Candy Hearts Exchange
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vervulfWelcome, and thank you so much for creating for me. I hope you have a great exchange!
If you have any questions about my letter, please ask via the mods.
Note: I love pining and pre-relationship! In fact, I prefer it to established relationship and totally consider it to fulfill a / request! So please don't worry if you have an idea where the characters don't get together by the end - I promise as long as at least one of them is intensely into the other, I will love it.
General Likes: Pining | Canon Divergence AUs | Characters making and justifying bad decisions | Hurt/Comfort | Repressing or failing to repress feelings | Getting together | Being trapped together in desperate circumstances | Characters who are delighted by one another | Casefic and investigations | Magic | Spooky circumstances | Adventures!
DNWs: Pregnancy of any kind | kidfic | genderswaps | vomit | covid-19 | expansion/inflation kinks | first or second person POV | humiliation | gore | setting change AUs | sex involving characters 15 or younger
Note: While my preferred stance on canon ships is to pretend they never got together (or had an amicable breakup ages ago that we don't need to talk about), for this canon, feel free to keep the canon relationships if you prefer that - I don't mind, eg, Ayda still dating Fig and also being with Adaine, or Esther dating both Sofie and Ricky; I just don't want those canon ships being the focus. For the characters who canonically get pregnant and/or have kids, I'd prefer if we pretended that didn't happen.
Adaine Abernant/Ayda Aguefort
The intensity with which they were both immediately on the "you're my best friend" wavelength really touched my heart! I loved Ayda's devotion to helping Adaine when she was captured and their nerdy-sweet spell exchange. Truly how wizards show love!
Optional prompts:
-Growing closer through clandestine synod meetings
-Nerding out together and/or doing incredible violence together
-Flying together or otherwise enjoying each other's company
-Tenderness and mutual understanding
Adaine Abernant/Figueroth Faeth
I spent most of the first season convinced Adaine had a crush on Fig, so you're welcome to run with that!
Optional prompts:
-Shenanigans at the Strongtower Luxury Apartments
-Bedsharing (or couch-sharing) at Gilear's apartment making it hard to hide feelings
-One of them is hurt in battle and the other one flips out over it
-Fig's extremely transparent tough-girl shell and tender center vs Adaine's apparent forthrightness but slightly greater repression
Aelwyn Abernant/Sam Nightingale
The potential here intrigues me. They're both very hurt young women who use words to defend themselves when they're not whipping out magic, and they have this missing link between them in the form of Penelope, and the fact that Aelwyn was part of the plot that had Sam kidnapped for months and chained to a rock. What draws them together? What do they like about each other?
Optional prompts:
-A physical/magical fight turns into a makeout session; this keeps happening
-They end up late-night phone call buddies after the Nightmare Forest/before the events of The Seven out of mutual loneliness and need to process
-Sam gets into trouble and Aelwyn bails her out, which infuriates Sam
Antiope Jones/Sam Nightingale
Antiope kept GRABBING SAM'S FACE and I was obsessed with it. They love each other deeply, but spent most of the campaign at odds. What are things like when they're not in conflict? If one of them was pining for the other, could she hide it at all?
Optional prompts:
-Hurt/comfort the night of the ball
-Canon divergence where they don't immediately go on a quest and Antiope starts sleeping over at Sam's empty house with her to keep her company
-One of them goes down in battle and the other handles it poorly (no permanent death please)
Antiope Jones/Danielle Barkstock
The moment where Antiope shot Danielle and Danielle was way too chill about it totally sold me on this ship. Danielle, queen of repression, and Antiope, who always wants it all out there and hashed out! Danielle clearly has a breakthrough at the end of the campaign, but what do things look like after that? Or, at any point, what might have happened in one of the various nights where they were (probably) sharing a tent in the wilderness while out on an adventure?
Kingston Brown/Pete Conlan
Equal and opposites, one might even call them two sides of the same coin! I love that Pete's presence brings wonder and good dreams back into Kingston's life and I love that Kingston's presence grounds Pete and helps him grow as a person. I especially love their weird Vox stuff and how their magic swirls every time they hug.
Optional prompts:
-Magical dream pollen of some kind. Truth pollen? Sex pollen? Anything that causes them to lose control and say or do things they mean but wouldn't do otherwise is gravy.
-Shared dreams where they each think the other isn't real at first
-Domesticity in Kingston's apartment leading to Pete developing a crush to end all crushes
Sofia Lee/Esther Sinclair
They had smoking-hot chemistry from the moment they met. Esther, who always had to hold herself back because she couldn't risk triggering her curse, was out there getting drinks with Sofie, and cuddling in bed with her, and trading flirty quips mid-fight...how did Esther justify it to herself? Once the curse is broken, how might she reach out? And how intense was the moment where Esther said to Sofie, "I am loyal to YOU" and burned down the information-sharing arrangement with The Order of the Concrete Fist despite the obvious utility of having access to that information because they burned Sofie first?
