and shoulders (no blood; marks are good).

Frottage, dry humping, anything where two characters rub their bodies against each other with their clothes on (but if they’re naked it’s good too).

Clothed sex and half-clothed sex.

Handjobs.

Blowjobs.

Anal sex (in m/m ships).

Flavored lube, especially if one or both characters taste it during sex. Any flavor of fruits or sweets is good.

Characters being loud if only their partner can hear them, moaning, saying their partner’s name.

Every position in penetrative sex is fine, but I have a preference for the ones where the characters can look each other in the eye.

Barebacking.

Sex outside (a garden, a forest, a cavern, a beach, etc.) if they’re alone.

Sex in rooms or places that aren’t their bed (the kitchen, the shower, a table, etc.), public places included (library, office, courtroom, hospital, etc.), as long as nothing is recording them and they're alone. Sex in their workplace is definitely welcome if they lock the door or they know they're alone.

Sex pollen, drunk sex or any mutual dub-con situation where both characters would have wanted to have sex with each other (just not like this). I like mutual dub-con in both pre-relationship (where they eventually get together) and established relationship scenarios.

Characters having sex the same day/night they confess because they've been friends/partners for so long they already trust each other and there's a lot of sexual tension between them.

I also opt-in rimming if it's something you enjoy writing! I don't request it as the only focus of a sex scene, but in the middle of other things, it's good.

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Pentiment (Video Game)

Established Marriage - Closeted Men Privately Behave Like Old Married Couple In Historical Setting
Wedding - Closeted Priest Thinks of His Secret Relationship While Officiating Heterosexual Marriage

First of all, I wrote a fandom/ship promo post about Pentiment here, so feel free to check it out to know more about why I like the game, what I like about Mathieu/Rüdeger specifically and how to see the most important scenes with them. (And just in case, if you're interested in writing or drawing them without marriage freeforms, I requested them in Rare Pair Exchange too, and I am always open to treats. :D)

About Mathieu and Rüdeger in Just Married, what I am interested in is the established secret relationship between them (at least 25 years and more in the good ending for them!), which makes their life basically like an old married couple's in our eyes. :D I'm not exactly looking for them acknowledging their relationship as a marriage the same way two gay men would do in our century; I do like them portrayed as the 16th century men and Catholic priests they are. However, I'd love to see more domesticity, tender moments, banter and everything that can make us think, "Okay, they're husbands", even if they're technically not.

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Any missing scene between Act II and Act III, or post-canon! I haven't seen any fic with them in an established relationship in this era, so this exchange is perfect to request it. I'd like to see Rüdeger practicing his singing and Mathieu listening to him, Mathieu writing letters while Rüdeger is reading in the same room as we see in Act III, them getting ready together for Christmas or another celebration, huddling for warmth, sleeping together, hurt/comfort, a love quarrel, one of them getting jealous of a new guy, etc. Honestly, as long as something from my general likes makes sense for this historical setting and their personalities, I'd like to see it!

It's Word-of-God that Mathieu is a fictional character from a real noble family (Faucigny-Saux), and I think that explains his career in the Church. I assume Rüdeger is not rich, so that creates another contrast between them: do they have different expectations from their lives, different ways of seeing things? Can they actually live together when Mathieu becomes the archdeacon of Sion, because nobody will bother him? I like to think that Mathieu can have his own house and Rüdeger can live with him with an excuse (as his main assistant or something similar).

I love interactions between them and other characters! About the freeform "Closeted Priest Thinks of His Secret Relationship While Officiating Heterosexual Marriage", I'm not sure how it could work in the canon plot, but I was thinking that it'd be great for Mathieu to be the priest for Wojslav and Matilda's wedding! In general, any interaction between these two couples would be very interesting, because they have so much in common. They both had a secret relationship at the same abbey, and I like to think that the four of them knew about the others. It is also sort of implied during the autopsy in Act I that Brother Florian knows about both relationships, and he's minding his own business. How did he find out? :D

Speaking of interactions with other characters, I'd like to see them meeting someone from Tassing after many years in Sion. Andreas could also be a good choice (I'm fine with any characterization/backstory about him), or maybe they can meet Magdalene! As I said in my general likes, I love outsider POV, and it works especially well for them because we do find out about their relationship from Andreas' POV. Honestly, any Pentiment character you like can meet them, I'd just like to see more interactions between them and the others.

Ship specific likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like/freeform mentioned before:

I haven't found Mature/Explicit fan-content with them, so I'm not picky! Just give me anything based on my general smut likes and I'll be happy! :D I have no top/bottom preference about them, so if you want to go there, feel free to write them the way you like. About the place and the general atmosphere, it can be something domestic in Mathieu's house as archdeacon, or other trysts in a library or other hidden places (okay, maybe not inside the actual church, but every other room around it is fine).

DNW (Do Not Wants):

Mention of recent real conflicts and current politics/political statements.

Unhappy endings.

Permanent breakups between Mathieu/Rüdeger (temporary is fine).

Permanent death of Mathieu or Rüdeger (assumed character death is good!).

Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, etc), unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers.

Mathieu or Rüdeger having sexual/romantic relationships with characters that aren't each other.

Mathieu or Rüdeger having non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage, or serious illnesses like cancer or Alzheimer's (scars in places that aren't their faces are okay).

Poly, asexual, aromantic and trans interpretations for Mathieu or Rüdeger.

Non-con.

Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, scat, watersports, sounding.

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Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)

James T. Kirk/Spock

Freeform tags:

Accidental Engagement - Didn't Know Item Was Traditional Betrothal Gift
Anniversary - 10th Year (Tin)
Anniversary - 25th Year (Silver)
Aliens - Aliens Will Only Agree to Interplanetary Summit with Married Couples
Aliens - Make Them Get Married
Aliens - Think They're Married
Celebrity Marriage - Epistolary media coverage/social media reaction/etc.
Established Marriage - Older Couple Looking Back On Their Life Together
Established Marriage - Partners Can’t Keep Their Hands Off Each Other Even After Years Together
Fake Marriage - Mistaken For Married While Undercover
Honeymoon - Villains Attack
Marriage - Regularly Being Mistaken as a Married Couple Leads to Real Marriage
Proposal - "You're Not Allowed to Die; Marry Me Instead"
Proposal - Accidental Proposal due to Cultural Differences
Proposal - During Battle
Proposal - Joke proposal becomes mutual running joke until whoops - we mean it
Wedding Ceremony - Disastrous Wedding Ceremony Everyone Will Gossip About For Years
Science Fiction - Wedding Held in Space
Science Fiction - Honeymooning in Space
Soul Bond - Soul Bond Required to Save One Partner's Life

I might be 55 years late to the party, but when I fell for Kirk/Spock, I fell hard. Amok Time definitely made me see the ship potential, and the first 3 movies are what did it for me; then everything else was fun to watch! There's something so good in seeing Kirk and Spock's closeness after years of working together, in the way they know each other and need each other more than anyone else in the universe. I love both getting together and established relationship stories with them.

About the freeform tags, I chose 20 of them because it was the limit without making another request, and maybe asking for 200 wouldn't have been a good idea… But really, there were SO MANY great tags in the tagset, so if you see something similar to my requested ones that you think I'll like, feel free to include it as well!

My headcanon for Kirk/Spock is pre-relationship during their five-year mission in the TV series (with them being oblivious, pining or a mix of both), getting together and married sometime after TMP (it can be right after the movie or any time you want!) and established relationship in the other movies. I'm not interested in them getting together during the five-year mission; on the contrary, I'm open to them still be pining in the later movies if you have an idea about it!

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

About getting together fics with eventual marriage proposals (accidental or not), as I said I have a preference for post-The Motion Picture. They can get together immediately after V'Ger, but they can also be pining idiots for 2 years (perhaps until Spock's next pon farr) if it's what you like writing! I've also read the novelization of TMP movie, so feel free to include everything from that book if you're familiar with it, included Kirk's temporary relationship with Lori Ciana.

According to Kirk's bio on Star Trek official site there are about 14 years between The Motion Picture and The Wrath of Khan. I'd love to read any freeform (well, except for "Anniversary - 25th Year") taking place during that gap: there can be a second five-year mission, Kirk and Spock as married teachers for Starfleet Academy, marriage proposals, learning to communicate through their new bond if they have one, TOS-typical episode but with them older and married, etc. (Note about the bio I linked: Antonia was invented in Generations, so feel free to ignore her).

In-universe rumors, gossip, social media, Roddenberry's footnote, students/cadets wondering "Are they lovers or…?", outsider POV, Kirk and/or Spock finding in-universe RPF fics about their engagement/wedding, interviews where they get asked about their love life… I love all of this both in pre-relationship and established relationship scenarios and I can't get enough.

I love that after The Voyage Home, Kirk and Spock are both captains. I can imagine some comedy behind it, or maybe something kinky. Perhaps they call each other "Captain" on purpose to hide their marriage or make it less obvious. Honestly, I just love fic that points out that they have the same rank, even if Spock probably still thinks of Kirk as his superior officer (and that's okay :D).

Any missing scene from The Final Frontier! There is never enough fan-content about that movie, so I'd love so see anything you think I'd like! A few examples: Kirk finally having a shower (and Spock joining him as his devoted husband), anything after "Please, Captain, not in front of the Klingons" where the Klingons aren't there, camping together, etc. I'd also love fix-it fics where Sybok doesn't die and he has a chance to talk properly to his brother and his brother-in-law. Or, alternatively, Sybok dies but he still gets to know Kirk and Spock. Sybok's POV could be interesting: when did he realize his brother and Captain Kirk were married/together? What does he think? Kirk's POV would be great too! During the movie, it looks like he's afraid of losing Spock when Sybok appears. At first Kirk only knows Sybok is someone from Spock's past, so it's easy to imagine a misunderstanding about it. Maybe Kirk thinks that Sybok and Spock were lovers, so he's jealous! And when he finds out the truth, he's still not sure Spock will choose him; after all, Spock hid Sybok's existence from him. I think it'd be nice to explore Kirk's feelings during and/or after the movie, with Spock eventually telling him (and showing him) that he will always stay by his side.

In The Undiscovered Country, we see Martia (the shape-shifter) kissing Kirk in Rura Penthe. I don't think Kirk could really refuse her in that circumstance, because she had just offered to help Kirk and Bones to get outside. So I'd like to read Old Married Kirk/Spock where that kiss comes up in a later conversation. It could be Bones who brings it up (when he's drunk, or maybe not), Kirk who tells Spock because he feels guilty, or Spock who finds out during a mind-meld (though Kirk wasn't planning to hide it from him). Maybe Kirk expects Spock to get mad, but Spock surprises him when he says that in that specific situation, kissing Martia back was the logical thing to do. Of course, Spock still hopes there won't be another situation where Kirk is forced to kiss someone else, and he's going to make sure Kirk gets the best kisses from him. :D

Old Married Kirk/Spock make me feel warm inside. Give me anything fluffy, funny, exciting, sexy or angst with a happy ending with them older and I'll be happy! If they get married after TMP, they could celebrate their 10th anniversary between TMP and TWoK, and their 25th anniversary post-The Undiscovered Country (ignoring/fixing Generations).

Regarding the freeform "Older Couple Looking Back On Their Life Together" or any fan-work that can have references to TOS show, I just wanted to say that if it works for the plot, I'm totally fine with mentions of Kirk and Spock's past canon love interests, even the less popular ones like Janet Wallace as Kirk's ex in "The Deadly Years" or Droxine as a woman Spock likes in "The Cloud Minders". I do think Kirk and Spock are the love of each other's life, but I'd rather read canon compliant stories that acknowledge that they had past feelings/attraction for others (as long as it's over, of course) than seeing all their past canon love interest erased. That said, I'm not specifically asking for these references, it's just a preference in case the mentions make sense in context. Also, if you write about them remembering their younger days or any TOS show reference in general, feel free to mention every episode you want! I'm always happy to see little details from less popolar episodes, they all have good K/S moments! That said, if you want to include something popular, that's always great too. Amok Time and Mirror, Mirror are my big faves after all. :)

As a general like, I also enjoy any interaction between Kirk/Spock and other characters. I like all the old crew and Amanda/Sarek, but I'm also really interested in interactions with characters from the movies. I've already mentioned Sybok, but I like Saavik, David and Gillian too! In shorter fics, I also find interesting the idea of an unexpected POV, like Admiral Morrow from The Search for Spock (the guy who gets to hear Kirk saying that Spock's soul is his responsibility "as surely as if it were my very own"). I can see a lot of people being confused about Kirk and Spock's relationship, especially if they're not completely open about it.

Ship specific likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like/freeform mentioned before:

Dealing with Spock's second pon farr (7 years after Amok Time), or with Spock's unexpected pon farr post-The Voyage Home, because after his "resurrection" they don't know when to expect it. About his second pon farr, I'm fine with both pre-relationship and established relationship scenarios. Maybe during their second five-year mission, Spock doesn't know what to do, and of course his superior officer and best friend wants to help! I'm fine with enthusiastic consent, dubious consent and everything in between on Kirk's part. Basically, as long as Kirk eventually likes it and he's attracted to Spock, I'm happy. Of course, Vulcan biology is also perfect for my "Soul Bond" tag.

I'm fine with some popular headcanons about Spock's dick: I especially like to see it as a shade of green and/or self-lubricating. Double-ridges are okay too! I like to think that it's a little bigger than the average human dick, but you're free to be vague about it.

I have basic taste about smut for this ship: I usually like top Spock more, but I do believe they switch sometimes, so if you feel more inspired about top Kirk, go wild!

Kirk getting chubby as he ages and Spock still being very much attracted to him is always a welcome trope. I like to think that they have a pretty active sex life even as they get older.

DNW (Do Not Wants):

Mention of recent real conflicts and politics/political statements, mention of real people from the 20th/21th centuries (unless canon).

Unhappy endings.

Permanent death of Kirk or Spock (temporary/assumed character death is good!).

Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, etc), unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers.

Kirk/Spock or Sarek/Amanda breaking up (about Spock leaving for Gol, I like it as a friendship or pre-relationship breakup; just please don't write it as a romantic relationship breakup).
Fic that is only pre-relationship (where the characters in my requested ship never realize their romantic feelings are mutual).
Infidelity/cheating between Kirk and Spock.
Non-canon relationships between Kirk or Spock and other characters with a name in canon; Kirk or Spock in relationships with OCs as endgame (fine if they're not endgame).

Kirk or Spock having non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage, or non-canon serious illnesses like AIDS, cancer or Alzheimer's.

Poly, asexual, aromantic and trans interpretations for Kirk or Spock.

My requested characters as the aggressors in non-con scenarios.

Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, scat, watersports, sounding.
Abortion and miscarriage (totally fine with mentions of Miramanee's pregnancy and her death).
Sarek and Kirk disliking each other in TOS movies era. Sarek explicitly disapproving of Spock's marriage with Kirk (neutral feelings are fine).
Clones of my requested characters (exception: Kirk's clone from TOS episode "What are little girls made of?" is fine).
The word "rape" used to refer to forced mind-melds (anything else implying violence/non-consensual actions is fine).

Note: unfortunately, I still haven't watched Discovery, SNW and the TNG episodes where Spock appears. Since I am planning to watch them in the future, I'd prefer no major spoilers from them.

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Tesla Note (Anime & Manga)

I'll be honest: there is almost no fan-content about this fandom, so I'm not picky. I just want more about my favorite characters!

Tesla Note is a complete manga series of 7 volumes. It also has a complete anime adaptation of 13 episodes, which unfortunately never got attention because of its bad CGI. Anyway, if you can get past the bad animation, it has an interesting plot, it features great seiyuu (just to mention my requested characters, Mickey is voiced by Junichi Suwabe and Oliver by Hiroshi Kamiya), it has a good soundtrack and especially interesting interactions between the characters! One of the main writers of this manga and anime is Tiger&Bunny main writer Masafumi Nishida, so the banters between the characters and the tropes felt very familiar to me. I had really fun watching the episodes as they aired!

Fake Marriage - Get Married During The Mission To Not Break Their Cover But Then They Catch Feelings
Fake Marriage - Going Undercover Leads to Real Feelings
Fake Marriage - Mistaken For Married While Undercover
Fake Marriage - Undercover As Married While Mutually Pining
Fake Marriage - Undercover As Married Leads To Unexpected Feelings
Marriage - Married to a Spy or Assassin
Marriage - Marrying and falling for the person you only originally seduced to spy on

I love this pairing so much! They're not the protagonists, but I'm sure that if this canon had a fandom, they'd be a pretty obvious ship. When they appear for the first time working as partners, they look very close, but they're also spies, so it's interesting to see what happens to a relationship where they shouldn't completely trust each other… and the plot twist in the second part of the series just makes everything more thrilling between them!

I love the way they always seem to flirt when they talk (especially in the anime, where the voice acting and the background music helps :D), and the way their friendship is so important to each other, even if they might or might not be ready to fight/kill each other if necessary.

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Post-canon, anything where Mickey and Oliver meet again. How did Oliver survive? How does he feel about Mickey now? About this prompt, I just wanted to say that if you read the epilogue of the manga (which was not included in the anime), I'd really love something about it! Feel free to include or not Oliver's permanent injury; you can also heal it if you want, that's up to you.

I requested a lot of "Undercover as Married" freeform tags because they're perfect for two spies like them! I think they'd work especially well post-canon. You can go wild about the reason Mickey and Oliver are working together again, I'm not picky. Just give them an excuse to act like a married couple with a lot of mutual pining and I'll be happy. :D

Flirting! I love seeing Mickey saying his usual nonsense things in different languages, and Oliver being fine with that even if he doesn't get it. Maybe they have some drinks together and the flirting becomes more obvious.

About the freeform "Marrying and falling for the person you only originally seduced to spy on", we know what Oliver is planning in canon when he gets close to Mickey, so what if he also seduced him? I don't think they'd actually get married before the betrayal, but I can definitely see them having a FWB thing going on where they're both pining. And then, after their post-canon reunion, they can finally confess their feelings and eventually get married. :)

I'm interested in both comedy and angst between them, so feel free to create what you like the most, as long as it has a happy ending. Also, feel free to write about any other existing character meeting them as well, it can be fun!

I don't really have a top/bottom preference about them, so feel free to write them the way you want! Switching is totally welcome too! I'm interested in anything based on my general NSFW likes.

Sex scenes while they're fake-married. Maybe they start catching feelings during sex? What do they (not) tell to each other?

DNW (Do Not Wants):

Mention of recent real conflicts/political statements, mention of real people from the 20th/21th centuries (unless canon).

Unhappy endings.

Permanent breakups between Mickey/Oliver (temporary is fine).

Permanent death of Mickey or Oliver (assumed character death is good!).

Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, etc), unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers.

Fic that is only pre-relationship (where the characters in my requested ship never realize their romantic feelings are mutual).

Mickey or Oliver having non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage, or serious illnesses like cancer or Alzheimer's (scars in places that aren't their faces are okay; Oliver's canon injury in the manga epilogue is also okay).

Poly, asexual, aromantic and trans interpretations for Mickey and Oliver.

Infidelity/cheating between Mickey and Oliver.

Mickey and Oliver in relationships with other people as endgame (fine if they're not endgame). Mickey and Oliver having past dead lovers they were in love with (fine if they're alive or they weren't in love).

Non-con.

Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, scat, watersports, sounding.

Thank you so much for reading my letter until the end! I hope you’ll have fun during this exchange!

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General Likes and Smut Likes Letter (Updated in 2026)

2023-04-18T22:15:58Z

Hello! I’m Smile_Edgeworth on AO3 and I love fan-fictions and other kinds of fan-works. If you are seeing this letter after following a link in an exchange, it means that I included all my fandom-specific likes, prompts and DNWs in my sign-up. This is a letter with general things I like to see in fics and other works I request in exchanges, so please check my exchange sign-up if you want to see what I like about my requested fandoms/ships too!

If you’d like to create for me, I hope this letter will help you to get a good idea. All my likes/prompts are optional, so you're free to mix them up, use only one part of a prompt from my sign-up or ignore all prompts and just create something based on one or more likes. I know I like a lot of things, but you don't have to include all of them; on the contrary, I love works that focus on one or a few ideas and develop them!

About fics, I love both short and long stories. If some of my prompts/likes inspire you and you include them, don't worry too much about length; there’s no such a thing as “too long” for me!

As a general preference, I love canon compliant stories, like post-canon and missing scenes in the canon setting. For my romantic ships, I love seeing more of their canon relationship with the addition of the romance, or more about their romance if it's already present. Unless I state otherwise in my sign-up, smut is very welcome for all my romantic ships, in art too!

If something isn’t clear, please don’t be afraid to ask for clarifications through the mods. I’m always glad to reply if I can help someone to write or draw.

General likes (SFW):

Partners. This is a pretty obvious preference of mine; I usually request ships that are (or were) work partners. I love the ambiguity of the word “partner” and what being partners means for two people. I like seeing what changes when their relationship develops and becomes something more than working as a team. I also love when 2 or more characters talk about their own partner, especially in my crossover requests.

Romance mixed with other genres (action, casefic, sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, thriller, historical, etc).

Romantic comedy and humor.

Angst with a happy ending.

Happy endings in general.

Female scientists.

Friendship between male and female characters.

Loyalty, loyalty kink and protectiveness between characters in my romantic ships.

Characters trying to rescue or save the person they love. One requested character trying to rescue or save the other character.

Hurt/Comfort, where one requested character has a temporary injury or is in a bad emotional state, and the other takes care of them. I like when the focus is on the comfort, or at least 50/50.

Temporary/assumed character death (with a happy ending where they come back).

Pining and mutual pining.

Characters oblivious about their own feelings, acting like someone in love but unaware that they are in love until someone/something makes them realize it.

Characters talking about their current love interest, especially in conversations with other existing characters. Even better if they’re very awkward about it.

(When it makes sense for the canon/setting) Characters being confused about their sexual orientation, for example a man thinking he's straight until he realizes there's a guy he'd really want to kiss. I like adult characters figuring out for the first time that they like the same gender. I like both characters who don't label their sexuality and characters confident about their label, so sentences like "I realized I'm bisexual" or "I know I like you and that's all that matters to me" are both good!

Canon compliant, missing moments, characters doing or saying something based on canon, even when it’s a minor detail (for example, a character eating a certain food because they mentioned once they liked it).

Post-canon.

Friends to lovers.

Rivals to lovers.

Power couples.

Slow burn.

Sexual and romantic tension, especially if it's eventually resolved.

Characters in denial about their feelings, flustered and embarrassed characters, characters blushing when they have a crush, characters trying to figure out why they feel a certain way.

Love confessions, first kisses, getting together.

Established relationship, especially when the characters have been close for years.

Fake/pretend relationship, undercover as a couple and similar tropes.

"There's only one bed", handcuffed together, trapped together, stranded together and similar tropes. I have a preference for stories where these tropes help the characters to get together, realize their feelings and/or have sex (for example, when there's only one bed and then the characters wake up hugging each other and/or horny).

Huddling for warmth. I love this trope for my requested ships in any relationship status. I love when it gets sexual too, accidentally or not. It can be a domestic scene in their house or on vacation, but I like huddling for warmth when they're in danger too!

The characters in a requested romantic ship bathing together (can be SFW or NSFW). I especially love this as pining with romantic/sexual tension or established relationship. Thermal baths are great too.

Jealousy, as long as the jealous character doesn’t go as far as committing a serious crime (exception: Mirrorverse Kirk/Spock can commit all the crimes they want as long as it doesn't hit my DNWs). In pre-relationship scenarios, I love jealousy as an inner feeling, where a character thinks their love interest likes someone else or will fall for someone else. I also like when the jealous character asks their love interest if they like a certain person or, in general, if there's someone they like. In established relationships, I like the jealous character to keep an eye on other people they see as potentially interested in the person they love (whether it’s true or not), and also confronting them. Jealousy involving misunderstandings eventually cleared up is great in every scenario!

Family/friends helping a member of my requested ship when they need love advice (for example if they want to ask their crush out or they want to propose to their lover). This is also great with a crossover character helping someone from a different canon to get together with their love interest.

Fade to black between my romantic ships. I love smut, but I equally love every implication that my ships have sex. In established relationships, I especially love couples with an active sex life, even if it's just implied in a T-rated story.

1st or 3rd person. Feel free to write the way you like! If you enjoy 1st person narrator, this is your chance to write it!

NSFW likes:

Heavy making out, stroking the other's (or each other's) hair during a kiss, touching the other’s (or each other’s) butt and chest, with their clothes on or off.

Touching a character’s penis through their pants/underwear until they get hard.

Licking earlobes, neck and nipples.

Biting lips, neck and shoulders (no blood; marks are good).

Frottage/Grinding/Dry Humping, anything where two characters rub their bodies against each other with their clothes on (but if they’re naked it’s good too).

Clothed sex and half-clothed sex.

Handjobs.

Blowjobs.

Intercrural sex (especially in historical settings and/or when penetrative sex would be harder to do because of the circumstances).

Anal sex (in m/m ships).

Flavored lube, especially if one or both characters taste it during sex. Any flavor of fruits or sweets is good.

Characters being loud if only their partner can hear them, moaning, saying their partner’s name.

Every position in penetrative sex is fine, but I have a preference for the ones where the characters can look each other in the eye.

Barebacking.

Sex outside (a garden, a forest, a cavern, a beach, etc.) if they’re alone.

Sex in rooms or places that aren’t their bed (the kitchen, the shower, a table, etc.), public places included (library, office, courtroom, hospital, etc.), as long as nothing is recording them and they're alone. Sex in their workplace is definitely welcome if they lock the door or they know they're alone.

Sex pollen, drunk sex or any mutual dub-con situation where both characters would have wanted to have sex with each other (just not like this). I like mutual dub-con in both pre-relationship and established relationship scenarios.

Characters having sex the same day/night they confess because they've been friends/partners for so long they already trust each other and there's a lot of sexual tension between them.

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Candy Hearts Letter

2023-01-03T21:56:00Z

Hello! I’m Smile_Edgeworth on AO3 and this is my letter for Candy Hearts. If you’d like to create for me, I included a lot of likes and prompts, so I hope my letter will help you to get a good idea. For this exchange I only requested fanfic, but I'm open to both art and fic treats!

My requested fandoms are:

FAKE
- Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean

Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)
- James T. Kirk/Spock

Tesla Note
- Mickey Miller/Oliver Thornton

Crossover Fandom
- Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger&Bunny) & Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga)
- Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger&Bunny) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)
- Barnaby Brooks Jr. (Tiger&Bunny) & Randy MacLean (FAKE manga) & Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)
- Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)
- Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) & Spock (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney) & James T. Kirk/Spock (Star Trek: The Original Series)

I love both short and long fics, so don’t worry too much about fic length. If some of my prompts/likes inspire you and you include them, there’s no such a thing as “too long” for me!

Likes and prompts are optional, so if you have an idea based on my likes only or just part of a prompt, that's totally good! Feel free to combine multiple prompts and likes if you feel inspired as well!

If something isn’t clear, please don’t be afraid to ask for clarifications through the mods. I check my email every day and I’m always glad to reply if I can help someone to write or draw.

General likes (SFW):

Partners. This is a pretty obvious preference of mine, I usually request ships that are (or were) work partners. I love the ambiguity of the word “partner” and what being partners means for two people; I like seeing what changes when their relationship develops and becomes something more than working as a team. I also love when 2 or more characters talk about their own partner.
Romance mixed with other genres (action, casefic, sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, thriller, mystery etc).
Angst with a happy ending.
Happy endings in general.
Female scientists.
Characters trying to rescue or save the person they love.
Temporary/assumed character death (with a happy ending where they come back).
Romantic comedy and humor.
Misunderstandings cleared up in the end, my requested ships working through their miscommunication issues.
Pining and mutual pining.
Characters oblivious about their own feelings, acting like someone in love but unaware that they are in love until someone/something makes them realize it.
Characters talking about their current love interest, especially in conversations with other existing characters. Even better if they’re very awkward about it.
Characters being confused about their sexual orientation, for example men thinking they're straight until they realize there's a guy they'd really want to kiss. I like adult characters figuring out for the first time that they like the same gender. I like both characters who don't label their sexuality and characters confident about their label, so sentences like "I realized I'm bisexual" or "I know I like you and that's all that matters to me" are both good!
Canon compliant, missing moments, characters doing or saying something based on canon, even when it’s a minor detail (for example, a character eating a certain food because they mentioned once they liked it).
Post-canon.
Friends to lovers.
Rivals to lovers.
Power couples.
Slow burn.
Sexual and romantic tension.
Characters in denial about their feelings, flustered and embarrassed characters, characters blushing when they have a crush, characters trying to figure out why they feel a certain way.
Love confessions, first kisses, getting together.
Established relationship, especially when the characters have been close for years.
Fake dating, "there's only one bed", handcuffed together, trapped together, huddling for warmth, undercover as a couple and similar tropes.
Jealousy (as long as the jealous character doesn’t go as far as committing a crime). In pre-relationship scenarios, I love jealousy as an inner feeling, where a character thinks their love interest likes someone else or will fall for someone else. I also like when the jealous character asks their love interest if they like a certain person or, in general, if there's someone they like. In established relationships, I like the jealous character to keep an eye on other people they see as potentially interested in the person they love (whether it’s true or not), and also confronting them. Jealousy involving misunderstandings eventually cleared up is great in every scenario!
Family/friends helping a member of my requested ship when they need love advice (for example if they want to ask their crush out or they want to propose to their lover).
Characters using social media, apps, chats, Reddit or other websites to ask for relationship advice, anonymously or not, especially when other existing characters reply. Depending on the site, I love when they don't know or recognize each other.
Bodyswap! My requested characters waking up in each other's body, especially in sci-fi/supernatural canons where it can happen. I love this trope in pre-relationship scenarios for shippy fic, and in crossover requests for gen fic.
Valentine's Day themed works! Feel free to combine Valentine's Day with any like/prompt I requested, for example a character deciding to confess on February 14th, a character being jealous of their love interest getting chocolate from someone else, etc. I also love to see Japanese characters celebrating both Valentine's Day and White Day, and non-Japanese characters trying to learn about it to impress a Japanese character they like. Alien characters trying to learn about human traditions are also great!

