Chocolate Box 2025 Letter
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Hello, person who has matched with me, or is treating me! No matter what you make, I'm probably going to really like it, but I know it's much easier to come up with an idea if you've got some guidance.
Length of prompts is not related to how much I like any character or group, and more related to how much I can ramble about them off the top of my head. Also, feel free to do whatever you want. If for example, I mention wanting fluff for a character, but you have an angsty idea you really want to do, go for it!
My ao3 account and my tumblr are both wolffyluna, if you want to have a look at them to get ideas.
Contents
Likes:
Fandoms:
- I like the whole gamut from fluff with a minor conflict to angst that gets resolved to completely tragic tragedies. - Tragedies that are inevitable and tragedies where the ground work for them was laid well before anyone could predict the tragic outcome, so as soon as the characters know a tragic outcome is a possibility it is too late, are both very good. - As are bittersweet endings, or angst with a happy ending
- Hurt/comfort - I like comforters who are being/trying to be relentlessly practical, or who express their care for the comfortee through actions more than words. - comforters and comfortees trying to be stoic (and not necessarily succeeding). - comforters and comfortees pretending that what is going on has nothing to do with one of them being hurt, they’re just being randomly nice/ they’re not hurt at all! - comfort after nightmares/panic attacks/other PTSD symptoms is very good. Especially nightmares. (Nightmares are such a good vehicle for revealing things about a character.) - As is comfort after more recent traumatic events, such as tending injuries after a battle or a character has been rescued from captivity
- I am a big fan of the hurt being a character having a minor illness or injury that isn’t particularly concerning but does make them feel miserable
- wound tending is also great h/c. I love the intimacy of dressing wounds, it’s so good.
- Mutual pining/wanting to get together but not be able because [reason], with [reason] being resolved at the end (example reasons: mistaken identity, “I am your boss and it would be unethical”, but in general I am not picky about this dynamic)
- (Or, of course “I should not take advantage of you!” “You are very much not taking advantage of me, what are you talking about?”)
- Kissing! Forehead kisses, kisses on the cheek, full on make outs: kissing is great!
- Cuddling! I feel the same way about cuddling as I do about kissing! It’s all good. I especially like characters falling asleep leaning against each other. Or characters holding each other, or a character resting their cheek or chin against the other.
- I like exploring the messed up dynamics and/or the terrible-idea-ness of the relationship, if applicable.
- Characters giving into temptation, eg knowing that a particular relationship is a bad idea, or would be breaking their vow of chastity, but going into it anyway.
- Politics! I love characters trying to navigate it, the tension between their political persona and they’re actual persona, the ethical dilemmas of power, all of it!
- Loyalty, fealty, feudalism, ‘is it gay or just feudalism?’. Dramatic expression of loyalty. Intense loyalties, conflicted loyalties: they're all good.
- Two characters sharing a body
- Dancing, either partner dances or just both people happening to dance at the same time.
- Hair, hair brushing and hair braiding.
- Crossdressing
- Religion, religious discussions and worldbuilding about religion.
- I am not invested in any particular religion being right or wrong in a given particular fictional work or world, and I am happy with whatever interpretation you would like to pick. I’ll be thrilled either way!
- I am interested in this for both fictional and real world religions
- Horses! Whether they're just in the background, or are a major part of the art/plot. I love horses. You cannot go wrong with horses. Do not be intimidated, I do not expect Wealths of Equine Knowledge fics. If there is horse there, and it gets patted or ridden, I will be very happy.
- Pet rats
- “What if X happened instead of what happened in canon?”/”What if Y didn’t die?”/canon divergence AUs
- Crying
- Geology. Plot relevant rocks, people giving each other rocks, rampant geological symbolism: it’s all good.
- Third and second person POV
- As a general note: anything I’ve mentioned in my general likes (or smut likes), I also like in art. I’ve copied over most of the relevant likes over here as well, so they’re easy to find, but if there’s something in the above list that takes your fancy as something to put in art, go right ahead!
- I am big fan on drawings/re-drawings of canon scenes. If you’ve got a moment in canon you’ve been dying to draw, I would love to see it.
- Kissing! Forehead kisses, kisses on the cheek, full on make outs: kissing is great!
