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Hello, potential creator! Avia here. This account is run by two people, and our requests are all things that we've mutually agreed upon wanting to see, so if you write for us, don't be surprised to get two comments! Usually one from me, under [archiveofourown.org profile] graiai, and the second from [archiveofourown.org profile] Arianne.
 
This is our first time doing Heart Attack, and I'm excited to see how it goes! We're pretty easy to please, honestly - we've got a painfully extensive likes list (about 1500 words) that covers a wide range of genres and interests. We like character studies, domestic fluff, darkfic... fics with explicit sex are just as welcome as those without... and while we've provided some prompts for each fandom/ship combo to hopefully inspire you, we're by no means married to those ideas, either. If there's something you feel pulled to write (and you don't have reason to believe we'd totally hate it), go for it! With a 10K minimum especially, I think it's a lot more fun to read something that maybe isn't something I would have thought of but that the author was passionate about than to read something that's painstakingly tailored to my likes list but was a chore for you to write. Have fun with it!
 
In addition to potential fic prompts, each request also has where to find the canon, some of the things we like about the original work, and unrequested relationships (platonic and otherwise) and characters we also really like - some people can carry 10K on two people sitting in a room, but I'd definitely find it a challenge.

General Likes
  • messy relationships; unhealthy aspects of relationships not being brushed over (but the characters also not trying to fix them); relationships that by modern western standards (and maybe the standards of a large portion of the cast) would be considered unacceptable; social mores that don’t match the modern western world, and characters whose social mores don’t match each others’
  • “us against the world” narratives; “we were always going to end up here” narratives; “no one understands you like i do” narratives; characters making the best of their situations, not unhappy, but not living Happily Ever After, either
  • father/child and sibling incest (portrayed romantically), pseudo-incest between unrelated characters, mentor/protégé relationships and big-p Platonic teacher/student relationships, erastes/eromenos and dominus/deliciae relationships; age difference, size difference, experience difference, power imbalance, underage (adult/minor and minor/minor)
  • ideas about sex, sexuality, marriage, gender identity, etc that may differ wildly from our own ideas and between characters; historical or dated constructs of gender/sexuality; arranged marriages considered normal/not inherently abusive
  • medical realism and its consequences: persistent and permanent injuries, realistic and semi-realistic recovery, healing magic having limitations (and exploring what those are); not shying away from less pretty parts of sex, pregnancy, birth, or having a body in general
  • emphasis on character voice, characterization, motive, morals, ethics; culture clash; worldbuilding (especially specific medical and legal worldbuilding); character studies; unreliable narrators; limited POVs, outsider POVs, POVs missing context that would recontextualize events considerably
  • feel free to look at our unconventional fanworks exchange letter for weird format likes!
Domestic/Fluff Likes

  • romance: established relationships, courting, letter-writing, wedding plans, elopement, family planning; helping pregnant partner give birth, being stuck anxiously/excitedly in the waiting room while pregnant partner gives birth
  • domesticity: dancing together, playing instruments together/performing duets, doing arts and crafts together, playing chess together, doing tarot spreads, cooking together, helping each other dress or do makeup; tired mornings and late nights, not putting on airs for each other
  • slice of life: teaching partner how to dance/play an instrument/draw/paint/cook/play chess/etc; taking turns with household responsibilities (chores, childcare, etc); new/first time parents trying their best and maybe doing an okay job of it; (consensual and appropriate) public displays of affection, between lovers or friends
  • emotionally significant friendships and close friends/confidants; characters having people they can/do go to other than their lover (friends or supportive family); close relationships between female characters and an emphasis on the friendships of female characters; positive sibling relationships and mother/child relationships
Darker Likes
  • consent issues: noncon (where requested), dubcon, consensual but a bad idea, consensual but it shouldn’t be, and messy/unclear combinations of several of these; power/experience/age imbalances; somnophilia (including comatose characters), necrophilia, and possession
  • manipulation: gaslighting, mutual manipulation, seduction, “you’re so mature for your age” and similar ploys; unclear lines between victims and aggressors, victims manipulating their abusers/assailants back; stockholm syndrome, lima syndrome, trauma bonding; chess as a mind game/power play, specifically, and chess moves portrayed as acts of violence between the players
  • forced intimacy: playing at domesticity, nonconsensual PDA, nonconsensual kissing, sleeping beside each other/spooning, rapists performing oral, rapists comforting victims, victims forced to comfort rapists
  • pain and fear kink: crying/dacryphilia, screaming, uncomfortably detailed loving descriptions of both or either, painful sex, characters in pain kinking on it, characters in pain not kinking on it (their loss!)
  • injuries or physical trauma: lovingly described acts of violence (consensual and otherwise), genital trauma or mutilation (perineal tearing, episiotomy, castration, fgm/c, tearing from sex, sharp object insertion), amount of blood/injury exaggerated for kink purposes, eye trauma, broken limbs, internal bleeding, childbirth related injuries and medical complications (symphysiotomy or breaking the pelvis for childbirth, broken clavicle or limbs in newborns, emergency hysterectomy, congenital birth defects, low APGAR, etc), short- and long-term medical care and aftermath of injury, trauma, or disability
  • dark pregnancy-related kinks/topics: (threat of) traumatic miscarriage, forced abortion, unsafe abortions (coathangers, ingesting poisons, trying to induce miscarriage through injury to self)
  • trouble at home: abusive, controlling, or disapproving (grand)parents, tense home environments, arguments about arranged marriages, inheritance, keeping the baby, childrearing (between parents/children or between coparents or partners)
  • harm to children: characters who are underage depicted in fic with appropriate neurological development for their ages and developing trauma appropriate to the events of the canon and/or the fic; child soldiers, CSA victims, etc normalizing what they’ve been through, not having the neurological development to understand the impact of events, not understanding their own feelings, enacting their trauma on other children or adults
  • aftermath: of rape or CSA, of abuse, of wartime or other nonsexual trauma, of injury; impact of trauma on mental and physical health; medical treatment, being forced to deal with the authorities, trying to hide trauma or ‘go back to normal’
Smut Likes
  • oral fixations: smoking, making out, lip biting, hickies, biting in general, finger sucking, cunnilingus, cockwarming, emetophilia (gag reflexes! morning sickness!)
  • hand and finger kink: manual stimulation, calluses, pinching breasts, fingering after fucking, weaponizing fingernails, fingers in mouths
  • intercrural, incomplete penetration/“just the tip”, eunuchs/castration, soft cock kink, small or soft cock handjobs, sex you might have the impulse to call “sex*” or “sex(?)” - where coming isn’t necessarily the goal, where the people involved may not have bodies in the traditional sense, where the people involved may not have sex drives or even understand what sex is
  • marking/possessiveness: bruising, comeplay, breeding kink, postpartum sex (and kinking on the physical affects of childbirth), gaping, somnophilia
  • blood and injury: bloody hands, bloody teeth, nosebleeds, tearing from sex or birth, menstrual blood, spotting, episiotomies, postpartum bleeding, amount of blood and injury exaggerated or (bordering) dangerous for kink purposes
  • romantic incest kink, dd/lg, sibcon, characters who aren’t related acting like they are for horny reasons; kinking on a character’s youth or presumed youth and physical markers typically associated with it (virginity, flat/small breasts, small cock, etc); kinking on a character’s sexual inexperience (in general, with a specific act, with another character’s gender, etc)
  • medfet: take everything from the general likes list about medical accuracy and apply it to pornography! partners being possessively horny at the OB-GYN, nobody but the reader being horny over lovingly detailed descriptions of medical exams, realistic birthing (but being horny about it), weirdly detailed interludes about period birth control methods? you name it, we’re probably into it
DNWs
  • DNW any on-screen, referenced, or implied
    • skin-related mutilation like flaying, burning, or branding
    • harm to animals including meat-eating (just not mentioning what a character is eating is fine)
    • shower/bath/rain sex, one character washing or grooming another non-infant character (even consensual aftercare), or onscreen bathing of any kind
    • petting, brushing, or playing with hair as a form of consensual intimacy (pulling on it during sex is fine; doing someone’s hair without intimate subtext is fine; intimacy played as horror is fine)
    • maternal incest or mommykink
    in any capacity. If you think 'surely this isn't enough to count for the DNW', it is.
  • unrequested romantic relationships; unrequested rape/non-con between members of a requested ship; unrequested trans headcanons or rule 63; cis mpreg and futanari
  • altered states (drugged, drunk, sex pollen, etc)
  • formal BDSM, including safewords or the stoplight system and kink negotiation scenes (sex going wrong and agreeing in the moment not to do something particular again is fine)
  • AUs that drastically change the setting or the core rules of the setting (modern AUs, A/B/O, soulmark AUs, etc… canon divergence AUs including pre-canon divergence points are fine; using 3.5 or 5e rules in a BG3 fic is fine)
  • “bad ends” (no chance at escape, mindbreak, etc); scat kink (changing a baby’s diaper is fine); onscreen, explicit sexual contact under age 10 (implied or fade to black is fine)

