Battleship 2020 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. If you have an idea unrelated to these prompts, also go ahead! I’m pretty close to guaranteed to like what you make. I am easy to please. Length of any section is not related to how much I like the ships, and more to how many prompts I could come up with off the top of my head. Similarly with tags, a tag not having a prompt doesn’t mean I want it less, just that I didn’t feel the need to clarify it. My ao3 account and my tumblr are both wolffyluna, if you want to have a look at them to get ideas.
Contents: Likes and DNWs:
Fandoms:
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Legend of the Sun Knight
- The Magnus Archives
- My Next Life As A Villainess
- The Silmarillion
- We Know The Devil
- Original Works
- I like the whole gamut from fluff with a minor conflict to angst that gets resolved to completely tragic tragedies. - Tragedies that are inevitable/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 possibility it is too late are both very good. - As are bittersweet endings, or angst with a happy ending
- Hurt/comfort (hurt/comfort > comfort no hurt > hurt no comfort.) - I like comforters who are being/trying to be relentless 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). - comfort after nightmares/panic attacks/other PTSD symptoms is very good - As is comfort after more recent traumatic events, such as tending injuries after a battle or a character has been rescued from captivity
- 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 while you are in this state!” “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.
- I like exploring the messed up dynamics and/or the terrible-idea-ness of the relationship, if applicable. (Drawing that symbolically is highly encouraged)
- 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.
- While I love fluff deeply, with femslash I also love stories where the protagonists are flawed, or the plot ends up dark, or both.
- 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?’. Intense loyalties, conflicted loyalties: they're all good.
- Dancing, either partner dances or just both people happening to dance at the same time.
- Crossdressing
- Religion, religious discussions and worldbuilding about religion. - I am not invested in any particular religion being right or wrong in a give particular fiction work or world, and I am happy with whatever interpretation you would like to pick. I’ll be thrilled either way!
- Horses! Whether they're just in the background, or are a major part of the art/plot. I love horses.
- “What if X happened instead of what happened in canon?”/”What if Y didn’t die?” AUs
- Crying
- 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!
- 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.
- 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
- Crossdressing
- Symbolic representations of relationship dynamics
- Tarot style or 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 and claiming.
- 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
- 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)
- “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
- ‘Thank God We Lived’ Sex
- D/s, especially when the dom is of a more caring flavour
- Torture being portrayed as good or effective. (Torture happening: very much fine by me. The ‘good guys’/protagonists torturing people: do not want. People achieving their goals through torture (eg getting secret information): also do not want )
- Needles
- Realistically drawn blood
- Impregnation
- Daddy kink/ mommy kink / family terms being used in sex
- sexual punishment/ ‘for realsies’ punishment in a BDSM relationship. (Funishment and ‘oh no, not the briar patch!’ is fine.)
- Explicit underage (<18) sex. (Fade to blacks, heavy implications, and surreal weirdness in the place of it are fine)
Fire Emblem, the home of larger than life characters who somehow all have sad backstories! I love all these sad teenagers-to-adults-depending-on-where-in-the-timeline-we-are. (As a note, I’ve only played Crimson Flowers, Cindered Shadows, and pre-timeskip Azure Moon so far. I’m not against spoilers for other routes, but if you add something that only makes sense if you know how chapter 14 of Silver Snow goes down, I won’t get it.)
Ships:
- Ferdinand von Aegir / Dorothea Arnault
I am a sucker for their supports, and Dorothea realising that when a younger Ferdinand ran away it was because he was overwhelmed and not because he hated her, and Ferdinand realising that the water nymph he saw was real. I also love the thing of Ferdinand trying to improve himself for her.
- Ferdinand von Aegir / Caspar von Bergliez
Justice bros! I like the dynamic they have, where they have very similar goals, but very different reasoning for their goals. For example, how Ferdinand wants to be as best as he can be so he can be the best(!) Prime Minister ever and live up to the noble ideal, while Caspar wants to be as best as he can be to make his own way in the world, because he’s not in line to inherit.
- Ferdinand von Aegir/ Petra Macneary
I love their paired ending. I love the idea of them negotiating relations between their two countries, trying to get the best deal for each—while being very much in love, and doing their best not to let that affect their negotiations. They are trying to be very scrupulously acting in the interests of their own countries, and it mostly works? But it’s hard.
- Dorothea Arnault / Yuri Leclerc
‘I fell in love with their supports’ is a bit of a theme with my ships here. But I do love their supports, and their similar + sucky pasts, and their complicated relationship with music and performance. It’s so good.
- Dorothea Arnault / Edelgard von Hresvelg
I love the contrasts in their status, and how they play into how well they work together. And the conversation they have about romance in their supports? I am very [hearteyes] about that conversation. And the opera writing as well! So many [hearteyes]!
