Chocolate Box 2019 Letter
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exchangebenchDear author,
Thanks for writing for me! Chocobox was a great time for me last year, and I'm so excited to be here for it again. I hope you get the gift of your dreams in return!
As usual, all my prompts and rambling below are just suggestions. If you have an idea for any of these characters, please do feel free to go for it. Outside of my DNWs, I'm open to anything from lighthearted fluff to plotty casefic and worldbuilding to hardcore darkfic and smut. You can also take any of my general likes as prompts in themselves.
My AO3 username is Piinutbutter.
- Likes -
- DNWs -
- How Heavy are the Dumbbells You Lift? -
- Alicia's Diet Quest -
- Yokai Rental Shop -
- A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School -
Narrative likes:
* Adventure / casefic
* Canon divergence / "what if?" AUs
* Backstory
* Post-canon
* Outsider POV
* Slice of life
* Hurt and/or comfort
* Reluctant allies / enemies having to work together
* Characters with complicated relationships, platonic or otherwise
* Interactive fiction formats (IF, CYOA, games, visual novels, etc). If you feel your story would work better in an interactive format, go for it!
Fluffy likes:
* Hair touching/brushing
* Affectionate insults / play-fighting
* Pretending to be dating/married
* Friends-to-lovers, or enemies-to-friends-to-lovers
* Physical affection, platonic or otherwise
* Emotional intimacy, platonic or otherwise
* Unusual gestures of affection
* Working together on a task/mission
* Loyalty kink
Darkfic likes:
* Dysfunctional relationships
* Kidnapping / stockholm syndrome
* Mind control
* Blood / gore / violence
* Angst / guilt / shame
* Manipulation / blackmail / gaslighting
* Eating disorders
* Body horror + psychological horror
* Loyalty kink (GONE WRONG)
Smutty likes:
* Dubcon, noncon, and enthusiastic consent are all welcome
* Xeno
* Bondage, D/s, S&M, etc.
* Impact play
* Praise kink
* Clothing kink
* Humiliation
* Weapon play (knife, sword, gun, whip, etc.)
* Blood play / blood drinking
* Rough sex
* Sex pollen
* Face-sitting
* Loyalty kink (GONE SEXUAL)
* Pregnancy
* Asexuality headcanons
* Unrequested crossovers
* References to real-world politics
* Genderswaps, including trans headcanons
* Second person POV smut (Second person POV in anything that isn't smut is fine)
* Biphobia (particularly calling bisexual characters "het," bashing bi characters for being in mixed-gender relationships, or writing canonically bi characters as gay or straight)
What is it?
A delightful manga & anime about high school girls getting buff as hell as they learn to navigate the wacky world of strength training. Only the first volume of the manga has officially been released in English (and, full disclosure, I haven't read the scanlations for the rest of the series), but the 12-episode anime is free to watch on Funimation's website.
Prompts
- Akemi Soryuin/Hibiki Sakura -
I knew I was going to love these two the moment Akemi slammed Hibiki against the wall and announced her intention to get swole with her. Couples goals, right there.
* I'm here for them doing any sort of fitness thing together! Akemi teaching Hibiki new muscle building/weight loss tips, them recreating one of those extra "Gym Couple" workouts, meal prepping together, Hibiki trying to teach Akemi the ways of her stronk arms...anything is good!
* One of the girls goes too hard at the gym or doesn't use proper form, and gets injured. The other tends to them. (If it's Akemi doing the tending, there's probably a lecture about athlete recovery techniques in there somewhere...)
* On a lewd note: Hibiki's hard work has been paying off, and she's built some visible muscle. Akemi has a hard time controlling her thirst for it.
* On a second lewd note: Hibiki's slacking on her training. Akemi convinces her to keep going by promising 'favors' for every set she completes.
- Gina Boyd/Satomi Tachibana -
Sooo, Gina loves cosplay, cute Japanese girls, and buff girls. Satomi is...2 and 1/10 of the way there!