- Cuddling! I feel the same way about cuddling as I do about kissing! It’s all good. I especially like characters falling asleep leaning against each other.
- Characters resting their heads against each other
- Hair, hair brushing and hair braiding.
- Crying
- For art, I like coloured lighting and unusual/restricted palettes.
- I also like intense colours and contrast in art
- I like both digital and traditional art
- Dancing, either partner dances or just both people happening to dance at the same time.
- Horses! Whether they're just in the background, or are a major part of the art/plot. I love horses
- Pet rats
- Crossdressing
- Symbolic representations of relationship dynamics
- Tarot style or tarot inspired art
- Pixel art
- Comics
- Oral, intercrural, anal and vaginal sex are all good (though I have a particular soft spot for the first two).
- People being supernaturally horny, for example sex pollen or omegaverse/heatverses.
- All consuming heats that take over people’s brains are also very very good, especially if they are intermixed with being overwhelmed.
- Also deliberate use of sex pollen, either by the people sex pollenening themselves, or an antagonist doing it
- In omegaverse, I like knots and ludicrous amounts of slick, but can take or leave omega oppression/gender roles, claiming and scent stuff.
- All consuming heats that take over people’s brains are also very very good, especially if they are intermixed with being overwhelmed.
- Rope bondage.
- Explicit negotiation. (Even deeply dorky negotiation)
- Consentacles
- Hair kink/focus on hair.
- Praise kink
- Mild sadism and masochism/painplay. (For example: whipping? Yes please! Whipping until the skin is stripped off a character’s back: no thank you. In general, extreme pain or injuries that can’t fully heal is past what I’d like it (though in a setting with magical healing, I’m more comfortable with more extreme things if it’s established the characters will be healed.))
- Ritual sex/deliberately public sex (ie, the public intended to be there to watch)
- Exhibitionism where the audience is consenting
- Consensual free use, in the sense of a character being sexually available to whoever (though maybe only in specific circumstances eg at a specific party)
- “Forced” orgasms, multiple orgasms, orgasm control/denial, and chastity kink
- Crossdressing
- Sex toys and fucking machines
- Overstimulation/being overwhelmed with sensation. ‘Getting fucked out of their brains’
- Crying, either due to overstimulation or due to high emotions
- Size kink, both of the large penises/dildos/penetrating things and the small penises/dildos/penetrating things varieties.
- stomach bulges are a lovely bonus to ‘very big’ size kink
- but small does have the appeal of “and we do not have to think very hard about how were are going to get this into the relevant place”
- ‘Thank God We Lived’ Sex
- D/s, especially when the dom is of a more caring flavour
- Torture being portrayed as effective/achieving goals
- Impregnation/pregnancy risk
- if there is a mention of some sort of birth control, even if it just the pull out method, you will have avoided my dnw.
- Explicit underage (<18) sex
- Daddy kink/ mommy kink / family terms being used in sex
- Explicit descriptions of needles or hooks going into people.
- Unrequested sibling or parental incest.
- Baldur’s Gate 3 specific: treating Ulder Ravengard or Mystra as purely malicious.
- TGCF specific: Mu Qing or Feng Xin pining for each other before Xie Lian’s third ascension.
I love these spiky weirdos with universally tragic backstories. They have such fun dynamics with each other. I love characters being pushed way out of their comfort zones by trying to solve a parasite problem and then having to save the world, and in fic I love the aftermath of dealing with that.
I’m also a sucker for the high fantasy weirdness of the Forgotten Realms.
NB: I have finished a standard Tav run through of the game, but am partway through a Dark Urge run. I do not mind spoilers, so if you want to write me a Dark Urge ship, please do!
For the ships where I’m requesting original characters, please feel free to get as specific as you want with your Tavs and Dark Urges, including using ones from your own play through. I love reading fic and seeing art of other people’s OCs!
Wyll/Tav
I love Wyll, and his tendency towards self sacrifice and deliberately trying to live up to a heroic archetype. And the guilt! I am a sucker for the guilt, of either killing Karlach or of nearly killing Karlach and having to spend the rest of his life visibly a devil. I also love how he deliberately tries to be a fairy tale romantic partner.
I’m a big fan of fics that get into the meat of eg “this character cares a lot about social roles and so they would behave differently if they were a different gender.” Wyll is on some level very performative-- he is deliberately doing the Knight in Shining Armour Rescuing People thing, and calling himself the Blade of Frontiers while doing it.
