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I'm so excited to see what you come up with for this exchange! Hope you have a great time with it. Prompts are here if you want them, but if you have another idea that's inspiring you I'm happy to see that too.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me through the mods. I'm also sincereously on AO3.
General fic likes:
Worldbuilding (especially magical, religious and cultural worldbuilding)
Unusual formats, including in-universe documents and IF/Choose Your Own Adventure
Canon divergence
Outsider POV
Dramatic irony
Moments of quiet intimacy during breaks in the action (especially good for missing scenes in between what we see in canon)
Slowly building intimacy/respect together - slow burn in general
Taking care of injured people
Hair care, washing, and styling as bonding
Forced proximity (undercover together, trapped together, accidental/arranged marriage, fake dating, only one bed, etc.)
Elaborate plans that may or may not work out
Improvising new plans as you go along
"That's an extremely bad plan, of course I'm in" type situations and interpersonal dynamics
Getting in way over your head but throwing yourself headfirst into the plan anyway
Repressed characters learning to let go
Struggling against temptation/the Dark Side
Five + one things structure
General DNWs:
Character bashing
Canon-divergent death of requested characters (canonical deaths are fine)
Non-canonical child death
Setting change AUs (ex. coffeeshop, high school, modern AU, etc.)
Time travel AUs
Explicitly stated sexuality labels for characters whose sexuality is not canonically defined
Formalized dom/sub relationships
Ageplay
Raceplay
Omegaverse
Mpreg
Excretory kinks
Rape/noncon (dubcon - sex pollen with both/all characters dosed, sex in arranged marriages, fuck-or-die, etc. - are fine, as are references to canonical rape/noncon.)
Underage under 15 and unrequested non-canonical ships with 20+ year age gaps (mentions of canon examples are fine, but please don't make them the focus of the fic)
Cross-gen incest
Animal abuse
Hopeless endings (endings can be dark, but not without any shred of hope)
Please keep the violence level at about what it is in canon.
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Requested tags: Eldie Porter, Original Middle Sister of a Criminal Family, Original Middle Sister of an Army Volunteer Family
About the canon:
I'm interested in the world that's constructed here, particularly how women fit within the family structures and the highly stratified society. It doesn't show as much with our viewpoint characters, being a rare boy and a princess who’s become the Eldest, but it's interesting how much of an average woman's identity in this world is subsumed into being part of a collective group of sisters, including running any sort of businesses or other jobs together and receiving any punishment earned by an individual member of the family. It'd be cool to see both the kinds of women that fit within these tight-knit, insular conceptions of family and those who want to defy the norms to find an individual identity or choose a different family. I'd also love to see any explorations of the in-universe culture.
While the tag is for original characters, I'm good with the characters turning out to be unnamed background canon characters too.
This canon is a single book available through most online book retailers and in libraries, including in ebook formats.
Prompts
- (Eldie Porter) From the Eldest of a duchess's family to a younger sister of farmers/merchants, and with her life and those of her new sisters on the line if she ever slips up and exposes the truth - how does she adjust in the aftermath of the book? How do her new sisters feel and act around her, or her new sisters-in-law and cousins in the royal family? What would happen if someone else found out about who she really was?
- (Eldie Porter) In an AU where the Porters aren't quite so ambitious and survive as former in-laws and closely trusted advisors to the Queens, what kind of person does Eldie Porter become? How does she feel about the Porter family? Is she at all close to the royals? What happens if she finds out the truth of her parentage?
- (Middle Sister of a Criminal Family, Middle Sister of an Army Volunteer Family) The characters take part in the War of the False Eldest. Who did they fight for? What did they think about the dynastic situation that led to the war, or were they just concerned about the common people/their family who got trampled in the war's path? Did they know the Whistlers at all, and what was their impression of them if they did?
- (Original Middle Sister of a Criminal Family) What kind of criminals are they - thieves, thugs, smugglers, pickpockets, counterfeiters? What kind of criminal does this middle sister want to be, if she wants to be a criminal at all? What's her relationship with her sisters like, particularly with her Eldest? Is she satisfied with her status or is she looking for more, and what would that "more" look like for her? If so, does she succeed in getting it?
- (Original Middle Sister of an Army Volunteer Family) What happened to her family to make joining the army seem like the best option? Was she actually interested in joining the army, or did her sisters pressure her into it? How does she adjust to the drudgery and danger of army life - that line in the book that "the army eats families" has stuck with me here. Does she manage to make it out and rise higher, and if she does, what prices does she end up paying for it?
