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saiditallbeforeDear Creator,
I'm sure I'll like whatever you make for me, so just have fun! I know there are some pairings that have more prompts than others, but that just means I had a lot of ideas for those (or had a past letter to copy & paste from). If I requested a character, I would be happy to see just about anything for them!
I am open to extra treats.
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Things I like:
Smut Likes:
Vid-specific likes + notes:
I prefer vids that don’t have a lot of super quick cuts (they give me headaches), and I don't particularly like when dialogue is overlapping with song lyrics. Some of my favorite fanvids can be found here if you want to know what I’ve liked in the past, but I’m really open to pretty much anything! I’m less interested in “woo super cool effects” and more interested with how you put clips and music together and make me feel things. My musical tastes are pretty varied and I love discovering new songs through vids, so feel free to use anything you think would fit. A few extra likes:
DNWs:
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Solo: Margot Robbie's Barbie
I really love Barbie. I love her existential crisis at the beginning, and I love her discovery of the real world with all its good and its bad. She's just so earnest. Most of the time she doesn't know what she's doing, and she gives up really quickly at first (because she's never had any problems before), but I love seeing her pull together with Gloria and Sasha and the other Barbies to defeat the Ken patriarchy. And I love seeing her fall in love with humanity and decide she wants to be human, too.
Margot Robbie's Barbie/Gloria
I love these two together! Gloria is just so much fun, and I love how much she loves Barbie (both as a concept and a person). She's just so delighted by every part of Barbieland! And I love how she helps Barbie fix Barbieland, and how it's her speech about being a woman that brings the Barbies back. She and Barbie have a great dynamic together, too, and I would love to see more of the two of them in the real world.
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Fandom-specific note: I am not interested in any of the DCEU outside of Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn. Feel free to make references, but I haven't seen most other DCEU movies so I will probably not get them. I am also not interested in comic characterization for anyone, but especially Cassandra.
Helena Bertinelli & Dinah Lance & Renee Montoya
Helena Bertinelli & Dinah Lance & Renee Montoya & Harleen Quinzel
Helena Bertinelli & Cassandra Cain & Dinah Lance & Renee Montoya & Harleen Quinzel
I'd love something that picks up where we leave off at the end of the movie. Tell me about the Birds of Prey in this universe! What does their brand of vigilantism look like? I'm guessing they don't immediately click as a team, even after everything they've been through; what does that look like?
I'd also love to see the Birds of Prey interacting with Cass and Harley. Maybe they find a reason to work together again, or maybe the Birds have to stop something that Harley has gotten wrapped up in.
Cassandra Cain & Harleen Quinzel
I'm really fascinated by the relationship between Cassandra and Harley! I like the connection they forge in the movie-- they really seem to care about each other, at least in the moments when they let their guards down. I love that Cass becomes Harley's apprentice in the end! What does that entail?
Helena Bertinelli/Dinah Lance
I really enjoyed the chemistry between these two in their interactions in the movie. They're both serious, but in very different ways, and I'd love to see how that continues to play out as they work together.
Dinah Lance/Harleen Quinzel
I really loved the chemistry between Dinah and Harley in this movie! I liked that they didn't necessarily like each other, but they seemed to understand each other. I like that they are both trying to make the most out of the hands they've been dealt, and they're both going about it very differently. What happens to them next? Do they keep having weird run-ins all around Gotham? Does Harley ever team up with the Birds of Prey?
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Fandom-specific notes: My usual DNW for brainwashing/mental horror/fucking around inside people's minds doesn't apply to the canon-typical memory fuckery. DNW putting nuclear family labels on any crew-as-family dynamics (aka no referring to Two as the mom of the crew or whatever). I'm not really interested in anything set pre-canon, but of course complications arising from their pasts is always fun.
Solo: The Raza Crew
For crew, I'm fine with including any of our original seven crew members, plus Nyx. Feel free to set this at any point in canon or post-canon.