- Dorothea Arnault/ Petra MacNeary
I love their relationship as the outsiders of the Black Eagles, as the commoner and the hostage. And their paired ending, where Petra is queen of Brigid and Dorothea uses her opera connections to help is lovely!
Tags:
- Angst
- Hurt/Comfort
- Injury Recovery
These characters have been through a lot! They’ve definitely been through a war, and a lot of their childhoods weren’t great either! Fic or art about that would be lovely, either in a hurt/comfort sense or a darker hurt no comfort sense
- Fluff
I love fluff as well as hurt comfort! Some fluffy things I think would be nice with these characters: singing and/or dancing together, eating nice food, giving gifts, just getting to relax after the War.
- Getting together
- Intercrural sex
For the femslash ships, or the m/f ships if you would like the female character to be the one doing the frotting, I am happy for the one of the characters to have a penis, or for there to be strap-ons involved, or surprise!tentacles or such-like. Let the girls get thigh fucked and/or thigh fuck! (Not that this isn’t also true of the boys, but that doesn’t need quite as much clarification ;D)
- Smut
I love the over the top characters! A Grisia: the Best Worst Sun Knight is so great. And the character interactions are so good too. I like fanworks that both stay on the same comedic tone as the original (eg “Haha! Neo should never be put in charge of children! What japery!”) as well as fanworks that take what happens in the story more seriously than the original and look at the affects on that (eg “Oh dear, Neo should never have been put in charge of children.”) I also really love explorations of the themes of identity with these characters, and playing with the fact that their public personas and what they are actually like are really different. NB: I have requested this fandom twice, with different ships and tags. Note on the torture DNW: I do not want Lesus torturing people ‘on screen’, but I am fine with mentions. I do not want it implied by the narrative that him torturing people achieves anything, even if the characters think it does.
Ships 1: (aka the ships I like in a relatively fluffy way)
- Grisia Sun/ Ceo Storm
I love these two, and how they are some of the characters with the biggest gap between their public personas and their actual personalities. The way they play off each other in missions is so fun too, and the way Storm is one of the few people who can easily work out what Sun is rabbiting on about. I also love the scene in volume 2 where Storm suggests gay baiting the crowd to avoid having to wink too much, and kinda wished it would happen.
- Grisia Sun/Lesus Judgment
The intense loyalties between them! The fact that they should be enemies but they are actually probably the closest to each other out of all the holy knights! The way the lift each other up, either with Lesus being Grisia’s external source or responsibility and good sense, and Grisia helping with Lesus’ moral crisis! The contrasts between them! All of those things are so great.
Tags 1:
- Case fic
I am interpreting case fic as ‘doing Holy Knight stuff like they do in canon’ but if you write about them solving a murder or something I would not complain.
- Fluff
- Hurt/Comfort
- First Time
- First Kiss
- Getting Together
- Hiding medical issues
I am obligated to request this tag with Grisia sun [nodnod].
- Intercrural sex
- Loyalty
- Smut
Ships 2:
- Awaitsun/ Grisia Sun
The thing that made me ship this was that scene in volume eight where Demon King!Grisia is just lashing out to try and get Awaitsun to react/to hurt him, and Awaitsun is trying to be stoic and not completely succeeding. That scene is beautiful, and is the dynamic I like in this ship. I want Grisia wildly lashing out at Awaitsun and trying to work out what’s the worst thing he can to Awaitsun while Awaitsun is trying to be stoic and obedient and avoid important things being damaged. Go as dark as you want to with this.
- Biting
- Bondage
- Crying
- Intercrural Sex
- Kink discovery
- Major character injury
- Masochism
- Rough sex
- Smut
I love this show! I am a sucker for it’s non-stop shippy moments, and Katarina is a lovely character. (I love her combination of obliviousness and “on purpose! I’m going to love you on purpose!”)
Ships:
- Sophia Ascart/ Katarina Claes
I have a soft spot for reincarnation romances. And I have an even bigger soft spot for romances/friendships based on love of sappy romantic fiction. It’s so great.
- Keith Claes/ Katarina Claes
I am such a fan of Keith’s “oh no, I have a crush on my sister” and him consistently sticking his head in a metaphorical bucket about it. That and his dance of “I want to be close to you—arrghh, too close!” and his protectiveness-cum-competitiveness that goes on when he’s around Katarina and her other suitors.
- Maria Campbell / Katarina Claes
I love the potential food-as-love dynamic that can happen here. And Maria’s confession to Katarina at the end of the series is so good. I love their dynamic so much.
Tags:
- Fluff
- First Kiss
- Getting Together
- Hurt/Comfort
Ah, the Magnus Archives: the setting where metaphysics hate you! I really like it’s dark, nihilistic worldbuilding, where the greatest victory you can get is maybe delaying an apocalypse. Meanwhile your mental health is being abraded by entities greater than human comprehension that think your fear is a delicious snack.