Requested tags: Violet Cross/Amelia Scanwell, Nancy Birch/Margaret Wells, William North/Margaret Wells
About the canon:
I love so much about this canon - the fripperies and humor, the politicking and drama and the moments of sincerity that shine through. I love the setting, with its range from decadence to squalor. More than anything, I love how complex the women are and complicated relationships they have with each other. All of these stories are, in the end, about people on the fringes trying to carve a place in the world, and I love seeing their successes and failures as they go after what they want.
For any story, I'm good with Margaret/Nancy and Margaret/Will by themselves or occurring simultaneously as V-shaped polyamory with Margaret as the hinge.
Harlots is 3 seasons (although only 2 are necessary for my request) of approximately 1-hour episodes (with 8 episodes a season) available on Hulu.
Prompts
- (Amelia/Violet) Any small series of missing slice-of-life scenes during or after their time in canon would be great - Violet caring for Amelia after her stabbing, them going on a journey together, Amelia and Violet having reading lessons and "reading lessons"...
- (Amelia/Violet) With their plot so unresolved at the end of season 2, I'd love to see what happens next for them! Them getting to strengthen their relationship after the physical and emotional turmoil they dealt with all season, being able to escape and build a life together and avoid the unwanted marriage, maybe teaming up with the Wells and associates in their plots against the Spartans? (As far as Hunt goes...well, I'd prefer that he not be outright abusive or that Amelia and Violet kill him, but other ways of writing him out of the equation - him sticking to calling off the engagement at the end of S2, going on the run after the ruse with Margaret is discovered, being killed as the start of a casefic, turning out to be not-straight and working out an amicable mutual bearding situation with Amelia and Violet - will work for me).
- (Margaret/Nancy, Margaret/Will) Any kind of backstory fic would be very welcome. What little moments led to Nancy and Margaret falling into trust while in Lydia's house? What was their personal and professional life like after leaving Lydia - did they ever try to go into business together, or help each other find a place in the world? How did Margaret first get to know Will - he wasn't a client, but was he connected to the world of sex work in other ways or did he join it for the sake of being with Margaret?
- (Margaret/Nancy, Margaret/Will) The people who love Margaret come after her after she's transported. Do they work to bring her back or try to establish a new life in a new world?
Requested tags: Isabella
About the canon:
Isabella's headstrong and messy and that's what I enjoy about her. She has a idiosyncratic set of ideals that she can be ruthless about pursuing. She isn't completely uncompromising in her principles, but the places where she chooses to bend and the places where she won't bend at all (and how she justifies those things to herself and to others) are really fascinating. I love productions that lean into how angry she can be about the unfair world and unfair situation she lives in.
This canon is available through multiple public-domain sources.
Prompts
- Honestly, if you just want to do 10k of character study, I'm all for that. Does she have any stories or saints or scholars who particularly speak to her? Who does she admire and who does she deplore? Where does she see her actions line up with her faith, and where does she have to work to reconcile them together? If you happen to be interested in early modern Catholic religious history or theology, I'd enjoy seeing some of those details too.
- After the play, does the shadow of what happened follow her even as she tries to escape to the convent? How do the other nuns react to her? Abbesses historically had quite a lot of influence in their local communities and had to interact with local authorities - what would happen if she eventually became Abbess? Alternatively, how would she fare as the Duchess? Could she find an expression of her faith and her needs that feels right to her? Noblewomen could historically wield a lot of soft power if they played their cards right - could Isabella harness that power (and for what purpose?) or is she not equipped to play that game?
- Do she and Claudio ever rebuild their relationship? Mariana has done an enormous morally ambiguous favor for Isabella, knows as well as Isabella does what it's like to suffer at a man's whims, and after marrying Angelo becomes far more prominent socially - how does Isabella relate to Mariana in the aftermath of the play, whether she marries the Duke or not? I'm good with her never interacting with Angelo again if you want, but if they do end up thrown together for some reason (maybe the Duke is doing some other convoluted scheme and they're either caught up in it or trying to pick up the pieces) how could those fraught circumstances unfold?
- Instead of a bed trick, Isabella opts for a straight-up prison break. Bonus points if she also dresses up as a friar in the course of the escape.
Requested tags: Krobus, Gunther, Marlon, Witch
About the canon:
I really enjoy the setting - it's so pretty and so charming, with a strong undercurrent of magic. For this exchange I'm especially interested in the strange and supernatural parts of the valley - there's a lot of lore but also a lot left unexplained and open to imagination.
This canon is available on Steam.