Shadowheart/Tav
I love Shadowheart early in the game, full of secrets and holes in her memory and a faith in Shar that she has by rote because what else does she have of her identity? (Love me a girl with faith. Love me a girl with religious trauma.) I love how she can turn either against or to Shar and the way that ripples through her characterisation.
Also I am generally a sucker for h/c with Shadowheart, either with her as the comforter or the comforted.
With Shadowheart, I will be delighted with whatever original character you write or draw for me, but I would be remiss if I did not point out that Clerics of Selune have unique romance dialogue with Shadowheart, and that I am sucker for people of enemy faiths sniping and falling in love.
I am happy for fic of either her Selunite or Sharran paths.
Shadowheart/Wyll
I love Wyll, and his tendency towards self sacrifice and deliberately trying to live up to a heroic archetype. And the guilt! I am a sucker for the guilt, of either killing Karlach or of nearly killing Karlach and having to spend the rest of his life visibly a devil. I also love how he deliberately tries to be a fairy tale romantic partner.
I love Shadowheart early in the game, full of secrets and holes in her memory and a faith in Shar that she has by rote because what else does she have of her identity? (Love me a girl with faith. Love me a girl with religious trauma.) I love how she can turn either against or to Shar and the way that ripples through her characterisation.
I do find the parallels between their back stories really interesting: eg if you go for Selunite Shadowheart, she is having to deal with the wrong she has done, a lot of which she doesn’t remember, while Wyll is very aware exactly of what fuck ups he’s made. And they both have fraught parental relationships.
I am a sucker for h/c with both of them.
Wyll/Karlach
I love Wyll, and his tendency towards self sacrifice and deliberately trying to live up to a heroic archetype. And the guilt! I am a sucker for the guilt, of either killing Karlach or of nearly killing Karlach and having to spend the rest of his life visibly a devil. I also love how he deliberately tries to be a fairy tale romantic partner.
I’m interested in fic with them grappling with their first meeting, or dealing with Karlach’s mortality or post-canon fic.
I love her revelling in her freedom and I love her realising she doesn’t have much time, and I love her having to deal with the weight of what was done to her and what she has done in Avernus. I love how she’s so chipper, and how a lot of it is throwing herself into life because she can’t waste a second on moping. I love how passionate and open book she is! Also-- I am a sucker for touch starvation and the inherent conflict of ‘I want to touch but I also don’t want to burn you.’ Let’s make that hedgehog dilemma very literal and very fiery.
Lae'zel/Tav
I love her! She’s direct and brash and a fish very much out of her Creche K’liir water . I love how she’s so scared in the beginning, but people tend not to notice because she is all fight and no flight. And she’s so confident in her own and the party’s skills! I love how she’s quite direct in her desire, and willing to duel her partner in front of the camp… but she’s deeply embarassed by kissing her partner. (In general, both in romantic and platonic contexts, I love how she tries so hard to hard her vulnerability under a spiky exterior.) I’m also a sucker for her dealing with realising Vlaakith can’t defeat the Grand Design, and the fallout from her realising her life is a lie. Also, I am a sucker for h/c where either the comforter or the comfortee are bad at the sort of squishy caring or being cared for stuff, and Lae’zel is great for that.
Lae’zel/Shadowheart
I love Shadowheart early in the game, full of secrets and holes in her memory and a faith in Shar that she has by rote because what else does she have of her identity? (Love me a girl with faith. Love me a girl with religious trauma.) I love how she can turn either against or to Shar and the way that ripples through her characterisation.
I love her! She’s direct and brash and a fish very much out of her Creche K’liir water . I love how she’s so scared in the beginning, but people tend not to notice because she is all fight and no flight. And she’s so confident in her own and the party’s skills! I love how she’s quite direct in her desire, and willing to duel her partner in front of the camp… but she’s deeply embarassed by kissing her partner. (In general, both in romantic and platonic contexts, I love how she tries so hard to hard her vulnerability under a spiky exterior.) I’m also a sucker for her dealing with realising Vlaakith can’t defeat the Grand Design, and the fallout from her realising her life is a lie. I love their shared arc from utter seething hatred to realising they’re not so different and having to rebuild their lives.
