Trick or Treat 2022

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Happy Halloween! 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.

1. General Preferences
2. Dimension 20 - Art
3. The Executioner and Her Way of Life - Fic
4. Genshin Impact - Fic
5. Keijo!!!!!!!! - Art, Fic
6. Original Works - Fic
7. Sect Leader and Little Shimei's Story - Fic
8. Star Trek: Voyager - Fic
9. Stella C3 - Art

General Preferences

As a general note - if I mention the relationship between two characters outside of a specific requested ship, please assume that means I'm fine with that relationship being platonic or romantic unless I specifically mention otherwise.

General Likes

Pining | Canon Divergence AUs | Backstory & filling in blanks | Characters making and justifying bad decisions | Hurt/Comfort | Repressing or failing to repress feelings | Getting together | Trapped together in desperate circumstances | "This means everything to me but nothing to you" | Casefic and investigations | Magic | Spooky circumstances | Adventures!

Art Likes

Thin Lineart | No Lineart | Animesque styles* | Watercolor styles | Cartoony or larger-than-life styles | Ink drawings | Bright or rich colors | Grayscale with a single color highlight | Cosy scenes | Dynamic poses | Stylized art | Hands touching | Characters with their canonical animal companions or Pokemon you think would suit them | A character swapped into the role/clothes of another character I requested (in or cross-fandom)

*I know animesque means at least 20 different styles, but I do mean all of them! I enjoyed the art in Kaiba as much as the art in Sailor Moon as much as the art in Perfect Blue. If you want to go full 70s shoujo, go nuts!

DNWs

Pregnancy of any kind | kidfic | genderswaps | vomit | covid-19 | expansion/inflation kinks | first or second person POV | humiliation | gore | setting change AUs* | unhappy endings** | photorealistic art

*Exception: If they're Pokemon trainers, they can be in the Pokemon world of your choice.
**By this I mostly mean I don't want the main character(s) ending up in a hopeless situation; things being ambiguous or fairly grim with some hope is fine.

Dimension 20

As a general note, I love basically all the characters; if you want to include an unrequested character from the same campaign, feel free as I will likely be absolutely delighted.

Aurora Nebbins & Sundry Sidney I would love art for this one. Aurora and Sidney in Halloween costumes! Aurora and Sidney playing catch with terrapins or enemies! Aurora and Sidney posing in galactic poster A CYBER FORM IS A CYBER FRIEND style! Aurora and Sidney having a tea party! Sidney lifting Aurora up in that iconic THE ANDROID HAS SAVED THE DOG! moment from Battle of the Brands! I will be happy with just about anything. I like the style of the D20 animated bits if you're familiar, but I also enjoy basically anything with clean lineart.

Lilith To briefly swerve to another campaign entirely...I just like her and her spideriness! I would love art of her with her kids, or running the Bloodkeep postcanon, or even just lying around Wine Momming it up precanon.

Princeps Zortch I Just Think They're Neat! I would love art of them doing their chef thing, or communing with Gnosis, or being the communications officer post-canon.

Riva I Just Think They're Neat, Too! Art of Riva in any moment during the campaign you liked would be very cool, or just pulling any of the expressions Siobhan used for them. "Hold please!" Earnest pleasure putty pitching. Swimming through the water system of a hostile ship. It's all good! I love that Riva is aquatic, so any poses that take advantage of the fact that they don't have to be upright in the water would also be great.

Sundry Sidney Basically everything I said about her with Aurora Nebbins goes here too, but I'd also love art of her in her rocket boots, or dressed up as a Barry, or doing any of her tech or fighter stuff.

The Executioner and Her Way of Life

Feel free to base your fic on any version of canon (light novels/manga/anime).

Ashuna Grizarcia/Momo I love that Ashuna recognizes Momo's strength (and is totally into it). The fact that Momo isn't quite so into her in turn gives a lot of opportunities for antagonism or competitiveness, but also for courtship (one of my favorite tropes!) or for a moment of realization that Ashuna's not so bad after all. Romance, pre-relationship, or action/adventure focused stuff all welcome.

Flare/Menou What can I say? I love a good morally gray mentor figure. I'd love anything about Flare's relationship with Menou at any point in canon (or at some point in a canon-divergent AU future if you prefer Menou to be older). I especially loved Menou asking Flare to make her the villain and them both holding each other's faces as Menou tells Flare she wants to become her if you want to lean into that vibe specifically.

Momo I love her - her ruthless practicality and helpless devotion, her silly side and her killer side, her monstrous strength and the gentle care she takes of her hair ribbons... I would be really into fic about her time in training, or what she does when she's not on missions with Menou, or time spent with Menou. I do really like Menou/Momo as a ship, so feel free to include it, requited or unrequited.

Genshin Impact

Barbara/Jean I love how weird they are about each other. They clearly care for each other deeply, but they never seem quite able to connect, and I find that fascinating. I'm totally open to one-sided pining and repressed feelings here, too, or even dubcon or somno, preferably Barbara->Jean. On the lighter side, maybe Jean is injured and Barbara takes care of her or Barbara goes to Jean for help with a stalker? Stuff that takes a look at Mondstadt and its culture, like celebrating a holiday or rebuilding together after Stormterror, is also totally welcome.