Requests:

[Final Fantasy XII] Basch fon Ronsenburg/Larsa Ferrinas Solidor

Where can you find the canon? FF12 is available on PC, PS2, PS4, XBox One, and the Switch. You can also watch a full cutscene compilation on Youtube (about 6 1/2 hours long) - personally, privately, as someone who doesn't find the gameplay itself very fun, this is my recommendation.
What do we like about it? Politics! FF12 has a lot of political drama and intrigue and fancy people insinuating things, which we tend to find more fun than straightforward confrontation! There's also a lot of really rancid interpersonal dynamics that are begging to be explored (Larsa's upbringing and Basch and Gabranth's whole deal really stand out here), and we love the MENA-inspired setting. Digging into those inspirations for worldbuilding is always appreciated. The bittersweet/tragic ending is also a huge plus for us.
Other characters and relationships we enjoy: Vayne/Larsa, Gabranth/Larsa, Gabranth/Basch and Basch&Gabranth Cid/Venat, Cid&Balthier, Larsa&Penelo is also a really fun lens to explore Larsa's particular issues with - he hasn't really had a childhood or been around peers before, not to mention the class disparity and culture clash.

This is a ship that is just begging a character study, if you ask me. We've been interested for ages in digging into the postgame dynamic in particular: Basch taking on Gabranth's role, and Larsa wanting more from him than Basch can give. Basch learning things about his brother that he doesn't like.

This could lean closer into an & ship, with uncomfortable sexual overtones or Larsa attempting to take things further (or trying to bait Basch into taking things further and failing to understand why he won't), or it could be written with an overt sexual or romantic relationship. We'd love to see Larsa as the instigator and Basch at best dubiously consenting out of a misplaced sense of duty and honor, or not even able to stomach that - Larsa may not have a healthy enough concept of boundaries and consent to take stock in Basch's discomfort... he is Basch's lord. Basch pledged himself to him. Larsa is a thirteen year old boy with untold social/political power, absolutely no good role models, and, well, the libido of a teenage boy. Past Gabranth/Larsa (actual or maybe just pining) and/or Vayne/Larsa would be a lot of fun to explore here. Far postgame with a more grown Larsa, years into this dynamic with Basch (whatever it looks like) would also be welcome! 

Angst or horror or a bittersweet ending would be great - maybe characters grow for the better, but the past can't be undone. Maybe characters grow for the worse. Maybe Basch-as-Gabranth begins to lose himself in the role. Maybe he refuses to, and rips the bandaid off whether or not Larsa is ready to be confronted with the reality of this situation and how he was raised. Opting into rape/non-con for this ship, but dubcon and "consensual but it shouldn't be" situations are great too! 

[Final Fantasy XIV] Leveva Byrde/Jannequinard de Durendaire

Where can you find the canon? You may have heard of the critically-acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV with an expanded free trial where you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn as well as the award-winning Heavensward and Stormblood expansions up to level 70 for free with no restrictions on playtime! Available on PC, Mac, PS4, PS5, and XBox One. The requested characters are exclusive to a single job sidequest chain, and I have a 60,000 word ship write-up of all quests, retconned lore, and other relevant additional information here, because I want to get people into my OTP but I don't want to force them to play a live service subscription game that takes 1000+ hours. 
What do we like about it? What don't we? There's soap opera level interpersonal drama in noble families, there's political intrigue and assassination plots and heirs missing at sea, there's arranged child marriage worldbuilding, it's at turns funny and tragic, there's an age gap size difference ship, there's a very sad elf boy who's also charmingly stupid and flirts his way out of (or into) problems... Truly, what more could you ask for?
Other characters and relationships we enjoy: Anything to do with the drama in House Durendaire; Carvallain&Jannequinard, Charlemend/Edmont de Fortemps, past Rufin Byrde/Jannequinard; digging into Leveva's Sharlayan heritage (was her marriage arranged to an OC? A Leveilleur? Some other minor Sharlayan NPC? Janne himself?), including potential relationships between the Byrde and Leveilleur, Baldesion, etc families, platonic or romantic.

Jannequinard and Leveva are the OTP. The blueprint. The unsinkable ship. We'd read pretty much anything about these two: we're into deep dives into Jannequinard's trauma surrounding the death of his old lover, Leveva's father, we're into the idea of them getting married so Jannequinard can't be compelled to testify against Leveva before the Sharlayan Forum for treason, we're more generally always up for a canon divergence AU after Lv58, we're into them getting married just... because they want to get married, and Leveva having to deal with Ishgardian high society, wedding planning, unfathomably shitty in-laws, and officially converting to Elf Catholicism. We're into the horrifying implications of everything the game has ever said about House Durendaire (what was going on in that house that Carvallain decided he'd rather be a captive on a pirate ship than return home, and even as an adult seems terrified of Charlemend? what about the mess with Jannequinard maybe being Charlemend's son, maybe his nephew?) We're into pregnancy and kidfic and cute getting-together fic. We're into Janne being Leveva's godfather, or the man her hand in marriage was sworn to in infancy because her father knew his own star-crossed lover would never treat his daughter poorly, or the only thing tying them together being the stars.