I love this group of criminal misfits. I love that they're dysfunctional and don't get along half the time but are also willing to go to extreme lengths for each other. I love that they fuck up and keep fucking up and sometimes those choices and mistakes are fixable (Six) and sometimes they really aren't (Four). I love how conflicted our original crew members are about the people they used to be, and the ways they try to differentiate themselves. I like that when most of our characters see glimpses of the people they used to be, they're angry and upset and want to do better. No one on the Raza is ever under the impression that they're heroes, but they do their best with what they're given. I also really just love the themes that run throughout the show of autonomy and choosing your own destiny. Notes about Two, Three, Five, the Android, and Nyx are all below, but here are some short thoughts on the others.
One: One is so earnest and so intent on trying his best and sometimes that's annoying, but in general those are traits I really like. He can be a little pushy (especially when it comes to Two), but I like that he's determined to be better than he was pre-memory wipe, and how reluctant he was to go back to the life of a wealthy industrialist.
Four: I really like Four, but I have mixed feelings about Ryo Ishida. He's kind of a tragic figure, so driven by the desire to regain his throne that he throws away his new home and the people who care about him. The finale left him with a chance for redemption though, and I think that would be interesting to explore.
Six: Like One, Six is generally just trying his best. And sometimes his best sucks! (Usually when he's trying to hard to be a cop.) But he always tries to make up for his mistakes, and I especially love how much he and Five care about each other.
I would love more canon-typical adventures, which in this canon could mean almost anything. Heists, time travel, time loops, alternate universes, zombies, space battles... it's all canon and I love it all. I'd also like canon-divergent AUs: what if One and/or Sarah and/or Nyx and/or Six lived? What if Four didn't reintegrate his memories? There's also a lot of room for missing scenes and moments, and the finale left some threads unresolved. There's an alien threat still out there (and inside of Two), both Five and Two have long-lost family members, Three is a prisoner of Portia Lin, and a looming android revolt. What happens next?
Solo: Two
Two is one of my absolute favorites in this show. She's willing to step up and lead when the rest of the crew can't get their act together, and she keeps their respect throughout the show. I love her journey to discover her dark past, and her insistence that she's not Rebecca or Portia, but Two. I love that she's the ultimate badass-- not just because of her nanites, but because of her willpower. She's fiercely protective of her ship and her crew, even when she's at odds with them, and I love how willing she always is to sacrifice herself for them.
Solo: Five
I love Five. I love that even in the beginning, when she's afraid and wary of her new crew mates, she's still more clever than most of them give her credit for. At first, the violence surrounding her is terrifying and upsetting, and violence is almost never her first resort, but she's willing to do whatever she has to in order to protect her newly found family. And I love that the crew quickly realizes how capable she is, and that she's both helpful and dangerous in her own right. I like that the rest of the crew is driven to protect her and teach her to protect herself. She's the heart of this little crew, always reminding the others that they're friends or family and that they have to rely on one another.
Solo: The Android
I adore the Android. I love her journey of discovering that she's her own person, apart from her programming, and the way she'll do anything for her crew. I like that she's not interested in being human or even pretending to be human outside of ops; she doesn't need to be human to be a respected member of the crew. I love her conflicts about her origins, and that she's so much more than she was originally intended to be. I'd be interested in her continuing conflict over the possibility of an android revolt, or how she thinks about the crew, or more opportunities for her to go on ops.
Five & Two
I love how much respect Five has for Two, right from the beginning. It's a little rough at a couple points, but they're so close by the end of the show. I like that Two starts out doing her best to protect Five and shelter her from life on the Raza, but also that she comes to respect Five's abilities and what she can bring to the team. I love how much they care about each other, and how well they work together.
Five & Three
I really grew to love the oddball relationship between these two. I love how it goes from fear and dislike to grudging acceptance to ride-or-die family. I'd love to see more about how they get there and how they grow to respect and like each other. Even at his best, Three is a smug asshole, but he's a very different kind of asshole in season 3 than he was in season 1. I really like the relationship they have by 2x11, where they care about each other, work together, and trust each other.
Nyx Harper/Two
For this, I'd love an AU where Nyx lives, although I'd also love something set during Nyx's canonical days on the ship. (Please don't include her death in the fic if you go that route, though.)
