Chocolate Box 2020 Letter

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Thanks so much for writing or arting for me, and for taking a look at my letter! I'm requesting fic and art for all fandoms. DNWs, likes and prompts are all below. All prompts are just suggestions and should be taken as such - let your imagination run wild!

I have more ideas/prompts for some canons/characters than others, but I would be genuinely excited to get anything in this letter, regardless of whether I've written a long or short section on it.

Do Not Wants

General Likes

Smut Likes

Art Likes

Request 1: Daevabad Trilogy

• Alizayd al Qahtani & Nahri e-Nahid
• Aqisa/Zaynab al Qahtani
• Jamshid e-Pramukh/Muntadhir al Qahtani

Request 2: The Golem and the Djinni

• Ahmad/Chava
• Ahmad & Chava
  

Request 3: Lost

• Claire Littleton/Kate Austen
• James "Sawyer Ford/Miles Straume
  
• Jin-Soo Kwon/Michael Dawson/Sun-Hwa Kwon
• Kate Austen/Sun-Hwa Kwon
• Michael Dawson/Sun-Hwa Kwon

Request 4: His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)

• Balthamos/Baruch
• Hester & Lee Scoresby
• Lyra Belacqua & Pantalaimon
• Lyra Belacqua/Will Parry
• Mary Malone & Will Parry

Request 5: Rogue One

• Baze Malbus & Bodhi Rook & Cassian Andor & Chirrut Îmwe & Jyn Erso
• Bodhi Rook & K-2SO
• Bodhi Rook/K-2SO
• Cassian Andor & K-2SO
• Cassian Andor/K-2SO

Request 6: Crossover Fandom

• Ahsoka Tano/Jyn Erso
• K-2SO & L3-37

DNWs

• Non-con
• Mpreg
• BDSM
• Incest
• Watersports & scat
• Underage
• Teenager (under-18)/adult romance and sex
• A/B/O
• Unrequested non-canon ships
• Breaking up the requested ship (exception for Lyra/Will and choosing to move on)
• Readerfic
• Medical kink (meaning: explicitly kinking on medical treatment, doctor/patient relationship, use of medical equipment. Feelings and attraction developing during hurt/comfort, wound care, etc. are fine.)
• Character bashing (characters can be critical of others, particularly if canon-compliant, but I don't like characters being made to be villains when they aren't meant to be.)
• For the Daevabad Trilogy: Ali/Nahri or Nahri/Dara (acknowledgement of past Nahri/Dara is fine, but preferably there wouldn't be any focus on it.)

General likes

• Mutual pining
• Protectiveness, hurt/comfort
• Competence kink
• Strong sense of place
• Complicated relationships with family, home, faith.
• Friends-to-lovers
• Slow-burn
• Trauma recovery
• Tenderness and gentle touching (hair stroking, hand holding, face touches, all that stuff.)
• Banter and snark
• Complex, interesting F/F with lots of push-pull and tension.
• Women in leadership positions, working with/against other women.

Smut likes

• Character-driven smut
• Hand/finger kink
• Handjobs
• Oral
• Anal (for m/m)
• Rimming
• Erogenous zones
• Very gentle dom/sub: holding someone down, hair pulling, pinned against a wall. (Nothing formal, though: no titles, collars; nothing very painful or rough; caretaking dom dynamic preferred.)
• Praise kink
• Robot sex
• Non-humans experiencing sex in non-human ways (different experiences of pleasure, unusual erogenous zones, different understandings of sex)

Art Likes

• Bold colours and strong lighting
• Post-impressionistic styles
• Pattern-heavy styles, like mosaic or stained glass
• Cute and more cartoon-y styles
• Art deco
• Tarot/playing card imagery
• Characters hanging out and enjoying one another's company
• Intimacy between characters. Not necessarily sex, but physical closeness - hair and face touching, holding hands, hugging, kissing. Non-explicit sex also welcome!

Request One: Daevabad Trilogy

Note: I've not yet read the third book (though I will have done by reveals), so my prompts won't take this into account. Feel free to use any plot/details from The Empire of Gold, though!