Literally pretty much anything you could think of writing about these two? We're sold. Fluff? Humor? Angst? Curtainfic? Follow your heart wherever it leads and you cannot go astray.

[Final Fantasy XV] Noctis Lucis Caelum/Ignis Scientia

Where can you find the canon? FFXV is on PS4, XBox One, and PC, plus... Amazon Prime for the tie-in film and anime, I think? You can also find cutscene compilations on Youtube - this one is 7 1/2 hours.
What do we like about it? Obsessive devotion! Tragedy! Social media! The fact that the protagonist is magic royalty and his favorite video game is canonically Assassin's Creed? Impeccable. 
Other characters and relationships we enjoy: Noctis and Prompto's friendship, Lunafreya/Ravis.

Honestly, the #1 thing we'd like to see for this ship in this exchange is something building on the "fantasy based on reality" and the full implications of that. By which, of course, I mean RPF shippers. Duh. Protagonists who exist in a world with a concept of celebrity is just begging for outsider POV. Give us an in-universe ship manifesto! Students at Noct and Prompto's high school! Paparazzi photos! Twitter threads! 2-hour long youtube videos titled like "Brothers or Lovers?: A Chronically Online Deep Dive Into Insomnian Royalty"! Is Noct allowed to run his own social media accounts? Who the hell is responsible for his PR? Just go in hard on the worldbuilding premise, and have fun!

[Baldur’s Gate 3] Astarion/Karlach, Astarion/Karlach/Wyll, Gale/Raphael

Where can you find the canon? BG3 is available on PC, Mac, PS5, and XBox Series X/S. Some relevant scenes to the requested relationships can be found on Youtube or elsewhere: here's Wyll's romance on Karlach origin, although Karlach's dialogue options are provided only in Italian; here's Karlach's act 3 romance scene on Wyll origin; another Wyll origin scene with Karlach; meeting Wyll as Karlach origin; Wyll origin Avernus endingAstarion romance on Karlach origin (this player didn't fix her engine, and unfortunately I can't find a clip of this romance on Karlach origin with a fixed engine, but there's no sex scene either way); Karlach romance on Astarion origin, and we'll ignore the fact they Ascended him; here's a collection of other endings (spawn Astarion can only go to Avernus with Karlach on a Karlach origin playthrough - on Astarion origin, they both burn on the docks); here's a twitter thread of various Wyll and Astarion scenes that may be of interest (including Karlach and Astarion being horny together about Wyll's new look); here's Gale talking about Raphael's offer; here's what happens when Raphael is alive in the God of Ambition ending; bg3.wiki is also a very useful resource, particularly for finding the text of books/notes in game and the flavor text on weapons (which often has interesting lore - the Helldusk armor namedrops the forgemaster of Avernus, who presumably installed Karlach's heart, Rhapsody has an absolutely horrifying anecdote about Cazador in the days before he became a vampire, etc); as for wider D&D lore, from 5E Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, Murder in Baldur's Gate, and Descent into Avernus are useful and interesting resources, and from 3.5 (which I'm partial to) is Libris Mortis, an undead-specific sourcebook with some great stuff in it.
What do we like about it? Honestly, the best way to answer this question might be to say what we didn't like, or rather, what we wanted more of - more negative repercussions for our actions (everything from "we shouldn't be able to heal Astarion" to "the party members should be more hostile to each other" - especially with a Sharran in the party and a druid&undead matchup - to "Wyll should lose his magic immediately if he chooses to break the pact in act 3" and "spurning Shar in the middle of the Shadowfell while your only healer is a Sharran cleric is a terrible idea, and if you do it, there should be severe consequences, and choosing not to is pretty understandable"), relationships between origin characters building more slowly or in different ways than the game has the room for on its own, characters having to work harder to earn trust or being unable to because of their situations, etc. Basically: it's a great game, and a lot of fun to play, and we'd love to see the stuff that would have made it probably a lot less enjoyable to play but make for interesting stories in fanfic! 
Other characters and relationships we enjoy: While we're not requesting Karlach/Wyll or Astarion/Wyll on their own, those ships are great (there's just plenty of great fic of them already), and if you write the OT3 you should feel absolutely free to write it as a proper ménage à trois rather than a V-shaped triad; Lae'zel is my perfect darling baby girl, light of my life, I'm so sorry I let you get permanently brain damaged at the crèche; background horror ships are always welcome (Karlach/Zariel, Mizora/Wyll, Astarion/Cazador et al); the wider infernal cast (including everyone in the House of Hope - especially Hope herself) and the Szarr family, including the other spawn, Amanita, Vellioth, hell, the other relatives named in Amanita's letters; Gale/Mystra probably goes without saying; Tara, of course, is a joy and we'd love to see more of her.

Let's start with Gale/Raphael. We like our Gale kind of shitty and power-hungry and too depressed to shave after having flown too close to the sun and been presented with his failures then left to clean up his mess by his girlfriend to boot. This ship makes sense to us in the context of Gale on his bad end/God of Ambition arc (and, to be clear, we do consider this his bad end), or at least getting close to it, but if you have ideas that allow for Gale to ultimately make amends with Mystra (or even rekindle that mess of a relationship!) and make an enemy of Raphael in the process, please feel free to play around with it! The draw of this is Gale's clear interest in Raphael from day dot, and of course they're a rival ship - they can flirt and they can fuck but at the end of the day one of them is going to get the Crown and achieve his goals, and the other one won't, and neither one of them would hesitate to leave the other behind in the dirt. Or, y'know, maybe offer concubinage as a boon, I guess. We also think they'd have absolutely atrocious sex (Raphael being canonically terrible in bed, and I can't really see Gale having experience with actual sex, and not tantric soul-merging in the Weave). Over and done in 90 seconds. It's very endearing. 

On Karlach/Astarion: It's them! The gayest hetship you've ever seen! We love these two together. The touch-averse/touch-starved contrast, their unparalleled ability to understand each other and their respective Horrors (something that stands out to me especially is that they were both in slavery until RIGHT AT the beginning of the game, becoming free through luck alone, and now have suddenly gained everything while standing to imminently lose it - and have to figure out how to act like people again) without devolving into awkward and uncomfortable pity, their shared enthusiasm for bloodshed and somewhat questionable ethics (while Karlach certainly is trying her best to be Good, she's incredibly gung-ho about murder, and let's not forget that she eats souls - and if you try to cut her off, she does, like, fully threaten to kill you about it)... Even when they're not romancing each other, one of their first overworld dialogues is about going on a date in the Upper City, and Astarion shows real concern for her wellbeing when you choose between them (and only for her - every other companion he mocks).