About my romantic ships, in stories longer than 1000 words I have a preference for either "getting together" or "established relationship", and I'm not usually a fan of "pre-relationship" only. However, if the fic is closer to the minimum, I'm fine with anything!

I like both 1st and 3rd person POVs, so feel free to write the way you like! If you enjoy 1st person POV, this is your chance to write it!

NSFW likes:

Heavy making out, stroking the other's (or each other's) hair during a kiss, touching the other’s (or each other’s) butt and chest, with their clothes on or off.
Touching a character’s penis through their pants/underwear until they get hard.
Licking earlobes, neck and nipples.
Biting lips, neck and shoulders (no blood; marks are good).
Frottage, dry humping, anything where two characters rub their bodies against each other with their clothes on (but if they’re naked it’s good too).
Clothed sex and half-clothed sex.
Handjobs.
Blowjobs.
69.
Anal sex.
Flavored lube, especially if one or both characters taste it during sex. Any flavor of fruits or sweets is good.
Characters being loud if only their partner can hear them, moaning, saying their partner’s name.
Every position in penetrative sex is fine, but I have a preference for the ones where the characters can look each other in the eye.
Barebacking.
Sex outside (a garden, a forest, a cavern, a beach, etc.) if they’re alone.
Sex in rooms or places that aren’t their bed (the kitchen, the shower, a table, etc.), public places included (library, office, courtroom, hospital, etc.), as long as nothing is recording them and they're alone. Sex in their workplace is definitely welcome if they lock the door or they know they're alone.
Sex pollen, drunk sex or any mutual dub-con situation where both characters would have wanted to have sex with each other (just not like this). I like mutual dub-con in both pre-relationship and established relationship scenarios.
Characters having sex the same day/night they confess because they've been friends/partners for so long they already trust each other and there's a lot of sexual tension between them.

I also opt-in rimming if it's something you enjoy writing! I don't request it as the only focus of a sex scene, but in the middle of other things, it's good.

DNW:

Real politics, COVID, mention of real people (unless it happens in canon) and other references to current real life events. (Note: in Star Trek I'm totally fine with mentions and quotes from Shakespeare, Dickens, Melville and any author mentioned in canon!)
Unhappy endings.
Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, no powers, etc). Unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers/fusions.
Permanent character death of my requested characters. Non-canon permanent death of characters with a name in canon. (Adult OCs dying in murder cases, accidents, wars and other circumstances for the plot is always fine.)
My requested ships and canon ships breaking up (unless they break up in canon.)
Infidelity. Unrequested non-canon relationships between my requested characters and other characters; my requested characters still in love with a past/dead lover when they fall for the character in my requested ship. (Fond memories are fine. Also, as long as it's over, I'm okay with past "Requested Character/OC" or "Requested Character/Past Canon Love Interest". I'm also always okay with OCs having unrequited romantic/sexual feelings for my requested characters.)
Non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage. Non-canon serious illnesses like AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer's, etc. (Brief mention of canon serious injuries and illnesses is fine. Temporary amnesia is also fine.)
Poly, aromantic, asexual and trans headcanons for my requested characters.
Non-con between my requested characters.
Extreme underage (any mention of sex involving a pre-pubescent child and/or under 13 years old in any circumstance).
Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, BDSM, scat, watersports, sounding, ageplay.
Abortion and miscarriage.

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FAKE

I love this manga! It has a lot of tropes I enjoy: new partners who have to work together, canon adult m/m couple, romance mixed with mystery, slow burn, raising a child, tragic past and angst with a very satisfying happy ending!

I'm mostly interested in post-canon stories, but in fics closer to the 300 words minimum anything that takes place during canon is great too.

Original manga aside, I'm also very fond of the epilogue Like, like, love the author drew after the end. It was never officially published in English, but I'm sure it used to have an unofficial translation online. I can't find it at the moment, so you're totally free to ignore its existence, but if you happen to see it, just know that I'd love something post-epilogue!

I'm also familiar with Fake OVA, Fake Second (the ebooks published in English for Kindle) and with the few chapters I found of Backstage Pass (the 18+ doujinshi the author drew). Basically, I just read everything I could find in English, official or not, so feel free to include the things I mentioned if you liked them!

Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Planning a marriage proposal! Bikky left NYC to start college, and after living together for a few months, Dee, Ryo (or both!) decide they want to propose. I love both funny and serious scenarios in this sense, like everything going wrong every time one of them tries to ask, or a sudden mystery case where one of them almost dies and the other is so happy his partner is alive that he proposes out of the blue. I also like the idea of them proposing together. (Note: you're free to pretend gay marriage is legal where they live even if they're still in the 90s/00s, or you can have them getting married in other ways, official or not!)

Dee is very confident about his sexual orientation from the start, while Ryo is the opposite. Now that they're together, does Ryo want to label his sexuality? I am fine with different interpretations, for example I'm interested in seeing Ryo figuring out he's bi, pan or gay, or maybe demisexual too; but I'm also interested in a story where Ryo is still confused and realizes he's okay anyway, he loves Dee and that's all that matters to him (for now, or maybe forever). For this prompt, I'd like to see his past mentioned (especially the story about the girl he liked from a chapter in Fake Second), but if you're not familiar with Fake Second, it's fine if you don't include it.

I really like Diana and her friendship with Ryo, so it'd be nice to see the two of them interacting when Ryo needs love advice. On the other hand, maybe this time it's Dee who needs advice to make Ryo happy, and he decides to contact her.

Jealousy! Dee is very much the jealous type and Ryo has showed he can be jealous as well, so I can't imagine that changing too much after they start dating. They trust each other deeply, but that doesn't mean they trust anyone around them. What happens when a hot person decides to flirt with one of them? What happens if there's a misunderstanding?

About other ships, I like Bikky/Carol and Rose/Diana! Mentions of any other canon crush or past romance are also fine, as well as having Dee's OC past lovers showing up if they work for the plot (for example to make Ryo jealous).

Ship specific likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

Established relationship, Ryo asks Dee if he can try to top. Dee is very surprised, and it turns out that he has never tried to bottom in his life. I'd like to see them trying to switch for the first time together. Note: I'm not actually interested in them becoming a couple that always switches, I prefer them to keep the top/bottom preference they have. But I'd like to see them trying something new and thinking that sometimes they can do it again (or maybe not, but it's still a positive experience because they're in love).

I like sexual content with them in general! Maybe they're on vacation together and they have sex in a new place? A generic hotel is good too! Or maybe after a mission, one of them (or both) almost dies and they're so happy to be alive they decide to celebrate!

Fandom specific DNW:

Bikky being called or described as a monkey (included ape, baboon and any kind of monkey) or a r*tard.
Dee hitting criminals after they've been arrested (actual justified self-defense if fine).

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Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies)

I like all TOS movies and I'm always looking for more fics about them! It's great to see that after an episodic series, Star Trek got several movies connected together with all the main characters getting older. I'm very fond of The Original Series and I like The Animated Series, so every reference or flashback about them is welcome. However, for this exchange I'm specifically asking for fics with a main focus on the movies era.

Note: unfortunately, I still haven't watched Discovery, SNW and the TNG episodes where Spock appears. Since I am planning to watch them in the future, I'd prefer no major spoilers from them.

James T. Kirk/Spock

I might be 55 years late to the party, but when I fell for Kirk/Spock, I fell hard. Amok Time definitely made me see the ship potential, and the first 3 movies are what did it for me; then everything else was fun to watch! There's something so good in seeing Kirk and Spock's closeness after years of working together, in the way they know each other and need each other more than anyone else in the universe. I love both getting together and established relationship stories with them.

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

About getting together fics, I have a strong preference for post-The Motion Picture. They can get together immediately after V'ger, but they can also be pining idiots for 2 years if it's what you like writing! I'm fine with anything, though I'd prefer the pining/sexual tension to be eventually resolved. I've also read the novelization of TMP movie and I like to consider it canon, so feel free to include everything from that book if you're familiar with it.

According to Kirk's bio on Star Trek official site there are about 14 years between The Motion Picture and The Wrath of Khan. I'd love to read anything taking place during that gap: a second 5-year-mission, Kirk and Spock as teachers for Starfleet Academy, marriage proposals, learning to communicate through their bond if they have one, TOS-typical episode but with them older and married, etc. (Note about the bio I linked: Antonia was invented in Generations, so please ignore her).

In-universe rumors, gossip, social media, Roddenberry's footnote, students/cadets wondering "Are they lovers or…?", outsider POV, Kirk and/or Spock finding in-universe RPF fics about them, interviews where they get asked about their love life… I love all of this both in pre-relationship and established relationship scenarios.

Any missing scene with married Kirk/Spock from The Wrath of Khan, pre-movie or during the story, but before the part where Spock decides to sacrifice himself. It can be the last night Kirk and Spock spend together, more scenes about Kirk's birthday, more scenes with Saavik or David. I feel like there's a lot that can be written and usually the fandom focuses on Spock's death and its aftermath, so I'm more interested on the previous (happier) parts.

I love that after The Voyage Home, Kirk and Spock are both captains. I can imagine some comedy behind it! Maybe Kirk is tired of Spock not calling him Jim (especially in private and on shore leave), so he starts calling Spock "Captain" too. How does Spock react?

Any missing scene from The Final Frontier! There's not a lot of fan-content about that movie, so I'd love so see anything you think I'd like! A few examples: Kirk finally having a shower (and Spock joining him), anything after "Please, Captain, not in front of the Klingons" where the Klingons aren't there, camping together, etc. I'd also love a fix-it fic where Sybok doesn't die and he has a chance to talk properly to his brother and his brother-in-law. Or, alternatively, Sybok dies but he still gets to know Kirk and Spock. Sybok's POV could be interesting: when did he realize his brother and Captain Kirk were married/together? What does he think? Kirk's POV would be great too! During the movie, it looks like he's afraid of losing Spock when Sybok appears. At first Kirk only knows Sybok is someone from Spock's past, so it's easy to imagine a misunderstanding about it. Maybe Kirk thinks that Sybok and Spock were lovers, so he's jealous! And when he finds out the truth, he's still not sure Spock will choose him; after all, Spock hid Sybok's existence from him. I think it'd be nice to explore Kirk's feelings during and/or after the movie, with Spock eventually telling him (and showing him) that he will always stay by his side.

In The Undiscovered Country, we see Martia (the shape-shifter) kissing Kirk in Rura Penthe. I don't think Kirk could really refuse her in that circumstance, because she had just offered to help Kirk and Bones to get outside. So I'd like to read a story with Kirk/Spock in an established relationship where that kiss comes up in a later conversation. It could be Bones who brings it up (when he's drunk, or maybe not), Kirk who tells Spock because he feels guilty, or Spock who finds out during a mind-meld (though Kirk wasn't planning to hide it from him). Maybe Kirk expects Spock to get mad, but Spock surprises him when he says that in that specific situation, kissing Martia back was the logical thing to do. Of course, Spock still hopes there won't be another situation where Kirk is forced to kiss someone else, and he's going to make sure Kirk gets the best kisses from him. :D

Old Married Kirk/Spock make me feel warm inside. Give me anything fluffy, funny, exciting, sexy or angst with a happy ending with them older and I'll be happy!

As a general like, I also enjoy any interaction between Kirk/Spock and other characters. I like all the old crew and Sarek/Amanda, but I'm also really interested in interaction with characters that appear only in the movies. I've already mentioned Saavik, David and Sybok, but I like Gillian a lot too! In shorter fics, I also find interesting the idea of an unexpected POV, like Admiral Morrow from The Search for Spock (the guy who gets to hear Kirk saying that Spock's soul is his responsibility "as surely as if it were my very own"). I can see a lot of people being confused about Kirk and Spock's relationship, especially if they're not completely open about it.

Ship specific likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

Dealing with Spock's second pon farr (7 years after Amok Time), or with Spock's unexpected pon farr post-The Voyage Home, because after his "resurrection" they don't know when to expect it. About his second pon farr, I'm fine with both pre-relationship and established relationship scenarios. Maybe during their second 5-year-mission, Spock doesn't know what to do, and of course his superior officer and best friend wants to help! I'm fine with enthusiastic consent, dubious consent and everything in between on Kirk's part. Basically, as long as Kirk eventually likes it and he's attracted to Spock, I'm happy.

I'm fine with any common headcanon about Spock's dick: I especially like the headcanons that it's a shade of green and/or self-lubricating. I like to think that it's a little bigger than the average human dick, but you don't have to mention it.

I have basic taste about smut for this ship: I usually like top Spock more, but I do believe they switch sometimes, so if you feel more inspired about top Kirk, go wild!

Kirk getting chubby and Spock still being very much attracted to him is always a welcome trope. I like to think that they have a pretty active sex life even as they get older.

Fandom specific DNW:

Star Trek Generations (movie).
Romantic relationship breakups between Kirk/Spock or Amanda/Sarek. About Spock leaving for Gol, I love seeing it explored as a pre-relationship scenario or friendship breakup; just don't have them getting together romantically before TMP (love confessions or first kisses are fine, my DNW only applies to the relationship commitment).
Sarek and Kirk disliking each other (brief mention of past disapproval is fine).
Clones. (Exception: Ilia-probe in TMP and everything from TOS episode What are little girls made of? are fine).
The word "rape" used to refer to forced mind-melds (anything else implying violence or a non-consensual action is fine).

A little clarification I forgot to put on my sign up: my "abortion and miscarriage" DNW doesn't apply to Miramanee's story. You're free to mention her if it works for your fic!

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Tesla Note

I'll be honest: there is almost no fan-content about this fandom, so I'm not picky; any fic with some of my general likes/prompts would make me happy!

Tesla Note is a complete manga series of 7 volumes. It also has an anime adaptation, but unfortunately it never got attention because of its bad CGI. Anyway, if you can get past the bad animation, it has an interesting plot, it features great seiyuu (just to mention my requested characters, Mickey is voiced by Junichi Suwabe and Oliver by Hiroshi Kamiya), it has a good soundtrack and especially interesting interactions between the characters! One of the main writers of this manga and anime is Tiger&Bunny main writer Masafumi Nishida, so the banters between the characters and the tropes felt very familiar to me. I had really fun watching the episodes as they aired!

The manga is now complete, and it was released by Kodansha digitally in English. (I know the site claims the series is "on going", but trust me: I read it until the end and it's complete, even the author says it.) Even if I like the voices and the music of the anime, I think that overall a lot of scenes are better in the manga, so it's definitely recommended!

Mickey Miller/Oliver Thornton

I love this pairing so much! They're not the protagonists, but I'm sure that if this canon had a fandom, they'd be a pretty obvious ship. When they appear for the first time working as partners, they look very close, but they're also spies, so it's interesting to see what happens to a relationship where they shouldn't completely trust each other… and the plot twist in the second part of the series just makes everything more thrilling between them!

I love the way they always seem to flirt when they talk (especially in the anime, where the voice acting and the background music helps :D), and the way their friendship is so important to each other, even if they might or might not be ready to fight/kill each other if necessary.

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Any missing moment! Pre-canon: how did they meet? How did they get so close? What did they do during their free time together?

Post-canon, anything where Mickey and Oliver meet again. How did Oliver survive? How does he feel about Mickey now? About this prompt, this is the first time I request Tesla Note after reading the epilogue of the manga (which was not included in the anime), so I'd really love something about it! Feel free to include or not Oliver's permanent injury; you can also heal it if you want, that's up to you.

Flirting! I love seeing Mickey saying his usual nonsense things in different languages, and Oliver being fine with that even if he doesn't get it. Maybe they have some drinks together and the flirting becomes more obvious.

Friends with benefits (implied or explicit) catching feelings. This is my headcanon for them before Oliver's betrayal: I imagine them not wanting anything romantic because it's not what spies should do, and maybe they're afraid of their own feelings. But sometimes, after a mission or after drinking too much, they sleep together.

I'm interested in both comedy and angst between them, so feel free to create what you like the most, as long as it doesn't have a hopeless ending.

About other ships, I like Elmo/Pino a lot too, so feel free to mention them as a background ship or include it in art if you like it too!

Ship specific likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

I don't really have a top/bottom preference about them, so feel free to write them the way you want! Switching is totally welcome too! I'm interested in anything based on my general NSFW likes.

Sex scenes while they're friends with benefits. Maybe they start catching feelings during sex? What do they (not) tell to each other?

Fandom specific DNW:

My requested characters having dead lovers. (Note: I'm okay with past "Requested Character/OC", as long as the OC didn't die. I'm also always okay with OCs having unrequited romantic/sexual feelings for my requested characters.)

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Crossover Fandom

I'd love to see these characters meeting! All the crossover tags I requested have characters/ships with something in common, so I hope they'll be inspiring.

I love both crossovers and fusions, so feel free to think about any scenario! I'm fine with 2 or 3 fandoms being actually the same world, but I'm also fine with premises like "Tiger&Bunny is a popular anime in New York, and Dee and Ryo suddenly find themselves inside the show", "Star Trek characters play Ace Attorney and suddenly the characters from the game come out from the computer", and so on!

I looove fan-works where my OTP from a fandom meets my OTP from another fandom. Do they become friends? Do they argue? I especially love when at least one of the couples isn't together yet (especially if the ship isn't canon) and the couple more experienced in romance helps them. I also love when both pairings are still pining (A/B pining for each other and C/D pining for each other), and after they interact, A/B and C/D get together.

Note: please keep my "&" relationships platonic, I'm not interested in crossover romantic ships. However, I do love misunderstandings and jealousy, so feel free to have for example a pining character thinking that his love interest is getting a little too close to the crossover guy they just met, or someone in an established relationship not really trusting the way he thinks a crossover guy is flirting with his partner/husband, etc.

Feel free to add any other character from my requested fandoms you like! As long as the characters in the tag you choose to write are the focus of the story, I'd love to see more crossover interactions!

(I put my fandom specific DNW for all the tags I requested at the end of the letter, please don't skip them.)

- Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger&Bunny) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)

- Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)

- Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger&Bunny) & Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga)

- Barnaby Brooks Jr. (Tiger&Bunny) & Randy MacLean (FAKE manga) & Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)

- Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney) & Spock (Star Trek: The Original Series)

- Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney) & James T. Kirk/Spock (Star Trek: The Original Series)

About Phoenix/Edgeworth, I'm fine with any level of commitment in their relationship, from secretly pining for each other to officially married. I love their relationship in every game from the main series, so feel free to write them from any era (Miles Edgeworth Investigations 1 and 2 included). To be honest, if you're familiar with Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice, I'd really love to see them from that era or post-canon because there's less content, but if you're only familiar with the original Trilogy, that's always good too. I am fine with both their Japanese and their localized versions!

About Dee/Ryo, I'm also fine with any level of commitment, but I have a preference for them being already in a relationship, just not public.

About Kotetsu/Barnaby, I have a preference for pre-relationship scenarios in season 1/The Rising era, and getting together or established relationship in season 2.

About Kirk/Spock, I'm fine with any level of commitment, but during the 5-years-mission I prefer pre-relationship. Feel free to interpret "TOS" in the most generic sense of The Original Series or TOS movies: old married Kirk/Spock is always welcome!

Tags specific likes/prompts:

Everything about Ace Attorney crossovers just screams "this character they just met is accused of murder!" to me. :D Feel free to have Kotetsu, Barnaby, Kirk, Spock, Dee or Ryo accused of murder, Phoenix defending them and Edgeworth prosecuting! If you write a Tiger&Bunny crossover, I would absolutely love to see Yuri Petrov as the judge. Feel also free to include Godot, his appearance is so similar to Kotetsu's and they also have the same seiyuu in the anime, so any kind of joke about their looks and voices would be hilarious. If you write a Star Trek crossover, feel free to re-write or make canon divergence of any trial we see during TOS (movies included), or make up a new trial!

Barnaby, Ryo and Edgeworth have pretty similar backstories. They all had their parents suddenly killed around Christmas (Christmas Eve specifically for Barnaby and Ryo, and Edgeworth also had a bad meeting on Christmas Eve 15 years later). Barnaby and Edgeworth were both raised and manipulated by the real murderer, and they both had recurring nightmares about the day of the murder. The three of them all started feeling better thanks to their (work) partners who cared a lot about them. I would like to see them becoming friends: they can attend the same group therapy, or meet online in places where one of them was asking for help. Maybe they can meet during an investigation. Anything is fine!

I am totally fine with "Barnaby & Ryo & Edgeworth" tag being just focused on them, but feel free to create something with "Barnaby/Kotetsu & Dee/Ryo & Phoenix/Edgeworth" if you feel inspired! 3 OTPs meeting would be great!

Any double date or casual meeting in one of their cities is good! If you choose the tags with Tiger&Bunny characters, I have a preference for Sternbild, but the other cities are good too!

If you write something about jealousy, I have a preference for jealous Dee since it's obviously canon, and I also love the idea of Edgeworth and Barnaby being secretly the jealous types. But if you want to write Ryo, Phoenix and Kotetsu as jealous, that's great too! I also love both Kirk and Spock as jealous, so go wild with them! I can also see Kirk flirting a little with a crossover character in an innocent way, without really crossing the line; that would be definitely enough to make someone jealous.

Kotetsu/Barnaby meet Dee/Ryo while they're trying to catch a criminal. In this particular tag, I'm fine with an AU for FAKE characters where New York City is Sternbild and Dee/Ryo work there (just no the other way around please, I like superheroes and NEXT powers). Maybe Dee and/or Ryo also find out they're NEXTs? What kind of powers would they have?

I feel like the Enterprise could definitely find herself in Ace Attorney universe… It wouldn't be the strangest thing ever happened in Star Trek, after all! Edgeworth and Spock have a lot of things in common: they both love chess, they're devoted to logic, they used to hide their feelings (especially for their best friend), they both wanted to please their father figure… I think that their interactions would be very interesting. Throwing Kirk and Phoenix in the middle is also great! They're both good at bluffing, so it'd be fun!

Crossovers specific DNW:

Ace Attorney:

Lesbian Mia Fey (bi or pan is fine).
DGS (The Great Ace Attorney) spoilers/characters.
Unrequested non-canon ships.
In the gen tags "Barnaby & Ryo & Edgeworth" and "Edgeworth & Spock", anything implying that a romantic relationship between Edgeworth and Phoenix could never happen (like making Edgeworth straight, etc). I'm fine with no Phoenix/Edgeworth romance, I just don't want the shippy interpretation to be excluded.

FAKE:

Bikky being called or described as a monkey (included ape, baboon and any kind of monkey) or a r*tard.

Dee hitting criminals after they've been arrested (actual justified self-defense if fine).

Tiger&Bunny:

Kotetsu wearing two wedding/engagement rings at the same time (I'd prefer no mention of his ring in the story.)

In the gen tag "Barnaby & Ryo & Edgeworth", anything implying that a romantic relationship between Kotetsu and Barnaby could never happen (like making Barnaby straight, etc). I'm fine with no Kotetsu/Barnaby romance, I just don't want the shippy interpretation to be excluded.

Star Trek:

Clones.
The word "rape" used to refer to forced mind-melds (anything else implying violence or a non-consensual action is fine).
Star Trek Generations (movie).
In the gen tag "Edgeworth & Spock", anything implying that a romantic relationship between Spock and Kirk could never happen (like making Spock straight, etc). I'm fine with no Kirk/Spock romance, I just don't want the shippy interpretation to be excluded.

Thank you so much for reading my letter until the end! I hope you’ll have fun during this exchange!

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Crossworks 2022 Letter

2022-06-26T03:24:20Z

Hello! I’m Smile_Edgeworth on AO3 and this is my letter for Crossworks exchange. If you’d like to create for me, I included a lot of likes and prompts, so I hope they will help you to get a good idea!

The first part of this letter is about my general likes and my preferences about the single fandoms, but after that I also talk about crossover/fusion likes specifically.

If something isn’t clear, please don’t be afraid to ask for clarifications through the mods. I’m always glad to reply if I can help someone to write.

A few notes about my requested fandoms:

Ace Attorney

- Favorite characters: Miles Edgeworth, Phoenix Wright, Simon Blackquill, Kay Faraday
- Favorite relationships: Phoenix/Edgeworth, Adrian/Franziska, Edgeworth & Kay, Edgeworth & Blackquill

I played all the 6 main games and the 2 Miles Edgeworth Investigations spin-offs, so feel free to use characters/settings from all of them. I love Dual Destinies characters and older Phoenix/Edgeworth, but if you're only familiar with the original Trilogy, that's fine too.

I'm not interested in fics focused on Apollo and the characters from the 4th game, but I'm fine with them being part of the story! If you write casefic and you don't want Phoenix (my main preference) to be the defense attorney, I'd be happy with Athena or Mia too! About the prosecutor, if you don't like Edgeworth and Blackquill, I'm also fine with Godot and Franziska. Anyway, these are just preferences about the main characters, feel free to put your favorite characters in the story too, I don't really have any important character that I dislike!

FAKE (Manga)

- Favorite FAKE characters: Dee Laytner, Randy "Ryo" MacLean, Diana Spacey
- Favorite relationships: Dee/Ryo, Ryo & Diana

I love the original manga, and I'm also very fond of the epilogue Like, like, love the author drew after the end. It was never officially published in English, but if you google "Matou Sanami Like like love" you can find an unofficial translation easily. I'm also familiar with Fake OVA, Fake Second (the ebooks published in English for Kindle) and with the few chapters I found of Backstage Pass (the 18+ doujinshi the author drew). Basically, I just read everything I could find in English, official or not, so feel free to include the things I mentioned if you liked them!

I'm less interested in stories focused on JJ and the other cops, but I like Diana/Rose and Bikky/Cal too (both as characters and as couples), so if you want to include them, that's good!

Sarazanmai

- Favorite characters: Reo Niiboshi, Mabu Akutsu, Keppi
- Favorite relationships: Reo/Mabu, Reo & Anyone

One of my favorite anime! I'm familiar with every extra content: I’m fond of Reo&Mabu 1 volume spin-off manga and Sarazanmai novels (all published in English); I also love the fan-translation of Reo&Mabu Twitter. If you read some of the content I mentioned, feel free to let it inspire you!

I'm less interested in stories taking place during the Otter era only, but you write it as part of a longer story, that's great! Even if Reo, Mabu and Keppi are my favorite characters, I like all the others too, so feel free to include them!

Steins;Gate

- Favorite characters: Okabe, Kurisu
- Favorite relationship: Okabe/Kurisu

An old fandom of mine that I'm attached to. I'm familiar with all the anime, the original visual novel and Steins;Gate 0, but I'm less interested in Steins;Gate 0 except for Maho. Anyway, feel free to include any other main character, I like all of them! Just please don't focus too much on the other girls' romantic feelings for Okabe: I like them as Okabe's friends, but I only ship him with Kurisu.

Tiger & Bunny

- Favorite characters: Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr., Kotetsu T. Kaburagi, Ryan Goldsmith, Emily Brooks
- Favorite relationships: Barnaby/Kotetsu, Ryan/Karina, Barnaby & Anyone, Emily Brooks/Barnaby Brooks Sr.

I looove all the anime and I'm especially interested in content taking place during season 2, but everything is good!

Kotetsu and Barnaby's canon dynamics are great and they're definitely my OTP. I love the development of their relationship from not trusting each other to trusting each other more than anyone else. In fanfics and fan-works I especially like Kotetsu/Barnaby "getting together" stories involving mutual pining or one of them oblivious about his own feelings, but I like established relationship too.

Karina/Ryan used to be a rare pair of mine, but after season 2 it definitely became more than that! I love them and it'd be interesting to see them interacting with characters from different fandoms.

I am familiar with pretty much all the official content that has translation in English (official or not), so if you want to add references to character profiles, voice dramas, manga, character songs and other things, it's all good! I am especially fond of the two short animated specials "Side Bunny" and "Side Tiger".

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General likes and DNWs

I love both short and long fics, so don’t worry too much about fic length. If some of my prompts/likes inspire you and you include them, there’s no such a thing as “too long” for me!