Optional prompts:
-Esther's denial and eventual realization that she's in too deep
-Bonding over sorrow and the fear of sorrow
-Fight night!
Eleanor Levetan/Drea Torres
I was obsessed with this ship from the word go. I loved the depths Eleanor was willing to sink to and her surprisingly tender and easily-touched heart despite it, I loved Drea's total self-absorption leading her to not even realizing she was getting played when she thought they were friends, and I love where they ended up! I just want more. I would love anything that keeps up Eleanor's level of investment in Drea and how awful they can both be to not just each other but everyone around them.
Note: I prefer to pretend the credits stuff where they got together with other people never happened.
Optional prompts:
-Drea realizes Eleanor has feelings for her and deliberately makes her jealous, possibly biting off more than she can chew in the process
-Eleanor having spent so long telling herself that Drea will never be into her that she second-guesses every time Drea hits on her until she's convinced it's either all in her head or an elaborate mind game
-Them teaming up again to fuck someone else over and loving every minute of it
-Pre-canon or during canon, Eleanor's miserable and complicated and fucked-up feelings about Drea
-Postcanon, they fuck up someone else's life together and get incredibly horny for each other's evil brains in the process
A newly-discovered favorite, this webnovel features some incredibly delightful dynamics between a whole host of competent women, many of them magicians or werewolves or something even stranger, and is available for free online here.
Twil Hopton/Heather Morell
I was really touched by how Twil kept coming back to save Heather. I love how Twil is very sweet despite herself and how much Heather clearly appreciates it, and how Twil is strong and nearly indestructible but how Heather's incredible powers can totally flip the dynamic there on its head. I'd love anything to do with Heather appreciating Twil's werewolf strength or either of them being flustered and turned on by the other while the other is oblivious. Action/adventure stuff where they're running from baddies - or towards danger - also totally welcome!
Heather Morell/Evelyn Saye
Heather kept thinking about how much she wanted to hug Evelyn, and the whole time I was thinking right along her, "well do that some more, then!" I love how prickly Evelyn is and how pragmatic she tries to be and how Heather kind of sees through her and brings out another side of her. I also love how Evelyn understands Heather's drive and is willing to provide some pretty fucked-up options to help her. I'd love them discovering more about magic together, or having an unexpected moment of physical intimacy, or realizing they're falling in love at the worst possible time.
If you have any questions about my letter, please ask via the mods.
General Preferences
Note: I love pining and pre-relationship! In fact, I prefer it to established relationship and totally consider it to fulfill a / request! So please don't worry if you have an idea where the characters don't get together by the end - I promise as long as at least one of them is intensely into the other, I will love it.
General Likes: Pining | Canon Divergence AUs | Characters making and justifying bad decisions | Hurt/Comfort | Repressing or failing to repress feelings | Getting together | Being trapped together in desperate circumstances | Characters who are delighted by one another | Casefic and investigations | Magic | Spooky circumstances | Adventures!
DNWs: Pregnancy of any kind | kidfic | genderswaps | vomit | covid-19 | expansion/inflation kinks | first or second person POV | humiliation | gore | setting change AUs | sex involving characters 15 or younger
Dimension 20
Note: While my preferred stance on canon ships is to pretend they never got together (or had an amicable breakup ages ago that we don't need to talk about), for this canon, feel free to keep the canon relationships if you prefer that - I don't mind, eg, Ayda still dating Fig and also being with Adaine, or Esther dating both Sofie and Ricky; I just don't want those canon ships being the focus. For the characters who canonically get pregnant and/or have kids, I'd prefer if we pretended that didn't happen.
The intensity with which they were both immediately on the "you're my best friend" wavelength really touched my heart! I loved Ayda's devotion to helping Adaine when she was captured and their nerdy-sweet spell exchange. Truly how wizards show love!
Optional prompts:
-Growing closer through clandestine synod meetings
-Nerding out together and/or doing incredible violence together
-Flying together or otherwise enjoying each other's company
-Tenderness and mutual understanding
I spent most of the first season convinced Adaine had a crush on Fig, so you're welcome to run with that!
Optional prompts:
-Shenanigans at the Strongtower Luxury Apartments
-Bedsharing (or couch-sharing) at Gilear's apartment making it hard to hide feelings
-One of them is hurt in battle and the other one flips out over it
-Fig's extremely transparent tough-girl shell and tender center vs Adaine's apparent forthrightness but slightly greater repression
The potential here intrigues me. They're both very hurt young women who use words to defend themselves when they're not whipping out magic, and they have this missing link between them in the form of Penelope, and the fact that Aelwyn was part of the plot that had Sam kidnapped for months and chained to a rock. What draws them together? What do they like about each other?