Astarion: Darling, healthy relationships are not my, ah, strong point, but even I can tell she loves you. Normally I'd be all for finding an arrangement, but hearts are fragile things at the best of times. And Karlach's? After what she's been through, it will need a very gentle hand. So let's not complicate things, hmm?

Meanwhile, Karlach has this to say.

Anyway! Love them, love their romance, would absolutely love to see more of it. We're suckers for tragic romance, and there's something so appealing about the fact that their needs are kind of opposed? Spawn Astarion in Avernus doesn't have to worry about the sun, or about food, but Karlach has to give up going home, and if she finds a cure, has to wrestle with what it means to ask him to give up a lot of freedom. And if they don't go to Avernus... when playing through the game for the first time, we kept coming back around to the idea of Karlach not giving up on the idea that they could both be cured. Her heart could be fixed! Astarion hasn't been dead long enough he can't be properly resurrected (assuming you have 25000gp worth of diamonds and a veryyyy fancy cleric, anyway), if they could figure out a way to keep his memories intact/restore them to a newly-raised 39yo Astarion! But, well... they're living on borrowed time, for both of them, really, and without a solution for Karlach's heart, he'll lose her. And just like how Karlach can handle to go back to Avernus, if it's with someone she loves at her side, maybe Astarion can handle a lifetime in darkness so long as he has her. The days after she burned were... bad.

These are depressing concepts, but I swear we're connoisseurs of fluff, too! We love tragedy and bittersweet endings and we love curtainfic too, especially if they've had a really hard time getting to that happy ending in the first place (please feel free to make them earn it). There's also plenty of room for mid-canon fic of all sorts, or probably pre-canon alternate meeting stuff if you're creative? If you like writing upsetting character studies through porn, there's definitely something that could be done with the fact that, while their romance can even be completely sexless, Karlach becoming able to touch people again right at the same time she finds out she's dying and Astarion is having his "actually I don't think I want to have sex" realization makes for some big messes potentially - it's so very easy to convince yourself Karlach's owed this, after everything she's been through, and anyway, she's dying. He won't have to keep having sex he doesn't want for that long, will he? SO MANY OPTIONS. Go wild, really.

On Karlach/Wyll/Astarion: Everyone's seen this clip by now, right? Take everything I said above, and add Wyll into the mix! Does he come with them to the Hells? Is he utterly miserable in Baldur's Gate, lying to himself that he can help people the most by being the Grand Duke, and that he's happy here? Free of his pact, or still entrapped? I'm a big fan of Wyll having to deal with his very strict, LG worldview where it comes up against the fact the people he loves are... not that. It's all well and good to be a monster hunter who thinks monsters are hot, but it's a different thing to try and build a life with one. And while Wyll is very quick to flip the switch from 'monster' to 'victim' in his estimation of people, well, at some point you've gotta realize that it's not that simple. Astarion obviously isn't a good person, and again, Karlach is very bloodthirsty in her own right! And eats souls! And at some point the honeymoon period is gonna be over and this relationship is going to have to do some growing, or else.

Fandom-specific DNW exceptions: for navigating the animal harm DNW with Astarion, brief, non-detailed allusions to his canonical pre-game diet are fine, and eating bugs is fine. Drinking the blood of thinking creatures (consenting or otherwise) is also totally fine and can be written in detail if you so desire. 

Fandom-specific DNWs: Tav or Durge; EA Wyll or Gale, Ascended Astarion, Mindflayer Karlach, or Selunite Shadowheart (Shadowheart failing to become a Dark Justiciar is fine, even losing her faith, but we'd rather not see her rebounding with Selune or receiving divine magic from her for Plot Reasons); Astarion’s issues with sex and intimacy resolved by either Cazador’s death or True Love (him pretending they are and hurting himself in the process is fine); Gale having been groomed from childhood by Mystra (their having a toxic relationship/power imbalance is fine).

[SAFETY] [Vatican Miracle Examiner] Hiraga Josef Kou/Roberto Nicholas

Where can you find the canon? It's available on Amazon Prime, and if you're in the US and your library is affiliated with hoopla, you can find it there for free!
What do we like about it? Look, we aren't generally Catholicism kink people, but the UST of these gay priests who live together and make home cooked meals and clearly want to bang just so, so bad, and whose love gets dream sequence affirmed by the angels? I'm picking up what they're putting down. The longing! The vows of chastity! The absolute fucking insanity of the casefic! Roberto's horrifying backstory! This show is an incredible romp and we loved it.

Do you want to write domestic fluff? Go for it. 10k of pining? Go for it. Casefic? Sure! Whump one of them in front of the other? Why not! 

For an actual prompt... I present you with this tweet:

@robmanuel · May 11
The Vatican are allowed to take part in Eurovision and really it's a missed opportunity that they don't - either gag entries like the Pope rapping from the Pope mobile - or take it 100% serious and write a new hymn every year for square kids to sing at school.

Do with this what you will.

Opting in to art fills for this request! 

 

[SAFETY] [Original Work] Far Future Archaeologist Excavating Site of Nuclear Waste Repository

So, the field of nuclear semiotics is all about figuring out how to communicate to people 10000 years in the future "nuclear waste is buried here and it will kill you". It's super cool, and has lots of incredibly fun quotes - you've probably seen This is not a place of honor. No great deeds were commemorated here. This is a simple request: we'd love to see what you'd do with a far, far future archaeological dig uncovering one of these nuclear waste repositories or something of a similar design, and dig into how it's being interpreted! Is it widely assumed that this is some sort of religious message, a supposed magical curse trapped below like the Minotaur? The bodies of plague victims? Do they take it seriously? Are these messages irrelevant for some reason, like the archaeologists in question being members of some alien or genetically modified race that doesn't have trouble with plutonium and finds all this superstition quaint or misguided? 

Worldbuild as much as you want, in whatever direction you want. Have a romance of some sort to explore alongside this dig site? Cool! There's a lot of great sci-fi potential in nuclear semiotics and we'd love to see what you come up with.

Opting in to art fills for this request!


Thanks again for reading, and have a happy Heart Attack!

With love,
graiai
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Dear creator,

Thank you for taking the time to look at this letter! We* don’t have a lot of specific prompts for this exchange (beyond the tags themselves), for the most part, but we do have over 1000 words on our likes list, and at the end of the day, we’re very easy to please. Hopefully you find something to inspire you!

*Plural pronouns in this letter are because graiai is a shared account we use for exchanges: if you write for us, don’t be surprised to get two comments!