Likes, prompts and ships are optional, so if you have your own idea, that's totally good! Feel free to combine multiple prompts (or part of prompts) and likes if you feel inspired as well! Characters are optional too, of course, but I'd really like a gift where at least a few of my favorite ones appear.

General likes (SFW):

Partners. This is a pretty obvious preference of mine, I love duos that are (or were) work partners and my favorite ships usually have that kind bond. I love the ambiguity of the word “partner” and what being partners means for two people; I like seeing what changes when their relationship develops and becomes something more than working as a team. I also love when 2 or more characters talk about their own partner.
Romance mixed with other genres (action, casefic, supernatural, sci-fi, fantasy, adventure, thriller, mystery, etc).
Angst with a happy ending.
Happy endings in general.
Characters trying to rescue or save the person they love.
Comedy, romantic comedy and humor.
Misunderstandings cleared up in the end, my favorite ships working through their miscommunication issues.
Pining and mutual pining.
Characters oblivious about their own feelings, acting like someone in love but unaware that they are in love until someone/something makes them realize it.
Characters talking about their current love interest, especially in conversations with other characters. Even better if they’re very awkward about it.
Characters being confused about their sexual orientation, for example men thinking they're straight until they realize there's a guy they'd really want to kiss. I like adult characters figuring out for the first time that they like the same gender. I like both characters who don't label their sexuality and characters confident about their label, so sentences like "I realized I'm bisexual" or "I know I like you and that's all that matters for me" are both good!
Canon compliant, missing moments, characters doing or saying something based on canon, even when it’s a minor detail (for example, a character eating a certain food because they mentioned once they liked it).
Post-canon.
Female scientists, especially if they build robots, time machines and similar (examples: Kurisu in Steins;Gate, Emily Brooks in Tiger & Bunny, Aura Blackquill in Ace Attorney)
Friends to lovers, childhood friends to lovers.
Rivals to lovers, enemies to lovers.
Combinations of what I mentioned before where “lovers” is endgame, like “childhood friends to rivals to friends again to lovers”. Also, childhood friends being separated and meeting again as adults.
Power couples.
Slow burn.
Sexual and romantic tension.
Characters in denial about their feelings, flustered and embarrassed characters, characters blushing when they have a crush, characters trying to figure out why they feel a certain way.
Love confessions, first kisses, getting together. I have a preference for scenarios where the characters don't think their feelings are requited but decide to be honest anyway, or scenes where they confess/kiss without thinking (maybe in special circumstances) and then realize what they've done… but everything is good because they're both in love.
Fake dating, "there's only one bed", handcuffed together, trapped together, huddling for warmth, undercover as a couple and similar tropes.
Jealousy (as long as the jealous character doesn’t go as far as committing a crime). This is a trope that I'd really love to see in any crossover/fusion: a lot of characters I love seem to be the jealous type, and seeing them interacting and getting jealous would be hilarious! In pre-relationship scenarios, I love jealousy as an inner feeling, where a character thinks their love interest likes someone else or will fall for someone else. I also like when the jealous character asks their love interest if they like a certain person or, in general, if there's someone they like. In established relationships, I like the jealous character to keep an eye on other people they see as potentially interested in the person they love (whether it’s true or not), and also confronting them. Jealousy involving misunderstandings eventually cleared up is great in every scenario!
Matchmaking, especially if characters from a different canon help two characters to get together (for example, Ace Attorney characters help Kotetsu and Barnaby). In established relationships, I also like crossover/fusion characters helping when a member of my favorite ship needs love advice (for example, Sarazanmai characters help Dee to propose to Ryo).
Characters using social media, apps, chats, Reddit or other websites to ask for relationship advice, anonymously or not, especially when other existing characters reply. Depending on the site, I love when they don't know or recognize each other.

NSFW likes:

Heavy making out, stroking the other's (or each other's) hair during a kiss, touching the other’s (or each other’s) butt and chest, with their clothes on or off.
Touching a character’s penis through their pants/underwear until they get hard.
Licking earlobes, neck and nipples.
Biting lips, neck and shoulders (no blood; marks are good).
Frottage, dry humping, anything where two characters rub their bodies against each other with their clothes on (but if they’re naked it’s good too).
Clothed sex and half-clothed sex.
Handjobs.
Blowjobs.
69.
Anal sex (in m/m ships only).
PIV.
Flavored lube, especially if one or both characters taste it during sex. Any flavor of fruits or sweets is good.
Characters being loud if only their partner can hear them, moaning, saying their partner’s name.
Every position in penetrative sex is fine, but I have a preference for the ones where the characters can look each other in the eye.
Barebacking.
Sex outside (a garden, a forest, a cavern, a beach, etc.) if they’re alone.
Sex in rooms or places that aren’t their bed (the kitchen, the shower, a table, etc.), public places included (library, office, courtroom, hospital, etc.), as long as nothing is recording them and they're alone. Sex in their workplace is definitely welcome if they lock the door or they know they're alone.
Sex pollen, drunk sex or any mutual dub-con situation where both characters would have wanted to have sex with each other (just not like this). I like mutual dub-con in both pre-relationship and established relationship scenarios.
Characters having sex the same day/night they confess because they've been friends/partners for so long they already trust each other and there's a lot of sexual tension between them.

I also opt-in rimming if it's something you enjoy writing! I don't request it as the only focus of a sex scene, but in the middle of other things, it's good.

DNW:

Mention of real people (unless it happens in canon), references to current real life events, COVID.
Unhappy endings.
Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, no powers, etc). Unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers/fusions.
Non-canon permanent character death. (Exception: adult OCs dying in murder cases, accidents, wars and other circumstances for the plot is always fine.)
Permanent break ups between canon ships (unless they break up in canon). Permanent break ups between my favorite ships (if you write them romantically).
Implying my favorite romantic ships can't get together (like making Phoenix straight, Karina/Ryan claiming they're like siblings, etc). I don't mind gen, but I still like to think that my ships are a possibility, even if there's no hint of romance in the fic.
Unrequested non-canon ships. (Background canon ships, canon crushes and OC couples are always fine, as well as mentioning past canon relationships. I'm also always okay with OCs having unrequited romantic/sexual feelings for my requested characters.)
Non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage. Non-canon serious illnesses like AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer's, etc. (Brief mention of canon serious injuries and illnesses is fine.)
Poly headcanons, threesomes and open relationships for my favorite romantic ships, including thoughts about involving other characters in their romantic/sex life. This DNW also applies to characters loving two or more people romantically at the same time when one of them is dead. Mentions of past canon romantic feelings for someone is fine, as well as fond memories of a late lover in the present; I just don't want a character to be still in love with a past lover when they fall for someone else.
Aromantic, asexual and trans headcanons for my requested characters (demisexual Ryo is fine if you want to portray him that way; non-binary Nathan Seymour is also fine).
Non-con, dub-con (exception: mutual dub-con like sex pollen or drunk sex where both characters are equally intoxicated is welcome!)
Underage.
Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, BDSM, scat, watersports, sounding, ageplay, vomit in sex scenes.
Graphic depictions of violence (canon-typical level is fine).
Ace Attorney DNW: Godot bashing, Mia Fey not attracted to men (bi/pan is fine!), The Great Ace Attorney spoilers/characters, Edgeworth & Kay being referred as parent and child or claiming they see each other that way.
FAKE DNW: Dee hitting criminals after they've been arrested; Bikky being called or described as a monkey (included ape, baboon and any kind of monkey) or a r*tard.
Sarazanmai DNW: Reo or Mabu feeling romantic/sexual attraction for characters that aren't each other (or the Otter).
Steins;Gate DNW: routes different from the True Ending (note: this is only relevant if you're basing your work on the visual novels; the anime has the True Ending only).
Tiger & Bunny DNW: Kotetsu wearing two engagement/wedding rings at the same time (if he's not engaged/married to Barnaby, I'm fine with him wearing his usual ring or no rings; if he's engaged/married to Barnaby, I'd like him to only wear his new ring after taking off his old one; I'm also totally fine with no mentions of rings). Kotetsu/the narrator saying about Tomoe "I will always love her, but my heart became bigger so I can love both [Tomoe and Barnaby]", "She's the love of my life/soulmate, but I can have another love of my life/soulmate", "I will never take my ring off", "I still miss her every day [while he's dating Barnaby]". (On the other hand, these are things that I'm fine with as long as they're not the focus of the story: Kotetsu saying that he will never forget about her, Kotetsu thinking about his promise to her to be a hero, comparisons between Kaede and Tomoe, Kotetsu missing Tomoe in a specific circumstance when Barnaby isn't around, Kotetsu having flashbacks of Tomoe at the hospital if Barnaby is injured/in danger/potentially dead.)

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Crossover/Fusion likes

I'd love to see my favorite characters meeting!

First of all, I like both crossovers and fusions, so feel free to think about any scenario! I'm fine with 2 (or 3) fandoms being actually the same world, but I'm also fine with premises like "Ace Attorney is the most popular game in New York, and Dee and Ryo suddenly find themselves inside the game", "Sarazanmai characters come out from the TV", and so on!

I looove fan-works where my OTP from a fandom meets my OTP from another fandom. Do they become friends? Do they argue? I especially love when at least one of the couples isn't together yet (especially if the ship isn't canon) and the couple more experienced in romance helps them. I also love when both pairings are still pining (A/B pining for each other and C/D pining for each other), and after they interact, A/B and C/D get together.

I'm not interested in crossover romantic ships, but I do love misunderstandings and jealousy, so feel free to have for example a pining character thinking that their love interest is getting a little too close to the crossover guy they just met, or someone in an established relationship not really trusting the way they think a crossover guy is flirting with their partner/spouse, etc.

Ace Attorney x Fake x Tiger & Bunny

Edgeworth, Ryo and Barnaby have pretty similar backstories. They all had their parents suddenly killed around Christmas (Christmas Eve specifically for Barnaby and Ryo, and Edgeworth also had a bad meeting on Christmas Eve 15 years later). Barnaby and Edgeworth were both raised and manipulated by the real murderer, and they both had recurring nightmares about the day of the murder. The three of them all started feeling better thanks to their (work) partners who cared a lot about them. I would like to see them becoming friends: they can attend the same group therapy, or meet online in places where one of them was asking for help. Maybe they can meet during an investigation. Anything is fine!

Everything about Ace Attorney crossovers/fusions just screams "this character they just met is accused of murder!" to me. :D Feel free to have Kotetsu, Barnaby, Ryan, Dee, Ryo or Diana accused of murder, Phoenix defending them and Edgeworth prosecuting! If you create a Tiger&Bunny crossover, I would absolutely love to see Yuri Petrov as the judge. Feel also free to include Godot, his appearance is so similar to Kotetsu's and they also have the same seiyuu in the anime, so any kind of joke about their looks and voices would be hilarious.

Tiger & Bunny characters meet Dee/Ryo while they're trying to catch a criminal. I'm fine with an AU for FAKE characters where New York City is Sternbild and Dee/Ryo work there (just no the other way around please, I like superheroes and NEXT powers). Maybe Dee and/or Ryo also find out they're NEXTs? What kind of powers would they have?

Kotetsu and Phoenix become friends because they're both single fathers pining for their own partner. They help each other to ask out the person they like. Alternatively, Barnaby and Edgeworth become friends because they're both pining for a single father they're close to, and they help each other.

Fake x Sarazanmai

Prince Keppi turns Dee and Ryo into kappas! What kind of secrets would they find out about each other if they did the Sarazanmai together? I'd also love to see them exploring the Kappa Kingdom, especially with Reo and Mabu as vassals.

Sarazanmai gay cops meet FAKE gay cops! I don't know how it could happen, maybe Ryo is visiting old relatives in Japan or Dee/Ryo are in their honeymoon, or the other way around. Maybe both couples are in their honeymoon in Hawaii! Anyway, I can imagine Reo and Dee NOT getting along at all at first, both arguing for any minor thing, and probably both jealous of their partners. Perhaps Mabu and Ryo can help them to become friends.

Dee/Ryo or Reo/Mabu are in an established relationship, and one of them wants to propose to their partner. The characters from the other canon help him.

If you create something about jealousy, I have a preference for jealous Dee and Reo since it's pretty canon. But if you want to write Ryo and/or Mabu as jealous, that's great too!

Steins;Gate x Tiger & Bunny

Making a time machine! Time traveling! Kotetsu couldn't save Tomoe because she was ill, but Barnaby could prevent his parents' murder... Or could he? I'd like to read something where they think about it and Barnaby meets his parents, even if they eventually can't really change the past because it would hurt too many people (for example, Barnaby wouldn't become a hero, so he couldn't save Kotetsu and Kaede's life in the first episodes).

Kurisu and Maho are fluent in English, while Kotetsu and his family can probably speak Japanese... What kind of interactions would Steins;Gate and Tiger&Bunny characters have?

Fugan and Okabe have the same voice actor (Mamoru Miyano), maybe there can be misunderstandings because of that? :D

Thank you so much for reading my letter until the end! I hope you’ll have fun during this exchange!

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Id Pro Quo Letter

2022-01-17T18:10:41Z

Hello! I’m Smile_Edgeworth on AO3 and this is my letter for Id Pro Quo exchange. If you’d like to write for me, I included a lot of likes and prompts, so I hope my letter will help you to get a good idea!

My requested fandoms are:

Tesla Note
- Mickey Miller/Oliver Thornton

Tiger & Bunny
- Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu

Crossover Fandom
- Akutsu Mabu/Niiboshi Reo (Sarazanmai) & Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga)
- Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger&Bunny) & Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga)
- Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger&Bunny) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)
- Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger&Bunny) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright & Diego Armando (Ace Attorney)
- Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu & Yuri Petrov (Tiger&Bunny) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)
- Barnaby Brooks Jr. (Tiger&Bunny) & Randy MacLean (FAKE manga) & Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)
- Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)

I love both short and long fics, so don’t worry too much about fic length. If some of my prompts/likes inspire you and you include them, there’s no such a thing as “too long” for me!

I didn't request art in this exchange, but I'm open to art treats! If you're interested, I have lists of art likes for all the ships I requested here in my Chocolate Box Letter, so feel free to read it! I still want everything I requested there.

Likes and prompts are optional, so if you have an idea based on my freeform tags only, that's totally good! Feel free to combine multiple prompts (or part of prompts) and likes if you feel inspired as well!

If something isn’t clear, please don’t be afraid to ask for clarifications through the mods. I check my email every day and I’m always glad to reply if I can help someone to write or draw.

General likes (SFW):

Partners. This is a pretty obvious preference of mine, I usually request ships that are (or were) work partners. I love the ambiguity of the word “partner” and what being partners means for two people; I like seeing what changes when their relationship develops and becomes something more than working as a team. I also love when 2 or more characters talk about their own partner.
Romance mixed with other genres (action, casefic, supernatural, fantasy, adventure, thriller, mystery etc).
Angst with a happy ending.
Happy endings in general.
Characters trying to rescue or save the person they love.
Romantic comedy and humor.
Misunderstandings cleared up in the end, my requested ships working through their miscommunication issues.
Pining and mutual pining.
Characters oblivious about their own feelings, acting like someone in love but unaware that they are in love until someone/something makes them realize it.
Characters talking about their current love interest, especially in conversations with other existing characters. Even better if they’re very awkward about it.
Characters being confused about their sexual orientation, for example men thinking they're straight until they realize there's a guy they'd really want to kiss. I like adult characters figuring out for the first time that they like the same gender. I like both characters who don't label their sexuality and characters confident about their label, so sentences like "I realized I'm bisexual" or "I know I like you and that's all that matters for me" are both good!
Canon compliant, missing moments, characters doing or saying something based on canon, even when it’s a minor detail (for example, a character eating a certain food because they mentioned once they liked it).
Post-canon.
Friends to lovers, childhood friends to lovers.
Rivals to lovers, enemies to lovers.
Combinations of what I mentioned before where “lovers” is endgame, like “childhood friends to rivals to friends again to lovers”. Also, childhood friends being separated and meeting again as adults.
Power couples.
Slow burn.
Sexual and romantic tension.
Characters in denial about their feelings, flustered and embarrassed characters, characters blushing when they have a crush, characters trying to figure out why they feel a certain way.
Love confessions, first kisses, getting together. I have a preference for scenarios where the characters don't think their feelings are requited but decide to be honest anyway, or scenes where they confess/kiss without thinking (maybe in special circumstances) and then realize what they've done... but everything is good because they're both in love.
Fake dating, "there's only one bed", handcuffed together, trapped together, huddling for warmth, undercover as a couple and similar tropes.
Jealousy (as long as the jealous character doesn’t go as far as committing a crime). In pre-relationship scenarios, I love jealousy as an inner feeling, where a character thinks their love interest likes someone else or will fall for someone else. I also like when the jealous character asks their love interest if they like a certain person or, in general, if there's someone they like. In established relationships, I like the jealous character to keep an eye on other people they see as potentially interested in the person they love (whether it’s true or not), and also confronting them. Jealousy involving misunderstandings eventually cleared up is great in every scenario!
Matchmaking, especially in fandoms where the requested characters have friends/family members who want them to be happy. In established relationships, I also like family/friends helping when a member of my requested ship needs love advice (for example if they want to ask their lover to marry them).
Characters using social media, apps, chats, Reddit or other websites to ask for relationship advice, anonymously or not, especially when other existing characters reply. Depending on the site, I love when they don't know or recognize each other.

NSFW likes:

Heavy making out, stroking the other's (or each other's) hair during a kiss, touching the other’s (or each other’s) butt and chest, with their clothes on or off.
Touching a character’s penis through their pants/underwear until they get hard.
Licking earlobes, neck and nipples.
Biting lips, neck and shoulders (no blood; marks are good).
Frottage, dry humping, anything where two characters rub their bodies against each other with their clothes on (but if they’re naked it’s good too).
Clothed sex and half-clothed sex.
Handjobs.
Blowjobs.
69.
Anal sex.
Flavored lube, especially if one or both characters taste it during sex. Any flavor of fruits or sweets is good.
Characters being loud if only their partner can hear them, moaning, saying their partner’s name.
Every position in penetrative sex is fine, but I have a preference for the ones where the characters can look each other in the eye.
Barebacking.
Sex outside (a garden, a forest, a cavern, a beach, etc.) if they’re alone.
Sex in rooms or places that aren’t their bed (the kitchen, the shower, a table, etc.), public places included (library, office, courtroom, hospital, etc.), as long as nothing is recording them and they're alone. Sex in their workplace is definitely welcome if they lock the door or they know they're alone.
Sex pollen, drunk sex or any mutual dub-con situation where both characters would have wanted to have sex with each other (just not like this). I like mutual dub-con in both pre-relationship and established relationship scenarios.
Characters having sex the same day/night they confess because they've been friends/partners for so long they already trust each other and there's a lot of sexual tension between them.

I also opt-in rimming if it's something you enjoy writing! I don't request it as the only focus of a sex scene, but in the middle of other things, it's good.

DNW:

Real politics, propaganda, COVID, mention of real people (unless it happens in canon) and other references to current real life events.
Unhappy endings.
Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, no powers, etc). Unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers/fusions.
Non-canon permanent character death. (Exception: adult OCs dying in murder cases, accidents, wars and other circumstances for the plot is always fine.)
Permanent break ups between the characters in my requested ships. Permanent break ups between canon ships (unless they break up in canon.)
Unrequested non-canon ships. (Background canon ships, canon crushes and OC couples are always fine, as well as mentioning past canon relationships. I'm also always okay with OCs having unrequited romantic/sexual feelings for my requested characters.)
Non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage. Non-canon serious illnesses like AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer's, etc. (Brief mention of canon serious injuries and illnesses is fine.)
Poly headcanons, threesomes and open relationships for my requested romantic ships, including thoughts about involving other characters in their romantic/sex life. This DNW also applies to characters loving two or more people romantically at the same time when one of them is dead. Mentions of past canon romantic feelings for someone is fine, as well as fond memories of a late lover in the present; I just don't want a character to be still in love with a past lover when they fall for the character in my requested ship.
Aromantic, asexual and trans headcanons for my requested characters (demisexual Ryo is fine if you want to portray him that way).
Non-con, one-sided dub-con.
Extreme underage (any mention of sex involving a pre-pubescent child and/or under 13 years old in any circumstance).
Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, BDSM, scat, watersports, sounding, ageplay, vomit in sex scenes.
Graphic depictions of violence (canon-typical level is fine).

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Tesla Note

I'll be honest: there is basically no fan-content about this fandom (I wrote the only AO3 fic by myself), so I'm not picky: any fic even vaguely based on my freeform tags would make me happy!

I'm aware that Tesla Note anime adaptation isn't popular because of its bad CGI, but if you can get past the bad animation, it has an interesting plot, it features great seiyuu (just to mention my requested characters, Mickey is voiced by Junichi Suwabe and Oliver by Hiroshi Kamiya), it has a good soundtrack and especially interesting interactions between the characters! One of the main writers of this manga and anime is Tiger&Bunny main writer Masafumi Nishida, so the banters between the characters and the tropes felt very familiar to me. I had really fun watching the episodes as they aired!

"Casual" Sex Turning Tender
A is hit on by someone pushy; B steps in as A's fake significant other; fake to real pipeline
A shows up on B's doorstep after fight or separation: "I didn't know where else to go"
A/B Kick The Asses Of Bad Guys Who Attack During Their Date Then Go Back To Having A Good Time
A/B Reach Into Each Others' Clothing For Weapons They Know Will Be There In A Fight
Adrenaline High Kisses After Surviving A Car Chase
after much pining & almost dying A (bloody & bruised) comes straight to B & kisses them in public
bathing together
Bed Sharing Justified As It Just Being Practical
Can't Stop Thinking About It - A Accidentally Sees B Naked
Can't stop thinking about it - other characters assumed they were dating
Carried to bed by partner
Character A Confesses Feelings Because They Think Character B is Unconscious
Character Doesn't Expect Tenderness But Gets It Anyway
Character expected to die but didn't and now has no idea how to live anymore
Character in casual arrangement realizes they don't consider themself single
character raised as weapon/tool suddenly treated with kindness and respect
Character Study
Characters With Benefits Who’ve Never Kissed; When They Do It’s a Line Crossing Intimate Moment
Drunken Confessions
Fake/Pretend Relationship
First Meeting Is A Protecting B
Forced Proximity - THERE WAS ONLY ONE BED
Getting Together - but involving increasingly elaborate seduction attempts
Huddling for warmth leads to fantastic sex
It's not gay if (insert excuse here)
Missing Scene
Morning After (Incredible Sex the night before)
Pining - While Having Sex
Pining while in a sexual relationship
Post-canon - characters slowly recover from trauma caused by canon
Post-Series
Relationship Study
Reunion - estranged characters finding way back to each other
thank god you're/we're alive sex
There Was Only One Bed
Thing character has built a large chunk of their life around comes to an end; finding a new path
this fandom is tiny gimme whatever you think I'd like (other than DNWs) I trust you
Undercover - Undercover as a Couple
Undercover - Undercover as a Couple Leads to Mutual Feelings

I love this pairing so much! They're not the protagonists, but I'm sure that if the anime had a fandom, they'd be a pretty obvious ship. When we see them for the first time working as partners, they look very close, but they're also spies, so it's interesting to see what happens to a relationship where they shouldn't completely trust each other... and the plot twist in the second part of the series just makes everything more thrilling between them!

I love the way they always seem to flirt when they talk (the background music helps :D), and the way their friendship is so important to each other, even if they might or might not be ready to fight/kill each other if necessary.

Ship specific likes and prompts:

Any missing moment! Pre-canon: how did they meet? How did they get so close? What did they do during their free time together?

Post-canon, anything where Mickey and Oliver meet again. How did Oliver survive? How does he feel about Mickey now?

Flirting! I love seeing Mickey saying his usual nonsense things in different languages, and Oliver being fine with that even if he doesn't get it. Maybe they have some drinks together and the flirting becomes more obvious.

Friends with benefits (implied or explicit) catching feelings. This is my headcanon for them before Oliver's betrayal: I imagine them not wanting anything romantic because it's not what spies should do, and maybe they're afraid of their own feelings. But sometimes, after a mission or after drinking too much, they sleep together.

I'm interested in both comedy and angst between them, so feel free to create what you like the most, as long as it doesn't have a hopeless ending (a happy ending is preferred).

About smut, I don't have a top/bottom preference about them, so feel free to write them the way you want! Switching is totally welcome too! I'm interested in anything based on my general NSFW likes and my freeform tags.

I like Elmo/Pino a lot too, so feel free to mention them as a background ship if you like it too!

I don't have fandom specific DNW. Just a clarification: I don't consider Oliver and Ryuunosuke canonically dead (the ending is ambiguous, leaning more into them being alive or coming back to life in my opinion), so don't create anything with permanent character death involving them. Temporary character death is fine!

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Tiger & Bunny

I love everything about Kotetsu and Barnaby's canon dynamics! I love the development of their relationship from not trusting each other to trusting each other more than anyone else. I'm also very fond of The Rising movie.

I'm familiar with pretty much all the official content that has a translation in English (official or not), so if you want to add references to character profiles, voice dramas, manga, character songs and other things, it's all good! But if you want to create something based on the anime only, that's good too!
About the extras, I especially like the two short animated specials "Side Bunny" and "Side Tiger", and "Tiger&Bunny - The Comic" manga.

Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu

Freeform tags:

Body Swap
Bodyswap can only be reversed with sex
Breeding kink: Younger character breeding older character
Characters read in-universe A/B fics while A/B are mutually pining
Matchmaking: Characters help A/B to get together
Older character accidentally mpregnant after sex with younger character because of superpowers
Pining character asks for love advice on Reddit & other characters reply without recognizing them

I love Kotetsu/Barnaby "getting together" fics involving mutual pining or one of them oblivious about his own feelings, but I also like established relationship in smut prompts.

Ship specific likes and prompts:

Matchmaking! Kotetsu and Barnaby have a lot of people who care about them, what would they do if their friends noticed their not-so-secret feelings for each other? I'd love to see any hero matchmaking, like Ryan or Nathan, but it can also be someone unexpected like Lunatic!

Body Swap! Because of a NEXT power, pre-relationship Kotetsu and Barnaby wake up in each other's body. How would Barnaby deal with being an "old man" he is secretly attracted to? How would Kotetsu deal with being suddenly a decade younger and super popular with women? Feel free to get as explicit as you want with masturbation and sexual fantasies, especially if they're looking at their new body in the bathroom and getting horny. I'm also interested in sexual content between them in each other's body.

The heroes read fics on the internet about themselves. "Tiger/Barnaby" is a pretty popular ship... or maybe it's not? How do Kotetsu and Barnaby react? I'd prefer them not to be in a relationship yet, so their reactions can be more embarrassing. (Note: my DNW about unrequested non-canon ships doesn't apply to in-universe fan-works! For example, I'm fine with Kotetsu finding Kotetsu/Karina smut, as long as he doesn't find it hot. If the relationships don't become "real" in the story, everything that is fictional in their world is okay!)

Pining Kotetsu (or pining Barnaby) asks for love advice on Reddit (or a similar site), and the other existing characters reply without realizing who they're talking to. I'd love to read Reddit threads and/or the characters' reactions! How do Kotetsu and Barnaby get together?

Mpreg: accidental impregnation caused by superpowers! Maybe a NEXT hits Kotetsu and gives him the ability of getting pregnant, maybe two men with the same NEXT power (like Kotetsu and Barnaby are) can make mpreg possible, maybe using their Hundred Power during sex has certain unknown consequences... Anyway, Barnaby has sex with Kotetsu and accidentally impregnates him. I'm especially interested in the discovery of the pregnancy and their reactions, but I'm also fine with stories exploring the following months where Kotetsu is more visibly pregnant too. I'd love them to be surprised but also happy to have a baby together.

Breeding kink. I'd love to see Barnaby breeding Kotetsu! Mpreg can actually be a possibility or not, either way is fine. If you choose to make it possible, I'd prefer it to be caused by their own NEXT powers or another NEXT, like I explained in my mpreg request.

In my mpreg and breeding kink freeform tags I'm explicitly asking for top Barnaby/bottom Kotetsu; however, this is not a strict preference about their sex life in general. As long as Barnaby doesn't get pregnant and Kotetsu doesn't breed him, I'm totally fine with them switching or Kotetsu topping in any other scenario! If you're interested in my headcanon, I prefer them switching with Barnaby topping more often, but I am fine with anything you want to write.

About other ships/crushes, I'm fine with mentions of Barnaby having casual sex with OCs in the year he retires in episode 25, as long as he doesn't fall in love with them and he's not dating Kotetsu. I'm also fine with mention of any canon ship and one-sided crush (for example Karina's crush on Kotetsu). If you include Ryan or Nathan, I am fine with them having casual relationships with OCs (only men for Nathan please), and I also like one-sided Ryan/Barnaby (as long as it doesn't become requited).

Fandom specific DNW:

Kotetsu wearing two wedding/engagement rings at the same time. (I'm okay with Kotetsu wearing his usual ring if he's not engaged/married to Barnaby, and I'm fine with him getting a new engagement/wedding ring from Barnaby as long as he took off the ring from his first marriage. I'm also fine with no mention of rings.)