* I loved Gina fawning over Satomi's cosplayer persona. And since she's fully willing to use it to blackmail Satomi into joining her hobbies, is it too much of a stretch for Gina to "persuade" her teacher to go on a few dates with her?
* Think of the couple cosplay potential! Gina as the strong hero/menacing villain and Satomi as her fair/captive maiden character? :D
* On a lewd note: Gina convinces Satomi to wear increasingly racy cosplays/gym outfits for her.
- Gina & Hibiki & Akemi & Ayaka & Satomi -
THE GANG.
* The whole structure of the girls' adventures, with them learning new exercises and overcoming injuries/diet mishaps/gym missteps, was perfect to me, and I'd be delighted to read something that continues on from that. They pick up a new workout, someone gains weight over the holidays, Akemi's eagerness gets them in over their heads...anything in the style of canon is great!
* MUSCLE GALS. We need to talk about the Muscle Gals. This show already hit one of my favorite subjects with the fitness, and then they had to go for a critical hit by combining it with one of my other favorite things: J-idols. I 100% want to read an AU where they got approved as an idol group. What hardships do they have to go through, promoting their brand of buff kawaii? What's their first perfomance like? Does their fandom get into forum wars about which girl has the best deadlift form? Just give me weightlifting idol content and I will be so happy.
* Because I'm incapable of not thinking about angsty things: One or more of the girls takes their passion for fitness too far and develops an exercise addiction/eating disorder. The others try to help in their own unique (and perhaps not so helpful) ways. Feel free to use this for either of my ship requests, too!
What is it?
An adorable 3-volume comedy manga about the adventures of a stereotypical fantasy RPG party. Except that it's hard for a party of adventurers to focus on defeating the big bad when their white mage is crazy about fad diets and their knight is too skinny to lift her legendary sword. It's available digitally on several platforms. (And at the, uh, usual manga-reading places.)
Prompts
- Alicia/Sarah -
I love this pair's relationship. They never give up on helping each other with their weight struggles, and their bond is just so cute.
* Honestly, I'm down for any sort of canon-typical adventures and hijinks! What further weight-related misfortune do the girls run into on their mission to spread the good word of calorie counting? Any missing scenes from in between chapters?
* Hurt/comfort opportunities! Both of them are prone to feeling down about their inability to lose/gain weight, and party members have gotta be there for each other!
* An enemy/rude NPC mocks Sarah for her scrawny frame and lack of strength. Bet they weren't counting on her having an overpowered priestess girlfriend who doesn't take kindly to the taunting.
* One of the girls finally hits her goal weight! Now comes a whole new set of challenges for her and her companion to face: Maintaining.
* For a less fluffy prompt: Alicia's already obsessive about losing weight. If you'd like to take that in an eating disorder direction, with Sarah trying to figure out how to support her? I'm here for it.
What is it?
A 4-volume fantasy/horror manga about three half-youkai men and their screwed up relationships with their promiscuous demon lord father. It's available digitally and paperback on several platforms.
Prompts
- Enju/Nurarihyon -
Was I the only one who got some serious incesty vibes from these two? No? Just me?
* Their whole dynamic is a dysfunctional grooming-tastic melting pot of disaster, even if looked at platonically. I'd love something exploring the fucked-up ideas Enju has about family and love thanks to Nurarihyon and the way he treated his "wives" and other children, combined with Enju's complex about proving his worth and being "beautiful" for his father.
* Enju literally wilts at the first sign he's displeased his father in some way. It's all too easy for Nurarihyon take advantage of his mental instability to mold him into the perfect son.
* Post-canon: The brothers have been learning more about each other, and from the way Enju talks about Nurarihyon, Hiiragi starts to suspect that their relationship was less than platonic. Even more worrying to him is the fact that Enju seems to see nothing wrong with that.
* Also post-canon: Enju sneaks into the spirit district to spend quality time with his father.
* Canon divergence where all of Karasu's plans fall through before Enju and Hiiragi have a chance to go against their father. But now that Nurarihyon has Hiiragi, he has no need of Enju. How does Enju cope (or, let's be real, not cope) with losing his father's affection?
