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Placeholder. General Likes and DNWs are here, everything else will be updated later!

The dragon age request is meant as a sort of little black dress situation, and will have lots of optional pairings! Anyone requested is fair game to pair with anyone else requested and there's a broader list as well (including any male player character)

General Likes

Basics

• Missionfic
• Casefic
• Rescuefic
• Fluff
• Hurt/Comfort
• Slice of life
• Established relationships
• Get togethers
• Pre relationship
• Size Difference

Canon Divergence

• ANYTHING really. For want of a nail, something went different, someone made a different choice, that one (antagonist) character fell down the stairs. I'm open to any kind of canon divergence here.
• Fixit

AUs

• Daemon
• Roleswap
• Role-musical-chairs
• Another character is the [insert player character role] this time
• Fusions with other canons I've requested here or elsewhere
• Modern so long as the magic is still a thing and the plot is within the same lines as canon
• Superhero but ditto the above

Time Stuff

• Time loops (either groundhog day or over a longer period)
• Mental time travel backwards
• Two people time traveling back with very different goals, without knowing the other is also a time traveler
• I just really like time travel. You'd have to really try to go wrong with this

Hurt/Comfort

• Overexhaustion due to use of powers
• Being overexhausted and having to keep using powers anyways
• Healing coming with a price that the healer pays
• Hiding injuries, magical ailments, exhaustion, ect
• Insisting on completing a mission while injured
• Faking recovery to stop people from worrying
• Poisoning
• Non-fatal sicknesses
• One character having to carry another to safety
• Insecurity
• Imposter syndrome
• Panic attacks
• Grief over canon deaths
• Anger born of worry
• Crying into someone's chest/shoulder
• Cuddling for warmth
• Normal healing processes (field aid, in a clinic, regular treatment, ect)

Pining

• Mutual pining
• Mutual "we totally aren't into each other what do you mean"
• Getting undressed around someone you're pining for and/or watching them getting undressed
• Healing plot point meaning they have to touch
• Enemies pining for each other
• Thinking the other half of the pairing is out of their league

Pregnancy

• Magical/Force based Mpreg in a society where Mpreg is not normal
• Magical/Force accidents
• Magical/Force rituals
• Magical/Force pregnancy as a cure for something
• They want a kid so one character just straight up invents mpreg
• Het mpreg
• Characters either fighting or not while pregnant depending on the situation and their personalities
• Pregnant character being over dramatic
• Doting on the pregnant character
• Weird cultural or species traditions/instincts around pregnancy
• Cute babies
• Casually taking care of the baby while working
• One half of the pairing being super overprotective of the baby while the other is chill
• One half of the pairing being full of talk about how hard the baby will eventually have to train but now the baby is here and breakable and oh no
• Worrying about accidentally hurting the baby
• Not expecting to be as attached/protective to the baby as they are
• Half human baby having odd abilities and the cultural ways to deal with that (with optional panic if they don't know)

Friendship

• Ensembles
• Protective friends and partners
• Science!
• Bickering
• That one really dumb argument
• Working together really well
• Enjoying the same silly thing together
• That dynamic where two characters seem to hate each other but get really mad if anyone else insults the other one
• Friendships that look odd from an outside POV

Hate

• Enemies to lovers
• The fallout of broken friendships/trust (from before the fic)
• "I needed you -- as in past tense"
• Assuming other people don't care about them
• One half of a pair who very truly hated each other gets permanent amnesia and now things are awkward
• Overcoming misunderstandings
• Slowly learning to value and respect each other
• Wrong place wrong time
• Don't actually hate each other but they're on opposite sides of a conflict
• Forced to work together
• Forced to shore up each other's covers
• Sparring
• Arguments as flirting
• Is that a threat or flirting?
• The pairing fighting and (neither fatally nor permanently) injuring each other
• In a time loop, the pairing fighting and actually killing each other
• Really truly trying to kill each other and then suddenly freezing when they get an actual opening
• Self hate

Fluff

• Accidental confessions
• Body worship
• Cuddling
• Oops someone is temporarily and magically a kid and now everyone else has to take care of them
• Banter as flirting
• Fancy clothes for fancy events
• One character not realizing they are being courted while being very obviously courted
• Competence kink
• Wrists and hands
• Hair
• Lazy morning afters
• Wearing the other person's clothes
• Flower crowns
• Character looking breathlessly pretty in some sort of natural environment

Worldbuilding

• Music as magic. Especially for someone who views it as a tool to pull out when necessary rather than their main passion.
• Plant magic and gardening!
• Really just any extra specific elemental magic
• Science and nerdy stuff!
• Magical artifacts
• Little worldbuilding details from canon.
• Ridiculous details from ridiculous canons.
• Cultural differences in fantasy worlds between fantasy cultures.

Unconventional Formats

• Epistolary
• Notes to self
• Chatroom
• Outsider pov
• Varric's exaggerated narration
• Spreadsheets

DNWs

• Humiliation.
• Severe social ineptness (canon-typical SQH is fine).
• Planned public declarations of love that only one half of the pairing knows about ahead of time.
• Cheating or suspicion of cheating.
• V type poly.
• Open relationships.
• Breakups.
• Unrequited between requested characters in a fic tagged for them.
• Unrequested gender/sexuality headcanons.
• Non-canon slavery.
• Non-canon permanent maiming/incapacitation.
• Graphic description of wounds.
• Graphic torture.
• Major focus on canon imprisonment/suffering.
• Non-canon permanent major character death.
• Permanent requested character death in a fic tagged for them (even if canon).
• Noncon, fear of Noncon, or focus on past Noncon.
• Unrequested Dubcon.
• Underaged (Romance or sex involving characters physically or mentally under 18.)
• Incest.
• A/B/O.
• Extremely painful sex or anal bleeding.
• Kissing after throwing up.
• Blowjobs after anal.
• Rimming.
• Fisting.
• Sounding.