Kotetsu being unable to move on from Tomoe (unless it's the start of the series/The Beginning era). Tomoe is important for Kotetsu's backstory and I'm not asking to erase her; however, at the end of the series I'd like Kotetsu to see Tomoe as a past love he remembers fondly, not as someone he loves in the present exactly the same way he did when she was alive. To explain better what I mean, this DNW includes sentences like "I will always love her, but my heart became bigger so I can love both [Tomoe and Barnaby]", "She's the love of my life/soulmate, but I can have another love of my life/soulmate", "I will never take my ring off", "I still miss her every day [while he's dating Barnaby]". (On the other hand, these are things that I'm fine with as long as they're not the focus of the story: Kotetsu saying that he will never forget about her, Kotetsu thinking about his promise to her to be a hero, comparisons between Kaede and Tomoe, Kotetsu missing Tomoe in a specific circumstance when Barnaby isn't around, Kotetsu having flashbacks of Tomoe at the hospital if Barnaby is injured/in danger/potentially dead.)

If Kotetsu/Barnaby think about their future kid(s), claiming they'd want to give their kid(s) names from their family members/friends/main villains. (Exception: Emily or Samantha are good!)

Abortion and miscarriage. (I'm fine with Barnaby thinking that Kotetsu might want to have an abortion, but only if he's wrong about it.)

Unresolved pining between Kotetsu and Barnaby. (I'm not picky about it, I'm totally fine with them being oblivious about each other's feelings for 99% of the fic; I just want them to eventually find out their love is mutual.)

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Crossover Fandom
(requests 3, 4 and 5)

I'd love to see these characters meeting! All the crossover tags I requested have characters/ships with something in common, so I hope they'll be inspiring.

I love both crossovers and fusions, so feel free to think about any scenario! I'm fine with 2 (or 3) fandoms being actually the same world, but I'm also fine with premises like "Ace Attorney is the most popular game in New York, and Dee and Ryo suddenly find themselves inside the game", "Sarazanmai characters come out from the TV", and so on!

I looove fan-works where my OTP from a fandom meets my OTP from another fandom. Do they become friends? Do they argue? I especially love when at least one of the couples isn't together yet (especially if the ship isn't canon) and the couple more experienced in romance helps them. I also love when both pairings are still pining (A/B pining for each other and C/D pining for each other), and after they interact, A/B and C/D get together.

Note: please keep my "&" relationships platonic, I'm not interested in crossover romantic ships. However, I do love misunderstandings and jealousy, so feel free to have for example a pining character thinking that his love interest is getting a little too close to the crossover guy they just met, or someone in an established relationship not really trusting the way he thinks a crossover guy is flirting with his partner/husband, etc.

You can add any other character you like from my requested fandoms! As long as the characters in the tag you choose to write are the protagonists of the fic, I'd love to see more crossover interactions!

About Phoenix/Edgeworth, I'm fine with any level of commitment in their relationship, from secretly pining for each other to officially married. I love their relationship in every game from the main series, so feel free to write them from any era (Miles Edgeworth Investigations 1 and 2 included). To be honest, if you're familiar with Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice, I'd really love to see them from that era or post-canon because there's less content, but if you're only familiar with the original Trilogy, that's always good too. I am fine with both their Japanese and their localized versions!

About Dee/Ryo and Reo/Mabu, I'm also fine with any level of commitment, but I have a preference for them being already in a relationship (maybe not public, especially Dee/Ryo).

About Kotetsu/Barnaby, I have a preference for pre-relationship scenarios. I'd love to read about them realizing their feelings and getting together because of their interactions with a ship/character from another fandom.

(I put my fandom specific DNW for all the crossover requests at the end of the letter, please don't skip them.)

Request 3

- Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger&Bunny) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)
- Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger&Bunny) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright & Diego Armando (Ace Attorney)
- Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu & Yuri Petrov (Tiger&Bunny) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)
- Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)

Freeform tags:

A & B help each other to get together with their crushes
A framed for a crime they didn't commit; B determined to prove their innocence
Case Fic
Crossover: Character from fandom A is accused of murder & Character from fandom B defends them
this fandom is tiny gimme whatever you think I'd like (other than DNWs) I trust you

Relationships specific likes and prompts:

Everything about Ace Attorney crossovers just screams "this character they just met is accused of murder!" to me. :D Feel free to have Kotetsu, Barnaby, Dee or Ryo accused of murder, Phoenix defending them and Edgeworth prosecuting! If you create a Tiger&Bunny crossover, I would absolutely love to see Yuri Petrov as the judge. Feel also free to include Godot, his appearance is so similar to Kotetsu's and they also have the same seiyuu in the anime, so any kind of joke about their looks and voices would be hilarious.

Kotetsu (or Barnaby) and Phoenix (or Edgeworth) become friends because they're both pining for their own partner. They help each other to confess and get together.

Request 4

- Akutsu Mabu/Niiboshi Reo (Sarazanmai) & Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga)
- Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger&Bunny) & Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga)
- Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger&Bunny) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)
- Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)

Freeform tags:

A jealous of B's relationship w/C - B is in love with A; relationship with C actually platonic
A/B in an established relationship give love advice to C/D who are pining for each other
Jealousy - jealousy before getting together
Jealousy/Possessiveness - Feelings Revealed When A Mistakenly Thinks B Is With Someone Else
this fandom is tiny gimme whatever you think I'd like (other than DNWs) I trust you

Relationships specific likes and prompts:

Double date or casual meeting in one of their cities! If you choose the tags with Tiger&Bunny characters, I have a preference for Sternbild, but the other cities are good too!

Kotetsu/Barnaby are pining, and they get together thanks to a couple in an established relationship (accidentally or not).

Dee/Ryo, Phoenix/Edgeworth and/or Reo/Mabu are in an established relationship, but one of them wants to propose to their partner. Another couple or two characters pining for each other (like Kotetsu/Barnaby) help him.

Sarazanmai gay cops meet FAKE gay cops! I don't know how it could happen, maybe Ryo is visiting old relatives in Japan or Dee/Ryo are in their honeymoon, or the other way around. Maybe both couples are in their honeymoon in Hawaii! Anyway, I can imagine Reo and Dee NOT getting along at all at first, both arguing for any minor thing, and probably both jealous of their partners. Perhaps Mabu and Ryo can help them to become friends.

If you create something about jealousy, I have a preference for jealous Dee and Reo since it's pretty canon, and I also love the idea of Edgeworth and Barnaby being secretly the jealous types. But if you want to write Ryo, Mabu, Phoenix and Kotetsu as jealous, that's great too!

Kotetsu/Barnaby meet Dee/Ryo while they're trying to catch a criminal. In this particular relationship tag, I'm fine with an AU for FAKE characters where New York City is Sternbild and Dee/Ryo work there (just no the other way around please, I like superheroes and NEXT powers). Maybe Dee and/or Ryo also find out they're NEXTs? What kind of powers would they have?

Request 5

Barnaby Brooks Jr. (Tiger&Bunny) & Ryo MacLean (FAKE manga) & Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)

Freeform tags:

A B & C have group therapy because they have similar traumas
Pining character asks for love advice on Reddit & other characters reply without recognizing them
Post-canon - characters slowly recover from trauma caused by canon
Thing character has built a large chunk of their life around comes to an end; finding a new path
this fandom is tiny gimme whatever you think I'd like (other than DNWs) I trust you

Relationship specific likes and prompts:

Barnaby, Ryo and Edgeworth have pretty similar backstories. They all had their parents suddenly killed around Christmas (Christmas Eve specifically for Barnaby and Ryo, and Edgeworth also had a bad meeting on Christmas Eve 15 years later). Barnaby and Edgeworth were both raised and manipulated by the real murderer, and they both had recurring nightmares about the day of the murder. The three of them all started feeling better thanks to their (work) partners who cared a lot about them. I would like to see them becoming friends: they can attend the same group therapy, or meet online in places where one of them was asking for help. Maybe they can meet during an investigation. Anything is fine!

I am totally fine with "Barnaby & Ryo & Edgeworth" tag being just focused on them, but feel free to create something with "Barnaby/Kotetsu & Dee/Ryo & Phoenix/Edgeworth" if you feel inspired! 3 OTPs meeting would be great!

Crossovers specific DNW (Request 3, 4 and 5):

Ace Attorney:

Godot bashing.
Mia not attracted to men.
DGS (The Great Ace Attorney) spoilers/characters.
In the gen tag "Barnaby & Ryo & Edgeworth", anything implying that a romantic relationship between Edgeworth and Phoenix could never happen (like making Edgeworth straight, etc). I'm fine with no Phoenix/Edgeworth romance, I just don't want the shippy interpretation to be excluded.

FAKE:

Bikky being called or described as a monkey (included ape, baboon and any kind of monkey) or a r*tard.

Dee hitting criminals after they've been arrested (actual justified self-defense if fine).
In the gen tag "Barnaby & Ryo & Edgeworth", making Dee/Ryo platonic.

Sarazanmai:

Reo and Mabu being romantically/sexually attracted to anyone but each other or the Otter in any point of their lives.

Tiger&Bunny:

Kotetsu wearing two wedding/engagement rings at the same time. (In Crossover Fandom, I'd prefer Kotetsu to wear just his usual wedding ring from his first marriage or no rings, and Barnaby no wedding/engagement rings.)

Kotetsu being unable to move on from Tomoe; Kotetsu/the narrator saying "I will always love her, but my heart became bigger so I can love both [Tomoe and Barnaby]", "She's the love of my life/soulmate, but I can have another love of my life/soulmate", "I will never take my ring off", "I still miss her every day [while he's dating Barnaby]".
In the gen tag "Barnaby & Ryo & Edgeworth", anything implying that a romantic relationship between Kotetsu and Barnaby could never happen (like making Barnaby straight, etc). I'm fine with no Kotetsu/Barnaby romance, I just don't want the shippy interpretation to be excluded.

Thank you so much for reading my letter until the end! I hope you’ll have fun during this exchange!

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Chocolate Box Letter

2021-12-31T13:58:45Z

Hello! I’m Smile_Edgeworth on AO3 and this is my letter for Chocolate Box. If you’d like to create for me, I included a lot of likes and prompts, so I hope my letter will help you to get a good idea!

My requested fandoms are:

FAKE
- Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean

Tesla Note
- Mickey Miller/Oliver Thornton

Tiger & Bunny
- Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu
- Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu & Ryan Goldsmith

Crossover Fandom
- Akutsu Mabu/Niiboshi Reo (Sarazanmai) & Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga)
- Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger&Bunny) & Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga)
- Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger&Bunny) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)
- Barnaby Brooks Jr. (Tiger&Bunny) & Randy MacLean (FAKE manga) & Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)
- Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)

I want art as much as I want fic, but I don't usually request art in other exchanges, so I'm sorry some of my likes/prompts might not work for art. I wrote a list of art likes to explain better what I'd like to get!

I love both short and long fics, so don’t worry too much about fic length. If some of my prompts/likes inspire you and you include them, there’s no such a thing as “too long” for me!

Likes and prompts are optional, so if you have an idea based on my likes only or just part of a prompt, that's totally good! Feel free to combine multiple prompts and likes if you feel inspired as well!

If something isn’t clear, please don’t be afraid to ask for clarifications through the mods. I check my email every day and I’m always glad to reply if I can help someone to write or draw.

General likes (SFW):

Partners. This is a pretty obvious preference of mine, I usually request ships that are (or were) work partners. I love the ambiguity of the word “partner” and what being partners means for two people; I like seeing what changes when their relationship develops and becomes something more than working as a team. I also love when 2 or more characters talk about their own partner.
Romance mixed with other genres (action, casefic, supernatural, fantasy, adventure, thriller, mystery etc).
Angst with a happy ending.
Happy endings in general.
Characters trying to rescue or save the person they love.
Romantic comedy and humor.
Misunderstandings cleared up in the end, my requested ships working through their miscommunication issues.
Pining and mutual pining.
Characters oblivious about their own feelings, acting like someone in love but unaware that they are in love until someone/something makes them realize it.
Characters talking about their current love interest, especially in conversations with other existing characters. Even better if they’re very awkward about it.
Characters being confused about their sexual orientation, for example men thinking they're straight until they realize there's a guy they'd really want to kiss. I like adult characters figuring out for the first time that they like the same gender. I like both characters who don't label their sexuality and characters confident about their label, so sentences like "I realized I'm bisexual" or "I know I like you and that's all that matters for me" are both good!
Canon compliant, missing moments, characters doing or saying something based on canon, even when it’s a minor detail (for example, a character eating a certain food because they mentioned once they liked it).
Post-canon.
Friends to lovers, childhood friends to lovers.
Rivals to lovers, enemies to lovers.
Combinations of what I mentioned before where “lovers” is endgame, like “childhood friends to rivals to friends again to lovers”. Also, childhood friends being separated and meeting again as adults.
Power couples.
Slow burn.
Sexual and romantic tension.
Characters in denial about their feelings, flustered and embarrassed characters, characters blushing when they have a crush, characters trying to figure out why they feel a certain way.
Love confessions, first kisses, getting together. I have a preference for scenarios where the characters don't think their feelings are requited but decide to be honest anyway, or scenes where they confess/kiss without thinking (maybe in special circumstances) and then realize what they've done... but everything is good because they're both in love.
Fake dating, "there's only one bed", handcuffed together, trapped together, huddling for warmth, undercover as a couple and similar tropes.
Jealousy (as long as the jealous character doesn’t go as far as committing a crime). In pre-relationship scenarios, I love jealousy as an inner feeling, where a character thinks their love interest likes someone else or will fall for someone else. I also like when the jealous character asks their love interest if they like a certain person or, in general, if there's someone they like. In established relationships, I like the jealous character to keep an eye on other people they see as potentially interested in the person they love (whether it’s true or not), and also confronting them. Jealousy involving misunderstandings eventually cleared up is great in every scenario!
Matchmaking, especially in fandoms where the requested characters have friends/family members who want them to be happy. In established relationships, I also like family/friends helping when a member of my requested ship needs love advice (for example if they want to ask their lover to marry them).
Characters using social media, apps, chats, Reddit or other websites to ask for relationship advice, anonymously or not, especially when other existing characters reply. Depending on the site, I love when they don't know or recognize each other.
Valentine's Day themed works! Feel free to combine Valentine's Day to any like/prompt I requested, for example a character deciding to confess on February 14th, a character being jealous of their love interest getting chocolate from someone else, etc. I also love to see Japanese characters celebrating both Valentine's Day and White Day, and non-Japanese characters trying to learn about it to impress a Japanese character they like.

NSFW likes:

Heavy making out, stroking the other's (or each other's) hair during a kiss, touching the other’s (or each other’s) butt and chest, with their clothes on or off.
Touching a character’s penis through their pants/underwear until they get hard.
Licking earlobes, neck and nipples.
Biting lips, neck and shoulders (no blood; marks are good).
Frottage, dry humping, anything where two characters rub their bodies against each other with their clothes on (but if they’re naked it’s good too).
Clothed sex and half-clothed sex.
Handjobs.
Blowjobs.
69.
Anal sex.
Flavored lube, especially if one or both characters taste it during sex. Any flavor of fruits or sweets is good.
Characters being loud if only their partner can hear them, moaning, saying their partner’s name.
Every position in penetrative sex is fine, but I have a preference for the ones where the characters can look each other in the eye.
Barebacking.
Sex outside (a garden, a forest, a cavern, a beach, etc.) if they’re alone.
Sex in rooms or places that aren’t their bed (the kitchen, the shower, a table, etc.), public places included (library, office, courtroom, hospital, etc.), as long as nothing is recording them and they're alone. Sex in their workplace is definitely welcome if they lock the door or they know they're alone.
Sex pollen, drunk sex or any mutual dub-con situation where both characters would have wanted to have sex with each other (just not like this). I like mutual dub-con in both pre-relationship and established relationship scenarios.
Characters having sex the same day/night they confess because they've been friends/partners for so long they already trust each other and there's a lot of sexual tension between them.

I also opt-in rimming if it's something you enjoy writing! I don't request it as the only focus of a sex scene, but in the middle of other things, it's good.

Art Likes:

Anime style, especially close to canon.
Realistic style.
Chibi.
Art where I can see the canon difference between my requested characters' skin tones, hair and eye colors.
Comics (even a single panel where the characters are talking or thiking is good!)
Gifs.
My romantic ships holding hands, kissing, sleeping together (in any sense), hugging, cuddling for warmth (or not), showering/bathing together, stargazing, looking at the snow falling, exchanging Valentine's Day gifts.
In my romantic ships, one or both characters blushing when they look at the other/each other, a character falling asleep on the other's shoulder, a character covering the other with a blanket while they're asleep, a character feeding the other (or both feeding each other).
My romantic ships looking obviously in love and other existing characters looking a little annoyed because those two should get a room.
Characters on a date in a big city (especially if it's the city they live in canon).
Art based on my fan-fictions of the requested characters.
NSFW sex scenes. In general, I prefer smut art that doesn't zoom in on the characters' genitals; I'm totally fine with them being included, but I prefer the focus to be on the entire body or the top part.

DNW:

Real politics, propaganda, COVID, mention of real people (unless it happens in canon) and other references to current real life events.
Unhappy endings.
Unrequested AUs (like genderbending, coffee shop, no powers, etc). Unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers/fusions.
Non-canon permanent character death. (Exception: adult OCs dying in murder cases, accidents, wars and other circumstances for the plot is always fine.)
Permanent break ups between the characters in my requested ships. Permanent break ups between canon ships (unless they break up in canon.)
Unrequested non-canon ships. (Background canon ships, canon crushes and OC couples are always fine, as well as mentioning past canon relationships. I'm also always okay with OCs having unrequited romantic/sexual feelings for my requested characters.)
Non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage. Non-canon serious illnesses like AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer's, etc. (Brief mention of canon serious injuries and illnesses is fine.)
Poly headcanons, threesomes and open relationships for my requested romantic ships, including thoughts about involving other characters in their romantic/sex life. This DNW also applies to characters loving two or more people romantically at the same time when one of them is dead. Mentions of past canon romantic feelings for someone is fine, as well as fond memories of a late lover in the present; I just don't want a character to be still in love with a past lover when they fall for the character in my requested ship.
Aromantic, asexual and trans headcanons for my requested characters (demisexual Ryo is fine if you want to portray him that way).
Non-con, one-sided dub-con.
Extreme underage (any mention of sex involving a pre-pubescent child and/or under 13 years old in any circumstance).
Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, BDSM, scat, watersports, sounding, ageplay, vomit in sex scenes.
Graphic depictions of violence (canon-typical level is fine).
Abortion and miscarriage.

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FAKE

I read this manga for the first time a few months ago, but I got really invested, which is not a surprise considering how many tropes I enjoy: new partners who have to work together, canon adult m/m couple, romance mixed with mystery, slow burn, raising a child, tragic past and angst with a very satisfying happy ending!

Original manga aside, I'm also very fond of the epilogue Like, like, love the author drew after the end. It was never officially published in English, but if you google "Matou Sanami Like like love" you can find an unofficial translation easily. I'd love to see something taking place after this epilogue, but a generic post-canon work or a work that takes place during canon is great too.

I'm also familiar with Fake OVA, Fake Second (the ebooks published in English for Kindle) and with the few chapters I found of Backstage Pass (the 18+ doujinshi the author drew). Basically, I just read everything I could find in English, official or not, so feel free to include the things I mentioned if you liked them!

Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Planning a marriage proposal! Bikky left NYC to start college, and after living together for a few months, Dee, Ryo (or both!) decide they want to propose. I love both funny and serious scenarios in this sense, like everything going wrong every time one of them tries to ask, or a sudden mystery case where one of them almost dies and the other is so happy his partner is alive that he proposes out of the blue. I also like the idea of them proposing together. (Note: for this prompt, please pretend that gay marriage is legal where they live no matter the year the story takes place.)

Dee is very confident about his sexual orientation from the start, while Ryo is the opposite. Now that they're together, does Ryo want to label his sexuality? I am fine with different interpretations, for example I'm interested in seeing Ryo figuring out he's bi, pan or gay, or maybe demisexual too; but I'm also interested in a story where Ryo is still confused and realizes he's okay anyway, he loves Dee and that's all that matters to him (for now, or maybe forever). For this prompt, I'd like to see his past mentioned (especially the story about the girl he liked from a chapter in Fake Second), but if you're not familiar with Fake Second, it's fine if you don't include it.

I really like Diana and her friendship with Ryo, so it'd be nice to see the two of them interacting when Ryo needs love advice. On the other hand, maybe this time it's Dee who needs advice to make Ryo happy, and he decides to contact her.

Jealousy! Dee is very much the jealous type and Ryo has showed he can be jealous as well, so I can't imagine that changing too much after they start dating. They trust each other deeply, but that doesn't mean they trust anyone around them. What happens when a hot person decides to flirt with one of them? What happens if there's a misunderstanding?

About other ships, I like Bikky/Carol and Rose/Diana! I'm not sure if Drake/JJ is supposed to be canon or not, so I'm fine with anything you decide to do: you can include/mention them as a pairing or not. Mention of any other canon crush or past romance is also fine, as well as having Dee's OC past lovers showing up if they work for the plot (for example to make Ryo jealous).

Ship specific likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

Established relationship, Ryo asks Dee if he can try to top. Dee is very surprised, and it turns out that he has never tried to bottom in his life. I'd like to see them trying to switch for the first time together. Note: I'm not actually interested in them becoming a couple that always switches, I prefer them to keep the top/bottom preference they have. But I'd like to see them trying something new and thinking that sometimes they can do it again (or maybe not, but it's still a positive experience because they're in love).

I like sexual content with them in general! Maybe they're on vacation together and they have sex in a new place? A generic hotel is good too! Or maybe after a mission, one of them (or both) almost dies and they're so happy to be alive they decide to celebrate!

A/B/O with alpha!Dee and omega!Ryo. I'm curious about this kind of AU in the world of FAKE! Would their story be different in this scenario? Would they fall in love the same way? Mpreg as a possibility or present is welcome, but I'm also fine with no pregnancy. Mutual dub-con because Ryo is in heat is also good!

Ship specific art likes/prompts:

Dee and Ryo wearing wedding rings, or one of them wearing an engagement ring.

Their wedding. (Feel free to include any other character you think they'd invite!)

Redraw of this meme with Ryo as the first guy and Dee as the jealous guy. :D

Fandom specific DNW:

Bikky being called or described as a monkey (included ape, baboon and any kind of monkey) or a r*tard.
Dee hitting criminals after they've been arrested (actual justified self-defense if fine).
My requested characters/the narrator saying that switching in bed makes a relationship more equal than a top/bottom preference.
Art only DNW: Visible pregnancy (implying that a character is at the start of the pregnancy is fine and welcome, as well as A/B/O scenes that imply impregnation).

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Tesla Note

I'll be honest: there is basically no fan-content about this fandom (I wrote the only AO3 fic by myself), so I'm not picky: any fic or art even vaguely based on my general likes/prompts would make me happy!

I'm aware that Tesla Note anime adaptation isn't popular because of its bad CGI, but if you can get past the bad animation, it has an interesting plot, it features great seiyuu (just to mention my requested characters, Mickey is voiced by Junichi Suwabe and Oliver by Hiroshi Kamiya), it has a good soundtrack and especially interesting interactions between the characters! One of the main writers of this manga and anime is Tiger&Bunny main writer Masafumi Nishida, so the banters between the characters and the tropes felt very familiar to me. I had really fun watching the episodes as they aired!

The manga is still on going, but Kodansha is releasing it digitally in English. Unfortunately the first chapters don't have enough scenes of my requested characters, but if you're fluent in Japanese and you want to create for me, you are definitely free to base your work on the manga instead of watching the anime (even if I've read only the chapters in English). I really like the art so I think it's worth it!

Mickey Miller/Oliver Thornton

I love this pairing so much! They're not the protagonists, but I'm sure that if the anime had a fandom, they'd be a pretty obvious ship. When we see them for the first time working as partners, they look very close, but they're also spies, so it's interesting to see what happens to a relationship where they shouldn't completely trust each other... and the plot twist in the second part of the series just makes everything more thrilling between them!

I love the way they always seem to flirt when they talk (the background music helps :D), and the way their friendship is so important to each other, even if they might or might not be ready to fight/kill each other if necessary.

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Any missing moment! Pre-canon: how did they meet? How did they get so close? What did they do during their free time together?

Post-canon, anything where Mickey and Oliver meet again. How did Oliver survive? How does he feel about Mickey now?

Flirting! I love seeing Mickey saying his usual nonsense things in different languages, and Oliver being fine with that even if he doesn't get it. Maybe they have some drinks together and the flirting becomes more obvious.

Friends with benefits (implied or explicit) catching feelings. This is my headcanon for them before Oliver's betrayal: I imagine them not wanting anything romantic because it's not what spies should do, and maybe they're afraid of their own feelings. But sometimes, after a mission or after drinking too much, they sleep together.

I'm interested in both comedy and angst between them, so feel free to create what you like the most, as long as it doesn't have a hopeless ending.

I don't really have a top/bottom preference about them, so feel free to write/draw them the way you want! Switching is totally welcome too! I'm interested in anything based on my general NSFW likes.

Sex scenes while they're friends with benefits. Maybe they start catching feelings during sex? What do they (not) tell to each other?

Ship specific art likes/prompts:

Honestly, anything based on my general likes or my ship prompts! I couldn't find a single piece of art about Mickey/Oliver on the internet (and I did search for it a lot T_T), so I'm super basic: just draw them in a romantic or sexual situation and I'll be happy!

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Tiger & Bunny

I love everything about Kotetsu and Barnaby's canon dynamics! I love the development of their relationship from not trusting each other to trusting each other more than anyone else. I also love seeing Ryan interacting with them, and I'm very fond of The Rising movie.

I'm familiar with pretty much all the official content that has a translation in English (official or not), so if you want to add references to character profiles, voice dramas, manga, character songs and other things, it's all good! But if you want to create something based on the anime only, that's good too!
About the extras, I especially like the two short animated specials "Side Bunny" and "Side Tiger", and "Tiger&Bunny - The Comic" manga.

Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu
Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu & Ryan Goldsmith

In fanfics I love Kotetsu/Barnaby "getting together" stories involving mutual pining or one of them oblivious about his own feelings, but I also like established relationship in certain prompts, especially in fics with external POVs.

Fandom specific likes and prompts (SFW):

During the year they retire in episode 25, Kotetsu (or Barnaby) thinks about the other, he misses the other and/or dreams about the other, and he realizes he's in love. I'd love to see one of them deciding to confess.

Anything during/post The Rising! Does Ryan come back? Will Kotetsu and Barnaby finally talk after everything they went through during the movie? Will Kotetsu apologize for thinking Barnaby cared so much about money? Will they try to get better at communicating? Honestly, I just love everything about miscommunication between Kotetsu and Barnaby cleared up in the end, and I'd love to see Ryan becoming their friend.

Kotetsu or Barnaby confesses his romantic feelings in the other's arms because he thinks he's dying. He doesn't actually die, so now they need to talk about it. (Temporary injuries and assumed character death are both fine, as long as the character is eventually alive and it's implied he'll recover.)

Matchmaking! Kotetsu and Barnaby have a lot of people who care about them, what would they do if their friends noticed their not-so-secret feelings? I'd love to see Ryan matchmaking, but feel free to include any other character!

Kotetsu thinks he's straight, and/or Barnaby is pining because he thinks Kotetsu is straight. I'm fine with any direction you want to follow in this sense: Kotetsu being in the closet, Kotetsu not realizing he likes men until a friend points out he acts kinda gay when it comes to Barnaby, Kotetsu rejecting Barnaby's confession at first and then realizing he made a huge mistake, etc.

Body Swap! Because of a NEXT power, pre-relationship Kotetsu and Barnaby wake up in each other's body. How would Barnaby deal with being an "old man" he is secretly attracted to? How would Kotetsu deal with being suddenly a decade younger and super popular with women?

I love interviews, tabloid articles and anything involving gossip about Tiger & Barnaby. In these cases, I especially love unreliable narrators, for example an article claiming that Barnaby is *totally dating that hot actress* (but he's dating Kotetsu), or on the contrary an article that proves Tiger & Barnaby are *totally dating each other*, but they're actually pining. I'd love to see other characters reacting to interviews and articles too!

Kotetsu and Barnaby's relationship told from another character's POV! I love Ryan's POV, but I'm also fine with another hero, Lunatic or an OC, maybe a fan or a journalist who is curious about them (and maybe has a crush on Barnaby or Kotetsu). I am fine with both pre-relationship and established relationship for this prompt.

The heroes read fics on the internet about themselves. "Tiger/Barnaby" is a pretty popular ship... or maybe it's not? How do Kotetsu and Barnaby react? I'd prefer them not to be in a relationship yet, so their reactions can be more embarrassing. (Note: my DNW about unrequested non-canon ships doesn't apply to in-universe fan-works! For example, I'm fine with Kotetsu finding Kotetsu/Karina smut, as long as he doesn't find it hot. If the relationships don't become "real" in the story, everything that is fictional in their world is okay!)