These two have incredibly chemistry and work together so well. I also just think Nyx is a fascinating character! Her precognitive abilities are really cool, and I'd be interested in her thoughts on the crew of the Raza (especially Two) as she meets them and becomes one of them. I'd love to see more of them working together, plotting their prison escape together, and learning more about each other.
Two/The Android
I love that the Android is absolutely dedicated to Two/Portia in any universe, and that Two always treats her as a member of the crew. Not to mention the past relationship between Two and Dr. Shaw! Even without their memories, the two of them were drawn together and became friends. They have such fun chemistry, and they make a great team.
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Solo: Qi'ra
Qi'ra is one of my favorite character types: the ambitious and morally gray woman. She's kind of terrible and selfish and I am into it. I would adore something about Qi’ra and how she went from the White Worms to Crimson Dawn. How did Dryden Vos find her? How did she become his most trusted lieutenant? Post-canon, I’d love anything about her and Maul as she’s being trained by him. And what does that training entail? I’m totally here for Force-sensitive Qi’ra, if that’s a direction you want to go! And Dathomir is one of my favorite settings, if you want to go that direction.
I would also love Qi'ra/any other woman (canon or OC) in the Rebellion Era, if that's a direction you want to go. (I have thoughts on a lot of Qi'ra ships elsewhere on my journal, if you're interested.) I don't mind Qi'ra/Han, but I like it more as a casual hookup or a wistful "what might have been" thing.
Fandom-specific notes: DNW Tatooine slave culture fanon.
Ackmena/Shmi Skywalker
Here is the entirety of Ackmena's appearance in the Star Wars Holiday Special. It's just under 15 minutes. If you need further enticement, she's played by Bea Arthur!
Anyway, I really love the idea of an AU where Shmi and Ackmena fall in love, probably set sometime during the PT era. How do they meet? How do they fall for each other? Does Ackmena buy Shmi's freedom? Or maybe something set after they get together, with Shmi and Ackmena trying to keep the bar afloat under the thumb of the Empire?
Solo: Pash Devane
(Note: Pash Davane appears in the stand-alone comic, Star Wars Annual #2.)
PASH. <3 I love her cynical-ass view on the world and also I love her giant arms and her ability to bash a dude’s head in with a brick. I’d love more about Pash before her planet was ruined by war-- what was her life like? What did she do, as an underwater engineer? Or tell me more about after she joins the Rebellion. Does she get to be an engineer again? How does she feel about the decidedly-less-cynical others in the Rebellion? How does Han feel about her ripping the sleeves off of his shirt? Please feel free to feature Bruce, too!
Pash Devane/Leia Organa
I’d love some continuing adventures of Pash and Leia! Maybe they have to bail each other out of trouble a couple more times, maybe they meet up when Leia is back at base (does she come up with threadbare excuses to come and see the engineers?). The comic was basically one of my favorite scenarios already (forced to work together) but I’d love a reversal where they’re on Leia’s home ground, rather than Pash’s.
Solo: Chelli Lona Aphra
I absolutely adore Aphra. I love how amoral and self-serving she is, even when she's perfectly aware that she's only hurting herself in the long term. I love how smart she is, and how those smarts get her both into and out of trouble.
I'd love to see more of her adventures! Maybe it's a run-of-the-mill (for her) trip into an abandoned temple to find valuable artifacts, or maybe she runs afoul of the Empire or the Rebellion (or both).
I'm open to pairing her with Sana, Tolvan, or any other woman (canon or OC) in this era the GFFA.
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Fandom-specific notes: I'm always down for Padme Lives AUs, if you are interested. Please no bashing of Anakin or the Jedi Order; I generally see them as flawed people who are doing their best and sometimes (often) failing.
Solo: Padme Amidala
Padme!!! I love her courage and how much she believes in democracy, and I love that she's also a badass warrior queen with a cadre of handmaidens who serve as her ninja bodydoubles. I love that her first love is the Republic, and everything else in her life comes second. And of course, I love, love, love her clothes. I ship Padme with any and all women, especially her handmaidens but also Breha Organa and Mon Mothma, and I also ship Padme/Anakin if you want to play with that.
