Auctions As Threatened Letter

[wolffyluna]

Hello, person who won my bid, or is committing rascallous crimes! 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:

• General Likes
• Art Likes
• Smut Likes
• DNWs

Fandoms:

• Baldur’s Gate
• Delicious in Dungeon
• Heaven Will Be Mine
• Legend of Drizzt
• Original Works
• Revolutionary Girl Utena
• Tian Guan Ci Fu
• Warhammer 40,000
• We Know The Devil

General Likes:

• 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
• complicated gender and sexuality situations, world building around sexuality and gender. I like fictional homophobia and transphobia (but if you want a to worldbuild an accepting world, go right ahead!) I also like characters who do not fit neatly into buckets, either in their or our society.

Art Likes:

• 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

Smut Likes:

• 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.
• 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

DNWs:

• 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 (unless people are actually related, or Warhammer levels of related.)
• organised crime AUs
• We Know The Devil specific: explicit sex
• Baldur’s Gate 3 specific: treating Ulder Ravengard or Mystra as purely malicious.

Baldur’s Gate

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!

Solo: 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. 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.

Wyll is one of my little black dress characters: I ship him with everyone.

I like fluffy fic with him, but also— look, sometimes you just have to be really mean to your faves, and put them in an awful position, for example Mizora or Gortash or someone being awful.

Shadowheart/Female 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.

Lae’zel/Female 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. How does Tav or the Dark Urge respond to that? Do they like making her embarassed, are they just as uncomfortable with vulnerability, or something else? 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.

Solo: 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.

Also I am generally a sucker for h/c with Shadowheart, either with her as the comforter or the comforted.

Shadowheart is one of my little black dress characters: I ship her with everyone.

Rolan/Lorroakan

[slams tankard on table] Just fuck me up. I love the potential for betrayal and manipulation, the trash party goodness, that you can get with this ship. Give me Lorroakan taking out his jealousy on Rolan! Give me Rolan having no idea what he’s in for and getting slowly sandpapered down!

Delicious in Dungeon

I love all the worldbuilding, with this big expansive world that slowly spirals out from the concerns of a small group of people in a small area. I love the themes of desire and what it means to live, sustenance and the cost, and the very material aspects of survival.

I am particularly interested in post canon art and fic, and character studies.

My favourites (and my requests) are Falin, Kabru, Mithrun, Nakamoto Toshiro, and Thistle.

I like Falin because I like characters that we only see little glimpses of, and the glimpses we see of her are fascinating: she will save her party at personal cost to herself! …but also she only really cares is Laios and Marcille live?

I like Mithrun and Thistle because I am so interested in what goes on with Dungeon Lords and ex-Dungeon Lords.

I like Toshiro because I am a sucker for people who a) can’t get what they want, ever and b) get themselves trapped in awful miscommunication holes.

And Kabru my Kabru… the one guy thinking about politics and the fate of the world in a world where people are much more focused on like. Their personal lives. Money. How cool monsters are. And now you are the one guy thinking about politics getting kidnapped by elves.

Heaven Will Be Mine

Ladies kissin’ each other, and explorations of what it means to be The Other and how to respond to it... IN SPACE!

I love the worldbuilding, and all the implications that circle around the fact that is space reality is defined by whoever has the strongest personality. The way that being one of the space kids is a metaphor for being queer, and the way you can look at those sorts of things at different angles through metaphor, while at the same time all the major characters are non-metaphorically queer.

Also, ladies kissin’ in giant robots is cool.

As a general non-character specific prompt, I’d be interested in post canon fluff or h/c for any of the endings. I’d also be interested in exploring the romantic and non-romantic relationships the characters had pre-canon.

I have requested every shippy permutation of Pluto, Luna-Terra and Saturn.

Luna-Terra

I love the layers to her. She’s Memorial Foundation’s unflappable ace—who can barely feel tides and is deeply confused why so many people look up to her. Her identity is heavily constructed, and the way she appears on the outside and the way she feels are often very different, and I love that tension.