Fandom likes:

• Worldbuilding
• Political intrigue and navigating personal relationships
• Sibling relationships
• Strong sense of place, culture, history
• Tension between how people see themselves and how others see them

Prompts:

• Alizayd al Qahtani & Nahri e-Nahid
  • The first book skips over their mutual distrust quite a bit, and takes us right into them being friends and bonding over books and language. A missing scene where they start to bond? Nahri teaching Ali more Arabic, or Ali teaching Nahri to read? Bonding over favourite books, or telling stories? 
  • Homesickness and making a new home.
  • Nahri gets Ali to loosen up a little.
  • Swimming lessons
  • I would prefer for there to be little-to-no focus on Nahri's relationship with Dara.

• Aqisa/Zaynab al Qahtani
  • A missing scene from the months in Daevabad, while Ali is busy with his hospital etc. - how do they meet, bond, grow closer?
  • Their lives are very different, but what do they have in common? 
  • Aqisa assumes Zaynab is nothing but a pampered princess. Zaynab corrects this misapprehension.
  • An adventure in Daevabad, on one of the occasions when Zaynab sneaks out.
  • A missing scene during the time they are hunkering down/working together after Manizheh takes the city.

• Jamshid e-Pramukh/Muntadhir al Qahtani
  • First times
  • Shared adventures
  • Muntadhir tells Jamshid he loves him properly
  • Jamshid is hot and talented. Muntadhir appreciates this very much

Request 2: The Golem and the Djinni (Helene Wecker)

Fandom likes:

• Lonely people making something new together
• Self-discovery and self-actualisation
• Building a home and a community
• Exploring a new world
• Sense of place - NYC is almost a character in its own right

Prompts:

• Ahmad & Chava and Ahmad/Chava (I would be happy for these to be done platonically or romantically, except for the obviously shippy prompt!)
  • Reunion - Ahmad returns to New York after his travels, and he and Chava meet again
  • Chava tries to teach Ahmad to bake, and/or he tries to teach her metalwork
  • Learning something new together (visiting somewhere new, eating something new, experiencing something new)
  • Dancing! They both loved the dance hall, even though it ended so sadly. A better dance hall experience for them.
  • Celebrating something
  • Romantic first times: hand-holding? Kissing? Sex? Chava came so close to enjoying sex that one time, and Ahmad would not have Michael's guilty sense of shame. Let them both enjoy it!

Request 3: Lost

Fandom likes:

• I am very much a Lost apologist (I love the final season, the conceit, the ending, and I don't think anything necessary went unanswered). I have a problem with some things (most prominently for these requests is the end of Michael's arc, and Sun/Jin's deaths), but I am mostly completely on-board with the direction of the show.
• Canon-typical weirdness, including time travel
• Characters being competent and smart
• Mission fic
• Ensemble cast - feel free to include other Losties!
• A real sense of place for the island, as though it's an entity in its own right
• Characters having to learn and grow and change through their experiences on the Island, and grapple with their pasts
• Meditations on faith and loss and trauma through weird island mystery stuff
• Weird history of the island, especially the Dharma Initiative
• Hot jungle sex. For all of them.

Prompts:

• Claire Littleton/Kate Austen
  • One of my favourite things about Kate is how supportive she was of other women on the Island, especially Claire. I'd love to see little moments between them while living on the beach, either before or after Aaron is born. Give them a nice day!
  • One of my low-key favourite episodes is 'Maternity Leave', where Kate and Claire go on an adventure with Rousseau. More of that! Let Claire be involved in a weird island adventure, and Kate can show off her many island skills.
  • Post-season six: Claire and Kate rebuilding their lives, co-parenting Aaron. Claire recovering from the trauma of the island with Kate's help and support. 

• James Ford/Miles Straume
  • Dharma buddies! Some kind of island adventure while they're stuck with Dharma? Maybe just hanging out in the barracks, getting to know one another a little more? (Either James isn't with Juliet yet, or they're just good friends instead, or they have an open relationship - just don't have them get together and then split up please!)
  • Buddy cops in the sideways universe. Preferably with a focus on their character dynamic rather than real focus on the policework. Maybe they're on a stakeout and have to rub along together. Maybe there's an Only One Bed scenario. Maybe a strip poker game gets out of hand.
  • Something involving Miles's weird ghost whispering skill.

