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Dear author,

Thank you for writing for me! This exchange was a blast for me last year, and I'm so glad to be doing 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/ships, 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 -

- Hylics -
- Subject 13 -
- Haze -
- Far Cry 4 -

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
* 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
* Hurtcomfortverse AUs (normal hurt/comfort is A-okay and welcomed!)
* Biphobia (particularly calling bisexual characters "het"/"straight," or bashing bi characters for being in mixed-gender relationships)

* Prompts *


Hylics


What is it?

Hylics is a delightful little indie RPG about four buddies who form a rock band and take a trip to the moon. Which sounds like the most mundane premise ever, but it's set in a surreal far-future Earth, everything is made out of wacky claymation, and parts of the dialogue are written on the spot using random text generation (the core plot remains the same through every playthrough, though). It's wonderful, and the main party is wonderfully shippable.

It takes about 2-3 hours to get through. It's available on Steam, or you can watch a movie version here.

Prompts

- Wayne/Somsnosa/Pongorma/Dedusmuln -

I absolutely adore this ragtag band and want all the fluff about them. I’m fond of the idea of Wayne and Somsnosa having an established relationship and bringing their two new friends into the fold during/after their adventure.

Do they take their new band on tour? Do they all help Dedusmuln with exciting new archaeological expeditions? Do they take a cruise on their ship and have a peaceful vacation because killing the king of the moon is hard work and they deserve it? There's only one bed and bathtub in the resting areas, so there’s gotta be awkward bed-sharing/group-bathing shenanigans. And hey, chilling out in the Cozy Death Realm building sandcastles is canon, so you have a built-in beach episode prompt!

Hurt/comfort is also a possibility. Even in a world where death is no big deal, emotional hurt is still a thing, and Gibby did feel the need to apologize to Wayne for "everything." So maybe Wayne has some complicated feelings about killing Gibby and whatever history they had there? And the rest of the party makes sure he knows they're there for him.

And, well, if you're inclined to write clay-people xeno foursomes I'm not inclined to stop you!

(Note 1: As far as I'm aware, unless I missed something, Dedusmuln's gender is never specified. If it isn't, I would be equally happy with them being a he, a she, or a they. If it is, ignore me and go with whatever's canon.)

(Note 2: You do not have to try and emulate the writing style of canon, holy shit. That would probably be impossible. Although shippy fanfic produced partially via random text generation would probably be entertaining in its own way…)

Subject 13


What is it?

Are you looking for a point and click game with fun puzzles, gorgeous melancholy music, and a plot that involves interdimensional groundhog day loops, sarcastic asshole demon gods, and slashy dubcon soulbonding between said asshole god and a human? I didn't think I was, but then Subject 13 came along and gave me what I didn't know I was missing in my life.

It's available on Steam, and takes 3-5 hours to get through, depending on how good you are at puzzles (I'm terrible). Or, a movie version can be watched here.

Prompts

- Franklin Fargo/Sophie -
- Ah Cizin/Franklin Fargo -

* For Franklin/Sophie, there's a lot of fun angst or hurt/comfort potential in the fact that the Franklin and Sophie who escape together at the end aren't the Franklin and Sophie that either of them have known for their lives. How do you deal with returning home with your fiancee from an alternate universe? There must be so many little details that are just off, and that's gotta cause some complicated feelings. Alternately, something sweet with the two of them bonding over their experiences on the island would be nice!

* For Ah Cizin/Franklin, oh man there is so much potential for weirdness with this ship. Something set during Ah Cizin's first meeting with and subsequent temptation of the first Franklin? An exploration of how his relationship with Franklin changed over his next 11 incarnations? A noodle incident explanation of what happened to Subject 09 on the island that was bad enough for Ah Cizin to intervene and save him? And of course, there's the soul-fusing shenanigans themselves and all the weirdness therein. If you'd like to go in a smutty route with these two, consider: Praise kink, literal mindfuckery brought on by their soul-fusing, or just straight-up phone sex. (Speaker sex?)

Haze


What is it?

Haze is an FPS that I would not actually recommend anyone play, because in terms of game design, it's just...not good. But. The plot, characters, and relationship dynamics have a ton of intrigue and potential, and I've fallen hopelessly in love.

The premise is that a powerful private military doses its soldiers with a performance-enhancing drug called Nectar, making them stronger, faster, and deliriously happy 24/7. Shane Carpenter, a college dropout who joined the army to find a sense of purpose, is doing well and ascending the ranks. But as soon as he takes on a mission for a sergeant named Morgan Duvall, the effectiveness of Shane's Nectar starts slipping, and he becomes horrified by Morgan's war crimes and the suffering he's helping cause. He decides to defect and help the group of rebels his army is attacking, which leads to Morgan becoming very pissed at him and coming for revenge.