General Likes
  • messy relationships; unhealthy aspects of relationships not being brushed over (but the characters also not trying to fix them); relationships that by modern western standards (and maybe the standards of a large portion of the cast) would be considered unacceptable; social mores that don’t match the modern western world, and characters whose social mores don’t match each others’
  • “us against the world” narratives; “we were always going to end up here” narratives; “no one understands you like i do” narratives; characters making the best of their situations, not unhappy, but not living Happily Ever After, either
  • father/child and sibling incest (portrayed romantically), pseudo-incest between unrelated characters, mentor/protégé relationships and big-p Platonic teacher/student relationships, erastes/eromenos and dominus/deliciae relationships; age difference, size difference, experience difference, power imbalance, underage (adult/minor and minor/minor)
  • ideas about sex, sexuality, marriage, gender identity, etc that may differ wildly from our own ideas and between characters; historical or dated constructs of gender/sexuality; arranged marriages considered normal/not inherently abusive
  • medical realism and its consequences: persistent and permanent injuries, realistic and semi-realistic recovery, healing magic having limitations (and exploring what those are); not shying away from less pretty parts of sex, pregnancy, birth, or having a body in general
  • emphasis on character voice, characterization, motive, morals, ethics; culture clash; worldbuilding (especially specific medical and legal worldbuilding); character studies; unreliable narrators; limited POVs, outsider POVs, POVs missing context that would recontextualize events considerably
  • feel free to look at our unconventional fanworks exchange letter for weird format likes!
Domestic/Fluff Likes

  • romance: established relationships, courting, letter-writing, wedding plans, elopement, family planning; helping pregnant partner give birth, being stuck anxiously/excitedly in the waiting room while pregnant partner gives birth
  • domesticity: dancing together, playing instruments together/performing duets, doing arts and crafts together, playing chess together, doing tarot spreads, cooking together, helping each other dress or do makeup; tired mornings and late nights, not putting on airs for each other
  • slice of life: teaching partner how to dance/play an instrument/draw/paint/cook/play chess/etc; taking turns with household responsibilities (chores, childcare, etc); new/first time parents trying their best and maybe doing an okay job of it; (consensual and appropriate) public displays of affection, between lovers or friends
  • emotionally significant friendships and close friends/confidants; characters having people they can/do go to other than their lover (friends or supportive family); close relationships between female characters and an emphasis on the friendships of female characters; positive sibling relationships and mother/child relationships
Darker Likes
  • consent issues: noncon (where requested), dubcon, consensual but a bad idea, consensual but it shouldn’t be, and messy/unclear combinations of several of these; power/experience/age imbalances; somnophilia (including comatose characters), necrophilia, and possession
  • manipulation: gaslighting, mutual manipulation, seduction, “you’re so mature for your age” and similar ploys; unclear lines between victims and aggressors, victims manipulating their abusers/assailants back; stockholm syndrome, lima syndrome, trauma bonding; chess as a mind game/power play, specifically, and chess moves portrayed as acts of violence between the players
  • forced intimacy: playing at domesticity, nonconsensual PDA, nonconsensual kissing, sleeping beside each other/spooning, rapists performing oral, rapists comforting victims, victims forced to comfort rapists
  • pain and fear kink: crying/dacryphilia, screaming, uncomfortably detailed loving descriptions of both or either, painful sex, characters in pain kinking on it, characters in pain not kinking on it (their loss!)
  • injuries or physical trauma: lovingly described acts of violence (consensual and otherwise), genital trauma or mutilation (perineal tearing, episiotomy, castration, fgm/c, tearing from sex, sharp object insertion), amount of blood/injury exaggerated for kink purposes, eye trauma, broken limbs, internal bleeding, childbirth related injuries and medical complications (symphysiotomy or breaking the pelvis for childbirth, broken clavicle or limbs in newborns, emergency hysterectomy, congenital birth defects, low APGAR, etc), short- and long-term medical care and aftermath of injury, trauma, or disability
  • dark pregnancy-related kinks/topics: (threat of) traumatic miscarriage, forced abortion, unsafe abortions (coathangers, ingesting poisons, trying to induce miscarriage through injury to self)
  • trouble at home: abusive, controlling, or disapproving (grand)parents, tense home environments, arguments about arranged marriages, inheritance, keeping the baby, childrearing (between parents/children or between coparents or partners)
  • harm to children: characters who are underage depicted in fic with appropriate neurological development for their ages and developing trauma appropriate to the events of the canon and/or the fic; child soldiers, CSA victims, etc normalizing what they’ve been through, not having the neurological development to understand the impact of events, not understanding their own feelings, enacting their trauma on other children or adults
  • aftermath: of rape or CSA, of abuse, of wartime or other nonsexual trauma, of injury; impact of trauma on mental and physical health; medical treatment, being forced to deal with the authorities, trying to hide trauma or ‘go back to normal’
Smut Likes
  • oral fixations: smoking, making out, lip biting, hickies, biting in general, finger sucking, cunnilingus, cockwarming, emetophilia (gag reflexes! morning sickness!)
  • hand and finger kink: manual stimulation, calluses, pinching breasts, fingering after fucking, weaponizing fingernails, fingers in mouths
  • intercrural, incomplete penetration/“just the tip”, eunuchs/castration, soft cock kink, small or soft cock handjobs, sex you might have the impulse to call “sex*” or “sex(?)” - where coming isn’t necessarily the goal, where the people involved may not have bodies in the traditional sense, where the people involved may not have sex drives or even understand what sex is
  • marking/possessiveness: bruising, comeplay, breeding kink, postpartum sex (and kinking on the physical affects of childbirth), gaping, somnophilia
  • blood and injury: bloody hands, bloody teeth, nosebleeds, tearing from sex or birth, menstrual blood, spotting, episiotomies, postpartum bleeding, amount of blood and injury exaggerated or (bordering) dangerous for kink purposes
  • romantic incest kink, dd/lg, sibcon, characters who aren’t related acting like they are for horny reasons; kinking on a character’s youth or presumed youth and physical markers typically associated with it (virginity, flat/small breasts, small cock, etc); kinking on a character’s sexual inexperience (in general, with a specific act, with another character’s gender, etc)
  • medfet: take everything from the general likes list about medical accuracy and apply it to pornography! partners being possessively horny at the OB-GYN, nobody but the reader being horny over lovingly detailed descriptions of medical exams, realistic birthing (but being horny about it), weirdly detailed interludes about period birth control methods? you name it, we’re probably into it
DNWs
  • DNW any on-screen, referenced, or implied
    • skin-related mutilation like flaying, burning, or branding
    • harm to animals including meat-eating (just not mentioning what a character is eating is fine)
    • shower/bath/rain sex, one character washing or grooming another non-infant character (even consensual aftercare), or onscreen bathing of any kind
    • petting, brushing, or playing with hair as a form of consensual intimacy (touching or pulling on it during sex is fine; doing someone’s hair without intimate subtext is fine; nonconsensual and threatening is fine)
    • maternal incest or mommykink
    in any capacity. If you think 'surely this isn't enough to count for the DNW', it is.
  • unrequested romantic relationships; unrequested rape/non-con; unrequested trans headcanons or rule 63; cis mpreg and futanari
  • altered states (drugged, drunk, sex pollen, etc)
  • formal BDSM, including safewords or the stoplight system and kink negotiation scenes (sex going wrong and agreeing in the moment not to do something particular again is fine)
  • AUs that drastically change the setting or the core rules of the setting (modern AUs, A/B/O, soulmark AUs, etc… canon divergence AUs including pre-canon divergence points are fine; using 3.5 or 5e rules in a BG3 fic is fine)
  • “bad ends” (no chance at escape, mindbreak, etc); scat kink (changing a baby’s diaper is fine); onscreen, explicit sexual contact under age 10 (implied or fade to black is fine)