If you like writing longer fics, I'd love anything involving missions while mutually pining, like undercover as a couple, one of them being kidnapped and the other rescuing him, one of them trying to confess but getting interrupted because of an emergency, etc.

This preference is more related to fics longer than the minimum (especially over 1000/1200 words) and without an external POV: in general, I have a strong preference for Kotetsu/Barnaby stories where the two of them are eventually aware of each other's romantic feelings. I appreciate unresolved pining in art and in stories from an external POV (included tabloid articles, interviews, etc.), and I can appreciate it in stories close to the 300 words minimum, but in longer fics I'd really like Kotetsu and Barnaby to find out they like each other. It can happen in any moment and I'm fine with 99% of pre-relationship, I'm not picky about it. They can confess, kiss or just figure it out in other ways, and they don't have to actually start a relationship in the fic, but I'd rather see at least a hopeful ending about their romance.

About other ships/crushes, I am fine with Ryan's feelings for the other characters being platonic, or him experiencing any kind of attraction to Barnaby (sexual, a little crush, more seriously romantic, etc.) as long as it's one-sided; I'm also fine with Ryan flirting with any other adult OCs (especially women) since it fits his personality. I'm also fine with mentions of Barnaby having casual sex with OCs in the year he retires in episode 25, as long as he doesn't fall in love with them.

Kotetsu/Barnaby specific likes and prompts (NSFW):

Feel free to combine them with any other likes/prompts I listed! I don't want Ryan to appear in the sex scenes, but I'm totally fine with him being an important character in all the other moments.

My top/bottom preference for this ship is switching with Barnaby topping more often. However, except for a couple of prompts, I'm open to anything, so if you like top Kotetsu more, feel free to write/draw it!

Sex pollen! After meeting a NEXT, pre-relationship Kotetsu and Barnaby are suddenly very horny and they can't get better unless they have sex with each other (mutual dub-con).

Also mutual dub-con, pre-relationship Kotetsu and Barnaby get both very drunk and have sex. Next morning is awkward.

If you pick the Body Swap prompt, feel free to get as explicit as you want with masturbation and sexual fantasies, especially if they're looking at their new body in the bathroom and getting horny. I'm also fine with sexual content between them in each other's body.

(Top Barnaby/Bottom Kotetsu) Mpreg: accidental impregnation caused by superpowers! Maybe a NEXT hits Kotetsu and gives him the ability of getting pregnant, maybe two men with the same NEXT power (like Kotetsu and Barnaby are) can make mpreg possible, maybe using their Hundred Power during sex has certain unknown consequences... Anyway, Barnaby has sex with Kotetsu and accidentally impregnates him. I'm especially interested in the discovery of the pregnancy and their reactions, but in fics I'm fine with stories exploring the following months where Kotetsu is more visibly pregnant too. I'd love them to be surprised but also happy to have a baby together.

(Top Barnaby/Bottom Kotetsu) Breeding kink. I'd love to see Barnaby breeding Kotetsu! Mpreg can actually be a possibility or not, either way is fine. If you choose to make it possible, I'd prefer it to be caused by their own NEXT powers or another NEXT, like I explained in my mpreg request.

Fandom specific art likes/prompts:

Season 2 style.

The Rising style.

Kotetsu/Barnaby & Ryan redraw of any meme where there are two people in love and a third wheel drinking/looking annoyed/holding their umbrella/etc. This is an example, but I'd love any other similar meme as well! Feel free to draw it with Karina instead of Ryan if you feel more inspired (maybe drinking Pepsi NEX :D).

Redraw of the Distracted Boyfriend meme with Barnaby as the distracted boyfriend, Kotetsu as the girl in red and Ryan as the girl in blue. Alternatively, Kotetsu as the distracted boyfriend, Barnaby as the girl in red and Karina as the girl in blue.

Furry versions of the characters: Kotetsu as a tiger, Barnaby as a bunny, Ryan as a lion. As long as it's SFW, I'm also fine with them looking like real animals.

NSFW Kotetsu/Barnaby as tiger/bunny furry: I'm fine with any kind of furry from them having just animal ears and a tail to them being completely covered in fur, as long as their body shape is still human-like (basically, they should still be able to walk on two legs and wear human clothes if they want, but they don't need to have clothes in your fanart :D). Feel free to combine this prompt with the breeding kink if you want, it'd be A+!

Fandom specific DNW:

Kotetsu wearing two wedding/engagement rings at the same time. (I'm okay with Kotetsu wearing his usual ring if he's not engaged/married to Barnaby, and I'm fine with him getting a new engagement/wedding ring from Barnaby as long as he took off the ring from his first marriage. I'm also fine with no rings/no mention of rings.)

Kotetsu being unable to move on from Tomoe (unless it's the start of the series/The Beginning era). Tomoe is important for Kotetsu's backstory and I'm not asking to erase her; however, at the end of the series I'd like Kotetsu to see Tomoe as a past love he remembers fondly, not as someone he loves in the present exactly the same way he did when she was alive. To explain better what I mean, this DNW includes sentences like "I will always love her, but my heart became bigger so I can love both [Tomoe and Barnaby]", "She's the love of my life/soulmate, but I can have another love of my life/soulmate", "I will never take my ring off", "I still miss her every day [while he's dating Barnaby]". (On the other hand, these are things that I'm fine with as long as they're not the focus of the story: Kotetsu saying that he will never forget about her, Kotetsu thinking about his promise to her to be a hero, comparisons between Kaede and Tomoe, Kotetsu missing Tomoe in a specific circumstance when Barnaby isn't around, Kotetsu having flashbacks of Tomoe at the hospital if Barnaby is injured/in danger/potentially dead.)

If Kotetsu/Barnaby think about their future kid(s), claiming they'd want to give their kid(s) names from their family members/friends/main villains. (Exception: Emily or Samantha is fine.)

Art only DNW: Visible pregnancy (implying that Kotetsu is at the start of the pregnancy is fine and welcome, as well as breeding kink).

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Crossover Fandom

I'd love to see these characters meeting! All the crossover tags I requested have characters/ships with something in common, so I hope they'll be inspiring.

I love both crossovers and fusions, so feel free to think about any scenario! I'm fine with 2 or 3 fandoms being actually the same world, but I'm also fine with premises like "Ace Attorney is the most popular game in New York, and Dee and Ryo suddenly find themselves inside the game", "Sarazanmai characters come out from the TV", and so on!

I looove fan-works where my OTP from a fandom meets my OTP from another fandom. Do they become friends? Do they argue? I especially love when at least one of the couples isn't together yet (especially if the ship isn't canon) and the couple more experienced in romance helps them. I also love when both pairings are still pining (A/B pining for each other and C/D pining for each other), and after they interact, A/B and C/D get together.

Note: please keep my "&" relationships platonic, I'm not interested in crossover romantic ships. However, I do love misunderstandings and jealousy, so feel free to have for example a pining character thinking that his love interest is getting a little too close to the crossover guy they just met, or someone in an established relationship not really trusting the way he thinks a crossover guy is flirting with his partner/husband, etc.

About fics, please feel free to add any other character from my requested fandoms you like! As long as the characters in the tag you choose to write are the protagonists of the story, I'd love to see more crossover interactions!

About art, in Crossover Fandom I'm not really picky about my ships being explicitly romantic, because I understand that it's hard to draw 4 characters in a certain scenario and also making clear they're two couples (or two pairings with romantic feelings). If you can do it, that's great! But I'd also be happy with just my requested characters in the same place. This is different in fics, where I actually ask for my romantic ships to have at least something not platonic going on between them.

(I put my fandom specific DNW for all the tags I requested at the end of the letter, please don't skip them.)

Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger&Bunny) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)
Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga) & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright (Ace Attorney)
Barnaby Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Tiger&Bunny) & Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga)
Barnaby Brooks Jr. (Tiger&Bunny) & Randy MacLean (FAKE manga) & Miles Edgeworth (Ace Attorney)

About Phoenix/Edgeworth, I'm fine with any level of commitment in their relationship, from secretly pining for each other to officially married. I love their relationship in every game from the main series, so feel free to write/draw them from any era (Miles Edgeworth Investigations 1 and 2 included). To be honest, if you're familiar with Dual Destinies and Spirit of Justice, I'd really love to see them from that era or post-canon because there's less content, but if you're only familiar with the original Trilogy, that's always good too. I am fine with both their Japanese and their localized versions!

About Dee/Ryo, I'm also fine with any level of commitment, but I have a preference for them being already in a relationship, just not public.

About Kotetsu/Barnaby, I have a preference for pre-relationship scenarios. In fics, I'd like to read about them realizing their feelings and getting together because of their interactions with a ship/character from another fandom.

Tags specific likes/prompts:

Everything about Ace Attorney crossovers just screams "this character they just met is accused of murder!" to me. :D Feel free to have Kotetsu, Barnaby, Dee or Ryo accused of murder, Phoenix defending them and Edgeworth prosecuting! If you create a Tiger&Bunny crossover, I would absolutely love to see Yuri Petrov as the judge. Feel also free to include Godot, his appearance is so similar to Kotetsu's and they also have the same seiyuu in the anime, so any kind of joke about their looks and voices would be hilarious.

Barnaby, Ryo and Edgeworth have pretty similar backstories. They all had their parents suddenly killed around Christmas (Christmas Eve specifically for Barnaby and Ryo, and Edgeworth also had a bad meeting on Christmas Eve 15 years later). Barnaby and Edgeworth were both raised and manipulated by the real murderer, and they both had recurring nightmares about the day of the murder. The three of them all started feeling better thanks to their (work) partners who cared a lot about them. I would like to see them becoming friends: they can attend the same group therapy, or meet online in places where one of them was asking for help. Maybe they can meet during an investigation. Anything is fine!

I am totally fine with "Barnaby & Ryo & Edgeworth" tag being just focused on them, but feel free to create something with "Barnaby/Kotetsu & Dee/Ryo & Phoenix/Edgeworth" if you feel inspired! 3 OTPs meeting would be great!

Any double date or casual meeting in one of their cities is good! If you choose the tags with Tiger&Bunny characters, I have a preference for Sternbild, but the other cities are good too!

If you create something about jealousy, I have a preference for jealous Dee since it's obviously canon, and I also love the idea of Edgeworth and Barnaby being secretly the jealous types. But if you want to write/draw Ryo, Phoenix and Kotetsu as jealous, that's great too!

Kotetsu/Barnaby meet Dee/Ryo while they're trying to catch a criminal. In this particular tag, I'm fine with an AU for FAKE characters where New York City is Sternbild and Dee/Ryo work there (just no the other way around please, I like superheroes and NEXT powers). Maybe Dee and/or Ryo also find out they're NEXTs? What kind of powers would they have?

Tags specific art likes:

Any fake screenshot from an Ace Attorney game! Kotetsu, Barnaby, Dee or Ryo at the detention center, in court, full of psyche-locks, etc. If you choose this prompt, I'm fine if you don't draw all the characters in a tag, as long as they're at least mentioned or there's something implying their presence.

Tiger&Bunny and/or FAKE characters in an Ace Attorney court with Ace Attorney characters.

Two requested ships switching clothes (and roles, if you feel inspired!). For example, Kotetsu and Barnaby dressed as lawyers and Phoenix and Edgeworth in hero suits.

Phoenix and Edgeworth wearing wedding rings are always nice, and it's also a good way to make clear in my eyes they're a romantic ship without trying to force it in a single drawing!

Akutsu Mabu/Niiboshi Reo (Sarazanmai) & Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean (FAKE manga)

Relationship specific likes:

Gay cops meet gay cops! I don't know how it could happen, maybe Ryo is visiting old relatives in Japan or Dee/Ryo are in their honeymoon, or the other way around. Maybe both couples are in their honeymoon in Hawaii! Anyway, I can imagine Reo and Dee NOT getting along at all at first, both arguing for any minor thing, and probably both jealous of their partners. Perhaps Mabu and Ryo can help them to become friends.

Sarazanmai anime era, Reo and Mabu try to turn Dee or Ryo into a kappa zombie. Somehow they manage to run away.

Prince Keppi turns Dee and Ryo into kappas! What kind of secrets would they find out about each other if they did the Sarazanmai together? I'd also love to see them exploring the Kappa Kingdom, especially with Reo and Mabu as vassals.

If you're familiar with Reo & Mabu spin-off manga, I'd love to see baby Sara meeting Bikky, or just Reo/Mabu and Dee/Ryo talking about parenting as a gay couple, and as partners in work and in life.

Relationship specific art likes:

Dee and Ryo as kappas, Reo and Mabu in any way you want (kappas, cops, vassals, with rickshaws like at the end of the anime, etc.)

Reo and Dee pointing their guns at each other. Mabu and Ryo trying to calm them down.

Dee and Ryo doing the Kawausoiya dance! (Reo and Mabu can be just in the background watching.)

Crossovers specific DNW:

Ace Attorney:

Godot bashing.
Mia not attracted to men.
DGS (The Great Ace Attorney) spoilers/characters.
In the gen tag "Barnaby & Ryo & Edgeworth", anything implying that a romantic relationship between Edgeworth and Phoenix could never happen (like making Edgeworth straight, etc). I'm fine with no Phoenix/Edgeworth romance, I just don't want the shippy interpretation to be excluded.

FAKE:

Bikky being called or described as a monkey (included ape, baboon and any kind of monkey) or a r*tard.

Dee hitting criminals after they've been arrested (actual justified self-defense if fine).

Sarazanmai:

Reo and Mabu being romantically/sexually attracted to anyone but each other or the Otter in any point of their lives.

Tiger&Bunny:

Kotetsu wearing two wedding/engagement rings at the same time. (In Crossover Fandom, I'd prefer Kotetsu to wear just his usual wedding ring from his first marriage or no rings, and Barnaby no wedding/engagement rings.)

Kotetsu being unable to move on from Tomoe; Kotetsu/the narrator saying "I will always love her, but my heart became bigger so I can love both [Tomoe and Barnaby]", "She's the love of my life/soulmate, but I can have another love of my life/soulmate", "I will never take my ring off", "I still miss her every day [while he's dating Barnaby]".
In the gen tag "Barnaby & Ryo & Edgeworth", anything implying that a romantic relationship between Kotetsu and Barnaby could never happen (like making Barnaby straight, etc). I'm fine with no Kotetsu/Barnaby romance, I just don't want the shippy interpretation to be excluded.

Thank you so much for reading my letter until the end! I hope you’ll have fun during this exchange!

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Mistletoe Exchange 2021 Letter

2021-10-22T20:41:41Z

Hello! I’m Smile_Edgeworth on AO3 and this is my letter for Mistletoe Exchange. If you’d like to write for me, I included a lot of likes and prompts, so I hope my letter will help you to get a good idea!

My requested fandoms are Tiger & Bunny (ship: Kotetsu/Barnaby), FAKE (ship: Dee/Ryo) and Fairy Ranmaru (ship: Ranmaru/Chilka).

If something isn’t clear, please don’t be afraid to ask for clarifications through the mods. I check my email every day and I’m always glad to reply if I can help someone to write.

General likes (SFW):

Partners. This is a pretty obvious preference of mine, all the ships I requested are (or were) work partners. I love the ambiguity of the word “partner” and what being partners means for two people; I like seeing what changes when their relationship develops and becomes something more than working as a team.
Romance mixed with other genres (action, casefic, supernatural, fantasy, adventure, thriller, mystery etc).
Angst with a happy ending.
Happy endings in general.
Characters trying to rescue or save the person they love.
Romantic comedy and humor.
Misunderstandings cleared up in the end, my requested ships working through their miscommunication issues.
Pining and mutual pining.
Characters oblivious about their own feelings, acting like someone in love but unaware that they are in love until someone/something makes them realize it.
Characters talking about their current love interest, especially in conversations with other existing characters. Even better if they’re very awkward about it.
Characters being confused about their sexual orientation, for example men thinking they're straight until they realize there's a guy they'd really want to kiss. I like adult characters figuring out for the first time that they like the same gender. I like both characters who don't label their sexuality and characters confident about their label, so sentences like "I realized I'm bisexual" or "I know I like you and that's all that matters for me" are both good!
Canon compliant.
Characters doing or saying something based on canon, even when it’s a minor detail (for example, a character eating a certain food because they mentioned once they liked it).
Friends to lovers, childhood friends to lovers.
Rivals to lovers, enemies to lovers.
Combinations of what I mentioned before where “lovers” is endgame, like “childhood friends to rivals to friends again to lovers”. Also, childhood friends being separated and meeting again as adults.
Power couples.
Slow burn.
Sexual and romantic tension.
Characters in denial about their feelings, flustered and embarrassed characters, characters blushing when they have a crush, characters trying to figure out why they feel a certain way.
Love confessions, first kisses, getting together. I have a preference for scenarios where the characters don't think their feelings are requited but decide to be honest anyway, or scenes where they confess/kiss without thinking (maybe in special circumstances) and then realize what they've done... but everything is good because they're both in love.
Fake dating, "there's only one bed", handcuffed together, trapped together, huddling for warmth and similar tropes.
Jealousy (as long as the jealous character doesn’t go as far as committing a crime). In pre-relationship scenarios, I love jealousy as an inner feeling, where a character thinks their love interest likes someone else or will fall for someone else. I also like when the jealous character asks their love interest if they like a certain person or, in general, if there's someone they like. In established relationships, I like the jealous character to keep an eye on other people they see as potentially interested in the person they love (whether it’s true or not), and also confronting them. Jealousy involving misunderstandings eventually cleared up is great in every scenario!
Matchmaking, especially in canons where the requested characters have friends/family members who want them to be happy. In established relationships, I also like family/friends helping when a member of the main ship needs love advice (for example if they want to ask their lover to marry them).
Characters using social media, apps, chats, Reddit or other websites to ask for relationship advice, anonymously or not, especially when other existing characters reply. Depending on the site, I love when they don't know or recognize each other.
Crossovers/fusions with other canons I requested here or in the past. I don't have crossover ships so I couldn't nominate anything for this exchange, but I love stories where my OTP from a canon meets my OTP from another canon and they interact platonically. I especially love when at least one of the couples isn't together yet (especially if the ship isn't canon) and the other couple helps them, or both couples help each other. If you like crossovers and fusions, feel free to write my requested ships interacting with any other ship I requested in this exchange or I mentioned in past exchanges, like Sarazanmai (Reo/Mabu), Steins;Gate (Okabe/Kurisu), Banana Fish (Ash/Eiji), Ace Attorney (Phoenix/Edgeworth) or The Case Files Of Jeweler Richard (Richard/Seigi).

In general, I love both "getting together" fics and established relationships, but I have a preference for "getting together" if the ship isn't canon or we don't know how they got together in canon. On the contrary, if we already know how they got together, I prefer established relationships.

Stories taking place during Christmas or winter are welcome! I'm not very interested in the religious part, but anything involving the atmosphere around Christmas and December is good!

NSFW likes:

Heavy making out, stroking the other's (or each other's) hair during a kiss, touching the other’s (or each other’s) butt and chest, with their clothes on or off.
Touching a character’s penis through their pants/underwear until they get hard.
Licking earlobes, neck and nipples.
Biting lips, neck and shoulders (no blood; marks are good).
Frottage, dry humping, anything where two characters rub their bodies against each other with their clothes on (but if they’re naked it’s good too).
Clothed sex and half-clothed sex.
Handjobs.
Blowjobs.
69.
Anal sex.
Flavored lube, especially if one or both characters taste it during sex. Any flavor of fruits or sweets is good.
Characters being loud if only their partner can hear them, moaning, saying their partner’s name.
Every position in penetrative sex is fine, but I have a preference for the ones where the characters can look each other in the eye.
Barebacking.
Sex outside (a garden, a forest, a cavern, a beach, etc.) if they’re alone.
Sex in rooms or places that aren’t their bed (the kitchen, the shower, a table, etc.), public places included (library, office, courtroom, hospital, etc.), as long as nothing is recording them and they're alone. Sex in their workplace is definitely welcome if they lock the door or they know they're alone.
Sex pollen, drunk sex or any mutual dub-con situation where both characters would have wanted to have sex with each other (just not like this). I like mutual dub-con in both pre-relationship and established relationship scenarios.
Characters having sex the same day/night they confess because they've been friends/partners for so long they already trust each other and there's a lot of sexual tension between them.

I also opt-in rimming if it's something you enjoy writing! I don't request it as the only focus of a sex scene, but in the middle of other things, it's good.

DNW:

Non-canon incest (mentions included).
Real politics, propaganda, COVID, mention of real people (unless it happens in canon) and other references to current real life events.
Unhappy endings.
Unrequested AUs, mundane AUs (coffee shop, no powers AUs, etc).
Unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers/fusions.
Non-canon permanent character death. (Exception: adult OCs dying in murder cases, accidents, wars and other circumstances for the plot is always fine.)
Permanent break ups between the characters in my requested ships. Permanent break ups between canon ships (unless they break up in canon.)
Unresolved pining for my requested ships, stories that are "pre-slash" only. (In fics where the characters aren't together yet, I'd like them to eventually find out that their feelings for each other are requited. I'm not really picky in that sense, so don't worry if they don't explicitly decide to get in a serious relationship in the story! They can also just confess, kiss, or hold hands in a romantic way.)
Unrequested non-canon ships. (Background canon ships and OC couples are always fine, as well as mentioning past canon relationships. I'm also always okay with OCs having unrequited romantic/sexual feelings for my requested characters.)
Non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage. Non-canon serious illnesses like AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer's, etc. (Brief mention of canon serious injuries and illnesses is fine.)
Rule 63/Genderbending.
Ship bashing, character bashing, canon bashing (insulting part of the canon story or the canon itself).
Poly headcanons, threesomes and open relationships for my requested ships, including thoughts about involving other characters in their romantic/sex life. This DNW also applies to characters loving two or more people romantically at the same time when one of them is dead. Mentions of past canon romantic feelings for someone is fine, as well as fond memories of a late lover in the present; I just don't want a character to be still in love with a past lover when they fall for the character in my requested ship.
Aromantic, asexual and trans headcanons for my requested ships (demisexual Ryo is fine if you want to write him that way).
Unrequested non-con, one-sided dub-con.
Bestiality.
Extreme underage (any mention of sex involving a pre-pubescent child and/or under 13 years old in any circumstance).
Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, BDSM, scat, watersports, sounding, ageplay, vomit in sex scenes.
Gore, graphic depictions of violence (canon-typical level is fine).

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Tiger & Bunny

Relationship: Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu

I love everything about Kotetsu and Barnaby's canon dynamics! I love the development of their relationship from not trusting each other to trusting each other more than anyone else.

In fanfics I especially like Kotetsu/Barnaby "getting together" stories involving mutual pining or one of them oblivious about his own feelings, but I also like established relationship in certain prompts, especially in fics with external POVs.

I love everything about The Rising movie, so if you want to write a story taking place at least partially during or post-The Rising, I'll be very happy! I also like stories during/post episode 25 and fics that explore different moments from the canon, but I prefer Kotetsu and Barnaby to get together post-canon.

I am familiar with pretty much all the official content that has a translation in English (official or not), so if you want to add references to character profiles, voice dramas, manga, character songs and other things, it's all good! I am especially fond of the two short animated specials "Side Bunny" and "Side Tiger", and "Tiger&Bunny - The Comic" manga.

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Undercover mission! To catch a criminal NEXT, Kotetsu and Barnaby pretend to be a couple. Maybe they have to go to a gay pub, or join an exclusive party where only couples are allowed… How will they deal with their secret feelings for each other?

Pining and getting together during/post The Rising. Will they finally talk after everything they went through during the movie? Will Kotetsu apologize for thinking Barnaby cared so much about money? Will they try to get better at communicating? Honestly, I just love everything about miscommunication between them cleared up in the end.

Kotetsu or Barnaby are forced to spend a lot of time with another person (either an OC or another existing character), and the other misunderstands and assumes that person is their romantic interest. Mixed feelings of jealousy and "I want to help him with his date" ensue.

Anything involving matchmaking! Kotetsu and Barnaby have a lot of people who care about them, what would they do if their friends noticed their not-so-secret feelings? I am fine with any character or group of characters matchmaking, like Ryan, Nathan, any other hero or maybe someone more unexpected like Lunatic!

Kotetsu thinks he's straight, and/or Barnaby is pining because he thinks Kotetsu is straight. I'm fine with any direction you want to follow in this sense: Kotetsu being in the closet, Kotetsu not realizing he likes men until a friend points out he acts kinda gay when it comes to Barnaby, Kotetsu rejecting Barnaby's confession at first and then realizing he made a huge mistake, etc.

Anything that has them pining or falling in love during a mission where they're risking their life is great! Maybe one of them wanted to confess but Agnes called them? Maybe one of them didn't want to confess but after a dangerous situation the love confession just happens?

Ouroboros or other Bad Guys kidnap Barnaby to experiment on him and his NEXT power. Kotetsu and the other heroes rescue him.

Body Swap! Because of a NEXT power, pre-relationship Kotetsu and Barnaby wake up in each other's body. How would Barnaby deal with being an "old man" he is secretly attracted to? How would Kotetsu deal with being suddenly a decade younger and super popular with women?

I love interviews, tabloid articles and anything involving gossip about Tiger & Barnaby. In these cases, I especially love unreliable narrators, for example an article claiming that Barnaby is *totally dating that hot actress* (but he's dating Kotetsu), or on the contrary an article that proves Tiger & Barnaby are *totally dating each other*, but they're actually pining. I'd love to see other characters reacting to interviews and articles too!

The heroes read fics on the internet about themselves. "Tiger/Barnaby" is a pretty popular ship... or maybe it's not? How do Kotetsu and Barnaby react? I'd prefer them not to be in a relationship yet, so their reactions can be more embarrassing. (Note: my DNW about unrequested non-canon ships doesn't apply to in-universe fan-works! For example, I'm fine with Kotetsu finding Kotetsu/Karina smut, as long as he doesn't find it hot. If the relationships don't become "real" in the story, everything that is fictional in their world is okay!)

About other ships and crushes, for this exchange I'm only interested in mentions of the canon ones (Karina's crush on Kotetsu, Antonio's crush on Agnes from the manga/drama CD, Barnaby's parents, Kaede's celebrity crush on Barnaby, etc). You're also free to have Nathan flirting with any man and Ryan with any woman (or anyone in general!) since it fits their personalities. I'm also fine with Barnaby having casual sex with OCs in the year he retires in ep 25, as long as he doesn't fall in love with them.

Ship specific likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

My top/bottom preference for this ship is switching with Barnaby topping more often. However, I'm open to anything, so if you like top Kotetsu more, feel free to write it!

Sex pollen! After meeting a NEXT, pre-relationship Kotetsu and Barnaby are suddenly very horny and they can't get better unless they have sex with each other (mutual dub-con).

Also mutual dub-con, pre-relationship Kotetsu and Barnaby get both very drunk and have sex. Next morning is awkward.

If you write the Body Swap prompt, feel free to get as explicit as you want with masturbation and sexual fantasies, especially if they're looking at their new body in the bathroom and getting horny. I'm also fine with sexual content between them in each other's body.

Fandom specific DNW:

Kotetsu wearing two wedding/engagement rings at the same time. (I'm okay with Kotetsu wearing his usual ring if he's not engaged/married to Barnaby, and I'm fine with him getting a new engagement/wedding ring from Barnaby as long as he took off the ring from his first marriage.)

Kotetsu being unable to move on from Tomoe (unless it's the start of the series/The Beginning era). Tomoe is important for Kotetsu's backstory and I'm not asking to erase her; however, at the end of the series I'd like Kotetsu to see Tomoe as a past love he remembers fondly, not as someone he loves in the present exactly the same way he did when she was alive. To explain better what I mean, this DNW includes sentences like "I will always love her, but my heart became bigger so I can love both [Tomoe and Barnaby]", "She's the love of my life/soulmate, but I can have another love of my life/soulmate", "I will never take my ring off", "I still miss her every day [while he's dating Barnaby]". (On the other hand, these are things that I'm fine with as long as they're not the focus of the story: Kotetsu saying that he will never forget about her, Kotetsu thinking about his promise to her to be a hero, comparisons between Kaede and Tomoe, Kotetsu missing Tomoe in a specific circumstance when Barnaby isn't around, Kotetsu having flashbacks of Tomoe at the hospital if Barnaby is injured/in danger/potentially dead.)

Underage.

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FAKE

Relationship: Dee Laytner/Randy "Ryo" MacLean

I read this manga for the first time just a few months ago, but I got really invested, which is not a surprise considering how many tropes I enjoy: new partners who have to work together, canon adult m/m couple, romance mixed with mystery, slow burn, raising a child, tragic past and angst with a very satisfying happy ending!

Original manga aside, I'm also very fond of the epilogue Like, like, love the author drew after the end. It was never officially published in English, but if you google "Matou Sanami Like like love" you can find an unofficial translation easily. I'd love to read something taking place after this epilogue, but a generic post-canon story or a story that takes place in several moments of the canon is good too.

