Hurt/Comfort Letter

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Hurt/Comfort Letter

Thank you so much for writing for me! <3 There's a lot here, but it's mostly just really rambly elaboration on what was in my signups and extra prompts. If I didn't say a lot that doesn't mean I want it less, just that I had less specific prompt ideas! Feel free to use or not use the prompts as you want to, I tried to sort of theme my requests via freeform tags but past that I really love H/C and will be pretty easy to make happy with it. I tried to do prompts for a variety of lengths so feel free to take as much or little as you need to.

Since so many of these involve player characters, that means that a lot of my prompts are colored by how I personally saw them and which choices I made as I played, some of which I haven't played for awhile so I'm sure there's a lot headcanons in there on accident. I usually end up with several versions of every character so even in my own head I'm not married to a single personality for each of them. If you see the characters differently or prefer to emphasize different traits than what I focused on then feel free to write it that way! The prompts are there to help give possible directions and to give you an idea of how I see/play the characters, that's all <3

This should be as edited as it's going to ever be! I found some prompts that were incomplete/confusing and thought of a couple that needed to be added a few hours after assignments went out, so if you checked my letter immediately things may have changed slightly since then, but I'm not even gonna look at it again so no worries about things changing from this point forward.

Note on Tags:

• Since so many of the tags are essentially prompts in and of themselves, I didn't necessarily mention all of them in the relationship sections. Consider them the initial prompts, and the rambling under each relationship as elaboration and extra prompts.
• I separated out Main and Optional tags to make it easy to see which was in which section of the request and because I had to split them somewhere.

Note on Custom Names:

• Since I DNWed custom names I just wanted to list the defaults for the ones I requested here.
• Dragon Age: Garrett Hawke, Marian Hawke, Maxwell Trevelyan, Mahanon Lavellan, Ellana Lavellan, and Herah Adaar
• Fire Emblem: Robin
• SWTOR: Not actually dnwed in the signup since there aren't defaults for most of the classes. If it's a situation where it would make sense for them to use titles I'd prefer that, or for characters that have canon nicknames/things-they-call-them to use those. For Sith if they need an actual name I'd prefer they used the names they get during the story. For Inquisitor that's Imperius, Occulus, or Nox. Warrior's is a spoiler.
• I'm totally happy to see the different personalities everyone's versions of the characters have and don't want them to be blank slates! It's just the names that sometimes throw me out of the story.

Note on Spoilers:

• This whole thing is full of spoilers. Some are worse than others. I love these games, and I would hate to spoil the endings/twists, so if you haven't played any of them please be careful. (Especially for Prey, good lord please ignore that section of this letter if you even think you might play it in the future. Don't even read the freeforms. Trust me, I can't even explain why I love this game without spoiling five different things.)  There are links back to the general likes in every chapter so you should be able to avoid scrolling past anything and each section is pretty long.
• Dragon Age - It doesn't spoil any of the major twists as I see them, but it will spoil the outcomes of a couple quests and what happens to the Inquistor/The Inquisition during the last DLC.
• Fire Emblem - Completely and utterly spoils every twist in the game.
• SWTOR - It spoils the outcomes for a few different expansions up to the end of KOTET, as well as the titles/positions that some characters earn during their main story.
• Prey - Completely and utterly spoils every twist in the game.

Table of Contents

General H/C Likes
Dragon Age: The Inquisitor Doesn't Need This
Dragon Age: Stop Hurting Yourselves
Fire Emblem: Stress Out the Amnesiac
SWTOR: The Jedi Raise Them Dysfunctional
SWTOR: Enemy Mine
Prey: Morgan's Neverending Mental Crisis
Smut Likes
DNWs

General H/C Likes

• I chose the "hurt" part of the tag as who I want to be physically hurt but feel free to emotionally torment as many people as possible
• Even with injuries it's really more about the emotions for me. I'm fine with any level of shippy for ships, from sex to the ship being a framing for friendship focused stuff.
• It's not H/C specific but mutual pining is like my One True Kink, so don't feel pressured to resolve the romance or have a confession in there (also don't feel pressured not to if it works with the story, I'll be happy either way).
• Emotions and talking, especially at inconvenient times
• Sickness heightening emotions and bringing unsaid things out
• Worry about the sick/injured person heightening emotions and bringing unsaid things out
• Non-healer partner feeling helpless and needing comfort from friends
• Crying easier than normal and being really mad/upset about it
• Friends and partners not being sure how to emotionally comfort someone
• Friends closing ranks
• Healer panicking because their partner is injured
• Sick/injured/exhausted character comforting healthy people
• People knowing about the injury but not realizing the emotional toll or thinking hurt character is dealing with the aftermath fine on their own
• Magical exhaustion, especially caused by healing other people
• Other characters find something out that sick/injured character sees as nothing and they Do Not.
• Hiding something that can't be fixed (or they're actively causing via power usage) because they don't see the point in stressing other people out
• Hiding grief/stress/insecurity

Dragon Age: The Inquisitor Doesn't Need This

Main Tags

Optional Tags

Catching Hurt Character as They Collapse Character Catches Colds Easily Character insists on being left behind Character Planned to Die but Didn't Continuing to use superpowers even though they hurt Difficulty adjusting to prosthetics Downplaying an Injury Emotional Hurt/Comfort Hands too shaky to complete task Hiding the negative effects of using a power Homesickness Hypothermia Loss of Limb(s) Magical Exhaustion Mutual Pining Physically Injured Character Comforting Emotionally Distressed Character Prosthetics Pushing self to recover too quickly Self-Sacrifice Superpower/Magical Ability Comes With a Price

Assassination Attempt(s) Canon-Typical Violence canonical injuries Carrying Character bottling up emotions is coaxed into expressing them Cold bath to bring down fever Crying Damage to Prosthetics Faking Recovery From Injury/Trauma So People Will Stop Worrying About You Healer Needs Help Healing Self Hugging Minimizing own hurt because others have worse problems Overworking Panic Attacks Passing Out Reluctant Comfortee Searching for injured partner/friend who was left behind Self-Esteem Issues Unexpected recovery from an injury believed to be fatal

General H/C Likes

Prompts that Apply to All Inquisitors:

•  A lot of horrible things happen to the Inquisitor during canon, and they just tend to get back up and skate past it.
• Most of them aren't going to be used to dealing with this many people at once, or in this sort of role.
• Lavellan especially could be vulnerable to colds and other infection diseases that they might not have had any contact with before since the clans are so isolated.
• Being culturally isolated. Especially if it isn't even their religion that people think they're a Herald of.
• The anchor hurts.
• Emotionally freaking out about this thing that's stuck in their hand and/or being the Only One who can solve this.
• The aftermath of Haven, especially if they take a bit longer to recover (or even to regain consciousness).
• Pushing themself too hard, especially right after Haven.
• The leadup to Trespasser when the anchor is getting worse and worse. Maybe their partner is the only one who knows, maybe their partner has to go off to do other stuff while they wrap up Inquisition things so they're alone with it, maybe the Inquisitor is hiding it.
• During Trespasser when the anchor starts going crazy, especially if they were hiding it.
• The aftermath of the Inquisitor losing their arm. Whether they're emotionally devastated about it or a little relieved because at least they're alive and not in pain.
• Dagna making them a prosthetic and them having to get used to it, especially if it isn't a perfect usable hand but something to aid in holding things or specifically shaped to work with their chosen weapon (though the perfect hand magical/mechanical hand thing could be really cool too).
• Them pretending to be over the loss of their arm much faster than they actual are because they don't want everyone worrying so much.
• A mission after the game after they've got the prosthetic where it's damaged and panic over that.
• Them over-preparing or internally panicking a little when they have to do something out in the wilderness somewhere cold, because they're still not mentally entirely over that walk through the blizzard after Haven.
• For Lavellan I'm fine with anything from the delicate mage archetype to the "pretty but obviously not someone you'd want to mess with and probably eats bugs" woodsy archetype. I've played a lot of different classes for all of them so go with whatever class you like most or that fits for what you're trying to tell <3

Cullen Rutherford/Male Trevelyan (hurt Trevelyan)

• See top of this section for all-Inquisitor prompts (which is most of this request)
• Mage Trevelyan and Cullen both having emotional issues with each other due to their pasts, especially if Trevelyan gets hurt or sick early on and is struggling with having to trust a Templar.
• Cullen not realizing how fond of Trevelyan he's become until they think they've lost him at Haven and then Trevelyan comes stumbling out of a blizzard right into Cullen's arms.
• Trevelyan hiding stress or injuries after he finds out about Cullen quitting Lyrium because he doesn't want to add more stress/pressure to Cullen.