One of the things that really fascinates me about Padme is how young she is. She's Queen of Naboo at fourteen, and senator only a few years later. She's spent most of her life under extreme pressure, in incredibly powerful and incredibly isolating positions. I think that's actually one of the things that drew her and Anakin together-- they're both incredibly gifted young people who are kind of isolated from their peers and spent a lot of time under immense pressure. I'm also interested in seeing how that plays into all her other relationships-- with her handmaidens, with her fellow senators, with her family.
I'd rather not have her death portrayed directly onscreen, but I'm fine with both canon and with AUs where she lives and helps the Rebellion.
Padme Amidala & Royal Handmaidens
This meta sums up a lot of what I find fascinating about Padme and her handmaidens! They're her friends, her bodyguards, her advisors all in one. They know her mannerisms well enough to pass as her, and they even speak for her when one of them is playing the Queen! There's so much trust there, and even a kind of codependence. I'm also a huge loyalty kink fan, and being willing to die in your friend's place as her body double is so good for that.
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Fandom-specific note: I am a show-only fan, so please do not hinge any fanworks around knowledge from the books. Please feel free to include elements of season 2, as I will be keeping up with it. Also please feel free to include any of the following ships: Moiraine/Siuan, Nynaeve/Egwene, Nynaeve/Lan, Moiraine/Lan, Moiraine/Lan/Nynaeve, Moiraine/Nynaeve, Moiraine/Egwene
Solo: Moiraine Damodred
Moiraine is a shady bitch and I absolutely love that about her. It's completely understandable-- she's been spending 20 years looking for the next Dragon Reborn! But even though her motives are generally pure, she still spends a lot of time pushing people around or manipulating them. (Again, to be clear, I love that for her.) I'm really interested in how she feels about that. Does she feel conflicted? I'm also really fascinated by her relationship with Siuan: they clearly love each other, but their duties keep them apart. I'd love to see more stolen moments between them. Or her relationship with Lan: he's the only other person who knows all her secrets, and she knows his. I love their chemistry on the show, and I'd love to see more of their years on the road, with only each other for company. I'm also really interested in her relationships with the Edmond's Field Five. Most of them don't really trust her, and she gives them very little reason to.
I'd also love something set post S1! What does she do now that she's cut off from the One Power? Where does she go, now that she's been exiled from Tar Valon? She agreed to lie and say Rand died; is she worried that her deception might be found out?
Solo: Nynaeve al'Meara
I absolutely adore Nynaeve. I love how protective she is of the people she cares about, and that she refuses to be afraid of things that should definitely scare her. She's such a badass! Tracking Lan and Moiraine, threatening Lan with her dagger, healing Lan and everyone else, healing Egwene at the battle of Fal Dara... I love her so much. I'd love anything about her: maybe what she's feeling after she left home to bring Rand, Mat, Perrin, and Egwene back, and now Rand and Mat are gone? Or more of her and Moiraine butting heads? Or maybe she gets accepted into the Aes Sedai, but she still doesn't really trust any of them? Or missing scenes, or her relationship with Lan or honestly anything that comes to mind for you.
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I'm sure I'll like whatever you make for me, so just have fun! I know there are some pairings that have more prompts than others, but that just means I had a lot of ideas for those (or had a past letter to copy & paste from). If I requested a character, I would be happy to see just about anything for them!
I am open to extra treats.
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Things I like:
- Competency
- Outsider POV
- Hurt/Comfort
- Friends-to-Lovers
- Enemies-to-Lovers
- Families of Choice
- Angst with a happy ending
- Pretend dating or secretly dating
- Casefic
- Porn with plot
- Happy or happy-for-now endings
- Heists (ex: Leverage, Ocean’s 11)
- Language barriers
- Timeloops
- Loyalty kink
- Time travel, dimension travel/dimension hopping
- Stranded together/forced to work together
- Arranged marriage/political marriage/marriage of convenience
- Fpreg (especially in conjunction with arranged marriage, etc.)