• Jin-Soo Kwon/Michael Dawson/Sun-Hwa Kwon
  • This is such an underrated ship! Michael had such an interesting relationship with both Jin and Sun, and I'd love to see how they could make this work.
  • Michael helps Sun teach Jin English. Sun and Jin help Michael to learn more Korean (more than "faster" and "idiot"!)
  • Sun and Jin help Michael look for Walt
  • Michael and Jin help Sun in her garden
  • AU where Michael survives season 4 - he meets Sun and Jin on the freighter, and they all escape on the helicopter. Back in the real world, they try to figure things out. 
  • Sideways AU. Michael is in the Sideways World as well (Walt has helped him move on?). How does he meet Sun and Jin here, especially when there's even more of a language barrier?

• Kate Austen/Sun-Hwa Kwon
  • Kate and Sun had a great developing best friendship that just didn't get explored enough. More of that, please! Spending time together, working in the garden, exploring the island.
  • Something from their Oceanic Six years, supporting one another but also becoming aware that they might have different priorities now.
  • Kate is tough and capable, and on the run from the law. Sun is smart, ruthless, and can be pretty manipulative. I would love to see them team up, but also to have a more push-pull type of relationship.

• Michael Dawson/Sun-Hwa Kwon
  • No Jin-bashing, please! Discussion/mentions of his past behaviour are fine, just don't make him the villain please.
  • Sun helps Michael to learn more Korean (more than "faster" and "idiot"!)
  • Sun helping Michael to build a better bond with Walt
  • AU where Michael survives season 4 - after the freighter explosion, he and Sun slowly grow closer.
  • When Sun and Jin aren't speaking after the 'Sun speaks English' reveal, she thinks their marriage is over. Michael tries to be helpful. Sun would mostly just like some no-strings-attached hot jungle sex.

Request 4: His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)

Fandom likes:

• Alternate worlds
• Love-as-redemption
• Canon-typical-weirdness
• Focus on personal growth and learning and kindness
• Family of choice
• Building a new and better world

Prompts:

• Baruch/Balthamos
  • I love the hints we're given about their history together and would love to see something from this. Baruch as a human falling in love with an angel? Why did Balthamos fall in love with Baruch?
  • Baruch adapting to life as an angel, and grappling with that choice.
  • Baruch and Balthamos in active rebellion, perhaps the moment they're cast out from the Clouded Mountain.
  • AU where they survive the war and can find peace together - what does that look like for them?

• Lee Scoresby & Hester
  • I really enjoy the show, but would prefer a more book-based Lee portrayal if it's set during the canon. I am also up for some young!Lee, as in Once Upon a Time in the North.
  • Scenes from their childhood - what was it like when Hester settled?
  • Dealing with a balloon mishap
  • Lost in a snowstorm and huddling for warmth

• Lyra Belacqua/Pantalaimon
  • You can use relationship details from The Secret Commonwealth if you prefer, or ignore it entirely - I don't mind either way!
  • Young Lyra and Pan causing chaos in Jordan/around Oxford
  • Exploring an old haunt after they return to Oxford
  • Different animals Pan wanted to/thought he would settle as

• Lyra Belacqua/Will Parry
  • One of the midsummer days in the Botanical Garden
  • They somehow manage to be reunited! Is it easy to be together again? Awkward? Have they changed too much? Can they make something work? Is it permanent, or a fleeting moment of connection?
  • Shared moments in separate worlds

• Mary Malone & Will Parry
  • Different times they shared a cup of tea
  • Mary supporting Will through his life (with his mum? Getting into uni? Relationship troubles?)
  • Travelling together
  • Learning how to live with their daemons

Request 5: Rogue One

Fandom likes: 

• Themes of hope 
• Normal people doing extraordinary things 
• Building strong relationships between the core six 
• Loss and redemption
• Everybody lives AUs (especially if they're all a bit broken afterwards)
• Chirrut/Baze as an old married couple
• Mission fic
• Ensemble casts (I love all six mains a lot)
• AUs totally welcome, provided K-2 is still some kind of AI
• Mutual protectiveness
• For K-2 ships: size difference, robot sex

