jaclynhyde

Luke and Jade's relationship is one of my favorite parts of Tales of the Abyss; I love how much they change each other, and I love how much Jade grows to care for Luke. I love how Luke is the second person Jade can't save, and how much it's the mistakes he made the first time that caused it all to begin with; I love how he tries so hard not to show how much he cares (and Luke's happy surprise when Jade calls him a friend!). And I love how Luke desperately wants love and support, and how he finds that in someone who's outwardly a bastard but truly cares in contrast to Van. And the entire contamination sidequest, Jade keeping Luke's secret, the way he looks like he's about to cry at the ending… 

 

For Luke/Tear, I prefer Luke having an unrequited thing for a lesbian Tear or just going with the platonic, big sister relationship. I also like Luke having had a big thing for Van, but Van keeping his manipulation emotional instead of physical. As for Jade, I'd prefer Jade/Peony as friends with benefits or platonic, and Jade/Dist...pretty much like canon (Dist's obsessed with Jade, maybe a past relationship where Dist was much more emotionally invested). Other ships I like: Tear/Natalia, Natalia/Asch, Anise/Ion, Anise/Florian.

 

Prompts:

Thank you so much for writing for me! If you're here for treats, I'd be thrilled to get art treats and treats for any current or past Chocolate Box requests.

Stuff I love:

I got into Fate/ after seeing Iskandar/Waver fanart, then watching Fate/Zero, then consuming everything else I could get my hands on, and now I adore this series. I love the endless possibilities of Fate/, and how Servants bring their past lives to their new ones and form new and reinvent old relationships. I play on NA FGO, but feel free to use stuff from JP if you don't need to have played it to appreciate it. Don't worry about spoilers from any Fate/series, and don't feel like you have to know any other canons to write for me--include whatever details you want or don't want to! These prompts are spoilery through Lostbelt 1.

I love a lot of other FGO characters, so if you want to include other characters or have some cameos, some favorites are: Roman, David, Merlin, Mordred, Waver, Iskandar, Chen Gong, Lu Bu, Red Hare, Astolfo, Drake, Nightingale, Kojirou, Nito, Martha, Shakespeare, Da Vinky??, Fran, Moriarty, Yan Qing, Sheba, Abby, QSH, Li Shuwen, Jing Ke, FOU. Any historical fan Servants are great, especially those connected to the characters I requested.

I'm requesting Guda as any gender; I normally lean towards Gudako myself, but I also love the idea of more m/m for Gudao. I like Guda as a charismatic, Riyo-inspired force of chaos (minus the harassment); Gudao strikes me as more of a bottom, but whichever works for the fic! I think of almost everyone as poly in FGO--at the very least, I like the idea of Guda banging their way across Chaldea, so feel free to assume Guda/everyone for any of these. 

Avicebron/Fujimaru Ritsuka

I thought Avicebron was the coolest even watching Apocrypha, and then he got a starring role in a Lostbelt and I absolutely fell in love. I love his nerdery over golems, his matter-of-fact misanthropy, and his deep sorrow and guilt for what he did to his old Master. I'd love to see Guda growing closer with Avicebron, as Avicebron tries to figure out why he actually wants to spend time with them. I also love Guda becoming increasingly curious about what he looks like and Avicebron angsting over his skin condition. Also historically Avicebron wrote love poetry, so the misanthropic and romantic sides of him warring would be great! If you want to bring in Apocrypha, I like the idea that the weirdness of that war pushed him to extremes, so he's not evil but the presence of that darkness will always worry him.

I like: mask kink!, Judaism (David? Jewish Guda?), shorter Avicebron

First Hassan/Fujimaru Ritsuka

I just love the Hassans, okay? They're criminally underrated and perfectly suited for some mask kink and I think they should date/bang Guda! I especially love First Hassan's Valentine's scene, where Guda makes a goddamn wedding bells joke to the incarnation of death. I love Gramps being nonplussed by Guda being completely unintimidated by him; I'd love Guda trying to learn more about him and Hassan being "what is this stop that" or Hassan discovering he's actually charmed by Guda's over-the-top hitting on him. I'd also love a Guda/every Hassan fic (First Hassan critiquing all the other Hassans' courtship/sex moves until he steps in to show how it's done?). Just cover Guda in Hassans.