Dorian/Male Lavellan (hurt Lavellan)
See other request for more prompts

• See top of this section for all-Inquisitor prompts (which is most of this request)
• During the quest where they've traveled forward in time, Lavellan emotionally breaking down a bit over what happened to people he's friends with, feeling guilty over not being there to stop it, not being sure if they'll actually be able to get back or if they just have to go from this point forward, and snapping a Dorian a lot for seemingly not seeming to take it as seriously.
• After they're in a relationship, Lavellan getting a cold and lots of cuddles and bitching and Dorian vocally being grossed out but mostly just being a combo of thrilled to be wanted/needed and worried at how easily Lavellan got sick.
• Dorian worrying like hell after Haven but not feeling like he has the right to be one of the people crowding around Lavellan until he's for some reason put on fuss-over-the-Herald duty (maybe because he's a mage who can cast whatever they need, maybe because he's not Chantry and one of the advisors realizes that Lavellan won't want to deal with all the Chantry stuff right after waking up).

Iron Bull/Male Trevelyan (hurt Trevelyan)
The prompts in the other Bull/Trevelyan section are hurt Bull but here's a link for reference.

• See top of this section for all-Inquisitor prompts (which is most of this request)
• Trevelyan being embarrassed about being sick and not wanting to see anyone but Bull, but not vocalizing that. Maybe because he doesn't want to be bratty, maybe for some other reason.
• Bull taking the whole bodyguard thing more and more seriously as Trevelyan keeps getting injured anyways.
• Bull being secretly relieved about the anchor being gone and the guilt with that as he helps Trevelyan deal with the loss of a limb and making a prosthetic.
• Training after the arm loss to adjust how Trevelyan is going to fight now, with and without the prosthetic, and Trevelyan getting super frustrated at how long it's taking him.
• The Chargers trying to matchmake and coming up with reasons why it should absolutely be Bull helping out with whatever-it-is, or making sure that Bull comes across Trevelyan when he's trying to emotionally work through things that have happened.

Male Hawke/Male Lavellan (hurt Lavellan)
The prompts in the other Hawke/Lavellan section are Hawke hurt ones but here's a link for reference.

• See top of this section for all-Inquisitor prompts (which is most of this request)
• Taking Lavellan back to Kirkwall after Trespasser, especially if Lavellan had been reluctant when Varric brought it up earlier and they realize it was because Lavellan was trying not to let them know about the whole dying thing.
• Hawke being Hawke about things and Lavellan leaning into that because it's way easier to deal with than the stress of everything else, especially if Hawke realizes that at some point (or Varric tells him) and plays it up deliberately.
• (I also ship Hawke/Lavellan/Varric but I didn't have room to nominate that and prioritized the separate versions, just wanted to mention it as an option)

Cassandra Pentaghast/Female Lavellan (hurt Lavellan)

• See top of this section for all-Inquisitor prompts (which is most of this request)
• Cassandra trying really hard to learn Dalish remedies or traditions for injury recovery to help Lavellan feel less Other.
• Cassandra mentally freaking out every time Lavellan almost dies and trying to be more and more Right There, and then she has to turn away for a second and guess who almost died again or caught a cold or went poking at something dangerous in the ruins.
• Lavellan going to Cassandra for advice on dealing with Chantry people or highborn people and... Cassandra tries.

Female Adaar/Cassandra Pentaghast (hurt Adaar)
See other section for more prompts

• See top of this section for all-Inquisitor prompts (which is most of this request)
• The two of them being really bad at emotional situations, especially emotional situations where someone is hurt, and floundering on how to deal with it in a way that doesn't involve punching.
• Alternatively, they might not know how to deal with things from personal experience but Cassandra has Read Books About This and she's gonna awkwardly try to use them as a guideline.
• Adaar being really flirty and charmed by Cassandra panicking over her injury, especially if she's seriously injured.
• Arguments about how recovered is recovered enough to go out and start hitting/shooting things again.

Dragon Age: Stop Hurting Yourselves

Main Tags

Optional Tags

Badass in Distress Blaming Themself for the Other Character Being Injured Canon-Typical Violence Character draws negative attention onto themself to protect another Character insists on completing mission despite injuries Circumstances make it impossible to stop immediately to treat injury Downplaying an Injury Emotional Hurt/Comfort Faking Recovery From Injury/Trauma So People Will Stop Worrying About You Forcing Exhausted Character to Get Some Sleep Hurt while saving the other character(s) Internalized Victim Blaming Minimizing own hurt because others have worse problems More Seriously Injured Character Insists Other Character's Injuries Be Treated First Mutual Pining Physically Injured Character Giving Medical Instructions to Save Their Own Life Reluctant Comfortee Self-Sacrifice Trying to push through and ignore hurt makes it worse Using Humor To Deflect Attention From Emotional Turmoil

Belligerent Pining Catching Hurt Character as They Collapse Combat Injury Comforter arrives too late to prevent hurt Hiding Injuries Injury on Top of Old Injuries Jumping in Front of a Bullet Magical Exhaustion Not Actually Unrequited Love Passing Out

General H/C Likes


Dorian Pavus/Cullen Rutherford (Hurt Cullen)

• Dorian finding out about the lyrium withdraw, and on one hand yes it's necessary on the other holy shit is that dangerous. Cue lots of fluttering around and trying to take care of Cullen while pretending that he totally isn't doing that. Especially if it's pre-relationship. Especially especially if Dorian isn't supposed to know about it (which could lead to all sorts of emotional arguments).
• Dorian asking Cullen for help with a Venatori thing and then Cullen gets injured and Dorian is feeling terribly guilty even though it really isn't his fault.
• Cullen doing something dumb to protect Dorian because he's smitten and somehow not getting called out on it because everyone knows him as the completely steady and reliable Commander. Maybe Dorian falls for it too and assumes he must have made a mistake that Cullen got injured correcting for and feels guilty, or maybe he knows he wasn't in any more danger than normal and starts putting that situation together with other things that have happened and has to figure out what to do with that information and if he's even making the right assumptions.
• The Inquisitor is out somewhere without either of them and a thing happens that has to be dealt with right then, cue them going on a mission together and any combination of the freeforms kicking in.

Dorian/Male Hawke (hurt Hawke)

• I normally play Purple Hawke so that's where my head is at with these, but I'm totally happy with other Hawkes too so feel free to adjust the prompts as needed for those.
• Hawke using the focused attention as an excuse to flirt outrageously. Especially if it's pre-relationship and Hawke is playing it off as a joke but some real emotions slip in there on accident.
• They have explicitly casual sex that they are both definitely on board with being totally casual (that's a lie, they're emotional disasters). And then they're both so distracted by being Casual the next time they go out on a mission that Hawke ends up injured.
• Them getting into friendly arguments and generally screwing around during a mission, distracting Hawke enough that he gets hurt. Or maybe just flirting into a mission that was way more intense than they were expecting and dealing with the aftermath of that.
• Hawke trying to show off and getting hurt. Or Dorian trying to show off and Hawke jumping in to protect him from a blow.
• Dorian using an injury as a chance to critique Hawke's armor, and Hawke being miffed because his armor is perfectly fine thank you and at least he has a whole shirt on.
• Any combination of the freeforms because really these two dorks are perfect for like all of them.