- Ghost sex
- Non-mundane AUs (ex: Regency, dragon riders, fantasy, state-mandated ghost hunters)
- Stargazing
- Kissing in the rain
- People without superpowers/special abilities kicking ass alongside people who do have powers/abilities
- Genderbending male characters to female (of the "always a girl" variety)
Smut Likes:
- Bondage
- Phone sex
- Dom/sub
- Cunnilingus
- Pain mixed with pleasure (intentional or unintentional)
- Orgasm denial
- Hate sex
- Object insertion (vaginal only)
- Nipple play
- Spanking
- Vaginal fisting
Vid-specific likes + notes:
I prefer vids that don’t have a lot of super quick cuts (they give me headaches), and I don't particularly like when dialogue is overlapping with song lyrics. Some of my favorite fanvids can be found here if you want to know what I’ve liked in the past, but I’m really open to pretty much anything! I’m less interested in “woo super cool effects” and more interested with how you put clips and music together and make me feel things. My musical tastes are pretty varied and I love discovering new songs through vids, so feel free to use anything you think would fit. A few extra likes:
- Unexpected juxtaposition of music & vid
- Fight scenes
- Quiet character moments
- Themes of revenge & character growth
DNWs:
- Unrequested on-screen character death
- Unprompted crossovers or fusions
- Levels of violence that are graphic or extreme beyond canon
- Unrequested non-con (dub-con or non-con in requested scenarios is A-OK)
- Brainwashing/mental horror/fucking around inside people's minds
- Focus on unrequested pairings
- Breathplay
- Anal sex
- Homophobia
- Focus on the breakup of canon relationships (please just say it didn't work out or it never happened; don't make a Big Thing about it)
- Putting nuclear family labels ("mom"/"dad"/"child"/etc) on found family relationships
Barbie
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Solo: Margot Robbie's Barbie
I really love Barbie. I love her existential crisis at the beginning, and I love her discovery of the real world with all its good and its bad. She's just so earnest. Most of the time she doesn't know what she's doing, and she gives up really quickly at first (because she's never had any problems before), but I love seeing her pull together with Gloria and Sasha and the other Barbies to defeat the Ken patriarchy. And I love seeing her fall in love with humanity and decide she wants to be human, too.
Margot Robbie's Barbie/Gloria
I love these two together! Gloria is just so much fun, and I love how much she loves Barbie (both as a concept and a person). She's just so delighted by every part of Barbieland! And I love how she helps Barbie fix Barbieland, and how it's her speech about being a woman that brings the Barbies back. She and Barbie have a great dynamic together, too, and I would love to see more of the two of them in the real world.
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
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Fandom-specific note: I am not interested in any of the DCEU outside of Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn. Feel free to make references, but I haven't seen most other DCEU movies so I will probably not get them. I am also not interested in comic characterization for anyone, but especially Cassandra.
Helena Bertinelli & Dinah Lance & Renee Montoya
Helena Bertinelli & Dinah Lance & Renee Montoya & Harleen Quinzel
Helena Bertinelli & Cassandra Cain & Dinah Lance & Renee Montoya & Harleen Quinzel
I'd love something that picks up where we leave off at the end of the movie. Tell me about the Birds of Prey in this universe! What does their brand of vigilantism look like? I'm guessing they don't immediately click as a team, even after everything they've been through; what does that look like?
I'd also love to see the Birds of Prey interacting with Cass and Harley. Maybe they find a reason to work together again, or maybe the Birds have to stop something that Harley has gotten wrapped up in.
Cassandra Cain & Harleen Quinzel
I'm really fascinated by the relationship between Cassandra and Harley! I like the connection they forge in the movie-- they really seem to care about each other, at least in the moments when they let their guards down. I love that Cass becomes Harley's apprentice in the end! What does that entail?
Helena Bertinelli/Dinah Lance
I really enjoyed the chemistry between these two in their interactions in the movie. They're both serious, but in very different ways, and I'd love to see how that continues to play out as they work together.
Dinah Lance/Harleen Quinzel
I really loved the chemistry between Dinah and Harley in this movie! I liked that they didn't necessarily like each other, but they seemed to understand each other. I like that they are both trying to make the most out of the hands they've been dealt, and they're both going about it very differently. What happens to them next? Do they keep having weird run-ins all around Gotham? Does Harley ever team up with the Birds of Prey?