And I love how she professes to be the most realistic of the major cast, by siding with the powerhouse of Memorial Foundation, but she’s just as idealistic as Pluto when it comes down to it.

Pluto

I love idealistic characters. I love characters who are trying to live up to a messiah archetype, even though they are fallible and human and cannot completely succeed. I love powerful characters, the Mary Sues that can make the narrative whatever they want to be with a smile. I love characters who explicitly have to work on being human, on being more than human in the best ways.

It is no surprise I love Pluto.

I like the way that the image she projects, the all-loving princess of Cradle’s Graces, both matches and does not match who she actually is.

I love that in her end, she ends up making the ‘selfish’ decision, does what she wants, instead of the closest approximation of what all of humanity wants.

She’s great, is what I’m saying.

Saturn

She’s snarky, she’ll fight you, she can do awesome maths, she’ll grab you with both hands to make sure you pay attention to her. I love this incredible chaos muppet. I also love how this “I do what I want, screw what you want!” attitude is so different than how she used to be, that she used to be well behaved and then saw where that got her (it didn’t get her a ship, that’s for sure!) I’d be interested in fic that explored how she got to be the person who she currently is, or fic set in the present or future that deals with the fact that she’s a very different person than she once was, and that old self still have some gravity.

She’s an agent of chaos and hedonism and “screw you!” transhumanism and I love it.

(Though in the any of the endings, she needs to get Mercury a gift basket of some sort, because he deserves it after dealing with her in an official capacity.)

Legend of Drizzt

Note: I have currently read the series up to Spine of the World and Servant of the Shard. I do not mind spoilers, however.

The Legends of Drizzt is one of the series I read young, and in hindsight shaped a lot of my preferences in fiction. …including stoic woobies with strong principles that just keep having bad stuff happen to them. I am a big fan of characters who try so hard not to show when they’re hurt, it makes it even better when they get comforted later (or not comforted, as the case may be!)

Requests: Drizzt & Guenhwyvar, Solo: Drizzt Do'Urden, Solo: Kimmuriel (Drizzt series)

I’d love love love hurt/comfort of any form for these characters. (Though may I suggest sex pollening Drizzt? It would be so fun to see Drizzt actually have to try and deal with that.) Have something bad happen to Kimmuriel while he can’t rely on anyone else to help because Bregan D’aerthe is Like That! Have Guenhwyvar force Drizzt to sit down for once.

Original Works

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.

Also, I am generally sucker for hurt/comfort, including characters expecting hurt and then recieving comfort, and comforters who don’t what they are doing and are trying their best, or comforters who are being comforting for manipulative political reasons (uhuh definitely.)

If you include horsies, I will love you forever.

Ships I requested:

Emperor Trapped In His Position/His Hypercompetent Secretary, Female Adventurer/Captive Male Drow Who Wants Her To Keep Him, Female General returning from war/Woman she wants to marry/Hostage princess she has to marry instead, Female Horse Archer/City Girl, Female Knight/Female Liege, Honorable Male Captor/Male Captive Mistreated By His Own Former Allies, Imperial Concubine/ Other Imperial Concubine, Least Favoured Prince/Advisor Who Believes in Him, The Male Emperor/Female Concubine/Other Female Concubine, Politically-inconvenient Politician/Same sex spouse awarded to them by the emperor, Stern Female Warlord/Terrified Virginal Male Drow Concubine

I like all the ships I requested equally, but I would be remiss if I did not attach some of the prompts that follow me from exchange to exchange whenever I request them:

Drow ships: 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 or Stern Warlord 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 or Stern Warlord happens to just be a little bit more scarily competent (and the dice were a bit more in her favour). Harem ships: 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.