Dorian/Male Lavellan (hurt Lavellan)
See other section for more prompts

• Lavellan getting injured in the middle of an argument and they just keep right on with it through all the fussing/healing.
• Lavellan not trusting Dorian early on in the game and being super tense while Dorian has to help him with an injury, and Dorian acting out to cover how hurt he is by that.
• Lavellan jumping in front of a blow meant for Dorian, especially if it's in the "are we flirting or arguing neither of us can tell" phase of a relationship. Or just while they're both still being so circumspect about flirting that the other one can't tell if they actually meant it, if you prefer them to have a softer start to their relationship.
• The two of them getting trapped somewhere in close space and having to have a lot of contact both to patch up however Lavellan was injured and to keep him comfortable while they wait for the others to get them out. Especially if Lavellan is protesting that the injury isn't that bad but Dorian is really worried.

Female Adaar/Cassandra Pentaghast (hurt Adaar)
See other section for more prompts

• Adaar instinctively being too used to fights going a certain way and expecting people to respond a certain way because that's how her merc group did it... and then she does a thing without thinking and everyone else does not act how she was expecting and she gets injured.
• Cass not being okay with Mage!Adaar's "wrap a half clean rag around it and heal it when they've got the time" approach to caring for her own wounds. Especially if she keeps pushing it and pushing it because she knows she can stop her own wounds from getting infected so it feels way more important to quickly heal everyone else's scrapes than her technically much worse wound.
• Them teaching each other field dressing traditions via actual wound treatment.
• Early on, Mage!Adaar being kind of freaked out after hearing about what Cass can do to a mage who recently drank lyrium, so either forgoing lyrium to her detriment or overdoing it to prove that she's Not Scared.

Female Hawke/Cassandra Pentaghast (hurt Cassandra)

• I normally play Purple Hawke so that's where my head is at with these, but I'm totally happy with other Hawkes too so feel free to adjust the prompts as needed for those.
• Hawke being super worried but flirting ridiculously to cover it up.
• Cassandra being heavily injured and Hawke acting more and more of a loon to try to keep her awake and responding until either Hawke can heal her or until she can get her to a healer.
• Cassandra jumping in to save Hawke from something, and Hawke and Varric having a whole nonverbal conversation (via expressions or gestures or miming where Cassandra can't see or something) about it while Hawke is patching Cassandra up.
• Cassandra trying desperately not to let it slip how starry eyed she is at Hawke while Hawke patches her up, especially if she's a little bit out of it from whatever blow she took. She's a Seeker and the Right Hand she isn't fangirling (she is).

Female Hawke/Fenris/Isabela (hurt Hawke)

• I normally play Purple Hawke so that's where my head is at with these, but I'm totally happy with other Hawkes too so feel free to adjust the prompts as needed for those.
• Hawke using the focused attention as an excuse to flirt outrageously. Especially if it's pre-relationship and Hawke is playing it off as a joke but some real emotions slip in there on accident.
• This is one of those where I just wave my hands wildly at the freeforms and point at Hawke because really. There's so many places in canon or after canon or in the unsaid stuff in between canon where it could fit.

Male Hawke/Cullen Rutherford (hurt Hawke)

• I normally play Purple Hawke so that's where my head is at with these, but I'm totally happy with other Hawkes too so feel free to adjust the prompts as needed for those.
• Hawke using the focused attention as an excuse to flirt outrageously. Maybe it's pre-relationship and Hawke is playing it off as a joke but some real emotions slip in there on accident.
• Hawke being either more or less careful about his own safety due to the whole Templar thing, especially if he's either trying to distract Cullen from someone else, or he's fighting in a way he normally wouldn't since he can't use magic right now.
• Mage!Hawke deciding that the best way to keep Cullen from suspecting him of being a mage is to invite Cullen along on a mission where Hawke totally doesn't use any magic (for any level of invite, including inviting himself along on one of Cullen's missions). Then he gets injured due to not having shields up and is trying to keep himself alive long enough to get back. Or maybe he waits until Cullen is distracted clearing up and tries to heal himself a little and has to pretend to still be seriously injured. And then panic about whether or not Cullen noticed. Maybe Cullen has known for months or years now, he's just got about fifty reasons why he'd rather keep Hawke outside the gallows and just keeps an eye on him.
• Non-mage!Hawke distracting Cullen away from somewhere his mage friends are at by being super annoying and dragging Cullen along on a mission and ending up injured.
• Inquisition era flirting where Mage!Hawke is showing off their magic because they can now and either ends up injured or magically exhausted somehow. Maybe he was halfway through a showy thing and things suddenly got real and the switch to his normal battle magic "pulled" something? Or maybe he was just low on energy from all the showing off and overdid it.
• Inquisition era Mage!Hawke not being used to having access to Lyrium and either avoiding it entirely or overdoing it in the field. Cullen having to deal with the aftermath of that (whether it's lecturing Hawke on eschewing a resource and getting himself injured because of the lack of injury, or recognizing the signs of overuse in a mage and pulling Hawke aside to say something), and maybe Hawke noticing that Cullen seems a lot less steady on this subject in particular.

Male Hawke/Male Lavellan (hurt Hawke)
The prompts in the other Hawke/Lavellan section are Lavellan hurt ones but here's a link for reference.

• I normally play Purple Hawke so that's where my head is at with these, but I'm totally happy with other Hawkes too so feel free to adjust the prompts as needed for those.
• Hawke using the focused attention as an excuse to flirt outrageously. Especially if it's pre-relationship and Hawke is playing it off as a joke but some real emotions slip in there on accident.
• Hawke getting injured blocking a blow from Lavellan, and each of them being sure that they were showing off and caused the injury and being mad at themself.
• Lavellan sitting on a much larger Hawke to keep him still while Lavellan dresses his wounds, and that backfiring considerably with either a very flirty Hawke or a Hawke who's trying not to flirt but gets aroused anyways.
• Lavellan avoiding Hawke because he hasn't read (or can't read) the book and it's super stressful to have everyone expecting him to already know all these things on top of Everything Else he's trying to deal with. Then Hawke either thinking Lavellan doesn't like him or that he's shy, and getting injured doing something stupid or dangerous to try to win him over.
• (I also ship Hawke/Lavellan/Varric but I didn't have room to nominate that and prioritized the separate versions, just wanted to mention it as an option)

Iron Bull/Male Trevelyan (hurt Bull)
The prompts in the other Bull/Trevelyan section are hurt Bull but here's a link for reference.

• Bull getting injured protecting Trevelyan and just shrugging it off. Maybe it actually isn't that bad and only needs surface healing and the fussing and the worry is just kinda cute. Or maybe Bull is bullshitting because they can't afford to stop right then and later on Trevelyan catches the Chargers helping him out and is Not Pleased about the injury hiding.
• No dead Chargers please (I count it as being part of my no player choice deaths DNW but wanted to emphasize it here since this is the hurt Bull section and that would hurt Bull a lot).
• Bull getting more seriously injured by the "assassin" after he leaves the Qun, or the blade being poisoned.
• Any of the demons they have to deal with, and Bull not coping well with the constant demonic barrage. Especially after something like the Envy demon or the Nightmare demon's territory.

