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greygerbil on AO3, thank you for writing for me! Right from the start, I want to say you don’t have to do anything with my prompts, they’re just there in case you want some ideas. If it has my pairing and avoids my DNWs, I’m sure I’ll enjoy it! All ratings are great. I included a list of my general likes and smut likes which apply to all my requests. When it comes to kinks, you can include anything not listed under my DNWs.

Feel free to entirely erase the existence of canon relationships or break them up if they get in the way of the pairings I requested, whichever works best with what you’re trying to do.

Fic where the couple is not yet together but clearly in love, or on the road to getting together, or having their first time kissing/in bed together are great. However, so are established relationship fics. Whatever suits your ideas!

Considering the number of canons I have where you slaughter your way through untold heaps of NPCs, I should also point out I generally have no problem with gore, blood, and graphic violence.

DNWs
Likes
Smut Likes
Art Likes
Assassin’s Creed
Dragon Age
Mass Effect Trilogy
Mass Effect: Andromeda
Hades
Sherlock
Vampyr
Yuri!!! on Ice
Supernatural
The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien

DNWs and Likes

DNWs

permanent death of requested characters (they can die temporarily and come back to life, though)

requested characters cheating on anybody

unrequested open relationships/poly (threesomes can start out as open relationships between two or three of the characters, or have two characters simultaneously fall for a third, or have unclear FWB-who-are-pining lines, but I'd like them to eventually become closed triads and for no one to deliberately cheat on someone else while it’s clear that the rules of their relationship don’t allow that)

noncon (mentioning/discussing/describing canonical instances of noncon is fine)

completely unhappy endings (vaguely hopeful or bittersweet is fine, just not full dark)

smut involving underage characters (under 18)

cross-gen incest

ageplay, diaper play, daddy or mommy kink

scat, emetophilia

necrophilia, cannibalism, debilitating mutilation of requested characters for sexual pleasure, vore

crackfic (humour is great, just not complete randomness)

high school/college AUs (other modern AUs as well as all other sorts of AUs are fine)

1st and 2nd person POV (they are fine for epistolary fic and mock articles/social media entries/documents/research papers, though)

Likes

UST (and also eventual resolving of UST)

friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, enemies to friends to lovers, friends with benefits to romance

complicated people in love with each other, even if it’s not always easy

battle couples fighting together

loyalty kink

admiring competence/skill

sparring

protectiveness

possessiveness

hurt/comfort

fluff

mpreg, kidfic

epistolary fic

angst

arranged marriage turning into marriage of love, characters pretending to be in a relationship falling in love

tough characters being driven to their breaking point

character who is suffering trying to soldier through

hurt character trying to comfort distressed person who is helping them

dancing

one partner manhandling the other

focus on height differences if applicable

Soulmate AUs, played straight or averted

I also enjoy A/B/O AUs, so in case you’re inspired to write that, I placed the character I most enjoy as an omega behind the last /. For mpreg childbirth, A/B/O or otherwise, feel free to give them new genitalia to manage it or just have an anal birth or a Caesarian. Male lactation is also fine to include.

Smut Likes

rough sex

slow, loving sex

marking with biting and love bites, scratch marks, bruises

overstimulation

focus on hands, fingering, handjobs

intercrural

oral

anal

rimming

body worship

first times (in general, or with that partner, or with a partner of that gender)

BDSM, D/s, honour bondage

generally playing around with dominance, one character calling the shots very clearly, or both challenging each other during sex, fighting for control

however, I also love smut that is just really vanilla and fluffy and gentle

for vampires (and other people who don’t do lasting damage to each other): bloodplay

Art Likes
Generally, I enjoy a wide variety of different art styles, from traditional oil paintings to manga to western comics to cubism and everything in between, so please feel free to go with whatever you enjoy. I like stark black-and-white lineart just as much as elaborately shaded coal or pencil drawings and, of course, colours of every sort, traditional and digital alike. I’d very much like to see my requested pairings in your style, but if you have a specific stylistic idea, that’s always super fun, too.

Since art in this exchange means comics, the story prompts are for those as well. However, I'm also totally happy with comics that are more experimental (no word balloons at all, a series of stand-alone pictures indicating a narrative/mood, etc.) as long as it's still shippy.

Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey

Alexios/Stentor
Alexios and Stentor have such a deliciously complicated relationship. Stentor is obviously threatened by Alexios’ presence, and Alexios is probably jealous that Stentor got to have Nikolaos as a father whereas Alexios got to be shoved off a mountain. However, considering how attached Stentor is to Nikolaos, I doubt he has any birth family that cares about him, either. He and Alexios eventually might find themselves unexpectedly able to bond over some things. They would also make a great battle couple and their verbal and physical sparring is a lot of fun. I write mostly with protagonist!Alexios in mind, but feel free to go for Deimos!Alexios if you want to, I like him, too. I prefer bottom Stentor for smut. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Stentor.

I assume since Nikolaos was happy to have his family back and Stentor wants to please him in all things, he decides to grit his teeth and make nice with the new relatives. I would like to see Stentor wondering where he still fits into this family dynamic now that Nikolaos has his ‘real’ children back, and they both happen to be unstoppable fighting machines with god-like powers that outclass Stentor dramatically (which to a Spartan must be quite important) and also one of them sort of saved Sparta from the Cult and won the Olympics. However, in Stentor’s attempts to learn to tolerate his new brother – whether he be Alexios or Deimos!Alexios –, the two end up developing quite a different relationship. The focus I want is on romantic developments, but I also wouldn’t say no at all to Kassandra/Deimos!Kassandra and Myrrine developing a family relationship with Stentor, too, and Nikolaos getting to know Alexios and Kassandra better, and/or reassuring Stentor. Family fluff is great! Well, as fluffy as this family can get... does the five of them fighting through a bandit camp or something count?

Speaking of stories with a family focus, you can recruit your whole family as lieutenants after the good ending. Alexios sailing around with his family (or just Stentor) on board, calling them into battle to help him, and their developing relationships would be great. Oh, and him and Stentor accidentally falling in love, of course.

Stentor and Alexios tell the family about their relationship (or get caught red-handed). How does everyone deal with it?

Alexios and Stentor have to work together to solve some new problem in Sparta – general politics or Cultist related. This forces them to come closer and look at the other one’s strengths and skills and they develop a grudging respect – and more. Bonus if they fight together at some point.

I also like the idea of the two of them sleeping together but never admitting their feelings until something bad happens to the other. The rest of the family/their friends is very confused when the dude they thought would have been relieved to see the other go, or at the very least hardly bothered by it, flies completely off the handle and runs to go save their lover or has basically been welded to the bedside of the sick man.

When they meet again in Boeotia, after the battle, perhaps Stentor gets almost assassinated or badly wounded by some Cultist (or other general traitor) in his ranks. Alexios stays around to help solve the problem and they grow closer over it and fall in love, perhaps even stay close in the coming years?

I also love the idea of them meeting before Megaris and having an affair and genuine connection, a crush, or at least some hot nights together before they know who the other is. That, or a scene after, when it all falls into place, would be great.

Spartan marriage included a ritualistic kidnapping of the bride. This could be fun with Stentor reintroducing Alexios to some customs of his old and new home by "kidnapping" him, or Alexios deciding to woo Stentor in the traditional way by stealing him away. (Also, Deimos!Alexios doing the kidnapping could be interesting as well, though probably a good deal more frightening at first.)

To everyone’s great surprise, probably Stentor’s included, Deimos!Alexios and Stentor are the ones who have the easiest time finding to each other because fighting is the primary language they both speak. I would really like it if the two of them managed to take out their aggressions on each other, which at first might be nothing but them funnelling their energy so they don’t actually kill each other (and Deimos doesn’t kill anyone else), but slowly turns into friendlier sparring as they grow closer on other levels, too.

Anything to do with Alexios’ mythical bloodline! I like the Isu fine, but I also like Alexios just straight up being related to Greek gods, so whichever one you prefer. Do Alexios and Stentor run into mythological trouble together?

Also, stuff with Alexios and his animals and Stentor's reaction to them. His horse seems to be pretty special (20 foot drop is usually something to walk off), his eagle is clearly magical, and I'd love a story that works with the Beast Master skill somehow, too (feel free to make it more effective/lasting than in the game). Maybe Alexios has permanently tamed himself a mountain lion?

If you wanna go the smut-heavy route, I have a preference for Alexios on top, but I also like Alexios and Stentor fighting for dominance. A scenario where Stentor is quite happy to often be the loser (and very, very ashamed about enjoying Alexios topping him) would be great, though. I could also see them using fighting, physical or otherwise, as an entrance into their little dalliances. Do they eventually get a point where they realise that they want to sleep with each other even without almost breaking their noses in a sparring match before? Where Stentor even admits to his preference for bottoming, if he has it in this fic? Enemies to People (hardly friends) With Benefits to Lovers certainly is a great trope for them.

For that matter, D/s with sub Stentor would also be fun. I could see Alexios as a gentle Dom who turns these situations to his favour subtly and softly (and it’s really good), or the two of them going at it from a consensual but probably not very safe or sane angle, where they work out their frustrations with each other and secretly enjoy having really rough sex (Stentor could be the ultimate brat sub…).

For A/B/O, Stentor as the angriest omega in all of ancient Greece would be a lot of fun (however, him being at peace with his nature would also be interesting, so whichever way you want to write it). I'd love anything about him with Alexios, seriously, so these really are just ideas. Perhaps a sudden unexpected heat can bring him and Alexios closer together? Literally and figuratively, ehm. Or maybe omegas get treated differently/better in warrior-ethos-focused Sparta than they do in the rest of Ancient Greece, so Stentor has quite a bit of independence there, but him and Alexios need to pretend to be bonded on some mission outside the city because Stentor would not be allowed to go certain places/do certain things otherwise (I love pretend relationship turns into real relationship)? Or the Spartan state decides that the alpha who obviously has shown himself worthy of getting a child on the very decorated omega Stentor is Alexios.

I wish Phoibe had survived and I feel like a plucky orphan like her might win Stentor’s heart against his will. Maybe Stentor was somehow with Alexios in Athens (in disguise) and managed to save her? Maybe Alexios can save her and brings her to Stentor so he can protect her (she could be his servant/helper like she was before)? Stentor doesn’t seem to like him, but Alexios judges correctly that he wouldn’t send an innocent girl to her almost certain death. Or maybe Stentor is the one who tells him that though Phoibe is quite independent, Alexios should try to help her for her own good, even if she pretends she can do it all alone. Either way, through caring for Phoibe, the two of them get closer, too.

Alexios’ special bloodline needs to be continued. Either by way of an Isu artefact, mpreg just always being possible for (perhaps only some?) men, or A/B/O, Stentor could be the one to carry that kid. Or maybe it has nothing to do with Alexios wanting to continue his bloodline, but he just wants to have a family with Stentor. I’m also always here for unplanned pregnancies, too.

(I also have a letter dealing with heats, sex pollen and A/B/O, one for marriage tropes, one for smut, one for mpreg, one for pining tropes, one for epistolary fic and one with an AU focus for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Original Male Character/Stentor
I love Stentor. He is so angry, so jealous of Alexios/Kassandra, so worried that he will not live up to what his father wants of him, and he’s trying so goddamn hard all the time. I have this headcanon that Stentor is gay because he’s such a perfect Spartan, but doesn’t seem to have the mandatory-by-thirty wife he would need in Sparta. However, I’m also totally fine with headcanons that he’s bisexual as long as he’s dating a man in this story. I prefer bottom Stentor for smut. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Stentor. I’m happy both with historical fics were Stentor being interested in grown men is not considered proper and fics where M/M marriage is already a possibility.

There are some ideas below, but feel free to go wild as long as the original character isn’t related to Stentor and isn’t underage.

Generally, as long as they have a chance at a happy ending, I’m down for pretty much anything. What sort of guy might sweep him off his feet, or at least get his attention? Is it a fellow soldier, or maybe a Spartan man taken out of the fight by an injury who now has other tasks than going to war? Maybe someone not Spartan altogether, but a local resistance fighter loyal to the Spartan cause or one of the non-Spartan inhabitants from Spartan lands, a perioikoi fighting alongside the Spartan warriors or perhaps doing a totally different job? Whatever you come up with would be fun!

If M/M marriage is possible, Stentor might agree to marry a man to further his father’s family and live according to Sparta’s tradition. Maybe Nikolaos even arranged a marriage, or the kings suggested one? The man would probably be from the upper classes of Sparta. How do they make their arranged marriage work?

Did Stentor have an erastes? How did they meet and why did he pick Stentor? Was Nikolaos alright with the relationship or did he have to be convinced? Are they still secretly dating despite Stentor’s age now being too advanced for that to still be considered appropriate? (I would like it if Stentor was at least 18 years old when they started their thing, which would be kinda late historically, though not without precedent, but it’s not like AC: Odyssey is one hundred per cent accurate, anyway.)