What is it?
An ongoing comedy manga about a hapless and cowardly human teacher who ends up teaching at a high school full of youkai. It has a huge ensemble cast filled with lovable, diverse, and adorable characters, and is as heartwarming as it is funny. (And, uh, as of vol 8, as fucked up as it is funny. Fair warning.) It's available digitally and in paperback on several platforms.
Prompts
- Haruaki Abe/Mikoto Sano -
I just want to "now kiss!" these two. Their relationship is weird and beautiful and they would be the worst boyfriends but in the best way.
(I'd prefer no "omg I'm a teacher dating my student!" angst, simply because with the way their power dynamic is in canon, I can't see it playing out that way.)
* So when does Sano first realize he's gone from hating Haru to tolerating him to admiring him to having a massive crush on him? And how much does Haru have to suffer because Sano's so goddamn mad about that realization?
* Courtship is hard when you're a yakubyougami and your gestures of affection come out as violence and misfortune.
* They have to sneak into a youkai event, so it's time for: Undercover as a couple!
* Dear god, can you imagine Haruaki's family finding out he's dating a youkai? His parents would probably attempt to throw a wedding ceremony on the spot, and for Ameaki...there will be blood.
* Cough cough. Cursed Secondhand Book sex pollen. Need I say more?
- Ameaki Abe/Haruaki Abe -
I love how literally everyone acknowledges Ame's brother complex. I love the ridiculous extents Ame is willing to go to in order to take care of his little bro. I love that Haru is learning to stand up to his brother's more smothering tendencies while still loving and being close to him.
* During one of the academy's mainland field trips, Ame sees Sano doing his sadist thing to Haru, or a drunken Miki menacing him. Cue protective-big-brother-pocalypse.
* Teenage hormones are hard on anyone. I can only imagine they'd be more intense on a pair of brothers who are stuck to each other like glue, only have each other for friends, and one of whom has intense magical abilities that grow erratic with emotions.
* Ame finds himself being targeted by some youkai who is significantly less benevolent than Haru's students (*cough* Dr. Takahashi *cough*). Cue Haru having to overcome his anxiety and be the protective brother for once.
* During his Cursed Secondhand Book adventures, Haru summons Ame to help them. Unfortunately, once the book gets to the erotic section, it decides to target the brothers instead of Sano and Karasuma.
- Rintarou Miki/The Shutendouji -
(THIS WHOLE SECTION IS VOLUME 8 SPOILERS)
Hooooo boy was volume 8 a ride. And between this ship and Enju/Nurarihyon from Yokai Rental Shop, it's clear that "half-youkai man and his terrifying all-powerful abusive youkai parent" is one of my Types(TM). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But, like, seriously - they did all but outright state that Miki's mother was using him as a sex slave, yes? I'm not imagining that? Miki tries to be vague about it, but when he admits that his mother rapes men to steal their energy, and he admits he's been "feeding" her for years, and in the flashback of said feeding he's mostly naked and panting under her...they really went there, and it puts Miki's fear of older women in so much more context.
* We've already seen a youkai take advantage of Miki's fear of women. Maybe another mind-reading youkai goes a step further and impersonates his mother.
* Circa volume 6, Miki's mother learns that he's been getting close to Haruaki. Hatanaka's already stolen her daughter away from her; she won't let a human man take her favorite toy.
* I'm really curious about Miki's expressions of femininity/masculinity, and how that plays into the way his mother groomed him. We know that he used to "think he was a girl" when he was a child - did his mother crush that perception when she singled him out from his sisters as a source of food/satisfaction for her? Or did he hope that by making himself less of a man (so to speak), he'd be less appealing to her? Does that make it harder or easier to identify himself with his gender in his adult life? (I know I have a general DNW for trans headcanons, but Miki's situation is so unique that I can totally see reading him as a trans woman, and I'd be down with that interpretation if you're so inclined.)
Thanks for writing for me! Chocobox was a great time for me last year, and I'm so excited to be here for it again. I hope you get the gift of your dreams in return!