Male Hawke/Varric Tethras (hurt Hawke)

• This is basically Friendship/Trust/Loyalty Kink The Ship for me so anything with that.
• I normally play Purple Hawke so that's where my head is at with these, but I'm totally happy with other Hawkes too so feel free to adjust the prompts as needed for those (or just go with something in the theme I just want these two being cute and trusting each other and worrying about each other and getting each other really).
• Bethany & Carver are an exception to my "no either/or deaths" dnw because that isn't really a choice, so angst over their canon fates is totally fine for this (or just have them both alive that's great too)
• I somehow didn't choose survivor's guilt as a tag for this because I'm dumb but that especially for Hawke in this pairing.
• Any of the five million points in canon where Hawke is either coming out of a fight that should have seriously injured them, coming out of a terrifying situation, mage Hawke coming out of a Templar situation, Hawke not dealing well with an emotionally tough situation, ect.
• Emotional H/C after they meet back up in Inquisition. Maybe Hawke has never really truely been on their own before (they've always had family or close friends around) and suddenly he's had to go who knows how many months while dealing with guilt over the whole situation and his best friend/partner being kidnapped and not being able to keep tabs on all his important people and now there's a giant hole in the sky and it would be easy for Hawke to blame it on himself.
• Hawke blaming himself for things happening or for not somehow predicting and preventing them.
• Varric blaming himself for something and Hawke trying to comfort him by taking the blame for it.
• Hawke getting injured in the first deep road's trip and comforting a Varric who's emotionally Not Doing Great.
• Hawke being very upbeat around everyone else, and then letting the act go once he and Varric are alone. (whether just on a normal day, in response to an injury, or in response to an emotional trauma)
• The two of them bantering back and forth while Hawke is seriously injured because it makes the both of them feel better.
• Varric keeping an eye on an injured Hawke and making him follow the healer's recovery instructions when Hawke tries to cut corners.
• Hawke hiding an injury or emotional issue from everyone else but telling Varric about it.
• Mage!Hawke hiding an injury from everyone else but asking Varric to help him out with healing it. Maybe it's in an embarrassing spot (only if they both find it funny), maybe he just can't deal with Anders today, maybe he still doesn't trust the Inquisition, maybe he just can't with interacting with anyone right then, or maybe it's all just an excuse for flirting with Varric.
• (I also ship Hawke/Lavellan/Varric but I didn't have room to nominate that and prioritized the separate versions, just wanted to mention it as an option)

Fire Emblem: Stress Out the Amnesiac

Main Tags

Optional Tags

Aftermath of Temporary Character Death Amnesia Canon-Typical Violence Catching Hurt Character as They Collapse Character insists on completing mission despite injuries Comforting someone who's lost their memory Downplaying an Injury Forcing Exhausted Character to Get Some Sleep Guilt over Other Character's Sacrifice Hurt/sick character needs to be carried Internalized Victim Blaming Lingering Trauma For Friend/Lover's Death Even After They Were Brought Back To Life More Seriously Injured Character Insists Other Character's Injuries Be Treated First Mutual Pining Overworking Self-Esteem Issues Self-Sacrifice Trying to push through and ignore hurt makes it worse Unexpected trigger takes hurt character by surprise Using Humor To Deflect Attention From Emotional Turmoil

Awkward Comforter Bedside Vigils Character draws negative attention onto themself to protect another Cooking character's favorite food to cheer them up Emotional Hurt/Comfort Faking Recovery From Injury/Trauma So People Will Stop Worrying About You Hands too shaky to complete task Hugging Insecurity Magical Exhaustion Minimizing own hurt because others have worse problems Not Actually Unrequited Love Panic Attacks Passing Out Physically Injured Character Comforting Emotionally Distressed Character Protectiveness Pushing self to recover too quickly Reluctant to admit to triggers

General H/C Likes

Prompts for Robin in Any Pairing

• Robin's amnesia coming up in more emotional ways than just how it effects the plot. Either with Robin themself not being sure what their motivations would be if they had their memory, or feeling left out of basic interactions because they have no cultural or emotional connection to a lot of the small things that could come up, or trying to figure out what their background might possibly be as they start to get hints about it (who their father is, that they ran away and roughly when, the weird way Validar was able to magically talk to them, their "twin" with the same name, ect)
• Since Robin still has their instincts completely fine, something unexpectedly putting them in a real bad mental space (anything from just being super shaken to a full on panic attack) without them having any context for the reaction or being able to explain it. Maybe it's something that makes sense to be afraid of, like certain types of enemies, or maybe it's something a lot more innocuous like a certain fabric pattern or phrasing.
• Robin kind of freaking out a little bit once they get time to breath after setting fire to the fleet, because it was necessary and there was no other way for them to survive it, but they still killed a lot of people. Maybe once they find out the truth about Grima it coming up again, because while Robin might not be trying to destroy the world they sure do have a pretty massive death count from trying to save it.
• Trying to deal with the possibility of losing control to Validar and the behind the scenes stuff we didn't get to see with Robin, Chrom, Flavia, and Basilio planning for that eventuality. For the other pairings, Robin not being able to tell them exactly what they're upset about because talking about it could literally doom them all.
• After Lucina's judgement, preferably with a Robin who accepts it. Especially if they sort of think they must deserve it for killing Chrom in Lucina's version of the world. The aftermath of that, with Robin having not been sure if Lucina would kill them or not and feeling both guilty and betrayed about the whole thing, but not wanting to really let loose and tell anyone because they know their partner would not take it well and they don't want anyone to hate Lucina over it.
• Insecurity and Imposter Syndrome, either before anyone knows anything about them and they aren't proven or friends enough with people to be willing to risk leaning on them, or after they start to find out about their background, or after a loss on the battlefield (or even a win that lost more people than they were willing to).
• After the endgame, coming back and everyone dealing with the emotional fallout. Especially since their friends and partner have been both grieving and searching for them that whole time, and Robin might be mentally just out of a pretty nasty fight that they've all had time to recover from.
• (I forgot to include the tag about responding to finding out someone would or wouldn't be willing to sacrifice you for the greater good but I really should have. Would sacrifice them for Lucina. Wouldn't sacrifice them for Chrom)

Chrom/Male Robin (hurt Robin)

• See top of this section for general Robin prompts (which is most of this request)
• I know Lucina is tricky for this but I do not want her to be born normally if you're doing something set after she's supposed to be born. Maybe she gets magicked into existence, or maybe in her version of their world Robin is female and she straight up isn't born into this one, or maybe Emmeryn is alive in this and this world's version is somehow Chrom's niece. Or maybe just avoid the whole thing by not mentioning baby Lucina at all as long as there's no implying that Chrom has a wife or kid back at the castle. (I'd rather not go the mpreg route for this exchange because that's what Unusual Bearings is for and I've got a whole set of prompts for them over there safely wrapped in my mpreg wants and dnws)
• Robin wanting to lean emotionally on Chrom early in the game because he's the only thing that's familiar, but realizing that the whole situation is super weird and that Chrom clearly doesn't know him, so he tries to keep at a distance instead telling himself that it's clearly the more responsible thing to do.

Cordelia/Female Robin (hurt Robin)

• See top of this section for general Robin prompts (which is most of this request)
• Robin being super blushy and awkward when Cordelia has to tend her injuries at some point, and Cordelia being so focused on keeping Robin stable until a healer gets there that she doesn't even put the clues together until later.

Flavia/Female Robin (hurt Robin)

• See top of this section for general Robin prompts (which is most of this request)
• Flavia going all in like she does in her supports (except she's actually flirting obviously) and getting super overprotective when Robin gets injured even before Robin realizes she's serious about it. Maybe well before you get her as a companion in the game because she goes into "Mine" mode from the getgo.