Another scenario that might be fun is if a maybe sixteen, seventeen year old, or maybe even a young-looking older teen came up to Stentor at one point and asked to be his eromenos, but Stentor brusquely sends him away because he’s not interested in boys. Some years pass and Stentor runs into him again and now he’s grown up into a well-spoken, tall, handsome, way too likable guy. To make matters worse, he very quickly recovers his crush on Stentor, who cannot bring himself to dismiss him so quickly now.

I’d also love to see Stentor take up with a somewhat older man, too, maybe an experienced warrior. Does he help Stentor out as he’s reeling from having to take over Nikolaos’ job without warning? Or maybe the man is already off the battlefield with permanent injury, but a smart person who manages to temper Stentor a bit? Did Stentor used to have a puppy crush on him when he was younger that he somehow can’t get rid off, or does he only learn to like him now when they have a chance to really get to know each other?

Sort of a specific idea, but I like the idea of a Cultist OC seducing Stentor to get him into the Cult or have him kill Alexios. However, if things went alright with Alexios and Nikolaos, Stentor won’t go for that. Another man fixing Stentor’s broken heart after Stentor realises he’s been used (and in a ploy to get to Alexios, no less – as if his life doesn’t revolve around Alexios enough already) and has probably dispatched his ‘lover’ would be great.

I love me some battle couples, so if the man you choose for Stentor is a fighter as well, I would love to see them fighting together. If he’s not a fighter, maybe Stentor can heroically protect him from some danger?

Stentor seems like the kind of guy who basically lives in armour, which is what the Spartans want for their men, of course. Still, maybe his partner could make him relax.

If Stentor can’t marry his lover, perhaps they can still play at it. I’d love Stentor getting kidnapped (or kidnapping) his lover on their ‘wedding night’. I’d also totally want the ritual bridal kidnapping if they can officially get married, though!

For smut, I definitely just enjoy everything listed in my smut likes and would be happy to receive it. If you want a specific prompt, though, I like Stentor working through cultural hang-ups he has about bottoming. Maybe he hasn’t done it before meeting this man? Maybe it’s the first time he’s doing it with this partner? What (or who) convinced him to give it a try?

Barnabas/Herodotos
Okay, I can’t help it, these two are just really cute together and I would seriously be happy for anything involving them. They keep by your side throughout the whole story and loud, exuberant Barnabas makes such a great contrast to quiet, more subdued Herodotos. They spend a lot of time together on Alexios’ ship and seem to get along pretty well, even though they obviously banter a bit and have different views on many things. For smut, I prefer bottom Herodotos. If you include mpreg, I like pregnant Herodotos.

Herodotos is a historian and Barnabas loves to tell stories. I would like it if Herodotos enjoyed listening to him, perhaps even writing some of it down (silently subtracting what he’s pretty sure is exaggeration). Perhaps Barnabas even gets into telling of some of his romantic conquests and that could be either sweet or steamy and give Herodotos quite a bit to chew on.

Herodotos pointed out Barnabas’ positivity very quickly, which I found cute. Herodotos is usually surrounded by politicians and philosophers, but I can see him getting infatuated with someone who is as genuinely nice as Barnabas despite being very different from him. Pining would be cute! But also from the other direction, where Barnabas isn’t sure someone with his head in scrolls as much as Herodotos would really go for an old sailor. And either one of them might think they’re really a bit too far in years to start a new romance now, and yet...

One time when Alexios suggests that they could go hunting, Herodotos says “do I look like the kind who can defend himself?” Well, he’s certainly more of a scholar than a fighter. But Barnabas can still swing a sword, right? I’d love Herodotos and Barnabas stumbling into some trouble together and Barnabas getting to be heroic for once instead of leaving it all to Alexios. Maybe Herodotos also manages to help out in some way? Either with his words or by unexpectedly clocking someone with a vase or something.

Barnabas was obviously super excited for the Olympics and Herodotos seemed pretty into it, too, fanboying over that fighter they had on board alongside Barnabas. I just want them having a good time there after all the poisoning and Cultist shenanigans that happen, enjoying the celebration, maybe being pulled into an adventure of their own, and then perhaps ending up together in bed, with or without the help of wine. Or Alkibiades tries his hand at matchmaking, noticing that these two have an unspoken attraction that they simply must act upon? But I’m sure they could figure it out themselves eventually, too.

Barnabas and Herodotos briefly knew each other before the start of the game, I’m pretty sure, at least the wiki backs me up on this not just being an accidental invention of mine. I’d love a Canon Divergence AU in which Barnabas and Herodotos did not just get somewhat acquainted. Perhaps they had a stormy romance or a never-acted-upon crush, but circumstances tore them away from each other and they hadn’t found each other again; or it really was just a few nights of passion. I’d want to read about that past event just as much as about them being either a bit mortified at first when they run into each other again, or quietly hopeful. Would love it if they got back together, too. (You could also make it so that their meeting is a really long while into the past, like thirty, forty years, and it takes them a moment even to realise who they are again.)

Because I am a weak person when it comes to family fluff, Barnabas and Herodotos raising a child together – on Alexios’ boat no less – would be really fun. Perhaps a young ship hand starts talking to both of them and eventually, at the latest over the first argument of how to educate the little boy/girl, they realise they have accidentally adopted a child.

Adventures on a boat would be fun, too. Herodotos is used to travelling on them, I’m sure, but maybe he has to start putting his hands to the oars or the sails in an unexpected storm and Barnabas directs him. Maybe they even get lost together in a smaller boat and have to find their way back.

As a friend of Perikles and Alexios both, Herodotos could definitely end up becoming a target for the Cult. Maybe Alexios is currently busy, so Herodotos and Barnabas have to make sure he doesn’t end up dead in a ditch somewhere together and plan/fight their own way out.

I’d love to read smut! They may not go at it quite like the young ones anymore, but with age comes experience... although Barnabas does keep very fit, working on a ship, so it might be really fun if he surprised Herodotos with some feat of strength or endurance. Herodotos, for his part, has probably learned a lot of clever tricks from the Athenians, or generally in life, having travelled as far and wide as he has.

For A/B/O smut, maybe older omegas don’t usually have heats much anymore, but Herodotos is one of the ones who does still suffer them at times, much to his annoyance, because on a ship it’s just quite inconvenient. He talks to Barnabas about it to ask him if there’s a place on the ship where he could be locked away so he doesn’t distract the alpha sailors. Barnabas has a better idea of how he could help.

Haytham Kenway/Charles Lee
I love Haytham and Charles, villains who really respect and like each other and stand behind their idea of a world of order being what is needed for humanity where they guide the rest of us stupid sheeple humans to a better future lol. I immensely enjoy young Charles’ senpai-notice-me dynamic with Haytham and his adoration for him; but I also love that eventually it goes both ways, when Charles becomes Haytham’s trusted second-in-command and a Templar in his own right. Haytham’s polite charm and firm believe in the Templars (and in Charles) were always intriguing, too, especially since he is much more complex than quite a few of the Templars we meet throughout the series. I prefer bottom Charles for smut and pregnant Charles if you include mpreg.

I would love to see them both on a mission for the Templars, perhaps looking for a Piece of Eden, rooting out rogue assassins (OC ones would be great, I like all the named ones from the game so much), kicking ass and swinging swords and kissing in between.

I also like Modern AUs, provided they are still Templars, or Abstergo Industries employees, one should say. This could be just them in modern times and how that might have changed things; for example, they could openly have a relationship and even marry. I would gladly read about the Colonial Rite Templars preparing/celebrating a wedding, whether it’s just fluff or whether there’s an assassination attempt before they even get to the cake. But I also would love plottier stuff where they get involved in everything that’s going on with the current Abstergo search for Pieces of Eden.

For Canon Divergence, what if Haytham did turn his back on being a Templar, perhaps after killing Reginald Birch? I’m sure he would not want to leave his favourite subordinate on the other side of the divide. Would love if he can somehow convince Charles, as I’d really be sad to see them ending up enemies. Or perhaps his change of mind came even earlier and he poaches the eager young acolyte for his own purposes instead of making him a Templar (perhaps by seducing him, combining business with pleasure, and/or by filling his head with new ideas)?

Another idea I like is that Charles somehow knew who Haytham’s son is, or Haytham did, and, arriving just a few hours later than in game, either of them or both find little Connor in the burning wreckage of the village and take him home to raise him a Templar. Gimme all that found family fluff – Connor playing with Charles’ dogs! Haytham training little Connor by making him jump at Charles from every shadowy corner of the house! – with perhaps just that hint of a dark edge, knowing what Connor is being raised into. Related, I’m also here for full-scale King Haytham AUs where he got the Piece of Eden and brought Connor to his side (or Connor never existed and thus didn’t become a problem for the Templars; I just don’t want dead Connor, basically) – or King Charles Lee, as he seemed to be the person they were setting up for the more public political leadership, but with Haytham pulling the strings.

Charles has quite a temper and it’d be interesting if Haytham noticed this and decided to train him out of it as much as he can to mould him into a better Templar. Whether this veers into a smutty direction (D/s for the sake of self-control? I’d love Haytham as Charles’ Dom) or involves some real soul-searching and deep discussions or tests from Haytham, all is good. Or, if you want to go down a heavy route, a couple of modern historians have speculated that Charles Lee, the actual historical figure, who was also known for temper issues, had some serious mental health problems, possibly bipolar disorder. That could also be really interesting to explore and try to manage, especially in a time when mental health care was still very fledgling.

Heap on the angst and hurt/comfort! One of them almost dying, getting gravely injured, deadly ill, almost frozen to death, tortured by rogue Templars or Assassins for fun or information... and then the other one bursting in to save them (if applicable) and dragging them home and putting them back together; or just holding bedside vigil and collecting all the physicians in the city.

In general, getting together fic would be great. How do they go about it? In the 18th century, you couldn’t really walk up to someone of the same gender and just ask them out – although, Haytham has such big brass... ego, he really might. Is one of them more experienced with men than the other? Perhaps one has only had relationships/dalliances with women and is still somewhat grappling with this new aspect to their sexuality. Or the inexperienced one is very eager but not quite sure how to go about it. If it’s Haytham, does he maybe think he’ll just experiment with Charles for a bit, since he’s clearly willing, but it turns into more? If it’s Charles, is he growing steadily more confused about this feeling he thought to be admiration and is made to flounder constantly by Haytham, who knows exactly what’s going on and loves teasing?

For smut, I already mentioned above that I think a D/s relationship between them could be great fun, but I would also be here for Charles working very, very hard to impress Haytham in every aspect of their acquaintance, worshipping his body, doing all the work for him. Does Haytham like to lean back and enjoy it, or does he eventually flip the tables, or perhaps decide from the start that Charles should learn that as a lover, Haytham doesn’t need to be won over? But just... you know, anything would be amazing here, really.

For Art: Any of the above prompts would of course be great. Charles and Haytham going to some sort of posh event together (opera, theatre, dinner with Charles’ parents) would be just as cool as the two of them covered in grime and blood after a battle. I also enjoy characters swapping/wearing each other’s clothes, maybe for a mission? Haytham teaching Charles to climb is also fun, so the two of them hanging out on rooftops or literally hanging on the side of a building would be fun. He could also teach Charles how to trail/eavesdrop. Sparring is cool with two fighter characters such as them, too (I’d also enjoy Haytham pinning Charles to the ground here and Charles trying to hide that he’s into it or just staring up at him in embarrassed silence).

(I also have a letter dealing with marriage tropes, one for smut, one for mpreg tropes, one for epistolary fic and one with an AU focus for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Jacob Frye/Ned Wynert
The interactions between Jacob and Ned – few as they were! – were delightful. I wanted them to have more adventures together like the one on the train. Maybe Ned can also be dragged into the whole Assassin-Templar story? But I’m not necessarily looking for something plot heavy, I’d also be very happy with just a sweet or smutty story about the two of them getting together or being in a relationship.

Ned being trans can certainly be addressed and I don’t mind some people having an issue with it, the times being what they were, but I want Jacob not to be bothered by it and if there is angst regarding Jacob’s sexuality, that it’d only be because Jacob hasn’t dealt with his attraction to men yet (well, if that is the case in the fic, I’m also happy with Jacob already being fine with it and/or experienced with men!). Smut of any sort is always fun, too. As long as Ned is shown to be comfortable with it, vaginal penetration/anal/oral/whatever else you’d like is great, as is anything else on my smut likes list. I somewhat prefer bottom Ned, but him topping Jacob is also good (I especially like stories where he might be the first one to introduce Jacob to bottoming). For mpreg, I prefer pregnant Ned.

Jacob falls for Ned and tries to impress him. Does he succeed or do his efforts end in chaos that at least makes Ned notice something is up?

Ned flirts with Jacob since Jacob is always bantering and it’s fun, but thinks Jacob is just doing it out of habit. Turns out Jacob is really interested in taking this further.

Jacob and Ned try to have a normal date. Due to assorted Blighters/business rivals/Templars, this keeps going poorly.

Jacob fails in his efforts to find a prostitute who would make a good replacement Ned as he fights with his feelings for the real one (though maybe he does find some pretty close visual matches, which Ned might take note of), but he does manage to be unsubtle enough in his search that Ned is alerted to the fact that he’s looking.