Requests:

[Professional Chess RPF] Magnus Carlsen/Hikaru Nakamura (FIC)

[No Archive Warnings Apply] Arrogant asshole character fucked into submission by Top's incredible skills · Clearly The Fact That We Keep Having Sex Is A Series of Unrelated Bad Decisions · Competence Kink - Rivals Are Incredibly Turned On By Each Other's Talent · Competitiveness in Bed · dubcon - character offers sex to bargain or for a bet; doesn't expect to actually have to pay up · Frenemies with Benefits · Grudging/Horrified One-Sided Attraction to Someone Annoying · Sex As A Match Stipulation · Sex Chicken - 'I won't back down first!' mentality leads to sex · Strip Games

Sooooooooo, maybe it’s just me, but every time one of them mentions that private hotel room six-hour-long blitz match in interviews, the one from when they were 19 and 22 respectively and which Hikaru always calls ‘the worst mistake of [his] career’, I make the vibrating eyeballs emoji from discord in real life. They need to fuck, Your Honor.

Maybe it’s That Night™ (as some of these tags lend themselves to), maybe it’s at any one of the events where they were fighting for #1 and #2, maybe it’s at the FIDE World Fischer Random Chess Championship 2022, where a blundered rook cost Magnus their game on day one! Maybe the Niemann v. Carlsen lawsuit is going on in the background, building pressure or leading to Magnus and Hikaru spending more time talking to each other than usual due to their lawyers collaborating (or dealing with the potential of the discovery process leaking their personal relationship - if you’re insane enough to write this, feel free to play fast and loose with procedure in the name of drama). Maybe you’ve got your mind on something else entirely, PWP or otherwise! I would never seek to unreasonably restrict the creation of Art.

Background Fabi/Cristian is also great, LOL.

Request-specific DNWs: confirmation that any characters, whether part of the ship or no, have cheated in any OTB games unless admitted or proven IRL (other characters believing as much is fine—just no legit photos surfacing of Ding Liren using an engine in the bathroom stall or similar, please!); Carlsen and Nakamura actually engaging in a conspiracy to knowingly falsely accuse Niemann of cheating.

[Historical RPF] Julius Caesar/Octavian (FIC)

[Rape/Non-con] Character raised to obey male authority figures · Character study through porn · Dirty Talk - Homophobic Dirty Talk · Experience - Non-Penetrative Sex to Preserve Virginity · Foreskin Play · Functionally Meaningless Consent · Greek & Roman Sex Politics · Grooming - Psychological · Masturbation - Character's masturbation is guided/instructed by another · Physical inspection/examination as a show of dominance and control · Victim Honored to Have Aggressor's Attention

Suetonius’ Life of Augustus, 68: “In early youth, he incurred accusations of various disgraces and shameful acts. Sextus Pompey taunted him for his effeminacy; Mark Antony [with the claim] his adoption by his uncle [Caesar] was a reward for submitting to sexual abuse (stuprum); Lucius, brother of Mark Antony, [claimed] that after Caesar plucked [Octavian’s] honor, for 300,000 sesterces he likewise laid down for Aulus Hirtius in Hispania.... Moreover, a bit of wordplay which was universally interpreted by the people as an insult directed at him - and received with the greatest applause - was spoken onstage of a eunuch priest/ess of Magna Mater playing the tambourine: ‘You see how the finger of that catamite beats on his drum/...governs the whole world?’”

Basically: wow, this whole family is fucked up! Tell us about it! Research your little heart out if it pleases you! Straight up porn? Always welcome. Something a little less explicit? Sure! Feeling psychoanalytical and want to tie Caesar and Octavian’s alleged relationship to Augustus’ later…issues, both in and out of the bedroom? Go for it! Maybe Caesar inspected him like a buyer (cf. Sue. Aug. 69) or even *cough* played marbles with the young Octavian (cf. Sue. Aug. 83)! Maybe Caesar was the instigator— maybe Octavian— maybe (if you want to blend historical record and later wholly fictional portrayals) even Atia.

The ‘Foreskin Play’ tag is here regarding penile infibulation, literally using a pin to ensure the foreskin chastely covers the glans. We think it’s hot. Do with this information what you will. The ‘Homophobic Dirty Talk’ tag was selected with Roman-typical derision of free male passivity in mind, not modern attitudes. Think talking about worn-out holes or Caesar touching a young Octavian’s face and calling him ‘my delicate boy’. That vibe. Feel free to ignore the tag entirely if you need to!

Request-specific DNW: modern homophobic slurs, e.g. the f slur, “fairy”, “queer”, etc.

[Rome (2005)] Julius Caesar/Octavian (FIC)

[Rape/Non-con] Character hits head and wakes up in porn movie version of their life · Character raised to obey male authority figures · Dirty Talk - Homophobic Dirty Talk · Fingerfucking - Fucking Partner’s Mouth with Fingers · Fingering After Fucking · Foreskin Play · Functionally Meaningless Consent · Greek & Roman Sex Politics · Grooming - Psychological · Oral - Face-fucking · Physical inspection/examination as a show of dominance and control · Victim Orgasms During Rape and is Ashamed

You’ve seen the Historical RPF version of this request already. You’ll notice the tags on this one are a lot more… penetrative. Look, it’s HBO, and unnecessarily horny clips like the beginning of this scene from Caesar’s triumph changed us irrevocably.

We’re very much willing to play fast and loose with historical accuracy for the sake of horny in this request. If there’s something that’s hard to work around or you just don’t want to bother, that’s totally fine.

As in the Historical RPF request, the ‘Foreskin Play’ tag is here regarding penile infibulation, literally using a pin to ensure the foreskin chastely covers the glans. We think it’s hot. Do with this information what you will. The ‘Homophobic Dirty Talk’ tag was selected with Roman-typical derision of free male passivity in mind, not modern attitudes. Think talking about worn-out holes or Caesar touching a young Octavian’s face and calling him ‘my delicate boy’. That vibe. Feel free to ignore the tag entirely if you need to!