I'm also familiar with Fake OVA, Fake Second (the ebooks published in English for Kindle) and with the few chapters I found of Backstage Pass (the 18+ doujinshi the author drew). Basically, I just read everything I could find in English, official or not, so feel free to include the things I mentioned if you liked them!

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Planning a marriage proposal! Bikky left NYC to start college, and after living together for a few months, Dee, Ryo (or both!) decide they want to propose. I love both funny and serious scenarios in this sense, like everything going wrong every time one of them tries to ask, or a sudden mystery case where one of them almost dies and the other is so happy his partner is alive that he proposes out of the blue. I also like the idea of them proposing together. (Note: for this prompt, please pretend that gay marriage is legal no matter the year the story takes place.)

Dee is very confident about his sexual orientation from the start, while Ryo is the opposite. Now that they're together, does Ryo want to label his sexuality? I am fine with different interpretations, for example I'm interested in seeing Ryo figuring out he's bi, pan or gay, or maybe demisexual too; but I'm also interested in a story where Ryo is still confused and realizes he's okay anyway, he loves Dee and that's all that matters to him (for now, or maybe forever). For this prompt, I'd like to see his past mentioned (especially the story about the girl he liked from a chapter in Fake Second), but if you're not familiar with Fake Second, it's fine if you don't include it.

Christmas Eve is the day Ryo's parents were killed. Many years later, I'd like to see Ryo celebrating his first Christmas after moving in Dee's house. You're free to include Bikky coming back from college and other characters visiting too, but I'd like to see Dee and Ryo having at least some time alone.

I really like Diana and her friendship with Ryo, so it'd be nice to see the two of them interacting when Ryo needs love advice. On the other hand, maybe this time it's Dee who needs advice to make Ryo happy, and he decides to contact her.

Jealousy! Dee is very much the jealous type and Ryo has showed he can be jealous as well, so I can't imagine that changing too much after they start dating. They trust each other deeply, but that doesn't mean they trust anyone around them. What happens when a hot person decides to flirt with one of them? What happens if there's a misunderstanding?

Crossovers/fusions. I absolutely love the idea of Dee and Ryo meeting my OTPs (and other characters too) from other canons I mentioned here or in past exchanges, so if it's something you're into, I'm excited to read your story! If you need ideas, I think FAKE would work especially well with Banana Fish (feel free to change the ending to make it happy), Sarazanmai (gay cops meeting gay cops, also both raising a child; Dee and Ryo turning into kappa would be very fun too), Tiger&Bunny (even Sanami Matou drew Barnaby/Kotetsu doujinshi, I'm sure she'd be the first to approve; Ryo and Barnaby can bond over having lost their parents tragically on Christmas Eve I guess) and Ace Attorney (honestly everything works with Ace Attorney; if a character from FAKE is accused of murder and you put Phoenix/Edgeworth there I'll be happy!)

About other ships, I like Bikky/Carol and Rose/Diana! I'm not sure if Drake/JJ is supposed to be canon or not, so I'm fine with anything you decide to do: you can include/mention them as a pairing or not. Mention of any other canon crush or past romance is also fine, as well as having Dee's OC past lovers showing up if they work for the plot (for example to make Ryo jealous).

Ship specific likes (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before :

Established relationship, Ryo asks Dee if he can try to top. Dee is very surprised, and it turns out that he has never tried to bottom in his life. I'd like to see them trying to switch for the first time together. Note: I'm not actually interested in them becoming a couple that always switches, I prefer them to keep the top/bottom preference they have. But I'd like to see them trying something new and thinking that sometimes they can do it again (or maybe not, but it's still a positive experience because they're in love).

I like sexual content with them in general! Maybe they're on vacation together and they have sex in a new place? A generic hotel is good too! Or maybe after a mission, one of them (or both) almost dies and they're so happy to be alive they decide to celebrate!

Fandom specific DNW:

Bikky being called or described as a monkey (included ape, baboon and any kind of monkey) or a r*tard.
Dee hitting criminals after they've been arrested (actual justified self-defense if fine).
Characters/the narrator saying that switching in bed makes a relationship more equal than a top/bottom preference.

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Fairy Ranmaru

Relationship: Ai Ranmaru | Betelgeuse/Tenroin Sirius | Chilka

This ship doesn't have a lot of screen time, but I like their dynamics and I think their relationship has a lot of potential. They used to be partners, but we don't know how they met. We know Ranmaru is in love with Sirius, but how does Sirius feel?
There is barely content for this ship on AO3, so I'd really like to read something new, especially post-canon getting together!

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

After the last episode, Ranmaru thinks that Sirius rejected his confession. Maybe he thinks Sirius is still not over his ex lover, maybe he just assumes his feelings aren't requited. He's surprised to find out he was wrong.

Sirius thinks he's straight, but after Ranmaru's love confession, he starts to question his own sexual orientation. The times he told Ranmaru "I love you", did he really mean it platonically?

Fake dating! Pre-canon, the two idols Betelgeuse and Sirius have to pretend to be a couple. Unfortunately, Betelgeuse ends up falling in love for real, and only many years later as Ranmaru he'll finally get his happy ending.

Soulmate AU. Ranmaru and Sirius are soulmates, but Sirius doesn't realize it and he falls in love with a human woman anyway. Years after her death, the truth is finally revealed. I'm fine with both Ranmaru knowing from the start or being oblivious, as long as he falls for Sirius anyway.

I'm mostly interested in "getting together" stories, but if you like writing flashbacks, I'd also love to read about Ranmaru and Sirius remembering their first meeting. When did it happen? Were they children, teenagers or adults? Did Ranmaru fall at first sight? Did they hate each other at first?

Crossovers/fusions with my other canons. I like the idea of Ranmaru and Sirius meeting my other OTPs. Feel free to include any canon I mentioned in this letter or in my past letters! If you need suggestions, I think Fairy Ranmaru would work especially well with Sarazanmai (similar genre and themes), and Tiger&Bunny (they have the staffer Mika Yamamoto in common), but if you have crossover ideas with canons like FAKE, surprise me!

About other ships, I'm fine with Homura/Uruu and Houjou/Procyon if you want to include them.

Ship specific likes (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before :

To be honest, I just enjoy the idea of sexual content involving them, either after they get together or in a mutual dub-con situation (sex pollen, drunk sex, etc). I don't have strong top/bottom preferences about this ship, so go wild!

I'd like them to be in the same form during sex, either both fairies or both "humans".

Fandom specific DNW:

PWP (Explicit sexual content is totally welcome, but not as the only focus of the story.)

Thank you so much for reading my letter until the end. I hope you’ll have fun during this exchange!

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Fic In A Box - Letter

2021-08-13T08:24:42Z

Hello! I’m Smile_Edgeworth on AO3 and this is my letter for Fic In A Box exchange. If you’d like to create something for me, I have a lot of likes and prompts, so I hope my letter will help you to feel inspired.

My requested fandoms are Tiger&Bunny (relationship: Kotetsu/Barnaby) and Ace Attorney x Tiger & Bunny crossover (relationships: Kotetsu/Barnaby & Phoenix/Edgeworth, Kotetsu/Barnaby & Phoenix, Kotetsu/Barnaby & Edgeworth).

I added some media opt-ins, and I tried to explain what I'd like about them too. Anyway, unless it's specified, everything I list in my requests that isn't a DNW is good for every kind of work! I want the opt-ins I requested as much as I want fic and I'd be excited to get them.

I wrote several prompts, but I'm also totally fine with a work based on my likes only, so feel free to do what works better for you!

I love both short and long stories, so getting several short fics, fics a little longer or a single longfic would make me equally happy.

If something isn’t clear, please don’t be afraid to ask for clarifications through the mods! I check my email every day and I’m always glad to reply if I can help someone with what they want to create.

General likes (SFW):

Partners. The ambiguity of this word, what it means for two people to be partners (are they colleagues, lovers or both?), what changes when their relationship develops.
Romance mixed with other genres (action, casefic, supernatural, adventure, thriller, etc).
Angst with a happy ending.
Happy endings in general.
Characters trying to rescue or save the person they love.
Romantic comedy and humor.
Misunderstandings cleared up in the end, my requested ships working through their miscommunication issues.
Pining and mutual pining.
Characters oblivious about their own feelings, acting like someone in love but unaware that they are in love until someone/something makes them realizing it.
Characters talking about their current love interest, especially in conversations with other existing characters. Even better if they’re very awkward about it.
Canon compliant.
Characters doing or saying something based on canon, even when it’s a minor detail (for example, a character eating a certain food because they mentioned once they liked it).
Friends to lovers, childhood friends to lovers.
Rivals to lovers, enemies to lovers.
Combinations of what I mentioned before where “lovers” is endgame, like “childhood friends to rivals to friends again to lovers”. Also, childhood friends being separated and meeting again as adults.
Power couples.
Slow burn.
Sexual and romantic tension.
When it makes sense in their canon personality, characters in denial about their feelings, flustered and embarrassed characters, characters blushing when they have a crush, characters trying to figure out why they feel a certain way.
Love confessions, first kisses, getting together.
Jealousy (as long as the jealous character doesn’t go as far as committing a crime). In pre-relationship scenarios, I love jealousy as an inner feeling, where a character thinks their love interest likes someone else or will fall for someone else. I also like the jealous character to keep an eye on other people they see as potentially interested in the person they love (whatever it’s true or not), and also confronting them. Jealousy involving misunderstandings eventually cleared up is great!
Matchmaking, especially in canons where the requested characters have friends/family members who want them to be happy.
Characters using social media, apps, chats, Reddit or other websites to ask for relationship advice, anonymously or not, especially when other existing characters reply. Depending on the site, I love when they don't know or recognize each other.

In general, in longer works I'm interested in my requested ships interacting with other characters too. I still want their romance to be the focus (or one of the focuses) and I want them to have some time alone, but I'd rather not see them existing in a vacuum.

NSFW likes:

Heavy making out, touching the other’s (or each other’s) butt and chest, with their clothes on or off.
Touching a character’s penis through their pants/underwear until they get hard.
Licking earlobes, neck and nipples.
Biting lips, neck and shoulders (no blood; marks are good).
Frottage, dry humping, anything where two characters rub their bodies against each other with their clothes on (but if they’re naked it’s good too).
Clothed sex and half-clothed sex, especially if the characters are wearing something comfortable like pajamas, a tracksuit or a t-shirt.
Handjobs.
Blowjobs.
69.
Anal sex (for m/m couples only).
Characters being loud if only their partner can hear them, moaning, saying their partner’s name.
Every position in penetrative sex is good, but I have a preference for the ones where the characters can look each other in the eye.
Barebacking.
Sex outside (a garden, a forest, a cavern, a beach, etc.) if they’re alone.
Sex in rooms or places that aren’t their bed (the kitchen, the shower, a table, etc.), public places included (library, office, courtroom, hospital, etc.), as long as nothing is recording them and they're alone.
Sex pollen, drunk sex or any mutual dub-con situation where both characters would have wanted to have sex with each other (just not like this). I like mutual dub-con in both pre-relationship and established relationship scenarios.

DNW:

Incest (mentions included).
Real politics, propaganda, COVID, mention of real people (unless it happens in canon) and other references to current real life events.
Unhappy endings. (Exception: in interactive fiction or game walkthrough with multiple endings, I'm fine with bad endings as long as there's at least one happy ending.)
Unrequested AUs, mundane AUs (coffee shop, no powers AUs, etc).
Unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers/fusions.
Non-canon permanent character death. (Exception #1: Adult OCs dying in murder cases, accidents, wars and other circumstances for the plot is always fine. Exception #2: In interactive fiction or game walkthrough with multiple endings, major character death because of an accident/murder/failed mission is okay if there's at least one happy ending.)
Permanent break ups between the characters in my requested romantic ships. Permanent break ups between canon ships (unless they break up in canon.)
Unrequested non-canon ships. (Background canon ships and OC couples are always fine, as well as mentioning past canon relationships. I'm also always okay with OCs having unrequited romantic/sexual feelings for my requested characters.)
Non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage. Non-canon serious illnesses like AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer's, etc. (Brief mention of canon serious injuries and illnesses is fine.)
Suicide and suicide ideation. (Brief mention of canon suicide/suicide ideation is fine.)
Rule 63/Genderbending.
Ship bashing, character bashing, canon bashing (included parts of the canon).
Poly headcanons, threesomes and open relationships for my requested characters, including thoughts about involving other characters in their romantic/sex life.
Aromantic, asexual and trans headcanons for my requested characters.
Unrequested non-con, one-sided dub-con and sexual harassment. I'm only fine with dub-con if it's mutual in the scenarios I mentioned in my likes.
Bestiality.
Underage. (Exception: mention of teenagers being horny or masturbating is fine; implied sexual activities between OC teenagers is also fine.)
Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, BDSM, scat, watersports, sounding, ageplay.
Gore, graphic depictions of violence (canon-typical level is fine).

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Tiger & Bunny

Relationship: Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu

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I love everything about Kotetsu and Barnaby's canon dynamics! I love the development of their relationship from not trusting each other to trusting each other more than anyone else.

In fanfics and fan-works I especially like Kotetsu/Barnaby "getting together" stories involving mutual pining or one of them oblivious about his own feelings, but I am fine with established relationship in certain prompts, especially in my media opt ins.

About the era, I am especially interested in works that take place at the end of the anime series or during/post The Rising movie, but in longer works I also like stories that explore different moments of the canon.

I am familiar with pretty much all the official content that has translation in English (official or not), so if you want to add references to character profiles, voice dramas, manga, character songs and other things, it's all good! I am especially fond of the two short animated specials "Side Bunny" and "Side Tiger".

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Undercover mission! To catch a criminal NEXT, Kotetsu and Barnaby pretend to be a couple. Maybe they have to go to a gay pub, or join an exclusive party where only couples are allowed… How will they deal with their secret feelings for each other?

Slow burn, pining and getting together during/post The Rising. Will they finally talk after everything they went through during the movie? Will Kotetsu apologize for thinking Barnaby cared so much about money? Will they try to get better at communicating? Honestly, I just love everything about miscommunication between them cleared up in the end.

Kotetsu or Barnaby are forced to spend a lot of time with another person (either an OC or another existing character), and the other misunderstands and assumes that person is their romantic interest. Mixed feelings of jealousy and "I want to help him with his date" ensue.

Anything involving matchmaking! Kotetsu and Barnaby have a lot of people who care about them, what would they do if their friends noticed their not-so-secret feelings? I am fine with any character or group of characters matchmaking, like Nathan, Ryan, any other hero or maybe someone more unexpected like Lunatic!

Kotetsu thinks he's straight, and/or Barnaby is pining because he thinks Kotetsu is straight. I'm fine with any direction you want to follow in this sense: Kotetsu being in the closet, Kotetsu not realizing he likes men until a friend points out he acts kinda gay when it comes to Barnaby, Kotetsu rejecting Barnaby's confession at first and then realizing he made a huge mistake, etc.

Anything that has them pining or falling in love during a mission where they're risking their life and almost dying is great! Maybe one of them wanted to confess but Agnes called them? Maybe one of them didn't want to confess but after a dangerous situation the love confession just happens?

Ouroboros or other Bad Guys kidnap Barnaby to experiment on him and his NEXT power. Kotetsu and the other heroes rescue him.

Body Swap! Because of a NEXT power, pre-relationship Kotetsu and Barnaby wake up in each other's body. How would Barnaby deal with being an "old man" he is secretly attracted to? How would Kotetsu deal with being suddenly a decade younger and super popular with women?

I love interviews, tabloid articles and anything involving gossip about Tiger & Barnaby. In these cases, I especially love unreliable narrators, for example an article claiming that Barnaby is *totally dating that hot actress* (except he's dating/pining for Kotetsu), or on the contrary an article that proves Tiger & Barnaby are *totally dating each other*, but they're actually pining. I'd love to see other characters reacting to interviews and articles too!

Hero TV fans are planning a fic exchange! The heroes find out about it and decide to secretly join/read the fics. Of course, someone has nominated "Tiger/Barnaby"... How will Kotetsu and Barnaby react? I'd prefer them not to be in a relationship yet, so their reactions can be more embarrassing. (Note: my DNW about unrequested non-canon ships doesn't apply to in-universe fan-works! For example, I'm fine with Kotetsu finding Kotetsu/Karina smut, as long as he doesn't find it hot. If the relationships don't become "real" in the story, everything that is fictional in their world is okay!)

About interactive fiction, I'm open to different possibilities. For example, I'd like a story with multiple endings where there's only one true ending where Kotetsu and Barnaby get together, and in the others they die, they get separated or the protagonist loses his chance to confess. But I'm also interested in interactive fiction where all the endings are happy and they're just different ways the characters get together.

Characters I'd like Kotetsu/Barnaby to interact with: Ryan, Nathan, Antonio, Karina, Agnes, Saito, Yuri/Lunatic and Anju (Kotetsu's mom). For Nathan I prefer he/him or they/them pronouns. Feel free to include any other character if it works for the story!

About other ships and crushes, for this exchange I'm only interested in mentions of the canon ones (Karina's crush on Kotetsu, Antonio's crush on Agnes from the manga/drama CD, Barnaby's parents, Kaede's celebrity crush on Barnaby, etc), or unrequited Ryan/Barnaby if it's something you're into (never requited on Barnaby's part).

Ship specific likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

My top/bottom preference for this ship is switching with Barnaby topping more often. However, I'm open to anything, so if you like top Kotetsu more, feel free to write it!

Sex pollen! After meeting a NEXT, pre-relationship Kotetsu and Barnaby are suddenly very horny and they can't get better unless they have sex with each other (mutual dub-con).

Also mutual dub-con, pre-relationship Kotetsu and Barnaby get both very drunk and have sex. Next morning is awkward.

Bad Guys force pre-relationship Kotetsu and Barnaby to have sex with each other. (Please no physical rape from the bad guys; I'm fine with them watching.)

If you write the Body Swap prompt, feel free to get as explicit as you want with masturbation and sexual fantasies, especially if they're looking at their new body in the bathroom and getting horny. I'm also fine with sexual content between them in each other's body.

Request specific DNW:

Kotetsu wearing two wedding/engagement rings at the same time. (To be honest, I'd prefer a work that doesn't mention rings at all. However, I'm okay with Kotetsu wearing his usual ring, and I'm fine with him getting a new engagement/wedding ring from Barnaby as long as he took off the ring from his first marriage.)
Kotetsu being unable to move on from Tomoe (unless it's the start of the series/The Beginning era). Tomoe is important for Kotetsu's backstory and I'm not asking to erase her; however, at the end of the series I'd like Kotetsu to see Tomoe as a past love he remembers fondly, not as someone he loves in the present exactly the same way he did when she was alive. To explain better what I mean, this DNW includes sentences like "I will always love her, but my heart became bigger so I can love both [Tomoe and Barnaby]", "She's the love of my life/soulmate, but I can have another love of my life/soulmate", "I will never take my ring off", "I still miss her every day [while he's dating Barnaby]". (On the other hand, these are things that I'm fine with as long as they're not the focus of the story: Kotetsu saying that he will never forget about her, Kotetsu thinking about his promise to her to be a hero, comparisons between Kaede and Tomoe, Kotetsu missing Tomoe in a specific circumstance when Barnaby isn't around, Kotetsu having flashbacks of Tomoe at the hospital if Barnaby is injured/in danger/potentially dead.)
Kotetsu and Barnaby feeling non-canon romantic or sexual attraction for other characters that aren't each other. (Exception: I'm fine with Barnaby having casual sex with OCs in the year he retires in ep 25, as long as he doesn't fall in love with them.)

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Ace Attorney x Tiger & Bunny

Relationships:

Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu & Miles Edgeworth/Phoenix Wright
Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu & Miles Edgeworth
Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu & Phoenix Wright

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Ace Attorney is an old fandom of mine I'm very fond of, and I think Tiger&Bunny has a lot of things in common with it in terms of tone, characters and tropes.

I played all the main 6 Ace Attorney games + the 2 Miles Edgeworth Investigations, so I'm familiar with anything from them you want to include. At the moment I'm writing this letter, I still haven't played DGS (The Great Ace Attorney).

I'm open to both crossovers and fusions between these canons!
Are Sternbild and Japanifornia part of the same fake USA? Maybe they aren't, and Ace Attorney is just a popular game in Sternbild, but thanks to a NEXT power, Phoenix and friends become real. Or vice versa, Tiger&Bunny is an anime in Ace Attorney world, popular among Steel Samurai fans, and suddenly it becomes real!
I'm also open to Ace Attorney characters being from their original Japanese setting: Naruhodo can't speak English and Barnaby can't speak Japanese, but maybe Mitsurugi and Kotetsu can help!

Phoenix/Edgeworth is my OTP in Ace Attorney, but I requested also tags without this ship because for this crossover I don't need it to be the focus or explicitly present. I'm fine with anything in that sense, you can make their relationship as important as Kotetsu/Barnaby, you can make it a secondary ship, you can just imply it, make it ambiguous or write it as a friendship. If you write it as a romance, I'm fine with both pre-relationship scenarios or established relationship, married or not.

About Kotetsu/Barnaby, I'd like to see them in a pre-relationship scenario and getting together during the story. For everything I love about Tiger&Bunny and this ship, please see my Tiger&Bunny request. You are free to take parts of prompts from there too if you feel inspired.

Request specific likes and prompts (SFW):

I'd love to read casefic (or comic), especially as a long story, where Kotetsu or Barnaby are accused of murder and Phoenix defends them. Even better if Yuri Petrov is the judge! I'm fine with any main prosecutor from Ace Attorney series as Phoenix's opponent, though I'd still love to see Edgeworth appearing as a character. About Phoenix's assistant during the trial and the investigation, my preference is either Kotetsu or Barnaby (the one not accused of murder).

Barnaby and Edgeworth's traumas and backstories are so similar, it'd be interesting to see them talking and getting close. Maybe it starts on the internet where they talk anonymously about what happened to them, and then they chat in private? Maybe they meet during therapy? Maybe they send each other letters? Kotetsu and/or Phoenix being jealous of their friendship in a pre-relationship scenario is also great. Even better if they think that Barnaby and Edgeworth are dating (but they're not).

Similar scenario but with Kotetsu and older Phoenix becoming friends. They're both single dads, maybe they're looking for advice for their daughters? Maybe they're both looking for a job after Phoenix lost his badge and Kotetsu retired (in ep 25) or was fired in The Rising? Jealous Edgeworth and jealous Barnaby in pre-relationship scenarios are both big likes of mine, especially if they're in denial/tsundere about it. I'd also like to see Kaede and Trucy meeting.

Barnaby saves Maya or Pearl's life, so to thank him, the two spirit mediums decide to channel his parents. Barnaby finally finds closure about his past, and he feels very awkward when his parents ask him if there is someone special in his life (I'm fine with both pre-relationship or established relationship scenarios with this). Maybe Kotetsu later joins the conversation and things get even more awkward for Barnaby, but not as bad as he expected. For this prompt, I'm fine with Phoenix or Edgeworth not having main roles, as long as at least one of them is part of the work and interacts with Kotetsu/Barnaby.

About game walkthrough and interactive fiction, I'm thinking mostly about an Ace Attorney case where Phoenix tries to prove Kotetsu or Barnaby's innocence. I'm totally fine with bad endings where Phoenix fails, as long as there's at least a happy one.

Kotetsu (or Barnaby) asks for relationship advice on Reddit and characters from both canons reply. In Reddit posts I'm mostly looking for comedy, so I can see some of the replies to be definitely terrible advice. Maybe somehow it still works. :D

Other Ace Attorney characters I'd like to see interacting with Tiger&Bunny characters: Larry, Maya, Pearl, Franziska, Godot, Trucy, Athena, Simon Blackquill, Aura Blackquill, Kay, Lang.

Other Tiger&Bunny characters I'd like to see interacting with Ace Attorney characters: Nathan, Antonio, Pao-Lin, Karina, Ivan, Keith, Ryan, Agnes, Kaede, Yuri/Lunatic, Saito.

Other ships that I'm fine with as background: from Ace Attorney Adrian/Franziska, Desirée/Ron, Gumshoe/Maggey, Mia/Diego and Larry/OFC. From Tiger&Bunny only the canon ones. About crossover ships, I'm more interested in platonic interactions, especially Godot & Kotetsu, Simon Blackquill & Yuri, Barnaby & Larry, Any Ace Attorney Child & Kotetsu, Lang & Ryan (they sort of give me similar vibes). However, if you want to write background crossover crushes/ships between characters I didn't request in my tags, I'm open to everything between an adult main lawyer/detective (Franziska, Godot, Klavier, Apollo, Athena, Simon, Nahyuta, Ema, Kay, Lang) and an adult Tiger&Bunny main character (Nathan, Antonio, Ryan, Karina, Keith, Ivan, Agnes, Yuri). Exceptions: no requited Karina/Godot (one-sided on Karina's part is cute!) and no requited Female Character/Nathan. About Kay, I'd rather see her aged-up in DD/SOJ era, unless you ship her with Karina or Ivan. I'd prefer no Gumshoe in crossover ships.

Ship specific likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

Since I'm not requesting romantic crossover ships in my tags, I'm not specifically looking for something focused on smut. However, in long fics or comics I'm definitely open to NSFW between Kotetsu/Barnaby or Phoenix/Edgeworth.

I see Phoenix/Edgeworth as switching, but I don't really have a strong preference, so feel free to write your own. About Kotetsu/Barnaby, I see Barnaby as topping more often but I like them switching as well. In general, you can write anything that follows my general NSFW likes.

Mutual dub-con like drunk sex or sex pollen can be interesting in this crossover too! Maybe Phoenix and Edgeworth are visiting Sternbild for the first time and they get hit by a NEXT that makes them very horny for each other. Maybe Kotetsu and Barnaby are in Japanifornia/Japan, they drink a lot of "grape juice" and things happen (bonus: maybe they think it's wine and have "drunk sex", but it was actually grape juice? :D).

"Bad Guys Made Them Do It" can also work well as part of certain scenarios. Please no physical rape from the bad guys.

Request specific DNW:

Kotetsu wearing two wedding/engagement rings at the same time. (To be honest, I'd prefer a work that doesn't mention rings at all when it comes to Kotetsu/Barnaby. However, I'm totally fine with Phoenix/Edgeworth wearing rings if they're engaged/married.)
Kotetsu being unable to move on from Tomoe (unless it's the start of the series/The Beginning era). Tomoe is important for Kotetsu's backstory and I'm not asking to erase her; however, at the end of the series I'd like Kotetsu to see Tomoe as a past love he remembers fondly, not as someone he loves in the present exactly the same way he did when she was alive. To explain better what I mean, this DNW includes sentences like "I will always love her, but my heart became bigger so I can love both [Tomoe and Barnaby]", "She's the love of my life/soulmate, but I can have another love of my life/soulmate", "I will never take my ring off", "I still miss her every day [while he's dating Barnaby]". (On the other hand, these are things that I'm fine with as long as they're not the focus of the story: Kotetsu saying that he will never forget about her, Kotetsu thinking about his promise to her to be a hero, comparisons between Kaede and Tomoe, Kotetsu missing Tomoe in a specific circumstance when Barnaby isn't around, Kotetsu having flashbacks of Tomoe at the hospital if Barnaby is injured/in danger/potentially dead.)
My requested romantic ships feeling non-canon romantic or sexual attraction for other characters that aren't each other.
Any explicit "no homo" between Phoenix and Edgeworth. (If you don't choose the ship tag with them, I'm fine with them being friends with no mention of their sexuality or current love life. I just don't want the story to make clear a relationship between them could never happen.)
Edgeworth and Nathan being attracted to women.
Characters channeling Tomoe. (I'm fine with characters considering the possibility of channeling her or thinking they could do it in the future, especially if Kaede appears as a character. I just don't want the actual channeling happening on-screen or off-screen during the story.)
Lesbian Mia Fey (bi/pan totally fine!)
Phoenix, Maya, Pearl, Mia or Iris hating Godot. (Mixed feelings about his behavior are fine.)
DGS characters/spoilers.

Thank you so much for reading my letter until the end. I hope you’ll have fun during this exchange!

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Pine4Pine Exchange Letter

2021-07-21T21:21:48Z

Hello! I’m Smile_Edgeworth on AO3 and this is my letter for Pine4Pine exchange. If you’d like to write for me, I have a lot of likes and prompts, so I hope my letter will help you to get a good idea. I'm also totally fine with a story that ignores my prompts and just follows one or more freeform tags, so feel free to do what works better for you!

My requested fandoms are Sarazanmai (ship: Reo/Mabu with one or both pining), Tiger&Bunny (ships: Kotetsu/Barnaby with one or both pining, unrequited Karina/Kotetsu, unrequited Ryan/Barnaby) and Fairy Ranmaru (ship: Ranmaru/Sirius with one or both pining).

I love both short and long fics, so don’t worry about writing something close to the minimum word count or, on the contrary, “too long”. If some of my prompts/likes/freeform tags inspire you and you include them, there’s no such a thing as “too long” for me!