Prompts:

• Baze Malbus & Bodhi Rook & Cassian Andor & Chirrut Îmwe & Jyn Erso
  • I would love it if K-2SO was also included, so it can be the whole set!
  • Ways they help one another recover post-Scarif
  • A missing movie moment: between Eadu and Yavin? Between Yavin and Scarif? 
  • Post-war, everybody lives AU: whatever they're all doing, they all find one another again
  • Celebrating a holiday that's important to one/some of them (an old Jedhan tradition? Something from Fest? A festival Jyn remembers from her childhood?)
  • Getting drunk together for some reason

• Bodhi Rook & K-2SO and Bodhi Rook/K-2SO (happy for these prompts to be platonic or romantic, except for the obviously shippy ones!)
  • I love the idea that Bodhi and K-2 have a lot of shared experiences regarding their time with the Empire. Both were cogs in the great machine who managed to get away and fight against them. Bor Gullet messed with Bodhi's mind, and K-2 would have experienced reprogramming and memory wipes at the hands of the Empire.
  • K-2 helping Bodhi adjust to life in the rebellion in a world where they both survive. 
  • After the war: what is Bodhi going to do in the New Republic? What is K-2's status? They help one another in this new world.
  • I love the idea that Bodhi's very tech-minded. He and K-2 discover some mutual interests.
  • What does intimacy look like, to a droid? Has Bodhi had much of it, and have his experiences changed what he wants/needs?
  • Cassian reacting to a romantic relationship between them - I want to know what he thinks!
  • I always love robot sex, and first times, and caretaking.

• Cassian Andor & K-2SO and Cassian Andor/K-2SO (happy for these prompts to be platonic or romantic, except for the obviously shippy ones!)
  •  I like anything that deals with their shared history: what were their early days together like, with K-2 adapting to the rebellion and learning to navigate his own independence? 
  • Their first mission together - how did that go?
  • The first time K-2 saved Cassian of his own volition (and maybe vice-versa)
  • If they survive Scarif and the rest of the war, what do they do in the New Republic? Is there a place for them? 
  • A mission goes wrong
  • Stranded on a remote planet
  • I always love robot sex, and first times, and caretaking.

Request 6: Crossover Fandom

Fandom likes:

• Missing scenes - there's so much potential for these to have met either pre- or post-canon (Jyn, L3-37 and K-2 can all live in AUs!)
• Drawing similarities between characters who may not immediately seem similar
• People's actions earlier in life / in another part of the Galaxy having a ripple effect and impacting others.
• Droid independence and personhood. Droid rights!

Prompts:

• Ahsoka Tano/Jyn Erso
  • I'm interested in both the differences and similarities between these two: Ahsoka is so principled and committed, whereas Jyn for a long time was disillusioned and traumatised and focused on survival. And yet they both know what it is to be abandoned by the people you trust the most, and what it means to grow up as a child soldier. I'd love for them to clash and bond over their experiences.
  • Ahsoka seems like a fundamentally kind and decent person - she's always helping people, even if it may not be the safest thing to do. How might things have been different if Ahsoka had had a chance to help Jyn?
  • Jyn lives!AU - if they're both involved with the Alliance, Jyn and Ahsoka can end up on a joint mission!
  • Ahsoka is a Force user, and Jyn clearly has some reverence for the Force because of her mother. Jyn may not be a Force user, but I'd love for Ahsoka to teach Jyn more about the Force and for Jyn to be able to share something of her mother with Ahsoka.

• K-2SO & L3-37
  • I just want these two to hang out, either as a pair or with Lando and Cassian along for the ride as well. What do they make of one another? Do they get on?
  • L3 helps K-2 get a blaster, even though he's not allowed one.
  • Commiserating over looking after organics. 
  • Being reprogrammed/changing your whole self is more complicated than organics seem to  think.
  • K-2 and Cassian are on a mission, and end up running in Lando and L3 (or needing something from them). They have to join forces.
  • For anything set post-Solo, I'd rather an AU where L3 is still embodied, rather than loaded into the Falcon.