Dark Matter
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Fandom-specific notes: My usual DNW for brainwashing/mental horror/fucking around inside people's minds doesn't apply to the canon-typical memory fuckery. DNW putting nuclear family labels on any crew-as-family dynamics (aka no referring to Two as the mom of the crew or whatever). I'm not really interested in anything set pre-canon, but of course complications arising from their pasts is always fun.
Solo: The Raza Crew
For crew, I'm fine with including any of our original seven crew members, plus Nyx. Feel free to set this at any point in canon or post-canon.
I love this group of criminal misfits. I love that they're dysfunctional and don't get along half the time but are also willing to go to extreme lengths for each other. I love that they fuck up and keep fucking up and sometimes those choices and mistakes are fixable (Six) and sometimes they really aren't (Four). I love how conflicted our original crew members are about the people they used to be, and the ways they try to differentiate themselves. I like that when most of our characters see glimpses of the people they used to be, they're angry and upset and want to do better. No one on the Raza is ever under the impression that they're heroes, but they do their best with what they're given. I also really just love the themes that run throughout the show of autonomy and choosing your own destiny. Notes about Two, Three, Five, the Android, and Nyx are all below, but here are some short thoughts on the others.
One: One is so earnest and so intent on trying his best and sometimes that's annoying, but in general those are traits I really like. He can be a little pushy (especially when it comes to Two), but I like that he's determined to be better than he was pre-memory wipe, and how reluctant he was to go back to the life of a wealthy industrialist.
Four: I really like Four, but I have mixed feelings about Ryo Ishida. He's kind of a tragic figure, so driven by the desire to regain his throne that he throws away his new home and the people who care about him. The finale left him with a chance for redemption though, and I think that would be interesting to explore.
Six: Like One, Six is generally just trying his best. And sometimes his best sucks! (Usually when he's trying to hard to be a cop.) But he always tries to make up for his mistakes, and I especially love how much he and Five care about each other.
I would love more canon-typical adventures, which in this canon could mean almost anything. Heists, time travel, time loops, alternate universes, zombies, space battles... it's all canon and I love it all. I'd also like canon-divergent AUs: what if One and/or Sarah and/or Nyx and/or Six lived? What if Four didn't reintegrate his memories? There's also a lot of room for missing scenes and moments, and the finale left some threads unresolved. There's an alien threat still out there (and inside of Two), both Five and Two have long-lost family members, Three is a prisoner of Portia Lin, and a looming android revolt. What happens next?
Solo: Two
Two is one of my absolute favorites in this show. She's willing to step up and lead when the rest of the crew can't get their act together, and she keeps their respect throughout the show. I love her journey to discover her dark past, and her insistence that she's not Rebecca or Portia, but Two. I love that she's the ultimate badass-- not just because of her nanites, but because of her willpower. She's fiercely protective of her ship and her crew, even when she's at odds with them, and I love how willing she always is to sacrifice herself for them.
Solo: Five
I love Five. I love that even in the beginning, when she's afraid and wary of her new crew mates, she's still more clever than most of them give her credit for. At first, the violence surrounding her is terrifying and upsetting, and violence is almost never her first resort, but she's willing to do whatever she has to in order to protect her newly found family. And I love that the crew quickly realizes how capable she is, and that she's both helpful and dangerous in her own right. I like that the rest of the crew is driven to protect her and teach her to protect herself. She's the heart of this little crew, always reminding the others that they're friends or family and that they have to rely on one another.
Solo: The Android
I adore the Android. I love her journey of discovering that she's her own person, apart from her programming, and the way she'll do anything for her crew. I like that she's not interested in being human or even pretending to be human outside of ops; she doesn't need to be human to be a respected member of the crew. I love her conflicts about her origins, and that she's so much more than she was originally intended to be. I'd be interested in her continuing conflict over the possibility of an android revolt, or how she thinks about the crew, or more opportunities for her to go on ops.
Five & Two
I love how much respect Five has for Two, right from the beginning. It's a little rough at a couple points, but they're so close by the end of the show. I like that Two starts out doing her best to protect Five and shelter her from life on the Raza, but also that she comes to respect Five's abilities and what she can bring to the team. I love how much they care about each other, and how well they work together.