Gaius/Male Robin (hurt Robin)

• See top of this section for general Robin prompts (which is most of this request)
• Especially with the unexpected triggers prompt for him, because out of everyone in these prompts he seems the most likely to have encountered that before and have some idea of why Robin might be responding so surprisingly negatively to something otherwise innocuous.

Inigo/Male Robin (hurt Robin)

• See top of this section for general Robin prompts (which is most of this request)
• Inigo being very bad at this whole comforting someone thing. Especially if it's emotional. Especially if Robin is just not in the mood for any shenanigans or jokes and completely misinterprets what Inigo is trying to do.

SWTOR: The Jedi Raise Them Dysfunctional

Main Tags

Optional Tags

Catching Hurt Character as They Collapse Character insists on completing mission despite injuries Continuing to use superpowers even though they hurt Downplaying an Injury Emotional Hurt/Comfort Hands too shaky to complete task Hiding the negative effects of using a power Loneliness Magical Exhaustion Mutual Pining Physically Injured Character Giving Medical Instructions to Save Their Own Life Physically Injured Character Comforting Emotionally Distressed Character Pushing self to recover too quickly Reluctant Comfortee Scars Self-Sacrifice Superpower/Magical Ability Comes With a Price Taken Off Guard By Small Displays Of Affection Unexpected trigger takes hurt character by surprise Wanting To Help Hurt Character But Not Knowing How To Do It

Awkward Comforter Canon-Typical Violence Character insists on being left behind Downplaying Trauma Healer Needs Help Healing Self Hurt/sick character needs to be carried Minimizing own hurt because others have worse problems More Seriously Injured Character Insists Other Character's Injuries Be Treated First Overworking Passing Out

General H/C Likes

Note on expansions:

• I've only played up through KOTET (I may have had a sulk about being forced to choose a side again) but I will have played all the way through the most recent stuff by the time fic for this is revealed. If there's anything from those that really really fits (or completely josses) anything I've prompted here, then feel free to adjust stuff to write it. I know Theron especially has a major arc.

General Consular Prompts/Rambling:

• This section is basically just me waving my hands around frantically trying to convince everyone else that the Consular is The Best Woobie. Some of it is sort of headcanony and some is just me throwing out ideas, so don't feel like you have to match any or all of this if your personal take is different.
• Preferably no "oh no relationships lead to the dark side" type emotional issues, since the Consular doesn't seem to be at all fussed in canon and is open about it with the rest of the Jedi in one of the romances (I haven't played the other so I'm not sure if it's the case in both).
• Their Act 1 ability is my everything. If you haven't played it or haven't for awhile, essentially they learn a shielding technique that uses their life force as an energy source to cast mindshields. They only successfully use it in game against a specific force plague/ghost, but it's mentioned a few times in their other Acts and talked about like it'll work against any force influence so that's what I tend to go with. Every time he shields someone it visibly exhausts him and they make it very clear that using it too many times will kill him.
• Imposter Syndrome and the Consular feeling incredibly out of his depth because he was promoted so ridiculously fast in Act 1. Him knowing objectively that he earned it and proved himself through his actions in those situations but emotionally feeling like he was faking it the whole way through.
• The effects of completely skipping field training and not having any guidance on emotionally dealing with the effects of battle and killing people, especially if he's mainly a healer.
• The sort of non-violent nerdy kid who would be chosen as a padawan by the kooky researcher getting thrown straight into emergency after emergency instead.
• Maybe he never had close friends or maybe he grew apart from them since their experiences and rank kept getting further and further away, and issues with both loneliness and trying to ignore it because Jedi Logic. Especially if he's working with a lot of people and respected and doesn't feel like he has any right to complain about not having friends.
• Or maybe he did manage to keep a lot of friendships and during the events of the Alliance he's got no clue where they are or if they're alive. Him trying to be a pillar for the rest of the Jedi who show up since he's the only council member available and not having someone to lean on himself because of that.
• Feeling obligated to use the shielding technique as much as he can when it's relevant, because he's the only person who can use it now.
• Not dealing well emotionally with having to decide who to save in situations with a lot of people getting possessed, because he knows trying to shield as many as possible will kill him and be worse in the long run but in practice it's hard to leave someone vulnerable.
• Getting real good at casually dealing with the lingering effects of his life force getting too low or residual effects from getting stabbed at the end of KOTFE or some other force/physical injury.
• Long term effects being no big deal to him (just something he has to adjust to deal with), but the other person finds out about it and it's a big deal to them. Someone forcing the Consular to actually explain in detail what the fuck, and everyone going into panic mode afterwards. Especially if they can't actually fix anything and it's right back to how the Consular was dealing with it before except with more emotional trauma to the rest of them.
• Using meditation as a one stop bandaid for every emotional issue and that just leading to bottling things up.
• Being what he thinks is entirely stable with life force to spare, but it comes up somehow and the other person vehemently disagrees with what an acceptable life force level looks like.
• Not being able to even try to shield himself from Valkorian. Stress about both that inability, and about how safe it is to cast shields on others with Valkorian attached to him.
• Valkorian having a fit about him "wasting his life force" on other people and trying to stop him from shielding someone, resulting in him injuring himself or using way more life force than he'd intended.
• (Lana and her fussing is my fav so if she's also your fav feel free to have her involved as much as you'd like as long as it doesn't completely overshadow the ships)

Theron/Male Jedi Consular (hurt Consular)

• Everything in the general Consular part above
• Vitiate snapping mindshields the Consular cast at the end of Ziost (especially if he thought they were able to hold against Vitiate earlier on the planet) and the potential force backlash from that hitting the Consular. Also the Consular being upset at himself for just assuming the shields would continue to work against someone as powerful as Vitiate and not taking more measures to protect people that he had assumed were safe.
• The Consular wanting to shield Theron's mind and them having an argument about it (since Theron knows he can deflect mind reading/manipulation by himself), and the whole life force thing coming out while the Consular is trying to explain what makes these particular shields so ridiculously strong.
• The Consular still being injured when they meet up on Odessen. Him trying to push too hard too fast or using too much energy to accelerate his healing and Theron ending up being the one to argue with him about it, or straight up h/c for any of the lingering effects from getting stabbed straight through with a lightsaber and living, or arguments about Lana because Theron wasn't there but she was and he still doesn't trust her.
• Theron's background making things real complicated for him as he starts to develop feelings for a Jedi, and the Consular being really confused about why he's acting like that.
• One of them pulling back a bit once they realize they've gone and caught feelings, and the other misinterpreting why they did that. Or both of them having those realizations and misinterpretations around the same time and generally both being bad at emotions.
• The Consular getting hurt sometime on Yavin or Rishi, especially if it's after Theron's capture and Theron's especially worried about anything like that happening. Maybe it takes them a bit to find the Consular and Theron is on a knife's edge with stressing about the Consular's safety and not trusting Lana.
• The Consular shielding a few people on Yavin and Theron noticing how it physically affects him every time he shields someone. Especially if Theron doesn't realize the Consular is using life force at first.
• The Consular getting injured on a mission and Theron having to take care of him, either because something is making it so the Consular can't just heal himself with the force or because he's too exhausted to do so.