Dehya/Dunyarzad I love their dynamic! Dehya pretends to only be in it for the job, but she clearly cares deeply for Dunyarzad and it's clearly mutual. I'd love something from the early days of Dehya's job guarding Dunyarzad when one or both of them first caught feelings, or a fraught rescue, or an unexpectedly vulnerable moment from Dehya that Dunyarzad strongly responds to.

Hu Tao I love how spooky and fun Hu Tao is! She's a perfect match to Halloween. I'd love stuff exploring her role as the Wangsheng Parlor Funeral Director, doing exorcisms (or "exorcisms"), playing pranks, or just hanging out with ghosts. Fleshing out her family would also be good - her grandfather was clearly important to her; what was their relationship like? What was it like for Hu Tao to plan his funeral herself? He died when she was 13, then someone else (presumably one of her parents) was the 76th director and also died fairly soon after - how did that affect her? Alternately, her trying to make friends with Beidou or messing with Keqing (or Xiangling, or Qiqi) would be lovely.

Ningguang Sharp, shrewd, and ruthless. I love Ningguang and I love the position she's clawed her way into. I'd love something from her daily life, as filled with adventure and opportunity as it is, or maybe getting a quiet moment to appreciate something coming together just as planned. For ship stuff, I love her with Keqing, Beidou, her secretaries, or any combination of the above.

Sangonomiya Kokomi/Yae Miko They're craftsy and clever and technically on opposite sides, but that just makes it more fun! I'd love them scheming together for the benefit (or "benefit") of Inazuma, or one of them catching the other in an unexpected moment of vulnerability. I'm also very open to porn for these two and would prefer Kokomi to bottom.

Keijo!!!!!!!!

Exclamation points included for the best sports anime of all time!!! I love that this series takes its fanservicey premise so seriously and that the characters are deeply committed to their sport. Keijo matches welcome! For this fandom in particular, I also have a soft spot for Pokemon trainer AUs.
Miyata Sayaka I unironically love her "no, dad, I want to be an ass champion, not a judo champion!" arc and would love anything about her proving herself and honing her craft.

Miyata Sayaka/Rokudou Rin A great rivalship! I'd be into them training together, antagonizing each other, respecting each other, becoming closer...

Original Works

Apprentice Witch/Evil Female Mentor I find this one very compelling as someone who likes inappropriate chemistry and relationships growing in ways they maybe shouldn't. Especially the ambiguity here - is the apprentice totally unaware that her mentor is evil, or is she in fact being mentored in evil?

Female Thief & The Dragon She Stole Did she mean to steal the dragon? What's her end goal? What does the dragon think about being stolen?

Former Witch's Apprentice Who Inherits Her Cat Familiar & The Cat Familiar In Question This could be very sweet, very sad, very wistful, very adversarial...it could go a lot of ways! What happened to the witch, and how do her former apprentice and cat familiar feel about it? How do they feel about being together now? Does the former apprentice feel a responsibility to take care of the familiar, or is it the other way around?

Princess/Estranged Sister Disguised As Knight The tension! The hurt feelings on both sides! The identity porn!

Woman/Ghost Possessing Her Is this a comedy where they're consensually timesharing and bickering? Is this horror where she keeps losing time and doesn't know why? I'm open! I don't need this one to be explicitly romantic, but I do hope the ghost has compelling feelings of some kind for the woman being possessed.

Young Witch Seeking Familiar I'd love anything about her quest! Is it a formal ritual or a totally haphazard adventure? Is this a normal coming-of-age rite or something she's decided to do for herself? And what kind of familiar finds her?

Sect Leader and Little Shimei's Story

This 14-minute film can be found on bilibili or in this google drive folder with English subtitles. I recommend watching it even if you don't intend to create anything for it - it's super charming!


Xiao Rufeng For the sect leader herself, I'm interested in stuff whenever - backstory, gaps in the film, afterwards, etc. I find her very intriguing - she's clearly been walking down a dark path for some time and she's (understandably) jaded about the cultivation world. How did she get to that point? What does her style of cultivation look like?


Xiao Rufeng/Ye Xiaoqi Ye Xiaoqi is so sweet and trusting! I love her openheartedness and her devotion. I'd love stuff taking place in the gaps in the short film or afterwards. When Xiao Rufeng realize she's totally gone for Ye Xiaoqi, and what is their relationship like after the events of canon? Where did Ye Xiaoqi recover after she was stabbed? What has Xiao Rufeng been doing since then and what absolutely unholy terror did she rain down on the sect for daring to stab her precious YXQ? What are they going to do together now? I want so many different fics - plotty, fluffy, sexy, heavy on the demonic cultivation, heavy on the pining...I am very open to possibilities!

Star Trek: Voyager

Borg Queen/Seven of Nine The Borg Queen is SO into Seven and it's SO creepy! I'd love her to get Seven in her clutches, or a clever game of cat and mouse where Seven stays defiant and gets away.

Stella C3

Haruna Rin/Kashima Sonora A pairing with some major history! I love their backstory and the way their relationship is complicated and fraught in canon, so for shippy art I'd love something that captures that push-pull of them - maybe a moment of one of them pinning the other down during an airsoft match and getting a little too close, or even just the two of them looking at each other across a battlefield with too much left unsaid...of course, straightforward shippy art is also welcome - maybe with Sonora surprising Rin with something nice, or Rin blushing despite herself?

Kashima Sonora Sonora is one of my all-time faves! I would love dynamic art of her shooting, or something showing her kindness (maybe to an animal?), or her dressed up in a Halloween costume (where she wields a gun, of course).