Revolutionary Girl Utena

I really like the surreal strangeness of this show. But what I also really like is the relational horror. I’m not sure if that’s the technical term, but for me, a lot of the horror comes from the relationships—all the messed up dynamics, and ways people hurt each other, even when they are trying their best not to. I’d be interested in that being explored in any of the ships below. But I’d also be interested in characters trying—and at least somewhat succeeding—in having healthier relationships. Even if it takes a lot of work and blood and sweat and tears. Especially with the student characters, there’s the tantalising prospect that they could work out how they are hurting each other and themselves, and fix that. I’m requesting Solo: Himemiya Anthy, because she is my fave. I am fascinated by ‘still waters run deep’ characters, the ones where you really can’t see what’s going on with them under the surface easily. I love her in her resignation, her world weariness, in her messing with people just so she has power over someone else for once, in that final stepping out of the coffin. If you have something to say about Anthy, in fic or art or webweave or vid, [grabby hands] I want it. I am happy for gen or ship between her and any other characters.

DNW clarification: I know 'no flashing' is a difficult DNW for an Anthy centric vid. The flashing backgrounds in Utena are just on the edge of my tolerance. Where possible, please slow down the rate of the flashing/ remove it (if that's possibly with your editing software?). Where that's not possible and practible, please don't have the whole vid be shots with flashing backgrounds, but a few seconds here and there is fine.

Tian Guan Ci Fu

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.

Mu Qing/ Xie Lian

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 love the mix of screaming jealousy that Mu Qing has for Xie Lian as God Pleasing Crown Prince, and the way that is very aware of how the sausage of that image is made. And I love how Xie Lian can’t quite get the constraints Mu Qing is under… until, you know, 800 years of banishment pass, and now Mu Qing is feeling a bit wrong footed. And I love how spiny and practical Mu Qing is.

I am fine with fic where they do not get together, or that goes in an amperslashy direction. 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.

He Xuan/Shi Qingxuan

Beefed leaves! Just, man. The seething jealousy of it all! Something that always gets me is the fact that for most of their relationship, He Xuan did not know about the fate swap! But even so, you have this person who has had this charmed life, who’s friends with everyone— and they decide to adopt you as her friend, and she doesn’t know that you are actually a ghost whose desire for vengeance was so powerful you went through the kiln about it.

I’m interested in pre-canon stuff about them, about all the secrets and identity stuff going on under the surface.

I’m also interested in things going on post-canon. Congrats, He Xuan, you successfully took revenge on your friend for choosing her brother over you! That revenge sure was satisfying and involved no mixed feelings! And now— the aftermath. Everything is out in the open. Shi Qingxuan has willingly become mortal. And things go on— for now.

I personally head canon Shi Qingxuan as a trans woman, and I am also interested in He Xuan’s gender situation though I have less strong feelings about the specifics. (“my gender is DEAD” is a fun one, “has strong feelings about failing at the masculine protector role” is also very fun.) You don’t have to include this in any art/fic/podfic/web weaves, but I do like explorations of gender.

Warhammer 40,000

In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war—and epic scales and incredible badass-ery. One of the things I love about 40k is just how grand scale and big things can get, and how the inevitable crushing darkness and decay of the universe gets used a set piece to make the main characters even more epic and badass. Your Craftworld may be facing total destruction—but that just means you have the narrative backing to go stab the hive tyrant. Family fights now have body counts in the billions. It’s always thirty seconds to midnight, and the brakes on the disaster train are off. I also just love sci-fi kitchen sink space operas.

I am requesting Sanguinius, Roboute Guilliman, and Yriel. I am happy for any gen relationships or romantic relationships with them. (For the primarchs, I am a big fan of deeply questionable relationships between other primarchs, the Emperor, or their sons. Or nephews, even!)

Yriel is just so great, and comes in two great flavours. First, you have Yriel as the pirate prince. Tactical maverick, chip on his shoulder about exiling himself from Iyanden, and has an excuse to take his brakes totally off. He is epic and piratical and angry and lil’ bit amoral and it is so good. But then you have him after he returns, and after he takes up the Spear of Twilight. And then he still is a brilliant TACTICAL GENIUS who gets to do epic feats of badassery—but now he is doomed to be consumed by the Spear. And he’s slowly becoming a worse version of himself, who is angry and in pain all the time and who is only really functional during war—and it hits all my whump loving buttons. He just suffers so aesthetically! Plus the Doomed if he does and Doomed if he doesn’t aspect of how both his presence and absence damaged Iyanden is so good.