Ned gets with a man/hires an escort who would make a pretty good entry into a Jacob-look-alike-contest and Jacob finds out. If Jacob learns about it through chance or later his assassin recruits masking as prostitutes, does he take the job himself or ask Ned about it?

Jacob taking Ned on one of his wild carriage race-battles (be it on purpose, dragging Ned along for a mission, or accidentally because they get attacked). How does Ned take it?

As I said, the two of them doing a mission together! I wanted more Ned quests. Ned has some skills as a thief, so he’d be a good complimentary companion to the more in-your-face Jacob.

Jacob/Ned ends up stranded needing medical attention after an attack. The other helps.

Evie's collectable romance thing is the pressed flowers; maybe the sketches (or the beer!) could somehow play into the Jacob/Ned romance?

A little later, when Jacob is more into the Creed, he tells Ned of the Assassins and makes him a recruit.

The Templars are very impressed with Ned’s business sense and want him in their ranks. Cue Jacob having to intervene and explain why it’s a bad idea and also, yes, there’s these ancient sects and so on. Would be fun with a Jacob who has come to accept the Creed a little more, but also with one who is still more rebellious and really just here to beat stuff up and ugh, now he has to do real Assassin business like inducting people. At least it’s Ned and it would be a good excuse to talk more…

Whether it has to do with Assassin induction or they’re just being chased, I always love it when an Assassin makes their partner do the Leap of Faith! What do you mean we’re falling 100 feet trying to hit a haystack, Frye?!

I’m way into size differences, so anything about Jacob carrying or manhandling Ned, or even Ned having to drag a wounded Jacob or similar scenarios that highlight it would be great.

(I also have a letter dealing with heats and a/b/o, one for smut, one for mpreg tropes, one for epistolary fic and one with an AU focus for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Dragon Age

Dorian Pavus/Felix Alexius
Dorian says it’s an odd question when you ask him if he was involved with Felix, but I don’t think it is at all. They seemed fond of each other and Dorian obviously had nothing but the highest regard for him. Besides, Felix did say he liked trouble! For smut, I prefer bottom Felix. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Felix.

Since I’m not into character death, I’d prefer if the fic wasn’t all about the tragedy of Felix’s looming demise or about said death. It could be set before he was infected or in a Felix Lives AU. Oh, and if you do decide to save him somehow, feel free to include all the angst about his (soon to be averted) death. I just don’t like it if the death actually follows. As for Dorian’s relationships with Iron Bull or The Inquisitor, should you choose to set the fic during/past DA:I, it’d be great if they were very clearly broken up by the time he gets to Felix, or he didn’t romance either of them. It would also be nice if Dorian isn’t in love with either of these dudes anymore (though him still being bitter or disillusioned about love or whatever if it ended badly, as well as Felix believing that Dorian is still in love or that he couldn’t give Dorian what he got from his former lovers, are totally fine).

Felix survives is pretty much a background AU for most of these prompts, but totally also a prompt in itself. Whether Felix actually gets rescued on purpose (someone finds a cure) or it’s a magical accident or he’s made a Grey Warden… just let him live! And make out with Dorian!

I enjoy love confessions being blurted out at inopportune times! Perhaps they confess their love right after Felix barely survived his cure. Perhaps it’s in a battle Felix accidentally got pulled into as well. Maybe it’s even before the infection and the two of them somehow got into trouble in Tevinter (I’m sure Dorian can manage to find some and we know Felix likes it).

Friends to lovers seems like a great trope for these two. I would love to see their friendship develop and then shift into something more, maybe after Felix is cured and they see each other again and all their old feelings suddenly resurface stronger (plus some little crushes they may already have had).

Would also like a version were they already fell for each other and became lovers in Tevinter before Felix was infected. (If you want to write a dramatic story with that prompt: Perhaps Felix broke up with Dorian because of the taint, not wanting Dorian to be tied to a dead man, and Dorian accepted it as the reasonable thing to do, but was secretly heart-broken? Can they pick it up again when Felix is cured and do the friends-to-lovers walk a second time? That’d be great.)

I generally see them as about the same age, but I don’t think it ever actually says for Felix. Is he Dorian’s age or was there maybe a bit of an age difference and Felix had a puppy love crush on Dorian when he first came around the house and Felix was like sixteen, seventeen? Does Dorian now see him in a new light after they have been separated and Felix has gone through such harrowing experiences, where before Dorian perhaps always still had that image of the teenager in mind, even though Felix had long grown up?

Well, considering Alexius picked Dorian up when they were both visitors to a brothel, I doubt Dorian has little experience with men, but for Felix I could see it! Does Dorian show him what he’s been missing out on?

Maybe Felix was a bit of a late-bloomer, so he hadn’t slept with anyone yet before he was infected, man or woman, and afterwards he was worried he might be able to pass on the blight, so he remained a virgin despite being basically Dorian’s age or just a few years younger. After Felix is cured and Dorian finds out, he decides to give Felix a few hands-on lessons. Are they already in a relationship or are they pretending just to have fun but actually pining?

Dorian joins a cured Felix back in Tevinter after DA:I. Maybe they had a long-distance relationship so far and now finally get to be sweet with each other in person?

Dorian decides to meet with his parents. He pretends like it doesn’t really shake him (as usual), but Felix welcomes him back in their shared home in the aftermath and reminds him he doesn’t need to conform to his family anymore.

Dorian and Felix geeking out over filling the library in their new home.

Felix spoke to the Inquisitor, asking about the Other Future, or questioned his father about his intentions. Dorian cheers him up afterwards, as Felix is shaken to learn what was to be done in the name of protecting him.

Dorian always assumed Felix was straight (maybe Felix thought so, too, or maybe he just didn’t think he was Dorian’s type). Then, as Felix is cured and with the Inquisition, or maybe earlier when they’re still together in Tevinter, a man starts hitting on Felix and Felix seems mildly interested – though of course his true interests lie elsewhere… does Dorian intervene?

Dorian is a flirt and terribly charming. Felix is very reasonable and understanding and usually not super bothered by that. Still, it can get a little much sometimes to see how many people are infatuated with Dorian and especially in Tevinter, Felix’s lack of magic talent makes him sort of second-class to most nobles, so he probably gets overlooked a lot on principle when people consider if Dorian is free. How does he try to recapture Dorian’s interest? (Not that he ever actually lost it in the first place.)

Dorian’s ex is either the Iron Bull or the Inquisitor. Felix secretly wonders how he is ever going to stand up to either of them (he’s not a Dom or generally as sexually experienced as the Bull, nor an amazing main character hero).

Dorian said that in Tevinter, you don’t often get relationships between men. Maybe, out of habit, he tries to keep things light with Felix, more friends-with-benefits despite being desperately in love. Meanwhile, Felix doesn’t want to pressure Dorian and lose him, since he knows Dorian has a wild history and might still not be into commitment, but he wishes he could be his only partner. Do they eventually manage to figure out they want the same thing?

Just generally Dorian and Felix hanging around Skyhold after Felix is cured, being in love and not quite daring to admit it since neither wants to ruin the friendship. What (or who) pushes them into it? Dorian’s meddling friends definitely welcome!

Being tainted, Felix hasn’t really been touched in a long while except for by people trying to work magic or medicine on him and he’s only recently been cured. When Dorian starts being affectionate (whether in a relationship or casually), he’s very eager for it.

Dorian has a lot of sex, but he didn’t get much physical attention divorced from that, Tevinter being as it is. Luckily, Felix is very happy to give it even when Dorian is not the type to directly ask for a hug.

Dorian has to defend them in a battle and Felix isn’t much use in a fight (especially not if he’s still weak suffering/recovering from the blight), so it’s on Dorian to pull himself up again and again and he’s not going to fail. Would love Felix patching him up after!

Felix is not much of a fighter, but somehow he ends up in a situation where he has to defend Dorian (who is maybe trying to open one of those magical barriers or already beaten on the ground or something) and he just won’t let himself be defeated, despite the fact that he’s neither a good mage nor all that great with a blade. He can still be a meat shield, after all.

Felix got cured in Haven, but while he’s still recovering, Corypheus attacks. So he basically has no choice but to drag himself, half-dead, through the snow to Skyhold with the others. Dorian is at his side, of course.

One character falling ill (or suffering from an infected wound, or in Felix’s case maybe going through difficult blight treatment) and the other caring about them is already one of my favourite tropes, so that alone would make me happy. If you want to up the ante, maybe there is a feverish confession. What is it about? Is it a love confession or perhaps something more indiscreet, a smutty fantasy? Or maybe something innocent but with implications towards their feelings, like them wishing for the other person to embrace them or stay with them through the night?

I would love for Dorian to reveal what happened between him and his father to Felix and just generally get to vent his frustration with the Tevinter system in earnest for once, since he’s usually more of a hide-the-pain-with-jokes type of person.

Felix is so serene about even his own death, but maybe he can have a moment as well. Does he still dream about the attack that killed his mother and left him infected? What about when his grandfather tried to have him assassinated? Did he ever suffer at the hands of other high-born people, or family members/acquaintances for his lack of magic, but didn’t tell people? (I’d also be fine with noncon for this specific prompt, perhaps someone making use of the fact that he has no magical way to defend himself, because it would be interesting to see how Felix handles it.) Him telling Dorian would be nice.

Felix going through some sort of blight cure would need some seeing to. Dorian fussing with him (maybe while sort of still trying to keep up the irreverent attitude – does he manage?) would be fun.

But maybe Dorian also goes down with a nasty flu or something at some point! Felix wants him to get better, of course, but maybe also enjoys that he gets to repay Dorian a little bit for caring about him when he was in recovery.

A pre-blight prompt here could be one of them falling ill and the other caring about them when they don’t know each other that well yet back in Tevinter, which is a great chance for them to start falling in love.

Dorian had the best intentions about not touching the son of the man who pulled him out of his life of chaotic squalor and actually put him on a good path. However, he didn’t expect Felix to be his soulmate.

Dorian and Felix knew they were soulmates, but Felix told Dorian it would be fine if he left since he has to get used to living without him. When they meet again, Dorian realises he can’t leave him a second time. Then, when they’ve already resigned themselves to Felix’s imminent death, a cure is found.

Arranged marriages are always awesome. In a first step to reforming Tevinter, Dorian and Felix decide to get married (whether it’s wholly officially recognised or not) to bind their powerful families together and make a point that political alliances are still possible and valuable if they don’t result in biological babies. Is it a love marriage from the start or did they do it out of political cunning but now realise it means more?

Felix, who is with the administrative Inquisition staff, is at some point handed some orphan baby to care for because everyone has too much to do. The kid has no other family and him and Dorian accidentally fall into the role of parents (and get together if they aren’t already).

One/some of their relatives or friends get offed in some political plot. Dorian and Felix, currently back in Tevinter trying to reform it, are left caring for their orphaned baby. Are they already together and realise they’re now basically starting a family or does this bring them closer?

So mpreg probably can’t be something that’s usually possible for human and other magically talented races, as otherwise Dorian’s whole backstory collapses in on itself. Or maybe there’s some sort of stigma against it in Tevinter as it is traditionally thought to produce or for some reason actually does often produce less magically powerful children? But Dorian wants a child with his lover/husband Felix, anyway, and goes against all established norms and traditions.

Dorian and Felix stumble over some ancient magic artefact that leaves Felix pregnant with Dorian’s baby. Do they consider reverse-engineering the magic? What does it feel like for Dorian that he may give his father exactly what he wants in the end, an heir? That must be a weird and not altogether positive feeling.

The secret to mpreg/fpreg is discovered in Tevinter during the timeline of DA:I. Great, now it wouldn’t be a problem anymore to favour someone of the same gender and Dorian can marry some magically gifted dude he will never get along with and they can despise each other till they’re both old! Dorian, of course, promptly decides to scandalise everybody by marrying Felix, whose lack of magical talent basically makes him a no-go as a partner for the entirety of Tevinter’s upper crust, male or female.

(I also have a letter dealing with heats and sex pollen, one for marriage tropes, one for smut, one for mpreg, one for pining tropes, and one for epistolary fic for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Mass Effect Trilogy

Male Shepard/Javik
Javik is possibly my favourite companion in ME3 and I love his interactions with Shepard. He’s so abrasive, but the longer you talk to him, the more you realise that the glorious Prothean empire they taught them about when he was born was really already a long lost memory in ruins and he lived his whole life in a total dystopian nightmare, only to wake up to the next apocalypse. I like Default Shepard just fine, but feel free to make him look different and give him a different first name. Paragon, Renegade or Paragade/Renegon (mix-and-match choices) all work, too, though I wouldn’t want a Shepard who is totally irredeemable. I also like Javik having touched the Echo Shard, but would not want him to go through with his plans to kill himself (but feel free to have him stop at the last possible moment). As for the Endings… I like Destroy least, but whichever one you want, as long as Shepard lives somehow, really! I’m not attached to any of them and I’d also be totally fine with modified endings or with the blunt idea of the Crucible just being a big Reaper-targeting gun, if that suits your story better. For smut, I prefer bottom Javik. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Javik.