If something isn’t clear, please don’t be afraid to ask for clarifications through the mods! I check my email every day and I’m always glad to reply if I can help someone to write.

General likes (SFW):

Romance mixed with other genres (action, adventure, thriller, etc.)
Angst with a happy ending.
Characters trying to save someone’s life, especially if it’s the person they're pining for.
Romantic comedy and humor.
Misunderstandings cleared up in the end.
Characters talking about their current love interest, especially in conversations with their close friends or family. Even better if they’re very awkward about it.
Canon compliant.
Characters doing or saying something based on canon, even when it’s a minor detail (for example, a character eating a certain food because they mentioned once they liked it).
Friends to lovers, childhood friends to lovers.
Rivals to lovers, enemies to lovers.
Combinations of what I mentioned before where “lovers” is endgame, like “childhood friends to rivals to friends again to lovers”. Also, childhood friends being separated and meeting again as adults.
Power couples.
Slow burn.
Sexual and romantic tension.
When it makes sense in their canon personality, characters in denial about their feelings, flustered and embarrassed characters, characters blushing when they have a crush, characters trying to figure out why they feel in a certain way.
When the feelings are requited: love confessions, first kisses, getting together.
Jealousy (as long as the jealous character doesn’t go as far as committing a crime). When a character is pining, I love jealousy as an inner feeling, where they think their love interest likes someone else or will fall for someone else. I also like the jealous character to keep an eye on other people they see as potentially interested in the person they love (whatever it’s true or not), and also confronting them. In my ships with requited feelings, jealousy involving misunderstandings eventually cleared up is great!
Matchmaking, especially in canons where the requested characters have friends/family members who want them to be happy.

NSFW likes:

Heavy making out, touching the other’s (or each other’s) butt and chest, with their clothes on or off.
Touching a character’s penis through their pants/underwear until they get hard.
Licking earlobes, neck and nipples.
Biting lips, neck and shoulders (no blood; marks are good).
Frottage, dry humping, anything where two characters rub their bodies against each other with their clothes on (but if they’re naked it’s good too).
Clothed sex and half-clothed sex, especially if the characters are wearing something comfortable like pajamas, a tracksuit or a t-shirt.
Handjobs.
Blowjobs.
69.
Anal sex (for m/m couples only).
Characters being loud if only their partner can hear them, moaning, saying their partner’s name.
Every position in penetrative sex is good, but I have a preference for the ones where the characters can look each other in the eye.
Barebacking.
Sex outside (a garden, a forest, a cavern, a beach, etc.) if they’re alone.
Sex in rooms or places that aren’t their bed (the kitchen, the shower, a table, etc.), public places included (library, office, school, etc.), as long as nothing is recording them and they're alone.
Only when I request mutual pining: sex pollen, drunk sex or any mutual dub-con situation where both pining characters would have wanted to have sex with each other (just not like this).

General DNW (SFW):

Incest (mentions included).
Real politics, propaganda, COVID, mention of real people (unless it happens in canon) and other references to current real life events.
Unhappy endings for my ships with the "eventually requited" tag.
Unrequested AUs, especially mundane AUs (coffee shop, high school without magic, no powers AUs, etc).
Unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers/fusions.
Non-canon permanent character death, unless it's about adult OCs who have never been in romantic relationships with my requested characters. I'm totally fine with adult OCs dying in murder cases, accidents, wars and other circumstances for the plot.
Unrequested non-canon ships, included unrequested non-canon ships between my requested characters and other characters/OCs. (Background canon ships and OC couples are always fine, and mentioning past canon relationships is also fine.)
Non-canon permanent injuries, like losing an arm or permanent brain damage. Non-canon serious illnesses like AIDS, cancer, etc. (Brief mention of canon serious injuries and illnesses is fine.)
Suicide. (Brief mention of canon suicide is fine.)
Rule 63/Genderbending.
Ship bashing and character bashing.
Poly headcanons, threesomes and open relationships for my requested ships, including thoughts about involving other characters in their romantic/sex life. (Exception: Ryan having this kind of thoughts about Barnaby and other adult characters is fine.)
Aromantic and asexual headcanons of the characters in my requested ships (but I’m fine with other characters being aro/ace, especially Kazuki and Haruka in Sarazanmai and OCs).

NSFW DNW:

Rape/non-con and sexual harassing, except for the Otter in Sarazanmai. (If it’s canon, I’m fine with mentions or brief fade-to-blacks.)
Bestiality.
Extreme underage (any mention of sex involving a pre-pubescent child and/or under 13 years old in any circumstance).
Breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, BDSM, scat, watersports, sounding.
Gore, graphic depictions of violence (canon-typical level is fine).

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Sarazanmai

Ship: Akutsu Mabu/Niiboshi Reo (both pining), Akutsu Mabu/Niiboshi Reo (Mabu pining), Akutsu Mabu/Niiboshi Reo (Reo pining)

Pining: Feelings eventually requited

Freeform tags:

Fake Dating - mutual pining
Character A pines while Character B Thinks They're Already Dating
Character A thinks B rejected advances
Character pines for someone who thinks nothing of undressing casually in front of them
A pining because they mistakenly think B is uninterested
They Both Think It's Unrequited
A thinks B doesn't like them back due to conversations with double meanings
A thinks B won't want them because of their past behavior
Tries to Confess but Keeps Getting Interrupted by Circumstances
Character A Must Make Political Marriage to Another Despite Their Love for B
Character A tries to show how they feel but ends up pining when B doesn't get it
Character B's flirting is too subtle and Character A pines instead of picking up on it
Guilty About Sexual Attraction
Unexpectedly being kissed by the person you're pining for
kidnapping your crush to save them from an unwanted arranged marriage
Helping object of pining get ready for a date with someone else
Object of pining finally confesses love - on the pining character's wedding day to someone else
A only realizes feelings for B when B starts dating someone else
Pining for someone who's in an abusive relationship with someone else

I love this couple and I love Sarazanmai!

You don't have to be familiar with the extra content to write for me, but in case you are, I’m also very fond of Reo&Mabu 1 volume spin-off manga and Sarazanmai novels (all published in English); I also love the fan-translation of Reo&Mabu Twitter. If you read some of the content I mentioned, feel free to let it inspire you!

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Pre-canon. How did Reo and Mabu get together? When did they kiss for the first time? Who confessed first? Did they get together as teenagers or as adults? Did they both know they were dating or was their relationship status not really clear at first?
Missing moments. What happened at the end of the manga, or between manga and Twitter? What happened between ep 10 and 11 in the rings world? What happened post-canon?
This prompt can take place in the canon setting, but it can also be an AU or canon divergence if you prefer that way: in the Kappa Kindgom, Mabu is engaged with an OC girl his parents/guardians chose for him. Reo thinks Mabu loves her, but Mabu is secretly in love with Reo. Anything involving them pining, Reo confessing the day of the wedding or Reo "kidnapping" Mabu when he realizes his feelings are requited is good!
AU/Canon divergence where Mabu is in an arranged marriage with the abusive Otter, or he thinks he loves the Otter and doesn't realize his relationship is abusive until he meets Reo. In this case, I am totally fine with infidelity if Mabu cheats on the Otter with Reo.
Setting change AUs I’d love with Reo and Mabu:

- Fantasy. I’m fine with pretty much everything, like urban fantasy (angels, demons, were-creatures, etc), classic fantasy (dragons, wizards, human/elf romance, etc), dark fantasy with rivalry between royal families, school of magic (as students or professors), ancient Japan setting and so on.

- Science-fiction. I love robots (and human/robot romance), aliens (human/alien is also good), dystopia, post-apocalypse, space travels (or stories that take place in a different planet in general) and time travels.

- Fairy tale. I’m fine with a generic fairy tale setting, either European or Japanese. If you want to rewrite a famous fairy tale, my favorite for Reo/Mabu is “Beauty and the Beast” (I don’t have a preference about who should be the beast).

- Pirate AU. My preference here is Reo as a pirate and the “enemies to lovers” trope, but I’m open to different ideas.

- Crossovers, fusions or AUs with my other requested fandoms (Tiger&Bunny, Fairy Ranmaru) or Ace Attorney are also always good! I'm fine with either Reo and Mabu meeting characters from these canons or replacing them in an AU, as long as they keep their own personalities.

Ship specific likes (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

Top Reo/bottom Mabu (this is just a preference if you don’t know how to write them; if you feel more inspired about Mabu topping or switching, it’s totally okay!)
Half-clothed sex with their vassal uniforms (or just them wearing their uniforms before getting naked).
Kappa/kappa xeno, either with Kappa-Reo and Kappa-Mabu rubbing their bodies/holes against each other or having a retractile penis. I’m fine with kappa/human too, but both humans or both kappas is my preference. I don’t mind who tops during kappa sex.
If you write a fantasy/sci-fi/fairy tale AU, I’m fine with xeno/furry as long as the characters still resemble humans with a few differences (I like tails, small horns, cat/wolf/fox ears, wings, fur, blue skin or similar). I’m also fine with knotting.

Fandom specific DNW:

PTSD triggered during sex.
Reo or Mabu being in unrequested relationships in any point of their life (I'm only fine with Mabu/Otter and Mabu/Female OC in an arranged engagement)
Reo or Mabu feeling romantic or sexual attraction for anyone but each other and the Otter.
Trans headcanons for Reo and Mabu (but if you want to write Kazuki, Haruka, Keppi and/or OCs as trans, that’s fine!)
In time travel AUs and similar, romantic or sexual content between underage Reo/Mabu and their adult versions (but I’d love them to meet and interact platonically).
In AUs with fantasy creatures or aliens, Reo or Mabu having traits from insects/spiders or resembling them in any way.

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Tiger & Bunny

I love everything about Kotetsu and Barnaby's canon dynamics, I love the development of their relationship from not trusting each other to trusting each other more than anyone else.
I also find Karina's crush on Kotetsu really cute. I can't imagine it as requited, but at the same time I love that Karina's feelings are explored in a genuine way without shaming her.
Ryan is a character that I like a lot in fics! How would he feel if he didn't consider Barnaby just a good partner, but also an attractive man he'd like to date or have sex with?

I am especially interested in my requested characters pining at the end of the series, during/post The Rising movie. However, if you haven't watched it and you don't want to write about Ryan, I'm also fine with a story taking place during or after episode 25 of the anime series. I am familiar with pretty much all the official content that has at least a fan-translation in English, so if you want to add references to character profiles, voice dramas, manga, character songs and other things, it's all good!

Little heads up: for this exchange, I'm not very interested in stories where Kotetsu thinks a lot about Tomoe or there are flashbacks about his past romance. I'm not asking to erase it, especially if it's important to point out similarities between Tomoe and Kaede or Kotetsu's promise to be a hero, but I'm also fine with no mentions at all in the story. In general, if you write about Kotetsu, I'd rather read something where he focuses on the relationships he has in the present.

Request 1

Ship: Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (both pining), Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Kotetsu pining), Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Kaburagi T. Kotetsu (Barnaby pining)

Pining: Feelings eventually requited

Freeform tags:

Fake Dating - mutual pining
Character A pines for Character B because they think they're too old for B
Character A thinks B rejected advances
Character A thinks Character B would be better off without them
Everyone Thinks They're Already In A Relationship - They're Pining
A pining because they think B is in a relationship with someone else
A pining because they think B is pining for someone else
A pining because they think B isn't attracted to their gender/sex
They Both Think It's Unrequited
A thinks B doesn't like them back due to conversations with double meanings
Tries to Confess but Keeps Getting Interrupted by Circumstances
Jealousy - Feeling Like They're Being Replaced and/or Unwanted
being asked out by the person you're pining for
Character A pining for B believes B/C relationship would be better for B and encourages it
Character A suddenly realizes that they've been pining for B and didn't know it
Character B's flirting is too subtle and Character A pines instead of picking up on it
Character expects to be hurt because their pining was revealed
Drunken Confession of Feelings
Everyone knows object of affection is into pining character except for pining character
Guilty About Sexual Attraction
Life Threatening Situation Prompts Confession of Feelings
A only realizes feelings for B when B starts dating someone else
Other Characters Play Matchmaker
A pines for B while being carried by them
A pines for B while undercover as a couple
Pining after being kissed for a dare
pining character A finally makes a move after B almost died
Pining character's feelings are discovered by a third party
A pining for B while wanting them to be happy with someone else
pining revealed by third party
Pining while trapped together
Rescue Mission while Pining
Revealed Feelings While Mortally Injured/No Hope but Whoops! They Were Rescued Now It's Awkward
Sex pollen while pining
Sex While Pining - Something Made Them Do It
A supernatural force compels mutually pining characters to reveal the truth to each other
Trying to Ignore Feelings While Forced to Work in Close Quarters With Person of Their Affection
Undercover as a Couple While Pining
Unexpectedly being kissed by the person you're pining for
Unknowingly connecting with crush on Tinder because they don't have their face in their photos

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Undercover mission! To catch a criminal NEXT, Kotetsu and Barnaby pretend to be a couple. Maybe they have to go to a gay pub, or join an exclusive party where only couples are allowed… How would they deal with their secret feelings for each other?
Barnaby's sponsors/company ask him to pretend to be in a relationship with a girl, either an OC or Karina. Barnaby isn't interested in her at all, but Kotetsu thinks that relationship is real and has very mixed feelings about it: he's jealous and heartbroken, but he also wants Barnaby to be happy.
Similar trope but without the fake relationship: Kotetsu or Barnaby are forced to spend a lot of time with another person, and the other misunderstands and assumes that person is their romantic interest. Mixed feelings of jealousy and "I want to help him with his date" ensue.
Anything involving matchmaking! Kotetsu and Barnaby have a lot of people who care about them, what would they do if they noticed their not-so-secret feelings? I am fine with any character or group of characters matchmaking, like Nathan, Ryan, any other hero or maybe someone more unexpected like Lunatic!
Kotetsu thinks he's straight, and/or Barnaby is pining because he thinks Kotetsu is straight. I'm fine with any direction you want to follow in this sense, from Kotetsu being in the closet to him actually not realizing he likes men until a friend points out he acts kinda gay when it comes to Barnaby, to Kotetsu rejecting Barnaby's confession at first and then realizing he made a huge mistake.
Anything that has them pining during a mission where they're risking their life and almost dying is great! Maybe one of them wanted to confess but Agnes called them? Maybe one of them didn't want to confess but after a dangerous situation the love confession just happens? I'm fine with any scenario you can think of based on the freeform tags I chose.
Body Swap! Because of a NEXT power, pre-relationship Kotetsu and Barnaby wake up in each other's body. How would Barnaby deal with being an "old man" he is secretly attracted to? How would Kotetsu deal with being suddenly a decade younger and super popular with women?

Ship specific likes and prompts (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

My top/bottom preference for this ship is switching with Barnaby topping more often. However, I'm open to anything, so if you like top Kotetsu more, feel free to write it!
Sex pollen! After meeting a NEXT, pre-relationship Kotetsu and Barnaby are suddenly very horny and they can't get better unless they have sex with each other (mutual dub-con).
Also mutual dub-con, pre-relationship Kotetsu and Barnaby get both very drunk and have sex. Next morning is awkward.
Bad Guys force pre-relationship Kotetsu and Barnaby to have sex with each other.
If you write the Body Swap prompt, feel free to get as explicit as you want with masturbation and sexual fantasies, especially if they're looking at their new body in the bathroom and getting horny. :)

Request specific DNW:

Underage (sexual content with characters under 18).
Kotetsu wearing two wedding/engagement rings at the same time. (To be honest, for this exchange I'm not interested in mentions of rings because I'm mostly asking for pre-relationship scenarios, but to explain what I mean, I'm fine with Kotetsu wearing his usual ring, and I'm fine with him getting a new engagement/wedding ring from Barnaby as long as he took off the ring from his first marriage.)
Kotetsu and Barnaby feeling non-canon romantic or sexual attraction for other existing characters that aren't each other.
Kotetsu and Barnaby being in romantic or sexual relationships with OCs or characters that aren't each other as endgame. (They can date OCs as long as they break up, they can sleep with OCs as long as they don't do it anymore at the end of the story).
Trans headcanons for Kotetsu and Barnaby.

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Request 2

Ships: Kaburagi T. Kotetsu/Karina Lyle (Karina pining), Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr./Ryan Goldsmith (Ryan pining)

Pining: Feelings never requited

Freeform tags:

Fake Dating - one-sided pining
A pining because they correctly think B is uninterested
Tries to Confess but Keeps Getting Interrupted by Circumstances
Becoming ready to move on after pining
being forced into faking a relationship with your crush
Character A is too proud to recognise they're pining for B
Character A knows B pines for C but provides emotional support and companionship
Character A pines for Character B who pines for someone else
Character A Prefers Pining To Admitting Feelings For Character B
Character A tries to show how they feel but ends up pining when B doesn't get it
Character hides pining behind sarcasm/bratty behaviour
Character refuses to confess unrequited feelings
Competing with another person to perform romantic gestures for object of pining
Everyone Knows Except Object Of Affection
In denial about their attraction to the character they are pining for
A isn't used to not getting things they want
A pines for B who is in love with/dating someone else
Pining character's feelings are discovered by a third party
pining for someone you can't have
A plays wingman to help their crush get together with someone else

This is a request for one-sided ships only, so I'd prefer a fic that makes clear Kotetsu or Barnaby aren't attracted to Karina or Ryan. However, if you don't want to make it explicit, I'm also fine with no mention of Kotetsu and Barnaby's feelings (especially if they never realize Karina or Ryan are pining for them).

For this specific request, I am also fine with Kotetsu and Barnaby being single without mentions of love interests. I always love Kotetsu/Barnaby in a fic and I'd be happy to see it, but if it's not what you want to write about, I am totally fine with a story focused on Karina or Ryan's feelings without other ships involved.

When I think about the side material and the hints in The Rising, it seems pretty clear to me that Ryan is into casual dating and flirting, so you are free to make him attracted to any other adult character/OC you like, as long as it works for the plot.

Despite asking for something that can be sad, I'd prefer the ending to be at least a little hopeful for Karina and Ryan's happiness, like them learning to move on as single or falling in love with someone else.

Endgame ships I like for them: Karina/Pao-Lin, Karina/Ryan, Ryan/Any adult hero that isn't Kotetsu or Barnaby, Ryan/Agnes.

Ships specific likes and prompts:

Karina or Ryan's sponsors ask them to pretend to be in a relationship with their crush. Kotetsu or Barnaby accept to pretend to be a couple in public, but they're not aware of their fake date's real feelings. How would Karina or Ryan react?
Ryan is attracted to Barnaby in any way you like, from just sexually to a slight crush to actually being in love. However, he's too proud to admit it and/or he has never been rejected before, so he keeps telling himself that he doesn't need to say anything, and it's not that he likes him that much anyway.
After 2/3 years of pining for Kotetsu, Karina interacts with him (or sees him in the distance) and realizes she's finally moving on. What does she do after that?
Romantic comedy where Karina and Barnaby are fighting for Kotetsu's attention! Or maybe Ryan and Kotetsu are fighting for Barnaby's attention? Maybe Kotetsu or Barnaby's fangirls (or not just girls) are involved too?
Karina realizes that Kotetsu is in love with Barnaby; despite her feelings, she decides to help/support him while pining for him.
Ryan realizes that Barnaby is in love with Kotetsu; despite wanting to have sex with him or date him, he decides to help/support Barnaby while pining for him.
Karina and Ryan talk about their unrequited crushes! They get closer because of that and maybe become friends or lovers.

Request specific DNW:

Underage (sexual content with characters under 18).
Explicit scenes of Karina masturbating (I'm fine with sex dreams, sexual fantasies and fade-to-black masturbation, I just don't want explicit descriptions of her touching herself).
Kotetsu wearing two wedding/engagement rings at the same time. (To be honest, for this exchange I'm not interested in mentions of rings because I'm mostly asking for pre-relationship scenarios, but to explain what I mean, I'm fine with Kotetsu wearing his usual ring, and I'm fine with him getting a new engagement/wedding ring from Barnaby as long as he took off the ring from his first marriage.)
Kotetsu and Barnaby feeling non-canon romantic or sexual attraction for other existing characters that aren't each other. As I said before, for this request I'm fine with no mention of them having love interests.
Kotetsu and Barnaby being in romantic or sexual relationships with OCs or characters that aren't each other as endgame (they can date OCs as long as they break up, they can sleep with OCs as long as they don't do it anymore at the end of the story). For the fake-dating trope, I'm fine with them pretending to be in a relationship with Karina or Ryan as long as there's no sex involved and there aren't romantic feelings on their part.
Trans headcanons for Kotetsu and Barnaby.

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Fairy Ranmaru

Ship: Ai Ranmaru/Tenroin Sirius | Chilka (both pining), Ai Ranmaru/Tenroin Sirius | Chilka (Ranmaru pining), Ai Ranmaru/Tenroin Sirius | Chilka (Sirius pining)

Pining: Feelings eventually requited

Freeform tags:

A burns bridges with B thinking feelings aren't mutual - they are
Character A thinks B rejected advances
A doesn't think they deserve B's love because they betrayed them in the past
Pining A thinks B is still hung up on past lover
A pining because they mistakenly think B is uninterested
A pining because they think B isn't attracted to their gender/sex
A pining for B because they think B sees them as family
A thinks B doesn't like them back due to conversations with double meanings
A thinks B won't want them because of their past behavior
Character A suddenly realizes that they've been pining for B and didn't know it
The feelings are actually reciprocated but other character(s) is/are in denial of loving them
In denial about their attraction to the character they are pining for
Long-term pining is finally resolved
Mixed Signals Confuses Characters On Whether Feelings Are Requited
mistaking pining for hatred
pining after a former enemy
pining after years of friendship
pining for someone after bad personal history between them
Pining while pretending to be in love onstage
Pining Without Knowing Why

There is barely content for this ship on AO3, so I'm not very picky, especially if it's a story taking place before or after canon. How did Ranmaru fall in love? How did Sirius feel after the confession in the last episode? Feel free to write about any moment involving them you'd like to explore.

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

After the last episode, Ranmaru thinks that Sirius rejected his confession. Maybe he thinks Sirius is straight and/or still not over his ex lover, maybe he just assumes his feelings aren't requited. He's surprised to find out he was wrong.
Character study about Sirius and the very complicated feelings for Ranmaru he shows during the series. Does he hate him? Does he love him? Does he want to kill him or have sex with him (or both)? Does his heart really belong to his ex girlfriend or did he move on without realizing it?
Pre-canon, the two idols Betelgeuse and Sirius have to pretend to be a couple. Unfortunately, Betelgeuse ends up falling in love for real, and only many years later as Ranmaru he'll finally get his happy ending.

Ship specific likes (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before :

To be honest, I just enjoy the idea of sexual content involving them, so if you're inspired, feel free to write it! I don't have strong top/bottom preferences about them, so go wild!
I'd like them to be in the same form during sex, either both fairies or both "humans".

Fandom specific DNW:

Trans headcanons for Ranmaru and Sirius (I'm fine with other characters being trans).

Thank you so much for reading my letter until the end. I hope you’ll have fun during this exchange!

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Mistletoe 2020 Exchange Letter

2020-10-29T21:09:33Z

Hello! I’m Smile_Edgeworth on AO3 and this is my Mistletoe letter. If you’d like to create a work for me, I have a lot of likes and prompts, so I hope my letter will help you to get a good idea!

My requested fandoms are Sarazanmai (ship: Reo/Mabu), The case files of Jeweler Richard (ship: Seigi/Richard) and Steins;Gate (ship: Okabe/Kurisu).

For this exchange I requested only fics. However, any kind of extra treat is welcome, art included!

I love both short and long fics, so don’t worry about writing something close to the minimum word count or, on the contrary, “too long”. If some of my prompts/likes inspire you and you include them, there’s no such a thing as “too long” for me!

If something isn’t clear, please don’t be afraid to ask for clarifications through the mods. I check my email every day and I’m always glad to reply if I can help someone to write.

General likes (SFW):

Romance, also mixed with other genres (action, adventure, thriller, etc.)
Angst with a happy ending.
Characters trying to save someone’s life, especially if it’s the person they love.
Romantic comedy and humor (no crack).
Misunderstandings cleared up in the end.
Characters talking about their current love interest, especially in conversations with their close friends or family. Even better if they’re very awkward about it.
Post-canon, future fic.
Canon compliant.
Characters doing or saying something based on canon, even when it’s a minor detail (for example, a character eating a certain food because they mentioned once they liked it).
Friends to lovers, childhood friends to lovers.
Rivals to lovers, enemies to lovers.
Combinations of what I mentioned before where “lovers” is endgame, like “childhood friends to rivals to friends again to lovers”. Also, childhood friends being separated and meeting again as adults.
Power couples.
Slow burn.
Sexual and romantic tension.
Mutual pining.
First love.
When it makes sense in their canon personality, characters in denial about their feelings, flustered and embarrassed characters, characters blushing when they have a crush, characters trying to figure out why they feel in a certain way.
Love confessions, first kisses, getting together.
Established relationships. I’m totally fine with couples who live together but aren’t married. Marriage is optional, you’re free to include it or not as you wish!
Jealousy, as long as the jealous character doesn’t go as far as committing a crime (no stalking, serious threats, violence, limiting someone’s freedom, etc.). In pre-relationship scenarios, I love jealousy as an inner feeling, a character thinking their love interest likes someone else or will fall for someone else, especially when it’s not true. In both pre-relationship and established relationship scenarios, I also like the jealous character to keep an eye on an OC they see as potentially interested in the person they love (whatever it’s true or not), and also confronting them, as long as they still trust their partner wouldn’t cheat. Jealousy involving misunderstandings eventually cleared up is great!
Soulmate vibes. No actual Soulmate AU, but two characters portrayed as belonging to each other and having their souls connected, even in a metaphorical way.
Sarazanmai or Steins;Gate AUs of the other fandoms I requested: for example, AU where Seigi is Okabe and Richard is Kurisu, AU where Okabe and Kurisu are generic kappa, etc. Feel free to joke as much as you want about Reo and Okabe having the same voice actor, or other cases between the anime adaptations I might have missed.
This is pretty specific, but I would love an Ace Attorney AU where my requested ships are a defense attorney and a prosecutor and fall in love. If you choose this prompt, I’m totally fine with either the characters replacing Phoenix and Edgeworth or a fusion where the characters of my requested ships are generic lawyers and meet Ace Attorney characters (either way, I ship Phoenix/Edgeworth, so you’re totally free to include them if you want; I just ask not to add other non-canon ships).

NSFW likes:

Heavy making out, touching the other’s (or each other’s) butt and chest/breasts, with their clothes on or off.
Touching a character’s penis through their pants/underwear until they get hard.
Licking earlobes, neck and nipples.
Biting lips, neck and shoulders (no blood; marks are good).
Frottage, dry humping, anything where two characters rub their bodies against each other with their clothes on (but if they’re naked it’s good too).
Clothed sex and half-clothed sex, especially if the characters are wearing something comfortable like pajamas, a tracksuit or a t-shirt.
Handjobs.
Blowjobs.
69.
Rimming (for m/m couples only).
Anal sex (for m/m couples only).
Vaginal sex (for m/f couples only).
Characters being loud if nobody can hear them, moaning, saying their partner’s name.
Every position in penetrative sex is good, but I have a preference for the ones where the characters can look each other in the eye.
Barebacking (for established relationships).
Sex outside (a garden, a forest, a cavern, a beach, etc.) if they’re on a blanket/towel or similar and they’re alone.
Sex in rooms or places that aren’t their bed (the kitchen, the shower, a table, etc.), public places included (library, office, school, etc.), as long as nothing is recording them, they’re sure to be alone or they lock the door.
(For male characters only) Masturbation, especially a character alone thinking about the person he likes. For places, I like the character’s shower or bed.
First time and virginity loss, with focus on the characters’ feelings and happiness (though I’d still like it to be a little realistic).

General DNW (SFW):

Incest (mentions included).
Torture.
Real politics, propaganda, COVID and other references to current real life events.
Unrequested AUs, especially unrequested AUs taking place in the USA (it’s fine if I explicitly requested it), AUs taking place between the years 1900 and 1970, mundane AUs (coffee shop, high school without magic, AUs where the characters don’t have their canon powers, etc).
Unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers/fusions.
Non-canon permanent character death, unless it’s about adult OCs.
Unhappy ending, bad ending.
Unrequested non-canon ships (and mention of them), included unrequested past/present/future non-canon ships between my requested characters and other characters/OCs. Background canon ships and OC couples are fine, and mentioning past canon relationships is also fine.
Permanent injuries. I’m fine with a few scars, but please nothing bad like losing an arm or permanent brain damage.
Long hospitalization and serious illnesses like AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer’s, etc.
Suicide/suicidal thoughts.
Piercings and bodies covered in tattoos, unless it’s canon. Small tattoos are fine if they can be easily hidden and have a purpose in the story.
Rule 63/Genderbending.
Unrequested explicit neurodivergent headcanons (it’s fine if they’re OCs).
Ship bashing and character bashing, unless they’re the Otter, Seigi’s biological father or Kurisu’s father (but even in those cases, please don’t focus all your story on character hate).
Real people bashing, creators included (I’d prefer the story not to mention real people, unless it happens in canon).
Permanent break-ups between my requested ships, canon ships or ships mentioned in my likes.
Cheating/infidelity (the Otter’s abuse doesn’t count).
Poly headcanons and open relationships for my requested ships, including thoughts about involving other characters in their romantic/sex life.
Aromantic and asexual headcanons of the characters in my requested ships (but I’m fine with other characters being aro/ace, especially Kazuki and Haruka in Sarazanmai, Tanimoto in Jeweler Richard and OCs).