As usual, all my prompts and rambling below are just suggestions. If you have an idea for any of these characters, please do feel free to go for it. Outside of my DNWs, I'm open to anything from lighthearted fluff to plotty casefic and worldbuilding to hardcore darkfic and smut. You can also take any of my general likes as prompts in themselves.
My AO3 username is Piinutbutter.
Table of Contents
- Likes -
- DNWs -
- How Heavy are the Dumbbells You Lift? -
- Alicia's Diet Quest -
- Yokai Rental Shop -
- A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School -
Likes
Narrative likes:
* Adventure / casefic
* Canon divergence / "what if?" AUs
* Backstory
* Post-canon
* Outsider POV
* Slice of life
* Hurt and/or comfort
* Reluctant allies / enemies having to work together
* Characters with complicated relationships, platonic or otherwise
* Interactive fiction formats (IF, CYOA, games, visual novels, etc). If you feel your story would work better in an interactive format, go for it!
Fluffy likes:
* Hair touching/brushing
* Affectionate insults / play-fighting
* Pretending to be dating/married
* Friends-to-lovers, or enemies-to-friends-to-lovers
* Physical affection, platonic or otherwise
* Emotional intimacy, platonic or otherwise
* Unusual gestures of affection
* Working together on a task/mission
* Loyalty kink
Darkfic likes:
* Dysfunctional relationships
* Kidnapping / stockholm syndrome
* Mind control
* Blood / gore / violence
* Angst / guilt / shame
* Manipulation / blackmail / gaslighting
* Eating disorders
* Body horror + psychological horror
* Loyalty kink (GONE WRONG)
Smutty likes:
* Dubcon, noncon, and enthusiastic consent are all welcome
* Xeno
* Bondage, D/s, S&M, etc.
* Impact play
* Praise kink
* Clothing kink
* Humiliation
* Weapon play (knife, sword, gun, whip, etc.)
* Blood play / blood drinking
* Rough sex
* Sex pollen
* Face-sitting
* Loyalty kink (GONE SEXUAL)
Do Not Wants
* Pregnancy
* Asexuality headcanons
* Unrequested crossovers
* References to real-world politics
* Genderswaps, including trans headcanons
* Second person POV smut (Second person POV in anything that isn't smut is fine)
* Biphobia (particularly calling bisexual characters "het," bashing bi characters for being in mixed-gender relationships, or writing canonically bi characters as gay or straight)
* Prompts *
How Heavy are the Dumbbells You Lift?
What is it?
A delightful manga & anime about high school girls getting buff as hell as they learn to navigate the wacky world of strength training. Only the first volume of the manga has officially been released in English (and, full disclosure, I haven't read the scanlations for the rest of the series), but the 12-episode anime is free to watch on Funimation's website.
Prompts
- Akemi Soryuin/Hibiki Sakura -
I knew I was going to love these two the moment Akemi slammed Hibiki against the wall and announced her intention to get swole with her. Couples goals, right there.
* I'm here for them doing any sort of fitness thing together! Akemi teaching Hibiki new muscle building/weight loss tips, them recreating one of those extra "Gym Couple" workouts, meal prepping together, Hibiki trying to teach Akemi the ways of her stronk arms...anything is good!
* One of the girls goes too hard at the gym or doesn't use proper form, and gets injured. The other tends to them. (If it's Akemi doing the tending, there's probably a lecture about athlete recovery techniques in there somewhere...)
* On a lewd note: Hibiki's hard work has been paying off, and she's built some visible muscle. Akemi has a hard time controlling her thirst for it.
* On a second lewd note: Hibiki's slacking on her training. Akemi convinces her to keep going by promising 'favors' for every set she completes.
- Gina Boyd/Satomi Tachibana -
Sooo, Gina loves cosplay, cute Japanese girls, and buff girls. Satomi is...2 and 1/10 of the way there!