Arcann/Male Jedi Consular (hurt Consular)
See other section for more prompts

• Everything in the general Consular part above
• Them taking a bit longer to trust each other than they do in Canon, even after they start working together. The Consular trying real hard to be all Jedi about it but it being kind of hard considering everything Arcann has done (Especially what he's done to the Consular and people the Consular cares about, and the Consular feeling guilty about giving that greater emotional weight than larger tragedies.)
• Senya trying to push them to work together and it ends up with the Consular getting injured and Arcann having to take care of him until they get back to the Alliance.
• Slight AU where instead of deciding to work together, they end up being forced into it and something happens to the Consular. Or his normal "my life force is low but I'm fine" coping methods aren't working as well in this situation or aren't fooling Arcann as well as they fool normal people because he's watching the Consular super closely looking for signs of his dad.
• The Consular finally snapping at Arcann a little when Arcann makes some comment about his dad, because if anyone is upset about the Sith Emperor being attached to his mind it's the Barsen'thor.
• The Consular still having issues physically from Arcann stabbing him and Arcann now having to deal with that directly.
• Some unrelated injury resulting in shirt off for the Consular and Arcann seeing the scar he left, especially if he'd half convinced himself that his strike must have been off or something for the Consular to survive it.
• The Consular pushing harder and harder and people already in the Alliance not realizing just how much he's working because it's increased slowly and they're used to it, but to Arcann coming in late it seems crazy and he can see the signs of it wearing on him.

SWTOR: Enemy Mine

Main Tags

Optional Tags

Awkward Comforter Character insists on completing mission despite injuries Circumstances make it impossible to stop immediately to treat injury Comforter caused the Hurt difficult conversations Downplaying an Injury Enemies to Lovers - Enemy doesn't immediately notice other person is injured Enemies to Lovers - Were Enemies at the time of Hurt forced to work together Former enemies Hurt character reluctant to use painkillers Mutual Pining Near Death Experience Makes Unaffected Character Realize They Love the Victim Not Actually Unrequited Love Physically Injured Character Comforting Emotionally Distressed Character Prickly Relationship Between Comforter and Comfortee Reluctant Comfortee Taken Off Guard By Small Displays Of Affection Using Humor To Deflect Attention From Emotional Turmoil

Canon-Typical Violence Catching Hurt Character as They Collapse Character draws negative attention onto themself to protect another Combat Injury Downplaying Trauma Emotional Hurt/Comfort Enemies to Lovers - Enemy caused hurt but regrets it and tries to make amends Hurt character comforts the one who caused the hurt Hurt/sick character needs to be carried Magical Exhaustion Pushing through injury Scars Surprised Not To Be Viewed As An Enemy Threatening to Hurt Someone in Order to Protect Them Unexpected recovery from an injury believed to be fatal Wanting To Help Hurt Character But Not Knowing How To Do It

General H/C Likes

Note on expansions:

• I've only played up through KOTET (I may have had a sulk about being forced to choose a side again) but I will have played all the way through the most recent stuff by the time fic for this is revealed. If there's anything from those that really really fits (or completely josses) anything I've prompted here, then feel free to adjust stuff to write it. I know Theron especially has a major arc.

Arcann/Male Jedi Consular (hurt Consular)
See other section for more prompts

• Them coming across each other again between Voss and the mission where Arcann canonically joins up, and the Consular ends up injured severely enough to need help or be unconscious. Arcann has to make a call and decides to save him, but he still really doesn't trust them even though he knows they aren't literally his father (yet).
• Some other enemy forcing them to work together while Arcann is still emperor, especially if the Consular has to use his shielding technique for whatever reason and that's the "injury" he's dealing with. Especially if he has to use his shielding technique on Arcann.
• Pre-KOTFE AU where Arcann and his brother are sent out to go after the Consular proactively instead of Valkorian having them attack unrelated people and waiting for the Consular to come to him. Maybe they get forced into working together, maybe when they're trying to catch him the Consular ends up injured and they're supposed to keep him alive and whoops it accidentally got shippy.

Lana Beniko/Female Smuggler (hurt Lana)

• Anything in the spaces between Yavin and Ziost.
• Maybe the smuggler is a much more involved person than Lana was expecting and she keeps having to avoid sending Sith to deal with her without it being obvious that she's avoiding it (or her saying it's because she's obviously capable of dealing with major emergencies and they might need her in the future). Maybe Lana just goes to 'deal with it' herself to try to figure out a solution that doesn't involve stabbing.
• Before Manaan, the smuggler ending up somewhere she isn't supposed to be and trying to quicktalk her way out of it.
• Them getting into an actual fight and the smuggler injuring Lana (either accidentally or on purpose) and just flinging all caution and sense to the wind to get Lana out of there because whoops turned out she was not okay with doing that.
• Someone else injuring Lana and the Smuggler sneaking back to help her. Maybe Lana actually needs help, or maybe she's perfectly fine and has been patched up and the Smuggler popping up in her room with a stealth generator is "an entirely unnecessary risk".

Theron Shan/Male Imperial Agent (hurt Agent)
Theron Shan/Male Imperial Agent (hurt Theron)

• The agent doing his own thing between Yavin and Ziost and that own thing seems to mysteriously involve a lot of messing with Theron's missions. Maybe it's genuinely an accident, or maybe it's on purpose for some reason. And then one of them gets injured.
• Either of them being sent after the other well before Yavin, because of something the other one did.
• Theron investigating when the agent was "undercover" with the republic, especially if he catches on to the mind control and now he's got to make some very quick moral choices.

Theron Shan/Male Sith Inquisitor (hurt Inquisitor)
Theron Shan/Male Sith Inquisitor (hurt Theron)

• Most of these are for between Yavin and ZIost, but something pre-Manaan or just Theron not dealing well with trusting an enemy after getting captured on Rishi is great too.
• The Inquisitor totally not caring that they're on opposite sides again and injuring Theron and then suddenly realizing that whoops yup they do care.
• Someone else on the Imperial side injuring Theron and the Inquisitor straight up executing them because fuck you who gave you the right.
• Theron getting captured and a stealth based Inquisitor breaking in and stealing him back.
• Any of these situations leading to Theron being in the room while Marr holocalls to try to figure out wtf the other Dark Lord is up to and the Inquisitor is like "I like this one go kill or torture another one there's plenty." and Marr is just... not wanting to deal with this and the Inquisitor is too useful and capable and influential for him to want to get into a fight over a single republic agent. Or maybe it's one of the other Dark Lords that calls him up and a whole lot of Sith Posturing and Politics ensues.
• Theron having to break out to "escape" because the Inquisitor doesn't want to let him leave. Especially if the Inquisitor knows he has to and actually lets him, just wasn't willing to let him walk out. Especially especially if Theron is fully aware of this.
• The Inquisitor getting injured (by Theron) and using it as a reason to taunt him. Maybe his feelings are secretly hurt and he's getting pretty mean to cover that up.
• Theron trying to be gentle while patching the Inquisitor up and they are Not Having It because they aren't a delicate princess and don't need to be treated like one. Especially if they actually really like it but they can't say that.

Theron Shan/Male Sith Warrior (hurt Theron)
Theron Shan/Male Sith Warrior (hurt Warrior)