SVSSS specific DNWs:

• PIDW characters finding out they were considered fictional in another world.
• LBH's neglect/abuse by SJ!SQQ treated as another false accusation/rumor. (See clarification section)
• Anything that shows Shen Jiu's imprisonment from his or Binghe's POV, or rescues set after he loses arms (leg loss is fine as long as he's still able to function independently, eye loss is fine).
• For Liushen or Cucumberplane *only*: Current or past Bingqiu within a fic for a pairing/poly Luo Binghe isn't in (This DNW is *only* about dealing with the canon relationship. Lishen → Bingliushen is fine as long as it's not V type. Binqiu in the background of non-Liushen non-Cucumberplane fics is totally fine.)
• For Cucumberplane *only*: Current or past Moshang unless writing SQH/SY/MBJ poly. (MBJ pining in the background is fine! Background Moshang in non-Cucumberplane fic is totally fine.)

Dragon Age specific DNWs:

• Custom Names for Player Characters. (The defaults can be found on the wiki, or just using last names is fine)
• Templar-aligned Player Characters.
• The Chargers dying.

Andromeda specific DNWs:

• Custom Names for Player Characters.
• Anything about Kadara, exiled colonists, or colonists as raiders. This includes even passing mentions of it. The Uprising is fine, as are the non-exile-related effects of it (Kandros as head of security, the Krogan Colony, ect), but nothing to do with exile. If a reference could easily read as though they were put back into cyropods instead of exiled, then it should be fine. AUs where exile never happened are fine.

SWTOR specific DNW:

• Mentor/mentee relationships

Assassin's Creed specific DNWs:

• The Legacy of the First Blade DLC (pretend it doesn't exist).
• Maria/Altair in a Malik/Altair fic.
• Ezio/Sofia in a Ezio/Anyone else fic.

The Old Guard specific DNW:

• Focus on Quynh's imprisonment in a fic where she isn't freed.

Clarifications:

• "Requested character" in all cases refers to the character/pairing from my requests that you choose to focus on in the fic. I'm not expecting those DNWs to apply to every character I requested, just the one you're writing and tagging the fic for.
• SVSSS Specific Clarification: Since we know from the book that SJ definitely expected Binghe to die from the wrong manual and knew about the bullying, if that treatment comes up I'd rather the canon situation not be characterized as one of the things he was falsely accused of. It doesn't need to be brought up at all if it isn't relevant, I don't expect any sort of lesson or regret about it, and AUs that cause it to not happen or cause SJ to have a different outlook are definitely welcome! I just don't want fic where it's said or implied that canon PIDW SJ didn't do those things or that it wasn't his choice/fault or that he had a "good" motivation behind those actions.
• Planned public declarations of love that only one half of the pairing knows about ahead of time: I mean things like public marriage proposals/announcements, public confession speeches, announcing the relationship, ect. If the characters have already talked about that sort of thing and the in-the-dark-character is going to react like "Oh hey that thing we talked about is happening now, with no unpleasant surprises that will make me uncomfortable", then don't worry about it! I just don't want them caught off guard or embarrassed by something they had no idea was coming. (It's a big second-hand embarrassment thing for me.)
• Suspicion of Cheating: I mean things like "Are they dating someone else/want to date someone else/slept with someone else/am I a side piece" ect, but not things like "Are they flirting with that waitress". Momentary "Wait wait--oh no that's not it at all" type suspicions are also fine in general, as long as there is no stretch of time where cheating is suspected (for either the reader or the characters)
• V-type poly: What I mean by this is poly where two of the characters are into a third but not each other. I need some sort of romantic relationship for all three legs of a poly relationship, even if it's antagonistic or low key.
• Breakups involving characters in the pairing within the fic: I basically don't want breakup fic, whether that's between both of the characters in the pairing or if it's one character in the pairing breaking up with a prior relationship. It's fine if a canon relationship breaks up *before* the fic and that's mentioned (except for Bingqiu or Moshang, see the SVSSS DNWs), but I don't want a gift that involves that arc. (Prey is an exception to this DNW)
• Non-canon permanent major character death: I don't want something where someone who didn't die in canon does so, but I'm fine with characters dying in different ways than how they died in canon as long as the fic is clearly tagged so that I know what I'm getting into. I care a lot less about this for antagonist characters. Kill the Archon however you want and I won't blink, but please give me clear warning for an alternate Alec Ryder death. There's also probably antagonists who didn't die in canon that I'm fine dying in a fic, but defining exactly where the antagonist line lies is hard so probably double check on those.
• Permanent requested character death (even if canon): I don't want any of the requested characters to be dead at the end of the fic. I don't want a pre-death fic that very blatantly references or leads into the start of the plotline of the eventual canon character death.
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• Related things to the character death DNWs that are totally okay!: Focus on grief. Character mistakenly thinking someone is dead or grieving for a temporarily dead character. Grief for a not-in-the-pairing character who is canonically temporarily dead and will not be resurrected within the fic. Fic where the canonically dead character is dead for most of the fic as long as they're alive by the end of the fic. Dead character comes back as a corporeal ghost ala TGCF or a similar "Basically alive with fancy powers" sort of undead. Pre-death fic that doesn't very blatantly reference or lead into the canonical character death plotline. Pre-death fic that leads into/directly references canonical death plot but clearly sets up a divergence even if the characters don't realize the significance at the time. Time travel/Peggy Sue fixit where the canonically dead character definitely died in the last timeline but they're averting it this time. Canon divergence dealing directly with the canon death plotline. Not mentioning the temporarily dead character during a canon divergence, as long as it isn't implied the divergence will keep them dead.