Prompts
- (Krobus) I love to see Krobus learning about the human world from the other characters and him teaching them about the world of the magical beings in return. What would happen if he struck up a friendship with a villager, especially someone who isn't the Farmer? Can he find a way to fit in the rhythm of life in the town?
- (Krobus) What, exactly, did Krobus do during the Elemental Wars that makes the dwarves want to send an assassin after him in particular? Any worldbuilding for both the Shadow People and the Dwarves (as well as other magical species) would be great too.
- (Gunther) So is Gunther the one who writes the descriptions for all of the artifacts and minerals that go into the museum? I'd love to see more of his scholarly archaeological work, including in-universe documents. And since he can leave the museum sometimes (he visits the Farmer to give them the Rusty Key), what if he goes on trips to find museum items? Anything from realistic archaeological practice to Gunther being a secret Indiana Jones figure would be really fun.
- (Gunther) Anything that goes into the Gunther-is-a-ghost theory. What was he like as a living villager? How did he die and end up haunting the museum? Did he know any of the other villagers when he was alive, or were they after his time?
- (Marlon) What's his history in the Adventurer's Guild? Are he and Gil the only members or is it an organization that goes throughout Ferngill (or even Gotoro)? What drew him to join or create the organization? What were his favorite or most harrowing adventures? How did he lose his eye and injure his leg, for example?
- (Marlon) Can Marlon use magic at all? If he doesn't, is it because he can't or because he refuses to (and if it's the latter, what actions led him to that decision)? If he can, how did he learn those skills, and what would happen if he had to put them to use to stop a large threat to the village and/or the valley?
- (Witch) How did she and the Wizard fall for each other? We only ever get the Wizard's side of how their marriage broke down - how does she see it? (I'm good with either or both as unreliable narrators). Did she create the shrines in her hut or did she build the hut around preexisting shrines? What goals does she have besides cursing random items in the town?
- (Witch) The Witch takes on an apprentice. Who does she pick? What are her goals in teaching them magic? How does the apprentice use their new powers?
- Any combination of my requested characters on an adventure of your choice - Gunther has to recruit Krobus' help to get a magical artifact for the museum! the Witch gives Marlon magical training! Marlon has to confront some unsavory Adventurer's Guild policies when he becomes friends with Krobus! the Witch conjures up ghostly Gunther to help with some scheme of hers! The valley is your oyster.
I'm so excited to see what you come up with for this exchange! Hope you have a great time with it. Prompts are here if you want them, but if you have another idea that's inspiring you I'm happy to see that too.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me through the mods. I'm also sincereously on AO3.
General Likes and DNWs
General fic likes:
Worldbuilding (especially magical, religious and cultural worldbuilding)
Unusual formats, including in-universe documents and IF/Choose Your Own Adventure
Canon divergence
Outsider POV
Dramatic irony
Moments of quiet intimacy during breaks in the action (especially good for missing scenes in between what we see in canon)
Slowly building intimacy/respect together - slow burn in general
Taking care of injured people
Hair care, washing, and styling as bonding
Forced proximity (undercover together, trapped together, accidental/arranged marriage, fake dating, only one bed, etc.)
Elaborate plans that may or may not work out
Improvising new plans as you go along
"That's an extremely bad plan, of course I'm in" type situations and interpersonal dynamics
Getting in way over your head but throwing yourself headfirst into the plan anyway
Repressed characters learning to let go
Struggling against temptation/the Dark Side
Five + one things structure
General DNWs:
Character bashing
Canon-divergent death of requested characters (canonical deaths are fine)
Non-canonical child death
Setting change AUs (ex. coffeeshop, high school, modern AU, etc.)
Time travel AUs
Explicitly stated sexuality labels for characters whose sexuality is not canonically defined
Formalized dom/sub relationships
Ageplay
Raceplay
Omegaverse
Mpreg
Excretory kinks
Rape/noncon (dubcon - sex pollen with both/all characters dosed, sex in arranged marriages, fuck-or-die, etc. - are fine, as are references to canonical rape/noncon.)
Underage under 15 and unrequested non-canonical ships with 20+ year age gaps (mentions of canon examples are fine, but please don't make them the focus of the fic)
Cross-gen incest
Animal abuse
Hopeless endings (endings can be dark, but not without any shred of hope)
Please keep the violence level at about what it is in canon.
