Yuletide Letter!

Hello, and thanks for considering making content based on my self-indulgent requests! For the most part, I find myself most satisfied by and connected to stories that engage with characters as people who are struggling and changing or failing to change. I’m looking forward to spending 1000+ more words in any of these universes!

Aldnoah.Zero : Klancain & Slaine Troyard

I love this canon's dramatic plots in action, so if you are interested in writing gen and/or worldbuilding, I couldn't help thinking that the series ended with a brilliant set-up for the scandal to be uncovered in the far future, and for the specter of Terrorist Slaine Troyard who ought to have been executed be revealed somehow. What sort of legacies have been left by Asseylum's decisions? Could the people involved find common ground? Even if Slaine and Klancain have shared interests, can they support her effectively? And of course, how will the people who knew and didn't know cope with the consequences of the truth?

If you're interested in writing character-focused content or (my little heart can hope) shipfic, I'd love for curiosity to get the better of Klancain when it comes to Slaine (as a person and as a part of Asseylum). Since they traded barbs about Count Cruhteo's influence, Klancain having met Slaine near to or at his worst, I would love something involving Klancain's curiosity about the wreck of a human being that Slaine is and what exactly is in him that Asseylum can't bear to lose him even though his (wretched) survival is the sort of secret that could topple empires. How could someone so smart make so many wrong choices? Casual intrigue leads to interpersonal drama and deepening entanglements! Learning about his empress through her dearest and most troubled choices in crisis could be in a series of vignettes.
Jealousy and possessiveness and power dynamics?! I'm curious to see what shape the tension between them takes.

If you want to just take these two and their weird connections and do a fantasy reimagining, I might cry tears of joy.

Opting In: disability headcanons, trans headcanons, outsider POV, 1st person POV, unhappy endings, major character death, torture & interrogation, PWP, noncon & dubcon, heavy bondage, breathplay, humiliation

Please No: mundane AUs, mommy-and-child kink play, Christmas celebrations

Flip Flappers : Cocona & Yayaka

Yayaka's storyline broke my heart in this show, I love her and her ferocious ambition and her concern for Cocona. I'd love anything that explores their friendship or their corner of the YaPiCo love triangle-- during the past when Yayaka established herself as Cocona's friend or in the moments when those feelings became real. Yayaka's struggle to accept herself and her feelings over the course of the show felt to me very much like struggling with compulsory heterosexuality and the way teens sometimes wrestle with untangling platonic and romantic loves. How does their experience of each other and their friendship blossom once deceit is out of the way?

The two of them exploring Pure Illusion together, or dealing with the doors/gates into the emotional landscapes of others and reality shifts their actions within them cause could also make for a very interesting story-- What sort of previous experience with those gates did Yayaka have to warn Cocona not to mess with them? What repercussions are there for meddling in and with them over time?

Opting In: background Salt/Mimi/Papikana, disability headcanons, trans headcanons, outsider POV, shifting POV, unrequited love, unhappy endings, identity porn, PWP, explicit oral, dissociation and surreality, shared dreams, and soul bonding

Please No: mundane AUs, mommy-and-child kink play, Christmas celebrations, a/b/o, Papika/Cocona without addressing the past Mimi/Papika or Mimi/Papikana revealed a mothers-and-child dynamic between them-- it's just too close to my mommy squick for me as it stands. (I know, I know: that's rough, buddy.)

selector infected WIXOSS : Kurebayashi Kazuki & Kurebayashi Yuzuki

So, I keep thinking about Kazuki's feelings being ambiguous and the implication that wishes have to have the selector's own direct action to come true or create the "win conditions" of the game. There's Yuzuki's inference that the dreams have to be possible to come true, a very tidy way for her to resolve any guilt about changing her brother's feelings for her with magic-- though it could also be that her desire to be with him publicly and openly changes the world they'll grow into rather than their feelings. If you want to go down a dark path, Kazuki's experience of feeling his worldview change and being unable to return to the state he knows he was in before would make for an awesome horror story.

That said, I also love Yuzuki and want her to be happy, even if that (to her) means sibling incest happily ever after, with the loving support of her friends. Their first time or struggling to keep under wraps to the rest of the world, any engagement with the rest of their family, or making their time together count and the lengths they go to in order to be and stay together would be fun and interesting, too. I just couldn't believe they got as close to a happy end as this canon seems to offer just about anyone, despite the odds.