And I love the characters! All of them! Even a lot of the random statement givers! No one is coping or having a good time of it. …Except maybe some of the avatars. But still.
As a note: One of the things I like about this fandom is its dark tone. I’m certainly not against fluff, or softness in fic or art—but I’d prefer it if said fluff or softness is in response to the darkness, if it’s present. Hurt/comfort > contextless fluff, basically.
Another note: I am more than okay with ships running the whole gamut from non con to dub con to fully consensual. And as an addendum to the previous note, with consensual+healthy ships, I’d like it if the characters are having to work at having a healthy relationship, that it’s something that takes effort and doesn’t come naturally.
Ships:
- Gerard Keay/ Gertrude Robison
I love their chemistry, both in the sense that I love their banter (“And taxes?” “Taxes, I imagine, will continue,”) and I really like the whole thing they have going on with trust. They don’t actually trust each other, but they know the other is competent and they have to work closely and that’ll do.
- Gerard Keay/Michael Shelley
I love the relationship they have through Gertrude, how they are both vital to saving the world (At least as far as Gertrude knows) while ultimately being disposable. And I also love the dynamic of them being simultaneously competent and ignorant at a non-overlapping set of things. Michael knows nothing about the supernatural but is presumably a vaguely competent adult, while Gerry was raised on koans and Leitners but may not know how voting works. The possibility for them both going “Oh no, this is going to end poorly” at each other for different things is great.
- Basira Hussain / Daisy Tonner
I love loyalty narratives, and narratives where your each the most important person to each other, and I love them even more when the person doesn’t deserve it, and you are just making yourself worse. Basira’s double standards for Daisy, and the way she enables her murders is such a good dynamic.
Tags:
- Age differences
There are so many good age gap possibilities here! The age gap between Gerry and Gertrude blending in with the mentor and mentee thing they have going. The age gap between Michael and Gerry, and how they would have very different contexts for their queerness due to coming-of-age in the 80’s and 00’s respectively, plus the fact that they are perfectly placed to think the other is a sweet summer child who is missing some very important information about how the world works (in the sense of ‘being a functioning adult who knows what Parliament is’ and ‘knows about the supernatural’ respectively.) The fact that neither Basira nor Daisy have canonical ages, so you can do what you want. (I have a slight preference for older!Daisy, due to her higher rank, but I would be happy either way.)
- Hurt/Comfort
- Angst
- Rescues
- Dom/Sub
Slight preference for sub!Gerry in the Gerry ships, no dom/sub preference for Daisy and Basira.
- Smut
The Silmarillion! I love all the opportunities for delicious angst, and the many different character interpretations that can all be correct because each character gets, like, two lines of direct dialogue a piece. I also love the tragedy and capital-D Doom in the Silmarillion, as you can probably guess by what characters I’ve picked.
I am also sucker for the parental relationships in the Silmarillion.
This sign up is split into two requests: Gen and Solo requests, and Shippy requests.
As a Silm specific note to my torture DNW: I would prefer it if Maeglin either gives away Gondolin’s location away willingly or Angband found it out by other means but tortured him anyway for whatever reason. I do not want him to give up Gondolin’s location due to torture (but giving it up due to the threat of torture is fine.)
Gen Ships:
- Tar Miriel & Tar Palantir
- Tar Miriel
I prefer the version of Tar Miriel from the published Silm, where she doesn’t willingly marry Ar-Pharazon. I really like her faith, and the contradiction of her being in theory very powerful as Queen while still not having very much ability to get the things she wants.
- Maeglin & Aredhel
- Maeglin
With Maeglin, I do like the more sympathetic ‘Maeglin did nothing wrong, no, really’ interpretations, but I also really like darker, more ambitious, ‘actually would sell out Gondolin if it means he could rule it’ interpretations. Sympathy for the devil, if you will.
- Celebrimbor
There are so many fun potential interpretations of him. Is he actually less ambitious than his family, or is he having to carefully keep a lid on it to survive after repudiating him. How does he feel about the repudiation situation? Conflicted, angry, strangely relieved? I'm equally happy with fic/art/podfic set in the First or Second Age or after re-embodiment with him, all those times are very interesting.
Tags:
- Fluff
Suggestions: Maeglin making something in the forge! Tar Palantir or Aredhel teaching their kids and giving them fluffy parental guidance! Something nice happening to Tar Miriel for once! Maybe having a nice conversation with her ladies in waiting or some other Faithful, or maybe eating something nice.
- Angst
- Hurt/Comfort
- Grief/Mourning
I am quite happy with Maeglin and Tar Miriel mourning one of their parents, or another person of your choice for the ‘& None’ options. Or potentially an AU where Maeglin and Tar Miriel die before Aredhel or Tar Palantir, and they have to grieve them.
