Yuletide Letter

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Asymptotical

General Likes

Basics

• Fixit fic
• Post-fixit fic
• Missionfic
• Casefic
• Rescuefic
• Fluff
• Slice of life
• Established relationships
• Get togethers
• Pre relationship
• Size Difference

Canon Divergence

• For want of a nail.
• Something went different.
• Someone made a different choice.
• Fixit.
• Whatever other sorts you can think of!

AUs

• Daemon
• Roleswap
• Role-musical-chairs
• Fusions with other canons I've requested here or elsewhere
• Modern so long as the magic is still a thing
• 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
• All the emotional stuff that comes with a character peggy sueing back, especially if they've had a major opinion change about someone else and have to try to act "normal" around them.
• In a time loop, characters who are enemies or hate each other actually killing each other in the early loops before they start working together

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 illnesses
• One character having to carry another to safety
• Insecurity
• Imposter syndrome
• Panic attacks
• Anger born of worry
• Crying into someone's chest/shoulder
• Cuddling for warmth
• Normal healing processes (field aid, in a clinic, regular treatment, ect)
• Brushing the hair of an upset character to clean them up from something or after a bath where they've just cleaned up

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

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 both mentally and physically a small child 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

Pregnancy & Babies

• Please check my Stork Swap letter for a huge list of Pregnancy, Mpreg, and Baby likes!

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.

Control

Worldbuilding

• I just love the whole vibe of this game. I love all the details we get, especially about the history of the Oldest House, and simultaneously really want more because of what we get!
• I'd love either narrative fic or alternate formats (especially canon typical documents!) Please feel free to either include OCs or established characters, whichever works better for your ideas!
• My prompts are focused on the Oldest House and the Federal Bureau of Control because that's what I have ideas for, but if you had in mind something more character specific or to do with some of the other places/objects/powers/events in or referenced to in the game, please go for it!
• Prompts:
• More about any of the events/objects in the game, especially fleshing out things that we got partial information about or documents about but didn't really fully see!
• Day to day in the FBC before the lockdown, anything from the really mundane stuff (and how being in a place like the Oldest House affects that) to the really non-mundane rituals.
• How things went down right after they found the Oldest House, especially as the FBC decided to move in!
• The FBC mission that discovered the Oldest House.
• The FBC as it functioned before the Oldest House, either/both day to day functions and how they contained (or attempted to contain) things!
• Agents discovering new places in the Oldest House (either new places not seen in the game, or the initial discovery of places in the game), and how the FBC reacted to them or put those places to use.

Shining Nikki

Aeon, Loen

• I just really love the juxtaposition of Loen being so very involved in everything, and Aeon being trapped away from everything wishing he could be involved more directly or even just leave the Ark at all. Both of them are archetypes that I really love and everything specific about them makes me like them even more, especially when both of them are involved with the same situation.
• I know that getting them into the same place is logistically difficult, so I'm fine with more things like what we got in the Zither River Night event where they were both involved and aware of each other (or straight up watching the other in Aeon's case) but not actually able to interact. Loen getting curious/suspicious because he could tell that what Nikki was saying didn't match up but not having time to follow up on it was really fun.
• I'd be happy with either gen or Loen/Aeon! I love gen and I think their whole deal is super interesting as it is in canon, but definitely ship it too!
• Prompts:
• Loen following up on his curiosity/suspicion about Aeon from the Zither River Night event. Or something else happening with Nikki that brings Aeon up again when Loen has more time to actually look into it.
• Loen getting access to the Ark somehow.
• Loen and Aeon ending up communicating directly during some situation. Optionally with Aeon trying to still maintain the illusion that he's somewhere in Miraland.
• All the tropey stuff like roleswaps or time loops/travel or weird AUs.
• Other Notes:
• I'm playing on Global so please don't include really big story twists/spoilers from CN/TW/JP that haven't made it to us by reveals!
• I am fully spoiled for the previous games so if you need to reference anything from those feel free to go wild!
• Shining Nikki Specific DNW: Nikki being in a relationship, unless it's a reference to Nikki/Kimi from LN (mid exchange edit: Nikki/Aphrodia is also an exception)