If you do want to play it, it's available for PS3. Or you can watch a movie version right here.

Prompts

- Shane Carpenter/Gabriel Merino -
- Shane Carpenter/Morgan Duvall -

* For Shane/Gabriel, I'd love some messy post-canon feels and/or plotting about how Gabriel manipulates Shane into coming around to his vision for the future of Nectar, or at the very least not giving up on Gabriel's cause. Shane being torn between "well, he's nicer than Morgan" and "fuck, this is Mantel all over again" would be delightful.

* For Shane/Morgan, there is basically no way I can see this pairing that isn't violent and messed up. I just really want Morgan wrecking Shane in the worst ways. This could come in the form of Morgan taking out some plain old hate-fueled revenge for Shane's betrayal, or maybe Morgan decides to undo the "brainwashing" he thinks the rebels have used on Shane, because Shane could still be useful to him as a soldier. This re-conditioning involves a whole lot of nonconsensual Nectar usage.

Far Cry 4


What is it?

Compared to the other games I'm requesting, Far Cry 4 is practically a megafandom, so I feel weird trying to pitch it. TL;DR version: Run around the Himalayas getting your face eaten by eagles and getting hit on by an evil dictator! It's fun, I swear!

It's available on Steam, for PS3/4, for Xbox 360/One, or there's a ton of different movie versions on Youtube. Take your pick.

Prompts

- The Goat/Yalung -

...okay, listen. Hear me out here.

I did a completionist run recently and collected all the masks of Yalung, and I found The Goat's whole thing with him just...really interesting? The Goat's adoring worship of Yalung that frequently toes a weirdly sexual line, combined with all the bloodshed and religious fervor, makes for a fascinating mix.

I'd just love something exploring The Goat's intense, psychosexual obsession with this evil god. What drew him to Yalung in the first place? What fucked-up things does he do in what he sees as Yalung's service? (Feel free to rope Ajay into this if you need someone to suffer, or maybe the mysterious other guy that The Goat calls out for picking up his masks.) On the other end of the coin, if Yalung truly exists, what does he feel about his most devoted servant? Is he actually soliciting The Goat to do all this, or is he rolling his metaphorical eyes at the desperate human trying to earn his affection?

I'm not sure how randomly generated the relevant spawn is, but in my playthrough, the guy hanging out in The Goat's Lair was a knife-wielding Royal Army soldier. But I'm not attached to him as The Goat's true identity, so feel free to do something else with it if you want!

(Also, just saying, this may be the most fitting opportunity you ever get to name a fic "But You Fuck ONE Goat...")
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Dear writer,

Thank you for writing for me! I hope you have a great exchange, enjoy writing, and receive the gift of your dreams.

Outside of my DNWs, I'm not picky, so if you already have an idea for any of these characters or pairings, feel free to write where your heart takes you! But of course, I have prompts below.

My AO3 username is Piinutbutter.

Table of Contents


- Likes & DNWs -

Fandoms are just listed by the number of characters/relationships I requested, not in any order of preference:

- Subject 13 -
- Middens -
- Marathon -
- Soul Calibur -
- Abuse -
- Gingiva -
- Siren (Forbidden Siren) -
- Castlevania -

Likes


* Blood, gore, and violence
* Physical affection, platonic or otherwise
* Emotional intimacy, platonic or otherwise
* Angst
* Guilt
* Loyalty kink
* Body horror
* Hurt and/or comfort
* Dysfunctional relationships
* Smut - Some favorite kinks include bondage, D/s, impact play, praise kink, knifeplay, dubcon, and rough sex, but I'm down for pretty much all kinds of smut.

Do Not Wants


* Crossovers
* Genderswaps/gender headcanons
* Asexuality headcanons
* Issuefic
* Pregnancy

* Prompts *


Subject 13


Ah Cizin/Franklin Fargo

I got this game for a few bucks during the Steam sale, expecting a couple hours of time waster. I didn't expect to catch a new OTP. Interdimensional groundhog day loops starting with manipulation and ending in literal dubcon soulbonding? I'm down.

There's so much you can do with these two. What were things like between Ah Cizin and the first twelve Franklins? Has his attitude towards them changed over time? He's affectionate towards Franklin's thirteenth incarnation, and one of the earlier Franklins stated that Ah Cizin loved him, but was he always that way?