Tian Guan Ci Fu - Moxiang Tongxiu
I love the larger-than-life worldbuilding that spans over centuries, and the entire cast of larger than life characters. I also love all the people who get stuck in the cycles and motifs factory, and all the stuff about purity and morality (and the specific societal perceptions of those) and power.
Hua Cheng/Xie Lian
The devotion! Across a ridiculous amount of time, and to a ridiculous degree! I love it! Hua Cheng’s “I will do/be whatever Xie Lian wants” is potentially concerning, but it’s balanced out by the fact that Xie Lian is very much on team “Hua Cheng should get to be himself and get to be happy.” But I love the dynamic deeply.
I’d be really interested in hurt/comfort with these two. They’ve been through so much, and they deserve good things (even if they maybe have to go through some added bad things to get there.) I’d be happy with either (or both of them at the same time) being the hurt one or the comforter.
I’d be particularly interested in post-nightmare comfort, if you would like to write that.
Art: I’d be interested in drawings of any of the shippy moments in the books (or shippy moments you came up with!). Things like chapter 190 or Wuming’s existence count as shippy to me, if you’d like to make something darker.
Jun Wu/Xie Lian
[slams metaphorical tankard on the table] just fuck me up
I love characters trying to corrupt other characters. And White No Face gets so deliciously close with Xie Lian. But I also love the antagonism. Xie Lian tries so hard, does his best to resist, meanwhile White No Face is trying to traumatise him to make him become him. It’s great, and I love it. I love also how Jun Wu tries to make Xie Lian exactly like him, it’s such a fun dynamic.
I imagine that during Xie Lian’s second banishment, he still occasionally had run ins with White No Face, and I would potentially be interested in fic of one of those times. He’s way less powerful and way less lucky, and he’s already been traumatised by White No Face—any run ins would be horrible for Xie Lian (but probably very fun for the reader! 😉)
I also love conversations that become much creepier in context, and all the things surrounding Jun Wu deliberately putting himself in the role of an (abusive) parent.
For art: I’d be interested in art of any other their confrontations, or chapter 190 or White No Face creepily comforting Xie Lian about a thing he did.
Feng Xin & Mu Qing & Xie Lian
Xianle Trio my Xianle Trio! God I love the dynamics: Feng Xin and Mu Qing not liking each other but forced into the proximity by orbiting Xie Lian/ Xie Lian being a human shaped get along shirt. The way they all feel like they failed and were failed by each other in book 4. Those bitter bitter 800 years, and the slow blossoming of a friendship after Xie Lian reascends. So good!
I am a big fan of post canon fic where they just. Try and make gestures towards repairing their relationship.
I’m also a big fan of all variants of “Feng Xin and/or Mu Qing find out about [insert thing that happened while they weren’t there]
I’m also interested in fic of what the hell they were thinking when they did the Fu Yao and Nan Feng thing.
art: hugs! Training martial arts together! Eating, either actually good food or something alarming Xie Lian has made!
Mu Qing/ Xie Lian and Feng Xin/ Xie Lian
I’m putting these together because I like them for similar reasons.
I love all the potential for Xianle era pining, and all the things you can have about deeply wanting something you cannot have and should not even want. Xie Lian the Crown Prince and follower of a path that requires purity. Neither of them are meant to even want to kiss him, let alone do anything more dramatic.
And then there’s, of course, there’s everything about following Xie Lian into exile, and all the guilt about leaving him in exile.
I’m also a big fan of people being utterly clueless about their feelings.
I am fine with fic where they do not get together.
I’m also interested in post canon fic. I would personally prefer if Xie Lian is an open relationship/polyamorous/Hua Cheng doesn’t care and he’s just not on screen.
Feng Xin/Mu Qing
I love relationships where they start out/ spend a lot of time hating each other, bury the hatchet, and then suddenly oh no feelings. Especially when you don’t want those feelings! You hate that guy! For good reason! There’s so much fun opportunity for them having to dig into their history, exorcise it, and have to work out what they want to mean to each other in the future.
I also love the possibility of— Xie Lian is what brought them together, they were a trio, but after his second ascension, and they start interacting with each other less as “here is this other guy who, unfortunately, Xie Lian tolerates, so so do I” to “here is this guy I must ally with the protect Xie Lian without him noticing.”