I like: mask kink!!!, voice kink, all Hassans (ship or gen)

Caster Gilgamesh/Kingu

I'd casually shipped Gilgamesh/Enkidu for a while...and then Babylonia happened and I fell completely in love with Kingu. I love how Enkidu's feelings push Kingu to Gil, and how Gil recognizes he's different and still offers him kindness and friendship. And I love Kingu's anger and pain at that kindness, and his reluctant formation of his own identity (how did he end up with a gender, anyway?). I'd love to see their talk in Babylonia go a little further (kissing! kissing!), or what would happen if he found a way to live for Gil instead of die for him. I'd also love Kingu being summoned in Chaldea with CasGil - is Enkidu there? How would Kingu deal with being surrounded by people who accept him? What exactly could Gil do with two shapeshifters? See my Yuletide letter for more!

I like: past and current Gilgamesh/Enkidu, Enkidu/Gilgamesh/Kingu
I don't like: more than a little Archer Gil, Kingu/Gil as lesser than Gil/Enkidu, jealous Enkidu, Enkidu and Gil as Kingu's parents

 

Littlewood
Dark/Male Hero

Littlewood is a super-charming Stardew Valley-alike where you play as an amnesiac JRPG hero rebuilding a home after the world has been saved. The cast of characters is delightful and, especially relevant to my interests, includes the also-amnesiac former final boss. I hardcore romanced Dark from the first time I met him, and I want to see so much more of their relationship. Did they bond over their amnesia and shared experiences (if from different sides)? How did their awkward reintroductions turn to friendship turn to love? Did they have a spark before they lost their memory? Is the Hero kind of into the whole villain aesthetic now that it's not attempting to murder him? I'd really love UST or pre-relationship for this, especially with one or both of them realizing their feelings. I also love the other villagers (especially Zana and Terric); feel free to pair everyone up or not! 

RWBY

I did not expect to get so invested in RWBY, but Oz and Qrow absolutely captured my heart. I love the world and the characters, and everything about Ozpin and his curse were absolutely made for me. I love the cool mysterious mentor type, and finding out that he was sharing his mind with generations of personalities and was so mysterious because he was so very tired of losing people just cemented him as my favorite. And then Oscar, and his frustration with being just another Ozma and Ozpin recognizing that frustration from so many times before is fantastic. And Qrow! I love people cursed with bad luck (see: Eizen and Dezel from Tales), and I love his increasingly poor coping mechanisms and he claws himself up from rock bottom but still isn't sure how to protect those he cares for. I also love team RWBY and the background pairings Ruby/Penny, Yang/Blake(/Weiss), and Port/Oobleck.

Ozpin/Qrow Branwen

I adore these two and how their relationship has progressed through canon--from cool headmaster letting Qrow into a secret world, to trusted (but not completely trusted) allies, to Qrow serving as protector to carry on Ozpin's mission, to their falling out because everything that they've been trying to avoid was forced to the surface. I absolutely love a long period of mutual pining for them, with Ozpin having avoided relationships for several lifetimes because he's tired of losing them, and Qrow only not jumping his bones because he doesn't want his semblance to hurt yet another person. (I also love Qrow growing closer to Ozpin because an immortal man has better odds of surviving his semblance than most!)

I adore post-S6 and post-fight scenarios; if you don't want to deal with Oscar, either an AU where Ozpin regains his own body or one where Oz is in a different host (identity porn!!!) would work. I really want to see Ozpin and Qrow make up without demonizing anyone's actions; the fight really showed how important they were to each other (Ozpin crying over him!!!), and I love the tension it brought to their relationship. I love Qrow being devastated that Ozpin didn't trust him as much as he thought (and maybe a little terrified that he still loves Salem and could never love him), and Ozpin regretting that he was so scared of losing Qrow that he didn't tell him what could have kept him. I'd love to see Ozpin offering to tell him anything else he wants to know after a reconciliation and Qrow just asking how he really feels about him.

Other things I'd like to see: Ozpin revealing his immortality or entrusting Qrow to find his next body, Qrow flirting and Oz not exactly discouraging it, sharing one kiss before Oz's death.