I would love for Javik and Shepard to still be out there helping people after the end of the Reaper war. Javik doesn’t really have a place in the new world yet except at Shepard’s side – and him realising that his place being there is true in many ways would be great.

Javik and Shepard fighting together and being big damn heroes. That’s it, that’s the prompt. Would especially love it if they had complimentary skills, like perhaps a soldier or vanguard Shepard who makes use of the biotic setups that Javik can create, or whatever else you can think of.

Was there even time for something like romance back in Javik’s day? Or was it all forbidden by their multitude of strict rules to keep people focused? Did people do it anyway? Whether Javik ever had a real boyfriend or not, the man’s definitely dead now (and considering probability, may actually have been one of the indoctrinated people from his ship that Javik was forced to kill). With all that in mind, how does he go about starting a relationship with Shepard?

What about Shepard? Did he have any romantic entanglements? Maybe he’s just over that break-up with Kaidan or Ashley in ME2 (other former romances are totally fine, too, though), or swore off relationships a while ago for some other reason, and now there’s Javik and suddenly, on the eve of the apocalypse, Shepard wants more.

Shepard is interested in Javik, but there is an extinction event going on and they’re both twelve flavours of traumatised. But when Shepard recovers after the Crucible incident, suddenly him and Javik have some time and get closer.

Javik and Shepard tell themselves and each other the fact that they keep falling into bed together is just them letting off steam. It’s definitely more.

Paragon Shepard (or hell, maybe even Renegade Shepard!) enjoys cuddling, hugging, physical affection in general. Javik needs a bit to get used to it, but finds he’s just as touch-starved as Shepard and really loves it, to his own embarrassment.

Maybe Javik is the one who is unexpectedly touchy-feely with a partner – after all, Protheans communicate and read through touch. Shepard didn’t think he’d be into it, but he actually totally is.

Generally, I’d prefer for Javik to have genitalia that is somewhat comparable to humans, whether he's biologically male or intersex. I don’t think it was ever said how Protheans procreate, or how many sexes/genders they had, aside from like one line Javik said that may or may not have been another weird Prothean joke. Three or more sexes/genders or just one, like the asari, could also be options, after all. Javik and Shepard intimately exploring each other would be a lot of fun.

Javik had his trysts with half-opened armour on some military cots back in the day and that’s probably how it went with Shepard at the start, too. It’s really the only sort of sex he knows. Now, after the war, they suddenly have time. Cue Javik getting really flustered/insanely turned on/probably falling even harder (or all of the above) when Shepard decides to spend an evening going really thorough and slow.

How does the Prothean touch-reading thing work with sex? Maybe Javik is unfailingly good at predicting what Shepard wants him to do in the moment? Maybe Shepard asks Javik to be as vocal as possible to pay him back in kind, since he can’t do the same for Javik?

Shepard is suffering from PTSD in ME3. Maybe Javik notices through his touch-reading or just context clues and surprisingly turns out to be quite helpful? He must have some strategies to handle it, considering, well, his entire life. Maybe they can also heal together.

Javik gets hurt on the battlefield, but fights on. This is pretty normal to him as they didn’t have much time for any not totally necessary medical treatment back in his day. To his surprise, after the mission is over, Shepard sits him down in the shuttle (or wherever) for some first aid to hold him over until he can get to an actual doctor. Javik probably gripes that it’s a waste of time/resources, but boy does it not help his crush on Shepard.

Javik bodyblocking for Shepard or otherwise saving him at the risk of his own health. It’s totally just because Shepard is the avatar of this cycle and not because Javik has a big crush on him.

If Shepard has one of the firmer personality types (Renegon, Renegade, or even an outspoken Paragon) I could see him and Javik clash often at the start. Their frequent arguments let them get to know each other, though, and they find they have common ground as well.

The Crucible really is a Reaper-killer weapon and the destiny-choice machine was an indoctrination hallucination. Shepard fights through it and uses the weapon and then meets Javik again.

If Javik touches the Shard, he will want to kill himself to be with his crew. I would love for Shepard to either talk him out of it or become the person Javik wants to live for (not the most psychologically healthy thing, maybe, but let’s face it, the bar is low for Javik), and maybe from there Javik can go on to establish a real foothold in the new cycle, too.

Shepard and Javik building a new life for each other after the war and getting used to peace (something which Javik has never actually seen before and Shepard hasn’t experienced in a while), whether that be on a Spectre ship or in a house on a quiet farming colony.

Spacer Shepard introduces Javik to his mother.

Shepard and Javik adopting some war orphans and perhaps settling down after the war would be cute. Also, in case you want to go for mpreg, maybe Protheans can get pregnant by any species, like the asari. Shepard is eager to help Javik repopulate the Prothean race (Javik being mpregnant the mammal way or laying eggs both seem equally likely here).

For epistolary fic as well as in-universe articles, I have a whole letter section here, if you’re interested in writing that.

(I also have a letter dealing with heats, sex pollen and A/B/O, one with smut prompts, one for marriage tropes, and one with an AU focus for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Mass Effect: Andromeda

Avitus Rix/Evfra de Tershaav
Evfra and Avitus would make for a great couple, I think. They’re both no strangers to loss and to fighting and leading. Avitus, especially if he accepted the role of turian pathfinder, is basically walking Evfra’s path of trying to push back against what killed the loved one he lost and they might appeal to each other in that way. However, I could also see Evfra having compassion for Avitus if he became a mercenary – sure, Evfra did something different in response to trauma, but I imagine there must have been points in his life where he considered giving up, too. Maybe Avitus becomes a contact on Kadara and later Evfra’s mercenary, getting his second chance that way? And then there’s the turian SAM if Avitus is a Pathfinder... we know very little about this SAM, other than that he got thoroughly shaken by Macen’s death. How involved is he? For smut, I prefer bottom Evfra. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Evfra.

The turian pathfinder is put in charge of assisting the angara with rediscovering other possible homeworlds. This means Evfra and Avitus now work pretty closely together. Over time, a connection sparks between them.

I have a letter dealing with the turian SAM’s involvement in their relationship, so if you’re interested in exploring that (perhaps even to the point of basically making it Avitus/SAM/Evfra, if you’re so inclined), that’s would also be cool.

Mercenary Avitus seems to keep away from factions on Kadara, mostly helping settlers. This gets him on Evfra’s radar as a possible contact on Kadara. After meeting him in person a few times (a mercenary who can move among the new aliens is pretty handy) and getting some intel from Jaal, Evfra feels like Avitus deserves the second chance he obviously wants to deny himself. He did not plan to become this closely involved, though.

Mercenary Avitus taking more and more important jobs from Evfra, eventually realising that he’s kind of helping people again, and that he’s enjoying it, and that he really likes working with Evfra.

If Evfra and Avitus have both lost their partner (Evfra could have had a husband among his lost family), it’d be sweet to see something melancholy and slightly hopeful. Maybe one of them gets drunk on the anniversary of their partner’s death/disappearance (for Evfra, of course also because of the other people he lost) and the other joins them and just stays around as a shoulder to lean on. And maybe through that, they come to realise they really like each other.

Maybe, as pathfinder or mercenary, Avitus becomes one of the first Nexus people to settle on Aya to stay with Evfra. How does he integrate into angaran society? Can Evfra help him?

Avitus and Evfra exploring a rediscovered world together. Maybe Pathfinder Avitus even prepared it (Vault etc.) and now gets to show it off to Evfra?

Evfra bringing Avitus to where he used to live before everything went to hell with his family. Where is Evfra’s home? And is Evfra bringing him to show him some of his life, or is it a coincidence that they are there for a mission and Avitus eventually has to ask why Evfra seems so tense?

Avitus showing Evfra around the Nexus, or maybe taking him for a ride to a new world on his pathfinder ship. I’d love to see more about Avitus growing into the pathfinder role/gaining the confidence to face the people at the Nexus again if he’s a mercenary.

Avitus and Evfra together in a fight! Battle couples are awesome and the leader of the Resistance and an ex-Spectre are going to make a hell of a team.

But also, Avitus and Evfra getting to relax. Maybe they have a drink at a bar on the Nexus or in a private space, or talk to each other about anything and everything, or they just nap on each other or have slow, passionate sex.

(I also have a letter dealing with marriage tropes for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Akksul/Evfra de Tershaav
Oh, this one is so interesting. Evfra and Akksul have a lot of similarities, both being leaders who managed to galvanise sizeable movements, and both doing what they did because they felt that the current version of the Resistance wasn’t useful. I think Jaal may have pinpointed the difference between them quite well, though: Evfra is a pragmatist. That’s probably also why his version of the Resistance persists, despite everything, whereas the Roekaar were a more volatile, unstable group. Still, I feel like Evfra and Akksul would have a lot to talk about if they met again and that they probably see more of themselves in the other than they are comfortable with. They would bounce off each other in a really fascinating way and I’d love it if they found a way to get closer. For smut, I prefer bottom Evfra. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Evfra.

The Moshae encourages Akksul to work with the Resistance again. Evfra decides to keep an eye on him because he’s not ready to deal with the Roekaar 2.0 (and maybe because he has a feeling Akksul is going to report back to the Moshae about him). It affords chances for Akksul and him to talk.

If Akksul is around the Resistance past what happened on Havarl, he’ll learn about the Remnant’s creators at about the same time as Evfra, probably (if not through the Resistance then from the Moshae). Does this get the two of them talking?

Evfra was not having a fun time of it with the Resistance: the kett always having them on the back foot, the Moshae gone because one of his lieutenants betrayed them, the Roekaar... maybe by the time Akksul splits and he has to start allying with aliens who could be up to anything to get any foot on solid ground, Evfra wonders privately if Akksul isn’t right that he has become ineffective. And maybe in some squabble or fight with Akksul, this does shine through a bit. Evfra does obviously think he has to show a front to be a leader, but maybe Akksul, who himself has failed in his cause, finds him more likable knowing Evfra has doubts, too?

Something that might be interesting is that even if they’re in a relationship, Evfra might find it difficult to relax around Akksul. After all, isn’t he basically proving Akksul right that he’s not good enough every time he’s not putting his all into the Resistance? And wouldn’t Akksul be correct that Evfra could do more to help instead of making out with his boyfriend? So that could potentially be an unhealthy dynamic that develops accidentally out of his accumulated guilt and that Evfra has to fix.

Evfra’s career in the Resistance began with a raid on a kett labour camp – which we could assume is the one where he might have expected to find his family, but obviously didn’t, even if he freed a lot of other people. The fact that a kett labour camp is exactly where he couldn’t save Akksul from might sting. Basically, he can see his old failure in this failure. Does this influence how he approaches Akksul?

Akksul was a brilliant archaeologist. Maybe now that he’s returned, he rediscovers his passion? A lot of new things are being learned about the angara, after all. And that’s interesting to Evfra, too, because it directly impacts, well, all angara. Maybe getting back to his calling is what Akksul needs to heal.

Maybe Evfra is even the one who purposefully pushes Akksul to get back to archaeology, subtly trying to help just by handing him small Remnant tech stuff and asking if he can figure it out for the Resistance, or so the aliens don’t get the jump on them with all the research.

Obviously his time at the labour camp majorly messed with Akksul, not that it’s a surprise. Can Evfra maybe help him with the trauma if Akksul lets him? I’m pretty sure Evfra must have met many people who have gone through similar things.

Maybe Evfra kind of admired Akksul’s strong-headedness. He says that he used to think that Vehn Terev always questioning his orders was a strength (before he turned traitor), so someone having their own opinion isn’t something he dislikes. Besides, he obviously approached the new aliens with suspicion, too, so it’s not like he doesn’t understand Akksul at all.

So Evfra obviously knows how to pull people together or the Resistance wouldn’t be as it is, but Akksul definitely had the majestic public speaking angle down in a way I don’t quite see from Evfra, the grumpy cat, though he has his own form of charisma for sure. Maybe Akksul surprises Evfra by actually helping him with that skill?

I could see all sorts of sparks flying between Akksul and Evfra if you keep them in a small space. Maybe their more intimate relationship actually starts out as pretty explosive borderline-hate sex rife with power struggles? But obviously they do that in private, and then maybe Akksul stays in Evfra’s bed sometimes, and you can’t sit in complete silence if you’re already having breakfast together, and...

Or maybe they slowly realise they actually get along and sort of stumble into a romance that neither of them expected.

Akksul actually supporting Evfra in his job, maybe surprising Evfra by doing so. Evfra isn’t perfect, but he’s probably better at this whole Resistance thing, after all, Akksul eventually admits to himself.

Akksul seeing Remnant tech on new worlds or showing it to Evfra in older places. Evfra doesn’t seem to have a head for archaeology that we know of, but maybe he’s still fascinated, with both the Remnant stuff and with Akksul’s vast knowledge about it, even though Evfra understands only about half of what he’s saying on a good day.

I’d also like to see the two of them relax for a bit? Their lives were pretty wild lately, Akksul going from being a prisoner of war to a counter-Resistance leader, having his whole view of himself change like three times within the span of, what, two years? And Evfra’s life must be non-stop action ever since he started with the Resistance. So maybe they can just hang out on a nice beach or have a drink in private or sleep in.