Five & Three
I really grew to love the oddball relationship between these two. I love how it goes from fear and dislike to grudging acceptance to ride-or-die family. I'd love to see more about how they get there and how they grow to respect and like each other. Even at his best, Three is a smug asshole, but he's a very different kind of asshole in season 3 than he was in season 1. I really like the relationship they have by 2x11, where they care about each other, work together, and trust each other.
Nyx Harper/Two
For this, I'd love an AU where Nyx lives, although I'd also love something set during Nyx's canonical days on the ship. (Please don't include her death in the fic if you go that route, though.)
These two have incredibly chemistry and work together so well. I also just think Nyx is a fascinating character! Her precognitive abilities are really cool, and I'd be interested in her thoughts on the crew of the Raza (especially Two) as she meets them and becomes one of them. I'd love to see more of them working together, plotting their prison escape together, and learning more about each other.
Two/The Android
I love that the Android is absolutely dedicated to Two/Portia in any universe, and that Two always treats her as a member of the crew. Not to mention the past relationship between Two and Dr. Shaw! Even without their memories, the two of them were drawn together and became friends. They have such fun chemistry, and they make a great team.
Solo: A Star Wars Story
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Solo: Qi'ra
Qi'ra is one of my favorite character types: the ambitious and morally gray woman. She's kind of terrible and selfish and I am into it. I would adore something about Qi’ra and how she went from the White Worms to Crimson Dawn. How did Dryden Vos find her? How did she become his most trusted lieutenant? Post-canon, I’d love anything about her and Maul as she’s being trained by him. And what does that training entail? I’m totally here for Force-sensitive Qi’ra, if that’s a direction you want to go! And Dathomir is one of my favorite settings, if you want to go that direction.
I would also love Qi'ra/any other woman (canon or OC) in the Rebellion Era, if that's a direction you want to go. (I have thoughts on a lot of Qi'ra ships elsewhere on my journal, if you're interested.) I don't mind Qi'ra/Han, but I like it more as a casual hookup or a wistful "what might have been" thing.
Star Wars - All Media Types
Fandom-specific notes: DNW Tatooine slave culture fanon.
Ackmena/Shmi Skywalker
Here is the entirety of Ackmena's appearance in the Star Wars Holiday Special. It's just under 15 minutes. If you need further enticement, she's played by Bea Arthur!
Anyway, I really love the idea of an AU where Shmi and Ackmena fall in love, probably set sometime during the PT era. How do they meet? How do they fall for each other? Does Ackmena buy Shmi's freedom? Or maybe something set after they get together, with Shmi and Ackmena trying to keep the bar afloat under the thumb of the Empire?
Star Wars (Marvel Comics)
Solo: Pash Devane
(Note: Pash Davane appears in the stand-alone comic, Star Wars Annual #2.)
PASH. <3 I love her cynical-ass view on the world and also I love her giant arms and her ability to bash a dude’s head in with a brick. I’d love more about Pash before her planet was ruined by war-- what was her life like? What did she do, as an underwater engineer? Or tell me more about after she joins the Rebellion. Does she get to be an engineer again? How does she feel about the decidedly-less-cynical others in the Rebellion? How does Han feel about her ripping the sleeves off of his shirt? Please feel free to feature Bruce, too!
Pash Devane/Leia Organa
I’d love some continuing adventures of Pash and Leia! Maybe they have to bail each other out of trouble a couple more times, maybe they meet up when Leia is back at base (does she come up with threadbare excuses to come and see the engineers?). The comic was basically one of my favorite scenarios already (forced to work together) but I’d love a reversal where they’re on Leia’s home ground, rather than Pash’s.
Solo: Chelli Lona Aphra
I absolutely adore Aphra. I love how amoral and self-serving she is, even when she's perfectly aware that she's only hurting herself in the long term. I love how smart she is, and how those smarts get her both into and out of trouble.
I'd love to see more of her adventures! Maybe it's a run-of-the-mill (for her) trip into an abandoned temple to find valuable artifacts, or maybe she runs afoul of the Empire or the Rebellion (or both).