Opting In: disability headcanons, trans headcanons, unhappy endings, Christmas romance, PWP, noncon or dubcon, nakadashi, secret relationship, unplanned pregnancy, psychological horror

Please No: mundane AUs, mommy-and-child kink play, a/b/o

Tenkuu no Escaflowne | The Vision of Escaflowne : Celena Schezar, Dilandau Albatou, Jajuka

Protective Lion Boyfriend!!!! Dilandau so desperately needed positive connections, the impact of discovering Jajuka in the series and their backstory was a hugely intense part of the canon for me. I just love the brief, intense glimpses of their time together and I NEED MORE OF THAT. I would love anything exploring their relationship, especially if it folds in Dilandau's trauma around his identity and what his position demands of him. Moments of comfort, moments of distress or dismay, and the sense that there is a force beyond all of their power pushing and pulling people and events-- the atmosphere of clinging to one another or losing everything and the devotional desperation Jajuka has to preserve even an ounce of safety for Dilandau buried somewhere within themselves is amazing. Formative bonds and love and co-dependence are all candy I will devour. If you feel like exploring Jajuka's mixed feelings about what he can do for Dilandau and Celena and what he IS doing and whether or not it is really helpful I will be delighted, having failed to find Jajuka stuff before. How has he helped Celena and Dilandau to coexist within one another, or can they?

Opting In: disability headcanons, outsider POV, shifting POVs, unhappy endings, PWP, BDSM, interspecies and/or self-cest, including other cast members (especially Hitomi, Van, Allen, or Folken), background pairings (any)

Please No: mundane AUs, mommy-and-child kink play, Christmas celebrations, a/b/o

機動戦士ガンダム 鉄血のオルフェンズ | Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans : Atra Mixta, Kudelia Aina Bernstein, Chad Chadan & Yamagi Gilmerton

Heartwrenching and/or uplifting post-canon or timeskip content for some of my precious surviving cast is the gist of what I am going for, with a heavy dose of found family. They deserve to get to be happy and feel safe and loved! It is my deepest hope that this crop of characters have beautiful romantic moments of joy AND MAYBE SOME ANGST OR SURVIVORS GUILT ABOUT THAT because they're all so keenly aware of the absences in their lives going forward. I would love to see the four of them working a healthier, happier future and encouraging one another to move forward. If you want to aim for a plot that doesn't center romance and recovery, practical concerns about building their new identities and their integration into their post-canon lives would be super satisfying for me.

On the shipping fronts, regarding Atra and Kudelia, I would so love something about their OBVIOUS MARRIAGE DURING THE TIMESKIP or fretful preparation for Akatsuki's birth or far-future sitting together in rockers looking out at the farm! The Tekkadan-Admoss Foundation crew dealing with Kudelia's work pulling her away from the family and sweet reunions would be wonderful. I want to see them take on adulthood together in this world they made.

If you are more interested in their bond growing while they are working with Tekkadan, I would really enjoy their time in space together, and Atra's firm resolve to build loving connections and the rejection of rivalry in their dynamic. Atra grounding Kudelia with loving openness, and Kudelia sharing her hopes and plans so that the two of them can see it through together. They are so precious to each other from the start, I really enjoy the way their bond evolves along friendship and respect to loving comfort. Laying in each other's arms talking about hope, inspiring each other to be the version of themselves their kids will need...They can save the world. Chad noticing Yamagi and slowly examining his own feelings as they push ever-forward...The foundations being laid for the future we're shown could be just a few moments of meaningful interactions. I was so delighted to see Chad blushing and getting teased about wanting to take out Yamagi after the timeskip, I would love something set during those ~5 years showing the path Chad and Yamagi took growing closer and maybe finding the beginning of a relationship, or something post-canon focusing on what they seem to be reaching for in each other even after the many tragedies of their lives. I love the idea of Chad's gentle warmth reaching Yamagi across his grief and Yamagi's sharpness leaving Chad feeling like he is totally readable/obvious while they both struggle through their feelings.

I JUST WANT THEM TO FIND HAPPINESS TOGETHER SOMEDAY ;0; Finally admitting how they feel over a drink or three? Awkward deliberate courtship or accidental realization that they are already kind of dating? I will be so happy for these two to curl up together in a corner of engine maintenance or administration and just be close and happy, after everything. I love domesticity for them if you feel like showing one crystallized moment of connection-- like Chad with his hair wrapped for night-time and Yamagi still grease-smudged from system work sharing hot tea with rum in the small hours when the rest are sleeping, or helping with the kids at Dante's or on the farm.

Opting In: disability headcanons, trans headcanons, outsider POV, shifting POV, kidfic, found family,established relationships, first times, PWP, sensation play, fisting, pregnancy and lactation

Please No: mundane AUs, mommy-and-child kink play, Christmas celebrations, a/b/o