(I also have a letter dealing with pining tropes for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Jaal Ama Darav/Evfra de Tershaav
I always thought these two would make a sweet couple. Jaal is very much the quintessential angara with his emotional honesty, whereas Evfra seems unusually closed-off for his kind. Opposites attract! However, they also have a lot of ambitions and skills in common, both being passionate fighters for the freedom of their people. Whether it’s set before, during, or after the game, it’s all great. For smut, I prefer bottom Evfra. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Evfra.

Evfra obviously can’t be on the frontlines all that often since he’s running the Resistance, but we do see that he goes out to fight sometimes, like at the end of the game, and he’s known for being good at it. Jaal and him kicking some ass together would be great.

Evfra and Jaal going out to some of the planets the new map established and finding old angaran worlds would be cool. Or maybe Jaal just taking him to an especially beautiful, newly rediscovered place! It would be very nice for Evfra to get out a little.

The angara pushing the kett back in some place and Jaal, who helps at the front lines with Evfra, proving to Evfra how much he has learned in his time with the Pathfinder (and making Evfra’s crush on him that much worse).

Jaal being with the Pathfinder will obviously make Evfra pay more attention to him. He always figured that he was a very capable soldier (he even calls him his best in one conversation in the game), but now Jaal is showing other talents, too. Naturally, Evfra starts to work more closely with him and suddenly they spend time together...

Evfra is well aware Jaal has a crush on him, but he’s likely at least 10 years older and has a lot of baggage, so he doesn’t think he’s the right person for Jaal. However, Jaal is persistent and charming and talented and Evfra isn’t made of stone, no matter what people say.

Evfra has a bit of a crush on Jaal that he’s not going to tell anyone about, ever, counter to how angara usually act (and perhaps also for the reasons stated in the prompt above). Jaal finds out somehow, anyway, and is quite intrigued.

Evfra and Jaal, true to the angaran habit of emotional honesty, start sleeping together to let off steam. But what happens when they start pining? Because Evfra might not be so honest about that and Jaal might think it means he’s not interested... how do they manage to get together?

Angara are wild about family, so I’d love Jaal and Evfra tentatively thinking in that direction. There are probably lots of orphans around and I’d love that option (maybe one started following Evfra or Jaal around?), but maybe some angaran males can also get pregnant? Being mpregnant might not help Evfra’s mood, but building a life with Jaal sure would.

If they’re together before the Pathfinder mission starts (or just sleeping together, but realising how much they miss each other being separated this much), I would love to read about their brief but surely passionate meetings whenever Jaal is back on Aya.

Evfra is a fairly severe and headstrong guy and maybe Jaal thinks Evfra wants to top and thus leaves that spot to him – which Evfra doesn’t mind at all. He’d just really also like for Jaal to fuck him, but it doesn’t seem like Jaal is interested in it and surely someone like Jaal would tell him, since he’s so open about everything else. Jaal is maybe just suffering from a bit of timidity in front of the leader of the Resistance, or thinking that since Evfra very rarely speaks about what he wants or likes, he should go by his best guess. He in fact would very much like to top Evfra. Can they figure it out?

I’d love for them to do something light-hearted, like explore a kink together (although if you want some inner conflict, maybe it’s a kink one of them is ashamed about – my go-to suggestion is Evfra wanting to sub or Jaal wanting to Dom and wondering what the other would make of that, but feel free to go for something totally different, too!).

Jaal finds out that Evfra used to sub to his late husband (and perhaps to others) and is very interested. Evfra eventually agrees to teach him. Basically, I really like experienced sub/newbie Dom, so, this is that!

Evfra may have lost a husband (and perhaps even children) with that family the kett stole from him. I could see Jaal being the first person who reawakens the desire to have a lover and/or a family again. How does he deal with it?

Jaal is still somewhat unsure of his way in life when he goes with the Pathfinder. I’d love it if becoming more secure in his role also led him to realise he wants to take a shot at dating Evfra (and if Evfra finds this new confidence low-key quite attractive).

Jaal introducing Evfra to his big family as his boyfriend. Obviously every angara knows who Evfra is and Jaal even has family in the Resistance, but this would be a very different context. How does Evfra deal with suddenly being swept up in a typical giant angaran family again after shutting himself off for so long after losing his own?

Jaal and Evfra writing messages and e-mails while Jaal is with the Pathfinder, chatting, videochatting, just having a budding (or established) long-distance relationship.

Both Jaal and Evfra worked themselves ragged lately. Maybe they get to take a few days off together after the kett have been pushed back?

Whatever the angaran equivalent of a marriage proposal is! That, and the build-up towards it/what happens afterwards would be great.

(I also have a letter dealing with heats and A/B/O, one with smut prompts, one for marriage tropes, one for pining tropes, one for epistolary fic and one with an AU focus for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Hades

Zagreus/Chaos
I just really like the relationship between these two. Chaos is such a strange entity – unsurprisingly, they are the embodiment of primordial chaos – and Zagreus still manages to relate to them in his own way. The end of their relationship full heart arc, when they tell each other they will miss each other when Zagreus will leave for good, was so cute. I also love that Zagreus is the one who helped Chaos out of their isolated loneliness by dropping by and reconnecting them with their daughter, and Chaos pointing out that Zagreus showed them loneliness isn’t an inevitable fate.

For pregnancy, I prefer pregnant Chaos. For smut I prefer bottom Chaos – for the latter, that is if you want Chaos assuming some sort of human (or human-ish) body for these purposes, since from the waist down Chaos seems to be mostly half-formed faces so far (I’m also fine with any genitalia for Chaos as long as it’s vaguely humanoid). I’d also be totally down for weird cosmic sex that escapes human experience, though, where Chaos is the whole of their realm, or Zagreus gets to exploring a body that is mostly composed of unmade reality pieces, as long as they both still get sexual pleasure out of it. Something in between of those two options would also be fun!

Zagreus tries to figure out how to ask primordial Chaos out on a date. Maybe he asks Achilles for help? Maybe he tries different things but Chaos doesn’t seem to realise? (Maybe Chaos does realise and is just interested to see what Zagreus will do next and eventually releases him by agreeing to it?)

Chaos created their children alone. It doesn’t seem like they ever had a romantic relationship with anyone (considering how odd they are, they don’t seem very practiced at relationships with other beings in general). Chaos navigating their way through their first relationship and good-natured Zagreus happily being along for the ride would be cool.

It always strikes me that in comparison to the other realms and even the House of Hades, Chaos’s realm is really calm and quiet. Maybe now that Zagreus doesn’t feel like he has to hurry out anymore, he enjoys hanging out there and gets to know Chaos better in the process?

What could threaten Chaos? Greek mythology has a lot of crazy stuff happening, so I’m sure there’s something that might shake even them up. Can Zagreus help? What would fighting alongside Chaos look like?

Chaos finds a way to leave their realm (without causing destruction by introducing chaos to other, fully-formed realms, that is). Zagreus is happy to introduce them to everybody.

Chaos flirting with Zagreus through really weird boons.

Chaos notices that their partner Zagreus is working his ass off trying to collect more and more darkness, but they don’t know why yet. Eventually, Zagreus reveals the Contractors built him his own sigil with which to visit Chaos.

Dionysus or Aphrodite notice that Zagreus has a crush on someone or is in a relationship and offer special boons that might help along with that (whether that works out as intended or not).

Maybe Chaos was curious about Zagreus, but since they are already used to being lonely and didn’t want to miss someone again, they didn’t take it further. Now that Zagreus is staying, Chaos feels more comfortable making their interest known (or at least making Zagreus gradually notice it through general Chaos-esque weirdness).

Smut would be great! I already outlined a little in the introduction all the unusual ways that sleeping with Chaos could go. Would love to a see an enthusiastic Zagreus experimenting.

Similarly, it would also be interesting if Zagreus had to figure out if sex is even on the table (I would be happy if the answere were yes, of course). Meanwhile, Chaos might not be quite aware that’s something Zagreus is looking for, since they’re new to romantic relationships, but then again, they did make everything and everyone, so they might eventually happen on that idea. Which one of them makes the first offer?

Is it possible to have something like the archaic, very weird version of phone sex using either the Cosmic Egg or the Aspect of Chaos Aegis?

In case you like kidfic, maybe they start a family after some time? Chaos creates something with properties of both them and Zagreus, whether that needs a pregnancy period of some sort or is just kinda formed into existence (maybe Zagreus watches Chaos work on their baby like it’s a sculpture or something). Does Zagreus show their new child off to the family once it is done? Grandfather Hades would definitely be funny. However, I would also love some family fluff with just Chaos and Zagreus, either during the creation period or after.

(I also have a letter dealing with pining and one with smut prompts for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Sherlock

Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade
These two are a long-time favourite pairing of mine. They seem like very different men, but in the end they both dedicated their lives to protecting people – and they both care about Sherlock, which is an excellent way to keep them talking in the early days of their relationship. Greg is not intimidated by geniuses and Mycroft seems a little more in touch with the idea of physical intimacy than Sherlock, so there is an opportunity here… For smut, I prefer bottom Greg. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Greg.

Note: Since the fourth season of Sherlock is pretty controversial, feel free to entirely ignore everything that happened there. Or don’t! I don’t have a preference either way, but I wanted to say it’s an option in case you weren’t happy with the developments. Also, if you want to go pre-Season 3, you could just set Greg’s divorce to be earlier or have him never be married in the first place.

I’d love a Canon Divergence AU where Greg and Mycroft get together sometime after they first met, perhaps after Greg pulled Sherlock out of some drug den? At first, Mycroft may see Greg as little more than a tool who is useful for keeping Sherlock under control, but then it turns into more.

The two of them solving a case together while pining (insofar as Mycroft needs help… but perhaps Greg surprises him with a good idea/observation?) would be a lot of fun.

I also always love the idea of Greg getting hurt protecting Mycroft from some assassination attempt, and Mycroft then seeing to his recovery (and perhaps to vengeance).

I’m here for every urban fantasy AU concerning these two. Werewolves? Vampires? Magic exists? It’s all good. Or set Sherlock in a high fantasy version of London, or in space! Setting shifts of all kinds are great.

Victorian AU is of course also a staple for this fandom. You could go with Sherlock’s fever dream variation of Victorian London (if you can work around Mycroft probably finding it difficult to get out of his chair, but hey, Greg can do the legwork!), or just a normal genre shift where they are still themselves but, like, in fancy top hats and such.

Speaking of (not quite that) overweight Mycroft, I found the issues he had regarding that interesting, since he seems very much able to keep everything else in his life under control. Perhaps he puts on a few pounds while in a relationship with Greg and finds this very worrying? Would love if Greg didn’t actually mind, though, since Mycroft is hardly dangerously overweight. He thinks it’s totally normal and doesn’t really understand why Mycroft seems so perturbed. This could even happen before they are together and it still doesn’t keep Greg from flirting with Mycroft at all, to Mycroft’s surprise.

Generally, I could see Mycroft being relatively mercenary in picking his conquests. He knows what he wants, but obviously he’s never going to have feelings that extend beyond the carnal for one of these goldfish people, it’s just to satisfy an instinct. Except, well. He somehow keeps ending up in Greg’s bed. And they may have gone to dinner. And…

I would love to know what it’s like for Mycroft experiencing falling in love with Greg. Is it the first time this has happened to him to this extent? Or did he have a relationship(s) before that crashed and burned? Does he worry that he’s leaving him alone too much or that Greg will tire of someone who can’t even watch one football game with him without complaining? And what about Greg? Does he wonder why Mycroft is dating him, considering how above human interaction Mycroft seems? Is he wondering how to adjust what he usually does to keep a partner to properly draw Mycroft in? Or does he just give up and try to be a good boyfriend the best way he knows how to, and inadvertently charms Mycroft that way?

I would love something where, as they are already in a relationship, they run into one of Mycroft’s exes and the person is still interested in Mycroft (or, someone Mycroft has never dated, but who is working hard to seduce him). The better looking, better educated, richer and higher class he (or she) is, the better. How does Greg handle it? His wife cheated on him, after all, and he might be worried he’ll be left behind again. Mycroft has no such intentions, though.

If Greg has kids, Mycroft trying to relate to them for Greg’s sake and being an odd but eventually well-liked stepdad would be fun.

I feel like these two would get up to interesting things in bed. Perhaps Greg expects Mycroft to be rather stiff. Is he right? Does he have to draw him out of his shell first? Or does Mycroft surprise him? Can Mycroft use his superhuman reading of clues on Greg’s reactions to find out exactly how to drive him crazy?

Vampyr

Jonathan Reid/Sean Hampton
Sean is the love interest I wanted! I enjoy how gentle and meek he is, but also how he obviously has a lot of courage and a stubborn head of his own. Meanwhile, Jonathan cares about people, but is a very good protagonist in that he seems always ready to push his own will through. Plus, they are both caretakers (who are also people-eating monsters) in their own right. I can see everything from tooth-rotting fluff to the two of them solving crimes and helping people together to them getting into an argument over something they are at odds about and having to resolve that somehow. For smut, I prefer bottom Sean. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Sean.