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A Brother's Price
Requested tags: Eldie Porter, Original Middle Sister of a Criminal Family, Original Middle Sister of an Army Volunteer Family
About the canon:
I'm interested in the world that's constructed here, particularly how women fit within the family structures and the highly stratified society. It doesn't show as much with our viewpoint characters, being a rare boy and a princess who’s become the Eldest, but it's interesting how much of an average woman's identity in this world is subsumed into being part of a collective group of sisters, including running any sort of businesses or other jobs together and receiving any punishment earned by an individual member of the family. It'd be cool to see both the kinds of women that fit within these tight-knit, insular conceptions of family and those who want to defy the norms to find an individual identity or choose a different family. I'd also love to see any explorations of the in-universe culture.
While the tag is for original characters, I'm good with the characters turning out to be unnamed background canon characters too.
This canon is a single book available through most online book retailers and in libraries, including in ebook formats.
Prompts
- (Eldie Porter) From the Eldest of a duchess's family to a younger sister of farmers/merchants, and with her life and those of her new sisters on the line if she ever slips up and exposes the truth - how does she adjust in the aftermath of the book? How do her new sisters feel and act around her, or her new sisters-in-law and cousins in the royal family? What would happen if someone else found out about who she really was?
- (Eldie Porter) In an AU where the Porters aren't quite so ambitious and survive as former in-laws and closely trusted advisors to the Queens, what kind of person does Eldie Porter become? How does she feel about the Porter family? Is she at all close to the royals? What happens if she finds out the truth of her parentage?
- (Middle Sister of a Criminal Family, Middle Sister of an Army Volunteer Family) The characters take part in the War of the False Eldest. Who did they fight for? What did they think about the dynastic situation that led to the war, or were they just concerned about the common people/their family who got trampled in the war's path? Did they know the Whistlers at all, and what was their impression of them if they did?
- (Original Middle Sister of a Criminal Family) What kind of criminals are they - thieves, thugs, smugglers, pickpockets, counterfeiters? What kind of criminal does this middle sister want to be, if she wants to be a criminal at all? What's her relationship with her sisters like, particularly with her Eldest? Is she satisfied with her status or is she looking for more, and what would that "more" look like for her? If so, does she succeed in getting it?
- (Original Middle Sister of an Army Volunteer Family) What happened to her family to make joining the army seem like the best option? Was she actually interested in joining the army, or did her sisters pressure her into it? How does she adjust to the drudgery and danger of army life - that line in the book that "the army eats families" has stuck with me here. Does she manage to make it out and rise higher, and if she does, what prices does she end up paying for it?
Harlots
Requested tags: Violet Cross/Amelia Scanwell, Nancy Birch/Margaret Wells, William North/Margaret Wells
About the canon:
I love so much about this canon - the fripperies and humor, the politicking and drama and the moments of sincerity that shine through. I love the setting, with its range from decadence to squalor. More than anything, I love how complex the women are and complicated relationships they have with each other. All of these stories are, in the end, about people on the fringes trying to carve a place in the world, and I love seeing their successes and failures as they go after what they want.
For any story, I'm good with Margaret/Nancy and Margaret/Will by themselves or occurring simultaneously as V-shaped polyamory with Margaret as the hinge.
Harlots is 3 seasons (although only 2 are necessary for my request) of approximately 1-hour episodes (with 8 episodes a season) available on Hulu.
Prompts
- (Amelia/Violet) Any small series of missing slice-of-life scenes during or after their time in canon would be great - Violet caring for Amelia after her stabbing, them going on a journey together, Amelia and Violet having reading lessons and "reading lessons"...
- (Amelia/Violet) With their plot so unresolved at the end of season 2, I'd love to see what happens next for them! Them getting to strengthen their relationship after the physical and emotional turmoil they dealt with all season, being able to escape and build a life together and avoid the unwanted marriage, maybe teaming up with the Wells and associates in their plots against the Spartans? (As far as Hunt goes...well, I'd prefer that he not be outright abusive or that Amelia and Violet kill him, but other ways of writing him out of the equation - him sticking to calling off the engagement at the end of S2, going on the run after the ruse with Margaret is discovered, being killed as the start of a casefic, turning out to be not-straight and working out an amicable mutual bearding situation with Amelia and Violet - will work for me).
- (Margaret/Nancy, Margaret/Will) Any kind of backstory fic would be very welcome. What little moments led to Nancy and Margaret falling into trust while in Lydia's house? What was their personal and professional life like after leaving Lydia - did they ever try to go into business together, or help each other find a place in the world? How did Margaret first get to know Will - he wasn't a client, but was he connected to the world of sex work in other ways or did he join it for the sake of being with Margaret?
- (Margaret/Nancy, Margaret/Will) The people who love Margaret come after her after she's transported. Do they work to bring her back or try to establish a new life in a new world?