Subject 09 in particular quotes him out of context as saying "Without my intervention, Subject 09, you would be dead." What happened there? The easy answer is that it was another timeline where Franklin tried to kill himself, but what if it wasn't? What if Franklin ran into trouble with something on the island?

And of course, there's the soul-fusing shenanigans themselves. What was that like, for either the first Franklin or the thirteenth, should Sophie not have managed to rescue him? There's plenty of potential for psychological horror and weirdness there.

If you want to go in a smutty route with these two, consider: Praise kink, literal mindfuckery brought on by their soul-fusing, or just straight-up phone sex. (Speaker sex?)

Middens (Video Game)


Genie/Nomad

Hi, yes, I'm here for completely and utterly fucked up human/gun relationships.

I'd love anything examining Genie's complicated attitude towards the Nomad - Genie's simultaneously fond of and disdainful towards him, both needy and dismissive. I'd love anything following these two in their journey to purify the rift, but psychological horror and mind games are more than welcome.

If you want to go full-on with the angst, consider the bad ending in Gingiva, where Nomad comes face-to-face with a Genie murdering everyone around him. What goes down there?

And if we want to talk smut potential: Genie's giant monstrous lizard form. That is all.

(Note: I know that Genie's gender has been declared ambiguous according to word of god, but I've always seen him as male, and if possible, I'd rather have male pronouns for him.)

Marathon (Video Games)


Admiral Tfear
Tycho

The glimpses we got into Pfhor bureaucracy in Infinity were both amusing and fascinating, and left me craving fic about what the day-to-day jobs of those involved in the Pfhor military are like. Tfear probably isn't always dealing with universe-destroying supermonsters, but what about slave rebellions and invasions?

Tycho has such a strong personality, how does he get along with the rest of the Pfhor he has to work with? And the whole core-cracking incident - how exactly did that go down? I'd just love to see Tfear or Tycho (or both!) navigating the strict world of Pfhor society in their own ways.

Soul Calibur


Arthur

I know, I know. Arthur's a palette swap that literally only exists because of regional censorship. But the backstory that they built for him is very interesting, and I'd love a fic that explores his strange childhood. Excuse my quoting the SC wiki here:

[Arthur] arrived in Japan, where he was adopted by a wealthy merchant who regarded him as little more than a curiosity from the West. Under the tutelage of his new stepfather, Arthur was taught Japanese and proper etiquette. Still, he was disliked and criticized by many, and his stepfather eventually gave him up to a noble under the excuse that it was to teach him manners. He eventually ended up serving as a warrior for the noble, and because he presented an obvious target, he learned to fight effectively in order to survive. It is also during one of the many battles he fought that he lost his eye.

Voldo

Voldo's been my SC main for years, and that has less to do with me being good at playing him and more to do with the fact that he's just such a fascinating and wonderfully weird character. There's so much you can explore with him - his childhood before meeting Vercci? One of the missions Voldo tackled while working for him? His adventures sailing around the world during the games? Daily life in the money pit? I'd love any and all of it.

Voldo/Vercci

...of course, it's hard to experience Voldo's story modes and not notice just how obsessed he is with Vercci. The absolute die-hard loyalty between these two is like no relationship I've seen in any other game, and I'm always craving anything exploring it. First meetings? The best equivalent of domestic bliss you can get when one of you is a warmongering weapons merchant? Angsty mindfuckery and manipulation when Soul Edge impersonates Vercci? I'm here for it.

Abuse (Video Game)


Alan Blake
Nick Vrenna
Alan Blake/Nick Vrenna

Abuse has exactly 5 paragraphs of plot, but what was presented in those 5 paragraphs makes me hungry for more.

What was Nick accused of in the first place, and how did his early days in the prison go? What was it like to discover that he was immune to Abuse while he watched his fellow inmates suffer around him? How did Blake start conducting his less-than-ethical experiments (did he found the prison in the first place?), and what kinds of things went wrong early on in the testing phases?

For them together, consider all the messed-up potential of a mad scientist who has all the power over a prisoner who's caught his attention/obsession by maintaining a mysterious immunity to the Abuse gene sequence. Considering the canon we're talking about here, body horror, gore, and medical kink are more than welcome.

Gingiva (Video Game)


Gingiva
The Magistrate
Queen Mother Most High
Slave Driver
Reptile Twin & Twin Reptile

My prompt for all of these characters is one big "Worldbuilding, please!"

Gingiva has such a unique dystopian setting, and seeing the daily lives and workings of the various players in the labor hierarchy would be fascinating.