I would still love a version of the game where Sean is the love interest instead of Elisabeth. I don’t mean repeating the whole game, of course, but changing/adding some scenes. Sean’s already Princess Peaching it in Bishop’s den where you valiantly save him, it’s the perfect set-up for a charged conversation or three back in the hospital. Perhaps Jonathan can get some comfort and guidance from Sean by half-alluding to the terrible situation he’s in (or Sean, having known vampires for a decade, surprises Jonathan eventually with the revelation that he knows very well what Jonathan is and is not afraid of it). I’d also enjoy scenes of Jonathan returning to him between missions and/or an adjusted ending where Jonathan goes to Sean afterwards. Maybe they help Old Bridget clean up the sewer hide-out, which could be a sombre scene, since Sean also considered the Skals his flock. Or, for something happier, they could simply celebrate the end of the epidemic and Jonathan’s survival.

Jonathan is the fighter of the two, but I can see Sean throwing himself into an altercation to help a wounded Jonathan, too. Dude turns into a pretty high-level feral Skal with shadow clones when you leave him to the blood of hate, so he could probably at least hold his own for a bit, long enough for Jonathan to recover; but he’s also not someone used to fighting and might get pretty banged up. I just like them working together or saving each other and any situation where that happens would be great, plus them taking care of the problem for good once they have licked their wounds.

Sean is worried about one of his flock who has been behaving very strangely, or something else that is fishy at the docks, and him and Jonathan solve the mystery and get closer again in the process.

Or the other way around, Jonathan has a mysterious case at his clinic who also asks for spiritual guidance and so Jonathan goes to find Sean, who gets some strange half-confessions and pleas for help. Who is responsible? What is going on in Londontown this night? I don’t know, but Sean and Jonathan may end up kissing while they find out.

They also generally have a lot of enemies: the Ascalon club could be going after Jonathan for not heeding their wishes or become too interested in what a weird Skal type Sean is, other elder vampires might come back from the continent and bring their own entourage, there’s the Guard of Priwen and certainly other hunter factions, too, some less respectful upstart gang or union member with his cronies around Sean’s territory could be trying to teach him a lesson... these two have their hands full.

I’d also love a quieter fic about their relationship which just kind of tracks its development. Does Jonathan ever introduce Sean to... well, what’s left of his family, his mum and his butler? Probably not as his boyfriend, but maybe he wants to see Sean make a connection with them. What about sex? Is Sean a virgin, apart from what happened to him? Does he ever say more about that to Jonathan when they get closer? Does Jonathan try to let it start slowly to get him used to it, or does something happen unplanned that perhaps surprises them both?

I’d also love them dealing with the actual fallout of the Spanish flu epidemic (that still happened, after all) and/or the returning soldiers. There’ll be a lot of work for a spiritual caretaker and a doctor to do.

Also, Jonathan returning to London after the second-worst ending, when he failed to save Elisabeth and might just generally feel terrible about himself, and Sean meeting him, and the two of them attempting to put their lives back together while getting closer, would be nice.

I’m also a sucker for vampires feeding and hurt/comfort, so if Jonathan or Sean got hurt and the other offered them some blood, that would also be a great fic. Skals don’t seem to heal as well or quickly as Ekons, either, so maybe Jonathan can put some proper bandages on Sean, too, or Sean could allow him to do that examination he rejected at first (that part could probably veer into a smut prompt, heh).

Jump forward in time! I’d love to see their established relationship thirty, fifty, a hundred years down the road. How do they live? Or, perhaps they haven’t always been together, but they meet again like eighty years later or something and fall in love.

Jonathan went through seven kinds of hell in the span of like two weeks in the game (and for that matter, Sean wasn’t exactly having a great time, either). If at some point he runs out of energy, or just has a break-down as it all catches up with him, I would love for Sean to be around to pick him up and comfort him and commiserate (even if Jonathan might feel that the rather rough manner in which he saved Sean should preclude him from such sympathy).

(I also have a letter dealing with AUs and one with smut prompts for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Geoffrey McCullum/Sean Hampton
These two don’t meet in-game, but I feel like it’d be really interesting if they did. Geoffrey has probably never met a Skal like Sean before and his new perspective (either because he is a vampire or because Jonathan spared him) might keep him from killing him outright, and Sean could be really good for him, since surely Geoffrey must be affected by what has happened to him recently one way or the other and could use someone kind who is generally ready to listen and help. Besides, someone’s gotta keep the city standing if Jonathan left to America/the castle, and Sean and Geoffrey are both involved in doing just that, in their own ways. That would give them many opportunities to interact. For smut, I prefer bottom Sean. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Sean.

What I find fascinating is that if Jonathan didn’t turn Geoffrey, Arthur’s blood might still have done it eventually, and perhaps Sean just happens upon Geoffrey when that occurs and helps him through it. That would also create an interesting connection for them.

Hell, for all we know, Geoffrey and Sean could have met before the game. There’s a note from Geoffrey saying he knows they don’t have enough recruits at the East End docks, so it’s not impossible he would walk the perimeter there himself sometimes and eventually meet Sean and even befriend him, since Sean is just a human at that point. I would love a calm-before-the-storm kind of mutual crush or cute romance between them pre-game (which might already be tinged by Sean probably lying to Geoffrey about the undead part of his flock). Alternatively, how would poor Geoffrey react to his crush or even boyfriend turning into a Skal? Would he find it his responsibility to kill him but can’t bring himself to? And then he (potentially) changes himself...

Jonathan could introduce Sean to Geoffrey before he leaves London with a note to Geoffrey to keep his hands off of Sean if he doesn’t want to get in trouble, but I’m sure Geoffrey would still want to keep an eye on this Skal positioned just at the right place where he could make people few would miss vanish. Sean working to get his trust and actually getting it and more would be fun.

Geoffrey and Sean are both from Dublin and have both left terrible memories behind there. How interesting would it be if something necessitated that they have to go back, some case they both try to solve or some vampire/hunter threatening them? I would love to read them navigate the city and their own pasts together. Alternatively, I also like them speaking Irish together, talking about a street or something they both might have known; or perhaps Geoffrey used to be a proper Irish Catholic boy once upon a time, too? Just things like that which provide innitial connection points.

They also generally have a lot of enemies: the Ascalon Club could be going after Geoffrey for being a hunter or become too interested in what a weird Skal type Sean is, other elder vampires might come back from the continent and bring their own entourage, there’s other hunter factions, too, some less respectful upstart gang or union member with his cronies around Sean’s territory could be trying to teach him a lesson... these two have their hands full.

Perhaps Jonathan didn’t want to draw Geoffrey’s attention to Sean, so he didn’t tell him about Sean at all and they just run into each other. How does Sean manage to talk his way out of being immediately murdered (or has Geoffrey perhaps mellowed a little bit and now does give vampires who look reasonable a chance – but then again, Skals can’t be reasonable, right...)? How does Geoffrey come to tolerate and like this weird uncommon Skal? Does Sean think Geoffrey’s a thug at first and later comes around, or does he see something else in him straight from the beginning?

I’d also love a quieter fic about their relationship which just kind of tracks its development. Does Geoffrey tell him about his family or his adopted father, perhaps takes him to the graveyard? What about sex? Sean might be a virgin, apart from what happened to him. Does he ever say something about the abuse in his past to Geoffrey when they get closer, does he tell him at all, or does Geoffrey learn it through gossip like Jonathan did? Does Geoffrey try to let it start slowly to get him used to things, or does something happen unplanned that perhaps surprises them both?

Sean is worried about one of his flock who has been behaving very strangely, or something else that is fishy at the docks, and him and Geoffrey solve the mystery and get closer in the process.

Combatant or not, Geoffrey thinks Sean needs some self-defence lessons if he wants to stay alive and protect his immortal flock. They train vampire powers together and get closer over it.

Jump forward in time! I’d love to see their established relationship thirty, fifty, a hundred years down the road. How do they live? Or, perhaps they haven’t always been together, but they meet again like eighty years later or something and fall in love.

Both Sean and Geoffrey seemed to take this whole changing into monster thing kind of eerily well, but maybe they also just didn’t want to talk to Jonathan about it, especially in that very hectic situation with the epidemic. Sure, Sean knew Skals before, but you can’t tell me he has no reaction to wanting to eat corpses now (or that very weird slight personality shift he had when he was still controlled by the blood of hate, that’d scare him in retrospect, I imagine). Perhaps he does allow himself a minor breakdown and Geoffrey finds him, or they are already close and Sean talks to him. Or, on the other hand, Geoffrey reaches his breaking point and Sean comforts him and convinces him that he doesn’t need to stake himself.

Jonathan Reid/Geoffrey McCullum/Sean Hampton
This mess of a threesome is another favourite idea of mine. There’s just so much charge there: the anger Geoffrey must feel for Jonathan, particularly if he has made him an Ekon, his aggression towards vampires turning against Skal Sean, but his newfound knowledge also perhaps halting him and showing him that both Jonathan and Sean might be the kind of vampires who don’t deserve death and thus confusing him a lot in the process. Sean is likely still a bit resentful towards Jonathan, if his curt answer concerning an examination is anything to go by, and Geoffrey would probably scare or at least worry him, but I think Sean would also try to help Jonathan and Geoffrey both if he knew the extent of their tragedies. Finally, Jonathan sees the good in both these men, but also has to live with the things he’s done to them, and, considering how Geoffrey hunted him, is probably as angry at him as Geoffrey is at Jonathan. This fic can of course also include Geoffrey/Jonathan, Jonathan/Sean, or Geoffrey/Sean as long as it eventually turns into a triad and no one is actively, purposefully cheating on someone else (muddy situations and stuff like we're-pretending-to-be-FWB-but-are-actually-pining is fine though). For smut, I prefer bottom Sean and have no preferences between the other two. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Sean.

Jonathan is of course the logical connection point between them, so it might start out with him in a relationship/flirting with one of them first before the other joins. But perhaps Jonathan also takes a bit of a break from London after the game and finds his progeny have gotten to know each other in his absence.

A story idea for established relationship could be the three of them getting locked in somewhere and fighting their way out – though Sean is not much of a fighter, but perhaps he can make a good blood bag for the other two to replenish after or during the battle? (Then again, we know he turns into a tough mini boss if you let him deteriorate, so perhaps there’s more to him in a fight than anyone expects.)

Considering how long an examination of how they got together could go, I’d also be perfectly fine if you skipped to an established three-way relationship kind of deal, just showing how they deal with the world as a triad. How do they approach new threats in the city, how does Geoffrey keep his fellow guards from killing his boyfriends (and potentially himself), do Geoffrey and Sean help Jonathan at the hospital or with searching for a way to quell vampire hunger, and do Geoffrey and Jonathan make sure the shelter stays safe?

I would also just like to see them hanging out, bickering, doing naughty things. These boys are busy, I’m sure they could all stand to relax together sometimes. Just one or all of them reflecting on the relationship would be really interesting, too.

If Geoffrey was not turned by Jonathan but by Arthur’s blood, Arthur might come over to London to take a look at his newest progeny and in the process also meeting his younger brother Jonathan and Sean the weird Skal. Whether that is a good or bad thing remains to be seen, but it might bring the three closer together.

Jump forward in time! I’d love to see their established relationship thirty, fifty, a hundred years down the road. How do they live? Or, perhaps they haven’t always been together, or maybe only two of them have been, but they meet again like eighty years later or something and all fall in love.

Combatant or not, Geoffrey and Jonathan think Sean needs some self-defence lessons if he wants to stay alive and protect his immortal flock. They train vampire powers together and get closer over it. Also, Sean might be watching (perhaps with some trepidation – or even with some arousal, to his own surprise) how Geoffrey and Jonathan tear into each other training their powers together and provides them with blood to heal their wounds after.

For smut, I would love to see them doing it in all sorts of constellations: in a pile all three on each other (all my brownie points of Sean being spitroasted), or with two of them performing for the third, or one of them performing for the two others while they touch each other. Perhaps Sean isn’t quite comfortable jumping right in with two men at first, so they ease him into it. Or Sean is a lot more ready to experiment than they exptected and they have fun with that. Perhaps a little later into their relationship, Geoffrey and Jonathan are so busy bickering that Sean somehow ends up taking control at some point and nudges them to do what he wants to get this show on the road.

They also generally have a lot of enemies: the Ascalon Club could be going after Geoffrey for being a hunter or for Jonathan for not listening to them or become too interested in what a weird Skal type Sean is, other elder vampires might come back from the continent and bring their own entourage, there’s other hunter factions, too, some less respectful upstart gang or union member with his cronies around Sean’s territory could be trying to teach him a lesson... these three have their hands full.

Tom Watts/Sean Hampton
I know they don’t meet in game, but Tom and Sean obviously know each other and seem to like each other and respect what the other does, too. It makes sense, of course, since they’re the human protectors of the docks (well, Sean being human to a point), but on the other end, innkeeper and night asylum keeper-turned-local saint are also fairly different jobs. I would be happy for anything from their first meetings and budding friendship to something where they’re already familiar with each other to a post-game story. For smut, I prefer bottom Sean. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Sean.