Optional prompts:
-A physical/magical fight turns into a makeout session; this keeps happening
-They end up late-night phone call buddies after the Nightmare Forest/before the events of The Seven out of mutual loneliness and need to process
-Sam gets into trouble and Aelwyn bails her out, which infuriates Sam
Antiope kept GRABBING SAM'S FACE and I was obsessed with it. They love each other deeply, but spent most of the campaign at odds. What are things like when they're not in conflict? If one of them was pining for the other, could she hide it at all?
Optional prompts:
-Hurt/comfort the night of the ball
-Canon divergence where they don't immediately go on a quest and Antiope starts sleeping over at Sam's empty house with her to keep her company
-One of them goes down in battle and the other handles it poorly (no permanent death please)
The moment where Antiope shot Danielle and Danielle was way too chill about it totally sold me on this ship. Danielle, queen of repression, and Antiope, who always wants it all out there and hashed out! Danielle clearly has a breakthrough at the end of the campaign, but what do things look like after that? Or, at any point, what might have happened in one of the various nights where they were (probably) sharing a tent in the wilderness while out on an adventure?
Equal and opposites, one might even call them two sides of the same coin! I love that Pete's presence brings wonder and good dreams back into Kingston's life and I love that Kingston's presence grounds Pete and helps him grow as a person. I especially love their weird Vox stuff and how their magic swirls every time they hug.
Optional prompts:
-Magical dream pollen of some kind. Truth pollen? Sex pollen? Anything that causes them to lose control and say or do things they mean but wouldn't do otherwise is gravy.
-Shared dreams where they each think the other isn't real at first
-Domesticity in Kingston's apartment leading to Pete developing a crush to end all crushes
They had smoking-hot chemistry from the moment they met. Esther, who always had to hold herself back because she couldn't risk triggering her curse, was out there getting drinks with Sofie, and cuddling in bed with her, and trading flirty quips mid-fight...how did Esther justify it to herself? Once the curse is broken, how might she reach out? And how intense was the moment where Esther said to Sofie, "I am loyal to YOU" and burned down the information-sharing arrangement with The Order of the Concrete Fist despite the obvious utility of having access to that information because they burned Sofie first?
Optional prompts:
-Esther's denial and eventual realization that she's in too deep
-Bonding over sorrow and the fear of sorrow
-Fight night!
Do Revenge
I was obsessed with this ship from the word go. I loved the depths Eleanor was willing to sink to and her surprisingly tender and easily-touched heart despite it, I loved Drea's total self-absorption leading her to not even realizing she was getting played when she thought they were friends, and I love where they ended up! I just want more. I would love anything that keeps up Eleanor's level of investment in Drea and how awful they can both be to not just each other but everyone around them.
Note: I prefer to pretend the credits stuff where they got together with other people never happened.
Optional prompts:
-Drea realizes Eleanor has feelings for her and deliberately makes her jealous, possibly biting off more than she can chew in the process
-Eleanor having spent so long telling herself that Drea will never be into her that she second-guesses every time Drea hits on her until she's convinced it's either all in her head or an elaborate mind game
-Them teaming up again to fuck someone else over and loving every minute of it
-Pre-canon or during canon, Eleanor's miserable and complicated and fucked-up feelings about Drea
-Postcanon, they fuck up someone else's life together and get incredibly horny for each other's evil brains in the process
Katalepsis
A newly-discovered favorite, this webnovel features some incredibly delightful dynamics between a whole host of competent women, many of them magicians or werewolves or something even stranger, and is available for free online here.
I was really touched by how Twil kept coming back to save Heather. I love how Twil is very sweet despite herself and how much Heather clearly appreciates it, and how Twil is strong and nearly indestructible but how Heather's incredible powers can totally flip the dynamic there on its head. I'd love anything to do with Heather appreciating Twil's werewolf strength or either of them being flustered and turned on by the other while the other is oblivious. Action/adventure stuff where they're running from baddies - or towards danger - also totally welcome!
Heather kept thinking about how much she wanted to hug Evelyn, and the whole time I was thinking right along her, "well do that some more, then!" I love how prickly Evelyn is and how pragmatic she tries to be and how Heather kind of sees through her and brings out another side of her. I also love how Evelyn understands Heather's drive and is willing to provide some pretty fucked-up options to help her. I'd love them discovering more about magic together, or having an unexpected moment of physical intimacy, or realizing they're falling in love at the worst possible time.