* I loved Gina fawning over Satomi's cosplayer persona. And since she's fully willing to use it to blackmail Satomi into joining her hobbies, is it too much of a stretch for Gina to "persuade" her teacher to go on a few dates with her?
* Think of the couple cosplay potential! Gina as the strong hero/menacing villain and Satomi as her fair/captive maiden character? :D
* On a lewd note: Gina convinces Satomi to wear increasingly racy cosplays/gym outfits for her.
- Gina & Hibiki & Akemi & Ayaka & Satomi -
THE GANG.
* The whole structure of the girls' adventures, with them learning new exercises and overcoming injuries/diet mishaps/gym missteps, was perfect to me, and I'd be delighted to read something that continues on from that. They pick up a new workout, someone gains weight over the holidays, Akemi's eagerness gets them in over their heads...anything in the style of canon is great!
* MUSCLE GALS. We need to talk about the Muscle Gals. This show already hit one of my favorite subjects with the fitness, and then they had to go for a critical hit by combining it with one of my other favorite things: J-idols. I 100% want to read an AU where they got approved as an idol group. What hardships do they have to go through, promoting their brand of buff kawaii? What's their first perfomance like? Does their fandom get into forum wars about which girl has the best deadlift form? Just give me weightlifting idol content and I will be so happy.
* Because I'm incapable of not thinking about angsty things: One or more of the girls takes their passion for fitness too far and develops an exercise addiction/eating disorder. The others try to help in their own unique (and perhaps not so helpful) ways. Feel free to use this for either of my ship requests, too!
Alicia's Diet Quest
What is it?
An adorable 3-volume comedy manga about the adventures of a stereotypical fantasy RPG party. Except that it's hard for a party of adventurers to focus on defeating the big bad when their white mage is crazy about fad diets and their knight is too skinny to lift her legendary sword. It's available digitally on several platforms. (And at the, uh, usual manga-reading places.)
Prompts
- Alicia/Sarah -
I love this pair's relationship. They never give up on helping each other with their weight struggles, and their bond is just so cute.
* Honestly, I'm down for any sort of canon-typical adventures and hijinks! What further weight-related misfortune do the girls run into on their mission to spread the good word of calorie counting? Any missing scenes from in between chapters?
* Hurt/comfort opportunities! Both of them are prone to feeling down about their inability to lose/gain weight, and party members have gotta be there for each other!
* An enemy/rude NPC mocks Sarah for her scrawny frame and lack of strength. Bet they weren't counting on her having an overpowered priestess girlfriend who doesn't take kindly to the taunting.
* One of the girls finally hits her goal weight! Now comes a whole new set of challenges for her and her companion to face: Maintaining.
* For a less fluffy prompt: Alicia's already obsessive about losing weight. If you'd like to take that in an eating disorder direction, with Sarah trying to figure out how to support her? I'm here for it.
Yokai Rental Shop
What is it?
A 4-volume fantasy/horror manga about three half-youkai men and their screwed up relationships with their promiscuous demon lord father. It's available digitally and paperback on several platforms.
Prompts
- Enju/Nurarihyon -
Was I the only one who got some serious incesty vibes from these two? No? Just me?
* Their whole dynamic is a dysfunctional grooming-tastic melting pot of disaster, even if looked at platonically. I'd love something exploring the fucked-up ideas Enju has about family and love thanks to Nurarihyon and the way he treated his "wives" and other children, combined with Enju's complex about proving his worth and being "beautiful" for his father.
* Enju literally wilts at the first sign he's displeased his father in some way. It's all too easy for Nurarihyon take advantage of his mental instability to mold him into the perfect son.
* Post-canon: The brothers have been learning more about each other, and from the way Enju talks about Nurarihyon, Hiiragi starts to suspect that their relationship was less than platonic. Even more worrying to him is the fact that Enju seems to see nothing wrong with that.
* Also post-canon: Enju sneaks into the spirit district to spend quality time with his father.
* Canon divergence where all of Karasu's plans fall through before Enju and Hiiragi have a chance to go against their father. But now that Nurarihyon has Hiiragi, he has no need of Enju. How does Enju cope (or, let's be real, not cope) with losing his father's affection?