• Most of these are for between Yavin and ZIost, but something pre-Manaan or just Theron not dealing well with trusting an enemy after getting captured on Rishi is great too.
• Wrath going all pissed off 'that one is mine' after Theron gets injured in some conflict they're on opposite sides of in order to scare everyone on his side away from Theron.
• Theron injures the Warrior and the Warrior decides to take it as flirting because it obviously wasn't an injury meant to kill. (Especially if it actually was meant to kill or seriously injure, and Theron was agonizing about pulling the trigger)
• The Warrior just generally being really enthusiastically attracted to Theron, especially if he's loudly and embarrassingly flirtatious/lewd/complementary about Theron being strong and clever enough to potentially beat him.
• Either of them getting injured in a conflict they're on opposite sides of, and Wrath deciding this means he gets to kidnap Theron for a bit.
• A pre-Manaan conflict where the Warrior gets a bit fascinated by how ridiculously good Theron is at everything. Especially if he's already Wrath. Especially if he's blatantly flirting while either injured or patching Theron up (and letting Theron go because enemies are everywhere but rivals on this level of fun/challenge are a rare gift). Especially especially if when they meet up later on Manaan the Warrior is delighted and fully on board with working with Theron because he already knows how good he is from the other side (and has maybe sustained injuries from it and is thrilled to tell Lana all about it).
• Post-Manaan injury care, especially if paired with some part of the above prompt.
• That casual sense of Wrath being able to totally wreck Theron if he wanted to and Theron not being sure how much of the aura of unpredictability the Warrior tries to put out is actually true and how safe he may or may not be.
• The Warrior getting majorly injured and being surprisingly cool and collected through it, or even enjoying the pain.
• I don't really want any hard dubcon if you decide to go a sexual way, but I'm fine with there being that unspoken sort of threat with the Warrior being a very powerful and maybe very unpredictable person, as long as Theron does want to be in the situation.
• (I didn't choose nearly enough happy freeforms for the Warrior hurt versions of this one but that's my fault for writing the letter late. Luckily there's a couple general ones in there and some of the angstier ones still apply to Theron. Sorry about that! If you were wanting to go a more serious route with the Warrior's personality I promise I'll enjoy that too!)
• (If you include Jaesa please either LS Jaesa or have her be a DS with her original personality please. Not crazybrokenDS!Jaesa)

Prey: Morgan's Neverending Mental Crisis

Seriously if you haven't played this game go play it before you read this it will ruin everything. I realize the constant spoiler warnings must be annoying if you don't care but I have never had so many emotions about people playing a game blind before this game. (Even if you don't like horror, just mod infinite ammo on pc and play it. Trust me. I hate horror and it took me three days to get through Psychotronics because I kept going two feet and quitting the game, but by the end of this game I was so immersed and the stakes had risen so much that I was full on sprinting through the last quests. It's not the same game on the second playthrough at all and the whole thing is full of twists and clues as to what happened and what is happening and subplots and sideplots and it's just great. It's more like an atmospheric mystery/rpg in a horror setting.)

Tags
Character is Turning into an Eldritch Creature Comes Back Wrong Comforting someone stuck in a nightmare Comforting someone who's lost their memory difficult conversations emotional breakdown Erased Memory Existential Angst feeling helpless guilt over inability to stop an injustice	Harming Self To Prevent Harm To Someone Else Internalized Victim Blaming Minimizing own hurt because others have worse problems Self-Sacrifice Superpower/Magical Ability Comes With a Price Survivor Guilt Trust Issues Trying to push through and ignore hurt makes it worse Wanting To Help Hurt Character But Not Knowing How To Do It

General H/C Likes

Notes:

• Comforting someone stuck in a nightmare: I didn't mean this one literally (except for Morgan & The Typhon) so much as the situation having that nightmare feeling for Morgan, especially original Morgan trying to figure out wtf is going on and their personality having changed drastically in what feels like a day and all the side effects from the neuromods.
• This whole section is more Emotional H/C than physical, so don't feel like Morgan has to be physically injured if it doesn't fit.
• I tried to keep to gender neutral pronouns for the & sections so that you can use whichever gender Morgan you prefer, but I might have slipped into female ones so feel free to ignore those if I missed changing any back to they/them.
• If it isn't specified, anything that takes place during the game could be either real Morgan and what actually happened or some version of simulation!Morgan.

Female Morgan Yu/Mikhaila Ilyushin (hurt Morgan)

• Pre-game Morgan trying to figure out how to fit into their life on the station without any memories of it, without being able to tell anyone that their memories were completely wiped.
• Guilt over what she's doing in Psychotronics. She can't tell Mikhaila what's going on because Classified but it's nice to be doted on and get that generalized comfort and reassurance that she's doing all this for a reason (especially if Mikhaila is unknowingly comforting Morgan over what happened to Mikhaila's dad).
• The loops starting while Morgan is in a relationship with Mikhaila (with Morgan leaving notes for herself to clue herself into that), and she's trying to keep up the act the first couple of times she comes back blank, so she's stressing about something she can't explain to Mikhaila and Mikhaila is trying to comfort her anyways.
• Mikhaila cornering her for a confrontation and realizing either that Morgan legit doesn't know who she is, or that Morgan's personality is way off what it should be.
• Slight AU where Morgan confides in Mikhaila (because Mikhaila is someone Morgan knows old her trusted, wasn't involved, and that she has dirt on) after her personality has shifted enough that she's upset over what was going on in Psychotronics. And whatever Mikhaila does with that information.
• Morgan during the events of the game freaking out over Alex and the effects of the neuromods and the general everything and Mikhaila comforting her. (preferably before the side quest where you find out what happens to Mikhaila's dad).

Female Morgan Yu/Sarah Elazar (hurt Morgan)

• Slight (or major) AU where either Elazar follows up on her intentions to confront Alex about Morgan being an unwilling test subject in the loop phase, or part of her investigation is getting Morgan alone to talk with her and determine just how much her assumptions were correct (even if Morgan doesn't actually know).
• At any point, Morgan developing a crush on Elazar as her personality shifts and Elazar not wanting to act on it for ethical reasons because she knows something is Wrong with Morgan (or maybe during the events of the game saying fuck it and going for it).
• During the events of the game with the real Morgan, the two of them trading notes trying to figure out everything that was happening and Morgan struggling to deal with what seems from their perspective like a betrayal by Alex.
• During the events of the game, comforting Morgan about the feedback they're getting from the Typhon or Morgan having a breakdown while in the safe area because it's the first time they've been able to breath since (from their perspective) leaving earth.
• Morgan having issues sleeping because they keep thinking about how easy it would have been for a mimic to kill them while they were asleep in the fake apartment.
• Morgan having issues being sure of reality because this all seems so unreal from their perspective and the Typhon mods are making things even fuzzier.
• Morgan having very quickly adopted the habit of being very still and quiet to listen for mimics, and having to be calmed down because they aren't used to there being other people around making noise.

Morgan Yu & Alex Yu (both hurt)

• Pre-game Morgan trusting Alex less and less, and Alex frantically trying to get his "real" sibling back.
• Pre-game Morgan trying to confront Alex over what's going on in Pyschotronics.
• Pre-game Alex trying to figure out what Morgan is up to and not being sure if he can even predict them anymore because their personality is so different.
• Alex contacting real Morgan during the events of the game trying to talk them through things and just generally doing everything he can to keep them alive and moving.
• Alex trying to predict what Original Morgan would have done and struggling with trying to be both them and himself in mental arguments about things to figure out what the actual compromise should be, because Morgan isn't Morgan anymore.
• Morgan having a breakdown during one of the confrontations with Alex. Or Alex having the breakdown.
• Morgan managing to get up to the escape pod (with no intention of leaving) trying to find Alex and just losing it when they realize it's just his tracker.

Morgan Yu & January (hurt Morgan)

• Pre-game Morgan and January trying to piece the truth together, deal with Morgan's fractured personality, and decide what information to leave for a future even more damaged version of Morgan.
• Morgan having breakdown in response to something, especially if they're in a really bad spot for it and January is trying to talk them through it or urge them to a safer area because Morgan's in a lot of danger.
• Being really freaked out by the Nightmare or having trouble coming out of hiding after evading the Nightmare.
• Managing to defeat the Nightmare and breaking down in relief but it's still too dangerous to let their guard down and only so long until it returns so January is trying to be their eyes and get them moving again.
• Morgan trying to deal with the knowledge that they did terrible things, or that they're actually a different person now due to the personality drift, and January trying to emotionally stabilize them so that they can go back out and fix things.
• Talking over things with January as they find clues as to what happened.
• Morgan getting physically injured and January having to talk them through treatment or trying to keep them going long enough to direct them to a medical operator.
• January comforting a Simulation!Morgan who isn't adjusting well and trying to guide them towards more human reactions without breaking the test.
• A simultation!Morgan where the flashes of the truth you get from the Coral become much clearer much faster and January is trying to make it make sense within the simulation.