Ozpin/Qrow Branwen & Oscar Pine
Oscar/Ozpin/Qrow Branwen

I love the twistiness of the three of them, and either Oscar pulled into their mutual pining or Oscar having to deal with these two morons when he can feel exactly how Ozpin feels would be great. I'm fine with aged-up Oscar, or futurefic if you go the ship route; canon-age underage is also fine, but I'd like Qrow to be reluctant about that. I like Oscar crushing on Qrow (and being really annoyed when he realizes it's not just Ozpin's feelings leaking through) and Qrow genuinely liking Oscar but missing his Ozpin so much. Also fun: Oscar growing up (without completely merging) and Qrow realizing oh no he's hot.

Ozma/Qrow Branwen

The way Qrow got right up to Ozma in Jinn's vision... I just want Qrow being into Ozma and/or every Oz incarnation. However you can finagle this (time travel, a more powerful Jinn vision), I'll take it! Also great if Ozma has his memories as Ozpin and Qrow is shocked to see how much he means to Oz.

Tales of Vesperia

I picked up Vesperia because of quarantine and it dragged me into the entire Tales series fandom. I love everything about the game: the worldbuilding, the characters, the party relationships, the voice acting, and the rest. And Raven! I didn't know about traitors yet, so Raven's boss fight shocked me and made me fall in love. I love his deliberately annoying, breezy persona that's masking a Lot of issues; the way both Schwann and Raven are masks after Damuron died; and the way Yuri and Brave Vesperia convince him to live again. And Yuri! Yuri's snark and honor and hands-on way of fixing things are wonderful, and his relationship with Raven is fantastic. 

I love the whole cast and I'd love to see them around (especially Repede, Rita, and Duke);. If you're not doing Flynn/Raven/Yuri, I like Flynn/Yuri as one-sided with gay Yuri being into straight Flynn.

I like: Repede's friendship with Raven and Yuri, Rita/Estelle 
I don't like: Raven/Judy (mild flirting's okay), Karol/Nan, Zagi

Raven/Yuri Lowell

I love how a relationship beginning with annoying/ragging on each other grows into Yuri showing Raven a reason to live. Their banter from early on is great, especially Yuri having zero patience for his antics, and I love that they grow to care while still bantering. And then Schwann reveals himself, and tries to goad Yuri into killing him, and Yuri is so furious that yet another friend thinks his life is worth nothing... And then Raven pledges his life to Yuri Brave Vesperia, which could go a lot of places. I also really love how the side manga The Empty Mask treats their relationship, with Yuri serving as a shining light for Raven to follow like he did Casey and the Don. (Also I like the idea of Raven having had a bit of a crush on the Don as well!) I'd love to see more followup on Yuri's concern about Raven's blastia (is he pissed off when Raven keeps using Blast Heart?), Raven cooking dessert for Yuri, Raven flirting differently when it's real than he usually does, a pre-final battle conversation, Schwann identity porn (see below), etc.

Flynn Scifo/Raven/Yuri Lowell

I like the way the three of them interact, and Raven's double life gives some great excuses for identity porn. What if Flynn had a crush on the amazing Captain Schwann? What if Yuri has to admit that he really has a thing for knights? I'd also love to see Raven with a thing for Yuri or both of them thinking he doesn't have a chance because they're obviously too caught up in each other, right until they invite him in. I'd like the focus to be on Raven/Yuri and Raven/Flynn rather than Yuri/Flynn.



Tales of Xillia

Alvin/Jude Mathis
Alvin/Jude Mathis/Milla Maxwell

I absolutely adore Alvin/Jude; I think my favorite part is no matter how exasperating or traitorous Alvin is, Jude is always willing to forgive him and always wants to trust him. And Jude clearly means so much to Alvin, enough that he can leave the people who have been his last trace of home, enough that he could choose someone else over the easy solution for the first time. During Xillia 1, I'd love to see Jude crushing on this charming touchy-feely guy and becoming more attached even when seeing his worst side, and Alvin just realizing how much he cares for this kid who treats him so much better than he deserves. In Xillia 2, I'd love to see them repairing their relationship, with Alvin learning to let someone in and Jude learning to be happy after Milla; also fractured dimensions! I'm not opposed to canon-age underage, but I still think a 15-year-old med student is ridiculous. Feel free to age Jude up a few years (keeping an age gap) or just keep it as-is. See my Yuletide letter for more prompts!