Smoke Series

Tony, Amy, Brianna, Leah

• Any combo of at least two of my requested characters is fine! (So Tony & Amy, Tony & Brianna, Tony & Leah, Amy & Brianna, Amy & Leah, or Brianna & Leah)
• While I'm asking for gen, if you'd like to include any of the canon relationships (including canon past relationships if it's set at a time when those would make more sense) in addition to the requested gen that's absolutely fine! Lee/Tony especially I'm happy with being a significant part of the fic as long as Tony's interactions with Amy, Leah, or Brianna are the major focus.
• Prompts:
• Canon-typical supernatural events.
• Canon-typical non-supernatural events.
• Double dating (or attempts at it).
• Normal day to day and slice of life stuff, especially post book two (and especially especially post book three, since we didn't get to see that!). I really loved the bits we saw of how quickly everyone adjusted to magic just being another tool they had at hand.
• Leah being involved earlier, or Brianna managing to convince Tony to teach her magic earlier.
• Wizard training field trips!
• Leah needing a Wizard for a thing. Maybe she gets Tony and they get to have more canon-typical interactions, or maybe Tony is nowhere to be found and she's got a very alarmingly up for it teenager on her hands.
• Leah and Amy interactions, even just casually when Leah is legit just there for work
• Interactions while Tony is busy being unconscious.
• Brianna being around for the events of the third book.
• Someone does a time travel back or gets stuck in a time loop in a way that changes up canon events.
• Other Notes:
• I haven't read the Blood series, but am at least aware of the basics of Tony's parts so you don't need to worry about spoilers/references.

DNWs

• Humiliation.
• Severe social ineptness.
• Planned public declarations of love that only one half of the pairing knows about ahead of time. (see clarification below)
• Cheating or suspicion of cheating. (see clarification below)
• V type poly. (see clarification below)
• Open relationships.
• Breakups involving tagged characters within the fic. (see clarification below)
• Unrequited between tagged characters.
• Unrequested gender/sexuality headcanons.
• Non-canon slavery.
• Non-canon permanent maiming/incapacitation.
• Graphic description of wounds
• Graphic torture
• Major focus on canon imprisonment.
• Non-canon permanent major character death. (Exception: If they die and come back in a way that they usually have a form indistinguishable from a normal alive person, such as vampires or TGCF style ghosts. Please see the bottom of this letter for a huge list of edge cases that are also okay!)
• Permanent requested character death in a fic tagged for them even if canon.
• Noncon, fear of Noncon, or focus on past Noncon.
• Dubcon.
• Underaged (Any romantic or sexual content involving someone 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.
• Intercision in Daemon AUs.
• Comas, covid, and unrequested real life serious illness.
• Shining Nikki Specific DNW: Nikki being in a relationship, unless it's a reference to Nikki/Kimi from LN (mid exchange edit: Nikki/Aphrodia is also an exception)

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.
• 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, but I don't want a gift that involves that arc.
• Non-canon permanent major character death: Assume permanent means that the character can't interact normally with the rest of the cast, so vampires and TGCF style powerful ghosts are totally fine! What I don't want is something where someone who didn't permanently die in canon does so. I'm fine with unrequested 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 main villain however you want and I won't blink, but please give me clear warning for an alternate allied character 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. (Assume permanent means that the character can't interact normally with the rest of the cast, so vampires and TGCF style powerful ghosts are totally fine!)
• Related things to the character death DNWs that are totally okay!: Temporary death. Character mistakenly thinking someone is dead or grieving for a temporarily dead character. 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. Vampires. 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/Time Loop/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. Character attempting to permanently self sacrifice and being stopped. Character successfully self sacrificing thinking it will be permanent and it's temporary. Character self sacrificing with the intention of it being temporary while knowing it could be permanent (but it's temporary).