I also really like fic that treats Mu Qing’s vow of chastity seriously, even if he ends up breaking it.
I like fantasy settings, sci fi settings, and historical settings. I am a huge sucker for settings inspired by specific historical time periods, especially when you get into the nitty gritty. Which is to say-- if you want to write a harem fic set in what you'd get if you fired eg the Tang Dynasty and the 'I can't believe it's not butter or a harem!' of the Merovingian Dynasty at each other in the Large Hadron Collider, or write something set in Ulus Jochi but with dragons, or inspired by any time and place, please do so, I would love it. (I do also like less historically inspired fantasy and sci fi settings, if that's what you want to do!)
I also love stories about relationships that happen around restraints-- restraints of gender roles or political roles or fealty or literally not being able to leave the palace. What constraints do the characters rail against? What feel like part of them and that they don't even notice? What risks are they willing to take, and what things do they feel they could never ever break? How do they get what they want while fulfilling their roles? Feel free to write a story including sexism, homophobia and or the patriarchy.
Female Adventurer/Captive Male Drow Who Wants Her To Keep Him, Male Drow Used To Being A Disappointment/His Female Captor Who Thinks He's Pretty Great, Stern Female Warlord/Terrified Virginal Male Drow Concubine
What can I say, I am a sucker for matriarchal worldbuilding and also very woobie elves. I am a sucker for all variations of 'male drow gets surprised by being treated with basic decency, falls in love.' Feel free to go for whatever flavour of screwed up drow matriarchy you want. I kind of prefer it if the woman in this ship is a little reluctant at first, eg 'please stop looking at me like I hung the moon because I was vaguely polite to you,' 'do I have to take an actual person as a war prize? Are you sure the matron mother won't let the treaty go through if I don't? Ugh, fine,' before falling hard and being protective.
I like the idea the idea that the Female Adventurer really doesn’t want to keep someone, ugh, that is creepily similar to owning someone, can we not? But the drow is very insistent! He is coming with her! She is nice, and not terrible, unlike who he would end up returning to! Female Adventurer finds this even more off putting, because if he only want to follow her because she’s the least worst option--? And she tries her best to make it clear that he can just leave! She’s not going to stop him from just leaving and being a free man! (Which Drow initially just quietly boggles at.) Ideally they’d manage to work things out. Female Adventure starts to like Drow (he’s kinda sweet, and even if there’s some culture clash, he’s a good guy), and Drow ends up not following her not because he feel like he has to follow someone, but because he actually likes her? And then the fall in love and it’s cute.
Bonus points for said drow being a scarily competent warrior who got captured because Female Adventurer happens to just be a little bit more scarily competent (and the dice were a bit more in her favour).
For art: Some dramatic “Oh no, you’ve captured me~! You’d better tie me up so I don’t escape~” (with optional “Why would I need to do that?”). Alternatively: them fighting together
Female General returning from war/Woman she wants to marry/Hostage princess she has to marry instead, Male General returning from war/Man he wants to marry/Hostage prince he has to marry instead
Arranged marriages! Tension between your duty and what you want! Constraints! Gay feudalism! What’s not to like here.
Prince of conquered country in conquerors' capital city as hostage/His only friend here
The isolation inherent in this prompt is so tasty. You’re stuck somewhere hostile, away from all your other allies and advisors. If you fuck it up, it could get real bad for your people. But also— you’re lonely. And there is just one other person who gets it.
Smart Past-Her-Prime Concubine/New Naive Beautiful Concubine, Main Wife/Concubine
I also love stories about relationships that happen around restraints-- restraints of gender roles or political roles or fealty or literally not being able to leave the palace. What constraints do the characters rail against? What feel like part of them and that they don't even notice? What risks are they willing to take, and what things do they feel they could never ever break? How do they get what they want while fulfilling their roles? Feel free to write a story including sexism, homophobia and or the patriarchy.
One of the things I love about harem concepts is the fishbowl nature. You are stuck with all these people you didn’t chose, don’t initially know well, and you are stuck there forever.
*Knight & Horse *
I just love the relationship between people and they’re horses. I am also a sucker for the literal ride-or-die relationship you get between a cavalry warrior and their mount.