Measure for Measure
Requested tags: Isabella
About the canon:
Isabella's headstrong and messy and that's what I enjoy about her. She has a idiosyncratic set of ideals that she can be ruthless about pursuing. She isn't completely uncompromising in her principles, but the places where she chooses to bend and the places where she won't bend at all (and how she justifies those things to herself and to others) are really fascinating. I love productions that lean into how angry she can be about the unfair world and unfair situation she lives in.
This canon is available through multiple public-domain sources.
Prompts
- Honestly, if you just want to do 10k of character study, I'm all for that. Does she have any stories or saints or scholars who particularly speak to her? Who does she admire and who does she deplore? Where does she see her actions line up with her faith, and where does she have to work to reconcile them together? If you happen to be interested in early modern Catholic religious history or theology, I'd enjoy seeing some of those details too.
- After the play, does the shadow of what happened follow her even as she tries to escape to the convent? How do the other nuns react to her? Abbesses historically had quite a lot of influence in their local communities and had to interact with local authorities - what would happen if she eventually became Abbess? Alternatively, how would she fare as the Duchess? Could she find an expression of her faith and her needs that feels right to her? Noblewomen could historically wield a lot of soft power if they played their cards right - could Isabella harness that power (and for what purpose?) or is she not equipped to play that game?
- Do she and Claudio ever rebuild their relationship? Mariana has done an enormous morally ambiguous favor for Isabella, knows as well as Isabella does what it's like to suffer at a man's whims, and after marrying Angelo becomes far more prominent socially - how does Isabella relate to Mariana in the aftermath of the play, whether she marries the Duke or not? I'm good with her never interacting with Angelo again if you want, but if they do end up thrown together for some reason (maybe the Duke is doing some other convoluted scheme and they're either caught up in it or trying to pick up the pieces) how could those fraught circumstances unfold?
- Instead of a bed trick, Isabella opts for a straight-up prison break. Bonus points if she also dresses up as a friar in the course of the escape.
Stardew Valley
Requested tags: Krobus, Gunther, Marlon, Witch
About the canon:
I really enjoy the setting - it's so pretty and so charming, with a strong undercurrent of magic. For this exchange I'm especially interested in the strange and supernatural parts of the valley - there's a lot of lore but also a lot left unexplained and open to imagination.
This canon is available on Steam.
Prompts
- (Krobus) I love to see Krobus learning about the human world from the other characters and him teaching them about the world of the magical beings in return. What would happen if he struck up a friendship with a villager, especially someone who isn't the Farmer? Can he find a way to fit in the rhythm of life in the town?
- (Krobus) What, exactly, did Krobus do during the Elemental Wars that makes the dwarves want to send an assassin after him in particular? Any worldbuilding for both the Shadow People and the Dwarves (as well as other magical species) would be great too.
- (Gunther) So is Gunther the one who writes the descriptions for all of the artifacts and minerals that go into the museum? I'd love to see more of his scholarly archaeological work, including in-universe documents. And since he can leave the museum sometimes (he visits the Farmer to give them the Rusty Key), what if he goes on trips to find museum items? Anything from realistic archaeological practice to Gunther being a secret Indiana Jones figure would be really fun.
- (Gunther) Anything that goes into the Gunther-is-a-ghost theory. What was he like as a living villager? How did he die and end up haunting the museum? Did he know any of the other villagers when he was alive, or were they after his time?
- (Marlon) What's his history in the Adventurer's Guild? Are he and Gil the only members or is it an organization that goes throughout Ferngill (or even Gotoro)? What drew him to join or create the organization? What were his favorite or most harrowing adventures? How did he lose his eye and injure his leg, for example?
- (Marlon) Can Marlon use magic at all? If he doesn't, is it because he can't or because he refuses to (and if it's the latter, what actions led him to that decision)? If he can, how did he learn those skills, and what would happen if he had to put them to use to stop a large threat to the village and/or the valley?
- (Witch) How did she and the Wizard fall for each other? We only ever get the Wizard's side of how their marriage broke down - how does she see it? (I'm good with either or both as unreliable narrators). Did she create the shrines in her hut or did she build the hut around preexisting shrines? What goals does she have besides cursing random items in the town?
- (Witch) The Witch takes on an apprentice. Who does she pick? What are her goals in teaching them magic? How does the apprentice use their new powers?
- Any combination of my requested characters on an adventure of your choice - Gunther has to recruit Krobus' help to get a magical artifact for the museum! the Witch gives Marlon magical training! Marlon has to confront some unsavory Adventurer's Guild policies when he becomes friends with Krobus! the Witch conjures up ghostly Gunther to help with some scheme of hers! The valley is your oyster.