A Terrified Teacher at Ghoul School
What is it?
An ongoing comedy manga about a hapless and cowardly human teacher who ends up teaching at a high school full of youkai. It has a huge ensemble cast filled with lovable, diverse, and adorable characters, and is as heartwarming as it is funny. (And, uh, as of vol 8, as fucked up as it is funny. Fair warning.) It's available digitally and in paperback on several platforms.
Prompts
- Haruaki Abe/Mikoto Sano -
I just want to "now kiss!" these two. Their relationship is weird and beautiful and they would be the worst boyfriends but in the best way.
(I'd prefer no "omg I'm a teacher dating my student!" angst, simply because with the way their power dynamic is in canon, I can't see it playing out that way.)
* So when does Sano first realize he's gone from hating Haru to tolerating him to admiring him to having a massive crush on him? And how much does Haru have to suffer because Sano's so goddamn mad about that realization?
* Courtship is hard when you're a yakubyougami and your gestures of affection come out as violence and misfortune.
* They have to sneak into a youkai event, so it's time for: Undercover as a couple!
* Dear god, can you imagine Haruaki's family finding out he's dating a youkai? His parents would probably attempt to throw a wedding ceremony on the spot, and for Ameaki...there will be blood.
* Cough cough. Cursed Secondhand Book sex pollen. Need I say more?
- Ameaki Abe/Haruaki Abe -
I love how literally everyone acknowledges Ame's brother complex. I love the ridiculous extents Ame is willing to go to in order to take care of his little bro. I love that Haru is learning to stand up to his brother's more smothering tendencies while still loving and being close to him.
* During one of the academy's mainland field trips, Ame sees Sano doing his sadist thing to Haru, or a drunken Miki menacing him. Cue protective-big-brother-pocalypse.
* Teenage hormones are hard on anyone. I can only imagine they'd be more intense on a pair of brothers who are stuck to each other like glue, only have each other for friends, and one of whom has intense magical abilities that grow erratic with emotions.
* Ame finds himself being targeted by some youkai who is significantly less benevolent than Haru's students (*cough* Dr. Takahashi *cough*). Cue Haru having to overcome his anxiety and be the protective brother for once.
* During his Cursed Secondhand Book adventures, Haru summons Ame to help them. Unfortunately, once the book gets to the erotic section, it decides to target the brothers instead of Sano and Karasuma.
- Rintarou Miki/The Shutendouji -
(THIS WHOLE SECTION IS VOLUME 8 SPOILERS)
Hooooo boy was volume 8 a ride. And between this ship and Enju/Nurarihyon from Yokai Rental Shop, it's clear that "half-youkai man and his terrifying all-powerful abusive youkai parent" is one of my Types(TM). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But, like, seriously - they did all but outright state that Miki's mother was using him as a sex slave, yes? I'm not imagining that? Miki tries to be vague about it, but when he admits that his mother rapes men to steal their energy, and he admits he's been "feeding" her for years, and in the flashback of said feeding he's mostly naked and panting under her...they really went there, and it puts Miki's fear of older women in so much more context.
* We've already seen a youkai take advantage of Miki's fear of women. Maybe another mind-reading youkai goes a step further and impersonates his mother.
* Circa volume 6, Miki's mother learns that he's been getting close to Haruaki. Hatanaka's already stolen her daughter away from her; she won't let a human man take her favorite toy.
* I'm really curious about Miki's expressions of femininity/masculinity, and how that plays into the way his mother groomed him. We know that he used to "think he was a girl" when he was a child - did his mother crush that perception when she singled him out from his sisters as a source of food/satisfaction for her? Or did he hope that by making himself less of a man (so to speak), he'd be less appealing to her? Does that make it harder or easier to identify himself with his gender in his adult life? (I know I have a general DNW for trans headcanons, but Miki's situation is so unique that I can totally see reading him as a trans woman, and I'd be down with that interpretation if you're so inclined.)