What was Gingiva's childhood like, and did she ever try and bond with the other employees? How do the slave drivers get into business, and how do they go about taming and selling their slaves? Has the Queen always believed the dogma she espouses? What kinds of jobs are the Reptile Twins called upon to perform, and what were they doing before they began working for the Queen? What was the Magistrate's rise to power like?

Something tackling any of these questions, or anything related to this horrible world, would be amazing.

Siren (Video Games)


Miyako Kajiro
Ayako Kajiro
Jun Kajiro
Hisako Yao
Shiro Miyata & Kei Makino

Siren's world is a strange, fascinating, and horrifying one that's just ripe with worldbuilding potential, particularly in the context of Hanuda's small community.

How did Hisako's grip on the old village turn into the chokehold she has on it now? How did the ritual start, and how did it become something that people just...accepted?

What was life like for the Kajiro children in their early years? We know Miyako's was confined, but did Jun or Ayako get any freedom of their own? Come to think of it, how did Miyako get her seeing eye dog, and did she use it to spy on people?

Speaking of troubled childhoods, Kei and Shiro have a lot of issues to unpack. How did Shiro's twisted obsession with eternal life begin, and how did Kei handle being so close yet so distant to his brother? What happened in those dreams they shared?

Really, I just want to see anything that explores this little messed-up village and its inhabitants.

悪魔城ドラキュラ | Castlevania Series


Raisa Volkova

Raisa is one of my favorite CV villains, and I have a deep craving for fic about her weird life.

First of all, what was her childhood like? Being the literal daughter of Satan is bound to present some weirdness. I presume her parents were cultists or devil worshippers of some sort, so how did they raise Raisa with the knowledge that she carried his blood? (Or, for a darker route, was she the unexpected and unintended result of Satan assaulting a human woman? Satan himself doesn't seem to want anything to do with his children, after all.)

Once she grew up, how did she get into the world of science? Heck, she must have gone to school. The business school adventures of Satan's tentacle monster daughter is a concept that deserves to be explored, if you ask me.

Or, what about her relationship with her brothers? They're all competing for their father's favor, but was it always that way?

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Actrise & Gilles de Rais & Malus

Castlevania 64 was a weird game, but I came out of it wanting fic about baby Dracula and his child-murdering servants. Going by Legacy of Darkness' story, Actrise and Gilles de Rais weren't sure which child Dracula was reborn into, so they just kidnapped a bunch of them in a search for the right child. How did they finally find Malus, and what went on behind the scenes once they did?

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Heinrich Meyer

inb4 "Who the heck is Heinrich Meyer?"

That is the apparent guide-given name of the lizardman prisoner in CV64, who helps Carrie and Reinhardt out in the castle. His backstory is, well, I'm just gonna quote:

Heinrich Meyer, a nearby merchant, visited the castle of Dracula five years ago to ply his trade of wooden artifacts, aware of the presence of evil, but not letting that get in the way of a sale. Once inside the castle, he was offered some tea by a rather pale-looking butler... Waking up three days later, he discovered to his horror that he was tied to a huge wooden operating bench, and a small mad scientist was working furiously on inserting a number of needles into his arm. The rest of his body covered in leeches, Heinrich let out an awful scream and then realized the true terror of his predicament. A thick rasping noise sounded from his lips... as he looked down, he saw blue scales covering his torso and legs. He was changing... the fearful and quite mad Heinrich (now completely transformed into a lizard man) is kept in a castle bedroom. He keeps a key for company, and runs from the slightest aggression.

...and that's pretty much my prompt, too. There is so much horror and angst potential in his backstory, and I'm dying for fic about it.

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Cornell/Dracula

I fully admit this is the shallow, iddy prompt of this bunch. The original plan for CV64, before the devs got hit by the time crunch bulldozer, was to have Cornell being Dracula's prisoner. His outfit supported that idea, with the torn clothing and the manacle around his ankle.

So...Dracula creeping on Cornell. That's it. That's all I want. For a slightly more plotty angle, I assume Dracula was still planning to absorb Cornell's power into himself like he did in LoD. Was he doing it through traumatic experiments like what Heinrich went through, or some other means?

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Alucard/Grant/Sypha/Trevor

Ah, my first OT4. So many different backgrounds and personalities coming together to bond over their mutual hatred of an old man in a castle.

There's so much you can do with these four. Friendly sparring that turns a bit flirty? Campfire-side ghost story sessions on the way to the castle? Emotional reunions after their victory (in which we can pretend that Alucard didn't immediately go bury himself in dirt)? I'm down for any of it.

More angsty takes are also more than welcome. Everyone has their issues - Trevor's exile, Sypha's persecution, Grant's enslavement, Alucard's daddy issues...what happens when they rub up against one another?

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