I’m sure Tom and Sean end up in each other’s territory a lot. Sean looking for lost sheep he hasn’t seen in a while, Tom dragging a drunk customer shelter-wards, running into each other after Tom locks up and Sean is out searching the streets for lost souls... what is that like?

Them caring about a common friend with a problem – maybe Dyson or Bishop – and getting closer while they do so.

Hurt/Comfort in either direction, or even both. I’m sure they could both need someone to lean on themselves every once in a while.

Specific H/C scenario would be Sean waking up from his Blood Of Hate-stupor after Jonathan broke him down psychologically to make him drink and Tom comforting him (whether he knows what’s going on or not). I mean, if there’s ever a moment to have a nervous breadown, it would have been after that.

Did Tom ever feel the need to confess his past to Sean? Either because he needs to get some stuff off his chest, or because Sean is not local, after all, and Tom wants to give him a chance to judge him on his full merits? And/Or did Sean allow Tom to ask him about the gossip that’s out there about Sean’s past?

Sean gets roughed up by some gang thugs, maybe when he’s not quite so established yet, or by newcomers who don’t have the same respect. Tom helps him out.

Perhaps Jonathan arrives just a little too late and Sean was already over the edge and going to start turning people, but happened to run into Tom first, who somehow manages to appeal to his humanity long enough for Jonathan to come and grab Sean to give him some Ekon blood (whether Tom stops Sean on purpose or just by being there). How does Sean explain his acting so erratically to Tom later – with the truth or some more realistic lie? Just how guilty does he feel? (And maybe while being half-mad he also spoke of how drawn he feels to Tom... ?)
Sean was Tom’s boyfriend already when he got turned. He attempts to break up with him afterwards for his own protection so he won’t be dragged into that world, but Tom demands to know what’s going on.

Does Sean ever tell Tom the truth about vampires, maybe to keep him safe, or because he trusts him, or because an Ascalon Club Ekon kicks down the door of the bar?

After being turned, Sean doesn’t intend to tell Tom about vampires, but how could you lie about something like this to someone you snogged behind the bar?

Tom somehow getting drawn into the whole affair. Maybe he ends up as an Ekon after colliding with Mary or one of the random Ekons that streak about the London night when the plague gets worse and Sean helps him out? Ekons can drink Skal blood and Skals only have to eat corpses to replenish, so they would make a good pacifist duo...

Maybe the reason things never really got off the ground with Sabrina is that Tom is gay, though time and place being what it is, he prefers to keep that to himself. The same goes for his crush on Sean Hampton. How does Sean find out? Or does Tom eventually tell him?

I also like historical AUs where same-sex marriage is allowed, though, in case you want to go for something lighter. I bet if it were acceptable, there’d be some teasing about Sean and Tom tag-teaming so much to keep the district standing, and maybe eventually some actual courtship from the two.

Speaking of AUs, a no-supernatural AU where they “just” have to deal with the Spanish Flu and having to help their district through this difficult time and falling for each other in the meantime would be awesome, too.

Soulmate AUs are also great, for that matter. When do the two of them realise? Is it maybe a thing where you have to touch the person and so it takes them ages? Whenever it is, how do they handle it?

For smut, I prefer bottom Sean, but other than that, I’d really love to read anything. Is Tom the first person Sean is with willingly or were there others? Or maybe Sean is the first man Tom is with? But I’d also enjoy a Tom who is quite experienced and shows Sean a few things.

(I also have a letter dealing with pining tropes for this couple, in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Yuri!!! on Ice

Christophe Giacometti/Georgi Popovich
I know they didn’t meet in the series – well, they did on the podium, I guess! –, but considering they’re “veterans” who are pretty close in age, I’m sure these two have run into each other time and again. With Georgi being all about romance and Christophe all about sex, they have a lot of passion (and potential for drama) between the two of them and I’m just really here for all of it. They could meet up at competitions, training camps, or Chris could just switch to Yakov’s rink, or Georgi come to train in Switzerland at Chris’ rink. For smut, I prefer bottom Georgi. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Georgi.

Chris moves to St. Petersburg to train under Yakov. Since Victor and Yuuri are busy with each other, Georgi helps with the move and they start hanging out.

Georgi moves to Chris’ rink to train. Chris is not used to having someone with at least comparable skill in the roster (though Georgi is not quite as successful, but he can peak high when he’s on his game, as we saw), so this actually turns out to be quite fun for both of them as it gives Chris competition and Georgi a chance to move out of Victor’s shadow. Plus, they start to get closer...

Georgi has a crush on Chris, but Chris is mostly with Victor when he hangs out with the Russian team. How does Chris find out? Maybe Georgi told Victor, who blabs to Chris? Or maybe Georgi is just really not subtle?

What does it look like when Chris tries to win someone over? Does he worry sometimes that he has no cards to draw when sex might not do the trick, like with a hopeless romantic such as Georgi?

Chris totally thinks Georgi is sappy and is just quietly amused by being showered with love declarations and flowers and Georgi wanting a thousand kissy photos on social media... but maybe he enjoys it just a little bit.

Relatedly, I’d also love a story that incorporates the use of social media, or maybe is just a mix of instagram posts, fan twitters, and forum speculations about these two as they suddenly start to show up around each other in public or post shared training vids or something. After all, figure skating seems to be quite popular in YoI’s world.

Pair skating or ice dancing or just being silly with each other on a public rink, I just want them to skate together!

This is more of an add-on, as it’s a threesome with what is essentially an OC, but if you want to go for a three-way relationship between Chris, his brown-haired boyfriend from the series and Georgi, I’d be here for it, too.

I also like Fantasy AUs (witch Georgi!) or fusions with any of my other fandoms (Assassin’s Creed? Mass Effect? Dragon Age? Star Wars?).

Smut is always great! Does Georgi have any experience with men? Is it something he worries about when he gets with Chris or does he believe love is enough? Does Chris enjoy playing teacher in the bedroom or is he surprised he accidentally collected a formerly-straight guy and figured Georgi already had experience?

Georgi has never been with a man and Chris offers to show him (this might possibly be a decision made with some post-banquet alcohol in their system, or while Georgi is rebounding from a break-up). The sex is unexpectedly amazing and they both can’t keep their hands off each other from then on. But feelings start to get involved...

(I also have a letter dealing with heats and a/b/o, one for marriage tropes, one for smut, one for mpreg, one for epistolary fic in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Victor Nikiforov/Georgi Popovich
Victor’s and Georgi’s rivalry is so interesting to me precisely because it’s so uneven, with Victor barely having to pay him attention and Georgi’s whole career being defined by being second after Victor in Russia. I also find it very fascinating that they are both probably only two or three years away from the end of their careers at best. What is their relationship going to be like when suddenly it doesn’t matter anymore which one of them can jump more quads? As for Yuuri, I’d prefer if Victor either skipped the banquet or him and Yuuri are broken up again or it’s set before the series. For smut, I prefer bottom Georgi. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Georgi.

Georgi has a crush on Victor, but Victor never paid him any attention. Somehow Victor learns about it. Maybe he’s just curious at first, but then actually starts to have feelings himself.

Victor has a crush on Georgi, but didn’t go for it, either thinking Georgi is straight or there’s no way he doesn’t resent him by this point, or both. Georgi is baffled when he finds out, but willing to give it a shot.

Georgi and Victor have a one night stand and predictably, Georgi falls for him. To everyone’s surprise maybe including his own, Victor actually responds kind of well to Georgi’s dramatic courtship (because it’s not like Victor isn’t also very extra).

Victor and Georgi have a long-standing FWB thing going on when neither of them is in a relationship. They’re both pretending to not have feelings for each other and pining.

What would it look like if Victor tried to win Georgi over? He is not exactly averse to big gestures of affection, either, after all.

Ice skating seems to be huge in their world, considering the media all running after Victor, and everyone who has looked into real life ice skating fandom knows some of those people can be vicious. I’m sure if Georgi started dating Victor, he’d get dragged pretty hard (fans on social media and gossip mags speculating he’s just here to get at Victor’s wealth/fame). How do they handle that? Or hey, maybe they're lucky and the fans are more positive, and it’s just lots of speculation on twitter, instagram, and the fan forums as Georgi and Victor suddenly seem to start appearing in each other’s instagrams a whole lot more than before.

Georgi has spent pretty much all his life in Victor’s shadow. Does he have to work through being jealous/feeling outmatched in the relationship? Does Victor realise what’s going on and try to help (or does he accidentally make it worse at first, considering how blunt he can be sometimes)?

Pair skating or ice dancing or just being silly with each other on a public rink, I just want them to skate together!

Georgi seems like sort of an artsy type. It might be fun if he took Victor to a gallery or opera or whatever, allowing Victor to interact with things that aren’t ice skating-related, since the hyperfocusing seems to have been a issue for Victor up to now.

Anya broke up with Georgi and Victor doesn’t know where his career is going and didn’t have the banquet experience. They somehow end up talking, both being quite depressed, and things go from there.

A couple years down the line, Victor is at the end of his career and his relationship with Yuuri didn’t work out. Georgi, too, has to step back from skating and hasn’t managed to get his romantic life on track. They are both in a bad slump and somehow end up going on a road trip/having a drunken hook-up/doing any other number of strange desperate things that accidentally end up with feelings.

I also like Fantasy AUs (witch Georgi!) or fusions with any of my other fandoms (Assassin’s Creed? Mass Effect? Dragon Age? Star Wars?).

Smut is always great! Does Georgi have any experience with men? What do they get up to in the bedroom? Is there a rivalry, too, and is Georgi as hopelessly outmatched as he is on the rink? Has Georgi ever covered the bed in heart-shaped confetti and did Victor like it (and is Makkachin dragging them around in his fur three weeks later)?

(I also have a letter dealing with heats and a/b/o, one for smut, one for mpreg in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Christophe Giacometti/Victor Nikiforov/Georgi Popovich
This is a great High Chaos Energy triad. All three of them are so extra, but they all do it in their own ways. Also, for Christophe and Georgi, Victor is the one to chase, but Victor outruns them with ease, which creates an interesting relationship dynamic; and as we’ve seen, Georgi can be pretty good when he’s not allowing his skate to escape him and getting distracted, so Christophe and him have probably been in direct competition during their careers quite a few times, too. They all just had a lot of years to butt heads and of course to get to know each other. This fic can of course also include Victor/Chris, Victor/Georgi, or Georgi/Chris as long as it eventually turns into a triad; I just don't want anybody actively, purposefully cheating on somebody else, but muddled circumstances and we're-pretending-we're-just-FWB-but-actually-pining is fine (as is two of them actively looking for a third, of course). For smut, I prefer bottom Georgi and have no preference between the other two. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Georgi.

Chris and Victor have an on-again-off-again relationship that never seems to fully stick. Georgi, newly disappointed by the whole Anya situation, decides that if he can’t have love, he’ll try to patch up theirs at least because he does think they’re a cute couple. This inevitably leads to him getting dragged into the drama. But he could be the missing element they need to stabilise…

For years, Georgi and Victor have been fooling around whenever both of them aren’t in a relationship. Chris, newly Victor’s or Georgi’s boyfriend, finds out about that. The other reassures him it’s nothing to be worried about, but Chris isn’t convinced, considering it’s been going on for a decade – and also sort of intrigued.

Georgi has had a crush on Victor forever, but it doesn’t seem like Victor has much time for anyone, much less his rinkmate who always falls short of his glorious successes. At some point, he confesses this to Chris (maybe while drunk or exhausted after a training camp day or something). Maybe Chris decides to play matchmaker and starts to stumble into their relationship in the process?

Both Georgi and Chris have had a crush on Victor since forever and decide to work it out with each other instead, actually getting close in the process. Somehow Victor learns what’s going on and wonders why they couldn’t have started courting him instead? He would have been up for it… Maybe this can be rectified.

Victor admits to Chris (who is his friend or FWB or maybe even adventurous boyfriend) that he had a crush on Georgi when he was younger, but feels Georgi didn’t like him because he was always compared to Victor, and also Georgi is probably straight. Chris says you never know until you’ve asked.

I would guess Chris and Victor have experience with men, but maybe Georgi doesn’t. Does he believe that love will take care of all the possible hitches that could arise from this (especially in intimate matters), or is he nervous or eager to impress?

A day in the life of those three in an established relationship would be really fun – whether it’s a high stress competition, a training day, or them having time for a rare holiday or date.

Pair skating or ice dancing or just being silly with each other on a public rink, I just want them to skate together!

I also like Fantasy AUs (witch Georgi!) or fusions with any of my other fandoms (Assassin’s Creed? Mass Effect? Dragon Age? Star Wars?).

I’d also love a story that incorporates the use of social media, or maybe is just a mix of instagram posts, fan twitters, and forum speculations about these three as they suddenly start to show up around each other more in public or post shared training vids or something. After all, figure skating seems to be quite popular in YoI’s world.

I’m always here for smut, of course. I prefer bottom Georgi, no preference for the other two. I imagine with three guys who are this extra, they must get up to a lot of interesting stuff, but I would also be here for something fluffy and vanilla, or Georgi covering the bedroom in rose petals and similar sappy things.