- Hugs
Shippy Ships:
- Celebrimbor/Maeglin
Blacksmiths! With complicated family relationships! The tension between being the person who gave Sauron what they wanted and the one who really didn't. For this ship, I love both fluff... and absurdly tragic ‘rip the reader’s heart out with a spoon’ stuff. Does Celebrimbor see Maeglin’s betrayal of Gondolin as a betrayal directly or indirectly of him? Did Maeglin try to warn him... or not? If you want to go dark with ship, go as dark as you like. Is Maeglin torn between his love for (unnattainable) Idril and (attainable) Celebrimbor? Is Celebrimbor aware of the torch Maeglin holds for Idril? Does he feel he needs to compete?
- Celebrimbor/ Túrin
I love the headcanon of Celebrimbor being the one who repairs Túrin's sword. I also love the way they are both outsiders stuck in Nargothrond, and how that could bring them together. And Fate, and complex relationships with it! There's so many good possibilities.
Tags:
- Fluff
- Hurt/Comfort
- Getting Together
- Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
Useful for both happy endings and 'how the heck are we getting these characters in the same place' purposes!
- Hugs
- Kissing
- Intercrural Sex
- Sex Pollen
I love the character dynamics in this, and the ambient suckitude going on in their lives (excluding after the True Ending). I also love the dream-logic Protestantism going on. As someone who likes bad things happen 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 how the layers to them, and how they are all more than what they initially seem to be. And they all need a hug. I am quite happy for fic or art based on any of the routes/endings.
Ships:
- 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. - 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.
- Venus/Jupiter/Neptune
I love them all, 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.
Tags:
- Crying
The amount of crying, cathartic and not, that happens in We Know The Devil is very good. More would be even better.
- First Kiss
- Getting Together
- Healing
- Hurt/Comfort
- Angst
I am quite happy for backstory related trauma/angst/etc.! But I also imagine that being a scapegoat devil in one of the non-true endings would be at least somewhat traumatic, and I’d be interested in fic or art about that.
- Post Canon
I am happy for post canon fic or art for any of the possible endings.
- POV Second Person
Second person POV is so great for writing characters in weird headspaces, which really suits these characters.
Ships:
- Female Adventurer/Male Drow She Captured Who Wants Her To Keep Him
I love the power dynamics and the potential culture clash here! The female adventurer might be “I don’t know what’s going on? I don’t want a slave? Why are you so insistent?” I am a huge sucker for loyalty that one party feels is undeserved while the other party is going ‘no! take it!’ I am also a huge sucker for all the reasons a male drow might glom on to female adventurer: Maybe a terrible fate awaits him if he returns to [Drow City], maybe he is convinced that someone’s gotta own him and this very nice adventurer will do, maybe it’s something else. Meanwhile the Female Adventurer is trying to make it clear he can just leave if he wants to, she’s not stopping him! (Drow: But why would I want to leave?)
- Female Knight/Friendly Rival Female Knight
I love feudalism, and loyalty and chivalry, and all that good stuff! And I also love rivalries on the tourney field, they are so good. Slight preference for the rivalry being mostly in the form of being very competitive equals that keep driving each other to do better.
- Hyena Girl/Human Woman Who Is Into That
Maybe this is in a fantasy setting, where gnolls are a thing, with a human adventurer who has an eye on a very lovely gnoll adventurer. Maybe a closet-furry astrobiologist is so hype that they have made first contact with an alien species... but is having to bite her fist and whisper “oh no” because the alien species looks alarmingly like anthropomorphic hyenas. Maybe it is The Glorious Transhumanist Future, and the hyena girl has decided that’s what she wants her body to be, and hey, she can’t complain about having admirers. If smut, I have a slight preference for the hyena girl to have a spotted hyena like genital situation.
- Rakish Thief/Lawful Good Knight
The contrasts! The Knight trying to push the thief on to the path of good, trying to stay good themselves, but it’s so hard to resist the devilish charms of the thief (and the thief has no intention of being reined in, thank you.) I am happy for any gender combination for this ship.
Tags:
- Age difference
- Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics
- Angst
- Dom/sub
- Getting together
- Hurt/comfort
- Intercrural sex
For the femslash ships, or the m/f ships if you would like the female character to be the one doing the frotting, I am happy for the one of the characters to have a penis, or for there to be strap-ons involved, or surprise!tentacles or such-like (or a spotted hyena-like situation, in the case of the hyena girl). Let the girls get thigh fucked and/or thigh fuck! (Not that this isn’t also true of the boys, but that doesn’t need quite as much clarification)
- Kink discovery
- Kissing
- Smut
- Sex pollen