For both Sanguinius and Guilliman, I love the "Enlightenment ideals stuffed into suits of power armour have to deal with supernatural bullshit and Do Not Cope” energy they bring to things. For Sanguinius, I love the way people read him as this heroic and angelic ideal, he is the guy who should have been the Warmaster— and he is deeply aware that he cannot live up to that ideal. He has the taint of mutation in the form of his wings, but that’s aesthetic, so it’s fine apparently? And he has carried the taint of the red thirst to his sons, but he has to carry that secret to his grave because otherwise everyone will die! I just love the contrast between how other people see him, and the secrets underneath the surface, and the knowledge of his inevitable doom.

For Guilliman, I love this giant military nerd, who is constantly writing and restructuring things and is The Ideal of A Primarch— ignore that time he made a second, additional empire. I love his sheer competence. I love how put upon he is. I love that core of ambition that he covers with “oh, don’t worry, just doing my job :) better make sure the Imperium continues :) better make sure no one can get too much fire power again :).” I also love him chewing out Lorgar. (And maybe… maybe he should get put in his place and whumped a little. As a treat!)

We Know the Devil

I love the character dynamics in this, and the ambient suckitude going on in their lives (excluding after the True Ending), the huge personal revelations happening in the middle of the night at summer camp. I also love the nightmare-logic Protestantism going on. As someone who likes bad things happening to characters that maybe get made better, and religious themes, this is very much a canon made for me!

And did I mention the characters? I love them all, especially Venus. They are the best worst girls. I love the layers to them, and how they are all more than what they initially seem to be. There all observant, and they care deeply about wrong and right, but they don’t necessarily have the power to change things (until the true ending, that is.) And they all need a hug. I like psychological/religious/body horror aspects of canon, and the implied story of having to work out how to live your life after the revelation of being the Devil.

For Venus/Jupiter, I love the dynamic they have as the ‘best’ kids of Group West, who are really bad at being actually good. They may seem more good from the outside than Neptune, but... And the Seven Minutes In Heaven scene, with it’s horrible awkwardness and the tension between what they want to want and what they actually do and the near strangulation is so good. As is the conversation they have about authority and not having to touch someone to touch them.

For Venus/Neptune, just as Venus+Jupiter is the better kids vs the bad kid, Venus+Neptune is the bad kids vs the good kid who failed, and that’s so good. And I love how insightful they are with each other even if they don’t fully get it (eg the “your kindness will be full of that want” conversation, while Venus is trying to comfort Neptune as best she can.) And the contrast between rule breaking Neptune and “That’s! I’m! Illegal!” Venus is so great too.

I love the character dynamics in this, and the ambient suckitude going on in their lives (excluding after the True Ending), the huge personal revelations happening in the middle of the night at summer camp. I also love the nightmare-logic Protestantism going on. As someone who likes bad things happening to characters that maybe get made better, and religious themes, this is very much a canon made for me!

And did I mention the characters? I love them all, especially Venus. They are the best worst girls. I love the layers to them, and how they are all more than what they initially seem to be. There all observant, and they care deeply about wrong and right, but they don’t necessarily have the power to change things (until the true ending, that is.) And they all need a hug. I like psychological/religious/body horror aspects of canon, and the implied story of having to work out how to live your life after the revelation of being the Devil.

I am quite happy for fic or art for any of the routes/endings

For Neptune and Jupiter, I love the [wiggle hands] seeming opposites attract thing. Their scene in the closet is so good, and that layer of pretense and hiding and love in their relationship is great.

And I love all three, and I love them all being in a relationship. The way they work together, the way in the true ending they all lift each other up and try to make the camp/the world a better place, being the worst girls since Eve... It’s so good, I love it.