hihi, Yuletide writer! I’m halcyonine on ao3, and thank you for sharing my tiny fandoms <3 it’s such a treat every year to see what happens, and I’m sure this year will be no different!
Optional details are optional, so please don’t stress about any individual prompts! As long as some funky stir-fry of my likes and your likes (and no DNWs) are created, I’ll be sitting down to feast come reveals.
General likes:
- Angst, slow burn, loyalty and devotion, enemies-to-lovers and its subsets (and enemies-to-still-enemies)
- Missing canon scenes, slight canon-divergence AUs/for want of a nail scenarios
- Imagery and random worldbuilding headcanons
- Banter! People being friends! People being witty together! People hanging out!
- Tenderness or intimacy expressed as physical touch and caretaking
- Characters being impeccably polite when actually they want to slit your throat
- Characters being competent, but also endearingly awkward out of their competency zone
NSFW likes:
- Oral sex
- Power play and power dynamics (does not have to be equal), humiliation
- Bondage, knife play, impact play, sensation play, body worship
- Dubious consent, false tenderness
DNWs:
- Setting-based AUs (modern AU, highschool AU, coffeeshop AU, Hogwarts AU etc)
- Catboys and other humans-with-animal-features
- Pregnancy/kidfic, A/B/O, genderswap
- Watersports, scat, age play, daddy kink, pet play, vore
- Christmas, pandemic, or current-events fic
- First-person POV
- CamelCase
+ you can always check my bookmarks for more indications of what I like!
陰陽師 | Onmyoji (Video Games)
characters: Susanoo, Jinkougyou, Yato no Kami
My beloved blorbos! To clarify, I would be happy to see anyone in the Onmyoji tagset showing up in your fic, but if you’re doing something character-centric, I’d like it the centric to be on one of these three.
On another note, since Izanami’s release is taking place during the writing period, please feel free to AU after Kujaku-Myoo’s event, or earlier.
Fandom-specific DNW: angst without a happy ending for Susanoo.
- Susanoo: I love this absolute puppy of a god and his love for the world. He’s doomed enough in the game, and it’s indeed a great flavour of angst, but I’d like something that ends happily for this guy, be it exploring the time he’s ended up in, late-night talks with Susabi, or throwing golden jade at Enmusubi – or before the time travel, during a respite from the Evil Gods? Even further before that, dealing with carnivorous plant and bird and beast in the Land of Yomi? Anything goes!
- Ship-wise, I’m interested in Susanoo/Susabi, and if you’re into poly, I’d be extremely interested in a sedoretu with Susanoo & Tsukuyomi in one moiety and Susabi & Amaterasu in the other. So many fun dynamics in these four! If you do go for poly feel totally free to stick Izanami/Amaterasu in there as well. The more the merrier with these guys.
- Jinkougyou: Hiro!! Funky chaotic incense man with a duty on his shoulders and a brother he loves so dearly who leaves him behind, who he’s still reaching for – ahhhhh. Talk about nailing angst, loyalty, banter and power dynamics in one. The talisman pass story where he’s writing cliffhangers as a taunt and plea to Hikaru to return and read them did me so much emotional damage. Tell me anything about him – being raised in the Onkou Clan, being alone in those long lonely years, or being in Heian-Kyo!
- Ship-wise, I don’t care either way about fictional incest, so if you want to write a Hiro/Hikaru ship fic, be my guest! I also have an extremely crack Jinkougyou/Kidomaru ship that’s basically, jin going “wow you smell like home! corpses” and kido freaking out, so if you want to sneak that in feel absolutely free. Otherwise, I’m happy to have you explore any platonic pairings.
- Yato no Kami: /pointing this man is an asshole and proud of it! Redmoon Thrillers is absolutely one of my favourite events, the dynamic of him and Seimei together at the end was just *chefs kiss*. And his awkward fascination with Vampira and the way he treats the Enshyoujo, mmmm. He hit an absolute bullseye with competency and endearing awkwardness there. I want so many more fics about his everything! Birth, previous games, what he does after he lost…
- Ship-wise, I am extremely invested in Seimei/Yato because they are the pinnacle of characters being extremely polite while thinking of doing not polite things to each other (aka Stabbing). I’d also be really interested in an exploration of Yato/Orochi! Yato is the guy who promised to give Orochi all the blood and water in the world, after all.
Song Yuzhang | 宋玉章
characters: Nie Xueping, Song Yuzhang
See, I was spoiled for Song Yuzhang ages before I read the novel, and then I read the novel, and then I put down my phone when I reached it and had to recover for like an hour. And then I had to keep recovering reading the next few chapters.
I requested these two, but please feel free to include others from the novel as well! The jealousy angle between Nie Xueping and Meng Tingjing was a delight, that horse racing <333 impeccable politeness while throwing daggers at each other my beloved!
What I really like about their dynamic is just… how simple it is. How much they both respect each other. That implacable calm Nie Xueping carries with him and how it steadies Song Yuzhang. The way they court and the way they kiss. Chapter 105 I’m never forgiving you. But also, poor Song Mingzhao… to be forgotten the way shadows are forgotten…
I’d love something sweet with these two – we get plenty in canon but then they all get vaporised, you know? Song Yuzhang playing with Nie Bonian while Nie Xueping watches (waive no kidfic DNW on this one), or them going on a date, or pure explicit fun times – I feel like they’d pair great with body worship and sensation play.
Or just one of the what-ifs of canon? How would he react to knowing Song Yuzhang is Zhao Shufang? What would they be like as business partners? If Song Yuzhang never responded to his poem, or if sensibility won out over desire and their age gap convinced Nie Xueping never to try? I’d love to see your exploration!
Lymond Chronicles
characters: Graham Reid Malett, Francis Crawford
recently added some Dunnett books to my collection so when I saw this in the tagset, let’s just say all the memories of Disorderly Knights and Pawn in Frankincense rushed my brain at once. These two… head in hands. Their insane tension! Mindboggling smarts! Every time I think about that line where Richard says Lymond has found (or was it needs?) a master in Gabriel my stomach swoops three times.
Whether they’re & or / will not make a difference to me! I have no prompts for Lymond this year, though I would like to request footnotes for anything these two ridiculously educated men quote. I also have no qualms with references to other relationships, and will be most impressed if you twirl Joleta into their dance or snare Kuzum into their whirlpool. If it helps, these two nail the people being witty together, tenderness/intimacy expressed as physical touch and caretaking (that one’s crucified to the whipping scene), being impeccably polite, power dynamics and dubious consent square of my likes.
Thanks for writing for me! I hope reading this letter has given you some inspiration, though please remember all optional details are optional. I’ll be eagerly awaiting the collection opening at 8pm my time.
Happy Yuletide, and have fun!
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