Morgan Yu & Typhon (hurt Morgan)

• Kind of a reverse of the other prompts. All of these are for simulation!Morgan unless otherwise specified.
• I'm not sure exactly how this would work since the impression I got was that the Typhon aren't normally sentient/sapient, but since they made the Nightmare out of fear of Morgan there's got to be some emotions and comprehension there.
• A post-game Morgan after the bad end escaping and going back to the Typhon in a weird sort of "Comes Back Wrong" situation where they have an individuality and personality they aren't supposed to. The rest of the Typhon trying to calm them down and pull them back into the collective and however that could work out.
• A mid-game Morgan in one of the 'failed' runs trying to merge back in with the rest of the Typhon while in the simulation.
• A mid-game Morgan managing to reach out to the real Typhon through the Coral, possibly dooming the real Alex.
• The Typhon reaching out to a simulation!Morgan and trying to pull them back to reality.
• Slight AU with Real!Morgan connecting more and more with the Coral every time they encounter it (maybe just during the events of the game, maybe starting before the game, or maybe continuing onto whatever happened after the game if they escaped the station) and the Typhon start drawing them into the hivemind.

Smut Likes

• I'm pretty vanilla, so when in doubt assume it's probably too kinky to me (unless it fits in with the stuff below).
• Light/soft BSDM (no insults, no punishments that are meant to hurt or humiliate, no spanking), bondage, wax play, pretending at knife play without actually breaking the skin, gentle breathplay, rough kisses, biting each other's lips, biting hard enough to leave teethmarks but not to bruise or break skin, gentle manhandling, size kink (for some pairings), gentle hair pulling, talking during sex
• (Just to clarify, insults are okay in angry-sex, just not in a Dom/Sub situation.)
• (You can get a little rougher or dubconnyish if you want as long as both characters are really into it and the person being roughed up encourages it or taunts it into happening. The big thing with me is the consent factor, so as long as it's very clear both characters consent and the kink is a version of something mentioned here that doesn't do any lasting harm, then it should be fine.)
• Angry sex, or super soft and careful sex, or soft and careful sex with a character who can't deal with that emotionally but also doesn't want to stop, or one character starting angry sex that ends up being soft and wrecking them, or really really happy sex with lots of butterfly kisses and loving whispers. Basically if there are a lot of emotions I'm gonna like it.
• Penetrative sex, Nonpenetrative sex, Intercrual, Makeouts... I'm not picky on what goes where as long as it doesn't hit a dnw.
• One or both of them still having most of their clothes on.
• Focus on skin contact. Blow jobs sort of fall under this for me but also just entirely normal contact like when someone they're pining for is gently holding their hand or arm or absentmindedly (or deliberately) stroking their skin or something and they're just so very aware of it. Or when they're leaning into someone and all the little touches that might come from that (Yes I realize how ridiculous it is to kink on handholding but touch is so great!)
• Deliberately taking aphrodisiacs (with everyone in the ship aware and consent given ahead of time) as a way to lose control a bit.
• Attempts at safe, sane and consensual... but can be poorly negotiated on all fronts or just straight up a bad idea but they're into it.
• Arguments leading to sex.
• Arguments leading to sex without actually stopping the argument.
• Attempts at dirty talk leading to emotional conversations or outbursts that necessitate stopping the sex/foreplay/flirting (even if just for a moment).
• One character gets on a tangent and tries to have a serious emotional conversation while in the middle of sex. Like, something is up someone's genitals level of middle of sex. The I-thought-we-were-sexing-not-emotioning character either trying to listen to them while very much focused on the arousal of the situation or trying to convince them that it's a for-later talk, while the emotional-convo character is both super turned on and super agitated every time they try to re-initiate sex instead of seriously talking.
• Reemphasizing that above one specifically for m/m pairings I mean really just talking about their relationship or something while one of them is balls deep.
• The same thing again except without the sex pausing and it turning into praise kink
• Alternatively again both characters just being super sincerely into the conversation without stopping sex at all.
• Character's guard goes down enough to mention things during sex that they're too embarrassed to talk about once they aren't turned on.
• Pairings that are switches arguing about who is going to top/bottom this time and accidentally convincing themselves that they want to do the opposite position and now they've got to have the whole argument again the opposite way.
• Someone going through something really rough, either emotionally or physically, and just really needing to be a pillow princess and get doted on this time.
• One character going uncharacteristically quiet or something mid-sex and the other noticing and stopping to make sure they're alright (either leading to h/c or kink negotiation or something like that.). Maybe it doesn't even have anything to do with the sex but is something entirely different catching up to them at a bad time.
• Having to keep quiet so their friends don't hear and being really bad at it.
• Stuck in a small place and end up banging
• Very very careful sex with an injured character.
• Body worship of a character who got tied up expecting something very different and now they're super emotional about it.
• Establishing a safeword then stopping when a character looks super distressed even if they haven't said the safeword.
• Distressed character wanting to keep going anyways.
• Character has been deliberately avoiding completely unrelated issues and something about the sex just triggers that breakdown and they're incredibly annoyed about it having to happen now and stopping sex they were enjoying up until they started crying and trying to get that across to a very concerned/panicked partner.
• H/C leading to makeouts or sex.
• The Comforter in a h/c situation stopping things from being sexual in that moment because they're worried the other person is too emotionally broken or physically injured at that time and then initiating a revisiting of the situation later when things seem more stable.
• Taking care of a sex pollen/spell victim without doing anything sexual, then talking it over days or weeks later leads to dirty talk about what the comforter wished they could have done which leads to sex.
• Top/Bottom Preferences: I honestly really like people switching? In these prompts there's a couple that I mostly prefer to top (Bull, the Sith Warrior), one that I very nebulously prefer to top most of the time I guess (Cullen), two that I mostly prefer to bottom (Robin and the Consular), and one that I sort of nebulously like to usually bottom but maybe they switch it up sometimes (M!Lavellan). The configuration of naughty bits is generally the least important part of smut for me so none of these are hard rules, just some soft preferences in case you wanted them.

Do Not Wants

• Humiliation. Severe social ineptness. Planned public declarations of love (outbursts are fine). Embarrassing cultural misunderstandings .
• Cheating. Suspicion of cheating that isn't immediately shot down. Open relationships or unrequested poly. Misunderstandings centered around thinking someone is in another relationship.
• Noncon, fear of Noncon or focus on past Noncon. Unrequested Dubcon. Unrequested Sex Pollen. Ageplay. Underaged. Incest. Prostitution. Mentor/Mentee. Kissing after throwing up. Spanking. Sex with a sick character (it's fine if they're injured or magically ill, just not if they've got the flu or something). Rimming. Fisting. Sounding. A/B/O. Blowjobs after anal.
• Unrequested non-canon background relationships. Fake Relationships. Crossovers. Modern AUs. Unrequested gender/sexuality headcanons. Character bashing (If you hate them please just leave them out). One half of the pairing trying to play matchmaker for the other half (unless it's one third of a threesome trying to matchmake the other two together).
• Torture. Non-canon slavery. Non-canon permanent maiming/incapacitation. Character wasting away. Graphic description of wounds.
• Non-canon permanent named character death. Canon character death resulting from a forced either/or choice.
• Custom Names for Player Characters if default ones exist (For the ones I requested their default names are Garrett Hawke, Marian Hawke, Maxwell Trevelyan, Mahanon Lavellan, Ellana Lavellan, and Herah Adaar. I'm totally fine with varied personalities and don't want them to be blank slates, it's just the names that throw me off!)