The ‘Character hits head and wakes up in porn movie version of their life’ tag we were envisioning here as actual, real life Octavian hitting his head and waking up in Rome (2005), which we think would be absolutely hilarious. Like, awful for him, I’m sure, don’t get me wrong. But great for us.

Request-specific DNW: modern homophobic slurs, e.g. the f slur, “fairy”, “queer”, etc.

[Rome (2005)] Octavian/Titus Pullo (FIC)

[No Archive Warnings Apply, Underage] "Practice" No-Homo Sex Is Actually Real Feelings Sex · Experience - Inexperienced character asks experienced friend to help them 'practice' · Experience - Non-Penetrative Sex to Preserve Virginity · Increasingly transparent attempts to deny that platonic sex-tutoring is actually just sex · Foreskin Play · Masturbation - Character's masturbation is guided/instructed by another · Sparring or Fighting as Foreplay

Look, the tags on this request speak for themselves, really. Would you believe that there is not a single fic for this ship on AO3? Appalling.

Anyway: playing up the age/experience disparity and the expectation that Pullo teach Octavian how to be a man, and the intensely essentialist ideas that Roman society bakes into what a man is and how he acts. Let Pullo wanna fuck Octavian really, really bad. Let Octavian want to be fucked by Pullo! Can they restrain themselves in the face of temptation that would absolutely destroy Pullo’s life?

Going for more of a rom-com than angst or horror energy here, with the caveat that obviously everyone in this show is at least a little evil and unhinged. Horny logic should ultimately win - whether for you that means lingering on the yearning for the forbidden while much more acceptable things, like frotting and intercrural, or it means they actually go for it. Maybe Octavian has to murder a slave to cover it up, I don’t know. Follow your heart.

For the third time now: the ‘Foreskin Play’ tag is here regarding penile infibulation, literally using a pin to ensure the foreskin chastely covers the glans. We think it’s hot. Do with this information what you will. The underage archive warning has been selected alongside NAWA because Octavian is underage by modern standards, and we absolutely do fetishize pederasty and you should feel very free to do so as well if that is your speed, but the characters themselves don’t have any reason to be like ‘that’s a child!’ and we’re not expecting that. Octavian’s the one running the show here, let’s be real.

Request-specific DNW: Pullo depicted as grooming Octavian or their age difference being predatory.

[Baldur’s Gate] Karlach/Zariel (FIC)

[Rape/Non-con, Graphic Depictions of Violence] Competence Kink · Consensual But It Shouldn't Be · Danger/Adrenaline Kink · Degrading Praise · Dub/Noncon - Victim Mouths Off and Makes Things Worse for Self · Falsely Gentle Threatening Touches · Fingerfucking - Fucking Partner’s Mouth with Fingers · Incest - Ancestor/Descendant Incest · Injuries - Blood and Injury · Injuries - Wound Fingering · Medical Care/Repairs as Foreplay · Medical Kink - Victim Used As Anatomy/Medical Practice Dummy · Non-Consensual Body Modification · Physical inspection/examination as a show of dominance and control · Robots - Kinking on Cyborg/Robot/AI Partner's Mechanical Body Parts · Sex After Non-Consensual Body Modification · Size - Size Difference · Torture - Torturer and Victim Both Realize They're Getting Off On It

Obviously this ship was built for noncon, and noncon body modification with incredibly sexualized guro, and regular noncon immediately after or during noncon body modification with incredibly sexualized guro. But we also needn’t be limited to just those options. There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see, or however that tweet goes. Karlach was Zariel’s favorite for a decade. Zariel wants her back. Zariel always fought on the front lines of the Blood War alongside her soldiers. Alongside Karlach.

Zariel is also ten feet tall and has claws and a flail replacing one hand and there’s so many horny options here in so many different flavors. We haven’t even touched on the incest yet. The incest really adds something, I gotta tell ya.

We haven’t played/read Descent Into Avernus yet so it’s totally fine if you haven’t. If you have, follow your heart, we don’t mind spoilers.

[Baldur’s Gate] Karlach/Mizora (FIC)

[No Archive Warnings Apply, Rape/Non-con] Character study through porn · Clearly The Fact That We Keep Having Sex Is A Series of Unrelated Bad Decisions · Characters Turned on By Murder · Competence Kink · Competitiveness in Bed · Consensual But Not Safe Or Sane · Dubcon - Repeated DubCon as Part of a Cat & Mouse Game Between Rivals · Falsely Gentle Threatening Touches · Robots - Kinking on Cyborg/Robot/AI Partner's Mechanical Body Parts

Okay. Look. Yes, Karlach says she never fucked anyone in Avernus. However, personally, if I had been fucking the woman who sent my new friend/maybe boyfriend to kill me and then noncon TF’d him into a devil to punish him for not doing that. I would probably lie. For his sake, really.

Anyway, we don’t know why Mizora sent Wyll to kill Karlach (it wasn’t because she’d escaped, because she hadn’t actually done that yet when Wyll was first sent after her), and we’ve chosen to believe, in the absence of any major evidence to the contrary, it’s because they had a bad breakup and Mizora is a sore loser. We know they knew each other in the hells, and when you sleep with Mizora while romancing Karlach, Mizora offers Karlach a turn. Is there anything else I need to say to convince you?

Morally dubious Karlach is great here - remember, this is a woman who will gladly eat souls for a pick-me-up and threatens to kill you if you stop letting her do that. She can be a little fucked up, as a treat. Maybe there’s some jealousy or competitiveness vying for Zariel’s attention wrapped up in all of this, maybe Mizora was someone Karlach once trusted (or as close as you can get to trusting someone in Avernus) and there’s some deeper personal betrayal going on. Maybe it’s just no-thoughts-only-horny PWP. Up to you!

Background/implied Mizora/Wyll and whatever her relationships are like with her warlocks generally is fine, as is background Karlach/Zariel!

[Baldur’s Gate] Karlach/Wyll, Astarion/Karlach/Wyll (FIC)

[No Archive Warnings Apply] Mutual Masturbation With Intent to Watch Each Other in Lieu of First Time Sex · Characters mutually pining finally get together and have amazing sex · C overhears A/B discussing a fantasy involving them · Dancing as Foreplay · Monstrous transformation does not get in the way of a relationship - it makes things better · Talked to Orgasm · Touch-starved character overwhelmed from seemingly innocent touches · Kiss - CPR Turns Into Kissing · Kiss - "We Lived" Kiss Reveals Feelings · Polyamory - Character in v-shaped relationship gets their lovers together · Threesome - A/B have sex while C watches · Threesome - Established Couple Seducing Third Character

This is the cute one. Wyll is very sweet and doesn’t have a murder kink and he’s a good partner who spurs his loved ones on to generally make good choices. Thank goodness someone here is, huh?