I'm open to pairing her with Sana, Tolvan, or any other woman (canon or OC) in this era the GFFA.
Star Wars Prequel Trilogy
Medium Opt-Ins: Fanvid, In-Universe Fanfic Author's Notes
Fandom-specific notes: I'm always down for Padme Lives AUs, if you are interested. Please no bashing of Anakin or the Jedi Order; I generally see them as flawed people who are doing their best and sometimes (often) failing.
Solo: Padme Amidala
Padme!!! I love her courage and how much she believes in democracy, and I love that she's also a badass warrior queen with a cadre of handmaidens who serve as her ninja bodydoubles. I love that her first love is the Republic, and everything else in her life comes second. And of course, I love, love, love her clothes. I ship Padme with any and all women, especially her handmaidens but also Breha Organa and Mon Mothma, and I also ship Padme/Anakin if you want to play with that.
One of the things that really fascinates me about Padme is how young she is. She's Queen of Naboo at fourteen, and senator only a few years later. She's spent most of her life under extreme pressure, in incredibly powerful and incredibly isolating positions. I think that's actually one of the things that drew her and Anakin together-- they're both incredibly gifted young people who are kind of isolated from their peers and spent a lot of time under immense pressure. I'm also interested in seeing how that plays into all her other relationships-- with her handmaidens, with her fellow senators, with her family.
I'd rather not have her death portrayed directly onscreen, but I'm fine with both canon and with AUs where she lives and helps the Rebellion.
Padme Amidala & Royal Handmaidens
This meta sums up a lot of what I find fascinating about Padme and her handmaidens! They're her friends, her bodyguards, her advisors all in one. They know her mannerisms well enough to pass as her, and they even speak for her when one of them is playing the Queen! There's so much trust there, and even a kind of codependence. I'm also a huge loyalty kink fan, and being willing to die in your friend's place as her body double is so good for that.
The Wheel of Time (TV)
Medium Opt-Ins: Fanvid
Fandom-specific note: I am a show-only fan, so please do not hinge any fanworks around knowledge from the books. Please feel free to include elements of season 2, as I will be keeping up with it. Also please feel free to include any of the following ships: Moiraine/Siuan, Nynaeve/Egwene, Nynaeve/Lan, Moiraine/Lan, Moiraine/Lan/Nynaeve, Moiraine/Nynaeve, Moiraine/Egwene
Solo: Moiraine Damodred
Moiraine is a shady bitch and I absolutely love that about her. It's completely understandable-- she's been spending 20 years looking for the next Dragon Reborn! But even though her motives are generally pure, she still spends a lot of time pushing people around or manipulating them. (Again, to be clear, I love that for her.) I'm really interested in how she feels about that. Does she feel conflicted? I'm also really fascinated by her relationship with Siuan: they clearly love each other, but their duties keep them apart. I'd love to see more stolen moments between them. Or her relationship with Lan: he's the only other person who knows all her secrets, and she knows his. I love their chemistry on the show, and I'd love to see more of their years on the road, with only each other for company. I'm also really interested in her relationships with the Edmond's Field Five. Most of them don't really trust her, and she gives them very little reason to.
I'd also love something set post S1! What does she do now that she's cut off from the One Power? Where does she go, now that she's been exiled from Tar Valon? She agreed to lie and say Rand died; is she worried that her deception might be found out?
Solo: Nynaeve al'Meara
I absolutely adore Nynaeve. I love how protective she is of the people she cares about, and that she refuses to be afraid of things that should definitely scare her. She's such a badass! Tracking Lan and Moiraine, threatening Lan with her dagger, healing Lan and everyone else, healing Egwene at the battle of Fal Dara... I love her so much. I'd love anything about her: maybe what she's feeling after she left home to bring Rand, Mat, Perrin, and Egwene back, and now Rand and Mat are gone? Or more of her and Moiraine butting heads? Or maybe she gets accepted into the Aes Sedai, but she still doesn't really trust any of them? Or missing scenes, or her relationship with Lan or honestly anything that comes to mind for you.
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