They’re all at a competition together. Because they’re in a relationship or already used to fooling around, they decide to make it interesting and have a threesome where whoever is in the lead at the competitions gets to decide what’s happening in the bedroom and whoever is last out of the three of them has to serve the other two.

(I also have a letter dealing with heats, sex pollen and A/B/O as well as one with smut prompts in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Michele Crispino/Georgi Popovich
Georgi is a sleeping prince and Michele wants to be someone’s knight – it’s a match made in heaven. Besides that, Georgi may be the one person who would actually think of Michele’s somewhat overbearing version of love as romantic, since he’s himself dialled to 100 most of the time, anyway. For smut, I prefer bottom Georgi. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Georgi.

Georgi tells Michele how much he admired his skating. Michele never really had much contact with other male skaters (what if they hit on Sara!), but now he suddenly seems to be making a friend and maybe more.

Georgi, Michele’s boyfriend, is out for an evening and Michele won’t stop texting/calling. Everybody around tells him to rein it the hell in (especially Sara might have motivation to make sure Michele does not to drive Georgi to break up with him). Turns out when he does stop being overbearing, Georgi gets worried.

Relatedly, Michele is kind of used to Sara rejecting the fact that he hovers so much, especially lately. Having someone completely lean into it might be an interesting experience.

Georgi doing something ridiculously romantic and overblown and Michele being very charmed by it.

The two of them consuming knight/fairy tale-related media and accidentally getting closer when they thought they had just found someone with similar tastes.

Mila wants be with Sara without her shadow, so she convinces Georgi to distract Michele (I also ship Sara and Mila, but this could also just be them trying to do something as friends!). Turns out Michele and Georgi get along.

Sara and Michele come to train under Yakov and Michele and Georgi find they actually are very good practice partners for each other – and maybe more.

Georgi switches to Sara and Michele’s rink. Michele keeps a close eye on him in case he wants to hit on Sara, but Georgi is just happy someone is paying attention to him since he really knows nobody at the rink and so Michele accidentally ends up striking up a friendship and maybe more...

Georgi gets hurt/ill somehow and Michele proves to be actually quite competent in the situation and rushes him to the hospital or wherever he needs to be to get help and stays with him. A very grateful Georgi makes him feel like a real-life knight and that’s how Michele accidentally collected a crush...

Pair skating or ice dancing or just being silly with each other on a public rink, I just want them to skate together!

I’d also love a story that incorporates the use of social media, or maybe is just a mix of instagram posts, fan twitters, and forum speculations about these two as they suddenly start to show up around each other in public or post shared training vids or something. After all, figure skating seems to be quite popular in YoI’s world. Or maybe their first conversations even happen over DMs or in someone’s comment section? I’d love to read it.

I’d also be here for an actual AU about a knight and prince (or witch or witch-prince).

I also like other Fantasy AUs or fusions with any of my other fandoms (Assassin’s Creed? Mass Effect? Dragon Age? Star Wars?).

Michele and Georgi find out they’re soulmates. How do they deal with that? I’m sure Georgi would wanna go for romance (though perhaps he is surprised it’s a man?), but Michele might somehow have thought he wouldn’t have a soulmate when he already has Sara. How do they find to each other?

For smut, Michele just doesn’t seem like he would have that much experience, if any at all, since that would have meant taking his attention off Sara. Georgi might also not have any experience with men. How do they fumble through it? I could also see Georgi knowing what he’s doing with a man, too, though, and really blowing Michele’s mind. Is Michele with his pure love-ideal shocked how much he likes sex?

I really like the idea of Michele being a bit kinky but not really okay with it, especially if it’s something that doesn’t seem to go with his knightly morals – for example, if he enjoys domming, doesn’t that mean he wants to hurt the partner he loves? Georgi is willing to try just about anything for a lover, though, and doesn’t judge him.

(I also have a letter dealing with heats and a/b/o, one for smut, one for mpreg, one for epistolary fic in case you're looking for more prompts.)

Supernatural

Dean Winchester/Benny Lafitte
I loved the loyalty and friendship between Benny and Dean and I wish we had seen more of him on the show and that Dean and him would have been allowed to interact more above ground (or that we would have gotten more glimpses of them in Purgatory). Whenever they hung around each other, it was clear they made a great team. Taking it a step further into romantic territory would be pretty easy! For smut, I prefer bottom Benny. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Benny.

I’m really not very attached to any of the overarching plots past season five – I don’t dislike them, but if a story you’re writing doesn’t fit into what is going on in the larger plot, don’t worry about it. Sam and Dean could just be driving around dealing with one-episode ghosts and stuff like that, God and the angels don’t have to be involved.

Maybe their relationship started in Purgatory (or maybe it was a FWB thing where both were pining), but they agreed that what happens in Purgatory stays in Purgatory... but then, it turns out you can’t just turn off feelings once you’re topside.

Dean and Sam decide to part for a bit, Sam going back to his girlfriend and Dean going hunting with Benny.

Dean didn’t want to contact Benny anymore, but Sam and him run into him on a case. Turns out he’s also there to help.

Since the later seasons introduced like 10 new ways to get into Purgatory, Dean heads down to Purgatory to get Benny back. Benny isn’t sure he can make topside all alone, but Dean can’t bring himself to ignore Benny again, anyway, and says he’ll help.

Benny moving into the bunker and/or following Dean (or Dean and Sam!) on the road and becoming a fellow hunter! Battle couple things! Solving cases!

Hurt/Comfort is always nice! Maybe Dean brings Benny a blood bag so he can recuperate after a fight, or Benny carries Dean out of harm’s way (and manages to resist his bloodlust doing so).

Having Benny involved with all the really odd cosmic stuff that the Winchester brothers run into would be very interesting.

Maybe Benny, being a vampire, has contacts in Purgatory or knowledge the Winchester brothers don’t have? Meaning he can find an alternate way to solve the Mark of Cain situation without summoning The Darkness. Or really, have him involved in any of the other plots, it would be interesting.

Somehow, Benny gets turned human again – maybe an angel or God or God’s sister or some weird magic artefact does it. Dean helps him settle back into normal life.

Benny’s great-granddaughter calls Dean and asks him if there’s a way to contact Benny, since she still wants him as family. Dean can’t bring himself to let family stay apart, so he brings Benny back to her. However, now he finds it very difficult not to talk to Benny anymore, either.

If Mary returns, what does she have to say about her son’s vampire boyfriend?

Other family fic idea: Benny meets Dean’s Amazon daughter during his second stint in Purgatory and takes it upon himself to train her to have more self-control. Then, they both get out. Weird, awkward family fluff with Dean, Benny and the ‘kid’ (and Sam!) would be very cool.

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Boromir (Son of Denethor II)/Aragorn | Estel
I love everything about this pairing. The tension that their positions and personalities create is just great. They are both warriors of much talent and good leaders, but in the end, Boromir is the one who has to live with his guilt of failing, since I guess Boromir Lives AUs really give the best opportunity for them to have longer plots together. Aragorn’s return to Gondor and the ring quest didn’t exactly go without a hitch, either, though, and he still has to prove that old Strider can actually be a good king. Lots still to unpack there. Aragorn’s relationship with Arwen obviously stumbles into my infidelity DNW, so if they are broken up or never got together in the first place, that’d be great. You can go with a medieval view on same-sex relationships or have them be accepted or even have same-sex marriage be a thing, all works for me. For smut, I prefer bottom Aragorn. If you include mpreg, I prefer pregnant Aragorn.

Seeing their romance start ‘on the road’ would be interesting. Boromir was not immediately on board with Aragorn. Does the attraction he feels towards him confuse him? Does Aragorn think his crush has no chance, considering circumstances? Or do they both fall into it via hate sex, thinking they don’t like the other but realising later it’s not quite so easy?

Now that they’ve finally arrived home – though Aragorn probably still has a ways to go to start seeing it that way –, I’d love to see them take to life in Minas Tirith together.

Boromir, who knows the area better, takes Aragorn out of town for a couple days and shows him a place where they can wander the forest/mountains a bit and Aragorn can indulge in being Strider for a while.

Boromir being happy to be back home and Aragorn finding it interesting and endearing to see him among his men and in his environment would be nice.

A rare comfortable evening or slow morning in front of the fire or in bed for the two.

If they have kids, I’m always here for family fluff.

Boromir is respected and well-liked in Gondor. Aragorn doesn’t mind that some people might prefer Boromir as king, but he’s not really so happy about the ones who openly flirt with his lover… (Or has to stand by as they do so, since he hasn’t confessed his attraction and no claim on him.)

Aragorn obviously has a great presence when he wants to and that draws attention of all kinds. Boromir kind of wishes he wouldn’t, sometimes, even though he’s just as bewitched.

Boromir doubts Aragorn could ever trust him again after he tried to steal the ring. Aragorn thinks Boromir views him about as favourable as Denethor and hardly wants him as a king, much less a lover. Much unnecessary pining (and hopefully a resolution) ensues.

Boromir was surprised to find someone claiming to be the king at the Council of Elrond, but the surprise grows even bigger as he realises it’s his soulmate.

Aragorn is quite a bit older than Boromir. Is he excited to have finally met his soulmate after all these years or is it kind of strange for him since he got used to living alone?

Aragorn and Boromir are nominally in the same culture group, but Aragorn also grew up among the elves and probably has the great majority of his influences from the Rangers. He has been in Gondor for some longer period of time before, but some stuff is probably still unknown to him, especially current everyday-life things. On the other hand, Boromir probably finds a lot of Aragorn’s customs and expectations a bit unusual, too.

Healer king Aragorn manages to save Boromir. What is it like for Boromir after that, basically being a traitor now? How do him and Aragorn find to each other?

Aragorn gets hurt towards the end of the last battle. Boromir could leave him for dead, the battle probably would still be won and he’d be king in all but name. However, he saves Aragorn instead.

One character falling ill (or suffering from an infected wound) and the other caring about them is already one of my favourite tropes, so that would already be great. If you want to up the ante, maybe there can be a feverish confession. What is it about? Is it a love confession or perhaps something more indiscreet, a smutty fantasy? Or maybe something innocent but with implications towards their feelings, like them wishing for the other person to embrace them or stay with them through the night? Aragorn being a healer would also be very useful here! But perhaps it’s Boromir who curses that he has no such talents as he watches Aragorn suffer?

Boromir is very warlike and Aragorn is quite a fighter himself. I’m sure tensions between them could discharge into an intense sparring match – maybe more intense than they planned.

The steward is considered the traditional training partner of the king, as they’re the one most trusted not to hurt him. Aragorn and Boromir both enjoy that Boromir has this task perhaps a bit too much.

The king marries the oldest son of the steward to reward them for their service – makes sense! Did Aragorn offer it or did Denethor push for it? Were Boromir and Aragorn already in love?

As above, but Boromir isn’t sure if Aragorn really wants him after the ring fiasco (and potentially after what Denethor did, if he still reacted the same way – in any case he probably isn’t hospitable towards Aragorn) or if he just wanted to honour the job his family had done over the years. Likewise, Aragorn doesn’t know if Boromir holds a grudge towards him for taking the throne from him or if he thinks of him like Denethor does.

As above but with mpreg! Would prefer pregnant Aragorn here. Obviously they need to get started on furthering Aragorn’s line. Do they fall in love while trying as it gives them a connection, or do they stop once they have done their duty and Aragorn is pregnant? Maybe because they think the other person didn’t want it for anything but that? How do they come together again?

Them conceiving a child after marrying for love would be great, but maybe it also happens accidentally on the road? Not easy riding against Mordor six months pregnant, but you do what you gotta do...

If you’d like to go for a complete canon divergence, well, all my alive Boromir prompts are probably that. Still, perhaps the war of the ring doesn’t happen and there’s a different way Aragorn has to reveal himself as the king while coincidentally being in Gondor (perhaps by using his healing powers or something to save someone’s life)? That might be very interesting, too.

So many opportunities here for smut. For smut, I prefer bottom Aragorn. He may be a fancy king now, but that dude was slumming it as Strider for a good long while. He might be up for some things that Boromir is not used to from the nobles of Gondor. On the other hand, when has high nobility not had some out-there tastes? Perhaps Boromir is also not without his kinks.

For A/B/O, would love omega Aragorn basically being the same badass he always is. Maybe Boromir, coming from a society with a very stiff structure, is not used to (coincidentally very tall, very strong, very handsome, not that anyone’s noticing) omegas running around the muddy forest with sword and frayed cloak. He should disapprove, but...

Aragorn kept his heats suppressed as long as he could with herbs, but eventually he runs out. Knowing they have no time to lose, he asks if Boromir would help him work through it while the others rest.

Boromir goes into a rut and Aragorn decides to offer himself to fix it as fast as possible. Bonus if it’s after the ring incident and Boromir is very conflicted and guilty.

Omegas are very rare, a sign of the old blood of Númenor, almost legend by this point. Boromir has a lot of fun figuring out Aragorn’s peculiar biology.

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