Chocolate Box 2018

Dear Chocolate Box Author,

Thank you so much for writing for me! This is my first year doing Chocolate Box, and it looks delightful. I'm including a mix of Yuletide fandoms and larger ones, and I'll be absolutely thrilled with fic for any of them! I've received delightful stories for some of these pairings and some are nonexistent, and I'm always happy with more of them.

Stuff I love:

• Shipping! I am a ridiculous shipper at heart, so my favorite thing would be ship fic for the pairings I request; I love sexual tension, slow burn, pining, and lots of other stuff. Porn or no porn are both great--it's the ship more than the smut I'm into. I also love characters falling for others that they never would have expected, as is probably obvious from my ships. I love pining and hurt/comfort and cuddling to avoid hypothermia and all those wonderful fanfic tropes. Shippy pre-relationship stuff is also great!
• Identity porn! As defined by Fanlore, it's focusing on people who have secret identities which focus on the consequences of using multiple personas". So Character A is in disguise, interacting with Character B, who may or may not know who Character A really is, and there may be kissing. This has obvious implications for shapeshifters and characters with masks/secret identities (bonus points if it's hero/villain), but anywhere you can fit it in I will love it.
• Bad guys turning good! I love villains who discover that their worldview is wrong, especially by getting to know one of the good guys. I also love villains who aren't entirely bad, and good guys who can learn from them too. And sometimes, total assholes who the heroes connect with anyway (cough Ardyn).
• Banter! I love the canon dialogue for the characters I'm requesting and would love to see some banter.
• Other characters! I adore everyone in these canons and would love to see any of them who fit into the story.
• Lots of story types--adventure, what-ifs, canon continuations, everyone is mysteriously alive somehow, etc. Both happy and bittersweet/sad fics are great, as long as the angst isn't from the pairing's relationship not working out.
• Your own prompts! I throw out a few specific story prompts for each pairing, but I will be thrilled to read any ideas you have!

DNWs:

• Non-con or commonly squicky stuff like scat. Dub-con is great.
• Character bashing, including canon love interests.
• PWP--porn along with other stuff is great, but I'm more interested in the character interactions. 
• Non-canon major character death.
• AUs of the setting instead of plot (mundane AUs, everyone is ponies, etc.)
• Established relationship fic. This isn't as set in stone as the others, but I love seeing my OTPs get together!

( Requests: Crossovers; Final Fantasy IV; Final Fantasy V; Final Fantasy X; Final Fantasy XV; Nier Gestalt )