A lot of these tags speak for themselves! Some probably require further explanation. As for the ‘Monstrous transformation…’ tag: Wyll obviously has some (very understandable) body dysphoria due to being turned into a devil! He should get to see some positives too! Whether that’s just how sexy both Karlach and Astarion think his horns are or some fun with the “bumps and prongs in unmentionable places”, ahem. Related to that link, “C overhears A/B discussing a fantasy involving them”... well.

On the CPR tag: look. Does CPR break ribs? Yes. Can that be sexy? Yes, if you’re not a coward. Should Wyll’s ribs get broken and then he gets kissed better? Yes. Yes they should. And thank god someone in this ship has a working heart.

A/B while C watches could be Karlach/Wyll with Astarion watching, or if you can pull off Wyll having sex before Karlach’s heart is fixed maybe she’s the one watching. We aren’t super picky. We ship these three in every iteration. Live your truth. If post-game: we’re very fond of the crew in Avernus, but if you have another resolution in mind that doesn’t go against DNWs, go for it!

If filling Karlach/Wyll: background flirting with or crushing on Astarion by either or both is welcome, as is combining this prompt with the one below. For either ship in this request: past/referenced Mizora/Wyll, Karlach/Mizora, Karlach/Zariel, Astarion/Cazador and/or Astarion/various is fine.

Request-specific DNWs: Tav or Durge; Ascended Astarion or mindflayer Karlach; Astarion’s issues with sex and intimacy resolved by either Cazador’s death or True Love (him pretending they are and hurting himself in the process is fine)

[Baldur’s Gate] Astarion/Karlach (FIC)

[No Archive Warnings Apply] Characters Turned on By Murder · Competence Kink · Danger/Adrenaline Kink · Dubcon sexual relationship develops feelings · Faking Reciprocated Interest to Make Other Character Happy · Fisting with a semi-corporeal hand · Licking Blood off Partner's Face · Masturbation - Character's masturbation is guided/instructed by another · Mutual Masturbation With Intent to Watch Each Other in Lieu of First Time Sex · Sex While Covered In The Blood of Their Enemies · Soft Cock · Talked to Orgasm · Touch-starved character overwhelmed from seemingly innocent touches

We love these two a lot. They have so much in common! Siding with Karlach is the first ‘good’ action that gets you Astarion approval in the game! All of the dialogue they have about each other is incredibly fond and their romance arcs with each other are fantastic! Sometimes I think about them holding hands and I tear up.

Anyway. They’re also murder-horny little freaks who eat people (or, well, souls, in Karlach’s case. See above in the Karlach/Mizora section for more on our opinions about Karlach and morality), and we deserve to see them be murder-horny little freaks in love.

Wanna do Act 1/early Act 2 stuff before Karlach’s heart is fixed with guided masturbation and/or Astarion’s Mage Hand (which in 5e base rules is immune to fire damage)? Hell yeah. Fisting like the tag says is great, and fingering is only not here because we forgot to nominate it—whoops! Wanna do something later on with, like, cuddling and tenderness (while maybe still being a little unhinged)? Love it. Every time on Karlach origin we’d run up to Astarion to check if he has dialogue and they’d be sighing over how beautiful the other was and both of them were always just completely soaked in blood, it was great. You can really lean into that.

The ‘Soft Cock’ tag is here because, look, first of all, we have a fetish, and secondly Astarion is a food-insecure vampire. Surely there are occasions, many of them, especially in Act 2 where almost everything is undead, where Astarion doesn’t have enough blood in his body to have an erection. I cannot overemphasize how you can absolutely not go too far with this one. Hell, the Act 2 dialogue with Raphael explaining Ascension arguably supports the idea that vampires can’t get hard at all no matter how well fed they are (“the arousals and appetites of man will return to him”).

On the dubcon and ‘Faking Reciprocated Interest…’ tags: emphasis there on the ‘catching feelings’, like… we do very much endgame ship them, but that doesn’t mean the road there isn’t rocky, and faking reciprocated sexual interest while not faking reciprocated romantic interest is a mess and a half that would be a lot of fun to explore.

Background flirting with or crushing on Wyll by either or both of them is fine, as is combining this prompt with the prompt above. Past/referenced Karlach/Mizora, Karlach/Zariel, Astarion/Cazador, and Astarion/various is all fine.

Request-specific DNWs: Tav or Durge; Ascended Astarion or mindflayer Karlach; Astarion’s issues with sex and intimacy resolved by either Cazador’s death or True Love (him pretending they are and hurting himself in the process is fine)

[Baldur’s Gate] Astarion/Cazador (FIC)

[Rape/Non-con] Character study through porn · Degrading Praise · Dream sex resulting in real orgasm · Falsely Gentle Threatening Touches · Fingering After Fucking · Injuries - Wound Fingering · Mind Control - Victim Can Still Think And/Or Talk But Can't Control Their Body · Physical inspection/examination as a show of dominance and control · Place - Sex In A Graveyard · Sex After Non-Consensual Body Modification · Sloppy Seconds · Soft Cock

The obligatory vampire incest prompt—and please feel very free to emphasize the incest/pseudocest angle.

Pre-canon? So many options, including Cazador fucking Astarion on his grave, which is certainly the only reason I can fathom why Astarion later propositions the player there. Mid-canon? Imagine the horror of Astarion reliving a memory in trance while in camp and coming back to himself having spent himself! Or something set after a successful kidnapping, I don’t know. Go wild, be creative. Hell, set it before Astarion was even murdered. We’re not at all married to the whole ‘magistrate randomly murdered by monster hunters while a vampire lord just so happened to be nearby’ thing. Literally every part of that could be a lie if you felt so inclined.

On the ‘Soft Cock’ tag, as explained in the prompt above as well: Raphael’s explanation of Ascension arguably implies that vampires are on the whole physiologically incapable of having erections, and that’s super hot, but so is the good old fashioned trope where they can get hard if they’re well-fed. Which… Cazador is, but Astarion generally isn’t. Maybe never. Unless Cazador specifically wants him to be. Ahem.

‘Sloppy Seconds’ probably speaks for itself, but you can throw that ‘Fingering After Fucking’ tag at the exact same scenario if you want! Nobody said that the person doing the fingering and the person doing the fucking had to be the same.

Background/referenced Cazador/Vellioth, Astarion/various, or any variety of ships you can construct among Cazador and his children is fine; if writing something set mid-canon, background Astarion/Karlach or Astarion/Wyll or the three of them together is also fine.

Request-specific DNW waiver: it’s okay to mention Astarion feeding on rats, just please don’t focus on it.

Request-specific DNWs: Tav or Durge; Ascended Astarion; Astarion’s issues with sex and intimacy resolved by either Cazador’s death or True Love (him pretending they are and hurting himself in the process is fine)


Thanks again for reading, and happy S4S!

With love,
graiai