NSFW DNW:

Rape/non-con and sexual harassing. If it’s canon, I’m fine with mentions or brief fade-to-blacks, but please don’t add more and don’t mention non-canon rape/non-con, even as part of a character’s past.
Bestiality.
Extreme underage (any mention of sex involving a pre-pubescent child and/or under 13 years old in any circumstance).
Unrequested kinks (like breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, BDSM, scat, watersports, sounding, etc.).
Gore, graphic depictions of violence (over the canon-typical level).

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Sarazanmai

Ship: Akutsu Mabu/Niiboshi Reo

I love this couple and I love Sarazanmai anime!

You don’t have to be familiar with all the extra content to write for me, but in case you are, I’m also very fond of Reo&Mabu 1 volume spin-off manga and Sarazanmai novels (all published in English); I also love the fan-translation of Reo&Mabu Twitter. There is also a Sarazanmai anthology that I really like, unfortunately only in Japanese for now. If you read some of the content I mentioned, feel free to let it inspire you!

(I also wrote a lot of fics about ReoMabu, so feel free to check my AO3 if you’re looking for inspiration; but you don’t have to, there are a lot of things I love that I’ve never written!)

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Pre-canon. How did Reo and Mabu get together? When did they kiss for the first time? Who confessed first?
Missing moments. What happened at the end of the manga, or between manga and Twitter? Did Sara leave after a few months/years or did they find a way to raise her? What happened between ep 10 and 11 in the rings world? What happened post-canon?
Post-canon marriage proposal, especially if it’s not traditional or something doesn’t go according to one of them’s plans (but there’s still a happy ending). I’d rather not see them proposing at the same time because there are a lot of potential scenarios never explored by fans, and I think they’d be great. Maybe they don’t actually “propose”, but one of them suddenly brings the topic up during a pillow talk? Maybe one of them misunderstands the proposal and says no? How would they deal with that?
If you’re familiar with the manga, canon divergence where Reo and Mabu go to Las Vegas after winning the trip. Would they get drunk and accidentally get married? Feel free to use any comedy cliché here.
AUs I’d love with Reo and Mabu:

- Fairy tale. I’m fine with a generic fairy tale setting, either European or Japanese. If you want to rewrite a famous fairy tale, my favorite for Reo/Mabu are “The Little Mermaid” (Mabu not being able to express his love is perfect), “Beauty and the Beast” (I don’t mind the roles here) and “The snow Queen” (with Mabu as Kai and Reo as Gerda). Even if you choose a traditional version of a tale, please give them a happy ending.

- Pirate AU. My preference here is Reo as a pirate and the “enemies to lovers” trope, but I’m open to different ideas.

- As I mentioned in my general likes, I’d love Steins;Gate or Ace Attorney AUs.

Fandom specific likes (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

Top Reo/bottom Mabu (this is just a preference if you don’t know how to write them; if you feel more inspired about Mabu topping or switching, it’s totally okay!)
Mabu wearing his apron during sex.
Half-clothed sex with their vassal uniforms (or just them wearing their uniforms before getting naked).
Phone sex, sex via chat, video and similar when they are alone.
Kappa/kappa xeno, either with Kappa-Reo and Kappa-Mabu rubbing their bodies/holes against each other or having a retractile penis. I’m fine with kappa/human too if you feel inspired, but both humans or both kappas is my preference. I don’t mind who tops during kappa sex.
If you write a fantasy/sci-fi/fairy tale AU, I’m fine with xeno/furry as long as the characters still resemble humans with a few differences (I like tails, small horns, cat/wolf/fox ears, wings, fur, blue skin or similar). I’m also fine with knotting.
PWP (only if they’re in an established relationship). Honestly, I see Reo and Mabu as a very horny couple, so I’m happy with them having an active sex life.

Fandom specific DNW:

PTSD triggered during sex.
Trans headcanons for Reo and Mabu (but if you want to write Kazuki, Haruka, Keppi and/or OCs as trans, that’s fine!)
In time travel AUs and similar, romantic or sexual content between underage Reo/Mabu and their adult versions (but I’d love them to meet and interact platonically).
In AUs different from time travel, unrequested age gaps between Reo and Mabu, especially if they’re the same species. To clarify what I mean, I’m okay with scenarios like “Mabu is a 30-year-old human and Reo a 1000-year-old elf who looks 30”, “Reo is a young man and Mabu is a robot created 5 days ago who looks like an adult”, “Reo is from a planet where people age differently and he’s an adult at 10”, etc. My DNW applies to scenarios where they’re obviously from a different generation like “school of magic where Mabu is a professor and Reo a teen student”, “Reo is an old pirate and Mabu a young prince”, etc.
In AUs with fantasy creatures or aliens, Reo or Mabu having traits from insects/spiders or resembling them in any way.

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The case files of Jeweler Richard

Ship: Richard Ranashinha de Vulpian/Nakata Seigi

I got interested in “The case files of Jeweler Richard” because of the fan-translation of the first novel, and I loved Seigi’s voice. However, I couldn’t read all the novels, so I’m totally fine with a fic based mostly on the anime. I know a lot of spoilers from the novels and I’m not afraid of them if you want to include them, but they’re not required.

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

First person narrator (especially if you’re familiar with the novels). Both Seigi and Richard’s POVs are good.
Seigi and Richard confessing their feelings to each other, especially post novel 10 or post anime.
Seigi character study. Exploring his sexuality as a young man who thinks he’s straight and has a crush on Tanimoto, until he realizes he’s attracted to men as well. I like his friendship with Tanimoto, so if you want her to appear, that’s good! I also really like to see him in denial about his crush on Richard, I find it pretty hilarious. Eventually, I’m fine with both Seigi identifying as bi/pan or him deciding he doesn’t need a label.
I’d like Jeweler Richard setting to get a little more action! Maybe Richard (or Seigi) is kidnapped and the other tries to rescue him? Maybe they get involved with the yakuza? Maybe one of them suddenly disappears (again)? Is the risk of losing each other what they need to figure out how they feel?
Bodyswap AU! What would happen if Seigi woke up inside Richard’s body and vice versa? Feel free to get creative with this trope, I’m fine with comedy (especially pre-relationship!) as much as NSFW.
As I mentioned in my general likes, I would love Richard and Seigi in an AU of my other fandoms (Sarazanmai, Steins;Gate, Ace Attorney).

Ship specific likes and prompts (NSFW):

I have a slight preference for Seigi topping or the two of them switching, but I’m open to everything.
I usually don’t ask for dub-con, but a scenario I’d really be interested to see with Richard and Seigi is pre-relationship drunk sex (mutual dub-con). Richard and Seigi getting both equally drunk and ending up doing something they both enjoy (and maybe secretly wanted, but not in that way). Awkward moments ensue, but eventually they’re happy.
If you’re not into drunk characters, I’m also open to mutual dub-con with sex pollen or aphrodisiacs. Maybe Richard and Seigi eat something that make them suddenly horny? That would be pretty exciting.
If they get together, I’d be happy to read phone sex, sex via chat, video and similar when the characters are alone.
Sexual scenes that start while Seigi is making pudding or cooking something Richard likes.

Fandom specific DNW:

Underage (sexual content with characters under 18).
In AUs, romantic relationships between minor Seigi/adult Richard if they have their canon age gap but they meet earlier. I’m totally fine with them dating as teenagers if you make them around the same age.

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Steins;Gate

Ship: Makise Kurisu/Okabe Rintarou

Steins;Gate is an “old” fandom of mine, and Okabe and Kurisu have a special place in my heart! I watched all the anime (first season+OVA, movie and Steins;Gate 0) and I played the first Steins;Gate and Steins;Gate 0 visual novels. I haven’t played Elite, spin-offs and fan-discs and I’m not very familiar with other extra content, so I’d prefer no mentions of events from them because I wouldn’t be able to understand the references.

Steins;Gate 0 is totally optional. If you haven’t watched/played it or you didn’t like it, you’re free to ignore it. However, you can include characters from this spin-off (especially Maho) if you wish so.

Ship specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Post-canon scenarios are highly preferred! As I said, Steins;Gate 0 is optional, and you can also decide to include or ignore OVA and movie. Post-anime (first season), post-OVA, post-movie and post visual novel are all great! What kind of interactions do Okabe and Kurisu have? Where and when do they meet again? What kind of relationship do they have? Does Kurisu remember things from different world lines? I love banters and dialogues involving them as they get closer (again).
Okabe and Kurisu getting together post-canon. Love confessions, first kisses, first dates. I love both of them feeling embarrassed about their feelings, but eventually being able to express them.
Long-distance relationship. Okabe is a college student in Japan and Kurisu lives in the USA. How is their life as a couple? I love phone calls and messages/emails, especially during the night (for at least one of them, since there’s a big time zone difference).
Future fic. I’d love to see a story taking place 10-15 years in the future, especially if Okabe and Kurisu are in an established relationship. You’re free to include marriage proposals, pregnancy and OC children.
As I said in my general likes, I’d love AUs/fusions with Sarazanmai or Ace Attorney!

Ship specific likes (NSFW):

I like sexual content between Okabe and Kurisu to be pretty vanilla. I’m fine with both sex at the start of their relationship (also pre-relationship if you can make it work!) or during an established relationship.
If they’ve just started dating, I’d prefer them to use condoms for penetrative sex.

Fandom specific DNW:

Explicit scenes of Kurisu masturbating (implied are fine).
Miscarriage and abortion.
PWP. I like Okabe/Kurisu explicit sexual content as part of a longer story, but I’m not interested in porn without plot.
Kurisu quitting her job as a scientist, Kurisu wishing to become a housewife when she gets married/pregnant.
Mention of ships from different routes (different from the True Ending/the anime).

Thank you so much for reading my letter until the end. I hope you’ll have fun during this exchange!

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Yuletide Letter

2020-10-19T20:24:02Z

Hello, I’m Smile_Edgeworth on AO3 and this is my Yuletide letter. I’ve started signing up for exchanges this year, so this is my first Yuletide experience. If you want to write for me, I have a lot of likes and prompts, so I hope my letter will help you to get a good idea!

My requested fandoms are Sarazanmai (characters: Reo, Mabu), The case files of Jeweler Richard (characters: Seigi, Richard) and Steins;Gate (characters: Okabe, Kurisu).

In every request I chose 2 characters who are either canonically in love or considered leaning toward that direction, so I hope it won’t be a surprise to see a lot of romantic/sexual prompts in my letter. However, I also love other things like action and adventure, and I mentioned them in my general likes and in the single requests.

If something isn’t clear, please don’t be afraid to ask for clarifications through the mods. I check my email every day and I’m always glad to reply if I can help someone to write.

General likes (SFW):

Romance, also mixed with other genres (action, adventure, thriller, etc.)
Angst with a happy ending.
Characters trying to save someone’s life, especially if it’s the person they love.
Comedy and humor (no crack).
Misunderstandings cleared up in the end.
Characters talking about their current love interest, especially in conversations with their close friends or family. Even better if they’re very awkward about it.
Post-canon, future fic.
Canon compliant.
Characters doing or saying something based on canon, even when it’s a minor detail (for example, a character eating a certain food because they mentioned once they liked it).
Platonic bonds between female and male characters (friendships, family bonds, healthy parental figures and mentors, etc.)
Female scientists, women who work with technology in general. If there’s at least one in canon, I like when her skills have a role in the story.
Cats.
Friends to lovers, childhood friends to lovers.
Rivals to lovers, enemies to lovers.
Combinations of what I mentioned before where “lovers” is endgame, like “childhood friends to rivals to friends again to lovers”. Also, childhood friends being separated and meeting again as adults.
Power couples.
Slow burn.
Sexual and romantic tension.
Mutual pining.
First love.
When it makes sense in their canon personality, characters in denial about their feelings, flustered and embarrassed characters, characters blushing when they have a crush, characters trying to figure out why they feel in a certain way.
Love confessions, first kisses, getting together.
Established relationships. I’m totally fine with couples who live together but aren’t married. Marriage is optional, you’re free to include it or not as you wish!
Jealousy, as long as the jealous character doesn’t go as far as committing a crime (no stalking, serious threats, violence, limiting someone’s freedom, etc.). In pre-relationship scenarios, I love jealousy as an inner feeling, a character thinking their love interest likes someone else or will fall for someone else, especially when it’s not true. In both pre-relationship and established relationship scenarios, I also like the jealous character to keep an eye on an OC they see as potentially interested in the person they love (whatever it’s true or not), and also confronting them, as long as they still trust their partner wouldn’t cheat. Jealousy involving misunderstandings eventually cleared up is great!
Soulmate vibes. No actual Soulmate AU, but two characters portrayed as belonging to each other and having their souls connected, even in a metaphorical way.
Crossovers/fusions/AUs between my requested fandoms, especially if you include my requested characters from them (like Reo/Mabu meeting Okabe/Kurisu or Seigi/Richard, etc). I’m also fine with my requested characters from a fandom meeting characters I didn’t request (from a fandom I requested), especially if you think they have something in common or you find their potential dynamics interesting (for example, Keppi from Sarazanmai turning Seigi and Richard into kappas). I would love to see characters from different fandoms becoming friends, as long as the story is focused on the ones I requested. About AUs, I’d like a story where my requested characters from a fandom take the place of the characters from Sarazanmai or Steins;Gate: for example, AU where Seigi is Okabe and Richard is Kurisu, etc. Feel free to joke as much as you want about Reo and Okabe having the same voice actor, or other cases between the anime adaptations I might have missed.
Crossover/fusions/AUs between one or more of my requested fandoms and one of these fandoms (feel free to skip this part if you’re not familiar with them):

- Banana Fish. I think this would work especially well with Jeweler Richard, because of the Japanese Guy/Western Guy main pairing, and the potential jokes about Ash and Seigi sharing the voice actor. But I would love a crossover, fusion or AU with my other requested fandoms as well! I’m very familiar with both Banana Fish anime and manga, and I ship Ash/Eiji, so you’re totally free to include it as a pairing. If you decide to write a Banana Fish AU where 2 of my requested characters take Ash and Eiji’s place, please give them a happy or hopeful ending.

- Ace Attorney. I love everything about these games (I played the main 6 + the 2 Investigations spin-offs several times, and also watched the anime), so if you want to write an AU where my requested characters are Ace Attorney lawyers, go wild! Crossovers/fusions are also welcome, especially “requested character is accused of murder and Phoenix Wright defends them in court”. I also love Phoenix/Edgeworth ship, so you’re free to include it if you like it as well (just don’t add other non-canon ships please). I’d be especially happy with my requested characters meeting Phoenix, Edgeworth, Blackquill, Kay and/or every character around them.

NSFW likes:

Heavy making out, touching the other’s (or each other’s) butt and chest/breasts, with their clothes on or off.
Touching a character’s penis through their pants/underwear until they get hard.
Licking earlobes, neck and nipples.
Biting lips, neck and shoulders (no blood; marks are good).
Frottage, dry humping, anything where two characters rub their bodies against each other with their clothes on (but if they’re naked it’s good too).
Clothed sex and half-clothed sex, especially if the characters are wearing something comfortable like pajamas, a tracksuit or a t-shirt.
Handjobs.
Blowjobs.
69.
Rimming (for m/m couples only).
Anal sex (for m/m couples only).
Vaginal sex (for m/f couples only).
Characters being loud if nobody can hear them, moaning, saying their partner’s name.
Every position in penetrative sex is good, but I have a preference for the ones where the characters can look each other in the eye.
Barebacking (for established relationships).
Sex outside (a garden, a forest, a cavern, a beach, etc.) if they’re on a blanket/towel or similar and they’re alone.
Sex in rooms or places that aren’t their bed (the kitchen, the shower, a table, etc.), public places included (library, office, school, etc.), as long as nothing is recording them, they’re sure to be alone or they lock the door.
(For male characters only) Masturbation, especially a character alone thinking about the person he likes. For places, I like the character’s shower or bed.
First time and virginity loss, with focus on the characters’ feelings and happiness (though I’d still like it to be a little realistic).

General DNW (SFW):

Incest (mentions included).
Torture.
Crack, as in stories where the characters are written as OOC on purpose to make the plot funny, or when there’s a lot of nonsense in general.
Real politics, propaganda, COVID and other references to current real life events.
Unrequested AUs, especially unrequested AUs taking place in the USA (it’s fine if I explicitly requested it, like Banana Fish AU), AUs taking place between the years 1900 and 1970, mundane AUs (coffee shop, high school without magic, AUs where the characters don’t have their canon powers, etc).
Unrequested canon divergence, unrequested crossovers/fusions.
Non-canon permanent character death, unless it’s about adult OCs.
Unhappy ending, bad ending.
Unrequested non-canon ships (and mention of them), included unrequested past/present/future non-canon ships between my requested characters and other characters/OCs. Background canon ships and OC couples are fine, and mentioning past canon relationships is also fine.
Permanent injuries. I’m fine with a few scars, but please nothing bad like losing an arm or permanent brain damage.
Long hospitalization and serious illnesses like AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer’s, etc.
Non-canon child abuse from family members or older characters close to the child. If it’s canon, I’m fine with mentions, but don’t focus your story on that part.
Horror.
Animal abuse.
Suicide/suicidal thoughts.
Piercings and bodies covered in tattoos, unless it’s canon. Small tattoos are fine if they can be easily hidden and have a purpose in the story.
Headcanons of characters smoking or using drugs. If it’s canon (like Reo) it’s fine to mention it or showing it briefly.
Rule 63/Genderbending.
Unrequested explicit neurodivergent headcanons (it’s fine if they’re OCs).
Ship bashing and character bashing, unless they’re the Otter, Seigi’s biological father or Kurisu’s father (but even in those cases, please don’t focus all your story on character hate).
Real people bashing, creators included (I’d prefer the story not to mention real people, unless it happens in canon).
Focusing on characters riding motorcycles (it’s fine if it happens in the background). Normal bicycles are fine and welcome!
Permanent break-ups between canon ships or ships mentioned in my likes.
Cheating/infidelity (the Otter’s abuse doesn’t count).
Poly headcanons and open relationships for the requested characters, including thoughts about involving other characters in their romantic/sex life.
Aromantic and asexual headcanons of the requested characters (but I’m fine with other characters being aro/ace, especially Kazuki and Haruka in Sarazanmai, Tanimoto in Jeweler Richard and OCs).

NSFW DNW:

Rape/non-con and sexual harassing. If it’s canon, I’m fine with mentions or brief fade-to-blacks, but please don’t add more and don’t mention non-canon rape/non-con, even as part of a character’s past. (If you write Banana Fish AU where one of my requested characters is Ash, I’m fine with making them a CSA victim, but please don’t write anything explicit).
Unrequested dub-con.
Bestiality.
Extreme underage (any mention of sex involving a pre-pubescent child and/or under 13 years old in any circumstance; if you write a Banana Fish AU, I’m fine with brief mentions of child abuse).
Unrequested kinks (like breathplay, knifeplay, bloodplay, BDSM, scat, watersports, sounding, etc.).
Public sex, sex where there are other people around or other people can easily hear or show up.
Gore, graphic depictions of violence (over the canon-typical level).
NSFW with unrequested characters. If they’re a canon couple or a ship I mentioned in my likes, I’m fine with mentions of sex or a brief fade-to-black scene.

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Sarazanmai

Characters: Akutsu Mabu, Niiboshi Reo

I love this couple and I love Sarazanmai anime!

(I also wrote a lot of fics about ReoMabu, so feel free to check my AO3 if you’re looking for inspiration; but you don’t have to, there are a lot of things I love that I’ve never written!)

Fandom specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Pre-canon. How did Reo and Mabu spend their childhood? How did they get together? When did they kiss for the first time? Who confessed first?
Missing moments. What happened at the end of the manga, or between manga and Twitter? Did Sara leave after a few months/years or did they find a way to raise her? What happened between ep 10 and 11 in the rings world? What happened post-canon?
Post-canon interactions with other characters (Sara, Keppi, Kazuki, Haruka, Toi, Enta). What do the kids think of them? Did Enta ask for help with his crush? How did they reconnect with their daughter? In the novel, Keppi erased Haruka’s memory of Reo, but would Reo still want to apologize? (Note: if you choose to make my requested characters interact with others, please keep in mind that I’d still prefer Reo and Mabu to have some time alone during the story, and to be the main focus.)
Post-canon marriage proposal, especially if it’s not traditional or something doesn’t go according to one of them’s plans (but there’s still a happy ending). I’d rather not see them proposing at the same time because there are a lot of potential scenarios never explored by fans, and I think they’d be great. Maybe they don’t actually “propose”, but one of them suddenly brings the topic up during a pillow talk? Maybe one of them misunderstands the proposal and says no? How would they deal with that?
If you’re familiar with the manga, canon divergence where Reo and Mabu go to Las Vegas after winning the trip. Would they get drunk and accidentally get married? Feel free to use any comedy cliché here.
AUs I’d love with Reo and Mabu:

- Fairy tale. I’m fine with a generic fairy tale setting, both European or Japanese. If you want to rewrite a famous fairy tale, my favorite for Reo/Mabu are “The little mermaid” (Mabu not being able to express his love is perfect), “Beauty and the Beast” (I don’t mind the roles here) and “The snow Queen” (with Mabu as Kai and Reo as Gerda). Even if you choose a traditional version of a tale, please give them a happy ending.

- Pirate AU. My preference here is Reo as a pirate and the “enemies to lovers” trope, but I’m open to different ideas.

- As I mentioned in my general likes, I’d love Steins;Gate, Banana Fish or Ace Attorney AUs, and crossovers/fusions as well.

Fandom specific likes (NSFW); feel free to combine them with every prompt/like mentioned before:

Top Reo/bottom Mabu (this is just a preference if you don’t know how to write them; if you feel more inspired about Mabu topping or switching, it’s totally okay!)
Mabu wearing his apron during sex.
Half-clothed sex with their vassal uniforms (or just them wearing their uniforms before getting naked).
Phone sex, sex via chat, video and similar when they are alone.
Kappa/kappa xeno, either with Kappa-Reo and Kappa-Mabu rubbing their bodies/holes against each other or having a retractile penis. I’m fine with kappa/human too if you feel inspired, but both humans or both kappas is my preference. I don’t mind who tops during kappa sex.
If you write a fantasy/sci-fi/fairy tale AU, I’m fine with xeno/furry as long as the characters still resemble humans with a few differences (I like tails, small horns, cat/wolf/fox ears, wings, fur, blue skin or similar). I’m also fine with knotting.
PWP (only if they’re in an established relationship). Honestly, I see Reo and Mabu as a very horny couple, so I’m happy with them having an active sex life.

Fandom specific DNW:

PTSD triggered during sex.
Trans headcanons for Reo and Mabu (but if you want to write Kazuki, Haruka, Keppi and/or OCs as trans, that’s fine!)
In time travel AUs and similar, romantic or sexual content between underage Reo/Mabu and their adult versions (but I’d love them to meet and interact platonically).
In AUs different from time travel, unrequested age gaps between Reo and Mabu, especially if they’re the same species. To clarify what I mean, I’m okay with scenarios like “Mabu is a 30-year-old human and Reo a 1000-year-old elf who looks 30”, “Reo is a young man and Mabu is a robot created 5 days ago who looks like an adult”, “Reo is from a planet where people age differently and he’s an adult at 10”, etc. My DNW applies to scenarios where they’re obviously from a different generation like “school of magic where Mabu is a professor and Reo a teen student”, “Reo is an old pirate and Mabu a young prince”, etc.
In AUs with fantasy creatures or aliens, Reo or Mabu having traits from insects/spiders or resembling them in any way.

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The case files of Jeweler Richard

Characters: Nakata Seigi, Richard Ranashinha de Vulpian

Fandom specific likes and prompts (SFW):

First person narrator (especially if you’re familiar with the novels). Both Seigi and Richard’s POVs are good.
I ship Seigi/Richard romantically, so I’d like a story about them confessing their feelings to each other, especially post novel 10 or post anime.
Seigi character study. It doesn’t have to be extremely shippy, but I’d love something exploring his sexuality as a young man who thinks he’s straight and has a crush on Tanimoto, until he realizes he’s attracted to men as well. I like his friendship with Tanimoto, so if you want her to appear, that’s good! I also really like to see him in denial about his crush on Richard, I find it pretty hilarious. Eventually, I’m fine with both Seigi identifying as bi/pan or him deciding he doesn’t need a label.
I’d like Jeweler Richard setting to get a little more action! Maybe Richard (or Seigi) is kidnapped and the other tries to rescue him? Maybe they get involved with the yakuza? Maybe one of them suddenly disappears (again)?
Bodyswap AU! What would happen if Seigi woke up inside Richard’s body and vice versa? Feel free to get creative with this trope, I’m fine with gen as much as NSFW.
As I mentioned in my general likes, I would love Richard and Seigi in an AU of my other fandoms (Sarazanmai, Steins;Gate, Banana Fish, Ace Attorney). I’d also love crossovers or fusions with them as much!

Fandom specific likes and prompts (NSFW):

I have a slight preference for Seigi topping or the two of them switching, but I’m open to everything.
I usually don’t ask for dub-con, but a scenario I’d really be interested to see with Richard and Seigi is pre-relationship drunk sex (mutual dub-con). Richard and Seigi getting both equally drunk and ending up doing something they both enjoy (and maybe secretly wanted, but not in that way). Awkward moments ensue, but eventually they’re happy.
If you’re not into drunk characters, I’m also open to mutual dub-con with sex pollen or aphrodisiacs. Maybe Richard and Seigi eat something that make them suddenly horny? That would be pretty exciting.
If they get together, I’d be happy to read phone sex, sex via chat, video and similar when the characters are alone.
Sexual scenes that start while Seigi is making pudding or cooking something Richard likes.

Fandom specific DNW:

Richard and Seigi written as explicitly not attracted to each other romantically. I’m fine with gen fic where they don’t mention romance or attraction at all, but I don’t want Richard and Seigi to be confirmed straight or claiming they would never like each other that way.
Tanimoto attracted to men.
Underage (sexual content with characters under 18).
In AUs, romantic relationships between minor Seigi/adult Richard if they have their canon age gap but they meet earlier. I’m totally fine with them dating as teenagers if you make them around the same age.

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Steins;Gate

Characters: Okabe Rintarou | Hououin Kyouma, Makise Kurisu

Fandom specific likes and prompts (SFW):

Post-canon scenarios are highly preferred! As I said, Steins;Gate 0 is optional, and you can also decide to include or ignore OVA and movie. Post-anime (first season), post-OVA, post-movie and post visual novel are all great! What kind of interactions do Okabe and Kurisu have? Where and when do they meet again? What kind of relationship do they have? Does Kurisu remember things from different world lines? I love banters and dialogues involving them as they get closer (again).
Okabe and Kurisu getting together post-canon. Love confessions, first kisses, first dates. I love both of them feeling embarrassed about their feelings, but eventually being able to express them.
Long-distance relationship. Okabe is a college student in Japan and Kurisu lives in the USA. How is their life as a couple? I love phone calls and messages/emails, especially during the night (for at least one of them, since there’s a big time zone difference).
Future fic. I’d love to see a story taking place 10-15 years in the future, especially if Okabe and Kurisu are in an established relationship. You’re free to include marriage proposals, pregnancy and OC children.
You can include Okabe and Kurisu’s friends, I like interactions with them. I just ask to please keep my requested characters the focus and to give them some time alone.
As I said in my general likes, I’d love crossovers/fusions with any of my other fandoms (Sarazanmai, The case files of Jeweler Richard, Banana Fish, Ace Attorney), especially if they meet my favorite characters. About AUs, my favorite for Okabe and Kurisu is Ace Attorney.

Fandom specific likes (NSFW):

I like sexual content between Okabe and Kurisu to be pretty vanilla. I’m fine with both sex at the start of their relationship (also pre-relationship if you can make it work!) or during an established relationship.
If they’ve just started dating, I’d prefer them to use condoms for penetrative sex.

Fandom specific DNW:

Explicit scenes of Kurisu masturbating (implied are fine).
Miscarriage and abortion.
Sexism and sexist jokes.
PWP. I like Okabe/Kurisu explicit sexual content as part of a longer story, but I’m not interested in porn without plot.
Kurisu quitting her job as a scientist, Kurisu wishing to become a housewife when she gets married/pregnant.
Mention of ships from different routes (different from the True Ending/the anime).

Thank you so much for reading my letter until the end. I hope you’ll have fun during this exchange!

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